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TOTALLY kickass trio set w/Milt Buckner & Tony Crombie, live @ Ronnie Scott's from April of 1971.

Seriously? Or are you kidding? This is what Michael Cuscuna recently said to me about this session this year, in his own words: Ah! if you heard it, you would think that it was five high school students trying to play like the Jazz Messengers. It is so horrible! I don’t know, all I can think of is that maybe the guy selling the drugs didn’t show up, I don’t know. Everybody’s playing very bad. Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan sound horrible. Art Blakey is not even swinging, nothing happens, it’s just really embarrassing. So that’s one that will never come out, never. - But it’s a complete session. They didn’t stop. They didn’t stop, but they should have! It was terrible, it’s really terrible. No, that one will never come out, it’s just bad, bad music. Obviously they realized it too because they rerecorded everything live, you know, live at Birdland. Just kidding about Pujol. Cuscuna's full of shit about this one. Nowhere NEAR as bad as he says it is. There are "problems", yes, but to say that "you would think that it was five high school students trying to play like the Jazz Messengers" is flat out bullshit. Like Mr. Fenhor said earlier, Lee is on fire. Ok, maybe he's trying to "defend the legacy", and if so, well, yeah - there's enough problems on this session that it, as a whole, is not up to the Alfred Lion Standard of the time, nor of the standard of unissued sessions that were later released. And that must be respected. But that description of this session is just not accurate. Not kidding about that.

Better hope she doesn't throw it into the East River....

Greg Tate wrote one of (if not THE) the first "mainstream reappraisals" of Miles' 70s work, for Down Beat, somewhere just before or after the retirement ended, I don't remember which. Who all's in this collective?

Didn't Rudy start recording the bass direct, at least for CTI?

Is this Greg Tate the writer?

Trane/Hartman. That's one of those magic moments that happen a few times every century.

Same.

Dolphy's is my favorite by far. Ira Sullivan's version on Horizon is nice. And then you got your Rahsaan and your Woody Shaw. But Dolphy, that's the one.

well, seems the Sangrey household has no Webster standing around No. we use an Oxford Concise. Fatter than the Ayler Box, but not as wide.

Just looked at the site mentoned above. Never mind.

http://www.cybermusicsurplus.com has historically been a good source for Black Saint/Soul Note CDs at good prices. I haven't looked at them in a while, but it wouldn't hurt to start there.

If you do vinyl, look for some Arista LPs. If not, grab the Hat stuff that's currently available, as well as whatever Black Saint stuff you can find. One Black Saint that I like in particualr, but would never really "recommend" to anybody, is COMPOSITION NO. 173. It's a futuristic, "sci-fi" almost, one act play dealing with a group of people trying alter physical and mental reality through the science of sound/accoustical manipulation. There's incidental music, but it's mostly spoken/sung word/sound. As a listening experience for all but the most die-hard Braxtonphile, I fear it might go on too long, but as a concept, as a look into what's REALLY going on inside Braxton's head, I find it pretty intriguing. But nevertheless, Black Saint and Hat both are repositories of many, MANY classic Braxton performances that will serve well to further one's interest in this particualr artist's massive body of work. Go there!

Bigger than a dictionary!

So THAT'S what the tent was for!

Maybe they were driving on Route 66.

I bought mine from Jordi Pujol.

Sorry to be late to the party. Stuff happens... Anyway - the third Tyrone album was DO RIGHT (Blue Labor BL 102). Personnel were Tyrone, Rene McLean, & Clarence Thomas on tenors, altos, & flutes; Billy Nichols - g; Hubert Eaves - p, el p; James "Fish" Benjamin - el b; Idris Muhammed - d; witht he horns doing various percussion & vocals. Recorded 4/17-18/1974. Produced by Heiner Stadler. Tyrone also appeared on two Stadler albums - BRAINS ON FIRE Vols 1 & 2, on Stadler's Labor Records. Vol 1 has "Heidi & "All Tones". Tyrone is in a quartet w/Stadler on piano, Reggie Workman, & Lenny White. Recorded July/September 1971. Not sure about Vol. 2, but Stadler's Tomato CD RETROSPECTION has what I believe I've heard is Tyrone's one appearance on the album (I could be wrong about this), "Pointed". Along w/Tyrone & Stadler are Jimmy Owens, GArnett Brown, Reggie Workman, and Brian Brake. Recorded 1973. I sent Mr. Stadler an email a while back inquiring about Washington, and he replied that Tyrone just sort of "disappeared" to practice his religion. He also said that he's heard rumors of Tyrone still being around in NYC, somewhere. The line about him becoming a social worker was something that I read somewhere, but I'm not sure exactly where. It was a long time ago. The Stadler Tomato CD has been reissued on his own reactivated Labor, and is available directly from him: http://www.laborrecords.com/index.htm I highly recommend it, and stadler's other works as well. I would also not hesitate to contact him directly ( hstadler@laborrecords.com as listed on his website)with any SERIOUS inquiries about his association w/Washington, as well as his other endeavors. He is a most interesting musician, producer, and composer. Highly & unjustly overlooked, imo. That's all I have, and again, sorry to be so late.

Whoa, I missed that. There's a new Bertha Hope side out?

It's a solar panel, not a condo block. All motherships are solar powered.

So is Pharoah Sanders Impulse work. VERY much so, in fact.

CHARIOTS OF FIRE. GRP. 1982. Grammy nominated. Same tone. Different context and substance though.

Chipotle is da'bomb. Period. End of story. But "fast food"? No wait staff, true, but no drive-through either... I like Arby's too, especially the jalapeno poppers, made with CREAM cheese, instead of the pasteurized whizzy doodle jizz that everybody else uses. Their Market Fresh sammiches are shockingly good, too - the bread is REAL. And that Big Montana (with tons of Horsey Sauce, of course of course) is a perfect road scarf. Boston Market for anything but chicken, which means sides, sides, sides! Popeye's. Yeah! The Bell is good, and if you don't eat the meat (I've heard they use "substandard" grade meat, but pay the fine anyway because it's more profitable than using better meat and not paying the fine. Probably an urban legend, but it's a good un), actually halfway healthy - no lard in the beans, etc. But I do eat the meat. One drag though - most of the employees put the food together in a way that is extremely driver-unfriendly. Hey - if I wanted to get out of my car to eat, do you think I'd be eating the hell at Taco Bell? Think, dammit, THINK! All-round favorite fast-food, though, is Jack In The Box, not because it's good (it's not), but because they give you seemingly infinite choices of whatever kind of bad it is that you may want. Burgers, "tacos", deli sandwhiches, teriaki bowls, whatever it it, they have it, and it's all... edible. But they've consistently been open late, and when you're driving home from a gig hungry as hell but don't want to go inside a Waffle House, the allure of driving through Jack and getting a Sourdough Jack, a teriki bowl, some eggrolls (w/guacamole, of course), a Pannido, and 2 tacos for 99 cents is not to be discounted. Besides, their new creamy caramel shake (made with REAL ice cream, thank you) is the real deal. They've got hip commercials too. Can't beat that.

What I like about Ravi's playing here is that he cops his dad's bag by focusing on the internal seriousness, and not the external intensity. That's a refreshing change from 30+ years of innumerable Clonetranes who go after the intensity first and foremost. What they don't seem to realize, imo, is that it's the seriousness of Trane's playing that creates the intensity, not the other way around.

Yeah, mostly bari, but on this Red Toucan disc, he also plays flute and soprano as well. Good sound on all of them, obviously a very well-practiced musician who's applying his abilies to good ends. No recent activity, eh? What's up with that, is Montreal turning into Dallas?