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Robert and George French Maurice Grey Charles Gulden

Was Dixon going/trying to release it through Fontana?

It's never really created a sense of urgency in me to own it, but hell, 50 bucks? I know it's got 50 bucks of good in it, that's a value! And besides, Pete is a prince to deal with!

Yes, everything is true. This is a great band doing great work at the upper end of their great, perhaps the uppermost end of their great, which is to say as great as anything by anybody that has been or will be great. Nobody's really mentioned Dresser yet, but me, I'm a bass guy, and when I get to really analyzing this stuff, I'm gonna focus on Dresser first. But really, this is band music, and ceez, this is a band that started on fire and only got hotter. Thanks to Ervin for handling the business on his end. This one is special among special. I truly feel lucky to have gotten the opportunity to get this.

Well, let's do that, then.

Forces In Motion is one of the great music books, period. Suggestion - read the Postscripts first, then join the show, already in progress. As for Mosaic v. Black Saint, that's easy - both. Seriously.

Let gif that bad boy!

Thanks for upping this. It's been reavailabled at Amazon. Glad to have had 1 finger with which to 1-Click.

I think the first J-Mac albums I heard were, in sequence, Jackie's Bag, Destination...OUT!, Bluesnik, and "Let Freedom Ring". All of them gut-grabbingly intense listens, but only Destination...OUT! sounding really settled, like the search ends and goes forth from here. Not how it happened, as it turns out, but the McLean/Moncur pairing was, and remains, magic to me. However - the title tune of Bluesnik...that head is so deliberately reductionist, like could you really break it down any more than taht,no, don't think so,left a totally wide-open canvas upon which to paint, and listening to Jackie's back and forth, his internal monologue if you will, going one place and then all of a sudden catching himself, breaking it off and immediately taking it somewhere else, to me, that's not necessarily a "perfect jazz solo" but it's about as bared-bones a look at wheels-turning in real time as anything out there. And the way Freddie takes the handoff, you can tell that all of Jackie's darting about was getting Freddie primed to jump in and get going. All the best BN records had that sense of timeless immediacy, but the best McLean BNs,...maybe a tad more than most.

$50.00? I'll take it, please.

The Barry Altschul side listed in on his site is very fine. If memory serves, he's had an excellent Cadence oral history done on him within the last 20 years. If not there, somewhere. I know I read an interview with him somewhere where he talked about how just playing changes wasn't enough for him and he needed to explore different concepts of harmony.

Skylark Hank Crawford Shorty

"Bain Street" closed one side of the LP. Closing the other side was this:

Wilbur Hatch Chicken Man Count Basie

whoa...I just about died seeing that album cover...intense.

Dear Sir Wayne Shorter Dr. Alan Longert

All of it? JCOA, NYAQ, none of that was initially self-produced? Was not aware of that.

Never had that one but all the "Jazz Life" Fontanas I have seen were manufactured by Philips in the Netherlands. Post-Rolling-cover, I'd guess? Alan Bates/Debut Records comes into this at some point, I'd have to think. Had not seen this one before:

Also, the Urge cover I've seen looks like this: Is this a UK issue?

The Great Paris Duke Ellington El Chico

Chilly Carn Carney! Those Playboy clips make me think of Jackie Paris without the psychodrama...but I kinda get into Paris's psychodrama. Still, a skinny guy who sings that well and can work the singerbodylanguage (where do you go to learn that, anyway?) as well as that. geez, skills out the ass!

As of now, jazzmessengers.com lists 6 titles in this purportedly Japanese series on the "Cool Music" label, whereas HMV Japan still lists just 4.

The chick sitting by the piano bench is getting it from jump, she don't need to get hit by it, she's already hit with it!

Bob Bowman, fine player, Kansas City cat who passed through NTSU relatively quickly when I was there, started strong, got stronger, and then got out and on with it. Been back in KC for a while now, here's a recent article http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/back-to-rockville/article4001005.html Here are some discography: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-bowman-mn0000060804/credits