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Cleaning house a bit and have the following CDs for sale All NM (played once or twice at most) unless otherwise noted Eric Alexander “Heavy Hitters” Alpha Japan (w/Harold Mabern) $15 Sold Eric Alexander “Extra Innings” Alpha Japan (w/Harold Mabern) $15 Sold Freddy Cole “Merry-Go-Round" Telarc (w/Cedar Walton and Eric Alexander) $4 Grant Green Jr. “Jungle Strut” Venus Japan (w/Reuben Wilson) $10 Winard Harper “Trap Dancer” Savant (cutout corner on booklet)(w/George Cables) $4 Sold John Hicks “Cry Me A River” Venus Japan Sealed (w/Victor Lewis) $20 Sold Lee Konitz “Brazilian Rhapsody” Venus Japan $10 Lee Konitz “Brazilian Serenade” Venus Japan (w/Tom Harrell) $10 Steve Kuhn “Love Walked In” Venus Japan Sealed (w/Buster Williams and Bill Stewart) $12 Manhattan Trinity +1 “A Love Story” M & I Japan (w/Cyrus Chestnut and Eric Alexander) $15 Sold Manhattan Trinity +1 “Make Me A Memory” Baybridge (w/Cyrus Chestnut and Lewis Nash) Japan $15 Manhattan Trinity +1 “American Meditation" Baybridge Japan (w/Cyrus Chestnut, Antonio Hart) Sold Bernard Purdie “Soul To Jazz II” ACT (w/Stanley Turrentine and Hank Crawford) $6 Archie Shepp “True Blue” Venus Japan (w/John Hicks) $10 Jeffrey Smith “Down Here Below” Verve (w/Rodney Kendrick, Dianne Reeves and Regina Carter) $4 Sold Lew Soloff “Rainbow Mountain” Enja (w/Joe Beck) $4 Sold Drew Gress "7 Black Butterflies" Premonition (w/Tim Berne and Craig Taborn) $7 Sold Abbey Lincoln "Over the Years" Gitanes French Sealed (w/Joe Lovano) $7 Graham Collier "Down Another Road" Discoforme (w/Harry Beckett) $7 Sold Miles Davis "Black Beauty" At the Fillmore West 2 CDs $8 Dave Kikoski "The 5" DIW (w/Seamus Blake and Jeff Watts) $10 Sold Dave Kikoski "Almost Twilight" Criss Cross (w/John Patitucci and Jeff Watts) $7 Sold Donny McCaslin "Give and Go" Criss Cross (w/John Swana and Gene Jackson) $7 Sold Donny McCaslin "Soar" Sunnyside (w/Luciana Souza, Ben Monder and Orrin Evans $6 Sold Herlin Riley "Cream of the Crescent" Criss Cross (w/Wynton Marsalis)promo sticker and cut out corner) $5 Sold Steve Lehman "Demian as Posthuman" Pi (w/Vijay Iyer and Meshell Ndegeocello) $6 Bill Bruford "Earthworks Underground Orchestra" Summerfold (w/Tim Garland and Robin Eubanks) $6 David Sancious "Cinema" (w/Will Calhoun and Tony Levin) $4 Simon Nabatov Octet "A Few Incidences" Leo (w/Frank Gratowski) $10 Sold Univers Zero "Live" Cuniform $7 Sold Hatfield and the North "Cheap Philosophy" Live in London 1973 $7 Sold Graham Haynes "Tones for the 21st Century" Antillles $4 D.D. Jackson "Suite for New York" Justin Time (w/James Spaulding and Dafnis Prieto) $6 Sold Robert Hurst "Robert Hurst Presents" Columbia (w/Branford Marsalis and Kenny Kirkland) $6 Sold Manhattan Projects "Echoes of Our Heroes" Evidence (w/Nicholas Payton and Mark Turner) $5 Sold Manhattan Projects "We Remember Cannonball" Evidence (w/Nicholas Payton and Nat Adderley) $5 Sold Eivind Opsvik "Overseas II" Fresh Sound (w/Tony Malaby and Craig Taborn) $6 The Jinga Quintet "A Day Gone By" Fresh Sound (w/Miguel Zenon and Avishai Cohen) $5 Carlos Garnett "Under Nubian Skies" High Note (w/Russell Gunn) $5 Sold Guillermo Klein "Los Guachos III" Sunnyside (w/(w/Miguel Zenon and Jeff Ballard) 2 CDs $9 Sold John D'earth "Restoration Comedy" Double Time (w/Mulgrew Miller and Jerry Bergonzi) $5 Sold Alex Sipiagin "Images" TCB (w/Chris Potter, Dave Binney and Adam Rogers) $6 Sold John Ellis "One Foot in the Swamp" Hyena (w/Nicholas Payton and John Scofield) $5 Sold Miles Davis "Transition" Magnetic (w/Mobley, Kelly, Chambers and Cobb) Live 1961 $10 Carl Allen "Testimonial" Atlantic (w/Nicholas Payon and Mark Whitfield) Promo stamp on booklet $4 Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman “Gathering of Spirits” Telarc $6 James Williams "Classic Encounters" DIW Japan (w/Nicholas Payton and Billy Higgins) $10 Sold Bill Carrother "Duets" (w/Bill