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I hope the fog lifts someday so we can see the vastness of the sky again. Then we can gauge with accuracy how tall a real giant is, instead of just looking at tall people and being impressed.

A few rabbits appear to have found their way to the wild, and their digital bunnies are multiplying. Find your neighborhood Farmer McGregor.

no, he was on the later bands. that was Klook on Manteca.

yeah, I'm not either, but to somebody who had never heard him before and was still discovering "regional" players like this, it was good enough for me to take note of the name and the playing. Close enough!

It's spunkier, much spunkier. By 68, Sonny had gotten Zen about shit. Not so on this gig. both are summits, but of different peaks, if that makes any sense. NO IT WOULD NOT BE !!!!!!!

I forget how I got the boots of this, but it is indeed as advertised. The first encounter, Sonny & Bennick get into a jousting match to see who's going to have the last word on how a tune ends, and it goes on waaaaaaaayyyyyyy longer than it would for mere mortals. If you're not LOL-ing by the end of it, hey, too bad for you and your joyless drained-empty soul! Treasured stuff, and I THINK it's stuff that has never been after-grey-marketed yet (how did THAT happen????). This is one I will buy with pleasure and confidence and actually a bit of good old-fashioned excitement. And if Sonny himself has signed-off on it, the odds of it getting PaloAlto-ed are almost nil, especially since it comes from a time when he had no contract and really HAD all but disappeared.

Sorry about the spelling...but yeah, I've found him on some "out of the way" records and he never fails to open up the door and invite me in to the party. My kinda player, for sure. First heard him on the Max/Clifford Bee Hive Columbia thing from the 70s, remember that one? There was a little bit of Sonny and a LOT of nicky hill, and what was lost...was anything "lost", really? Just a different lens is all, that guy played GREAT. I thought he was some guy I was never going to see on a record. And for several decades, that held true. but then the clouds lifted and, ok, yeah, Nicky Hill's on a few records after all!

OMG - starting on 6th (7th?) straight run trough today....it gets better every time through. No bullshit, 100% music, continuous expression spoken my a true virtuoso of speaking in and of a personal musical vision and voice. ANOTHER one I've taken too long to get too. When Tommy's Jazz puts them up for/on sale, comb closely. If you're like me, you're like, eh, I got a buttload full of Clifford Jordan records, let's just add one to the pile, and no, this is not an "add-on" record, this is damn near essential.

Bootsie Barnese (Barnes, not Collins) was a fun listen. so was Nickie Hill. You get to talking about guys like that, hey, I'm in. FLAYVA!!!!!

EXACTLY! Plan on seeing anew, with fresh eyes, just how high the bar really is!

It's not something you necessarily "come back to" once it imprints in full. Once that happens, it'll always be there. But three's not one not of that tour that I would think as inessential or casually disposable. But again, once you get it, hey, it's done its job and so have you. Thinking about it though , I need to buy this even if I already have it on a boot or other non-licensed form. Like the man said, you got to be true to your code. I decided to go back and pick that one up because more Teddy, was expecting it to be OOP or somewhat steep, but no, still there, still affordable. and they've been around quite a while, iirc. Didn't Bob Belden's first leader date (or two?) come out as a big band LP on sunnyside?

Every night on the 64 tour was different. Only the outlines stayed the same. So, I think I already have this gig, but will make sure. Those were giants in full power, all of them. '75 is gonna be Adams/Waltrath/Pullen, correct? That was a good band, to put it mildly! And Sunnyside is a legit label, right? So Sue's getting paid, right? Even so, grab it today, before sundown, just in case.

Liking this a lot right now...

+ What a good band this was! And the whole notion of building a "set" as a "suite"....an idea that might not have been exhausted? Or maybe? But I still like to hear it done well. Of course, it's a pleasure to her anything done well, of course, sorry.

Efferge Ware was who Bird was working with at the time of the "Harlem Chili-House Breakthrough", right?

Yeah, well, there is going to be that for the rest of time now, so buy a used copy from somebody instead of a new copy from that guy. Or even better, just find a fileshare some place so you can hear the music and not look at the pictures with those names on them. This is yet another dichotomy of "excellent music via bad people". Just saying, it's a fine record of excellent music brought to market by a pretty really bad person. Do what you gotta do to work that one out.

/I had a bear of a time finding the actual video, sorry. Is there a different source? Finally got there. He plays good(enough) what used to be called "arranger's piano". Nice to listen to, don't ask him to do an entire set, never mind record.

Odean & Khan bring out the best in each other. An engaging performance that is at once vibrant and stolid, with echoes of all sorts of different instrumentational precedents but imitations of none. In other words, recommended!

That's a record of which can honestly be said - there's nothing quite like it, before or since. And it is a great record, a GREAT record. Most records, you can find a variant of, somehow, somewhere, at least a sort of a variant. But not this one, nope. I've played the title tune as well, one of THE great "freebop" heads, it give you so much to work with in so many ways. This records belongs on every list, if it's a list, it should be on it, I don't care what kind of a list it is, grocery list, prayer list, hit list, if it's a list, this record should be on it.

That guy played a lot of music for a long time., and always with spunk and spirit. RIP, you left it better than you found it.

The tune was originally called "A Rolex at Carmichael's" but then Ross Russell made him change the name. One more way that a white guy tried to change music through a black man. One more way.

When You Said "Bud", YOU'D SAID IT ALL!!!!

Really good record, but don't expect a typical Odean record in any way shape or form!

I know he didn't invent any of this stuff, but it seems like he paid attention and gave more detail than he had to? Thoughts" Familiar? That guy? Or....? so?