JSngry

Errol Garner was one of those people who could sound perfectly innocent while being pretty damn subversive. Magician indeed!

Errol Garner was for real! Yeah, well, that's not having advanced taste in jazz, that's having a taste of and for informed consumer convenience. Credit due for carpe dieming, but a lot happened before (and during) that. A lot.

Advanced tastes in jazz, or in other musics? One does not automatically translate to the other, either way. For that matter... "advanced"... Esthetics or technique? Liking things and understanding them aren't necessarily the same thing. On that line, I kinda wish I could experience OP without the context of having lived through and with a fair amount of him in real time, with all the other real-time musical options constantly unfold in all around. Maybe then I might better understand the attraction. Or maybe not. I'll never know. Never mind, might be time to brush up on your Tatum and your Red Garland. 😀 There ya' go!

Tone-wise, Billy Harper is the rightful, logical, and legitimate heir/successor to Booker Ervin.

Everybody likes something.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/26/on-the-night-of-the-khatam-fiction-jamil-jan-kochai Print version. A vivid story that leaves a lot told in the untelling. Enjoyed it so much that I ordered the author's shirt story collection.

@randyhersomYes on both counts!

Tone Poet 78s!!!

@Dan Gould Neither Hawk nor Byas, and for anybody listening more than once, give the drummer some attention too!!!

This.

There's some to be had, for sure!

Candi Melt - Droolin'!!!

TYTK!

George Adams But it's "that band" no matter who is leading, and they're a lot more free and loose than their later records.

Lunk Davenport - I Don't Want To See You Cry

Not sure what the concept was, but those are some damn good records, at least the ones I've heard. There's a good chunk of Pullen/Adams/Dannie in various records, some crazy Johnny Griffin, Steve Grossman, Sal Nistico, Slide Hampton, it goes on for a while. The Italian players are all good, so it's not like they meekly provide generic backing or something like that. To be honest, I can't see any of them disappointing.

It will pleasurably behoove you to familiarize! Imo!

You'll know the names, and quite possibly some of their work. But if this inspires you to go a little further with them, mission accomplished!

Yeah. But with a different drummer and Ray Anderson added. Also a lot more produced. Not really a literal sequel, except in title.

Ok, the OG one then

Research shoes that I have do indeed have this record - but not it's sequel!

First reaction: Maybe there will be some new insight. Anything's possible.

Some good stuff on this one! @Dan Gould This is from the post-Lyle Mays style of big band writing, which is a good thing. I hear Pete Christlieb on tenor, but as far as soloists, that's it. Definitely sounds like a studio-savvy affair, flawlessly recorded, and as a result you can really hear the densities of the voicings. A long time ago I would have railed againstthis type of thing, but I'm a lot older now and appreciate it very much. @DrJ Words to "Deluge", eh? Ok then! Singer is a little weak in terms of fullness, but lots of people are and lots of people always have been, so hey. Just a tad sleepy in the overall vibe, but that may just be me today. Some other day it might land just right. No harm, no foul, all good then. @felser Billy. Sir Gallahad. With The Cookers? Fail-safe! @Joe Certainly Jimmy Hamilton on tenor and Clark Terry on trumpelhornet, and...Britt Woodman doing that freaky register shifting that he could do? I'm sure this is on a record. A good one! @JSngry I had a (for me) interesting insight into a tenor player that is not this record vis-a-vis the trumpet player who is on this record. @Ken Dryden "Just a Sittin' and a Rockin'", pipe organ and alto. Scratch that off the list of things that have never been done! @medjuck Definitely Fathead, and I'm pretty sure that I have this record and that I like it. But that's all I can think of right now. Always a pleasure to Fathead, Always. @mikeweil Love the clarity of the recording. Almost love the singer too. Definitely love the overall pocket. A person could live there! Ok, she gets the pitches right on the break and scats from inside the clave. Love the singer now. Yeah, a person could live here! @mjzee A first I was thinking a Neil Hefti chart for a Woody Herman band, but then the style changed and it got to sounding like Mulligan's pen. Definitely Al Cohn on tenor. Elliot Lawrence, right? That's a fun record. @tkeith My first/obvious/reflex guess would be Ray Anderson, but I think not. I like the composition a lot, as well as what they do with it, a kind of Ayler dancing thing from start to finish. This might be Brotherhood of Breath tangental, but I am still not realy familiar with all of that (DOH!! on me for that). And that might be Johnny Dyanni on bass (always a pleasure), but I have no idea, really. The trombone has Anderson's chops but is less gonzo-extroverted than him. But maybe this is later work. No matter, I like this a lot. a person could live here too! Some good stuff on this one!

I have too, and not all of them were Jewish!

Thom - my file is not loaded into the player?