Stewart) Dreyfus $5 Francisco Mela "Melao" Ayva Sealed $7 Jeremy Steig and Vic Juris "Improvised" Office Moon Beams Japan Sealed $8 James Williams "Classic Encounters" DIW Japan (w/Nicholas Payton and Billy Higgins) $10 Sold Herbie Hancock "Dis is Da Drum" Mercury $4 Eddie Henderson "Dreams of Gershwin" Keystone Japan (w/Kevin Hays and Joe Locke) $12 Sold Victor Lewis "Know it Today, Know it Tomorrow" Red (w/Eddie Henderson and Christian McBride) Drill hole $6 Sold Jim Snidero "Urban Tales" Ken/Square Discs (w/Tom Harrell and Marc Copeland) $5 Sold Craig Wuepper "The Returnsman" Double Time (w/Eric Alexander and Ryan Kisor) $5 Sold Chris Potter "Vertigo" Concord (w/Joe Lovano and Kurt Rosenwinkel) $5 Donny McCaslin "The Way Through" Arabesque (w/Luciana Souza and Dave Binney) $6 Sold Jane Ira Bloom "Like Silver, Like Song" Artist Share (w/Mark Dresser and Bobby Previte) $8 Jimmy Cobb's Mob "Cobb's Groove" Milestone (Promo) (w/Peter Bernstein and Eric Alexander) $4 Joe Chambers "Urban Grooves" Eighty-Eights Japan (gatefold mini LP) (w/Gary Bartz and Eric Reed) $10 Ralph Peterson "Art of War" Criss Cross (w/Jeremy Pelt and Jimmy Greene) $6 Sold Ellis Marsalis "Ruminations in New York" Elm Solo Piano Sealed $5 Bob Cunningham "Walking Bass" Nilva Sealed $5 Ralph Alessi "Vice and Virtue" RKM Sealed (w/Shane Endsley) $6 Sold Jean-Michel Pilc "Welcome Home" Dreyfus Sealed (cut-out notch on spine) (w/Ari Hoenig) $6 Sold Marc Copland and Greg Osby "Round and Round" Nagel Hayer $6 Larry Goldings "Sweet Science" Palmetto (w/Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart) $6 Sold Edsel Gomez "Cubist Music" Zoho (w/Don Byron,Greg Tardy and David Sanchez) $6 Sold The Sun Ra Arkestra "A Song for the Sun" El Ra (Directed by Marshall Allen) $6 Sold Charles Davis "Blue Gardenia" Reade St. (w/Cedar Walton) $6 Sold Leroy Williams "Time Is..." Jazz Child Sealed (w/Richard Wyands) $6 Lalo Schifrin "Jazz Meets the Symphony 6" Aleph (w/Christian McBride) $5 Mark Elf "Liftoff" Jen Bay (w/Lewis Nash and Dave Hazeltine) $4 Mark Elf "Live at Smalls" Jen Bay $4 Pete Malinverni "Of One Mind" Resevoir (w/Dennis Irwin and Leroy Williams) $5 Andy Narell "The Passage" Heads Up (w/Michael Brecker and Paquito D'Rivera) $4 Babatunde Lea "Level of Intent" Motema Sealed Drill-hole (w/Kenny Barron and Jon Faddis) $5 Roger Kellaway/Red Mitchell "Life's A Take" Concord (cut-out corner on booklet) $4 Jed Levy "Mood Ellington" SteepleChase Sealed (w/Jack Walrath) $5 Sold Bill Cunliffe "Live at Bernie's" Groove Note $4 Phillip Catherine "Meeting Colours" Dreyfus Sealed (cut-out notch on spine) (w/Brussels Jazz Orchestra) $5 Ted Rosenthal "Threeplay" Playscape Sealed (w/Dennis Irwin and Matt Wilson) $5 Steve Kroon "Senor Kroon" Azica Sealed (w/Ron Blake and Ron Carter) $5 Manhattan Saxophone Ensemble "The Dogwalk" GPC Sealed (w/Steve Wilson and Tim Ries) $6 Sold Benny Golson "I Remember Miles" Alpha Japan (w/Eddie Henderson, Curtis Fuller and Mulgrew Miller) $10 Dexter Gordon "One Flight Up" Blue Note RVG (w/Donald Byrd) $7 Sold Cedar Walton "Three Sundays in the Seventies" Label M (w/Bill Hardman, Clifford Jordan and Billy Higgins) $6 Various Artists "Montery Jazz Festival" Warner Brothers Great Live Tracks Monk, Mingus, Dizzy, Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Cannonball etc 3 CDs $12 Randy Weston "Monterey '66" Verve (w/Booker Ervin and Cecil Payne) $6 Sold Alto Legacy "Alto Summit" Keystone Japan (w/Phil Woods and Vincent Herring) $10 Jason Lindner Big Band "Premonition" Stretch $5 The Paris All-Stars "Homage to Charlies Parker" A&M Promo copy (Live in France w/Dizzy Gillespie, Jackie McLean, Phil Woods, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Hank Jones and Max Roach!!!) $7 Herbie Nichols Project "Strange City" Palmetto (has a few scuffs, doesn't effect play) $4 Marc Copland "Softly" Savoy (w/Micael Brecker, Joe Lovano and Gary Peacock) $7 Sold Dafnis Prieto “About the Monks” Zoho (w/Brian Lynch) $7 Sold Pete McCann “Most Folks” OmniTone $5 Chet Baker Sextet Pacific Jazz (w/Bob Brookmeyer and Russ Freeman) $7 Sold Kurt Rosenwinkel “Deep Song” Verve (w/Joshua Redman and Brad Meldau) $5 Additions Joe Henderson “The Milestone Years” The Complete Joe Henderson on Milestone w/bonus tracks mostly from Live at the Lighthouse. Incredible stuff. 