Kevin Bresnahan

I like John Zorn's playing on Patton's "Minor Swing". I don't have that Nilva record. Should I? Donaldson's "Midnight Soul" is a weird gold-plated French CD that combines the Argo LPs "Signifyin'" & "Possum Head" (minus one track - "Secret Love"). It's one of the few non-Blue Notes by Lou that I return to with any regularity. His later Muse and Milestone dates don't do much for me.

Blue Mitchell - Out Of The Blue Bobby Hutcherson - Color Schemes Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple Duke Pearson - Prairie Dog Herbie Hancock - Future Shock Horace Silver - Hardbop Grandpop Joe Henderson - Four! John Patton - Minor Swing Lou Donaldson - Midnight Soul McCoy Tyner - New York Reunion Stanley Turrentine - More Than A Mood

Coleman & Mabern?? I wish I could be there too!!

Greg plays locally quite often and he usually brings CDs for sale. I've never seen this one though. I'll have to look for it during his next swing through the area.

From the "What are you listening to" thread in the Vinyl forum.

Obscurity is a tricky word... To many people, Jazz is an obscure musical genre. Some Jazz discs I have were produced in low quantities, but most of us here have probably heard it and may own it. Does that mean it's not obscure to us? There's a CD that I play often but I don't see in the used bins often. It's out of print. The label's out of print. It might be obscure. It might not be. Anyway, I think you should hear this if you haven't already.

I haven't seen Willie in many years, but when I did, he never played two horns at once like he does here:

I am seeing Javon Jackson's superband, We Four, tomorrow night at the Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. I think it's a tribute to Coltrane (according to this blurb: http://www.vtjazz.org/events/2016/11/we-four-javon-jackson-and-jimmy-cobb-celebrate-the-music-of-john-coltrane.html) Javon's bringing Joanne Brackeen, Eddie Gomez & Jimmy Cobb with him. George Cables was originally scheduled to play but he seems to be sick and it looks like it's been for quite a while. I hope he's OK. On the bright side, if there can be a bright side to someone being sick, I haven't seen Brackeen in many years, if at all. I really can't remember the last time I saw her play. EDIT: I just realized that Joanne Brackeen is 79! I did not know she was that old. Man how time flies. There are shows Friday & Saturday. If you're in the Boston area, you might want to catch this band.

Golson is playing at Scullers in Boston next month. He hasn't been through Boston in a long time either. I have my ticket. I would guess that it's been over a decade since Jimmy's been through. He used to come to town once a year, usually with his brothers. I wonder if Percy's death put an end to his touring days? The last time I saw him, he still brought down the house.

Still available: https://app.vinylmeplease.com/products/store-exclusives/johnny-griffin-a-blowin-session-limited-to-1-500 Mastered by Kevin Gray at Coherent Sound according to discogs.com

Is Jimmy still performing? He hasn't been up to Boston in a long time.

Until Winter & Winter reissued these two dates with new cover art, they were fetching big bucks on Ebay. I was lucky when a close friend recommended them to me because I've been enjoying them for years. I am pretty sure I saw this band when they toured in support of "Toys" but I don't remember if the entire band was on hand. I certainly don't remember Holland on the bass that night. I never bought any of those classically-themed releases by Caine after hearing a few pieces. Not really my style.

Just ordered a copy. I am a big fan of Smulyan.

I have that SACD but missed that they used the master tapes for it. If memory serves, the CD that this SACD replaced on my CD shelf did not sound all that great. Bainbridge/Time wasn't it? I can't confirm as I gave it away after picking up the SACD.

Here's a few more recordings that I find extremely enjoyable that could be on the more obscure side... Billy Strayhorn - Cue For Saxophone. This has been issued on many labels over the years but I think Felstead was first. It used to be and may still be very hard to find on CD. This band swings like crazy. Felstead is also the label that has one of Coleman Hawkins' more obscure dates - "The High And Mighty Hawk", which is one of my favorite Hawk CDs when I want to hear him play some blues. Bunky Green - Healing The Pain (Delos). Just a beautiful recording by Green. I believe that both his parents had just died, putting extra meaning into pieces like, "The Thrill Is Gone", "Who Can I Turn To" & "Goodbye". On "Who Can I Turn To", you can almost hear his sax crying for him. Just so sad but also beautiful. Walter Norris - Sunburst (Concord). Joe Henderson is the sole horn for this quartet and what a horn he is. Norris has a nice touch on the piano too. He plays one tune with the trio only and several other tunes have a nice long piano intro. Their cover of "Naima" is as good as it gets. This CD is so obscure that the Joe Henderson discography page doesn't list it. I e-mailed them today about it. Uri Caine - Toys (JMT/Winter & Winter). Killer band - Caine on piano; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Don Byron, bass clarinet; Josh Roseman, trombone; Gary Thomas, tenor sax, flute; Dave Holland, bass; Ralph Peterson, Jr., drums; Don Alias, percussion. A few tunes turn outward a bit if that bothers you. If you like this, try Caine's "Sphere Music". Both are fun dates that you'll find yourself playing again.

I thought the Time masters were lost? The earliest CD issues would seem to indicate that they didn't have the best tapes back then.

Unfortunately, Jim would rather we don't discuss these types of recordings here.

That's the veterans committee feelings on it. B. B. King got voted in right before him by the readers. But the Blues Hall Of Fame has Jazz artists in it too. A total of one - Dinah Washington Two if you count Cleanhead Vinson.

I realized I wasn't part of their target audience when they voted in Frank Zappa.

The digital version of Downbeat magazine just hit my Inbox. Fan poll results for Hall Of Fame - Wynton Marsalis is in (1062 votes). And Hank Mobley still only got 618 votes. Still bums me out.

I just checked my order for "B3atles - A Tribute To The Fab Four" and I definitely ordered the bonus material option. We are still talking about the "B2atles" bonus material, right? I do not see "Live At The Speakez" on Pledge Music's website and the order page for this CD (which is somewhat hard to find right now) doesn't mention any bonus material. BTW, if Jim is watching this thread, the new "Live At The Speakez" CD is not showing up in the "CDs" link on the organissimo home page nor does it show up under the "CD" link in the Big O store. It only shows in the left most slider as a New Release and at the CD baby store as a download.

Jim's two solo discs fail to get mentioned too. So if someone contacts All Music, have them add Jim's "In Memorandum" (which I would probably classify as Ambient) and Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers doing "A Tribute To Big John Patton". I also don't know how organissimo gets tagged as "Pop/Rock". Huh?

I did not get any e-mail... and I get all of Jim's e-mails so I doubt it got put into spam. My spam folder empties itself every now & then so it won't be there months later. Kevin

Rudresh Mahanthappa made the cover of Downbeat where he talked about he latest recording, "Agrima", which hit the streets Tuesday (10/17). I liked the sample (Snap) so I ordered the download - a first for me! Well, I have to be honest, I ordered it because it was only $2.50 (https://www.rudreshm.com/). First off, I have to say that I am a fan of classical Indian music so I was very interested to hear this melding of this style of music with Jazz and Rock. Fusion for sure. What I mean to say is that I was predisposed to like this and... I do like this quite a bit. I'm not one to do a track by track analysis but I liked the tunes with the tabla better than the ones with drums. As a player, Rudresh has some mannerisms that get repeated, but what player doesn't? The spacey intro to "Revati" sounded like something from Jane Ira Bloom's "Modern Drama". On the last tune, "Take-Turns" I kept wanting to swat the fly buzzing around my head during the intro. I will probably poke around the rest of Mahanthappa's catalog to see if any of his other recordings are like this.

You have this one: Or this one: And another: