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Don Sugarcane Harris. Here's some sugar:

True, but the handlebar moustache is fake I'm afraid

You put it better than I did! "Icily Virtuosic" you nailed it right there my problem with post BN Tyner. Technique over feeling. Wasn't helped by the milestone sound that, to use your metaphor, turned the ivories into "diamond" headed drill bits. Another one for me is Eric Gale. I've never bothered to hear his own LPs cos his solos as a CTI and Kudu session man always seamed to have this samey, overly bluesy sound to them whatever the feeling of the tune.... That said I always loved his rhythm work behind the soloists.

Word. We love you madly Booker!

Dear Booker fans - I'm really loving the track "Tyra" at the end of The In Between. Great trumpet work too. Any one else dig this one?

This is so true. An amazing solo. Just listened to bus ride again for the first time in years and straight away sought out more info on Manning which brought me to your old post. He reminds me a little of Sam Rivers on Larry Young's Into something

Read this here http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue46/blue_note.htm "The box is Classic's latest attempt to produce a ne plus ultra pressing of a famous recording from vinyl's golden age. Not only is the original single LP spread over four single-sided discs, it is pressed on Classic's proprietary "Clarity Vinyl," a see-through, slate-grey vinyl that eschews the black pigment—aka "carbon black"—that has been a part of the vinyl formula since the very beginning of the LP era, when it was employed to make vinyl records look as much as possible like the shellac discs that they replaced. Classic believes that by leaving the carbon black out of the mix, the LPs do not become magnetized, since vinyl is not by itself a magnetic material. (The fact that magnetically charged records sound tight and constricted is widely, if not unanimously, acknowledged among audiophiles, and I will return to this subject later in this review.)" This seams to go against what they said in this thread here: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-103196.html "Vinyl is clear. There is however, an agent in the black vinyl that makes it smoother and quieter. Colored vinyl (other than black) can be noisier because it doesn't have this agent in it. In my experience, vinyl without this "agent" added does scratch more easily. (I'd heard it called "carbon black" before.) It seems the colored vinyl is softer, in other words. I've had minor "mishaps" over the past 25 or so years where my black vinyl wouldn't be harmed, where the colored easily picked up a small tick from it. The colored vinyl, too, seems to be worn a lot more than the black vinyl pressings I've seen. Groove damage seems to be more apparent on the non-black." Personally I still think black is beautiful

Now is it the chest hair or the sweat that makes it ugly ...... Both... The flute. Seriously, the whole thing is just... wrong! The hollow-eyed gaze, the way he's holding that damn flute, the sweaty, hairy chest, the way it's cropped just at the navel... er..and the title too

Just found this on ebay. Ugly as hell.

I hope you have a good dust cover

Where the hell did I post that? Was that this thread? Something about a guy with muttonchop sideburns kicking back in an Eames lounger on a flokati rug, with an arco lamp, listening to "Fire and Rain" from Hubert Law's Afro Classic on reel to reel - with a litho of "Moon Germs" on the wall... yeah, that's it!

Ron plays a simple but effective bass loop on we live in Brookyln baby. Great Psychedelic funk track

Keep your "Head On" (I know, I know, I should've thought of that 3 days ago)

Hey Teasing the Korean, before the crash we were talking about other stuff rotting in Creed Taylor's shed (ex wife's corpse, Don Sebesky Even Bigger Box ltd edition etc) when you posted something on Joe Farrel's Moon Germs that cracked me up - a kind super 70s CTi wonderland complete with lava lamp and all. If inspiration strikes again be my guest...

I know the feeling!

Yup, in my trawls I've seen the sun rise and set on the Strata East label and the arrows on Prestige's logo point at me as if to say "I'm yours", but I've never seen peacocks strut. Who needs acid when you're staring vinyl manna in the face. I've been here before: On the drive, .....The old man looked out the window at the hills rolling by: "Oh, I got a gang of them back at the house, a couple hundred or so." The man's casual aside, spoken as if he were mentioning the weather, gripped Bussard to the very core of his being. The affable coot didn't know it, but he'd spoken the magic words that ruled the life of any hard-core 78 fiend.

Thanks! here's the bit I loved reading - I've been there myself on record hauls, but never for anything as special: Bussard could barely contain himself. "'O my God,'" he recalls whispering to himself. "I was pissing and shitting little apples......he knew it was time to make a deal fast, before the geezer had a sudden conversion to the blues, or before some unseen harpy started shrieking from somewhere in the bowels of the house, as had happened so many times before: "Daddy, don't you dare get rid of them‹those are Mama's records!"....he would do anything short of violence to get those records safely into the trunk of the car parked outside. Mustering all the nonchalance he could, Bussard slipped the 78s into their sleeves‹copies so new they slid in as if they were greased‹and put them into the box. "What do I owe you?" he asked. "Oh, give me 10 dollars," the old man replied, delighted to unload the junk for some cash.

I like the three LPs he did after getting back out of jail in '69- Brother Jug, The boss is back and the black Cat (my fave) but I've not heard this one. How does it compare? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:jcftxqyaldje thanks I'll bag my selft a copy. these samples sound quite enticing

Yeah right, I too got abducted by jazz nymphomaniacs almost every other day. Had to get cellophane covers for all my LPs. Kind of a drag.

I like the three LPs he did after getting back out of jail in '69- Brother Jug, The boss is back and the black Cat (my fave) but I've not heard this one. How does it compare?

YES YES YES! This is the one. It can't be too repeated in any thread. "Your voice is like a long fuck that's music to my brain" - just about says it all. Nice and twisted like I like my funk. I neither like free jazz or pure funk that much, but loooooooooove FREE FUNK. why's that???????. I've always felt that this niche didn't explored enough. Second only to Yoyo, two words, the title track, First Impressions. if you don't know this you're in for a real treat.

I'm 34 which makes me a late 70s/80s kid. For me "rock" then - the Clash, U2, The Police and the crap pop glut like Phil Collins and Huey Lewis that you couldn't get away from - pushed me away to look for something else. I've since learnt that in the 70s the boundaries were much more blurred between rock and jazz. Folk and Jazz often mixed too - check out John Martyn's Solid Air for Tony Coe's beautiful playing. But in the 80s it was so compartmentalized - or seemed that way at least. Rather than rock, it was private radio in London - bold DJs like Gilles Peterson broadcasting illegally around London from vans - who broke me into Jazz. That plus the Crusaders of course. So in short I can dig how people of a generation before found jazz via rock. But for me, when Jon Bon jovi ruled airwaves, rock was more of a barrier

No kidding?

Crusaders, Grover Washington, Bob James - these kinds of musicians have probably led more of my generation towards discovering Gene Ammons and Booker Ervin than anyone else. Funny when you think how, for some, they and their ilk represented the nadir of jazz.

My dad listened to a lot of jazz but it wasn't hearing Kind of Blue emanating from his office that got me hooked. Oh no. I had to ease my way in. This LP had a lot do with it. I played (bad) electric bass in a local rock band. One day the keyboard player suggested we do an instrumental - covering a track from this LP. The rest was history. Even though today I hardly ever listen to it I could never let it go. It started a life long love affair that has run out and out ran several women. So what got you hooked?