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Be careful what you ask for...

George Duke could play. Probably still can, if so inclined. Wait unit Cannonball's The Black Messiah gets reissued someday...

Man, I'll go ahead and puke anyway. That shit was just too weird. I mean, 1994, and you got cats going into a recording studio to mimic Hawk. Why? What's the aim? To let everybody know how great Hawk was? Well, in the first place, who's going to hear a side like this besides people who already know that? And in the second place, it don't make a damn how well you can mimic Hawk - he was a motherfucker if you ape him perfectly, and he was a motehrfucker if you can't play shit. The greatness of Coleman Hawkins is dependent solely on the greatness of Coleman Hawkins, if you know what I mean. Now hey - I owe Bob Wilber a personal debt. His Music Minus One side For Saxes Only (w/him, Hilton Jefferson, Jerome Richardson, Seldon Powell, Danny Bank, Dick Wellstood, George Duvivier, & Panama Francis) was something that I got hold of when I was 14 years old, and it turned me on to a lot of shit. So I owe him for that one. But this is just too weird, and like I said, insular to the point of not being what I would consider healthy. As a one-off, yeah, ok. But if the whole album's like this....whoa. It's geeky, that's what it is. Geekiness has it's place in the training stage of becoming a player (and that's a stage that you never finish, truth be told), but to put it on a record and make it kinda your raison d'etre? No, man, no. Life's too precious and too short.

Pretty sure I once heard a Midnight Oil song on the radio back in the day where they used a loop of a vamp off of "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" as the foundation for the song. I think it was from that part during Parlan's solo just before Mingus screams & Booker comes in, where the saxes are hitting that one note repeated thing. They just looped that mofo & played a rock song over it.

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Yeah, there's a lot of "free" type playing on this side, but there's also some ferocious swing too, often both at once, which is kinda how I like it to roll. All these cats can play, and the shit's recorded beautifully. If you've heard Jonas Kullhammer's stuff, you know that whoever records them gets one of the fattest bass sounds and warmest drum/cymbal sounds going. This one has the same sound. Again, recommended w/o reservation. This is good stuff.

http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzcd.htm#406365 No hyperbole there, at least not that I can find. This is good stuff. Recommended.

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"Chasing After The Sun" by Monday Michiru. Great tune (and not at all easy), and perfect for the instrumentation, as per her "Barefoot and Pregnant" version on 4 Seasons.

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I've heard both of those. Sorry... You gotta keep in mind, though, that I'm from an area where bands that that did this type thing (often much better, imo) were (and still are to some extent) a dime a dozen. I've even played in a few of them.

Don't think you're a Betty Carter type guy (many aren't), but if you want to take a chance...

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Ed Pazant??? I have heard the cult fave Pazant Brothers sides have have not been terribly impressed...

And oh yeah - the Blakey/1961/Olympia/RTE/etc version is just damn NUTS.

Mine would be the Ursula Dudziak version.from Midnight Rain (Arista, 1977). That's some freaky shit right there. On the other hand, no guilt at all in recommending Frank Hewitt's version on Not Afraid To Live. Not afraid indeed!

Wow, I've got that one. Oh well...

Hmmmm... The Arista LP is what I have (bought new back in the day), & it sounds bright & tinny. The CD sounds worse. I'd like to hear that original Polydor.

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Let's cool one!

What happened to it on the way to Arista?

Not enough to really matter. If you can get the CD and not the LP, go for it.