8 CDs $60 Sold The Adderleys “Cannonball and Nat” Savoy (when owned by Muse. Released in 1990) Seems to consists of “That’s Nat” and alternate takes from “Presenting” and “Bohemia After Dark” $8 Joshua Redman Special Limited Edition (#78 of 1000) Warner Brothers Recording for French Virgin Megastore. 4 Tracks “Straight Ahead” and Groove X with Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade and “Soul Dance” and “Sophisticated Lady” Duets with Brad Mehldau. Recorded in 1994. Sealed $10 Sold Billy Drummond “The Gift” Criss Cross Promo Copy (Small sticker and small hole punch in booklet) (w/Seamus Blake and Renee Rosnes) $6 Sold Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra “The Montreal Tapes” Verve (w/Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell and Paul Motian) $6 Arcana (Tony Williams and Bill Laswell) “Arc of Testimony” Axiom (w/Pharoah Sanders and Byard Lancaster) $7 Sold Andy Laverne Quartet “Four Miles” (w/Randy Brecker and Al Foster) $4 Eric Dolphy “Other Aspects” Blue Note $7 The Birth of Hard Bop with Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan Savoy Consists of “The Jazz Message”, “The Jazz Message No. 2” and part of “Introducing Lee Morgan” with alternate takes and bonus tracks 2 CDs $15 Blue Note “Yule Be Boppin” Your favorite Blue Note artists playing your favorite Christmas Songs including tracks by Joe Lovano, Dianne Reeves and Pat Martino $5 Stan Getz and Bill Evans Verve with unreleased tracks and alternate takes (w/Elvin Jones) $6 Additions Ryan Kisor “Power Source” Criss Cross (w/Chris Potter) $7 Sold Billy Drummond “Native Colors” Criss Cross (w/Steve Wilson and Steve Nelson) Booklet has a small tear from removing a promo sticker badly and a small cut-out hole $5 Sold Steve Wilson “Blues for Marcus” Criss Cross Promo Copy (Small sticker and small hole punch in booklet) (w/Lewis Nash and Steve Nelson) $6 Sold Steve Wilson “Steve Wilson Quintet” Criss Cross (w/Mulgrew Miller) $7 Sold Peter Apfelbaum “Luminous Charms” Gramavision $5 Melvin Rhyne “To Cannonball With Love” Paddle Wheel Japan Sealed (w/Vincent Herring and Carl Allen) $12 Ray Barretto “Taboo” Concord $5 Ray Barretto “Contact” Blue Note $5 Ray Barretto “Homage To Art” (w/Miguel Zenon and Luis Perdomo) Sunnyside $5 Kenny Wheeler “Greenhouse Fables” Santamo (w/David Friedman and Jasper Van’t Hof) $7 Sold Randy Johnston “Homage” J Curve (w/Eric Alexander and Nick Brignola) $5 Sold Nat Adderley Quintet “Good Company” Challenge (w/Antonio Hart and Jimmy Cobb) $5 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Impulse (w/Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter) $7 Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel "Third Eye" Palmetto (w/Ted Nash and Frank Kimbrough) $6 Ben Allison “Medicine Wheel” Palmetto (w/Ted Nash and Frank Kimbrough) $6 Yosvany Terry "Metamorphosis" Kindred Rhythm (w/Luis Perdomo and Jeff Watts) $7 The John Abercrombie/Lonnie Smith Trio “Afro-Blue” Venus Japan (w/Marvin “Smitty” Smith) $12 Vincent Herring “Change the World” MusicMasters (w/Roy Hargrove) $5 Richie Cole w/Brass “Kush” Heads Up (w/Carl Allen and Kevin Hays) $5 The Harper Brothers “You Can Hide Inside the Music” Verve (w/Ernie Andrews and Harry “Sweets” Edison) $5 Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor “Moon” Egea (w/Gabriele Mirabassi) $12 Sold Postage and packaging $2 for first CD, 50¢ per CD after. Free postage for $50 order. Free bonus CDs with $100 order. Didn't list everything, ask for more detailed list. Thanks. PM or davidweissmusic@gmail.com

Up as this has been extended......Every Wednesday in August (except today). August 9, 16, 23 and 30. See above for details. Also today, August 2, I'll be doing the musician show on WKCR (88.9 FM in New York and http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/ on the web). What this show basically is is that I play DJ mixing my own music with some of my favorite, most influencial music etc. I'll be playing music from my most recent CDs plus music from the new unreleased New Jazz Composers Octet CD plus a lot of other goodies that I've discussed here in the past that have not been widely heard anywhere. Check it out, I'll be on air from 6-9 pm.

Actually the T.S. Monk analogy is down the right path. Woody III is a drummer, and a very promising one at that. Joe Chambers has used him on a few gigs for tunes in which he switches to vibes and I've had him down to a few rehearsals as well. A name to watch for I think.

Wow, Danny Spencer, what a drummer. Is he still active? I've heard he's in the Bay Area but not much else. I've spoken to Charles Moore and Kenny Cox a few times but never Danny. PM me his info if you can. Thanks

Just a little heads up for those in the New York City area, I've started a new band and we are going to take up residency at Fat Cat every Thursday in July. See below for details. Hope you can make it out. Fat Cat presents David Weiss and the Point of Departure Quintet David Weiss- Trumpet J.D. Allen- Tenor Sax Nir Felder- Guitar Luques Curtis- Bass Kendrick Scott- Drums Fat Cat 75 Christopher Street (between 7th Avenue and Bleecker Street) (212) 343-0612 www.Fatcatjazz.com Every Thursday in July July 6, 13, 20 and 27 Shows at 10 pm and 12 midnight $10 Cover Charge with this invite http://www.davidweissmusic.com http://www.myspace.com/davidweisssextet The late 1960's were a turbulent but exciting time for jazz. The music seemed to simultaneously get more complex and simpler at the same time as a variety of influences infused the music. Some were experimenting with soul, rock and exotic rhythms from the India and the Far East. Others were carrying on the innovations of the second great Miles Davis quintet, using the groups ever shifting rhythms and harmonic complexities as a springboard to new compositional ideas. Some somehow combined both to create some new, exciting music. The Point of Departure Quintet is re-examining some of the most innovative music of the period, some of it neglected, some, perhaps, never quite as developed as it could have been as things seemed to move at a pace during that period that left some music from being fully realized as they quickly moved on to the next new thing. Among the composers being re-examined and re-imagined are Andrew Hill, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and music from the unsung Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet (who recorded two seminal but under appreciated records for Blue Note in the late 1960's). Known for introducing many of the finest young musicians to the jazz world for the past 10 years through his sextet (Marcus and E.J. Strickland), the New Jazz Composers Octet (Myron Walden, Jimmy Greene, Greg Tardy, Xavier Davis and Nasheet Waits) and as a producer (first CD's by Robert Glasper, Jeremy Pelt and Marcus Strickland), Weiss introduces some more of the finest young musicians on the scene today, Bassists Ameen Saleem and Luques Curtis, Guitarist Nir Felder and Drummers Jamire Williams and Darrell Green. I also wanted to tell you guys that I've finally launced a web-site, please check it out. http://www.davidweissmusic.com and in trying to keep up with the times, I have a page on MySpace. There are some clips and complete tunes from my last couple of CDs for download there if you care to check them out. http://www.myspace.com/davidweisssextet Thanks

Genuisus are rarely recognized in their own time. But I wonder if Wayne had self-produced SNE and released it on CDbaby--would Speak No Evil still be unrecognized? It seems to me that the labels (mega or even some of the independents) still serve a function by drawing our attention to particular works and promoting them. This does seem to be THE question doesn't it, there seems to be a lot more stuff to go through for the cream to rise to the top these days. Only time will tell, but I do have my fingers crossed. As much disdain as I might have for the majors, they will get you out there in a hurry and get you firmly established. What you do with it and for how long is perhaps more up to the artist but signing to a major is still the biggest and best way to make a splash. You're not going to do a world tour and have your CD release party at the Vanguard if your first CD is self-produced and only availible at CD Baby. Not yet anyway.....

I always preferred Impact and when I turned people on to Charles' big band stuff I'd always play impact first. However, I've been getting into the Music Inc and Big Band record more and more lately. It really charges out of the gate with Ruthie's Heart, which is still in the book and one of my favorities to play.

It seems quite believable to me that Barry came up with the piano vamp. I've studied with him a lot and he never said anything to me about it but I seem to recall him mentioning once that The Sidewinder wasn't his favorite record. It's one of my favorite Lee records though. Take away the Sidewinder and it's a great record. Being from the LP era, I always listened to Side 2 and thought it was incredible, great Joe Henderson. It's probably in my top 3 Lee Morgan records. I think Search for the New Land is my favorite. As for the Sidewinder, the live versions are off the hook, I love the one on the Lighthouse CD. Mickey Roker lays down a groove and Maupin plays a great solo. I have the video of the Fresh Sound live version of the Sidewinder (it was a TV show) but it cuts off on the head of the Sidewinder (the third and last tune), which is a shame because it seemed like they were really heating up.

I reverted back to an old childhood trick and snuck into Carnegie Hall this evening at intermission to see Herbie Hancock, thinking all I really wanted to see was the quartet with Wayne which was to close the show (I really don't like seeing shows at Carnegie Hall, the sound is usually terrible). Turns out Michael Brecker sat in with Herbie and Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette earlier in the evening and played great and looked great. I hear he's working on a CD as well. Health-wise (mind you this is all second or third hand information), I've heard he's on a steroid treatment that had gotten him back on his feet but he still needs to find a stem cell match at some point.

Now that was a good record! Is Rodney still in France? He's a cat I felt was just starting to get into something really exciting when he booked. Rodney never lived in France, just recorded for the French wing of Polygram. He fell off the scene for many reasons but in reality he never really fell off the scene completely. I know he just recorded again, for an independant label and I've done a few gigs with him over the last couple of years, one with his wife, Rhonda Ross, a vocalist like her mother and another with Rodney last summer in Brooklyn. It was an OK gig and Rodney still plays great but lets just say it wasn't Dance World Dance

My favorite drummers with Tolliver are Jimmy Hopps and George Brown. Both played with emotional fire and swung hard! Yes, both great drummers that Charles speaks very highly of, he still says that Hopps could play some grooves in a certain way that no one since can touch. It's tragic that both are alive and not on the scene. That said, Victor Lewis was simply off the hook on this recording. The studio was shaking and he raised the whole session to another level.

