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No, lol, that site does not have live webcams. The procedure is to start there and then go to msn. That's what the hormonal kids do - frequently at an alarmingly young age. Personally, I do NOT want to see the 9 incher, lol.

Sorry for the duplication. Should have done a search I guess. As I listened to the opening track, where the lovely main theme is presented by David Snell on the harp, it made me wish that Bill Evans had recorded it. It would have been perfect for him. The group gets into a slightly jazzy section here, and Snell sounds a bit like Bill.

So glad he's still around. One of the very fastest sax players, up there with Bird and Cannonball for speed, and it isn't just a lot of technical exercises, unlike a lot of horn players. There is a parallel with trumpeters who play very high, and someone said on a tribute to Louis Armstrong that when he played high, he did it very musically and with an excellent tone. Likewise, Johnny's playing (on that excellent Youtube clip, for a superb example) remains musical at speed. He was definitely one of the best horns with Monk - one critic said the best one of all, and he might be right, even though Trane had the gig at one time.

XTC Radio London - online only (needs Winamp). SS Radio, at http://ssradiouk.com/ Those are both house/trance/whatever. You mean they also have jazz on the radio? lol

Would be a great idea. I love the Faceparty chat room, and no, I'm not going to tell you my profile name there. There does tend to be a lot of stuff like "Who wants a fuck in Manchester?", "See my 9" cock on cam", and so on, but there is often some good convo.

I love Gabor! I totally missed out on him the first time around (the 60s, that is), but over the last few years I've acquired most of his recordings under his own name, and with Chico Hamilton, Gary McFarland and so on, and I've thoroughly enjoyed them. Most are LPs, as a lot have not been reissued on CD, but it has not been hard to find good copies of the LPs. He is a true original, and I love his rather tart sound (hard to describe it in words really). He was consistently good.

His radio show sucked, though. Trad, and similar old fogey stuff. Time the BBC got some new blood, not that they devote much time to jazz.

Just having a read through this again today! The contributions have been outstanding, and I'm real glad that I started the thread. My latest recommendation is "Musica Batida Sol", by Rez, aka Ernst Berlin. You can get it here, if you click on the title and then do a CTRL S to download it: http://www.trugroovez.com/forums/rez-compl...alog-t5120.html This is a fantastic Latino house set, very tasty. I was delighted to find that a version of "Corcovado" is included in the mix - hardly what you might expect to find. I really don't see why a jazz or Latino fan could dislike this set. Someone mentioned the Dutch mixer, Tiesto. He is fantastic, and a big draw at Ibiza during the summer. I'm still enjoying the house clubs, and am on the point of DJ-ing it now, as well as some funky jazz. The predominant variety is clearly electro/house. It is fun to keep the beat going seamlessly on a pair of Pioneer CDJ 1000 decks with a Pioneer DJM 800 mixer. Favorite BPM is in the range 128-132, though slower can be quite funky. Although you DO get your share of hormonal, substance-influenced people in the clubs, there are a number of discriminating listeners in some places, and you get very little pop there. For the record, I don't drink alcohol or drop E's or other pills, lol.

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I'm going to bend the rules a little, and say "favorite Monk performance of one of his tunes". Straight No Chaser, from the 1959 Riverside album "Five By Monk By Five". The piano accompaniment for the horns is absolutely amazing, and has stuck vividly in my mind ever since I first heard it (on LP) - generations ago, lol. When I play this, Monk always draws my attention away from the horn solos (which are not exactly shabby, being by Charlie Rouse and Thad Jones). But, of course, he wrote so many wonderful tunes and made so many fantastic recordings. [i just read the thread about people who saw Trane live. Well I got to see Monk live. It was in 1971 on that "Giants of Jazz" tour. Art Blakey was right, it was a bad idea, though I'm glad I got to see all those great players. At least the tour led to those superb trio recordings in London, which, sadly, turned out to be Monk's last. Monk was mentally a mess on that tour. He played purely by reflex, and when I saw him backstage, he seemed to have lost all motor control. His eyes were rolling around in a weird way, poor guy. Diz was looking after him and getting ice cream for him.]

