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Coltrane already has a church. Does he really need a new picture book? One thing I notice is that most folks go for the trance without having a clue about the actual theories involved. Suckers.

You mean they had a gun at their heads or their babies were being held hostage?

Does it need to be?

I believe I already have it from collector circulation...is there any value added? No, wait, that's something else. Never mind

Have you never been mellow?

Exactly! STEPNEY DOES THAT!!!! Have you heard Rotary Connection's "Ruby Tuesday"? The Dells... The Dells could sing "Knoxville Girl" and make it sound like an impassioned love song. I went on a Dells bender a while back and came away stunned, and never moreso than when Stepney was at the helm.

Kinda the long way around, eh?

Simon was a HUGE Glenn Miller devotee iirc.

Moe Drabowski Don Sebesky Eddie Kasko

Gotta remember that Gleam was originally released only in Japan. It would have been nice to have had it here at the time. Same thing with the Herbie Hancock records that were released only in Japan. You know who did not do well on CTI imo? Ron Carter. One album, All Blues with Joe Henderson and Roland Hanna was pretty good, but the rest .. not so much. They all seemed to be of his own making, though, not Creed Taylor.

Thanks. Now I know!

Don't necessarily "like" that one, but five stars for, what...audacity on Mangelsdorff's part.

And I am another exception in that I do. Of both. Although with Braxton, "large number" is a relative quantity. But I keep adding, behind the curve I inevitably am. Who cares? Music is fun! 👁️

I guess Rotary Connection was making fun of The Rolling Stones. Not everybody should take LSD, and a lot of those who shouldn't do. But those who shouldn't should stay the fuck out of the way of those who should and do. Two different worlds, those are.

There have been very few true improvisors in this or any other music. That's some Romantic bullshit. There have been a lot more great interpreters of their various personal and collective vocabularies (and vocabularies they are, music at its highest level is both math and language, head and heart) and those interpretations do involve spontaneous inspirations. I wish people would stop confusing those two things, we could get rid of a lot of noise. I can listen to Johnny Hodges never play the same thing twice the same way every time and NEVER get tired of it.

I think it was Leonard Feather who in one of his 1950s books posited the idea that technology would soon make it possible to create the perfect jazz record by just rolling tape forever and the picking the best choruses and editing them together to make a perfect take. He got somebody, Zoot Sims maybe? to endorse the idea. Of course, hello Teo Macero, but Teo was a deeply serious and expert composer, not some asshole opportunistic jazz critic. Teo was not playing games and doing a gimmick. And Teo was not splicing choruses, Teo was waaaay beyond that. The more On The Corner I hear...hey. Teo, genius at doing that thing that way. Chuck Nessa made great records by going the opposite route, simply creating a sensitive and comfortable environment and letting thing go right - and ensuring that they kept going right. Chick Nessa also has the gift of knowing who he wanted to record and didn't bother making records he didn't want to make. So artist and producer were on the same page from jump. There might have been an exception or two, but overall, it's mutually gifted and simpatico artists collaborating. When you get that dynamic, it really doesn't matter what type of music it is, you're going to to get a good record. Anything else, hey, business is business.

Serious question - are they actually in Paris or is that just a name? Never traded with them. No reason, just never have

Do people who complain about an over-produced jazz record also complain about an under-produced jazz record? And no, releasing sloppyass takes with poorly executed playing when taking a little time to fix a few things before proceeding is not under-produced. That's poorly produced. Maybe that's what the focus should be - did you get it right or not. Do your clothes fit you right, that's the question. If they do, hey, wear whatever the hell you want. But if they don't...get your ass back in the house and work that shit out before you come back out.

It wasn't even that complicated. He lost his A-Team of talent and didn't have any kind of bench. I saw it happen in real time. One after the other they all got bigger deals with bigger labels. I think Freddie might have been the first, but pretty soon, Stanley, Laws, Benson, Deodato, hell, even Bob James were all gone. I have no idea if the money got funny after that or not, but the guy seemed to let that knock him down to where he couldn't get back up. Spurts here and there, but no traction, and some downright misfires, suck jobs. Am I the only one who doesn't at all get Seawind? I take it that they're supposed to have been amazing, and Jerry Hey certainly has a most impressive resume, but the band itself? Not for me, thank you. The Urbie Green record with the uglyass bumble bee is actually quite nice, a good one. So why weren't there more like that. The dude just lost his mojo.

Ok. I'll bite - what soul records does it sound like? Past the title cut? Do people still listen to the Trouble Man record? The Mizell gang, otoh, actually produced soul records, hit soul records no less. Both before and after Blue Note hit that New Note. Personally, I have more personally-indispensable Marvin Gaye records than I do Donald Byrd records, not even close. Perhaps I am not a serious jazz listener. If this is what that means, then I gladly accept the verdict!

Freddie's records on Columbia were only sometimes uninspired, never awful, and in the case of The Love Connection, sone of his absolutely best playing on record. Truth be told, many "serious jazz listeners" are serious fans, period, and can't hear past the surface. That's why so damn many "jazz records" sound the same. I don't begrudge anybody any of that, but if you can't hear, say, Stanley Turrentine playing brilliantly on a CTI record, then you aren't hearing the music, you're hearing the record. And vice-versa. That's why I rate Creed Taylor as totally legit, he could aim at both targets equally well.

Amber Pistolle - When Laws Are Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Have Laws

The Nutty Squirrels The Nutty Professor Cracker Jack

Do you have factual backup for this, or is this just your impression? I don't get any mockery out of it at all. Inspired wackiness, yes. Mockery, no. The liners of the Dusty Groove (label) reissue posit that Stepney was a HUGE fan of Bacahrach-David (just as he was of The Beatles) and that the album had to be titled as it was because The Dells audience (i.e. Black) would NEVER accept them doing a tribute to Burt Bacarach. The notion was, they say, Stepney claiming his right to expand on this music just as much as he was ANY music, marketplace/racial barriers be damned. Sorry, but absent any first-hand documentation that this was a put-on (and why the hell would it be?), I just can't buy it.

That would be great!