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Art Blakey - The Rich Doctor Art Blakey - Routes & Curbs Freddie Hubbard - Boo! Spirits! Bobby Hutcherson - Oh BLEEP Bobby Hutcherson - Unfunky Warm Medina

I really like this album, probably more than it deserves, but hey. As is sometimes the case with people who focus on writing over playing, Massey was not a particularly fluent instrumentalist. But his playing is saturated with soul and personality, and he can't help but bring a unique perspective to his own compositions. Sometimes when you hear a composer play their own material, they focus more on the technical particulars, on bringing out certain constructional elements that others might not. But Massey does this with the "mood" elements of his pieces, and that's what I dig. Brodie? Hey - this session was done in very early 1961, when Trane was just beginning to really bump it up, & Brodie shows himself to have already absorbed the lessons that Trane was teaching. Who else at that time was displaying such an absorption? That's another "interesting" aspect of this album for me. Our own Harold Z has known & worked w/Brodie, who by all accounts falls into the "interesting character" category, and whose discography is relatively sparse but also, for the most part, interesting. He's the main player on this side from a strictly "playing" perspective. Watkins? Hey, I'm always down w/some Phantom! The rhythm section is good enough, although in spots the finer points of the specificity of Massey's pieces slightly eludes them. But that's as much a function of limited rehearsal/preparation as it is anything, so no demerits on that from me. Massey was in my estimation a major jazz composer. He didn't write throwaway blowing vehicles, he wrote compositions full of detail and, as mentioned above, specificity. Composers like that always appeal to me, because if improvisation is the lifeblood of jazz, composition is the body through which it most fluidly flows (and I apply that principle to totally improvisational music as well, because the most effective improvisational music for me is that which displays an empathy with compositional principles). None of his tunes have really become "jazz standards" but that proves nothing other than that they're too involved at some level to lend themselves to casual jamming, which is a good thing afaic. His music is anything but casual. Massey's cumulative work is long overdue for a rediscovery/reevaluation. There's a lot of meat there, and these are hungry days.

"Classic" is one of those terms that is overused in my book. "Cult classic" is probably more like it. Alexander's right - the Christian character in the film is a real prick. But the "Pagans" ain't no great shakes either. And the whole thing is just so transparent & charactured & (dare I say it?) neither particularly well acted nor directed that I think you'd have to have non-cinematic reasons for letting it get your jimmy jonesed, if you know what I mean. Myself, the whole bunch could've burned. That would have made for a happy ending to this movie! I know that Shawn loves this movie, and Shawn is no slouch when it comes to film. But we didn't see eye to eye on this one, not even slightly.

AILF - the new frontier! (not to be confused w/ALF, btw)

But dead aunts are fair game!

It is. The only written source of information (that I know of) about Danny Quebec West). I think that those early Mosaic books kinda were bumped up a notch from where they often are today. They had the time, and they were really trying to make a mark. Nowadays, some of them seem sorta thorough but ultimately perfunctory. But perhaps not.

Jimmy Page Boy George Haircut 100

Where? Why? How? "Resting" & "peace" are concepts for the living. People have no immortal souls, and you aunt is dead. Game over for your aunt Sharon.

PTX B-36!!!

Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Call Collect Jackie McLean meets John McLaughlin - My Goal's One Step Beyond Wayne Shorter - Super Pimped-Out Nova Eddie Gale - Bleak Rhythmic Cramping Cecil Taylor - Con Chicharones!

Jutta Hipp - Jutta in Utah! J.R. Monterose - Waiting For Chick Lee Morgan Memorial Album - Live At The Lighthouse, Dead At Slugs

Ronnie & Frank Foster - Manhattan Freaper

Booker Ervin - Between Innings Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - Cold Water, Flat Feet Horace Silver - Song for My Father's Further Exploratory Surgeries Horace Silver - Untied Shoes Of Mine Larry Young - Heaven On A Stick

Hank Mobley compilation - A Caddy For Getting Rid Of That Slice Herbie Hancock - Impure Renal Islets Bobby Hutcherson - Knucklebean Sandwich Sam Rivers & Donald Byrd live from the Ford Assembly Line - Contours & Mustangs Donald Byrd - Frenesi Fran Duke Pearson - The Right Touch (At the Wrong Time) Lou Donaaldson - Good Ass, Grace!

Art Blakey recorded live @ the USO - Free Furlough Wayne Shorter - The All-Seeing One-Eyed Trouser Snake Freddie Hubbard covering a certain Canadian songstress - Reddy for Freddie

Saw it once a few years ago & thought it was a dull, unfocused mismash. Sorry.

How old is Ras Moshe?

Dave Burrell Don Ho Ward Bond

Freddie Redd - Stains Of Red Grant Green - The Latent Bite Don Cherry plays for Missouri Synod Lutherans - Closed Communion Wayne Shorter plays Joe Liggins - Night Dripper Jackie McLean Starbucks Collection - Cappuchino Swing

Ah yes. Thanks!

Peter Gunn Tokyo Rose Pete Rose

The Jazz Corps thing was released by Capitol, but on the actual Pacific Jazz label. Looks like you can get it cheap (or not) here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...TF8&s=music

McCoy Tyner - Time For Tylenol McCoy Tyner 2-Fer - Expantensisions Duke Pearson - Yee-Haw! Kenny Drew - Under The Table Sonny Clark - Ain't MY Kid! Thelonious Monk - Genre Of Modern Music Freddie Redd - The Correction Elvin Jones - Mary Go 'Round The Roses Horace Silver - In Pursuit Of The Mysterious One-Armed Man

The most interesting brother-pitcher combo since Dizzy & Daffy. Maybe the only one.

'79 was the first year for the "Rainbow" series. Prior to that, there were the 2-fers. '78 was the last year for those, with the releases that had the slick covers instead of the rough ones.