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I just came across these myself. I thought there was a chance yourself and others might not have seen these MG. Great thread and I've been enjoying learning about Jug. It's very sad to read about him being in prison for so long or at all.

Funny this mention of Grant Green and Gene Ammons. I had Youtube playing bout three weeks ago and was listening to the Grant recording of Lazy Afternoon while I was doing the dishes. Youtube went into autopilot while I drifted off...then I heard this beautiful tenor and I drifted back in...what I am I listening too...this is glorious...I ran to the macbook to check and it was the afore-posted Jungle Strut...yum. and here's Red Top and Ornithology a-la Maxwell Street from an historic recording...

One of my favourite movies of all time. Everything about this movie is perfect. The musical B plot is so beautifully there as well. The perfect role for Kris Kristofferson who shines with good hearted country nonchalance.

Why?

Nobody made me laugh growing up like Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Gentle humour is right. The Producers is my favourite comedy of all time.

It's true by and large they've done a good job, and at the end of the day they are running a business. They delivered a first class package. I wish they dug the Hammond more, and I'm glad they didn't have a stab at updating the liner notes :-)

They're probably only releasing Wahoo because it's got Joe Henderson on it. They have avoided any non marquee leader dates pretty much from the get go. The only Organ Lp they released in all their 'forays into the vaults' was Unity, plus Into Something. I'm amazed they are releasing Wahoo. I'm surprised they haven't repackaged it with a different cover as a 'Joe Henderson' Lp. '"For the good of the music and to get this great Jazz music out to a wider listening public'"....sorry for my cynicism.

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That's one of my favourite interview bites ever. Cracks me up and makes me smile whenever I see it It sure is. El Hombre is essential. I read somewhere recently where someone said the drumming let the session down a bit, but Martino retorted that the drummer was his friend and it meant so much to the drummer to be on that recording. A beautiful and courageous man must be Mr Martino.

Yes, Lenox Avenue Breakdown was released before Ulmer was on Columbia. The first Blood albums (apart from The Artist House ones) were UK and German releases, although Are You Glad got an Artist's House release with a really strange mix. I've got some nice soundboards from Tin Palace. when I first got to start jamming with players from The Free Rock crowd or Post-Punks, they all knew their Loft Jazz stuff. There were copies of those Wildfire vinyl's in every grotty share house I ventured into (or everlived). Illusions is no slouch of an album either

One of the kids gave a good serving to Trump on Aussie media a few weeks back. That's all. They're probably collectively not very cool at all. i bet they've never heard a real Hammond Organ in their lives either

Saw a set and a half by Joey Defrancesco Trio. Going back on Sunday night.

Organ groups are on the way out.

I think the reason I loved it so much when I first heard it was because I was listening to as much Blues at the time as I was Free Jazz. This album really seemed to come out of nowhere to me (in an amazing way). I heard the first run of Ulmer albums probably about 85-86 - but did find and hear them almost as they would have been heard chronologically as first released. Are You Glad To Be In America is the album I think seems to have been forgotten by time. Maybe it's just too harsh and abrasive to be retrospectively appreciated as something truly unique and brilliant. That album encapsulates so much incredible energy, power and African American musical life-force, yet I wonder if it was ever truly appreciated for what it is, as opposed to being consumed up into a Post-Punk European ethos of the time perhaps? I adored this album from the first moment my needle hit the grooves. I was as much Blues as I was Jazz back then, and the album seemed on first hearing as totally logical but 'impossible to conceive of' without it 'being conceived', if that makes sense. Now that I have a stronger understanding of Rural Blues, or what's now understood as 'Hill Country' Blues, the album is even more loved by me if that could be possible.

Well i did get to give this a good listen on the car cd player, and no I didn't drive into a ditch I can kinda agree with some of the criticisms, Big John is a bit droney and the Ray Charles song is a bit hokey in a way. I think I need to find a NYUSA vangelder Stereo to really assess it though I might give Goin West a revisit now. I can hardly remember spinning that more than a few times years ago.

It's hard to believe these sessions never completely escaped the vaults over all these years. Is there any knowledge of whether Hendrix was originally approached to be on these sessions? It seems logical he was earmarked one way or another. Maybe that's why it was shelved? Cause he wasn't there.

I'm hungry.

Pardon the entendre, but I'm getting a kind of vertical vibe here

Does this qualify? It's a rhetorical question.

Just thought I'd drop a sneaky body punch into this conversation. Are the Reagan kids cool? A bit flighty.... but you bet! Do they listen to Jazz or Blues vocalists

Just saw a blurb for a 48 Hours tribute to 'outspoken Boxing Champion' Muhammad Ali.

This monumental passing is feeling disrespectful. I hope it doesn't feel that way Stateside. This loss is Mandela-esque. I am sad.

Stuff these bird in the hand losses. I had an original mint Dave Bailey Jazztime vinyl I sold off a few years later after I got it. I was beat out in a jazz collection sale by a jazz vinyl veteran who picked out an original Green Street vinyl and left me with an original Reaching Out, as a listener I thought I'd been usurped. Drats....