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It's my old buddy Joe's BFT & here we go, the usual thanks and disclaimers in place, scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to Bill Emery... TRACK ONE - Seems like I should recognize damn near everybody on here, and maybe a few years ago I would have, but right now the only voice that's unmistakable to me is Golson's. Philly is a good possibility, and somehow I wanna say Bill Evans on piano, mostly for the comp. Trumpet is Blue Mitchell? Almost sounds like Johnny Coles. I don't recall hearing Jimmy Cleveland ever sounding that, uh....boisterous, but...hey, that tone is what it is. All things considered, lively, frisky, of its time, and able to hold its head high today because of that. TRACK TWO - Believe it or not...I've heard this one side by Quartette Tres Bien that gets in this groove and stays in it. But I don't think that's who this is...especially since there's a guitar. Doesn't sound like a pickup band to me, though, and I like that. I like the triangle or bell tree or whatever that little tingy-washy thing is going on in the background. No idea who it is, but it's generic yet wholly personal. Not everybody can do that, ya' know, so kudos to all involved. TRACK THREE - Ok, no fair, this one was pimped to me by our BFT Pimpmaster General a few months ago, and a wonderful piece it is (alto and trumpet are readily familiar, just listen to tone outside of context, most y'all should know these guys, really) but what I find most interesting is that if given the recording date of 1964 is correct, then this predates "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" and how can that be, huh? TRACK FOUR - I'm not at all well-versed in the South-African jazz of Dudu Pukwana et al, but this feels/sounds like what I've heard of it, and that's a good thing for me. Is this a Johnny Dyanni date? I've never heard a bad one, wonder why I don't have more... anyways, lively and frisky, much to love here! And HELL YEAH!!! for the drummer!!! TRACK FIVE - Some odd-metery here...Bari player has a tone like Ronnie Cuber...who's that tenor player? Sounds like the meter gets in the way of his regular breathing patterns so he keeps going, but I dig his tone and his energy, very much. There's some Eddie Harris in his soul. Cat's got something to say, no doubt. Must be my PC speakers, because at time the guitarist's tone reminds me of Ted Dunbar, and I know this ain't no Ted Dunbar...Rhythm section is tight, they sound more "at home" with the meter than does the tenorist. But it's all good, no shit. These cats are playin'! TRACK SIX - Frank Lowe, one of the classic Soul Note dates, some of the last "real" jazz conntinuumenti in action at a time when it still mattered. What becomes of a dream destroyed? TRACK SEVEN - Plenty of bass on this BFT, eh? Sounds like some ECM... soprano is familiar to me, but not immediately recognizable. I've gotten so un-"jazz"-ed over the last few years, for better and for worse...Very fluent, that's for sure...maybe lacking that "outsized" spirit that I like to hear in even small music, but...DAMN this sounds familiar...AH, it's "JuJu",the Wayne tune. No wonder all the whole tones! HA! Replaying it, I guess I was distracted first time through, hell, it's right there from jump...fuck me, then. Ok. let's AMG it and see what comes up... Stephen Riley? Yeah, ok, there you go. I had a copy of this once. The guy needs better album covers, for real. As for anything/everything else, I can't argue with a cat who has learned his instrument that well. When you get there, it's all about personal choices, which I feel obligated to respect as such TRACK EIGHT - Late '60s/early '70s, moody, splashy, hell I just dig the SOUND of it...sure sounds like a Duke Pearson related date, but not enough reverb for a BN of the era...hell, I probably have this one, if I don't I should. People who get creeped out by just the sound of a Rhodes are wrong. Just plain wrong. Rhodes & WHOOOSHY cymbals, that's how you spell happiness where I grew up. TRACK NINE - I'm getting semi-mental over you? I hear grunting and a very straight-on approach to harmony vs rhythm, is this a Hamp date? But the pianist plays like Horace. Some of that tenor sounds like Hank, but more of it does not. Some of it almost sounds like a Teo Macero-type player (the intervals & the vibrato), but a lot more of it does not (the tone, although tightish like Teo's is a little more open than I'm used to hearing from him in those days, where he made Warne sound like Hawk...). Hmmmm....I don't know. It's almost like a lot of things... TRACK TEN - Very fluent, and very easy to follow as a result. It's somebody who sounds like they mean no harm to anybody, which doesn't happen nearly as often as you'd like. Christmas music! But then it gets kinda dark. But not scary. One thing I've learned over time is that things aren't usually as scary as you might think. So, STILL Christmas music, just in some arts school holiday pageant faculty concert. And I mean that as a compliment. TRACK ELEVEN - C'mon in, we've been waiting for you! Geez, imagine "Rated X" played on accordion...One thing I've learned over time is that things aren't usually as scary as you might think. Usually. TRACK TWELVE - An elderly Randy Weston? Elderly or not, Randy Weston or not, it's still speaking with authority. Much props. TRACK THIRTEEN - Hell, now this sounds like Randy Weston...well, ok, Randy Weston or not, it's still speaking with authority. Much props. But the more it plays, I don't think it's Randy Weston, and it starts to sound a little familiar...and a little less original. So a little less props. Is this a Mingus tune? TRACK FOURTEEN - Wow, the connecting here is really spooky (not scary!)...speaking of Mingus...echoes (but not more) of "Haitian Fight Song"...that tenor vibrato...David Murray? An elderly David Murray? This ain't working for me. Too representational. Ok, not David Murray. But still not working for me. Still too representational. Gets better when the tenor player stops. But the drummer is, ah...problematic for me. Oh well. TRACK FIFTEEN - Nice tune well played. Very thoughtful. Nice. TRACK NINETEEN - Chet w/Russ Freeman? Somebody else w/Russ Freeman? It swings, and i like the drummer. TRACK TWENTY - Don Schlitten! Charles McPherson! Clifford Jordan! McPherson sounds a little out-of-sorts, not as sure of himself as usual. But just a little. Clifford Jordan sounds fucking great. As Don Schlitten would say, ! But if you ask me, !!! TRACK TWENTY ONE - They're copping Sonny's feel, but w/o David Lee's cymbals & George Cables' Rhodes. And they bash instead of WHOOOOSH. That might well be Elvin on drums, and I love Elvin, but...no. Or to be fair, I've heard where it comes from, and Iw ould have preferred that it didn't go here. TRACK TWENTY TWO - I'd prefer a little more personal, as opposed to musical, extroversion. Verging on representational, but the fluency must be respected. Whatever. Respect given. I just don't feel the love. I might have then, but this is now. TRACK TWENTY THREE - HA! Lessee who this is...before looking, I could guess billy Bang...now, am I right? Well, apparently not! But ok, who cares? this is good stuff. TRACK TWENTY FOUR - Virtuosic language expertly & coherently spoken. Don't know the piece, but the trumpet reminds me of Hugh Ragin, which leads me to Roscoe, and you know i love that because it just makes sense, but hey, it's starting to already be time to move on to a different language for a still different time, and if people are already a generation or two behind in their language now, what next, one more leap of left-behind? And we wonder about a sub-literate society? Shit gonna go where shit gonna go, but when all the adults stay at home, whose fault is it when the wildass kids drive the bus all off up into the cornfield? And why shouldn't they? You can live in a cornfield just as well as you can a bus. People get ready, there ain't a Trane a comin', ya' know? God bless Roscoe Mitchell, and World, you shoulda woke the fuck up while there was still a bed to get out of. TRACK TWENTY FIVE - Them boys sound stoned. DAMN Dude, that was a lot of songs, took me 4 hours to do this, time well spent, effort rewarded, for sure. Enjoyed it!

Call me crazy, but to catch a Vijay Iyler gig sounds like plausible enough reason to me. Seriously, a week long gig? Is this a club (nah, couldn't be...) or a university residence, or a New Music Circle production, or just what?

Word to the MotherPower.

Milton Bradley Milton Berle Milton, with a Swingline

The adventure continues, eh? All the best to all of you!

And Booker Ervin being another, on a few items. Not at all unpleasant, that one. And Booker Ervin being another, on a few items. Not at all unpleasant, that one.

Yeah, but to Monk in 1956 (the date of the quote), the difference between what he had probably heard of contemporaneous R&B and what he remembered playing with the evangelist was probably close enough to being the same thing just with different words as to really not make no never never mind.

That and the fact that what "it" "is" can and does change depending on where one is when one is looking at it.

Nobody made Monk swing.

And a helluva shirtmaker as well. He should've collaborated with Paul Anka.

Why does that last phrase sound vaguely pornographic? Sounds like someone is doing something filthy to that divide. It was like an audaciously & professionally confident three-way between Bacharach/David, Tin Pan Alley, & The Brill Building. And if you can appreciate the beautifully ironic yin-yang sexuality of the Alley vs Building metaphor not just here but in general, hey, front row seats for you!

Bacharach/David masterfully straddled the divide and did whatever it is that gets done when a divide gets masterfully straddled. But at their best, which was often enough, they deserve a mention in this conversation. How come nobody ever mentions the "Great Brazilian Songbook", though? Or perhaps more to the point of this thread, Harry Connick Jr.'s originals.

Yeah, I yearn for the days of sanity, when cats would piss in phone booths and stuff like that.

Lacquer is highly overrated...

Wouldn't the 2nd best second best be the third best?

Tell them sthat some music store "in the area" was cleaning their warehouse and discovered 50 boxes of LaVoz reeds that look like they're frrom the early 1970s?

Joseph Hazelwood Ricky Walters John Pisano, composer of:

Benson or Benton?

Por favor y Gracias!

exactly,,,Reprise went to WB pretty early on...'62, I think...Joni started on Reprise, by the time she went to Asylum it had just become a WB-related label.

Call mine the minority opinion, but I thought those mustard & brown Broncs throwbacks were perversely cool in an uber-football-as-underarm-deodorant-and-sweaty-jockstrap kinda way. They spoke to the inner crew cut in all of us. Plus, them vertical stripes on the hosiery was TRIPPY.

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