clifford_thornton

Anyone got a birthdate for Bennie? I was thinking it was sometime in '43 but not sure. AMG ain't workin' here site-wise, so if anyone knows... Thanks, C PS - yeah, this is for some purpose.

I heard there were a lot of last-minute changes with the lineup, and some no-shows. I myself have lost interest in it lately because the last couple I went to were pretty much identical experiences. Though I did like Fred Van Hove and Conny Bauer... I'd imagine Brotzmann and Waits to be very good - saw that duo maybe three years ago and it was hot then.

I heard it a few years ago and remember liking it at the time, but I think it was way OOP even then. Just can't bring myself to pay $35 for a CD at this point, y'know.

Yeah, that Marge is a great record. I really like altoist Chris Woods, too, though that is the only recording of him I have. Very Dolphy-esque in a lot of ways. I wonder if anyone on the board went to see him in duet with Henry Grimes earlier this month? Wasn't able to fly to NYC for the gig...

With that in mind, maybe you should be downloadig some Stevie Nicks...

Henderson as a soloist, sure, but his dates don't always get me... even "Inner Urge" and "In 'N Out" I find a little underwhelming. But hey, that's what lists are for: everybody's got one, nobody really needs one.

I wasn't so into "Once Upon a Time," thought Wheeler a bit 'wan' for the proceedings. "TCB" is a much better date, IMO.

Patton's version of "The Turnaround" slays the Mobley original, IMO. Great, great cut.

Well, the aircraft noise means you can't pick anything too quiet... I've even found it hard to hear an Alan Silva CD on a plane ride. Hope you got good stoney-phones!

Speaking of Sonny Clark, what's the "Voodoo" tune from Leapin' and Lopin'? That should be on there, too.. what a great tune.

Yeah, it's too easy - most of those tracks are so Starbucks at this point it's not even worth it. Plus I think Blue Train kinda sucks, maybe moreso than some of the others. "Unit Structures" from Cecil Unit Structures "Refuge" from Andrew Hill's Point of Departure "Action" from Jackie Mc's Action "Hat and Beard" from Out to Lunch "Mephistopheles" from Wayne's All Seeing Eye "The Twins" from Some Other Stuff "Blues in Trinity" from Dizzy Reece Blues in Trinity (pretty sure that's the opener - that's the one I'm thinking of, anyway) and we've gotta get "The Rain" from Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music in there somehow. It's a start, anyway.

It's been a few years since Euclid put choice jazz items on their list for less than $49.99 - if they have them at all!

His solo on ALS from the live recording, first part (I think - haven't listened to it in a while) is pretty heart-stopping. Of course, when he first enters on (youknowwhat) it really shows just how harmonically advanced he was, even for that band. But then again, I'm a 'whole album' kind of guy myself, so...

Trio?!? I can hardly hear the drums on my Folkways LP!

So where did the name "Wilmer Mosby" come from, then? Yeah Jim, I did have Dusty throw it in with some other stuff. I suppose it was more the 60s Kenyatta-completist in me than anything, though I do like Stitt.

Hi y'all, I picked up Sonny Stitt's Atlantic LP "Deuces Wild" for a few bucks today (with Robin Kenyatta and Rufus Harley), and there is a B-3er on it named Wilmer Mosby. I'd heard a rumor that it was a pseudonym for Groove Holmes, but haven't seen confirmation of this. I'm no B-3 expert by any means, and the organist - whoever the hell he is - isn't bad at all. Granted, the horn section was the focal point here, but I am still curious about Wilmer. Thanks! Clifford

Gush - Electric Eel (Qbico = shitty graphics) new-ish release of Gustafsson, Raymond Strid and Sten Standell reeds-piano-guitar-electronics racket. Not bad, not mind-melting as I was hoping.

I've got tinnitus, part hereditary and part from loud music concerts... I often wonder whether the ringing is me, or the Evan Parker I'm listening to. I mean, it's not debilitatingly bad now, and apparently I have no hearing loss, but it is disconcerting. I'm not sure, though, that an airplane ride will really do much unless they really don't pressurize the cabin. Chew gum on take-offs and landings is about all you can do.

I think I need the Hill box and will probably replace the Charlie Feathers on Revenant that my ex-girlfriend got custody of.

Agree with DMP on that - no reason to reproduce sessions with one track/no solo problems. What possible musicological interest could that have? This might be where I diverge from the discographers... also, the fact that I don't need every Shepp record in existence. A lot of 'em stink!

Well dude, I know I shouldn't lambast others' ideas, but it helps to pick a crucial title in someone's discography, or something by an artist who hasn't got maybe as many props as he/she should have. Village Gate would have got a lot more props, I think. Just some advice. By the same token, I'd never pick something nobody's heard of, so it goes the other way too - believe me, I've been tempted to mention Huseyin Ertunc many a time.

I could wax on about dream juggernauts all day, but wasn't there a real thread about this a while back? In the hardbop vein, Moncur-McLean-Lee-Hutch-Cranshaw-Williams has to be one of my favorites, though if Higgins were to have subbed for Williams I wouldn't have complained one bit (might have preferred it, actually). O'wise the Miles sextet would do nicely, if I could put Duke Jordan in the piano chair and A.T. in the drummer's seat. Miles, Trane, Cannibal, Jordan, Chambers, Taylor! As for avant-garde, Cecil always seems to get pretty great sextets going - especially some of those early ones. Here's another dream one (sort of): Cecil, Shepp, Lacy, Curson, Buell, Charles. That would be cool.

Yeah... "Circling In" and "Circulus" as Chick Corea BN two-fers include material recorded with amalgamations of that band (Mosaic, anyone?), and Japanese CBS released "Gathering" and "Live In German Concert" in the late '70s, both of which annihilate the ECM any day for me. Perversely good stuff. So that's four non-ECM vs. one ECM recording.

Shepp "Yasmina" (BYG)... the Mobley side, of course! Sonny's Back indeed!

I enjoyed seeing Sufjan on his Great Lakes State tour... a lot of Steve Reich influence in the arrangements, I might add. Very cool concept, though naturally the joint I saw him at sucks.