Guy Berger

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

The 50s Blue Note albums are all really enjoyable. Arguably the pinnacle for this style of “functional” hard hop - great players at the top of their game but no dominant voice, on compositions that take a back seat to the playing (unlike Silver or Blakey) but don’t sound generic

I like the sound of JT’s first album

The intro to “Teeter Totter” is some of my favorite Andrew Hill record. Setting aside Point of Departure, this is IMHO the best Joe/Kenny album

Power to the People and In Japan are obviously exceptionally good, but I’ve been listening to some of the other later Milestones and they’re also quite enjoyable. Joe had a combo of great sound and great ideas and was willing to make the most out of any setting into which he was placed. And the settings on those albums are generally quite good if not always great.