Guy Berger

Bitches Brew, without the brains and the soul. I was trying to think of a nicer way of saying that - Electric Byrd is a fun, likable album - but I don't think the two belong in the same ballpark. They're not even the same sport.

Dizzy Reece, Charles Tolliver, Alan Shorter

Thanks for posting that, mjzee. I wish I had caught that concert. Interesting to read Hart and Cyrille's commentary in particular

Thanks Steve and Brownie! Anyone else? This is the Original Masters CD reissue from a few years ago. I'm trying to figure out whether I should get a replacement.

Hey guys, two years ago or so I got Stan Getz in Stockholm from yourmusic.com and finally started listening to it last weekend. It's a great album, but I noticed that the beginning of the track "Over the Rainbow" has some funky audio noise going on for the first 2-3 seconds. Sounds almost like tape flutter if I have my terms correct. Is this unique to my disc, specific to this reissue, or on the original recording? Thanks.

There's actually only one - Dance. On Le Voyage, Jean Francois Jenny Clark replaces Izenzon. Izenzon is magnificent on Dance, though the album as a whole is fairly restrained with one exception.

I love the stuff with Motian and Lovano, and also the album Nashville.

I remember our recent discussion about Stolen Moments in the Kenny Burrell thread and his contribution to that performance/arrangement. RIP George.

I believe this came out a year ago - anybody else heard it? Very good album with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, and Ben Street.

I can see why some would feel this way - and it was even more true for the 60s quartet with Jarrett. The late 80s/mid 90s albums on ECM (through Voice in the NIght) as well as Acoustic Masters are much more "equal".

Question - and maybe this is the wrong thread, but who cares - why is Bennie Maupin so lightly featured on Sextant relative to Mwandishi and Crossings? He appears on the ensembles, but aside from "Hornets" (a brief bass clarinet solo and the kazoo) he takes a backseat role.

I've listened to this a fair amount since it arrived. Very good. People who like Lloyd and Moran won't be disappointed.

I wasn't taking anything personally, that statement is total BS. It doesn't matter what Keith's personal opinion may have been about the instruments (and I don't totally believe what he says)--he delivered as effectively as Chick (maybe even more so as far as tonal varieties and funk groove). "Doesn't have a clue what he's doing?" That's just utter BS, or to put it your way an opinion that in my opinon is either just hyperbole or uninformed. Sorry. I'm with Lon here. Keith's playing is great (as is Chick's in earlier Miles groups). I take most of his comments about that band with a large grain of salt. As far as Chick, I like what I've heard of his more recent music, but generally my interest with him dwindles rapidly post-1973.

Anybody else read Alexandra Horowitz's book, "Inside of a Dog"? Per Moose's point, worth reading before we make grand pronouncements on various species' intelligence.

Our dog is also named Henry! A sweet mix of (probably) retriever and border collie. Lovable dimwit. Scared of large moving objects. Goes berserk in the snow.

First OFFICIAL recordings, right? Because the Anthology set includes stuff that predates this.

Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 127

There are so many good concerts from that tour... I realize that it was probably not commercially feasible to include more of them, but nobody who likes this music should go without hearing Rome (10/27), Paris (11/03 - amazing "Masqualero"), Copenhagen (11/04) and especially Rotterdam (11/09). Some of these are, in my opinion, better than what's included on this box set.

Beethoven, piano sonata 31/3 (second movement + third movement)

Yes! Without getting into the "is this jazz" debate, I'll just say that if this album is excluded, so is a lot of other stuff that most people put under that label. Bev spurred my mind to mention a few others: "Desireless" on Jan Garbarek's Witchi Tai To "Sangria for Three" on Tony Williams's Emergency "Night Poem", Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and already mentioned, but why not another time: Grant Green's "Idle Moments"

I could maybe, on any given day, hear either Lew Tabackin or Bennie Wallace for one cut and think that they were each other. But how James Moody gets into that equation...I'm not sure. Then again, players sounds are their voices. Hearing them on a record is like getting a phone call from them. You pick up the phone, they say hey, and you recognize their voice if you've got it etched in your mind for whatever reason, be it ongoing repetition or be it a lot of recent dialouge or be it a notable distinctiveness. If you've not heard the voice in a long time, it might not click right away. But you don't pick up your phone, hear your uncle who you've not heard in five years say heywazzup and think that it's your wife calling from the office, ya' know? LOL! Major Branford fail here, no doubt about it.

Yes, that is an amazing track. Swings so hard! I also really like "Lady Be Good" from the 2nd Granz studio jam session. What a wonderful box. Leaving out multi-movement compositions/performances (whether A Love Supreme or the live Miles concerts from 1967 through 1975)... Some stuff that hasn't been mentioned, that I love: Miles Davis, "Mademoiselle Mabry" Miles Davis, "Pharaoh's Dance" Charles Lloyd, "Tales of Rumi" Duke Ellington, "A Tone Parallel to Harlem" (just short of 15 min) Eberhard Weber, "Seriously Deep" Jackie McLean, "Melody for Melonae (again, a little short) Weather Report, "The Boogie Woogie Waltz" (studio version) Pharoah Sanders, "Let Us Now Go into the House of the Lord" Sun Ra, "The Magic City"

Well said. "We always solo, we never solo."

NONSENSE

I like his post-1963 playing than his pre-1963 playing. But honestly, I am mostly interested in his albums for the compositions + saxophonists. Some wonderful Wayne Shorter on those!