Joe

Oh yeah... Miles was into this young lady.

The lovely and talented... Geri Allen Amina Claudine Myers Cindy Blackman Michele Rosewoman Susie Ibarra Unfortunately, I could not locate a picture of Barbara Donald.

An album cover easy on the eyes, an album easy on the ears...

Who else mentioned Stereolab? I am definitely a Stereolab fan... Also been digging Sigur Rós, Califone, and Queens of the Stone Age recently.

Terry Reid, RIVER (Atlantic, 1972; Water 2002) From the "California period" of this British vocalist / guitarist / songwriter, RIVER features superb contributions from David Lindley on his standard variety of stringed instruments. Reid was the guy who turned down Jimmy Page's offer to sing in The New Yardbirds, later to become Led Zeppelin (of course!). This particular album has a really strong Van Morrison / Tim Buckley vibe to it, though I have to say Reid reminds me most of the late, great Steve Marriott, albeit Marriott with a greater sense of flexibility and interest in risk-taking. The final three tracks, which are acoustic song-improvisations (I don't know what else to call them? reveries?) that may at first sound rather formless, become more and more engrossing the more you hear them. Not "jazz" per se, rather one of those quintessentially unclassifiable 70's fusions of jazz, folk, blues, country, rock and even funk (the tracks with Lindely and a full electric band really groove in their laid-back way) that wins wheelbarrows full of Grammies these days. A subtly distinctive record, maybe not timeless, but definitely original, and certainly honest.

Thanks for that post Lawrence.

Yes. Very nice date. You had better like bass solos, however (I myself do, especially if they are by Red Mitchell)...

One of my favorite players ever on his instrument. Think I'll sping EAST COASTING tonight in his honor: "Celia"... Knepper also made a great contribution to jazz history by clearing up for us who Dean Benedetti really was, and what the man's relationship with Bird was really like. RIP...

I'm really gald Chuck mentioned Persip's work on this album. This record single-handedly started me on a Persip kick. I first read about this session in David Rosenthal's HARD BOP book, which was published about the time Fantasy reissued it in the OJC series. Good timing. I still think Booker Ervin's solo on the opening cut "Status Seeking" is one of the strongest solos he ever laid down in a studio, but the tracks that stand out after all these years for me are the 2 ballads -- "Duquility", which has an odd, aching-but-placid quality, and, of course, "Warm Canto". The last not just for Dolphy's beautiful B-flat clarinet solo, but also for Mal's, which makes locked-hands funk totally work in this context. One of my desert island discs.

Long live Julius Watkins!!!

Found the reference to Dolphy & Brown / Roach: Kirk Silsbee, 10 / 1999 -- liner notes to the Verve Master Edition reissue of CLIFFORD BROWN AND MAX ROACH

Poor as the sound is, the playing on the New Sound releases -- they are rehearsal tapes -- is really, really interesting. And while we're on the subject of those Chet Baker Paris recordings, which is where I really noticed Twardzik, dos anyone have any more info on Bob Zieff, the composer of the majority of those tunes? Really fascinating work. Finally, there's an interesting Twardzik "songbook" on the market: BVHAAST 9912 Frank Van Bommel Quartet A CRUTCH FOR THE CRAB Sonata '98 Nº1, part 1 (F. van Bommel), The Girl from Greenland (R. Twardzik), Sa Lutte (F. van Bommel), Yellow Tango (R. Twardzik), Sonata '98 Nº1, part 2 'Nighthawks' (F. van Bommel), A Crutch for the Crab (R. Twardzik), Albuquerque Social Swim (R. Twardzik), Sonata '98 Nº2, part 2 'Vierhoogachter' (F. van Bommel), The Fable of Mabel (R. Twardzik), Requiem (F. van Bommel), Met Titel (F. van Bommel), Sonata '98 Nº3, part 2 'Solace' (F. van Bommel) Frank van Bommel (p), Tobias Delius (ts, cl), Arjen Gorter (bass), Martin van Duynhoven (d)

Has anyone ever confirmed whether its Dolphy taking the solos on those late 40's Roy Porter Big Band sides (see Savoy's BLACK CALIFORNIA compilation)? And I thought I read somewhere recently that Dolphy auditioned for the Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet and barely missed making the gig instead of Harold Land (who was filling in for Teddy Edwards, in so many words...)

Three essential purchases, IMHO:

THE FOX with Elmo Hope, Frank Butler, Herbie Lewis and the ill-starred Dupree Bolton WEST COAST BLUES with Wes Montgomery, Joe Gordon , Barry Harris, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes If you really like the Land / Hutcherson group on MEDINA / SPIRAL, try to find a copies of TOTAL ECLIPSE and SAN FRANCISCO. TO me, he's the stand-out soloist on Bill Evans' QUINTESSENCE, an "all-stars" date that otherwise doesn't quite come off as well as it should. But worth hearing for Land's playing alone (Kenny Burrell shines, too).

Booker Little, OUT FRONT and Max Roach's PERCUSSION BITTER SWEET: these may both be obvious instances of Dolphy-as-sideman, but they are crucial recordings in terms of Dolphy working "up to" OUT TO LUNCH. There's also the Ken McIntyre LOOKING AHEAD session. Never really clicked with me, for whatever reason, much as I like both reed-men. Time to spin that one again. And I know the Latin Jazz Quintet stuff with Dolphy is generally considered lightweight, but, in terms of getting a chance to hear an unusual player in an even more unusual setting... worth hearing, IMHO.

My first real post 'round here... | Paul Horn, SOMETHING BLUE -- anybody ever archive the old BN BBS thread we started on this album? Joe Christmas? | Webster Young, FOR LADY | Air, AIR TIME | Jeanne Lee / Ran Blake, THE NEWEST SOUND AROUND | Four Giants of Swing [Joe Venuti / Jethro Burns / Curley Chalker / Eldon Shamblin), S'WONDERFUL | Frank Lowe, EXOTIC HEARTBREAK

Well, Lon let me know I'd been missed, which is both a great surprise to me as well as a testament to the graciousness of those of you who remember me from my (old? it hasn't been that long, has it?) BN BBS days. So hello again. Good to see GOM and Late and the rest of you. Not sure I'll be around much what with my various and sundry non-Internet obligations, but I'll make an effort. Keep the positivity flowing! Joe {Milazzo}