Not sure whether to place this under Artists or Discography, lol. Feel free to move it, Jim. Gary McFarland completists (and I mean that in a nice way), certainly including me, will be glad to see that his film score for the 1966 movie "13", originally scheduled for release as Verve V6-8674 in early 1967, has recently become available on a CD. The label is called FSM Silver Age Classics - it is a label that issues movie scores. The catalog number seems to be FSM Vol. 11, No. 1, whatever all that means. They seem to have escaped the clutches of Universal, which, of course, owns all of the issued Verve material. I spotted it during a routine eBay search a few weeks ago and now have the CD in my hot little hand. It will be available from the usual suspects as well. This music was recorded during a busy visit by Gary to London in 1966, during which the orchestral parts for his "Soft Samba Strings" LP, and Zoot Sims' "Waiting Game" album, were also recorded. So, in a way, it forms part of a trilogy. It does not include instrumental performances by Gary or any other jazz musicians, so you need to be warned that it is somewhat of a curiosity. But the main theme is a very haunting melody. It has appeared on several other albums, including the aforementioned "Soft Samba Strings" and "Waiting Game" LPs, as well as the Steve Kuhn album "October Suite" (which has been reissued on an Impulse mini LP CD), and Cal Tjader's "Solar Heat" album. So it is already quite well known. One thing is likely: the superb harpist heard playing the theme (and not identified in the notes for the new CD) is almost certainly David Snell, who is featured on the Zoot Sims album and identified there in the personnel listings. The CD notes include a nice pic of Gary with Creed Taylor and Jack Parnell, who conducted the orchestra on the three albums. On a side note, now that it has emerged that the tapes for this project still exist, it would be great if the tapes recorded in London for the "Soft Samba Strings" LP could be found. The orchestral parts were recorded in London and mixed with the performances by the jazz players (McFarland, with piano, bass and drums) which were presumably recorded back home in the States. Unfortunately, there was an error with the tape speed during the dubbing, and the intonation is painfully bad at times. The piano, especially, sounds way out of tune and sour. I am amazed that the album was issued with that obvious problem. The music is excellent, and it would be great if the small group parts and the orchestral parts still exist separately, so that an in-tune mix could be achieved. ( Shades of "Kind of Blue"!! I used to try to play along on my alto with that LP, and had a real time trying to tune up to it.)

Hey, Thanks for posting the link to the two Youtube clips of Eric playing. I have never seen footage of him before. His bass clarinet solo is amazing. He adds so much to the Andrew Hill session on that horn, too!

Thanks for all the comments guys. I think it is a timely topic too. I think this kind of music is very interesting, and it's given me a lot of pleasure over the last few months. And, as Jim said (I think it was Jim), it's not the stuff that you hear on the regular radio or in many clubs. Over the last few days, I've been playing a lot of Darin Epsilon's long mixes. Wonderful stuff! There are tons of them on the site I posted. Here are some more links: http://www.cardamar.com/mixes.html "Lucid Dreams" is a very good one on there, with an astonishing acoustic guitar solo right at the very end. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=29367179 "Fading Echoes" is excellent on that one, particularly the section where there is a girl singing a kind of chant. Normally, I'm not very keen on "drum and bass", partly because it's a bit too fast for me and ahead of the beat, but this is a very creative set. On the topic of dancing, I also love to dance to house etc. I just turned 60 but I will go to a club for teens and 20s and dance for hours to it, so you guys in your 30s sure can. The kids in the clubs love to have me there and often join in with me and take pics and stuff, and group together and hug me. That's cos I behave myself there, lol.

Ronnie's wise cracks are so recognizable that you could tell that was him without it even being said. I still remember an evening at his club in 1974. Btw, Zoot was there that night, and mmmm he was good.

Interesting, though I've spent a lot of my life on Blue Note already. What does "DRM-free" mean? Is that some sort of copy protection? By the way, my ears can't detect any difference between WAV and mp3 format on a CDr.

Thanks, Jim. I haven't heard those people you mention. Must check them out. The better examples of this kind of music don't lack heart and soul at all. Many of the creators and mixers are very sincere about it. Read what GarthIvan has to say on his page, and his travel blogs (link provided on his page), for example. I don't like blatant pop a great deal, but with all my music experience, I would not listen to this type of music if it was just junk. There's some good stuff going on. I am cursed with a good memory for music, and bad music bores me quickly - hate going into most supermarkets for that reason, lol.

