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  2. Top Ten Black Saint/Soul Note

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    String Trio of New York!

    Seconded. Big fan of all versions of this group... I may even prefer to edition with Charles Burnham in the violin chair, which, alas, did not record for BS / SN. (Their two Stash discs = superb.) But the Regina Carter edition did, and BLUES... is a fine effort.

    Somewhat related: John Lindberg's DIMENSION 5; subtract Emery (g) but add Hugh Ragin, Marty Ehrlich and Thurman Barker.

  3. Top Ten Black Saint/Soul Note

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    Some relatively obscure BS / SN dates worth investigating...

    • Glenn Horiuchi, OXNARD BEET
    • Wayne Horvitz / Butch Morris / William Parker, SOME ORDER LONG UNDERSTOOD
    • TOM VARNER QUARTET
    • Ellery Eskelin, THE SUN DIED
    • Tony Oxley, THE ENCHANTED MESSENGER
    • John Carter, DAUWHE
    • Amina Claudine Myers, THE CIRCLE OF TIME

  4. Top Ten Black Saint/Soul Note

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    Posted · Edited by Joe

    Some favorites not yet mentioned...

    • Lacy / Rudd, REGENERATION
    • Billy Bang, VALVE NO. 10
    • Frank Lowe, EXOTIC HEARTBREAK
    • Leroy Jenkins Sting!, URBAN BLUES
    • Guido Manusardi, THE VILLAGE FAIR
    • Roscoe Mitchell, 3 X 4 EYE
    • Andrew Cyrille, X-MAN
    • Baikida Carroll, SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS
    • John Lindberg, QUARTET AFTERSTORM
    • Barry Altschul, IRINA

  5. Stu Willamson

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    Yes, absolutely. Especially fond of his trumpet work.

    Was first -- and still am -- impressed by his playing on those Richard Bock-produced Elmo Hope tracks from 1957 that Blue Note tacked on to the CD reissue of TRIO AND QUINTET. Have since tracked down some of his leader dates on Bethlehem; the music there is slightly more "polite", but there are sparks (Charlie Mariano is a frequent partner on these recordings).

    Speaking of Mariano... Williamson was of course an integral part of the Shelly Manne quintets that recorded for Contemporary in the mid-50s. I presume you own or have heard SWINGING SOUNDS, MORE SWINGING SOUNDS, and THE GAMBIT?

  7. Tom Ze

    in Artists

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    Particularly fond of this recording:

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    Incredibly inventive compositions and arrangements, and lyrically very much in the Antropófago tradition. (And isn't jazz, as a "form", pretty cannibalistic too?)

  12. Lennie Niehaus Volume 4

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    FWIW, I prefer the QUINTETS AND STRINGS date to the Octet recordings (ZOUNDS is the best of the lot, IMO)... the instrumentation really compliments Niehaus' often meticulous arrangements. Vol. 4 is buttoned up rather than buttoned down, if you know what I mean.

    Then again, I'm a big fan of Hal McKusick's IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM and Konitz's AN IMAGE, so, clearly, I'm not entirely objective when it comes to "standard jazz combo featuring frosty / cerebral lead alto plus string quartet / section" dates.

  14. David Foster Wallace RIP

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Sad news. The novels and stories (esp. "My Appearance", a dissection of both the dread and fascination televised spectacle inspires in us) are mostly wonderful, but I'll really miss Wallace the essayist. Wide-ranging and pretty fearless on that front. The "profile" he wrote on David Lynch for the old PREMIERE was one of the best peices of magazine writing I've ever read.

  20. Enrico Rava releases

    in Artists

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    My favorite Rava releases:

    -- L'AGE MUR (Philology), a pianoless quartet with Lee Konitz and a great (if not "name") Italian rhythm section

    -- DUO IN NOIR (Between The Line), with Ran Blake

    -- THE PILGRIM AND THE STARS on ECM

    -- ITALIAN BALLADS (Music Masters), with Richard Galliano

  21. Your favorite "Hippie" lyrics...

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Joe

    First there is a mountain

    Then there is no mountain

    Then there is

    *****

    When I was a boy I thought about the times I'd be a man

    I'd sit inside a bottle and pretend that I was in a can

    In my lonely room I'd sit my mind in an ice cream cone

    You can throw me if you wanna 'cause I'm a bone and I go

    Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!

    If I don't start cryin' it's because that I have got no eyes

    My father's in the fireplace and my dog lies hypnotized

    Through a crack of light I was unable to find my way

    Trapped inside a night but I'm a day and I go

    Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!

    One... Two... Three... Four!

    [Followed by the sound of a nuclear explosion]

    *****

    Chewin' on a piece of grass walkin' down the road

    tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?

    Some people say this town don't look good in snow

    You don't care, I know.

    Ventura Highway, in the sunshine

    Where the days are longer

    The nights are stronger than moonshine

    You're gonna go I know

    Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

    and the day surround your daylight there

    Seasons cryin' no despair

    Alligator lizards in the air

    Wishin' on a fallin' star

    Watchin' for the early train

    Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain

    Aw, come on Joe, you can always change your name

    Thanks a lot son, just the same

    Ventura Highway, in the sunshine

    Where the days are longer

    The nights are stronger than moonshine!

    you're gonna go, I know

    Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

    and the days surround your daylight there

    seasons cryin' no despair

    Alligator lizards in the air

    in the air

    [Doodle-loo-do-doot etc.]

    *****

    The continent of Atlantis was an island

    which lay before the great flood

    in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.

    So great an area of land, that from her western shores

    those beautiful sailors journeyed

    to the South and the North Americas with ease,

    in their ships with painted sails.

    To the East Africa was a neighbour, across a short strait of sea miles.

    The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture.

    The antediluvian kings colonised the world

    All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas

    In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.

    Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.

    On board were the Twelve:

    The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,

    The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.

    Though Gods they were -

    And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind

    Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new

    Hail Atlantis!

    Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

    Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

    Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

    Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

    Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

    My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

    I wanna see you some day

    My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

    My antediluvian baby,

    My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl,

    Girl, I wanna see you some day.

    My antediluvian baby, oh yeah

    I wanna see you some day, oh

    My antediluvian baby.

    My antediluvian baby, I wanna see you

    My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone

    I wanna see you some day

    Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeah

    Oh glub glub, down down, yeah

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