robertoart

Just about the greatest singer I ever heard in person. I will never forget the performance I attended. This man was truly sublime. RIP.

There's one take where the overhead microphone wasn't working for the first 1.32.

That's got something to do with a thread here a few years ago about how some (most?) people can't recognise a well known song if it has different words; they don't pick up on the tune itself, even though they know it, or the instrumental intro, so when they do get to a point where it's recognisable, they applaud. I always thought this was peculiar, until I read that thread. MG

Unfortunately no. Only on it's original vinyl. I put up a youtube audio of the whole LP Talk about greazy. That album is grease personified. If you haven't heard it, here it is. If anyone can help with identifying the drummer I would be most obliged. (and so would the drummer probably My link

Yep. After about six years prior of -getting selected LP re-issues from BN and Pathe Marconi etc., and whatever rare original pressing lucky finds I came across in the used bins, and contemporary releases on Black Saint etc., it pretty much started for me around the time of the Mosaic Grant Green and Larry Young box sets. Then came (almost simultaneously the Japanese cd re-issues, and then a steady stream of almost everything I had ever hoped to hear. A glorious time of discovery for those of us who weren't there the first time around.

Goodness! Do you have all the records he made with Lloyd Price for ABC? Johnny Griffin/MatthewGee 'Soul groove'? Johnny Lytle's 'Everything must change'? The two Jimmy Ponders - 'Mean streets, no bridges' & 'Jump'? Art Blakey's 'Hold on, I'm coming' (under the name of Malcolm Bass)? A lot of these aren't obvious targets for a Patton collector. MG Actually MG you've made me realise I have a couple of holes in the collection. I haven't got any of the Lioyd Price, not that I wouldn't enjoy it, but I guess I see the discography starting with Along Came John. I know that's wrong, but still... I haven't got/heard of the Griffin...I would love to have/hear that. The Ponders I have on 32Jazz re-issue, but in all honesty I think I sold it off and made a digital copy. Now the Blakey I ordered from Japan on cd years ago, before the internet, but it never came through, so I settled on a jazzblog download. I genuinely forgot I didn't have a hard copy of that. Not one I return to for listening much actually. Possibly why I never bothered to track down the expensive Japanese cd after the internet made it much easier. (Is it true it was recorded on the same day as The Grass Is Greener? or was that Laughing Soul?). I also haven't got the Jimmy Smith with Patton playing tambourine either So you have exposed my incomplete completism However you won't be able to find any holes in my GG or JBU btw, do the Lloyd Price band sessions identify the players. So many great players passed through that band, I would love to hear Pat Martino playing for instance. But I have never begun to do any google research into it.

Ever seen Test Cricket. Only game they play for five days, and still don't get a result.

I have everything in hard copy (lp and/or cd) of James Blood Ulmer -leader and sideman -except some 8bar solo with a heavy metal band??? and Roots -Phrenology I have everything in hard copy (lp and/or cd) of Grant Green -leader and sideman -except the Dodo Greene, Harold Vicks Steppin Out and the Joe Carroll. I have everything in hard copy (lp and/or cd) of John Patton -leader and sideman -except the Red Hollaway, and the one on Alvin Queen's label with Melvin Sparks. I also have a complete Ringo Starr solo discography up to 1979 - accept for Beaucoups Of Blues - which I will get when I see an affordable near mint UK vinyl available. Oh I haven't got the recentish Blood Ulmer on the 'In And Out' label, but I recently heard it on Spotify It's a great listen.

Yeah. We know potboilers when we hear them, And see them too Although I must admit, I've still gotten a lot of pleasure out of potboilers (both audio and visual) over the years.

Kenny Burrell. I know he recorded the Generations album on the early 80's revived BN. So that's been a while now.

Is this the sort of thing that is disturbing you? That's a bloody awful Monet I gotta say. Just goes to show even the Masters had an uneven output. ps. the colours might redeem it a bit in the flesh.