Lawrence Welk: "And a now we're a going a to play a that famous a Duke Ellington tune Take A Train".

After decades of listening to jazz, I recently got into the music in the "house" family. This is partly because that's what they play in a lot of clubs. (Been going out dancing, lol.) By "house family", I mean the 4/4 music at about 145 bpm, including house, electro/house and trance. (There don't seem to be sharp dividing lines between the various genres, and I don't care what category each set is in anyway.) It all consists of 4 and 8 measure segments and is pretty simple theoretically. A lot of this really grooves and swings, and, of course, it's perfect for dancing. I've always loved creative repetition and bass pedal points. It's been a blast hearing it all. I don't find this kind of repetition boring at all. And it is slowly progressing along all the time. You need to stay with it for long periods to appreciate the progression. Even though a lot of it is electronic, some of it entirely so, a lot of it has a lot of soul and feel. There are a lot of very imaginative and creative writers and mixers out there. (Mixing, with several different mixes of some tunes, is something you don't get in classic jazz, and it is fascinating to hear what a mixer can do, and how different the various mixes of songs are.) I'd recommend guys like GarthIvan, Darin Epsilon, Zachary J. Brooks if you want some samples. Try "Live at the Spybar, Chicago" on http://www.darinepsilon.com/music.html Try "Edinburgh" on http://www.garthivan.com/ Try "Endless Sunset" (very funky, with a real guitar, bass and electric keyboard) on http://www.xtcradio.com/mixes2.html There are many other very talented guys doing this. XTC Radio London, available online (only) with Winamp, has all these guys and plays some great sets. In spite of the station's name, it's run by Zachary Brooks, who lives in Sacramento, CA. Some of my favorite mixers are England's Seamus Haji (he's The Man!), Paul Emanuel, and Sweden's Eric Prydz, who did a famous remix of Pink Floyd's "Brick on the Wall" song. Eric has a fantastic mix called "Armed" - minimalist electro. If you have not tried this stuff, you might like it. Hey, it's a change from all the fuss over the various remasterings of Blue Note sessions, lol.

Oooh, I enjoy all his recordings! I agree with you, Lon, "Crescent" is a superb set. I even use "Bessie's Blues" as my cellphone ringtone - it gets going straight away, so it's perfect for that. (Some ppl pay huge amounts for ringtones - why do that when you can upload your own for nothing?) Gotta be the hippest ringtone, and you ought to see ppl's faces when it goes off. JS, I love that solo on the George Russell album! Didn't get to hear that until about a year ago. What a marvelous album, with so many top guys on it.

Completely agree, Jim! It was pig-headed to omit the 1957 tracks when those RVGs were done. I'm glad I have the older CDs. Also for the Mobley stuff (No Room For Squares, Str8 No Filter etc.)

It must be awkward for a guy accustomed to a bass fiddle to switch to a bass guitar - playing sideways instead of upright. I feel this way cos I recently got a bass guitar myself. (!) Considering how wonderful Ron's bass fiddle sound is, it is a waste to have him on an electric. Ironically, he didn't like it when Miles made him switch to electric (for the Kilimanjaro album), and that was one reason why he left Miles's group. So what does Miles do? He hires Dave Holland, and Dave plays acoustic!

Moaning during sex is cool, but applause during a performance is a pest.

Right, it's locked.

I love this guy! I have Japanese CDs of the Blue Notes. My favorite is "Preach Brother", because of the presence of the classic rhythm team of Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, They are called upon to do something a little different here, and they do it so well. The last track, with the vamp, is great, and the album really grows on you with each listening. The JRVG of this album sounds real good.

Bit late in the thread, but I'd like to support you, Jazz Cat, on the Three Sounds. Thanks to the Japanese, I have all of their BN items that have been released, and I love listening to all of it. I can't really come up with a list of bad BN albums, but I have avoided the Sabu album and I don't listen to those half-dozen Blakey percussion albums much (but I wouldn't call them bad).