Guy Berger

I love everything I’ve heard from this group - the Mosaic, Flight for Four, Self Determination Music, and the album on Dark Tree.

So reading this, it seems mostly a nuisance and I don’t get why people are getting really mad about it (rather than just mildly annoyed) Lets say something comes on that pretends to be Nat Adderley but is obviously not him… you can just skip the track! Fwiw, I strongly agree Spotify should stop this kind of thing

Agreed! Capricorn Rising (Rivers with Pullen) teases out how that might have worked

This one is very good

I’ve been listening to A Glancing Blow (the Clean Feed live recording) and there’s a segment on there when Parker just starts quoting a Monk tune… not where I’d expect to encounter it!

The other Organissimo Guy. I missed this thread in real time but have to say - he was one of the best posters on here. I miss his contributions.

I was on the BNBB near the end of its life, and then migrated over here. I've been here since June 2003. That's an incredibly long time.

Great characterization

YUM!!!

This is very exciting though I’ll wait until there is a bigger release

I liked the show a lot, can understand why someone else wouldn’t. BUT she was incredible in it… indisputable. How did she even come up with that accent.

Definitely not Lonnie Smith, but I always assumed it was guitarist Lonnie Johnson. Coltrane would have surely been familiar with him…

I should have mentioned in my list: Jon Jang, Two Flowers on a Stem Andrew Cyrille w/James Newton, X-Man and Good to Go: A Tribute to Bu (I like the duets w/Jimmy Lyons and the quarters with David S Ware too, but return to these 2 the most)

There are a lot of great recordings on these labels - I was lucky to pick up a lot of the CamJazz reissue boxes back in the day. If I had to pick favorites of what I’ve heard: Muhal Richard Abrams, Blu Blu Blu & Blues Forever David Murray, Home & The Hill New Air, Live at Montreal Jazz Festival Mal Waldron, The Seagulls of Kristiansund & Crowd Scene Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, Sempre Amore Steve Lacy, Only Monk & More Monk Paul Motian, Misterioso Geri Allen, Etudes I am sure there are others

RIP. A major voice