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And good to see CS500 back in the house!

You know, the name "Leslie" works for either sex...

Fascinating. Much to think about here. Certainly not a simple matter, no matter what "side" you want to appraoch it from. One could go even further back and ponder the similarities in African/Arabic & Scottish/Irish musics in terms of cyclical rhythms, vocal embellishments, pentatonic scales, and whatnot. The similarities have long been noted by some musicologists, but the quest for the ultimate, original source has not been undertaken, at least not to my knowledge (which is quite incomplete in this matter, I'm afraid). I think we're going to have to consider the concept of Pangea, the unified land mass that existed before continental drift sat in. It's all speculation, of course, but if you believe that there are no "accidents" or "coincidences" in matters like this, speculation can be a lot of fun and perhaps even enlightening. Thanks for posting this, Kenny. If nothing else, it gives a new slant to that piece on MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE where Ayler plays bagpipes!

THAT GUY AGAIN!!!!

No, that's not right, because there were CBS releases in Europe. At least in Germany. Come to think of it, that Blakey in Paris live thing w/Wilen was available here on Columbia Special Products on LP, and now that's on Phillips CD. So I guess I don't know, period.

Something about "Columbia" already being a trademark for some other company in European markets, or something like that, and CBS (once the owner of Columbia) distributing their American Columbia stuff through European Phillips. As you can tell, I don't have a good grasp of the specifics.

A somewhat overlooked, yet significant, I think, portion of Trane's pre-Atlantic & beyond output. Worth every cent indeed!

Hey Tony, where'd you get the Wilen thing? It's import only, right? You know a good price/convinience intersection? I'm a'cravin' to hear more! As a sidenote, Bags' piano work here REALLY brings out the common base between Bud & Monk that wasn't always apparent until Bud's later work. I think this also shows why Bags was consistenly rated one of the premier performers of Monk material even though they didn't record together after the BN days - Bags got the connection between Monk & "bebop" that a lot of people didn't. Hell, he probably SAW a lot of it firsthand. There is absolutely no substitute for being there! Anyway, I dug, REALLY dug Wilen on this side, but it's Bags that I want to study. if you know what I mean. So what's a good source with a good price? TIA

You like to torture us, don't you? Uh, coming to Texas again any time soon?

I have an old LP of HI-FI ELLINGTON UPTOWN, and have TONE PARALLEL & LIBERIAN SUITE on some French CBS LP. Don't think I have this version of "Perdido". Had no idea of all the different variations of this album! "Controversial Suite" isn't one of Duke's "major" works, but it is certainly one of his most curious (and therefore, intriguing), and I'm looking forward to hearing it without any scratches. Bottom line - you can't beat Betty Roche on the "A-Train" heard here!

Excuse me, but is one of the sidemen listed as "Turnip Green"? Whose pseudonym is THAT?

I went to college w/a Bay Area trumpeter who was a HUGE TOP fan, and the way he tells it, they were very much a "band of the people" - they were one of those bands that came out of a tight-knit local community and stayed true to their roots for as long as they could, and that included hanging with the "locals" before, during, and after gigs, and living the same kind of life everybody else did (except for practicing and gigging, obviously). In fact, this guy says that Lenny Pickett got to be the kind of player he was by dropping big bunches of acid, skipping high school, and going to some park and just PLAYING all day long for anybody and everybody who was there. Don't know how true that actually is, but this guy was not one to exaggerate, so take it for what it's worth. But no doubt, this was a band that knew all about hard partying firsthand, and you can definitely feel it in their music. Oh yeah. Kids - DON'T try that at home!

Shepp's own playing quickly went on to mature from that heard here - he lost the blatant patterns that occasionally mar, in my opinion, otherwise beautiful solos here, and his tone, already razor sharp, soon became a deadly weapon, with a focus and power not QUITE heard here. But as an ALBUM, this one has a cohesion, it walks the line between "free" and "structured" in a way that is all but irresistable to my ears, feet, mind, and innards. I REALLY like the arrangements too. Totally fresh, at times even radical, "rehearings" of material that was still pretty fresh at the time. Perhaps a "spiritual grandfather" to the lovely reworkings of Ellington tunes that Julius Hemphill did for the WSQ? Not necessarily my "favorite" Shepp Impulse! album (that would STILL be FOR LOSERS), but one that, like Tony says, has not a wasted moment on it, and one that I'll gladly listen to any time.

You all got this one, I presume? I never did get Mantovani.

