JSngry

Love is strange.

1 - What was the documentary about Newark that he was shown in? 2 - Recollections about his tenure w/Ray Charles 3 - Frequency/other details of live gigs w/McLean 4 - His personal philosophy about composing 5 - Does he feel that "jazz in general" today is "about" the same thing(s) that it was in his younger days?

George Dickel George Gobel Jorge Ben

Tried (and failed) to stir up some interest in this one a while back: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=raymond+scott

Jimmy McGriff Jack McDuff Eugene McDaniels

http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzlp3.htm#39876

Cassius Clay Lew Alcindor Bobby Moore

The wildest Sharrock w/Mann is on the Hold On, I'm Coming side recorded at Newport/NY in 1972. That's one of the better Mann sides, period.

Same here. Besides, how many people named Grassella Oliphant could there be?

Mr. Clean The Ajax White Knight Josephine the Plumber

That's some BAAAAAAD shit! For that matter, check out Air's "The Jick" from Open Air Suit. But again, that too is a different kind of free and a different kind of funk, if you're splitting hairs, and I swear I'm not.

Robert McCollough on the live version of "Super Bad". After that, almost(?) everything else sounds like wishful thinking, including Jimmy Parker's noble effort on "Escape-Ism". Robert McCollough solo on that cut is the ne plus ultra of Free Funk. Case closed. "Blow me some TRANE, Brother!" Although, Roscoe's & Lester's work on Melvin Jackson's Funky Skull is/are the exception(s) that prove the rule. That's a different kind of free and a different kind of funk, but who's splitting hairs?

Spoonie G The Sequence Super Wolf

A wise decision!

Nikola Tesla Pepsi Auer Doris Day

Mike Sexton Bill Saxton Coleen Sixton

Try this instead: The original Blair's Death Sauce is my favorite hot sauce, bar none. For my pallate, it's the most perfect blending of heat and flavor on the market. There's apparently a market for what I think of as "stunt sauces", stuff that's hotter than almost anybody can handle, but hey - if it ain't got flavor, what good is it as anything other than a gimmick? But this original Blair's, man, it's perfect!

Kid Thomas Valentine Buddy Bolden Bob Belden

Geez, dude, didn't you just have one of these things last year?

No shame here either. If it was the birthday of a dead guy who I didn't think about every damn day of my my life (literally) and I needed a "special commeroration" to assuage my guilty conscience, then yeah, I'd feel guilty. But Duke, man, that cat is in there, if you know what I mean. EVERY day is "Ellington Day" in my life in some form or fashion, and not just when it comes to music. I'm not much for commemoration by commemoration. I am into commemoration by actualization, and if there's anybody who's actualized themself more into my core being than Ellington, they're going to be on a very short list.

I can honestly say that both are equally great. Get both and be doubly satisfied. Seriously.

None right now, but a few weeks ago it was his solo on "Manhattan" from George Russell's New York, N.Y.. I've had this side in some form or fashion for about 35 years now, and the entry of that solo still blows me away. The rest of the solo's a gem too, but that entry, both harmonically and (especially) tonally is just... WHOA!!!! It's just one bar or so, but DAMN. When I read the anecdote about how Trane stopped the session for a little while to go off to a corner to "get his changes together", just for that one solo, and how some of the other players on the date were thinking that he was crazy or something, I just gotta laugh, because that was time well spent!

I hear ya. Between Monday Michiru and Sonny Rollins Live in London, that Sangrey is the "devil in my ear" which I would guess pleases him to no end. If y'all are happy, I'm happy. I live to serve. Also, I've been blessed to meet several people here & on Board Krypton (one of whom mostly lurks) whose generosity is nothing short of being truly angelic. They come across all sorts of obscure great recordings and share them freely. Without them and their beautiful spirits, I'd be missing out on a lot of what have come to be some of my most prized listening materials. Not because they're "rare", but because they really are that good. I'll put it this way - before the Internet in general, and this board/Board Krypton specifically, I thought I knew a lot of music. And yeah, I probably did. But I soon learned that no matter how much you already know, there's always that much more that you don't know (and that there's always somebody out there who knows about it). For me, that's been a life-changing discovery, because my "sense of certainty" (which inevitably leads to creative stagnation) is now more about "principles" and much less about "specifics". I keep finding out about people making music that appeals directly to my principles while at the same time defying my now-all-but-extinct idea of how those principles should/would/could manifest themselves. I guess what I'm trying to say is that isolation, as beautiful and necessary as it often is, can eventually kill. The Internet in general (and this board in particular) is a damn good antitdote.

Well, I pretty much already know what I like, generally, and that's not really changed all that much. But truthfully, even though I already know what I like, the folks here are constantly making me aware of new/different people doing what it is that I like. And I try to reciprocate as best as I can. What has definitely changed is how quickly I can find out that something's coming out, or is going to become available. Used to be that certain things would come and go before I heard about'em. Now, I can carpe deim like a mofo. And usually do!

A Boy Named Sue A Man Called Horse Secretariat