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How could you not be with Cecil? Overton: I want to get back to Lennie Tristano..........

Sounds like the David Murray Big Band.

"Gees it's repetitious isn't it"

If your anywhere near a place called Huntington Station, go and visit the comic book store there. Be sure to take a baseball bat and hit the guy on the head for me. I might not get the $89 dollars back he owes me (plus return postage), but I'll feel a lot better knowing he at least has a sore head. BTW never buy vinyl off a comic book seller, unless your sure they know what they're doing.

Here is the page on Tommy Dean, mentions the session with Grant Green (via Lord). Also quotes a letter from Virgil Matheus about the St Louis scene. It all tends to support what you are saying MG. http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/deanie.html

Simple answer. No. Less simple answer. He plays some lines amongst the general ensemble revivalist meeting rave-ups. One song is the same groove as a tune from the Stanley Turrentine Rough and Tumble session. If you are familiar with that, you will recognise it. The MLW album is up on Youtube if you want to hear it. Thanks, Bertrand.

To continue with MG's comments about the liner notes from the 'what music did you buy today thread'. I thought the liner notes were very interesting, but to follow up on MG's comment re-Tommy Dean, perhaps nobody involved in the production of the new cd was aware of the Tommy Dean connection. How well known would something like that be? I know very little about Sam Lazar and even less of Tommy Dean. I suspect this is the kind of deep knowledge, that only, if any, people outside the loop of the producers/liner notes specialists would know. This is the kind of thing I would find really interesting to learn about, as well as the social conditions surrounding the club and music scene of the time - which the notes do quite well at addressing. I do miss having new Bob Belden notes to read though. He was kinda writing his GG biography in installments via the ever expanding Grant Green discography Grant's guitar is also further back in the soundstage than I'm used to hearing. Whether this is a result of the recording - or Grant not having is amp up louder - I do not know.

Wow. This link seems to suggest your right. http://www.cyberboxi...ing/jtorres.htm It says Jose Torres won the Silver medal at the 56 Melbourne Olympics. He must have just been making Mailer look good for Regan's camera

In terms of 'pace' that is more Coltrane like, Pat Martino comes to mind. It remains consistent when he plays at faster or slower tempos. So perhaps 'one paced'. Though he tends to 'jab' at the tune on the slower tempo songs.

Two great wordsmiths and Norman Mailer Or should that be two great wordsmiths and Bob Dylan? Who is the other fighter getting crunched by Mailer?

He's hiring an Indian village to scallop the fretboards. (guitar geeks joke)

The Virgin Mary Mother Theresa? Doris Day

Metheny's getting a customised synth version built.

You should have done the liner notes to the new cd MG. They should have flown you to St Louis for a week of research and partying. Do you know if the VJ sessions survive?

I like to think of them as good players (and Eric Johnson is a very good guitarist) who play a music that is too "good" to be Popular yet too "accessible" to be "art" for a market that is too small to be Big yet too big to be Small. They're viewed as "cult figures" in mainstream circles, but any jazz cult figure would look at them as big stars. It's a whole weird "in-between zone" in every way imaginable. As always, the "truth" depends on where you're standing and what you're looking at. Yes. That's very funny and quite true the way you put that. I was also thinking that this is a particularly 'guitar kind of thing too'. The guitar fans into the 'cult of the guitar player' form a substantial audience/market in the kind of way you describe. Eric Johnson is (or used to be) one of those kind of guitar players that really fit that bill. Robben Ford is another one although his history with Jazz and Blues makes him a little more user friendly to genre fans rather than just the non Jazz or Blues specific guitar market. i don't think the Piano or the Saxophone have this type of 'built in audience'. Although drummers sought of do.

So he didn't do this, then? MG No. The Eric Johnson your thinking of is I think on a fairly recent Gloria Coleman cd. And is a really good Soul Jazz player. The other guy is a Rock player of above average virtuoso skills. He is the type of player that pops up fairly regularly that is not quite Fusion, not quite Blues Rock and becomes beloved of guitar magazine geeks. These kinds of players often have a tune that pays homage to Wes Montgomery by utilising 'octaves' Joe Bonamassa and Derek Trucks (kinda) are the latest in this tradition. Yes, the same guy is on some cuts of Gloria's 'Sweet Missy', with Calvin Keys on the other ones. MG Yep. I was glad to find that cd somewhere I didn't expect too. Hell of a fine guitar player he is too. Have you got this one MG?

So he didn't do this, then? MG No. The Eric Johnson your thinking of is I think on a fairly recent Gloria Coleman cd. And is a really good Soul Jazz player. The other guy is a Rock player of above average virtuoso skills. He is the type of player that pops up fairly regularly that is not quite Fusion, not quite Blues Rock and becomes beloved of guitar magazine geeks. These kinds of players often have a tune that pays homage to Wes Montgomery by utilising 'octaves' Joe Bonamassa and Derek Trucks (kinda) are the latest in this tradition.

Where's the barcode?

Clifford, how's the label in general? I'm intrigued by the sale offer, but don't want to end up with a pile of crap alt rock. Do a youtube search under 'weasel walter' and you'll get the idea. I really like a lot of this guys projects i see on there. Really kind of lo-fi and un-pretentious.

Listening to Robin's Nest again, I can hear he ain't no Tal Farlow, but he sure as hell ain't no Arto Lindsay either. Sounds a bit like a Gutbucket Django to me.

C'mon Allen, have a listen to the Robin's Nest clip I posted.

Enjoying listening to this. Haven't had a chance to really dig in to it yet. Graf is a 'very' fine player. Groovin High has nice lines from both Graf and Grant. Wonder if GG is playing the Gibson he is pictured with from the Forrest session, or the Strat?

That's not a good sign. Hope all's well for those four eventually. Very sad for the driver and family.

Cowboys are the only ones that stay in tune anyway.

my favourite Mickey Baker, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Nauc_mQtw and don't forget Vol.2