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  7. Recordings that grabbed you and directed your life plan

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    1 hour ago, sgcim said:

    I saw Arthur Lee live at Town Hall perform  the entire FC album  His band, Baby Lemonade, did a superb job, and they were augmented by a string trio and trumpet player.

    David Angel was hired by Elektra to do the arrangements for FG, and he had an amazing career as a jazz saxophonist, ghost arranger for Woody Herman, Art Pepper and others, wrote music for TV shows, and led his own big band that played his own pieces. He worked with AL every day for a few weeks at the piano for FC, and said that AL was a genius, and could've become a great composer if he learned how write music.

    Thanks for sharing that! I recently discovered this recording by David Angel and have enjoyed it very much.

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    https://vsoprecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-s-o-p-127-cd-the-david-angel-big-band-camshafts-and-butterflies

    Arthur Lee didn't often help himself, but he also got a pretty raw deal on that "third strike" offense that sent him to prison for almost 6 years. But he got his flowers at last not long after.

     

  9. Recordings that grabbed you and directed your life plan

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    Probably the first record I remember putting on repeat. Well, asking my parents to put on repeat... I was 4 or 5 at the time.

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    Bought a gold label copy for 4 bucks at a DFW record show based on something I'd read about it. Hearing it and falling in love with became the thing that decisively separated my musical tastes from my siblings', particualrly my older brother: child #1, so he typically controlled the radio and TV.

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    I'd been "investigating" jazz up until the point I auditioned this. (It must have been a used CD I came across.) I knew Joe Henderson from Tyner's THE REAL MCCOY and Richard Davis from OUT TO LUNCH. Hill I knew nothing about, not Haynes really. This is when I became obsessed with Blue Note and following all the threads between leaders, sidemen, etc. Which obsession soon spilled over to the other great independent labels of that era (Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary).

  13. Carla Bley (1936-2023)

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    26 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    The NYT obit is pretty strong. Nate Chinen got it pretty well, though there's a lot more to the Jazz Composers Guild (no mention of Dixon & Taylor?). One reason among many that it dissolved was Sun Ra's opposition to a woman being in the Guild. But that's maybe a discussion for another day and another article.

    Glad to have recently heard the early trio music with Bill Folwell and Steve Swallow. She was always an innovator even when she may not have thought so!

    I am guessing said recordings are not available for general consumption?

    Agree about the importance of the Guild and her role in it.

     

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