Lots of good points here and maybe when I have some real time, I'll try to address some of them individually if you care. There seems to be a lot of different things happening now in the jazz world. Certainly there is the push to institutionalize it, treat it like classical music, make it about performing classic repertoire a la Jazz at Lincoln Center and that seems to be working. People are dressing up to see Ellington performed for the millionth time but what's wrong with that, you see Beethoven's 9th performed a million times why not Ellington and Armstrong? Perhaps the problem is that it's too soon? Or is the problem that Jazz at Lincoln Center is becoming the face of Jazz for many (more so for the uninitiated of course) and if this repertoire stuff is becoming the face of jazz, what of the new music that is happening out there. How much talk is there of new classical material, for example. Is this leading jazz down the same road? A concern certainly. But there are young jazz artists that the youth seem to flock to (and just not music students), Kurt Rosenwinkle, Brian Blade and Chris Potter to name a few have huge followings and young too. What they play is some semblance of jazz so there is a future there and what can you say about most of the guys I mentioned? They don't wear there influences on their sleeves so it doesn't sound like some rehash of the same old, same old. JSngry is right, twenty years from now (or actually just ten as ten years have gone by already) I don't think we are going to be listening to Harper Brothers records as the creative voice of that generation but perhaps we will listen to Ralph Peterson's V or even Wynton's Black Codes From the Underground or Rodney Kendrick's Dance World Dance or a few others that don't come to mind at this particular moment. There were some very good records being made the last 20 years that will stand the test of time and be of some importance in the overall history of this music. I just hope time will sift these out over the years just like every other classic record rose to the top over the years (remember Speak No Evil got a ho hum 3 star review in DownBeat when it came out). Now, Blue Note, yes signing Suzanne Vega should make some eyes roll to the back of our collective heads but yes, Blue Note is now part of a huge corporation so if you succeed with Norah Jones, they are going to want more of those. Who knows how this is all going to turn out and if Anita Baker, Al Green, Dr. John or any of them make a splash and make them the money they are expected to make. If they don't, then what? However, in the overall scope of things and with all that's going on in the business today, it's remarkable that Blue Note is still going strong. They are the only major label left that is still recording new acoustic jazz with very few exceptions and for this alone, they should be applauded. As far as I'm concerned they can sign all the Suzanne Vega's they want as long as they keep the re-issues coming and make a sincere effort to find the best jazz acts out there and sign them as well. One new signing in five years (Glasper) is a pretty sad track record perhaps but hopefully they are just being cautious. There are a few other emerging artists that they should perhaps have taken the plunge on in the last few years (and five to ten years ago would have) but no clear cut no-brainers. Besides, as I've mentioned elsewhere, they did sign the Charles Tolliver Big Band so that makes them the smartest label in the world at the moment to me.

I've never been a great fan of Hino. His style, harmonic sense etc never really did it for me but every time I go to Japan and hit the record stores, I always purchase a Hino LP or two from the late '60s and '70s that I never have seen before. Usually they get a couple of listens and then get sold on ebay (Hi-Nology had this fate). I appreciate the effort and musicianship but the records as a whole never seem to quite come off. There's another one of the Tact label called Alone Together that I liked though but more for the band, Steve Grossman, Harold Mabern, Richard Davis and a Japanese drummer (let's see if I can invoke the wrath of Mr. Nessa). It's a very loose, fun date with some great Grossman. There is also this one date that came out on Inner City when I was in high school that I saw everywhere for a buck called Way Dance with John Scofield, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. It's been a while since I've listened to that ( I was a fusion kid, I bought it because of Tony Williams, I loved Believe It and was looking for more of the same) and I think I also have the Galper date mentioned earlier, that's a good date. Like I said above, he made tons of records for Japanese labels from the late '60s on, I sure most of them are on CD in Japan but it's a crap shoot and probably an expensive one at that. The drummer on Alone Together is Motohiko Hino, his brother?

OK folks, we did record an album for Blue Note last week. Billy Harper, Craig Handy, Howard Johnson, Bill Saxton, Stanley Cowell, Rober Glasper, Cecil McBee and Victor Lewis were among the participants. I think it will be great but I'm biased of course. Looks like it will be a February release. I'll keep you posted.

