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This one? THELONIOUS ATMOSPHERE (K2B2, 2001) Not familiar with it, but Krystall has never failed to impress. Not ALL Monk (some Ellington sprinkled throughout), but LOCOMOTIVE, on Soul Note, is very much worth tracking down. Ditto BLUE CHOPSTICKS, which draws upon the Herbie Nichols "songbook."

Alexander von Schlippenbach, MONK'S CASINO http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17548

Could have been gimmicky, but isn't... John Stetch's EXPONENTIALLY MONK: Monk compositions arranged for prepared solo piano.

Hi all. Putting the frosting and hundreds & thousands on the baker's dozen that will soon be served as BFT #87 (June). I prefer digital distribution, and will make the entire BFT avaialble both in the form of a download (some sort of compressed file) and via the web (play the tracks right in your browser). If you know you want or need a CD version of the BFT to participate, drop me a line and I will send you a physical address to which you can mail blank media; I can then burn you a copy and mail your (now full) disc(s) back to you. More info to come in the next week or so. Thanks; ciao, J

Wow; I'd no idea Jimmy's association with George Braith went back that far. Thanks for these posts.

Have not spun FJ in some time either... what stands out in my memories of the record are Dolphy's contributions. IIRC, this was the record where I first encountered Dolphy, and Dolphy's bass clarinet. I'd never heard anything like it, and it prompted me to purchase OUT TO LUNCH without idea #1 as to what it actually sounded like. Hearing OTL so soon after FJ has since probably colored my opinion of the latter; I preferred the spaciousness of the Dolphy session to the density (superb descriptor, Jim) of the Coleman. If only Bradford had been available for the final recording...

For those with an interest in the Kashmere Stage Band of Houston, TX... http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thundersoul/

"Sensitive Skin’s Sir Andre Bemler writes about the release of a rare recording of a Sun Ra lecture during his stint as a Berkeley professor in 1971—Herman “Sonny” Blount was artist-in-residence at the University of California campus that spring, and apparently taught a course listed as “Sun Ra 171” but also called “The Black Man in the Universe,” or “The Black Man In the Cosmos.”" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/05/listen-to-sun-ras-berkeley-lecture/ Direct link: http://blog.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/2011/professor-sun-ra/

Will you please stop being so damn humane?

Some early Monk Montgomery electric bass can be heard on the Art Farmer SEPTET sides collected on this Prestige / OJC release...

A third recommendation for the recent Nilsson documentary. Things get a bit too boozily self-indulgent for my tastes after SON OF SCHMILSSON (Cee-Lo Green has nothing on Harry's FU anthem), but the earlier, frankly "Beatles-esque" / false naif material is almost uniformly wonderful, and I do like his take on the Great American Songbook.

Sadly, Possum Kingdom State Park, one of the more scenic areas in North Central Texas, has been almost entirely consumed in these wildfires. This is bad, almost as bad as Southern California in 2007, when much of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura and San Diego counties were on fire during a good chunk of October. I had to self-evacuate to Long Beach for about a week.

Seconded.

Damn. I kind of lost track of his discography over the last couple of years, but his run of releases for Soul Note -- especially RAINBOW GLADIATOR, LIVE AT CARLOS I, VALVE NO. 10 with Frank Lowe, and the Stuff Smith tribute with Sun Ra -- are some of my favorite "post-Trane" recordings, period. Many blessings upon you, Mr. Bang.

Yep, Nesmith's mom invented Liquid Paper, and right here in Dallas TX. Boyce and Hart were responsible for a good many of the Monkees' hits, but they also benefited from material supplied by Goffin and King, Harry Nilsson, Neil Diamond, David Gates, Mann and Weill, and others. If only music video as a form had retained the charm of the Nesmith clips that are collected on ELEPHANT PARTS...

Wow, his I think his lyrics are his strong suit. It's amazing that Gram Parsons gets all this credit for beginning country rock, yet teeny boppers who bought those Monkees records got at least two tracks of proto-country rock on each album, courtesy of Mike. Oh, don't get me wrong; I quite like how "literate" Nes often is. But I do feel that sometimes the sentiments (and sentience) overwhelms the grace of those melodies. Re: the country-rock question... Isn't that the big joke in the Nes - Zappa clip? "As soon as I quit The Monkees, I'm going to join The Byrds."

Great stuff, with some superb steel pedal playing from Red Rhodes really enlivening the material. (Nesmith can pen a tune, but his lyrics can tend toward the long-winded.)

NOVEMBER 1981 is probably my favorite out of all these recordings: a quartet with bassists Mario Pavone and Alan Silva, plus drummer Laurence Cook. Now that they've been collected, are these titles no longer available as single discs?

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A couple of large group classics from the 1970s that remain sadly out of circulation... Roswell Rudd's NUMATIK SWING BAND http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numatik_Swing_Band And Clifford Thornton's GARDENS OF HARLEM http://www.discogs.com/Clifford-Thornton-Jazz-Composers-Orchestra-The-Gardens-Of-Harlem/release/604664

I've always wondered what those Paul Knopf LPS on the Playback label sounded like...

It would be nice to have the complete set of Marion Brown's mid-70s Impulse dates -- GEECHEE RECOLLECTIONS, SWEET EARTH FLYING and VISTA -- returned to circulation.

Fascinating musician. Glad to know he's still around and doing his thing.

Herbie Nichols' Blue Notes, Miles' FILLES DE KILIMANJARO and Sonny Rollins' FREEDOM SUITE.

Applause, maybe?