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hey yeah i saw that hank QUINTET in the store the other day: i was astounded! i had no idea..... what batch of reissues was that one in? what other titles were reissued in that batch just checked blue note .com for the 1st time in like 9 mos: peckin times commin back in too! i am pleased

notes say album was recorded in LA at "RPM" studios. my inquiry:: is this **THE** RPM, that issued RPM records and later became Crown, etc....

hey u guys, check out this hella good new age song from jon n vangelis!

u wanna hear some hella good new age? no scratch that- THE BEST NEW AGE EVER? im gonna post this in its own thread so the other board friends can hear it

ok ok i just got that dex BOPLAND/complete elks concert.....3 cd set::: is this truly the 1st time ALL this has been released.....is it really the compalete known footage of this concert? How many of you people are familiar w/ this concert and could share with us a little about its importance in the place of west coast jazz and mankind in general. in getting this "complete recordings" set, my 1st thing i learned from it, there is a lot more sonny criss on this then the other cds n lps i had of this material: sonny is so much better on this than people like to believe....in fact there are a few disticnt licks or melodic phrases towards the middle of disc 3, that i will not hear again in saxophone imporvisation till the LATE 70s/EARLY 80, on something like Grover Washington Jr, WINELIGHT. Or that really good fred hubbard lp w/ Art Pepper, MISTRAL or something like that. But of course the stars of this show are Dex and Wardell: it is their absoutle most classic moment, individually and collectively. Can some of you share your "insight" into this concert, etc

have any of u downloaded that 82-cd set of the abbey road session tapes, its something like 92 hours of audio.

Horace Silver: 80 years of hard bop! thank u for inventing it with hank

all u guys gotta at least CHECK OUT the vic feldman, lets say, beacuse it is VIC FELDMAN. this is the same guy who did SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN. You have to respect the progression. Synthesizers got really better in the 80s which allowed these musicans this extended pallate. if synth had been that advanced in 1974 fusion would of progressed into your much hated "smooth jazz" sooner

post a label of a PACIFICA issue and ill be seriously impressed

FATTBURGER should of been the most popular 80s jazz groups of all time. Their sax player Hollis Gentry III is one of the true greats of modern age west coast jazz, and any one who isn't hip to him doesn't really follow wcj or the progression of jazz music in general. Their 1984 debut ONE OF A KIND should be in any respectible collection of anyone who enjoys post 1968 jazz.

How many of you have heard of the 80s fusion group Flim & The BB's. Are they considered contenders with comporable 80s fusion artists. I havent heard their cds in years and in fact ive completly forgotten what they sounds like, however they were the 1st jazz group to appear on cd format and their early lps are some of the 1st direct to digital lps on the market or something like that-- remember i told u guys about how i think all jazz should be in mono? well flim & bbs is a notable exception

How many of you are familiar, or patently aware of Basia Trzetrzelewska, aka "Basia". She is the 1st Pole to crack the American Top 40. I wouldn't go as far as calling her a musical genius, but she is just a slight step down from that// her principal fault is that she has men collaborators who have distorted her out put, eg. her albums suffer from poor production choices, 1st lp for epic, TIME AND TIDE m(1987), is a perfect example of this: the songs on the lp are all melodic, nice, rememberable songs, but poor drum machine programming tainted them upon arrival. This is not noticiable however in her breakthrough hit, the title track to the afformentioned TIME AND TIDE lp: Production significantly improved for her 1989 followup, entitled LONDOW, WARSAW, NEW YORK

just got today: Victor Feldman- Fiesta (1984- palo alto records) w. chuck mangione, lee ritenour, nathan east, diane reeves- voc. on like one song, incl. a fusion remake of Viva Zapata! (the other lp has a fusion remake of seven steps)

yea u guys i didnt buy the lp but i saw it at the store today

any one ever see the liner notes to the 1975 Wynton Kelly prestige "2-fer"? Hank gives some comments about his expierence with Wython Kelly

probably cybill sheppard's 1984 cover of TV guide

ps- tell me more about the venezulean joropo one....is perkins only on flute, not sax? is it funky, like late 60s pj sessions could be...or whats up w/ it....i want that one soooo bad!

just got there for the end of the set, but it was AWESOME. when i got there they were in the middle of stolen moments. then they did a song called rio funk. lee was saying how when they recorded it, it was like one of the 1st ever direct to digital albums, and it all had to be mixed live on the spot. then they took the tapes to this like weird lab, where these guys in white lab coats did stuff with the tapes to get it onto disc. he said it was a far cry from the i-pod. lastly they did patrice rushens biggest hit, "forgot me nots" which was a huge it and iconic song. i think i might try n go back sun. for the whole show!

sidewinder, all i have to say is i listened to this one at 8 am on the bus 2 work and on my lunch break and on the way home and it made my day like 400% better. Its top notch quality 80s fusion: smooth jazz if you will, or 80s fusion if you'd rather. 5 out of 5 chewy-stars for sure

victor feldman's generation band- SMOOTH (1986) Tom Scott on sax and lyricon, Lee Ritenour on guitar, Kipp Lennon on vocals, Joseph Conlan on synths and drum programming, Trevor Feldman on drums and Nathan East on bass

sidewinder: what is that veneuszualean joropo one like? also whats the other one like?"

so i guess the japanese like their west coast jazz like they like their porn: horibbly messed up!

TV action jazz? ive been dying to hear that one. i have it coincidently enough sitting near my television. its personal chewy friend mundell lowe leading that

eddie costa. i have lps w/ him. west coast jazz lps. cant recall the labels right now but god if i had to guess, i would say i have something with Eddie Costa on TAMPA, or perhaps MODE. But all obsucre wcj label credibility aside, the man put his soul station in julie london's up at mintons, vol. 2

i have one from the 80s called song of the andes