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Lena Horn Gabor Szabo Gary McFarland

Found a used LP copy of this today for $3.99.

Yes, please tell. And speak clearly!

Krusty Marie Callendar Paula Dean

Dave Lennox Annie Lennox Dave Stewart

This thread started w/Jim R & is now at Charles Revlon. Surely Kevin Bacon is at the door!

Enrico Rava Ravi Coltrane Charles Revlon

Any suggestions? Maybe as a sideman? ← Some filler, yeah, but the rest of it....

This is some first-rate Joe, imo. I agree that the trio at this stage of the game sounds a bit formulaic, but otoh, it was their formula, and it served them more than well both artistically and careerwise. So I'm not going to be the type that finds fault with a car for not being an airplane. Also, I think that hearing Joe stretch out at length on such traditional material shows his true nature. He was first and foremost a "changes" player, and a damn inventive one at that. I'm not one of those who find his freer work forced. constrained, or whatever, not at all. But I do see how those who feel that way about it could, since underlying his freer playing was an innate conservatism that was in fundamental conflict to the general notion of what "avant-garde" playing should be all about. Joe was one player for whom preset notions just didn't seem to have any relevance - he was an "out" in player, an an "in" out player. Neither fish nor fowl, some might say, but a breed unto himself says me. In a setting like this, it's really all about Jazz 101 - a lingua franca repertoire, with the task at hand being to bring the music to life in as swinging, imaginative, hip, and, yes, happy a way as possible. And Joe succeeds marvellously. He swings like a MOFO on every tune, and his harmonic/rhythmic intersections, always the most interesting aspect of his playing to me (well, that and his tone), is freed by the familiarity of the repertoire rather than stifled by it. There's something to be said for continuing to play "tired" numbers such as these. Not for playing them day in and day out, but in revisiting them every so often just to see what you've really got going on. If the "object of the game" for a jazz musician is interior freedom, freedom within one's self (and I think it should be, although I don't think that it is for a lot of us, which is too bad...), then what better way to test that freedom (or for that matter, just revel in it) than to play some tunes where the "thinking" portion of the equation has been removed. I mean, at this stage of the game, noe of these players really had to think about the changes to something like "Four", ya' know? So you got two choices - you can coast/sleepwalk, or you can treat it like a party in an open field the country - wide open spaces, nobody to fence you in, just get your groove on and GO with it. Needless to say, Joe came with the latter objective in mind, and he achieves it splendidly. Now as for the trio, this open field in the country is their house. They live here, so their partying is a little more planned than is Joe's. But they're glad to have him over, and they don't get in his way, to put it mildly. And they don't frown upon his revelry, either. When Joe opens up, they don't try to pull back to compensate. There's no worrying that he might be going just a little outside their usual parameters. If anything, they sound like they're glad to have him over to liven things up a bit. No matter how "fixed" this trio was, all three members had HUGE ears, and you know that they could hear more than they sometimes played. Just because they didn't really stretch on their gig doesn't mean that they couldn't. A gig's a gig, if you know what I mean... And this is about as perfect a gig as could occur with these players and this material in this setting at this time and place. A splendid time was had by all, and of course Henry the Horse danced the waltz. It's not "heavy", but then again, maybe that makes it even more heavy. That's going to be a totally personal call, that one is...

George Brett Billy Martin George Martin

Bryant Gumbel Art Clokey Eddie Murphy

Don Larsen Augie Donatelli Brian Auger

Wesley LaViolette Fred Wesley St. Clair Pinckney

Milt Gabler Matthew C. Perry Jennifer Aniston

Forgota about Scrubs. That's a good'un too, what I've caught of it.

Barbara Morrison?

Bernie Mac Bernard Worrell Victor Wooten

Now that's one I'd consider for "greatest ever" status! Do we have a dedicated thread for it here?

Started noticing this last night. You can still successfully search by artist using the Advanced Search feature, and all links from there seem to work just fine.

Harder than what? Leslie Uggams.

Well, don't take my word on it, you might dig it anyway. It's not horrible or anything. I'm just at the stage right now where hearing ANYBODY do "Nefertitti" conjures up images of 21st century Dixieland in pizza parlors from coast to coast. But that's just me...

Yeah, sure...

A technicality - the Turrentine was one of the ones that had the white-bordered, slick-paper cover. But yeah, great set!

Booker Little Danny Williams Marjorie Lord

Did you do that on purpose?