Joining in on Chico with this one:
Paul Ramsey, Andrew Hadro, Evan Scwam, Cary DeNigris, Jeremy Carlstedt, George Bohanon, and Fontella Bass round out the crew. Recorded in 2005 with one track from 2000. Released in 2006.
Man, the convo in this thread ain't easy to follow. So far I think the tally is:
1 - Bill Easley with the album linked to its All Music review that KD wrote
3 - John Board from I don't know the album
4 - Is this the Benny Waters track?
5 - Russell Garcia with the track linked to YT. I like this one better the first time I heard it. On follow up listening it's kind of meh. Unfortunately.
6 - Richard Hollyday doing his McLean impression on the album that's pictured in the above post (right? I actually have no idea)
7 - Capt. Growls but I'm not sure whose alias that is.
9 - Frank Foster & George Arvanitis live in France somewhere
10 - Well you Needn't...this has to be the Clayton Bros correct? James Spaulding on alto ID'd.
11 - Is this the Hal Singer track? Whoever recorded it shortchanged the sax player with this sound. I just keep thinking "Take some sudafed and advil and come back in 20 mins"
12 - Gene Harris' Little Light
13 - Percy France
Track 8 is remaining a mystery so far right?
Looks like he's touring with his trio this year: https://www.lewtabackin.com/itinerary.html
And he just wrapped up some shows at Birdland in NYC. The second show on 1/7, per his website, included "Lew Tabackin Trio plus very special, mystery guest, tenor saxophonist. Not at liberty to give his name, but should be an amazing encounter"
Anyone know who that was? Or did it not even happen?
No, just out of the blue for me. I only associated him with a big band, and one that I didn't listen to much if at all. No reason for that other than the embarrassment of riches available to the new-ish jazz listener make it easy to overlook artists. Unfortunately apple music doesn't have much of his small group sessions...
Streaming the album Dual Nature now because of this thread, second half of this album is where he’s on tenor. Have never listened to him much if at all. Damn. Dude can fucking play!
For some reason had an itch to listen to some 70s rock so tried with some Traffic earlier today: John Barleycorn and Shootout - had to turn them both off early because they sounded terrible to me.
Went to Manfred Mann's Nightingales & Bombers which was decent but still distant and just not my thing.
Budgie - good aesthetic in the sound but man, those vocals...
Finally moved to Black Sabbath which was much better. War Pigs still slaps and probably always will. Cheers!
As I listened to it more it comes across as Shipp guiding the playing, with Perelman frequently playing off of him. Kind of like a situation where Shipp and Dickey were the rudder for the session - and it's a really strong hand to the point where I was kind of surprised it's a "Perelman" trio recording. That doesn't really matter much in the end, but it was an impression I had. Regardless, it's a great album and left me wanting more from this trio, so hopefully there's more to come.
And since I loved Dickey & Shipp so much on that record, NP is:
Man, you gotta get this set one way or another. I'm not familiar enough with Berne to confirm the above statement but despite that it's a remarkable collection.
Bit of a Lee Morgan marathon: Taru, Sidewinder, Search for the New Land and Tom Cat. Tom Cat was the best of the bunch by far despite some gems in the other albums. Then moved on to Parlan's Spur of the Moment and it's better than every one of those Morgan sessions.
Silence and an attempt at pitch darkness for me. Although I could probably dig on some minimalist recordings that otherwise I find tough to listen to.
Surprised no one's going for Ra's Sleeping Beauty!