Joe

Two more fine Sketch releases.. Daniel Humair -- "Liberté Surveillée", with Marc Ducret and Ellery Eskelin http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsVie...px?ProductID=92 Steve Lacy / Daniel Humair / Anthony Cox -- "Work" http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsVie...px?ProductID=91

The tracks are short; there's little "stretching out".

I wonder if this is the same John Voight who appears on these Eeremite releases...

I would agree that Tommy Flanagan never stopped stretching, and that some of his later recordings like LET'S, SEA CHANGES and the Blue Note disc (already OOP, IIRC) are excellent. THELONICA, with George Mraz and Art Taylor, is also fine, but features all the production touches you would expect from a 1982 "straight-ahead jazz" recording (e.g., direct-miked bass). Those Detroit cats... I love Hank Jones for his elegance and Barry Harris for his feeling for the tradition (not overly reverent), but to me Flanagan was the most full-bodied and gutsy of the three.

I hold his one recorded meeting with Eddie Harris in special esteem. And the way he plays on GROOVIN' AT SMALL'S PARADISE will continue to be revelatory to me, no matter how many times I hear that set. Especially "Body And Soul" and "Slightly Monkish".

Gene Ammons... his relationship with his father, the drug problems, his popular success, his significance to the African-American community of his time, jail time, comeback... I'd read it if it were done properly.

AND THE SWING ORGAN, I believe. Also featuring Rudy Rutherford, Aaron Bell, and J. C. Heard. Recently found a copy of this at a local Half-Price Books. Fine stuff, banded for airplay, but not overly "commercial".

Check out The Knitters playing "Trail Of Time"...

Have enjoyed this release immensely since I rcvd. it in a Cadence order a few years ago. Another big for this one.

Albam wrote some fine, fine tunes and arrangments ("Alto Cumulus" comes to mind) for McKusick's "with strings" session, IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM. BTW, the other arranger on this date is Al Cohn.

I prefer couw's cover, actually, but, since the work is done...

I may be in the minority here, but I happen to think that this set contains some of Silver's most personal music. Not just because of the lyrics, which I know are just oo full of New Age-y self-actualization for some tastes, but due also of the sharpnessof the melodies and the sheer depth of the improvsing, especially from the leader. Its as if Horace re-discovered harmony on these dates, and he makes the most of his new knowledge. Also, for sheer historical importance: for answering in the digital age the question, "What was one of the most important and influential post-War jazz artists doing at the beginning of the ME Decade?"

Or: The font, which is as close a derivative I could find to what Reid Miles used on the original WORKOUT cover, is Memphis / Rockwell / Geometric Slab Serif 703. http://www.identifont.com

That's World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, BTW...

FINALLY!!! Been waiting for this one for a long, long time...

A favorite of mine as well. All praise Don Siegel!

Got mine from http://www.amazon.de. 17.99 Euro, or about $23 USD. Worth the trouble, as it has proven more difficult for DustyGroove to procure them than I think they first anticipated.

Done.

Count me as a fan of those Jean-Luc Ponty / George Duke collaborations on Pacific Jazz / World Pacific...

I did hear part of this, when they were discussing SOUL ON TOP.

Well, Gerry does sport some badass dish towels on-stage...

This is the way bequests should be made and libraries / cultural institutions should operate.

A lot of the differences I can see center around personalities and rhetoric, not the music itself.

I recall reading about this in THE GOLDEN TURKEY AWARDS when I was but a wee ironist back in junior high school. I thought it was just something the authors had made up.

Scott Robinson? http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15354