Dub Modal

Ya dig? Right now playing Andrew Hill's A Beautiful Day:

That's it. Cover here - and I was wrong on the performance year, confused it with the CD release date (sorry about that - given that Art died in '82 an '83 performance was out of the question): And I forgot that Gumina played the polychord organ on this one. Adds a different sound to the performance. Also, I think reviews on this one are mixed, but I find it enjoyable too - this time from the 80s for real: From '82 with Cables, Farrell, Tony Dumas & John Dentz. The CD sounds just OK to me but I can't criticize the playing. One more to add, this one with Zoot Sims from '81:

I have a CD called I'll Remember April, Live at Foothills College from '83 with Fred Atwood, Jimmie Smith and Tommy Gumina that I think is really good. 4 tracks, 3 of which are standards. Didnt see it on YT, but if you find it give it a whirl.

Yeah, that's nice. Got a noir feel to it. I've never dipped into that album but will have to. The ensemble playing is right on point.

Yeah, I have that box and this one is in it: Mood music.

I guess this would fall into the "slow" category. Love this tune.

The Clarified Butter...mmmmm...butter

Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie And Lester Young Studio Sessions Just finished up disc 1, moving to disc 2.

Susie Ibarra's Talking Gong via bandcamp. Released a few weeks ago.

Listening to the 2nd half of this CD with dubs from Errol T, Sylvan Morris & Philip Smart.

I think if you check out their Sound Cloud link you'll get a good idea about what might be included.

When did you order? the offer is still there, but a bit hesitant to bite just yet.

I'll bet you some folks like that are on the stations toward the mountains. If I ever head that way again I'll see what I can find.

Yeah, I'm not anti-religion, don't want to be mis-construed. But I live in the heart of Southern Baptist country and what they tend to put on the radio is just syndicated national shows from big name preachers. The creativity there is pretty low.

Good point. I haven't spun the AM dial in a while. Last time it was so full of talk radio (religious, sports or politics) I couldn't stand it. I need to try again.

Since radio is being talked about, locally where I'm at we recently (within the last 2 years) lost our most prominent jazz station, WSHA 88.9. The station was run by the oldest HBCU in the south and had a mainly jazz format with specialty shows, NPR & community talk shows, and was started in 1968. And the thing is they sold out for $3.5m to a religious broadcaster . A real tragedy around here. The station is now totally different, with no local connection nor any ties to its roots. Despite the efforts of alumni and station supporters the deal went through. WSHA's signal was massive for low-end of the dial station and you could get their broadcasts throughout a lot of this state. Now it's down to WNCU, another station owned by an HBCU, this time NC Central in Durham. Their signal isn't as good and if the weather is bad it's pretty hard to pick it up outside of Durham.

These are great posts. I'm a radio lover, still am to a degree but it's so homogenized & stripped of almost all humanity (unless you go below 92 fm on the dial, that is). But it's really a tragedy what that '96 Telecom Act did - removed the barriers to monopolizing the airwaves by some cartels and destroyed an art form that brought people together.

Wow - this is crazy good.

More McLean. Action smokes

I listened to this a few days ago and enjoyed it. Sticking with McLean for Lights Out!

Possible explanation (not advocacy, mind you): as I understand it, there's a difference in the mastering for vinyl in order to cut the lacquers. This mastering could "better." Also, some people have systems set up where their turntable components are supreme in the chain. They would obviously choose the LP. And that's all I have...

Live Monk - can't do without it. Funky as hell.

Monk @ the It Club Disc 2