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Peter Johnson

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  1. PM sent on the following:

    Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light (impulse CD, 2004, hole punch through bar code) - $5

    Stan Getz - Complete Roost Recordings (BN/Roost, 3 CDs, 1997 issue)(CDs are great, but the box on this one is more beat up, was a cut-out so there is a slash through box & slim jewel cases) - $21

    Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Verve Master Edition, 1999 edition) - $7

    Herbie Hancock - The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions (BN, 1998, 6 CDs in longer case; discs 1 & 3 come loose easily due to bad spokes) - $36

    Stefon Harris & Blackout - Evolution (BN 2004) - $6

    Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina - Elis & Tom (Verve Originals 2008 CD) - $4

    Lonnie Smith - Move Your Hand (BN Rare Groove edition, 1996) - $8

  2. I don't even know what to say about this show. It was incredible. Hearing Capra Black, composed by Billy Harper, with Billy Harper playing lead, live? Bennie Maupin playing a screaming solo on soprano on Sidewinder? Croquet Ballet, also one I've never heard live, with 2x solos by Billy, David Weiss, Charles Tolliver, and Bennie Maupin...Absolutions (by Jymie Merritt) extending out for over 20 minutes, room for everyone to blow, Christian McBride dead on with the time, heavy beat and alll over the place at the same time with crazy rhythm changes and a solo that could have out pizzicattoed Itzhak Perelman...

    David, you outdid yourself on this one. Terrific band, extraordinary music, wonderful crowds for both sets, and a completely goddamn dance-in-my-chair rollicking good time.

    Chuck, I'm sorry your Mazda couldn't make it. :( For others: they're playing two sets tomorrow in NYC. If you live in or near the city, YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF to get to 51st and Broadway and HEAR THIS BAND.

    Damn. Just, damn.

    I can't remember the last time I heard live "jazz" (in quotes only because, these days, I hesitate to categorize, and let's face it, as Gil Scott-Heron said, "what is jazz?") that knocked me over like this. Vonski in Chicago--that was probably it. That was, and this is, the real deal.

    Sorry to gush, but as someone who wasn't (and couldn't have been) at the Lighthouse...phukking hell. A revelation along the lines of Miles' Olympia concert.

    You folks in San Fran are in for a treat.

    Enjoy.

  3. You guys are killing me! :)

    7/4, would you be interested in selling it if a) an external sustain (as used for the suitcase model) worked, and b) I could source/provide such pedal?

    I have a stage Rhodes with the amp. For a second I thought I'd sell just the amp...but nah. I've always used another amp, but I don't want to loose the use of the sustain pedal. I pretty much got the amp for free when I bought the piano in '00.

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  4. DAMN! I was thinking, "!!! Michael Weiss has one to see, and he's almost in my neighborhood!" Oh well...

    Yes--it is a terrific instrument. The action is great; interesting to hear you thought the amp was weak. I think mine hails from '77 or '78 (so probably it's really just a "Rhodes"). Probably pretty tough to find just the amp, I guess.

  5. I'm going to try to attend this Saturday. What a lineup! Anyone else going to make it out?

    Celebrate the music of trumpet legend Lee Morgan with an all-star ensemble comprised mostly of members of his last working bands plus other special guests

    Billy Harper: Tenor Sax

    Bennie Maupin: Tenor & Soprano Sax and Bass Clarinet

    David Weiss and Charles Tolliver: Trumpet

    Geri Allen: Piano

    Christian McBride: Bass

    Victor Lewis: Drums

    :excited:

    The Iridium web site shows that the gig this week-end is called Charisma, but they are playing the music from the Maupin-Harper era. I saw this last time - fabulous show.

    Bertrand.

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