Bingo! Virtue, true virtue, is inconvenient. But it does exist, and all the rationalizing and qualifying that can be mustered only obscures that fact. It doesn't alter it. I mean, we're all whores in some form or fashion, pretty much all of us. If you do something you really don't believe in for a paycheck, you're a whore, simple as that. C'est la vie But I don't think that any of us would glamorize our whoredom, especially to the point of recruiting others into it. But there are those who do (and they're everydamnwhere), and the more "attractive" they're positioned, the greater the allure of doing any damn thing for money and fame gets, and sooner or later the notion of "virtue" ends up getting mocked, discarded altogether, or even worst, redefined in such a way as to serve the procurers. This isn't about sex, not really, it's about what of yourself you insist on keeping, what part you share, what part you let go, and the terms and conditions of how it all works. It applies to the physical and the mental and the spiritual (however you define that). And the more you can convince people that what is intrinsically theirs is really "no big deal", just a tool, a means to a bigger end, the easier it can be taken from them and put to whatever use the taker has in mind (which usually involves some form of exploitation, guaranteed). We do not live in an age where building people up & encouraging them to stay strong and rise above is a particularly desired outcome. It's a COME ON DOWN!!!! world today, and the further down you come, the happier everybody is. World gone wrong. i worked for years in the employ of the Salvation Army (although mostly my paychecks were actually from the Government or community sector funding). When I first started working for them, I knew nothing of their theology. I just thought they were those good natured humanitarians who helped those in need - and felt they had to wear a uniform to do so Admittedly I didn't have too much to do with the Salvo's themselves in my day-to-day roles. Later, as I began piecing together their Religious beliefs, and realising they were stock standard - garden variety - Bible-belt fundamentalists (with the usual rabid anti-Gay and Lesbian diatribes that go along with it), I still kept taking the paycheck. And I had plenty of colleagues who felt the same way, who also kept turning up for work everyday. Plenty of them.

You mean 'is it M- or VG+++?' As she's a virgin, impossible to know: the package hasn't been opened Still sealed? Ahhh, it's probably warped.

Sure it can, and still does. Why does Jazz have to be linked so comprehensively to the 'American Songbook'. Especially when the Jazz masters provided an equally valid compositional legacy of their own. It tends to imply that without 'the songbook' African American music wouldn't exist. And downplays the genius of the players who responded to the pop culture of their day. Contemporary players will/are developing their own relationships to the moments 'popular song'. Same as always. Why does the 'songbook' have to be seen as Jazz's 'progenitor'. This is not necessarily what John Lewis is saying either. Here is another quote along these lines, related to Gerber's Jazz Jews book.... "of this symbiotic relationship between the songs of Jewish-American popular composers and jazz. The show will feature the songs - jazzed up - of such Jewish-American greats as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and some lesser known composers. Songs that although not written for jazz, have contributed so much to it." The Saxophone wasn't made for Jazz either, but has contributed so much to it.

I wonder whether the winning bidder will file an 'item not as described' complaint to ebay?

Actually it's all in the name of sociology My link "People always ask how are people going to change after having sex," he told AAP. err...preferably in the bathroom after a shower....if I feel particularly dirty.

I'll start a collection. Oh I see the bidding is over. Australian 'documentary filmaker'. Riveting.

Yep. How marginalised has instrumental music become in favour of warblers from the commercial side of things. Lest we expect an audience to want to actually be active listeners. How does someone with Bob Dylan's etc.al. legacy, fit into a Jazz or Blues context. If memory serves he was/is a multi-million selling Rock musician.

I haven't read the liner notes yet, but remember seeing a quote related to this release where Buddy or Monk revealed Wes was learning guitar from a young age on a 4 string tenor guitar. This is counter to the 'orthodox' Wes histories, that say he started playing around 19y/o. The brothers also apparently say that Wes was the one out front in their musical education, rather than what I also believed, that Wes's brothers were the ones that nurtured his playing? So I thought a lot of potted Wes Montgomery histories might need re-writing.

Literally your probably right. But in reality Blue Note bears negligible relationship to the label Shorter originally recorded for. Maybe when they re-booted the label in the early eighties with the opening of the vaults -and got some of the old-guard back - it might have felt like a return of sorts. But not now. Imagine them recording Freddie Redd today. They'd probably have to do a google search to find out who he is.

Surely that's photoshopped. Otherwise that's the Andre The Giant of dogs. Can dogs have those kinds of diseases humans can get that make them keep growing?

I'm sure there is a tome or two in that lot. Although I must warn you about the Mainstream Mexicans Apparently they're all hats and no substance. Now the Dixieland Druids....they're deep.

Yeh, I don't think a radio show celebrating Jewish Jazz musicians is a necessarily fascist undertaking Unfortunately the insinuation is that it's connected to a wider cultural project that seems to be going beyond celebrating the Jewish participation in Jazz - re-post 28

“I was scared,” " Someone’s got to take this off my hands". For $40.000 on ebay. Yeah...Right.

So another question might be... Does the distinction remain as Jewish people who play Jazz or is the claim Jewish Jazz hmmmm.....thought so. Here's one Jewish person's perspective. You might find this interesting Fasstrack as it echoes a lot of things you say re-music breaking down barriers, My link