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9 hours ago, JSngry said:
I swear that Buddy's playing bari on the out chorus.
Please advise, thank you.
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That's definitely a baritone saxophone on the out chorus.
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Nobody like her. Singing Ligeti ...
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29 minutes ago, GA Russell said:
RIP. I enjoyed his TV show.
I was never aware of an album I might have liked. Did he make an album with people like us in mind?
The collective personnel on "Another Hand" is Sanborn plus;
Leon Pendarvis – organ (2)
Terry Adams – acoustic piano (3, 4, 7, 😎
Mulgrew Miller – acoustic piano (5, 10)
Bill Frisell – guitars (1, 2, 7), acoustic guitar (6), electric guitar (9)
Marc Ribot – guitars (3, 7, 8), electric guitar (6), acoustic guitar (9)
Al Anderson – guitars (4)
Dave Tronzo – acoustic guitar (6), guitars (7, 😎
Charlie Haden – bass (1, 2, 6, 9)
Greg Cohen – bass (3, 4, 7, 8), arco bass (9), arrangements (9)
Marcus Miller – bass guitar (5, 10)
Joey Baron – drums (1, 2, 3, 6–9)
Steve Jordan – drums (4)
Jack DeJohnette – drums (5, 10)
Don Alias – percussion (2, 3, 4, 6–9)
Lenny Pickett – tenor saxophone (2), horn arrangements (2), contrabass clarinet (9), E flat clarinet (9)
Art Baron – trombone (2, 9), bass trombone (9)
Syd Straw – vocals (4, 6)Charlie Haden, -
A sweet spot.
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His official X (Twitter) account confirms: "It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications."
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I never gave much thought to what Padma Lakshmi likes to listen to in the kitchen, but if I had, I certainly would not have guessed that Alice Coltrane's "Journey in Satchidananda" would be on the list. #JazzFromDetroit.
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Blue Note Records has confirmed that Cuscuna has died at age 75. Damn. He was a hero and a mensch. I had many interactions with Michael over the years and cherish them all. I always learned something from him. He supported my work and made it possible for me to use several Francis Wolff images in “Jazz from Detroit,” including the cover. A HUGE loss.
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My copy arrived today and the music sounds AWESOME. These are easily the best digital copies I've heard and, on first listen (and without actually doing an A-B comparisons) serious competition for the best of my many LP versions.
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3 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:
If we want to get into private recordings (broadcast) of Silver there is a ton out there in Dime/Trade land.
Thanks. No need to go too deep into it all here. I was just offering up one example that's circulating widely to suggest the relative strengths/weakness of the records as "records" has to be balanced against the live performances that tell the story from a different a different -- and for many a more rewarding -- perspective.
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19 hours ago, JSngry said:
Not at all a great step down in terms of composition, quite the opposite!
In terms of records, though, they are not at all well-produced.
I can make that differentiation, but I get that not everybody can, or wants to. But there are some GREAT tunes in those records (and some not so great). That 1977 live record is worth a listen in that regard.
I hope in time that some ambitious retro person combs that catalogue and makes a record with some kind of project or whatever it is they do today. There is some good stuff there to be had!
In addition to the live recording, there's also this broadcast tape from the same period. Terrific songs and performances.
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A reliable musician source confirms the social media posts I’m seeing that Tootie Heath has died at 88.
Tootie was great on record, but you had to hear him live to really feel how alive his cymbal beat was, how high he lifted the bandstand, how deep his swing and groove were, and how many wild chances he took. The videos let you glimpse it. Tootie and Dexter were extra special. From 1967.
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On 3/24/2024 at 7:31 AM, miles65 said:
Fremeaux just issued a 4 CD set with the Blanton-Webster recordings: Duke at his very best. The Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn, Ben Webster Sessions.
On CD 1 & 2 are the masterpieces. On CD 3 the pieces deemed not to be master pieces and the Ellington-Blanton duet session.
CD 4 contains the small group sessions.
The booklet is in French and English.
The Ellington piano solo’s are missing just as the alternate takes. The transfers are done by Alain Pailler mostly from 78’s.
Pro this set is that it makes this music available again and Fremeaux is a serious company so the sound quality will be good.
There is only a 31 second sample.
Against it is the sequencing.
Duke at his Very Best - The Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn, Ben Webster Sessions (fremeaux.com)
What's the problem with the sequencing? Personally, I'm sick of the strict chronological presentation model.
As far as the sound, I'm intrigued as to whether this set will offer improvements in the digital space. The 1986 set was unlistenable. The 1999/2003 version is a vast improvement but not ideal. It's overly bright, unbalanced in places and distorted in places. The Chronological Classics are ok; the best versions on CD to my ears are the French RCA versions based on the Black & White LP twofers. When I want to hear this music on CD, I reach for the French RCA.
