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Deet Gold - Tales Of The Footloose Blacksmith

Is the Peggy Lee a compilation from other albums?

The OG Interplay album saw American release and should be easily enough found. if anybody doesn't have it yet. The opening track ("Loco 47" ) still blows my mind and IMO is one of the greatest...anything ever.

Mapleshade proper did several excellent Clifford Jordan records. I particularly like the one with Ran Blake. You wouldn't necessarily think that one would work, but it does. Clifford Jordan was very secure in his voice, so I think he could ultimately play with anybody and it would work, if the other person was equally secure in theirs. Nothing to prove, just make music.

Still satisfying, maybe because I imprinted in it when it was only 20 or so years old, not 72. A lot of the future still lay ahead then! Besides, hey, Sonny Rollins still coming into his own is still very much Sonny Rollins. Same with Jackie McLean. Same with Art Blakey with no hi-hat. Standing out this time is Tommy Potter. Hell, I still love bebop, the real deal, that is. I was gifted my copy by a very good friend. Would never have known about it otherwise. Discogs has no copies for sale, so check CD Japan? As far as I know, it's Japan only. But Chicago should have a source I would think. Maybe not in-store, but locatable for a price. The "+5" cuts are not of the same audio quality and sound like cassette dubs of more than one generation. But hell, Warne is in totally peak form on then, so, you know, fuck "sound quality". This is genius and this is what we have.

Maybe so, and I know I'm in the minority, but I prefer In The World. Not as "spiritual", but oh well about that. It's more, uh, in the world!

Amazon has this.

Ha! Yes. I found that one and bought it for the WTF? factor and was pleasantly surprised to find it to be up to the task of positively paralleling the product!

Weren't The Dolphy Series records done for a specific label (Futura, or something like that)? Maybe this new record was not done for that label and therefore would have had a different business provenance or whatever you would call it?

One of Warne's very best records with 5 other/new pieces from the same sessions. Warne was special. Still is.

Big picture, this sounds like about another day at the office. Hell of an office, though. Pre-ordered.

Local Brooklyn, solid and flayvaful.

Hugh Ragin is incredibly versatile, able to play pretty damn much anything meaningfully. On the last two cuts of this Wesley record, he plays a meaty extended solo in the "free jazz" mode and then closes the album with a really soulful "Maynard-like" melody reading. I was ready to listen to this record once, enjoy it, and then give it to the library. But it's got more stick than that, in large part due to Fred Wesley's seriousness of concept, but it's Hugh Ragin that's ultimately keeping it here at the house.

Pretty interesting record within itself - several spiky Hugh Ragin solos ( and Ornette-ish composition) and a totally wack Leon Ware tune mixed in. Overall, a totally organic funkjazzjazzfunk record that grows from the inside out. Hugh Ragin!!!!!!!!!!

I remember being a bit surprised at how big the space was. Not exactly "intimate"!!!

The Gate had two stories, right? I saw two "Jazz Meets Salsa" shows there in 1979 and remember it being a pretty big space. The dance floor was large - and packed. So, more space than most places.

J. C. Bootums - Bouncy!!!

What I have seen of his surviving scores, they would appear to be more "lead sheets" than actual "scores". Very interesting notion...

Yes, I heard some of that on YouTube. What has me ultimately wondering if this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Johnson_(composer) Unfortunately, only reviews from newspaper critics, audience members and programs survive to tell of the sounds produced by Johnson. During this period, it was common to not write a complete score, since works were in such demand that this time-consuming task was best left as notes; the performers could more easily be taught to produce the desired sound. Arrangements were commonly published for amateurs in order to increase the demand for the original band or orchestra. Only surviving today are the piano arrangements requested by publishers, along with skeleton guides of Johnson's other arrangements. Johnson's elaborate and extended effects were apparently more important than his straightforward compositions. Foreshadowing the jazz era, his actual music was simple, allowing the composer to instruct the performers in developing more musically complex versions.

I had never heard of this guy. Now I am intrigued.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/long-before-jazz-frank-johnson-was-playing-hottest-music-america-180981838/

Sussum Archcraft - The Winds Of Exact Change

Still wondering...