Big Wheel

I think Rooster is confusing it with FIRST SESSION, with Wynton Kelly et al.

The problem is that I have a hard time seeing how any determined stalker would stop when he found no Google listing. It's very easy just to hop on over to any number of reverse phone directory websites and do the exact same thing. I'm sure it couldn't hurt any, but I wouldn't rest easy either...

And now the 1966 set with Richard Davis is up. Crazy! The only thing better will be if any tapes with the 1967 sextet with Joe Henderson turn up...

I confess to being unsure of the meaning of this sentence. I guess the problem for me is that it's exactly as you describe it--"simply a tribute," in the very narrowest sense. It's a conscious attempt to ape both the sound and style of everyone who's being celebrated, with no other thought put into it. At best, dull. At worst, a landmark in egotism. I'll save my $18 and pick up the Booker Little records I don't have yet.

It's weird to me that Lion never originally released this session. Could he have been a bit cautious at first about taking a chance on Mitchell as a leader, and needed another great followup to persuade him?

Generally, when I use the phrase "I'd say," you can safely infer that I'm only speaking for my own tastes. Look, I like some of what Arturo's done but this one, more than almost any modern straight-ahead jazz release I've heard, is an absolute travesty. There's nothing new or inspired in any of the arrangements. It's just slavish, self-indulgent copycatting. A coaster as far as I'm concerned.

What do you mean? I think that he might mean that the last two discs are a little too cheesy for his liking. I do enjoy Boss Horn but can see how some are turned off by that last session. But The Thing to Do and Down with It are kickin'!

On this album? I'd say a forgotten trumpeter by the name of Good Taste.

I can't decide if I find it cool or annoying.

Indeed! Couldn't have said it better myself.

It's frustrating...I'm getting the "problem connecting to tracker 10060" error and I can't tell if it's a firewall issue or not. I turn off both my software firewall and my network firewall, and it doesn't seem to help. A search has turned up examples of people who say the ISP is to blame, for shutting off people's access to certain ports if they see a lot of BT traffic. That would be really shitty... Update, not that anyone cares: looks like the problem was on their end last night. About 75k/sec right now over here. Can't wait to hear it when I get off work today.

Any luck with downloading this? My torrent won't start and I'm trying to figure out if the problem is on my end, or if there are just too many people trying to connect or something...

If you are referring to Van Gelder, he remastered neither of those two titles.

Maybe just a little...it's my revenge for being too young to pick up most of the '90s limited edition Blue Notes! Mingus sounds mostly in control on this. It's the engineers or producers (I think you can hear one of the Erteguns from the booth) who are getting exasperated as take 26....27...28 go by...

These are not complete takes--mostly breakdowns and such. (I don't have the Atlantic box, but I assume it doesn't contain much of this nature.)

There are about a half hour or so of these out there, all of the title track, and they are really quite interesting from a historical perspective to me. I assume this was one of the very first jazz waltzes (or 6/8 pieces, depending on your perspective, I guess), and you can hear the soloists struggling to feel the meter for the first time. Wade Legge in particular has a bit of a hard time, but eventually does start to sound more comfortable. Very cool to hear them gradually locking into the groove. The last few takes feature the section with the poetry read over it. This was recorded some time before Max Roach's Jazz in 3/4 Time, right?

Is there any special story about this album featuring Cannonball? Was it just a one-off for Roulette, or are there other Machito records in the Blue Note vaults?

A couple of Sundays ago I sliced my right index finger open pretty deeply with a bread knife. (Will never cut a bagel THAT way again, that's for sure!) I didn't really want to go to the hassle of getting it looked at but the thought of being possibly unable to play scared me into going to the ER on a weekend. Fortunately, everything was fine and it's healing nicely with probably no scar.

It's actually even trickier than I thought. A good primer can be found at this link.

Not exactly. You can have a tornado over water too (often called a waterspout, and commonly seen in South Florida waters). I'm pretty sure that the thing in the story Marty linked to is a hurricane. The general rule is that hurricanes are named differently depending on which ocean they're in. Atlantic-->hurricane Pacific-->typhoon Indian-->cyclone (But they all can just be called tropical cyclones if you want. I think it may be a British/Australian convention to name all hurricane-type storms "cyclones," as this storm is in the southern Pacific, not the Indian. Maybe only storms that threaten east Asia are called "typhoons.") In general, you would never read a news story about a tornado "approaching" anything. Tornadoes form very quickly and unpredictably and dissipate rapidly. (To add to the confusion, though, a hurricane-type storm will often spawn tornadoes in the areas of it where the winds are highest. Hurricane Andrew did so much damage partly because of these.) Couw is right that some Americans call tornadoes cyclones too. The thing that took Dorothy to Munchkinland was a Kansas tornado, but Frank Baum had the characters refer to it as "a cyclone."

They are in FLAC format. Here is the verbatim description: Source: FM > acetates > reels [2-track, 7½ ips] > Soundforge [eq] > CDR > CDR > EAC > FLAC(7) Notes: Master (all 7 broadcasts), FM announcements, some loud hiss, A-/B+ Time: 185:19 FLAC: 1.19 GB

Oh man. This stuff really sounds GOOD, all things considered. You can hear the piano and bass very, very clearly, and drums are decent. That Symphony Sid intro is pretty weird, too. I guess they were playing background music of the MJQ rendition of "Django" over the PA or something. And Sid is quite audible telling the band to hurry it up and start.

Speaking of which, you can get it online from J&R for $7 these days.

Never mind, I realized that Jim meant to do the "full" install instead of "normal." Should work now...

Listening to it now. Sound is indeed only ok, but you can definitely hear John as well as Larry. Organ bass is somewhat less audible, and drums aren't great, but it's still an intense show!