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NP: String Cheese Incident - January 27, 2000 • Wool Warehouse • Albuquerque, NM

I've also enjoyed Smile, with Wilson's pianoless quartet: (Palmetto, 1999) All of this music is incredibly adventurous, surprising at nearly every turn. Great stuff.

I'm digging this one, and the earlier, eponymous release by this band (Palmetto, 2001):

They've had some guest banjo players sit in - most memorably, for me, was Tony Furtado on 11/17/2000.

Dunno. SCI doesn't have one, either...

Heck yeah! I have about 130 live SCI shows (released to the trading community with the band's blessing, of course). Bill Nershi is a great guitar picker, Michael Travis an amazing percussionist, and the others are powerful players, too. Michael Kang's electric mandolin and fiddle are a great unique touch. Forget the studio stuff, and find some of those sweet soundboards from Fall 2000!

Someone mentioned Frank Kimbrough much earlier, but I wanted to put in a more notable plug... Kimbrough's work as pianist with the Herbie Nichols Project and as a sideman on various recordings by Jazz Composers Collective artists has been very impressive. I've also very much admired his trio albums - particularly: Chant (Igmod, 1998), with Ben Allison (b) and Jeff Ballard (d) Quickening (OmniTone, 2003), with Ben Allison (b) and Jeff Ballard (d) Lullabluebye (Palmetto, 2004), with Ben Allison (b) and Matt Wilson (d) Inventive and carefully constructed originals on all of these. Kimbrough is a terrific post-bop pianist, Ben Allison a fantastic player, and Ballard and Wilson bring different tones to the gigs. Highly recommended!

An eclectic shopping trip: Don Friedman Trio - A Day in the City (6 Variations on a Jazz Theme) (Riverside/OJC, 1961) Duke Ellington and Ray Brown - This One's for Blanton (Pablo, 1972) Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet 2003) (Leo, 2004)

But, if they're using allmusic's database, is music.com really an alternative the the allmusic "disaster," as .:.impossible calls it? What's alternative about it?

Okay, I'm just wondering: why do y'all think this might be so great? It seems potentially functional, in a barebones kind of way, with the understanding that there are lots of holes to fill. "Hard work to be done," as W. might say. So why the excitement? Especially since some (?) of their entries are taken directly from allmusicguide? For example, check the bio/intro text for Grateful Dead on both sites. Or the review of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. Or the Milt Jackson entry. Exactly the same as allmusicguide's.

The worst part is, he doesn't give the kid any advice - he just rephrases the problem, in creepy old-guy-trying-to-be-hip lingo. "I like to kick it dangerous style"? Whoa. Pays the bills, though. I guess.

And be sure to notice that there are TWO pages of downloads from Osby's site. Page "A" and page "B". (It's easy to overlook page "B".) Good catch, Rooster - I had in fact overlooked that. Note the links for pages A and B at the top of the page I linked, near Osby's head....

NP: Grateful Dead - March 27, 1988, Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton, VA NP: Grateful Dead - March 28, 1988, Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton, VA

NP: Grateful Dead - March 27, 1988, Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton, VA

NP: Grateful Dead - March 26, 1988 Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton VA

Greg Osby has some great live stuff up - a few CD's worth - especially from his quartet with Jason Moran, piano; Atsushi (Az'shi) Osada, bass; and Rodney Green, drums. Check it out at http://www.gregosby.com/mp3.html

Well, there was that pretty horrifying period (during the early '80's, I think?) when Weir was essentially teaching himself to play slide guitar on stage. The results on any given night were...um..."mixed."

Greg - I think AmirBagachelles is saying that 1977 gave us a lot of great versions of "Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower," and that they can be found in many fine "unofficial" soundboard recordings, available for free online at places like the Internet Live Music Archive. The Dick's Picks you cite sounds terrific, and May 1977 was certainly a banner month for the band, but there's not a single tune from Blues for Allah on any of the six discs... Actually, from that album, the only pieces performed live more than two or three times were "Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower," "The Music Never Stopped," and "Crazy Fingers."

Well, it's not too hard to understand. In the Dark had been a very unexpected hit, and they felt some pressure to get another studio album out. Garcia and Weir weren't writing all that much new stuff, so they let Mydland have a larger-than-usual share of the writing space on the follow up. That said, I agree that Built to Last is pretty poor stuff. It's by far my least favorite Dead studio effort - in fact, I can't even listen to it.

Now Listening To...(From the Internet Live Music Archive) February 26, 1977 - Swing Auditorium - San Bernardino, CA Set I: Terrapin Station (First Time Played!), New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet (First Time Played!), Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playin' In The Band > The Wheel > Playin' In The Band Set II: Sampson And Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, The Promised Land, Eyes Of The World > Dancin' In The Street > Around And Around Encore: U.S. Blues

I actually hadn't listened to all that much fom 1976 until recently, and I'm finding it very, very appealing. I recommend two particular offerings from the Internet Live Music Archive: June 9, 1976 (Second Set) and June 10, 1976 (full show) - both shows from the Boston Music Hall. These are great outings (dig 06.09.1976's St. Stephen > Eyes of the World > Let It Grow!), and boast fantastic sound quality.

Wish I had your laugh-at-danger esprit, Lon. Best I can do is put The Golden Road and Beyond Description box sets on my Christmas list (along with a couple of Vault releases I haven't picked up yet).

It's going on my Christmas list!

Now Playing: 1977/05/07 Boston Garden