I saw this gig. I was on Christmas vacation from school and this was one of many gigs I saw. Lodi Carr is a singer and it was really her gig. I think she is still around but I don't know how much she performs these days. I remember Ron Carter and Al Harewood playing on the gig, don't remember who was on piano. Hank sounded great, his sound was huge but he didn't have the greatest control over the horn. The sound was more a result of overblowing perhaps then contol of the instrument. I loved it regardless. It's the one and only time I saw him play. He seemed a bit cranky and was engaged in conversation with Tommy Turrentine for most of the break, so I didn't try to meet him. I was talking about this gig once and the person I was talking to (I don't recall who it was now) told me they had a tape of it. I don't want to hear it, it would probably diminish my memory of that night.

He's performs quite regularly at Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange, NJ, I don't know about the golf thing though it's certainly possible

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How do you get a job like that, David? MG I had done some work for Blue Note in the past, especially some Lee related stuff (I co-produced the Live at the Lighthouse box and the Standards CD with Bob Belden, who bought me in on both projects) but in this instance, it was just a matter of running into Michael Cuscuna at the Blue Note offices and the topic came up in discussion and he said that he was re-issuing the Six Sense and was thinking of using some of the tunes from this session as bonus cuts and would I be interested in going through the session and seeing what I thought was suitable. After regretfully turning him down, he twisted my arm and talked me into it...kidding, I jumped at the chance. I think in my mind, I was sticking to the standard at the time which was only the strongest stuff should be included and that's what I think I did. If that standard has changed then on another go around I guess they could include more, which would suck I guess for the people who already own it. The download thing makes sense to me, there is a lot I've heard that this would make perfect sense for, hopefully someday down the road this will happen.

Not sure, but I think that Craig Harris was already aboard. Would've loved to have heard that band w/Joseph Bowie! I seem to recall Bowie being a little tentative but that was compared to seeing him regularly with Defunct at the time (that was the other band I was checking out all the time, they were everywhere then) where he was quite in the forefront to say the least....

I saw what was announced as their first public performance, in Chicago, at the Underground Jazz Festival, summer of 1981. But since the first About Time side came out in 1982, it sounds like they had been together and performing before that gig? I might have seen them as early as the Fall of 1980 but am certain I started seeing them on a regular basis in late 1980 and early 1981. The venues varied but not your regular places, lofts, some small clubs etc...maybe Chicago was their first gig outside New York? Do you remember who played trombone?

Personally, I think Threadgill's RCA/Novus cds are some of the best music he made. Think of Rag, Bush And All! Threadgill's sextett was THE band around New York just as I was getting into jazz in my late high school years. I saw them quite often at various venues. The horns were Threadgill, Olu Dara and Joseph Bowie. I think Bowie was gone by the first recording. I also think the band was working around New York for at least two years before they made they're first record. My favorites are still the first two About Time records as I was already familiar with the material and chomping at the bit for their release, as the personel changed, I was slightly less enthusiastic but there was still a lot of great music on those records. I think I saw them at Caravan of Dreams while I was at North Texas, I can't remember who was in the band then but remember Dara being gone.

Actually, I was given the assignment of picking the bonus tracks from this session to add to The Sixth Sense. I think I stand behind my decision, I thought everything else was just a bit off. The tune The Chief is killer and would have loved to included this but I just didn't think the performance was up to snuff.

Up for one last shot..... Adam, thanks for the photos, I'd post them but don't know how to do these things. You're welcome to if you like. Glad you enjoyed it and I'll stay away from the cake..... The Turning Gate is an original of mine. There is this little 4 note augmented chord note progression from Joy Ryder that I began toying with and came up with a whole new tune.

Up Starts tomorrow, personel as follows Jeremy Pelt (March 15), Keyon Harrold (March 22), Ingrid Jensen (March 29), Taylor Haskins- Trumpets Myron Walden- Alto Sax Jimmy Greene (March 22), Craig Handy (March 15 and 29), Bill McHenry- Tenor Saxes Norbert Stachel- Baritone Sax, Josh Roseman, Joe Fiedler- Trombones, Xavier Davis- Piano, Dwayne Burno- bass, EJ Strickland- Drums Material includes The All Seeing Eye, Genesis, Pandora Awakened, Diana, Mr. Jin and Fall Hope to see you there