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That would be the "Almond" half of The Mark-Almond Band, an early 70s "jazz-rock" band that Dannie Richmond left Mingus to join. Not to be confused with today's Marc Almond Band, of whom surely I'm not the only one who chuckled at being the only one who recognized the homophonic name from decades past.

Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, & Walter Booker all played guitar.

WTF are maine coone cats, anyway?

Natalie Merchant breathing in my ear would not bother me... Natalie Merchant singing in my ear, otoh... But hey, no such thing as a free lunch, I suppose.

If only the Plaster Casters had known...

I'll say it again (aka "my stock answer") - for some people, art is not an expression of who they really are, but who they'd like to be if only they could.

DOMESTIC PRICES! If that actually happens, I'll be one happy guy. Ah yes, the omnipresent Dusty Groove exclamation point. It's spiritual!

People be likin' the Frank Hewitt it seems. Glad to hear it.

Agreed. But she shore is purty!

Does this mean the end of videotape, too? And if not, why couldn't videotape manufacturers make audiotape as well? Neverthenonetheless, I've got a several shelfloads of cassettes that were wearing black when I got in this mourning. Guess they heard the news

My bad. Typical American provincialism.

Well, ok then. Yeah, I got this on a 2-CD Bethlehem thing w/liner notes I've never read. So that's Philly, eh? Great larger ensemble drummer from the few times I've heard him do it. Still wish that he would have done something different on the opening. But them's the breaks. Great cut anyway! So that's what #4 is, eh? Early 40s, right? When Eddie Sauter & Mel Powell were writing all those great charts for the band? Thought that it might be a Sy Oliver thing, what with those "Yes Indeed" type handclaps and stuff, but research shows it to be by Richard Maltby, he of the 1950s Ray Anthony-esque dance band sides. Seems it was a hit in it's day! Still don't dig it, but the history is illuminating as to why not. This was no doubt a commercial "antidote" to all the "art" charts... GOTTA get those Jack Wilson & McDuff sides. And #12 has me very curious....

Call me myopic, but living 90-something years in the years that he did it is more than a blink. It's more like an unending stare. Not to quibble, mind you.

His tone (very supple and malleable), his lines, and his spacing. Seems like he's in the Coleman/Osby field roughly but not derivatively so. Not the future of jazz or anything, just an interesting player I'd never heard before. Drag that he's an asshole, apparently. His website is French & English on the same page, so I figured there was some Canadian political stuff going on with him that is not relevant to my lifestyle. C'est la vie en rose, or however that saying goes. Caine plays really nicely on that disc, btw. I'd not been much impressed before, but here he sounds very alive and in the moment, which I guess is what I dug about Carrier too, when you get right down to it. But I've just heard the one album.

If my mother brought home an Alan Shorter side, I think I'd have a heart attack and die on the spot.

Didn't you hear? They turned into bottles of beer on the wall.

Ask Rachel.

That's still feasible, although maybe a little less so. R&B was beginning to find an audience among whote teens by then.

They say that great minds think alike. So how the hell did WE both end up asking this question? Now as for #3, finding out what it is through reading here, ok, I've got that album, just haven't listened to it all that much. That will be remedied. But my comments about the drummer deing kind of dull on the head makes sense now. A few years ago, a good friend from the the board sent me a copy of a Japanese CD that contains a bunch of alternate takes from this session, replete w/studio chatter, and it clearly reveals that Blakey was NOT ready for the date. Retake after retake, mainly due to his not picking up the kicks and stuff like that. So it makes sense that he'd just do a ching-ching-ching. Very safe, hard to screw THAT up. It's funny really.

No I got it. It's just that in the context, talking about Joe Maini being "in there" kinda creeped me out...

NOBODY'S identified this yet? Heck, I thought this would've been the easiest track on the disc! Am I the only one who bought this last year (2004)? You're absolutely right, should be easy to guess, as we probably all bought this and the other two reissues, and filed them away as we thought we knew them .... track 3 from this CD! I find the combination of these two tunes is work of genius, like all of this man's work. Oh shit... I've had the album since ca. 1977 AND bought the CD last year and STILL didn't recognize this particualr version. That's just wrong... (BTW, the medley became S.O.P. for the duration)

Can't remember if I remember it or not.... Hey, welcome!

Yeah, pumped-up, very close-miked, and extra reverbed. On the solos, anyway. No sin, mind you, but if that had to be done to compensate for actual physical weakness, it's a drag from a personal standpoint. As for other examples, in today's multi-tracked environment, I'd be loathe to make such a claim unless it was really noticeable, and on this album, it was, at least to me.

From the description of the dress, this sounds like it's from the time when "be-bop" ahd come to mean early Rock & Roll.

What little I've heard of this date is quite good... Thaks for the tip, Joe. Will definitely check it out w/Bley on board. This François Carrier cat seems to be a player.