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  1. Calvin Keys. R.I.P.

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    I saw Calvin Keys in an intimate club setting in San Francisco this last October. An unforgettable experience to see one of the true masters of the music. Only a small handful of people in the club. His playing at 80yrs old was perfection. I am so saddened to hear of his passing. 

  4. New Jack McDuff release - Live At Parnells

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    Info on the Doodlin Lounge advises they have had to review the personal after the vinyl had been already pressed. Henry Johnson has confirmed it is not he playing on the recording. Whoever the guitarist is I will be interested to know. They have a great feel, lots of fine chromatic style runs a'la Benson and Martino, interspersed with some overt Blues phrasing and string bending. Indeed the guitarist does not sound like a young Henry Johnson. They almost have echoes of George Freeman at times, but it's definitely not Freeman to my ear. It is believed Garrick King is the drummer. 

  6. On The Corner and the Critics

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    5 hours ago, JSngry said:

    Not every record of every music is meant for every audience. There are some things that if you don't get them, maybe they are not meant for you.

    That should be ok.

    Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. 

    10 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

    people are still coming to terms with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, and Albert Ayler so who cares if Miles' electric band takes them a minute as well. Interestingly, talking with Bill and Stephen Haynes helped me to really appreciate Miles' electric music beyond "jazz-rock fusion" and in terms of sound/orchestration, whatever the instrumentation. 

    I think 'people' have come to terms with On The Corner a long time ago. 

    "Many outside the jazz community later called it an innovative musical statement and forerunner to subsequent funk, jazz, post-punk, electronica and hip hop".

    "Despite remaining outside the purview of the mainstream jazz community, On the Corner underwent a positive critical reassessment in subsequent decades; according to Tingen, many critics outside jazz have characterized it as "a visionary musical statement that was way ahead of its time".[14] In 2014, Stereogum hailed it as "one of the greatest records of the 20th Century, and easily one of Miles Davis' most astonishing achievements," noting the album's mix of "funk guitars, Indian percussion, dub production techniques, loops that predict hip hop."[17] According to Alternative Press, the "essential masterpiece" envisioned much of modern popular music, "representing the high water mark of [Davis'] experiments in the fusion of rock, funk, electronica and jazz".[21] Fact characterized the album as "a frenetic and punky record, radical in its use of studio technology," adding that "the debt that the modern dance floor owes the pounding abstractions of On the Corner has yet to be fully understood." [29] Writing for The Vinyl Factory, Anton Spice described it as "the great great grandfather of hip-hop, IDM, jungle, post-rock and other styles drawing meaning from repetition".

  7. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    41 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

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    There could be more Cuber on it! When he plays, he's great. There was an abundance of talent in that band that was not quite taken advantage of, the was these albums were made. Benson in his notes talks about the freedom he had in selecting the material, but if that is true, he already had an idea about a commercial career.

    These Columbia albums were the direct result of John Hammonds intervention. The power of Ronnie Cuber's baritone is always felt on the heads though. The whole mood is set from the Baritone/Guitar unison. But mostly it's the George show. No 12 minute Blue Note or Prestige workouts. Lonnie Smith was given his own leader date at the time. Otherwise it's not until the later Verve sessions with Hancock and Billy Cobham do you get much sense of dialogue occurring on a Benson lead session imo. 

  22. Hank Mobley

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    On 14/5/2022 at 2:20 AM, bertrand said:

    The opening solo portion of Summertime is actually thr first movement of the Thinking of Home Suite. It works really well in that Algerian war film soundtrack :)

    Ah the Algerian war film soundtrack :D

    I think that's where you'll find the elusive Mobley performance footage. 

  25. Live gigs featuring Grant Green, Larry Young, and Elvin Jones?

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    I'm sure I've read in notes, something to the effect that 'Green, Young and Jones' performed gigs together when they were in the New York area at the same time. Can't recollect the exact source. My first guess would have been the Mosaic Larry Young booklet. Otherwise, Lonnie Smith has stated Green's working trio around the time of the Blue Note Green/Young/Jones sessions was Green/Young and Otis' Candy 'Finch. 

    Edit - yep. Page 1 of the Larry Young Mosaic notes by Cuscuna.

    "Larry, Grant and Elvin would work in the New York area whenever possible. Larry Coryell remembers moving from Washington state and running up to Harlem to hear them...."

    There is more detailed recollections from Coryell in various sources including his Autobiography if I remember correctly. 

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