JSngry

I bet Randy dug Keith Moon once upon a time.

Will the band be covering any Van Morrison tunes? I've been a fan of his ever since he was with The Them.

Nat Perrilliat

Wink Martindale J.I. Rodale Carrie Nation

Trust me, he does!

Tom Dick Harry

I can speak for the Lowe: somewhat less explosive than his more "famous" sessions (e.g., "Black Beings"), but enjoyable in its own way. Again, don't expect a wail fest; this one is more in line with his later work on CIMP. The band--which is all star--doesn't stray far from freebopish melody/groove excursions. In fact, a number of the cuts are relatively "inside"--but hardly boring. Lowe, Cherry, Moncur (etc.) had a taste for the subtler side of the New Thing, and this album shows it. I'd say middle-of-the-road, but that statement doesn't seem to do the album justice. "Low key", perhaps? ← I love that Lowe side! "Melodic" and/or "singing" is how I've always thought of it, somewhat akin to Cherry's Art Deco in aftertaste. If you like one, you should like the other, unless you're coming at the Cherry side from the more conservative side, in which case you might still like the Lowe. The odds might be just a little less, though. The Dewey side is another darn good'un. Dewey & Geri go together every bit as nicely as do Ornette & Geri.

(No offense to Chuck but) while his cover may be lacking in comparison I think the music is just a wee bit better than that Montrose album. ← Well, yeah, but "Jump On It" is the message here!

Bye bye, blackbird.

Yeah, some very interesting lineups there. I'm wondering how much, if any "Swing-To-Bop" music can be heard in these cuts...

Sounds like a good recommendation from a poster I'm coming to have a lot of respect for. I've never heard of this album or of him. Is it still available? Details. please!

Those 45 comps are a seemingly bottomless pit. Some hold real treasures, some real trash, and some both. I'd not dismiss any of them out of hand, although it depends on what you're looking for as to what you're likely to find. Sometimes it can be something as small as a really wacked-out drummer (or guitarist, or whatever) on an otherwise totally mundane cut. For some people, that's worth the cost of admission by itself. I've got less disposable income than them, but hey...

Best farm team the Yankees ever had.

Cash McCall Mary Ann McCall Steve McCall

Let's Call This

Red Allen Rose Marie Pinky Lee

John Cleese Glenn Close Mel Farr

LOTS of birthdays of good friends lately, folks who continuously make this place such a groove. I've been lax in contributing to the individual threads, so here's one for all y'all! I know it's kinda weasley to do it this way, but it was kind weasley to miss the original thread stoo. What can I say other than HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Randy Weston Eddie South Nathan East

Does Cal Massey count?

Definitely. And not just on this series. Dance was one of the true advocates for this type of jazz, and he understood the life it represented better than most who wrote about it. Yeah, he didn't really dig bop (although, based on his writngs in Jazz Journal International, away from American eyes, I do believe that a lot of his later antagonistic words towards bop were as much posturing to make a point as they were anything - after all, he wrote the first piece on McCoy Tyner, and it was a favorable one), but he dug how the whole organ scene evolved, and what it represented in terms of the "sociology" of it all. The cat knew, and that's more than I can say about a lot of more supposedly "sophisticated" critics. It took me a while to realize that he was more than the Duke Ellington Pimp that my first encounters with him in the 70s led me to believe. But once I got into reading what he had to say, I realized that, yeah, Stanley Dance didn't talk about everything, didn't care about everything. And what he didn't like, he didn't like in no uncertain terms. But what he did like, he knew and knew damn well. Stanley Dance was a motherfucker.