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  3. Kenny Drew Undercurrent

    in Artists

    Posted

    I can relate to the comments about this disc growing on you . I cannot reacall that I did not get too excited about this particular one when I first heard it. Maybe so, maybe not. However, I have found over the years that every Blue Note that I have purchased, I eventually was very glad I did, even if at the beginning I did not particularly think it was so hot. Those 50's and 60's Blue Notes that ALfred Lion did, and even some after his departure, were all first class. There was real music there. Listen to it carefully. Every time it seems you listen you hear more than the time before.

    I have never cared for avant garde, so in my case I cannot say the same for that. But then I never repeatedly listened to any of it like I have the staright ahead stuff.

  8. BN Perfect Takes

    in Re-issues

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    I haven't played the CD yet, but watched the DVD twice the very night I got it. Well, I watched the whole DVD once and the interview twice.

    I loved the interview. Longer would have been better, but it was great seeing Rudy and Michael together. I was really interested by Rudy's staement that he wishes he could record Lee Morgan again. I wonder what the significance of that is. Why Lee and no one else being mentioned?

    More anecdotes from the recording sessions would have been good, but Rudy made it pretty clear that he was so busy with the technical side of the recording that he didn't really even hear the music as such. I doube if that would have left him much time to pay attention to the stories of the sessions that we might like to hear.

    However, I do not see how any serious student of Blue Note, or jazz from that era in general, could ever be without this. In my opinoin, Rudy Van Gelder is one of the most important men alive today in the history of jazz from that wonderful era. He was one of those who made it all happen.

    Tom

  11. Grant and Wes

    in Artists

    Posted

    Watch Wes' video with PC, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb. His face shines with a smile and so is his playing. Truly, I think he was a natural genius.

    Could you tell me the name of the video with Wes, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb? I would sure like to get that.

    Tom

  12. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    These were not all purchased today, but sine I last was on the site. Mostly I have been trying to get OJCs that I think may disappear with the sale of Fantasy.

    Cannonball Addereley - Paris 1960

    The Summer of 55

    Things are Getting Better

    Red Garland At the Prelude, Vol 1

    Groovy

    All Mornin' Long

    Jimmy Heath On the Trail

    Dave Pike It's Time for Dave Pike

    Dexter Gordon Generations

    Tom

  13. Favorite Cannonball Album

    in Discography

    Posted

    I voted for "Other" because my favorite Cannonball sets are those by the sextet with Yusef Lateef. IN NEW YORK, THE JAZZ WORKSHOP REVISITED, LUGANO 1963, DIZZY'S BUSINESS, NIPPON SOUL, and the Landmark IN EUROPE are the CDs that I am aware of. I have all but the last one. TO me this is the best group Cannonball ever led.

    I must also add that I saw that sextet live in 1963 as a teenager, and later the quintet a couple of times. The quintet was great, but the excitement of the three horn front line, the visual effect of that front line when playing the heads, and the ability to have two horns behind a soloist were perhaps the highlight of my live jazz experience.

    Tom

  17. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I have taken a strong fancy to the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with James Moody, Kenny Barron, Chris White, and Rudy Collins. I heard this group live at the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival in 1963. This week I had that group's Dizzy for President and Jambo Caribe delivered. I already had two other CD's by that quintet.

    Yesterday I ordered from an Amazon seller Jimmy Smith's House Party in the original CD version rather than the RVG. That is to go with the same edition I have of The Sermon.

    Those will keep me busy for a while.

    Tom

  18. Favorite Benny Golson Composition

    in Artists

    Posted

    I voted for I Remember Clifford. One of my favorite compositions by anyone. I have a number of recordings with Benny Golson on it and he never solos on any of them.

    Whisper Not would be second. I agree that the Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk is my favorite recording of that song.

    Tom

  19. BORDERS BUY 3 CDs AND GET THE 4TH FREE

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Well, PHILLYQ, I am pretty lucky in that regard. I never have any problem from my wife on spending more than I should on my hobbies. I may say I really shouldn't get this or that, and she will encourage me to do it.

    I have some friends who have to sneak their stuff in the house. One used to pay his daughter to get to the mail box before the "War Department" (his wife) to get the invoices for his Custer books from the book dealers. The daughter was to drop the books themselves through an open basement window into a cushioned box!

    Tom

  20. BORDERS BUY 3 CDs AND GET THE 4TH FREE

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    My wife and I stopped at Borders tonight and I noticed their ad for a deal whereby you buy 4 CDs and get one free. Anymore there is little at Borders that I want that I do not have. However, I saw a couple.

    Then my wife walked by and I asked her if she wanted anything and told her about the promo. I really didn't think too far ahead on this one as she only wanted one, so I had to get three. She picked out some new age thing at $15.00 or $16.00. Of course you get the cheapest one as the free one. She offered to pay for hers so I would get the real benefit of one for free. But I didn't have the heart to do that.

    So I bought and paid for hers, plus The Poll Winners by Barney Kessel ($12.99) and Things Are Getting Better by Cannonball Adderley ($12.99). The free one was Tender Moments by McCoy Tyner (price $11.99).

    SO the end result was that I got the three I wanted, but paid $3.00 or $4.00 more than if there had been no sale!!!!! :wacko:

    But my wife got one for free. :wub:

    Tom

  25. Herbie Mann (and other jazz flute) recs, anyone?

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by blue-note-ojc

    I have to whole heratedly agree with G A Russel on Herbie Mann, STANDING OVATION AT NEWPORT. Absolutely incredibile. After Ben Tucker joined him for "Comin' Home Baby', the crowd wouldn't let him go, so they did a few more minutes of the same thing. Fabulous!!!!!. That was recorded in 1965. Two years earlier was LIVE AT NEWPORT. This is another great Herbie Mann set. The flute playing and the excitement in both of these is incredible.

    I bought them on vinyl years ago. I believe both have been reissued by an obscure (to me) outfit called Wounded Bird, of all things. They did (and hopefully still do) have a website, but I never happened to notice their CDs at the usual internet sites.

    Of course the readily available on Atlantic, LIVE AT THE VILLAGE GATE is probably his best known among real jazz entusiasts, and it is great too.

    Tom

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