Dan Gould

Glad to hear it, MG. The Joe Wilder is, I believe, available through CDBaby (if not that album, than his later Evening Star release, which is equally good). On the question of Christian McBride, he's headed into more fusion-electronic stuff in recent years that has turned me off, so I'd look for samples before buying his other CDs. I did like the Verve release Tribute to Herbie Hancock which is intereresting in that its McBride, Nicholas Payton and Mark Whitfield (no pianist in a "Herbie" tribute Cd). A somewhat similar tribute album is this one where McBride, Stephen Scott and Roy Hargrove play a set of Bird tunes (similar in that there is no one playing alto sax). I like both of those discs.

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Just You 'N Me Chicago Transit Authority Bobby Lamm

that Jazz Icons link has "purchase DVD" links via Amazon, so they are pre-ordering. September 26 is the release date. Too late for my birthday and anniversary but these will head my Christmas list for sure.

Well I really discovered the music after Wynton as "face of jazz" was a fact of life. I've understood your view as Chris A. has spoken in the same vein many times. (In the interests of full disclosure, I admit that Wynton's definition of jazz as "blues and swing" jibed with my then nascent understanding and still typifies at least 90% of my collection. On the other hand, I haven't felt the need to buy a Wynton recording in quite some time.) Personally, I think that Wynton is well-suited to the educational side of the LCJ mission and I'm in favor of anything that puts jazz front and center for young people. Anyone who is motivated to get into the music, as a listener or a player, is likely to find the areas of jazz that Wynton overlooks or outright rejects. And I just don't see that the aesthetic accomplishments need to be above reproach for someone in his position. Unless one thinks that jazz doesn't belong at Lincoln Center or to be "institutionalized" in the manner that implies, I think its clear that Wynton's abilities have well-served the LJO's purposes. Now a question for you: Did you mean Wynton as frontman as I interpreted it? Its one thing to be deeply involved as the public face for fund raising purposes but its also clear that Wynton is deeply involved otherwise, also.

1. The article has nothing to do with the aesthetic value of Wynton's music. Wynton, for better or worse, became the face of jazz. That is the basis of his position at JLC and any sort of aesthetic judgement of his music is completely immaterial to the subject of the article. 2. If by "front man" you mean "figurehead" than I have to wonder whether you read the article at all. The entire point is stated in the fourth graph: You make it sound like he's the jazz version of Ronald Reagan: he doesn't know any of the details and could care less about them, but he's a great salesman.

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so Gene plays zero accoustic piano on this? Thanks for the warning. I didn't really expect to want it but I wanted to be sure.

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Well, I think I did well on this - I've only got 6 albums with Harris on and they're all with other people. I see I can get a load of his BN stuff from Early Records at reasonable pries. Any recommendations? MG My first Sounds recommendation is always Moods, followed by, in no particular order, Here We Come Hey There Feelin' Good. Everything from their first tour with BN can be recommended; and since you dig the funky side of things, Live at the Lighthouse is real good, too.

Never heard King Fleming before. Someone to put on my list to seek out. I very much like this type of recording. Thanks very much, Dan. His three Argo/Cadet LPs show up on ebay quite regularly, and usually one or two are in the "buy it now" section, too. I do think that the Argos, Stand By and Misty Night have seen Japanese reissue on CD, but I most recommend this Cadet LP, personally.

Sometimes best of discs are necessary, however. There was a BN Kenny Burrell disc that had a couple of tracks from Freedom as well as other tracks that weren't available until BN put out that two disc Conn. whose name escapes me. I also bought a Donald Byrd soul-jazz sampler that was a true mixed bag but was the only way to hear at least one classic track from Slow Drag or Blackjack before those albums were reissued. I'd also like to point out that comps that are not artist-centered but bring together obscurities that wouldn't be available otherwise are great values. I'm sure we all have some, my BFT used an obscure Coleman Hawkins tune to bring attention to Jukebox Jazz! From the Southside of Chicago.

Is anyone familiar with the mid-70s release, Blue Note Live At The Roxy? I am curious about the Gene Harris tracks ... I'm well aware that Gene's music took a horrific turn after he disbanded the Three Sounds, but those were studio-created monstrosities and I am not sure how much of that style went into his live performances (judging from the Live at the It Club recordings, the trio still sounded good into the early 70s). Is anyone familiar with this album and Gene's tunes on it? Are they trio, or synth and rhythm dreck? AMG isn't any help, as they list everyone's tracks except Gene's. On the other hand, if the tracks with no artist listed are Gene's, then one of them is "Ain't Nobody's Business" and I can't imagine that as synth-driven dreck. The former GHF thanks you in advance!

Nobody has any comment on the fact that the leader of the J. Geils Band was on that C&W tune?

Black Orchid is great; Babe's Blues is tough to find. Somebody snap these up! [How was that, Conn?]

I have no idea but I believe it was Hollywood Records that put out the first Baby Face Willettte 45.

Haven't gotten to that particular portion of the blitzgreig yet... Honestly, I dig Paul Jeffreys, but this is pretty lame. Shit happens. But I thought I heard a French Horn, & I see the name of John Clark. Are you sure he's on flugelhorn & not French Horn? I dug out the disc because I had noticed that there is a track listed as "intros" and sure 'nuff, Clark is identified as french horn. Updated.

I probably could have written that sentence a little clearer, but Confessin' is a mid-80s recording, so yeah, work on your reading skills, OK? Otherwise I'm left to wonder about your basic knowledge of jazz history.

Noted and corrected, thanks.

Wow. That I did not know. You didn't know that Stubblefield and Malachi died too young from cancer and that Strayhorn wrote "Blood Count" while he was in the hospital himself?

Wow. Hyman doesn't surprise me, but those other two do. WTF in-DEED!! Well, ok, Leroy Vinergar certainly qualifies as a bitch, but what do we know about Wilbur Brown? Liners only say that he's a "long time west coast player."

As I'm sure many are aware, this was sort of a test-case of whether or not a huge internet buzz could "open" a movie. Turned out it couldn't, probably because the internet dweebs who hyped it are waiting for it to come out on DVD so they can bit-torrent it for free. My question is, has there ever before been a film in which the first four words of the pitch meeting became the title? It certainly summarized the movie and probably had a lot to do with getting it green-lighted.

Gee and I only hold myself out as the go-to guy if you want to loan some LPs and then forget about them.