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This one has a really blues-y violin solo. This is LA ca. 1959, what are the odds it would be Don "Sugarcane" Harris?

There are things on here that you just gotta wonder, how the fuck did THAT (whatever it is) happen? And plenty more where you don't. But those where you do

Talk about niche music...especially after reading Ned Rorem's fascinating liner notes...apparently there was an entire world going on that only a very few people knew about? Some of this stuff is better than some other, but there are some really interesting things here.

It's not bad, it's just an off-day. KDs chops sound off. not bad, just tired. It would be like ptting your finger in the light socket and getting juice of the damp diaper kind, not the electrical.

Not commercially released. But some of this stuff has been "released" from the secrecy of the vaults for a good long while now.

The Tyrone set is pretty good, actually. The Dorham is best kept in the can - forever. Haven't heard the Wayne, but I gotta think it would have come out by now if there was any merit to it past being a failed curiosity.

Nicely played, sir. RIP.

Did you know that Lucky Oceans is the brother of Annie Gosfield? There, useless trivia quota for the year now met.

Perhaps...his harmonic machinations are clever, certainly, but perhaps too much of a good thing too often and for too long? Eventually the math shows thorough and the charm diminishes. No disrespect to the man, he's certainly a proven and respectable quantity, But he doesn't always set his hook when this fish nibbles, and I usually throw the hook, if not immediately, then eventually.

I hear what Tete Montoliu is doing, but I'm not sure why he's doing it. That's my usual reaction. I want Buddy Tate's tie.

https://markweber.free-jazz.net/2014/08/09/radio/ Charles Tolliver Quintet —– May 10, 1981 @ Maiden Voyage, downtown Los Angeles —- Buck Clarke, congas; Sunduza William Henderson, piano; Clifford Barbaro, drums; Tony Dumas, bass —- this evening was recorded for Jazz Alive broadcast, I recall Michael Cuscuna was there (or was that another night?) —- photo by Mark Weber —- I have always loved Tolliver’s tune “On the Nile” and Horace Tapscott kept it in his Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra book for years —- (this is the William Henderson who recorded with Bradford & John Carter on their 1972 album SECRETS)

I've set a notification at DG, just to be safe. Seems like one of those things that you either get it early or not at all.

If Peter Gunn was a real person, Pinky Winters would be Edie Hart, and all to the better!

So I'm wondering where the hell did THIS come from and found this: https://greenvilleandbeyond.wordpress.com/about/ and this: https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FWRBF20.pdf Oh my... It's a pretty good record.

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Arrangements by Gerald Wilson & Oliver Nelson. These are not the records to remember Hartman by/for, but the tandem of Al Porcino and Bud Brisbois on the Wilson charts give them a bite that is a show unto itself.

Options for movies to see if you want to watch a German tank run over Jack Palance's arm. If there's options, let's have 'em now, so I can get busy. Life's short, ya' know.

Are there no other options?

Glad to see Salt Song up this week. That's a damn good record.

The CD includes the three cuts released by Old Town as part of their reciprocity agreement with Verve. They might be the best of the bunch! These guys be sayin' it loud.

This sale is a great way for me to fill a few gaps and replace a few CDs/mp3s. The idea that the label might become watery after the founder's passing is sobering. I had to limit the order to 12 items, and there were a few (more than a few, actually) tough choices. Hopefully the catalog will remain available for a while, but as with OJCs and such, supplies will certainly dwindle as time progresses. Please note that the offer generously includes free S&H in the US for as few as 5 items. Color me even further incentivized. Carpe diem.

Prysock/Basie - supreme and succinct, with just enough Jaws to not just hit the bullseye, but to go all the way through it. Apparently it found a market? Sure hope so! I mean, hey, this is totally what it is, if you know what I mean. Grown folks' music. No whining, no angst, no reveling in the suffering, just matter-of-fact truth about it. Is Arthur Prysock falling off the radar, like Billy Eckstine? That should not be allowed to happen.