JSngry

Hank, a known and loved dog name!

With that personnel, it almost kinda looks like a very late 60s BN date, one of those wide - open things that Duke Pearson produced.

This is new to me, for many reasons, none of them acceptable. Don't know the song anywhere else, but does it sound like Stax, the song itself, that is?

Never heard of this before...???

Thank for the understanding about protocol. As for source material, I'm of the opinion you can do anything with anything, although like anybody else, I've got my lists of things that I have zero or less interest in doing something with. But I love it when somebody has a different list and makes their case, and even, sometimes, their point.

The "Fixed" gambit is frowned upon on this board as it involves altering a poster's own words without their consent.

Also, kudos to him for being named his old man's Musical Director. Whatever "nepotism" might have been involved, rest assured that the gig would not have been given him unless the necessary /requisite skill were already there. There were no slackers or semi-competents in that organization.

Gerald Wilson was a grownass man who wrote grownass music!!! Gravitas, aplenty, even in the "lessrr" moments.

Although...One listen to the sample posted on the Resonance site was not exciting the possibilities. But that was just one listen. Technically, though, this seems to have been recorded on the MPS axis...how did they work it out with Verve for Symbiosis?

They justified continuing to make records, right? #PlayYourPart #SectionPlayer #KeepDatMoneyMovin

Say hello to The Wicked Witch Of Objectivty!

Nonono, not looking to tar those guys, not at all. Just noting that finding this type of item seems to defy the conventional wisdom and hoping, perhaps against hope, that its discovery triggers a reexamination of that conventional wisdom and opens up new paths to explore in hopes of finding some more! Also, the Valburn thing was strictly in reference to how this thing possibly ended up where it was foud, or somewhere on theway to there, nothing at all to do withthe people who found it now.

Both. It's not like those are mutually exclusively qualities.

First, I was on the fence about actually buying this set right away, because I think I have all of it already in some form or fashion. Money is not really freed-up for us right now, so I could miss it altogether if I had to. But this, yes, this is enough to justify the purchase. Yes, I'm that easily persuaded with things Lester Young! As for the second part, the whole thing has been "Few Decca Alternates Exist" and then, mostly, it's been Because Decca Didn't Do Alternate Takes, They Made Dual Simultaneous Recording To Get A Backup. But then, hey, all of a sudden THIS thing pops up, and my first response is, oh wow, what caused this to happen? Was it to get a level, were they testing something, or was it done as a band warmup, just what caused this to even be made in the first place? And then - was this an unusual practice for Decca & Basie, or was it standard practice? And then, well THIS one survived,how did it come to be here, who had it, who moved it into this museum, did they recognize the significance, how long has it been sitting there in "plain view" and nobody knowing what it was until now? Wss it donated by some Jerry Valburn type character who came into possession of it by who knows what means, or was it just something that some hired hand found while cleaning up something somewhere and said, oh, cool, Basie, dispose or donate, I don't care, hell, why not donate, it's probably "historical". Stuff like that. And maybe that curiosity has been triggered and further research is being don out of public view (and, perhaps, understandably so). But the press release conveys a simple tone of Gosh, Look What We Stumbled Across, and just leaves it there. But I also wonder if all the "witnesses" who could provide good/good-ish leads to retrace those steps and then go off on some new ones are pretty much gone now, what with all the old folks being dead, and more and more of the younger ones starting on hearsay and handmedown. As best as I can tell, the people who actually found this and are moving it along are on the tail end of people who would have had access to the lores of Jerry Valburn and his type, the people who ended up with "collections" of sometimes "dubious" origins. It seems to have been a shadowy world to begin with, I didn't start hearing real light-shining stories until after a safe time had passed after their deaths, so I don't know. I just don't know. I didn't type all of this in the first place, because my computer is acting all buggy now, and I was posting from a phone at the time. Sorry for the "cryptic" message, and sorry for the ramble here.

That's enough to compel my purchse, but...have enough links to the past been erased that following up on this one crack in the conventional wisdom as to the lack of such things become impossible?

Jack, eh? This just got interesting.

Still car-ring this one, and ain't it a hoot how "Epistrophy" becomes "Sidewinder" for a quick minute before going back? Also really, really, digging Barry Harris' comps, both harmonically and rhythmically, now that's bebop!

Well, that makes it just that much more hard to imagine what that must have been like.

Linda Lovelace Lacy P. Dalton P.P. Badleigh

Are those actual quotes?? RIP... I have no idea what that must have been like.

"Rush Hour" by Jerry Rush. Joe not on every cut, but so much fun where he is.

Must have been an interesting life.

Joe Chambers Silinder Pardesi Shelle Dragomer

Carpe diem!

Yeah, a deal like that is a no-brainer, look for a deal like that and then carpe diem. But everything being mentioned in this thread is solid. Oh yeah, Charles Earland's Leaving This Planet on Prestige, some really fine loosey-goosey Joe jamming going on there.