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just unsealed this, recorded @ the power station! just unsealed this, recorded @ the power station!

blue rondo a la turk, there is nothing like it. completely ahead of its time. it is fusion before there was fusion. it has more in common with Brand X or Weather Report than what was going on in 1959

Q: what happened to Bock in the sixties- the label practically goes psych.......did he ever "make it out" of the sixties? what happened to him after that decade....?

you know hes marty paich's son, right?

that is the 1st happy thought i had all day chuck, great story. RIP Dave Brubeck. December 6, 1920 - December 5, 2012. God bless him and his music. I can remember, and feel, my last personal interation with him, like it happened 2 seconds ago. My last time seeing him in concert was by far the best Brubeck experience i ever had. I had the greatest seat. i was seated OUTSIDE THE JAZZ CLUB by the emergency exit door, on 6th ave. squatted down on one knee, looking up and an angle. from this perculiar vantage point, for the 1st time ever, i saw every note Brubeck hit, both hands. from only a few feet away. and some of the material, blew my mind, he did this one song, what could only be catagorized as hardcore jazz rock fusion... it was -heavy-, drummer was laying down a solid rock-jazz beat, brubeck took a crazy solo. to this day i dont know what tune it was. this was a year poss. 2, ago. no more than 2. i unfortunately cant recall right now. through the years ive been bleesed to have lots of special brubeck concert experiences: the 1st time i ever saw him, EUGENE WRIGHT sat in, unannounced!! I've seen him with Bill Smith numerous times. one time he was using all these special effects on his clairnet, it was very modern, and very different.........just like his collaborations w/ Brubeck on Coumbia! Back to the last time, squatted on one knee............i saw every note he played, i finally saw him in concert and saw every note. the split second the show was over, the door i was squatting by, flew open, and some dude rushed out and got into a car on the street right there. exactly 10 seconds later, out comes Brubeck, by himself, to walk the 20 ft from door to car. i was the only person out there, as he walked by me i said, "Awesome concert, Mr. Brubeck." he turned, said: "Thanks" and got in the car and drove off like a rock star. I swear to god no one else was standing on the entire city block, i have met him before, with many other people around and once, just with his wife and him, but this was no one else but me and him.

seeing Candido last month changed my life. it was one of the most profound concert experieces ive ever had. sonically. i have never heard music, the way i heard it at the candido concert (both nights). candidos congas were mixed way more upfront than on the old abc-paramount albums, when he was playing he sounded fantastic. candido remembers the last time he played here. with stan kenton orch, at the civic auditorium, in 1953. he told the audience he remembers it like it was yesterday.

have only lp on this label, it is so paper thin it makes rca dynaflex seem like 180g. i have no logical explination to why it hasnt warped into the shape of a taco

hey mr weiss i was thinkin about what said re: hed do his bit then tap the congas lightly the rest of the night, and well that was kind of like the show i saw, the band openned up the show with 2-3 numbers then introduce candido, and hed only play every 3rd song in the show, and otherwise hed just be sitting there and on one tune while he was sitting he rocked the cowbell (in absolute perfect time, i might add), anyways the difference is CANDIDO IS 91 NOW. so i was just thinking of that when i read you said that.... what was candido like, to you, was he working a lot at that time. was this the 1980s? i cant seen to find any recordings or anything at all regarding candido in the 80s. where is dancin n prancin part 2/ d&p 1985? so your goal was always to have your own ensemble or play the most modern jazz and you did the latin gig to make ends meet?

wow, really candido was doing a lot of private gigs n stuff? when was this, the 80s?

is there a decent jimi session disog. online, ive never actually found one

the actual credit reads, peculiarly, Cover Design: John Berg / Photography: Reid Miles still, im surpised. I never liked this cover. but i finally found a nice made in japan cd press of it (which sounds great...)

incredible bluenote.com did that, fantastic.

its almost harder, after knowing last weeks news update. god bless him. -rip-

thats sad about Bobby Hutcherson, does he have lung cancer too. i havent seen him in 10+ yrs but i remember he always looked so good

hi, are you workin on a bock bio or a world pacific history book? i am interested in bocks story, what happened to him in the 60s, did he submerge himself in the counterculture, altering the course of his label? looking at the releases through the sixties, this really seems apparent.....

saxophone colosssus, 1st pressing promo copy

incredible, Mr Sims was a practicing lawyer in nyc? his lps were abosoluetly more advanced than most of the time, thats great theres going to be a concert for him. thats really nice the jazz community is reaching out to him. hank never got that. i think thats great all you guys are doing this for him.

(birdland, 2/63)

oh i forgot about that....thats the other rhodes/mobley record, besides the cedar walton cobblestone, huh!

anyone know how the dead hooked up with tom scott

lol

free form is kind of like the ABACAB of blue note albums, with the artwork variations! i wonder why!

i have a ton of exteremly awesome 78s but i hardly play them cause theyre so fragile and i have them all tucked away and i just never bust them out, but i have tons o 78s on alladin checker savoy specialty, et al, i have 2 copies of stranded in the jungle by the jayhawks on flash records, The Champs Tequlia one of the last US commerical 78 releases. an autographed jatp 78 by hank jones (obtained by myself), have you seen his on ebay--- what i would give... http://www.ebay.com/itm/ART-BLAKEY-SABU-Blue-Note-767-Lex-10-Message-from-Kenya-Nothing-but-Soul-1626-/360501454877?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item53ef8fa81d