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You eat grits? My respect has just more than doubled!

And "Black Heroes" is one HELLUVA tune!

So ok, Tiny Grimes' Highlanders looked stupid too, and Lionel Hampton was always doing some goofy stuff, but they could play. Goofball, I still say. Oop-boop-ditum-datum-watum-CHOO indeed....

Who was, Eddie Khan? It would no doubt have been more appropriate to state that Davis had been on Max's Impulse albums from a few years earlier and had been in the Roach orb for some time, unlike Hasaan.

That may indeed be the consensus, but I tend to think otherwise. No problem.

I saw Chester w/Jaco on that BLACK MARKET tour. It was nice!

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Re: the Hasaan album: Max was under contract to Atlantic at the time, Art Davis was Max's bassist at the time, and from what I hear, Hasaan was too "eccentric" to either land a deal himself OR assume full "leadership" role in a studio setting, which entails more than just writing material. I think that Max should be considered co-leader, and the billing more or less reflects this, at least within conventional "record company" parameters.

Nobody's 100% sure, but I tend to believe that he did indeed pass away.

Yeah, I saw Alphonso (w/Daryl Brown & Dom Um, what a great gig THAT was!), then Jaco (the first time a week or so after BLACK MARKET came out. that was a TOTALLY different Jaco...), then Bailey. Mised Miroslav, unfortunately, and missed the tour(s) w/Greg Errico drumming. I'd LOVE to hear some boots of those! Have to disagree about that live set, though. I get tired of Jaco's solo trickbag too (got tired of it back in the day, actually), but I think you can also hear what a great group player he was when he chose/was able to be. An ill-fated creature if ever there was one, so much brilliance and so much bullshit fighting it out every second, it seemed.... Thanks for the tips on those sites, btw. I'll be investigating.

You bet!

HELLUVA deal! That Richard Davis side is epochal!

I'm STILL looking for the John Roseboro/Juan Marichal single of "You Go To My Head"....

Source for this download, please! I've got mixed emotions about this particular incarnation myself. I feel like Zawinul's concepts DEMAND a percussionist (or percussionists). And Jaco sometimes got, well....out of control, I think. Zawinul's natural machismo yang was always perfectly offset by Wayne's equally natural yin, and when Jaco went left, the balance got thrown off. And there were also the trappings of presentation in those days, too. Zawinul in particular was a big believer in "presentation", and Jaco needed no assistance there! So the whole balance of the group got a little skewered for a little while, I think. But when Jaco was good, he was GREAT, and there were times when this quartet (and, later, quintet)functioned as one of those early Parker-Gillespie units - fast, furious virtuosity at the service of bold new ideas that nobody else was even coming close to comprehending, but that these guys dealt with as if it was second nature, which it no doubt was. That recent live set shows that, I think. I've recently been on a Zawinul binge, spurred on by that new bio, and I've been revisiting all the WR and post-WR albums as part of it. I'm finding NIGHT PASSAGE and WEATHER REPORT (the second one) to be MUCH more rewarding (especially NIGHT PASSAGE) than I remember them, and 8:30 a little less. The addition of Bobby Thomas on percussion helps, no doubt, but so does Jaco not tripping out on these studio recordings like he sometimes did live. I saw them 6 or 7 times altogether, starting in 1975, pre-Jaco, and ending right at the tail end of the band. Both the most exciting and most bothersome shows were with Jaco. None were ever disappointing though, becasue the more weird Jaco got, the more aggressive Wayne played. GOTTA love that! So, yeah, the quartet version of WR is probably my least favorite. but I'd still like to download that video!

Too many real highlights to pick just one, but I always get a rush when Jo kicks it up a notch for the out chours of "Honeysuckle Rose". And Lester deconstructing "Lady Be Good", in stark contrast to his earlier, epochal solo(s) w/Jones-Smith, Inc., that one still induces awe and grins at once.

In the sense that food and water are an acquired taste, yeah, I suppose so...

I hadn't noticed...

Well, even if he did, how would we know about it? I mean, between THAT pair, there ain't gonna be NOBODY credited!

Thanks for clearing that up. The world thanks you!