Holy Ghost

His sons, Donari and Tyondai are just as interesting as their dad. Wow.

Happen to be one those shows where they opened for Black Sabbath on their Never Say Die tour back in '78? Ozzy probably more embarrassing than DLR. Anyway, VH's first record is a stone-cold classic. Funny story about that record, when me and a bunch of friends of mine back in HS decided to skip school that day and drop some "chemical stuff" and we listened to VH One back-to back for 10 hours straight. Our biggest problem was, who's going to unmelt out of the couch and flip the record. 🙃

Why wasn't Hipnosis ever released in the Conn series? Too short playing time? It was released on LP in the "brown bag series" and the Mosaic, which tells me it was good enough for release. Too bad Patrick Roques didn't have a chance to design a cd booklet....

Really enjoying the RCA years.

Maybe the most interesting period of Sonny's career in my opinion: the RCA sides.

Takashi Murakami. Me and my wife just went to his exhibition at CMA, a few weeks ago. Wow. You like modern Japanese art meets Pokémon, you're in for a treat! Truly, one of the coolest and most unique exhibits I've ever seen. Dude was there, but didn't get to meet him.

Last record I listened to with my Mom before she passed in 2011. She really dug Sonny, along with Miles, and Bird. She was upset learning about Miles' passing in 1991.

A beautiful record. Feel exactly the same about the Larry Ridley. Love both bassists and the record sleeves are killer Strata East, but the music is so underwhelming. I keep the Ridley only for the record jacket, which is pretty sweet.

Love Art on so many levels. Dude served hard time. Like, I love the Contemporary dates, but respect everything after San Quentin. Music's changed, he changed. After serving time, you feel it. It's incredible. Dude lived the life. It makes his music so much more special.

He had his own story. RIP.

Still working on understanding this dude. Deep.

That's pretty cool. Sounds like we're about the same age. Was first chair in concert band throughout junior high and high school in the late 80's. Never composed anything, that is way cooler.

My mom did, too. Caught her doing so!

👌One of my favorite Lees' Woah!! Never seen this before. I love 60's Duke, Money Jungle, Impulse!, Trane, yeah!

😁😊😂 Love it! Thanks for the shout out, he changed the way I think abut things. Heidegger, not too far behind him 👍Wow, glad you went. Have not seen William Parker live. This is awesome! Thanks for the props!

Excellent decision! Wow! You just made this record so much cooler. 👍

Nice! Like Brotz one of those heavy weights in the 70's that still shaped jazz to come. Wish I would've went to one of Brotz' last shows, just didn't like the line up, enjoy this show! Who knows how long he is going to be around.

Wm Parker's work from the 70's with Cecil right up to now. Wow. A page he deserves. AUM, FMP, Die Like A Dog Quartet, In Order to Survive, and collaborations with Shipp, Brotz, Kahn Jamal, and David S. Ware, etc. Incredible talent, charismatic, and he deserves a page here. (I searched, there is no such page here, right?) So, cheers to William Parker😊

And you don't have this record sleeve in an album cover frame hanging on your man-cave wall!!! Unknown players to me, but when ESP started their major reissue campaign, I scooped this up. Dig the late-60's freak-out vibe, like it for that reason alone. I mean the playlist says it all: Freeken, Happy Pretty, and Sweet. Time warp: Feel like I'm watching, "Dude, where's my car?" A very missed soul: Renunciation

Have some of those, the Good and Evil sessions, packed in a box along with the Shipp collaborations. Think even Evan Parker is on some of those sides. Otherwise, I'm in a trance. Every time I see the "hey, hey, hey" commercial, I want a pair of New Balance shoes and revisit playing basketball again (shattered a hip in high school, but hey, hey, hey, that was nearly 40 years ago)😁

This era of Duke, when he was exploring new ground, playing with younger players, excites me. Great record. Read somewhere that this was even Jerry Garcia's favorite record (he may even be on it, playing percussion?) Got to hang with Grace Slick's daughter, decades later, at all places a concert in Sunrise, Florida at a Starship concert back in 1986.

Great record!

Giant. Privileged to see him live in 2001, just three rows away.