Holy Ghost

The best way I can put it was congenial. It seemed he didn't understand what an imprint Albert had (and Donald) who I also met)) had on this music. My older daughter was speaking like he was a rock star, and I guess why not?! He had some pretty awesome kids.

Jaw-dropping for me. To see so many legends on one stage was mesmerizing.

Love Chet Baker. Anybody seen this?

Is there a thread on forward-thinking European jazz drummers? Just wondering.

Ooof. I think you're right. Sorry fir that blunder. Nice footage of AVS I guess....

Something I've never seen before, albeit, post your parameters: There is a solo by Joe.

Should be on both Brotz and Fred's pages; just great, great footage of them both.

Don't know where else to post this, but check out this nut footage!!!

Never heard William Parker speak. Let alone Marion Brown and Alan Silva. Deep for me!

Big fan. Miss him a lot. So many chances to see him too, yet I always talked myself out of it..."he'll be around next year." His short Columbia run, especially "Go See The World" is extraordinary for a major label release. Surrendered too.

Ugh, I've always had a terrible time falling asleep. I tend to rely on tv to try to put me to sleep (TCM is good for this with no commercial interruptions, sans the commentary in between movies) but that usually ends when my wife wakes up around 4am to go to the bathroom too. She tolerates it to a degree (and she can fall asleep within minutes...I'm so jealous of that!) only because she knows my mind goes a mile a minute when it's dead silent, and I can't fall asleep. My fidgety legs (RLS) and restlessness always gives it away.

My favorite track on The All Seeing Eye. A tremendous record (my favorite Wayne Shorter record overall) but more often than not, I wind up starting with "Mephistopheles" first and then start the record with the first track after that.

Glad to hear this. Big Thumbs up!

Fantastic documentary and the footage is surreal, after never seeing any film of Ayler up to this point. Saw it here in Cleveland at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2007 maybe?) and Albert's father was in attendance. I took my older daughter with me, who became enamored with Ayler because of me and she got to talk to Albert's father after the showing for a minute in the lobby. I think we both kinda floated away on a cloud that evening. But just youtubin' around, I found this footage, which I don't remember seeing before. Well, at least to me!

Nice! Have had many great finds there. Funniest story. I was at my favorite Half Price a few years ago, and noticed a copy of Miles (Blue Haze) on Prestige on their display wall, and once I asked to see it, it was a Fantasy reissue LP that they were asking for (bar code, used and all) a $100 (chuckled). So, I go through their jazz bins and find a very fine ++ (with full gloss and sharp corners, no seem splits, no ring-wear, and really despite some writing on the back (probably the owner) was excellent) of a Milt Jackson/Monk LP with the NYC address on it for $3.99 (and got it with a teachers discount;) I should really get a job there.

To support my local record store (Record Den!) Don Ellis Orchestra LP with that crazy fraction on PJ and Joe Zawinul, The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream with Money in the Pocket as a bonus LP (Rhino). Bought my daughter the latest Def Tones record.

I even like the goofy engineering, important record? As important as finding the Titanic.

I'd like to repost that it's not that I don't like Ornette's records less in the BN period (Love Call, NY is Now, are my favorites) and Cherry's more; what I meant to say is that Don's records were more interesting to me. Maybe Cherry's BN's I favor, instead of Ornette's outfit at the time (meaning I miss Cherry with Ornette) a lot.

Sleeper. Up there with Grant Green's Am I Blue, yawn.

Fair. A "best of" would do me fine. And to explain, I've owned several cd's from the period mentioned above, and one kinda sounds like another. My opinion, of course.

Good one. Didn't even know Michael C

To support my local record store (Record Den!) Don Ellis Orchestra LP with that crazy fraction on PJ and Joe Zawinul, The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream with Money in the Pocket as a bonus LP (Rhino). Bought my daughter the latest Def Tones record.

Word, dude.