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Robots in disguise!

Quantum mechanics meets jazz, and I say that with nothing but awesome wonder. One of the essential items of recorded jazz, afaic. There's a fair number of those, to be sure, but this is one of them. Now, if you can ever find the two Revelation LPs (THE ART OF IMPROVISATION - Vols 1 & 2) that consist solely of Warne's solos from this gig, pay whatever you have to pay to get them. They are documents of Warne at absolute peak form. The Verve CD gives you 12 complete performances, but the Revelation albums give you 34 different pieces. Just Warne's solos, but I tell you this - greater music has not been made. Which is not to say that music as good hasn't. But not a whole helluva lot of it.

Of coure, he would have built it at his parents house...

Just checked - my British twofer combines THE MAN I LOVE with IF YOU GO AWAY, which is a "lighter" date w/charts by Quincy Jones, although I must say that there are a few spots that sound as if they could have been ghostwritten by Riddle. But not enough of them.

JUMP FOR JOY is also w/Riddle, and his charts on that one are as perfunctory as the ones on THE MAN I LOVE are expansive.

Just curious - If the "earthy essence" was so important to him, why the lack of regard for Gene Ammons, to use an example previously mentioned elsewhere? And speaking of Konitz Milestone albums, isn't it a typo that gives the review of SPIRITS as being from 1969? I wasn't in high school in 1969, and it wsa in high school where reading that review over and over and not paying attention to the history teacher got me in trouble ione day.

I think he's really 55, and is pulling our leg.

Not during the Soviet Union tour of 71 (or was it 72?)? That sucks.

Yeah, that's how I have it, in that two-fer. Value-packed! But Quincy Jones is no Nelson Riddle, not when it comes to this kind of thing.

And Duke played for both, I think.

Not exactly a "big band" date (lots o'strings), but this one is a mostly a gem afaic: Never mind the "orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra" crap. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, whoknowswhocares, etc. What you got here is Lee singing ballads, great ballads, with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, who turns in some of his most harmonically devious work here. The version of "HAppiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe" is earfuck enough, but there's more... Plus, Lee sounds like she's in some kind of wierd, channelling Billie Holliday mode here. Kinda creeped me out at first, but the arrangements drew me into the total package, and now I'm hooked.

Yep.

That would be a matter for http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsmerk/oko.jpg In the meantime, Mr. Lowe is offering excellent music at even more excellent prices. Carpe diem!

HELL yeah!

What I like about early Evans is that he's trying to hide the sap that he wants to be (or maybe doesn't want to be!) somewhere inside, and would later so often become. He does so splendidly. There's a tightness, a tension, to that early work that to me sounds like a man who knows all too well that the room is too hip for him and that he fears for his life that the secret will get out. So he beats them at their own game, in a way, playing the idiom by reducing it to a series of nervous feints and jabs that a lot of times add up to more than the sum of thier parts. The nervous commentary on the action becomes an action of its own, and a fascinating one at that. A guilty conscience works wonders.

If I must...

Seems to me that Ray was doing a lot of work in the months prior to his passing aimed at "establishing his legacy". Like he knew his time was short, and he proceeded accordingly. A shrewd businessman to the end!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............................

Just that AMG lists Richard Davis as being on one of his early sides. Is this cat any kin to Alfred?

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I bought some things last week from Allen, and can vouch that he ships quite promptly. He shipped when he said he would, and the shit gotted here FAST! I can also vouch that what he's offering is quality music at a price YOU can afford! However, I'm a little peeved that I didn't get offered the stair-cleaner attachment. Oh well, we ain't go no stairs. But we DO have a hi-fi, and it's been a-blarin' for years now. So it all comes out in the wash. Which reminds me - if I order again, can I get a de-luxe fabric softener ball of some sort? Please?

You say that like its a bad thing...

Pen envy?

How convinient for them!

Dude, why can't you learn to love Bill Evans?