Guy Berger

Booker Ervin's on "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" (is it just me or did Mingus bring out the best in Ervin)

Brana, Welcome to the board! Guy

No clue. The guy who posted this on the email list will have egg on his face if it turns out to be baloney. I'm just reproducing it here because it's interesting and I'm bored. Guy

Can't say whether this is reliable or not, and this is the way rumors get started, but the following was posted to the Keith Jarrett email list:

Wayne Shorter's solo on "Directions" (Miles Davis, Live at the Fillmore East Disc 2) Keith Jarrett's solos (both introduction & main) on "Inflight" (Backhand)

My favorites are Eric Dolphy, and Bennie Maupin (primarily on Bitches Brew). With Eric there are so many phenomenal examples, but I think his solo on "Hat and Beard" is my favorite. Guy

Aside from a dangerous lack of cowbell, you're gonna dig Black Fire. I was listening to it a lot last week and it's goooooooood. Since they just shipped the Jazz Crusaders '68 Lighthouse, I think Brownie & Max at Basin Street is next. Guy

I don't have anything especially interesting to add to what's been written above, except that there are several hundred Fantasy CDs I have on my mental wish list -- and that's not even including the several hundred I probably haven't thought of yet. As Jsngry said, I can't buy 'em if they aren't in print. Guy

I wish Blue Note and Verve had reissue policies as good as Fantasy's. Guy

They're not bad, and it's hard to argue with the prices. However, they can take forever to stock certain CDs (particularly new releases) -- I had some annoying experiences with a CD that "would be in stock in 10 days". After the 10 days were up, they told me it would be in stock in another 10 days. Guy

I dunno, I've always thought Christian McBrie is too cheesy. Guy

And besides, it's impossible -- we all know that when Charlie Parker "died" he really went into the Witness Protection Program, got plastic surgery and emerged as "Ornette Coleman" shortly thereafter. (I mean, come on, you thought "Ornette" was a real name?)

Another non-musician here. Monk reminds me a lot of Ornette Coleman -- both major jazz composers with very personal/identifiable compositions that require more than "playing what's on paper" for a satisfying performance. Guy

Thanks to Frank, akanalog & WD45 for their recs. I'm actually planning to pick up Witchi-Tai-To and the early Garbarek ECMs at some point; and I'm a big fan of Charles Lloyd's Canto & All My Relations. (I thought The Call was too sleepy, though -- not very familiar with Notes from Big Sur or Fish Out of Water.) I excluded those two saxophonists because I was interested in Stenson's other sideman work. I'll have to get a Stanko CD one of these days! Guy

I'm not a no-limit guy, but you probably have the best hand here. The only hands that beat you are AA and 2x, both are unlikely. If the guy who puts you all-in didn't play very aggressively pre-flop, you can effectively rule out AA. Furthermore, anybody with a decent pocket pair (say, 99 and higher) might think they have the best hand and play aggressively. So definitely go all-in. Guy

Any recommendations for CDs that include Stenson but not Charles Lloyd or Jan Garbarek? Out of his recent albums on ECM (Serenity, War Orphans, Reflections) which is the best to start with? Guy ps I initially wrote "don't include Stenson but not..." Maybe I should draw a Venn Diagram next time.

I finally saw The Great Escape last night -- wow, what an amazing movie!!! Guy

I disagree-- unless you make large BMG orders, yourmusic is generaly cheaper. Guy

At least some of the tracks on Live Evil were victims of splicing. I can't remember the names but the disc 1, track 1 is a combination of "Directions" and "Honky Tonk". Disc 1, track 2 begins with a take of "Directions" that has the melody spliced out at each instance. Guy

RVG wasn't the best at recording, either. Guy

People who buy these CDs and experience difficulties with them should send an angry email to Sony's reissue program -- they don't want to alienate their market for obscure reissues. Guy

You weren't the dude from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that I was talking to after the Lloyd set, were you? Guy

You forgot to mention that Concord will be reissuing these as part of their RVG series. On a more serious note, this is one of the best (to me) batch of reissues BN has done in a long time. I'm psyched, though I will probably wait to see if any crop up on yourmusic before paying with real money. Guy

Fuck Concord! There, I feel much better. Guy

Ditto on the former, but my Jarrett pick would be NUDE ANTS, where the live setting brings out the energy (dare I way warmth?) in Jan's playing that is often more or less just implied on the studio stuff. His solo on "New Dance" is surprisingly robust and gutsy! Guy ← Replying to my own post here. I'd had most of the KJ Euroqtt. live albums as illicit MP3s for a while, but recently picked up the albums. I hadn't heard the title track to Personal Mountains before, but Garbarek WAILS on this tune. Guy