clifford_thornton

She's great. The duo with Weasel Walter is very much worth checking out. And yes, CM, the Braxton/Morris duo is something really special. I haven't listened to a ton of Morris' records but the ones I've heard, I've thought were good. Regardless, in this setting he is very, very open and their give-and-take is surprisingly subtle. The first and fourth discs really set my hair on end. If you really want my opinion, you'll have to check out Paris Transatlantic in late August.

LP on Columbia from I think the late '60s or early '70s (not sure when recorded) that has Papa Jo exploring various parts of the kit and discussing them, from what I'm told not unlike the Baby Dodds in some respects. I'd like to get a copy. The Dodds, of course, is a hell of a record.

As ever, Jim, you hit the nail on the head and put eloquently why I can enjoy Spaulding and Mathews, and appreciate KB. Side note that maybe gives too much away: Spaulding played me "Happy Birthday" on flute over the phone one year when I was spending my birthday alone in the frozen north.

Happy Birthday! May be up in MPLS in the fall for a visit, will keep ya posted.

Sorry Clem, we really did think it was you. I did like the aliases idea for a minute there.

It's utterly fantastic.

What about jive lazz?

Seen several offered without.

Really? I've never had the US Verve issue so that's interesting to me.

As HG mentioned, Alan Shorter (during the Creed Taylor years). Haden and I talked a bit about it, but neither he nor I knew the circumstances of the record's actual release on Verve (as in "why them"). I have it on a UK Polydor issue, fwiw, that for some reason mentions that as its first release, a "curiosity for discographers."

As I've said elsewhere, I think y'all are getting yr undies in a bunch a little too much over Chauncey/Clem/BB's posts. But... I'll still keep my neither here nor there stance on KB and the fact that I enjoyed the one track posted from Soul Call.

Any relation to Gilius van Bergeyk, saxophonist?

Yeah, gotta watch those chavvy sorts...

Yeah, please do. If there's one thing you'll notice, we're a bunch of guys sitting around in front of computers all day goofing around. Don't take any of it personally.

I've met Tchicai on a few occasions and he's about two inches shorter than me, I would say. Sweet guy and a great player.

Maybe he should use his own name for the label - like "Chuck Records" or something.

Yes, I have cringed more than once at Lydian rhetoric and just set it aside while the band BURNED. FWIW, the mere idea of jazz guitar vis-a-vis Wes and KB made me cringe for years until I heard Grant Green and (early) John McLaughlin. My dad was/is a jazz guitar and piano trio (how many CDs DOES Hank Jones have out, anyway?) nut, so there you go. But the five or six KB records I own haven't, for whatever reason, been sold off. Maybe it's the sidemen, dunno. But they're still here.

I'm 6'6" and he's not taller than me.

Rather fond of this'n, fwiw:

I'm just arguing apples/oranges, not > or < ,dig? But that's a dead horse here anyway, what two pages back? And at this point, to me, it's not worth getting that cup over my fourth tit to worry about KB doing what he does best (whether or not one is "feeling" that).

Are you comparing Galbraith/Russell with Burrell/Evans?!? By that logic, I'm awaiting my fourth tit any day now...

Yeah, the shit is fucked but w/o cash on hand, Gould's idea makes sense.

I think a little KB goes a long, long way, but when I hear a little bit I tend to enjoy it. Like the track that Durium posted, for example.

I did notice the dropout; in fact, it scared the crap out of me! I here ya about playing them again--sounds like a plan. Think Chuck was being facetious... wonder why they haven't fixed that dropout in all this time?