JSngry

So....is a bit of a picture kinda emerging that the last year or two of the OT band is already moving in a direction in which the NT band would fully continue? As usual, evolution is gradual rather than immediate, or even sudden.

There's certainly some Hubbard records as good as Straight Life, and in a lot of different contexts, but none actually better than. That record is HOT. Nobody skates, and everything has substance. That it's got an element of "production" to it is neither here nor there. Doesn't affect the playing one bit. I don't think there's a better George Benson record than Beyond The Blue Horizon.

About Dameron and Basie..."Stay On It' was recorded by Columbia, but was it actually released i its time? and was "Good Bait" recorded at all past that airshot?

Looks like Joe Zawinul was in the room also!

Did y'all play hardball?

There might not be a better Freddie Hubbard record than Straight Life.

Oh yeah, Little Jazz, that seals he deal, then. Interesting anyway to hear Basie do "Good Bait, and "Stay On It", modified slightly to fit the band of the time.

Very much in the vein of The Jewel In The Lotus (which is covered here). Benny Maupin is mostly under the radar these days, but he has not vanished.

I recognize some of those Harding charts. Still...

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"Not a better" certainly allows for 'as good as'.

There is not a better Milton Jackson album than Sunflower.

There is not a better Stanley Turrentine album than Salt Song.

Grady Tate!

Am I reading that right, this is a free concert?!?!?!?!

Not Billy Cobham, right? Looks like he works out.

Hank TV Show!!!

I wish I knew Buster Harding's writing well enough to be able to rule out it not being an early Tadd Dameron chart on "Beaver Junction". The voicings for the sax section are very modern for the time, more 1945 EckstineBand than 1945 BasieBand...and 1945 is a good time for a Dameron chart. But I'm afraid I don't yet know Harding's other scores of the time...anybody got any examples?

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I like this one:

Mah, it just doesn't seem to be swinging or cool. just may medicated to make it seem that way. In other words. It's, s got the air of a detached show to it.

Teddy Reig, but the problem (if it is one) happened before that. There's just no pocket and the tempos mostly sound like they're that way so everybody can skate. Maybe this is Stan Getz as Sonny Stitt?