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No Selmers, then. good. Keep those out of the public's consciousness, keep them for players.

What did she bring?

OMG!!!!!! - DeJohnette on Disc 7!!!!! 1979, yeah, don't let the ECMage of the time fool you, this guy...he could/can lite your ass on fire for as long is it needed lit.

Probably my favorite Sheep record of them all (as much as any single one can be). It's a concept record, really, "who gives a damn for losers?" The voice of China-Lin Sharpe speaks to that theme both explicitly and implicitly, as does, to varying degrees, the personnel. apparently this is far from a universally held opinion, but it is my opinion, and nothing has changed over the last 50-ish years to do anything but strengthen it. Old folks too often have to repeat themselves, so apologies for this post.

New record! https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dunns-and-pearson-olly-wilson-remixed https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/our-journey-to-olly-wilson-remixed-and-beyond/

These two. Just don't expect different typ tunes: Big thanks to fellow member CJ Shearn for calling these two out. The copies come cheap, so carpe diem! Also, keep in mind that Coltrane played with Jimmy Smith back in the Philly days, and there's still farily reasonable speculation that Smith opened Coltrane's ears to the whole "sheets of sound" thing, as well as some more chromatic thinking. Don't let all the "commercial" albums (whatever that means...), Smith had a keen musical mind from beginning to end. And he made money with it, Good for him! Just keep in mind, it's not like he turned into Larry young or something. He was always gonna be Jimmy smith. But the depth of his playing (when he wanted to show it) kept going until the end, and although a casual listen might mqake it sound like "more Jimmy smith", paying attention to all that gets thrown in there along the way reaps no small dividends. For that matter, Eddie Harris is another one, so maybe check those one out: Just little things he drops in there and keeps going like it didn't happen...in many ways, the highest form or artistry?

It took 10 minutes to say that? Ok, most people don't get jazz, and most who don't couldn't care less. And it ruins his day. NEXT!

It did not have an orange cover? Whoa...

Maybe listen to the later Jimmy Smith? The basic tunes didn't really change, but the lines he played certainly did. And have you checked out Doug Carn? Or Chester Thompson? Or Don Pullen on organ. Or Amina claudine Myers Also...maybe you'll like this, maybe not, but there's a very interesting improvising classical organist, Aaron David Miller) whose records totally captured my imagination. Not for everybody, though! Apparently there's a whole genre of improvising classical organists, I've not yet cone down that rabbit hole yet. But this guy does things like make percussion instruments out of old organ pipes that me designs himself. Pretty interesting guy. Here's a record to get! Oh, bill Heid, have you checked out Bill Heid?

So, Phil Spector personality meets Mahler music...I am intrigued by that oversimplification and am interested in fleshing it out with some reality from down here on the 21st century ground. Thanks!.

Please advise? Both about the composer and the recording, as well as a good starting point, should one be desired. Please, advise!

Probably not...is it a needle-drop? That's a good record, though. That Strand label is not readily available in the wild, and has a few good things in there, like a Slide Hampton (with both Booker Little AND Freddie Hubbard!), a Cat Anderson, and a Joe Zawinul, maybe one or tow others, but it's mostly curiosities at best. http://www.bsnpubs.com/strand/strand.html

Anybody ordered directly from ESP recently? I'd like to do that if it's still working right.

Yeah, but you know, compression on the end to get the grooves on there, always sounded fine to me, but if you tell them it could be better, they will believe it, so then you get CDs and yeah, they DO sound a little "better", even though it's the same music, but then they want LPs again, and then you get all sorts of weird shit like 45 RPM LPs, 3 sided LPs (and not in audiotechnicolor, and LOOK, there goes/here comes the money, i mean, just play the records y'all, don't worry about it sounding better until you can hear it at all, how much money am I supposed to have to do all this and even if I do have it, maybe I got other shit to spend it one, music and otherwise. Just sayin'.

Hats, definitely, YES!

There's a Japanese CD of this that includes extra material that may or may not add value to the LP. Still trying to make up my mind on that one, as the OG LP imprinted a few decades ago. I love how you can tell what period of Sonny the record or video is by his wardrobe. I don't think people talk about that, because, you know, clothes/wardrobe is "superficial" or "materialistic" or some such, like it's not an organically relevant part of the presentation, to which I say, THE HELL IT IS! and to everybody else, I say, Good Morning!

Same.

Kinda surprised to hear Jack Wilkins on here, but probably shouldn't be...that guy seemed to be open for anything...and in a quartet of Jerome Harris (on electric bass) and Michael Carvin no less. This group came to play! As do they all, of course, but the Pleasant Surprise Factor continues to climb upward!

https://www.dustygroove.com/search/Joyce I don't see anything from 2016, but talk to the people, see what they can get. Past Joyce, they are a good source for other Brazilian musics.

Those are some slowass lines...

"Passing Ships" is great music, but the original recording was a little "unfinished" in terms of mixing and balance. I really don't see what value is added by LP, except for packaging (can't argue that, even if I can argue the price). Otherwise, get the CD and have it all for one sitting.

$50K is a good check. Go Kidd!

How do you not like Gene Pitney?!?!?! In the words of George Harrison, how do you explain Gene Pitney? There is no explanation for Gene Pitney! Spector I forget which of the bios it was that detailed all this...maybe both in varying degree) also did a lot of assistant work, flunky work, kinda like what Sonny Bono did for him. Spector worked inside the system before he worked outside of it. Learned the system so he could game the system, and he did it with chops. It took a nation of petty DJs to hold him down! It's easy to look at people like this just in terms of records (I know I do), but in reality, their lives are no different than ours, their days still have 24 hours, and they too have to do something in that time. In Spector's case, it was a lot of schlepping around, learning the business from all sides. btw - the flip side of "To Know him...", what's it called, "Don't You Worry", something like that. first time I heard that, I was like, WHOA, it was Wall Of Sound DENSE, just not with all the instruments and stuff.

Good luck. If you find it, it will be probably very local. But if you treasure (even just a little bit) that kind of local just/still being there....it's good to know and good to find. Example - I heard some local "family gospel" group singing a song about how they going to sit at (not on or in, AT) the "rocking chair of Jesus" because when they were kids, they would sit at grandmother's rocking chair and all their troubles of the day would magically vanish. Simple as that, grandma's gone, but Jesus ain't. There's your song. Just some people twanging away in full-bore mountain belief system, sincerely expressed, no amped up emo vibe or anything and corny as hell, but hey, corny is real too. corny is VERY real. It teared me up, just a little, to be honest. And then it was gone. I don't know that I'd ever want to marry into that family, if you know what I mean, but I would gladly share a table with them at Bob Evans for as long as they could stand me being there.

Yeah, that kind of thng is dis-spiriting. Shame on them, or worse! You're supposed to make a joyous noise, not some infernal hateracket screambeam…. Y'all need to get those bi-lingual tag-team evangelists on your radio, that'll liven thing sup!