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If it's my money we're spending, "Dear Sir" alone is worth the cost of admission. (Damn, I think I'm turning into Larry King...)

From what I can gather, "standard" is usually "X" # of albums with an option for "x" more if the label desires. Perhaps in Hunter's and Jackson's case the "X" was five, the option for 2, and Hunter's option got picked up while JAckson's didn't?

Big Thumbs Up from over here.

It's been years since I've watched that show, but, yeah, I enjoyed it VERY much.

He plays a solo on "You go To My Head" on Shirley Horn's THE MAIN INGREDIENT that merits attention. "Computer G" from Kenny Garrett's BLACK HOPE - now THAT'S some Joe Henderson for your ass! Gimme time, I'll think of some more.

THERE IS NO NUMBER ONE!!!

I'd really. REALLY. like to see you do WYNTON IN ORCHESTRAVILLE...

It's sorta like a literary version of THE BLACK SAINT & THE SINNER LADY - sprawling, ambitious, passionate beyond reason, warm, knowing, you name it. AND - pretty damn funny in spots. "Sloppy pop", anybody? Maybe not a biography of the man, per se, but surely a biography of his spirit.

Where's my coffee?

Sounds interesting and affordable. Any reviews?

...that Organissimo went for a ".org" domain for their website rather than a ".com"? I mean, it IS a ORGan group right? Stands but to reason! I just, JUST now caught this, right now. Didn't USE to be so slow, but time marches on....

How you do this! Is a MIRACLE!

Word. I frequent all the boards, and jump in where it seems I can contribute, but I still consider this "home". Any board will be what its member make it, pure and simple. The recent political talk has been heated, but that's what backrooms are for, right? This is a hip joint, and there's no reason for it not to stay that way. Keep it lively, keep it loose, and keep the dirty stuff in the back. And check all guns at the door.

Thanks! If you have a REALLY good relationship with her, lovingly offer her the suggestion that perhaps she can't decide how to listen. And then run like hell.....

Well, I got this from a Max interview in Down Beat, I think it was. Supposedly Max had one album left on his Atlantic contract, and he began to be, as they say, "advised" by the label to "consider" making an album of "familiar" music. Max says that he thought to himself, "Well, what could be more familiar than a program Negro Spirituals? EVERYBODY knows those", and went on ahead and recorded LEVAS, an album that finds the common ground between free jazz and gospel, replete with a non-hesitant, if you know what I man, choral group. The album was not a popular favorite. Atlantic was not amused, and, after striking what was considered a "militant" profile throughout the 60s into the 70s, Max was dropped by Atlantic and apparently viewed as irrelevant by American record companies, since this was Max's last American release until Bruce Lundvall hooked him up with Columbia about 6 or 7 years later. Plenty of good, new stuff came out in Europe and Japan though!

Damn your eyes.

You're basically right, Chuck. But I love the guy anyway. A comment you made back on the Planet Krypton Board hit the nail on the head - HOW he played was more important than WHAT he played.

Since this is the non-jazz music forum, I was expecting a discussion about Oscar Levant. My bad!

O.K., this might sound totally wack. It might BE totally wack, probably is. BUT.... Has anybody besides me noticed the similarity in the interval used in "Witchcraft" where the title is sung (a 4th, if you're keeping score at home), and the opening phrase of Wayne's "E.S.P."? The lyrics to "Witchcraft" could be loosely said to be about ESP, and Wayne is sorta notorious for his ultra-dry sense of humor, so is it TOO far fetched to consider the possibility that Wayne heard Sinatra's version of "Witchcraft" back in the day (could he have missed it?), was beguiled by that one intervallic ploy, carried it around inside for a while, used it as the basis for "E.S.P.", and used the title as a sly reference to his inspiration? I'll admit to being a latecomer to Sinatra in general, and that song in particular. I first knowingly heard it about 5 years ago. But I'll be DAMNED if the first reaction I had when I heard that 4th was "WHOA!!! "E.S.P." just waiting to happen!!!" Everybody I tell this to thinks it's a totally loony idea, but I'm not so sure.... Off topic, but only sorta, so what the hell...

NOTHING at all like Grant's date, but this is another 'jazz interpretations of spirituals' album, and one that led to Max Roach's blacklisting by American record companies at that!

May I recommend ? Although it's Bill Barron's date, this is some of the finest Booker Ervin on record, as is

Does he ever? :rsmile:

LOVE the Book!

Diteaux!

Can't comment on this CD since I don't have it, but re:Pepper - I agree that his vocabulary is familar and predictable (to a point), but, not unlike Joe Henderson. his rhythms and the way he displaces that vocabulary is not, at least not to me. It's the unpredictability of the phrasing that I dig more than the vocaulary itself. When he phrases straight, I can take it or leave it (love his tone, though, no matter what), but when he gets a bit "sly", I dig it much.