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  3. David S. Ware

    in Artists

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    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.

  4. Last track before you go to sleep

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by Holy Ghost

    17 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    I'm a life-long insomniac. I find some gently funky music at low volumes really helps me get to sleep or to ease back in. Late 1950s hard bop is the exact right level for me since it generally has a decent mid tempo, enough funk, and few arrangements or sharp edges. Anything too outside, arranged or too danceable (whether boogaloo or smooth jazz) just makes things worse.

    At the moment, I'm using Houston Person's High Notes, which are absolutely perfectly made for insomniacs. 

     

    14 hours ago, JSngry said:

    I put it on whatever Pandora channel I'm into at the time and leave it on. Sometimes I remember to set the TV timer to go off, but usually it just stays on until Brenda gets up to go pee, at which point she shuts if off.

    But I don't much like falling asleep in silence, no sir, I don't much like it.

    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. 

  5. Upcoming article on Alan Shorter by David Grundy

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    On 6/4/2020 at 10:12 AM, Late said:

    That would be a trip.

    I've always wondered what a Wayne Shorter album — playing the Alan Shorter Songbook, so to speak — would sound like. Wayne's playing on "Mephistopheles" on The All Seeing Eye is especially inspired.

    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.  

  7. Albert Ayler

    in Artists

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    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!

     

  8. Great Finds

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    On 7/23/2021 at 6:24 PM, slide_advantage_redoux said:

    I was in half-price books yesterday. I rarely find anything special. This was different.
    I found an original pressing of Fantastic Frank Strozier, his first leader date (Veejay)

    w/ Booker Little, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. In very good condition. A steal @ $9.95

    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. 

  9. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    On 1/11/2022 at 5:59 PM, HutchFan said:

    He's made a few as a leader.  Per wikipedia:

    • The Camel (SteepleChase, 1975)
    • Antiquity with Jackie McLean (SteepleChase, 1975)
    • First Time (Muse, 1988)
    • Between Me and You (Muse, 1989)
    • Revelation (Muse, 1991)
    • Each One Teach One (Muse, 1994)
    • Drum Concerto at Dawn (Mapleshade, 1996)
    • Marsalis Music Honors Michael Carvin (Marsalis Music/Rounder, 2006)
    • Flash Forward (Motema, 2014)

    Ooof, knew about the co-leader date with Jackie; embarrassed to not know the others. 

    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. 

  11. ORNETTE COLEMAN - ROUND TRIP: ORNETTE COLEMAN ON BLUE NOTE

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by Holy Ghost

    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. 

     

     

  14. Best Three Sounds Album

    in Artists

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    1 hour ago, Shrdlu said:

    I like all of their 1958-1962 recordings for Blue Note. My favorite is "Moods", from June 28, 1960.

    And I want to hear all of their unissued tracks from that period. There are about three CDs worth.

    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. 

  15. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Holy Ghost
    spelling

    On 1/8/2022 at 6:00 PM, Son-of-a-Weizen said:

    Phineas Newborn ‘Jamaica’ lp

    Good one. 

    On 12/19/2021 at 10:20 PM, HutchFan said:

    I'm amazed at how much CD prices continue to fall.  Earlier today, I picked up these CDs in a local shop for a total of $20. 

    CD-Buys.png

     

    Didn't even know Michael C

    2 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

    Good batch. 

    Didn't even know Michael Carvin had a leader date. 

     

  17. Toshinori Kondo (1948-2020)

    in Artists

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    On 10/19/2020 at 8:46 PM, Steve Reynolds said:

    Was just listening to him the other day on a recently released show with Fred Anderson, Tatsu Aoki & Hamid Drake from December 1994. His playing on this recordings is off the hook incredible. To be at The Velvet Lounge for that show?!?! Wow - I had no idea he played with Fred.

    I commented that there was no one like him and what he did with Die Like a Dog quartet with Peter, William & Hamid would be legendary in a sane musical world 

    one of my biggest musical regrets was a missed opportunity to see the full quartet back in the late 90’s. 

    genius improvisor - what he did with the pedals and electronics with his trumpet was untouchable 

     

    RIP, Sir

     

    of course I dedicate that sign off to Ulrich 

    Word, dude. 

  19. McCoy Tyner

    in Artists

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    38 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

    Well about Elvin we know much: He was married for decades to his japanes wife Keiko. She was always there and tuned his drums before the gig. I saw her on stage doing that before Elvins group started. In Laurie Peppers book about her husband she describes here very well, and that she lectured Laurie how you might "handle" a husband who is into drugs, to keep him off the bad guys, to take care of his money and buy him "presents" like jewellry, sharp threads, expesive watches and so on, to keep them reasonable happy....

    Pharoah, as much as I know, married a much younger woman and they lived on the Coast and I think they have a child too. There was an interview with Pharoah were he said that, but he also said he hated the place were they lived.....

    Learned this much in 3 minutes. Thank you Gheorghe. I actually couldn't stop reading, and that is sincere. 

  25. McCoy Tyner

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    On 1/9/2022 at 2:59 AM, Gheorghe said:

     

    Interesting that now reading this I thing we know very little about his personal live. He seemed to keep it off publicity, that´s really okay. 
    Other jazz wifes were pretty well known, like Lucille Rollins for example...

    Know very lit Was Jimmy or Elvin marrie3d?  Who knew?  Guess I still don't. 

     

    Thinking the same thing. Know little about McCoy, less about Elvin, Pharoah, Rashied. Did these dudes have a personal life?

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