Taking my own recommendation from Cary's "Soul With Big Horns" thread, I toted TOP's LIVE AND IN LIVING COLOR into work last night for a listen, and it ended up being about 5 listens. WHAT A BAND! Along with Earth Wind & Fire, TOP was probably the most musically adroit R&B band of their era, and probably moreso. Chester Thompson was a KILLER organist (and he released a pre-TOP album on Black Jazz that I've yet to hear). Dave Garibaldi was a drummer who made EVERYBODY take notice by taking the Clyde Stubblefield trip to a whole 'nother level of limb independence and syncopation, and he did it without losing one iota of groove. Along with bassist Rocco Prestia & guitarist Bruce Conte, this foursome consistently laid down some of the slammin'est grooves ever, grooves that were distinguished by their complexity AND their naturalness. Then there's the famous horn section. No horn band of the era (and their were many, TOO many, in fact, if you ask me) got such a sound and had such, uh, power. I only saw them once, in 1975, and they played a 2 1/2 hour show NONSTOP. The freaky thing was Mick Gillette. This motherfucker was popping out double whatevers ALL night, all the while having a valve trombone handy to hit the occasional pedal tone punches in conjunction with Doc Kupka's honkin' bari. He was STRONGER at the end of the show than he was at the beginning. THAT is just sick. And if you only know Lenny Pickett as the kinda goofy, kinda pitiful tenor player/band leader on SNL the last few years, know that once upon a time, this cat was a MONSTER funk player who could lock into a groove as well as anybody and ride it to death (in the positive way, of course...). Check out his marathon solo on LIVE AND IN LIVING COLOR's "Knock Yourself Out", and prepare to be Hip-no-tized. The band's "golden era" was when Lenny Williams was their lead vocalist, and what a performer he was. Old-school SOUL in the middle of some of the most advanced funk ever made. It was a perfect fit, and the band lost something when he left. Although, Hubert Tubbs does a DAMN fine job on LIVE AND IN LIVING COLOR, and Williams' predecessor, Rick Stephens, was probably well on his way to greatness before going to prison on a murder rap. The band continues on today, basically unchanged in style. Although by now it kind of sounds formulaic. it's a DAMN good formula, and one they pretty much invented for themselves. After a long dry spell of REALLY uninspired albums, some of their more recent releases have had some really good stuff, but nothing, and I DO mean nothing, compares to the run of BUMP CITY, TOWER OF POWER, BACK TO OAKLAND, URBAN RENEWAL, and LIVE AND IN LIVING COLOR. These albums are "must haves" for lovers of sophisticated greasy urban funk. They set a standard that has been often strived for, but only rarely equaled, and NEVER surpassed, at least in my opinion. Any other fans out there?

1. Somewhere. that's all I can remember. 2. Faux-natural goodness baked into every bite! 3A. It creates a potential noise in that it creates sound waves, but if nothing is around to convert those waves into actual recieved sound, I guess not. Sorta like winking at a girl without her seeing you, only not. 3B. I haven't been a punk since forming Denton's FIRST Punk band, The Dirty Sphincter Band. We rehearsed for 30 minutes one afternoon, played a birthday party that night (for free, in fact) and promptly disbanded. Our repertoire consisted of two songs that I wrote, "Only Love" & "I Need Some Drugs", and a 90+ minute jam on Ornette's "Dancing In Your Head" which continued during the police's "visit" to the house to request that the volume be reduced. We complied, but did not stop playing. I sang and played alto (Why? I dunno, musta been delerious or something), Jimi Tunnell played guitar, Michael Murphy bass, and Dave "Tootie" Cameron was on drums. In attendance was Carl Finch, founder of Brave Combo. I found out about 15 years later that he once told somebody that he was have inspired to form BC by hearing The Dirty Sphincter Band's sole performance. He WAS at that party, so who knows? Date of this auspicious flirtation with the Big Time? Probably not June 26th 1978, but maybe a few months later. 4. Faux-natural goodness baked into every breath! And lastly... 5. No. But my refrigerator IS running. Better go get it!

My karma just ran over my dogma.

What the fuck is he talking about?

Let me put this as delicately as possible. Perhaps this lovely young lady has a personality that is the total opposite of her appearance, one that resembles a bad case of PMS that never ends. In that case, his wanting to spend 44 days in a box by himself is totally understandable.

Or a softcover edition of BEST OF THE BOUND BABE THREADS, or BEST OF THE BABES BOUND WITH THREAD? For those who like a little kink...

Yeah, Roomful Of Blues is none too shabby. Favorites of the local Push Dance scene, and I can always tell when they're being played by the DJ because they sound like seasoned players, and that's not always the case with what this crowd dances to.

Best wishes to you, her, and y'all - the Eternal Triangle.

Well, there's a fair amount of JATP stuff on the old box, but I think some new things got unearthed afterwards. The Jam Session is definitely on there - BETTER be, you can't have Bird on Verve w/o "Funky Blues"! The MAIN omission, now that I get the thing out and look at it, is the session w/Machito, and that's just wrong. Don't know how THAT happened. John, I got your PM, btw. Thanks!