JSngry

As a piano playing singer (or a singing piano player. more to the point), I can handle her just fine. But as a SINGER, and all that that implies, she's got too many deficiencies in phrasing vis-a-vis lyrics and phonetics for me to enjoy her. Sorry for the dichotomy, but when you set yourself up to be something you're not yet being, them's the breaks. The bar has been set quite high, and walking under it, no matter how glamorously, is not the same as getting over it. On a side note, is it just me, or is there the same "Canadian Female Singer" thing in her voice as I hear is such disparate vocalists as Joni Mitchell and Anne Murray? What would you call that, a "twang" (too strong, and possible derogitory in its implications, but not meant to be)? I hear it unmistakably (and it's not a factor one way or another as to whether I like/dislike any particular singer/performance), just wondering if anybody else does.

Well hey, I'm gonna buy 15 or 20 discs of something sometimes anyway, so it might as well be this stuff.

This is a good'un fersure.

If it's all been released, does that mean it's finally time to move on?

That too, but we DEFINITELY need to make some MORE!

MJQ Music, or whoever owns THEM now. The REAL money's in publishing, that's what I keep hearing...

some MORE! Oh yes we do! Am I right or am I right?

Yeah, that's one of the quotes I remembered. I just didn't interpret it to mean that Gil had directly participated in the actual writing of these charts, but had rather been an influence through example.

Hmmm...I could swear that these were 10" things I saw. Maybe my chronolgy's messed up, or maybe the Garner was a 12", and the Kelley was a 10". In fact, I'm certain about the Kelley, and I'm certain I saw the Garner (and wasn't that an album of previously unreleased material never originally on BN) in the 80s, so maybe I'm adding 2 and 2 and getting 6, allowing for inflation and for objects in the rear-view mind being closer than they appear......

I remember seeing the Errol Garner & Wynton Kelley things on Japanese 10", but this was in the '80s.

I thought that Herbie had just learned about Evans' arranging methods from playing in his band for a while, notably writing the inner voices "horizontally" (to where the melodic "sense" of each part comes foremost) instead of "vertically" (where every stacked voicing makes harmonic "sense"). I'm unaware of any direct input by Gil on these albums, but no doubt I could be wrong.

There's a lot of lonely women out there, just as there are a lot of lonely guys. An adult chat room seems like a perfect outlet for these folks to live out a fantasy or two without having to actually make contact. Quiet as it's kept, women get horny too. And nasty.

Not my favorite Herbie BN, but a "snoozefest"? Sorry, can't even begin to go there with that. But different strokes, doncha' know.

Another good thing about the Elvin set is that you get to hear lots of George Coleman in a more "progressive" style than that on mot of his own records and those with Miles and others. This is the George that a lot of fellow tenor players enjoy hearing the most, for whatever hill of beans that is worth. Another good place to hear George w/Elvin is the Enja date recorded at the Vanguard. It's a trio w/Wilbur Little, with Hannibal sitting in on one piece. This album's sort of a "cult classic" amongst tenor geeks ("Laura" in particular is one of those "Oh My God!" type of performances), but I'm not sure if it's still readily available or not. So if you see it, buy it. I doubt you'll be disappointed!

That's really her name - Ann Onimus. Sort of a cult figure, but she turns up with surprising regularity...

You're old, dude...

I don't know how Konitizian these Revelation/Hat dates are in terms of actual vocabulary, but nevertheless Ortega & Konitz share the esthetic of avoiding "licks" and such whenever possible, especially on standards, and instead focusing on the melodic elements of improvisation, an approach I myself like to call "lines, not licks", for whatever that is worth. It's a bold gambit, and almost of necessity requires a "cooler" mien, but when the goals are successfully attained, as they are here, the results are music that is riveting and extremely involving. Especially on standards - you know the forms, and you know how everybody else has done them, and hearing them done like THIS just draws you in, irresistably, because while you're having your superfical expectations thwarted, they're still being met at the primal level - the forms and shapes of the original material remain intact. So, it's tension and release simultaneously. Try getting THAT at Wal-Mart! Not that the music is as esoteric and intellectually conscious as the above "explanation" of my reaction to it is, it's not. The stuff swings, and with no little heat (maybe a "dry" heat sometimes, but heat is heat, right?). Bottom line - it's fresh, it's exciting, and it's real. Go for it!

I kepr, and still have, the longboxes for albums that had specific artwork on them. It was a part of the album's overall packaging in a really obtruse way. But too often they were just generic label blurbettes. Toss. Weren't the long box and blister pack (truly as close to Satanic as any product has ever been ) born out of the need for retailers to keep their LP shelves?

Excellent, simple excellent.

I think "lost her mind" might be more to the point.

Try Texarkana!

May happiness and success be Dean Bennedetti to your life's Bird and follow you everywhere.

If Mosaic won't (or can't, due to legal hurdles) do it, SOMEBODY needs to collect all the recordings from this tour "under one roof". That would make a KILLER set. I'm with Lon, I consider this stuff essential. In many ways, this was the most "fully realized" Mingus music, at least for me.

Tony, PLEASE find a copy of Grahme Locke's Forces In Motion, a book written about a Braxton quartet touring England. everybody gets interviewed at length, and it's about as lucid, charming, and full a portrait of this man and his genius as there is. Trust me on this one.

Well, the Wilkerson BNs might not be toi everbody's taste, but I'd think that TEXAS TWISTER would be! That bad boy KICKS AYE-ESS!