This is some of my favorite music in the universe, so I've gone out of my way to get as many LP versions of this material as I can on LP, almost all of which are preferable to any of the CDs. The French RCA twofers are excellent sonically, but the pressing quality can be a little inconsistent, so it's taken me a minute to find clean and quiet ones. The 1950s and '60s RCAs are also excellent -- Duke Ellington at his Very Best, The Duke and his Men, In a Mellotone, Jumpin' Punkins. Caveat: Get the early versions of these if you can (black or purple labels, which are better than the later orange label versions). The 1961 RCA set Indispensable Duke Ellington for mysterious reasons sounds awful, like fake stereo before fake stereo existed. Then there are the Smithsonian issues c. 1980 -- still wrapping my arms around the sound on these but the booklet notes from Larry Gushee and others are fantastic.
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Gang -- I can't tell you how proud I am that the documentary I have coproduced and written, "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit," will make its debut at the Freep Film Festival with screenings on April 13-14. This has been a true collaboration by co-producers Daniel Loewenthal (who has done a masterful job directing and editing), Roberta Friedman, and myself, and we are honored and humbled for Detroit audiences to be the first to see what is a landmark -- the first feature-length documentary to explore Detroit's remarkable jazz history. We have embedded the story of the city's innovative and influential musicians within the compelling economic, social, and cultural history of the city and its resilient African American community. More later on our plans for world domination.In the meantime, Nate Chinen has written a nice piece that captures the flavor of the film and gives the backstory of what began four years ago this month. There's also a clip so you can get a taste of what we've done. https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2024-03-13/watch-a-clip-from-the-best-of-the-best-jazz-from-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3tnvCNYLcOAyTGrPXog19L4HlOJNxnWhuuACtSbUXtrKPNGBJWprCUUOI
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31 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:
I think George Braith is still alive.
Yes, he is. Good catch. I just looked him up when I added Sheila Jordan to the list and I thought I saw that George had died, but, luckily, I was wrong.
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On 3/8/2024 at 9:57 PM, T.D. said:
Lou Donaldson can be added to the list. Can't think of any others offhand.
Also Sheila Jordan. #JazzFromDetroit
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Update:
I have learned that the the 1963 Japanese performance I need was also issued once on DVD. Anybody got this one? https://www.amazon.com/Cannonball-Adderley-Angeles-Tokyo-Lugano/dp/B001IQDAZM
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Gang —
Does anyone have a copy of the 1963 Japanese television studio performance by the Canonnball Adderley Sextet on laserdisc? Some of it is on YouTube, but I’m trying to track down a clean copy of the footage. Thanks.
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4 hours ago, JSngry said:
Sweet Pea Atkinson always adds value.
A unique personality. I met him a couple times but didn't really know him. Didn't say a lot unless you were close to him. Don loved him.
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The record is fantastic, and I'm not just saying that because I wrote the liner notes. Charles is still in great form at 84.
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10 hours ago, medjuck said:
I remember them featuring Mel Torme on one release.
They also had Frank Sinatra Jr. guesting on a record too.
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Folks are of course free to rant any at time about labels issuing rejected materials contrary to artists' wishes -- I have mounted that soapbox myself. And folks are free to shake their fists at any and all manifestations of the vinyl boom -- though despite qualms about price gouging, I do not share your disdain and remain decidedly pro-vinyl, pro-Tone Poet, pro-analog (but not anti-CD).
However, I would urge commentators to keep their eyes on the ball as it relates to this particular thread. The most welcome aspects of the news I posted about Wayne is that he has expressly approved of the material Blue Note is going to issue. That's a win all around. I do not know what material is being considered, but someone in a position to know tells me that the rejected 1970 date with Tyner, Vitous, Mouzon, etc. is not, at least, the first one slated for release. Hard to believe there's anything in the deep vaults we don't already know about. I suspect what is on the docket are live tapes of the quartet with Perez, Patitucci, and Blade and/or some of the orchestral or chamber music projects in the last decades of Wayne's life.
Coda: I will say that I would LOVE to hear the three rejected performances from the aborted Speak No Evil session with Billy Higgins, but if Wayne doesn't want that released, then it shouldn't be released.
Buddy Tate Meets Dollar Brand - Poor Butterfly
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Posted · Edited by Mark Stryker
There are a handful of listings for Tate on bari in the Tom Lord Jazz Discography, though, curiously, the record with Dollar Brand is not one of them. But that's obviously a bari he's playing on the way out on Poor Butterfly. Here are a few:
Duckie (1,4)