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Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt Swings The Most (Verve). I found this in a pile of Japanese CDs at a local shop. I hadn't even known it came out on CD in 2012 until i found this one. Nice date.
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4 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:
I definitely remember him from at least one 90s sitcom as well as some stand up specials. Probably would appreciate him a lot more now, actually.
Never really watched Curb -- I find Larry David so insufferable as to be unwatchable. I thought Seinfeld was aggravating too but at least the ensemble could offset it somewhat.
Weird timing, but just yesterday morning I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and I am really not liking it much at all. I laughed at Seinfeld at times. I didn't find myself laughing at all during the first episode. When Richard Lewis popped onto the screen, I thought to myself, "Didn't he die?". A bit of Twilight Zone thing there, for sure.
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2 hours ago, HutchFan said:
I'm listening to this again:
It still hasn't sunk in yet that I won't see Ralph randomly show up in the drum chair at a Jazz set in the Boston area. We were all a bit spoiled that a player like Ralph could be called in when someone needed a drummer. Ralph drove the band from that drum chair. I will miss that guy.
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I imagine Monty Python will be next. They'll excise the "Spot The Loony" sketch because loony is offensive. And you can't make fun of a man with 3 buttocks because that is making fun of someone with a handicap. And forget about the argument sketch!
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1 hour ago, tranemonk said:
I'm going this weekend to see him at the Regattabar in Cambridge MA. I'm hoping he's in as good as health as possible.
I would go to see him at the R'bar, but I recently bought tickets to see him play with One For All at Smoke in New York on March 15th. I may go to the Warren Wolf show at Scullers instead.
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1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:
I just did a very preliminary check of my collection and estimate that Georg Riedel must be on about 150 CDs and perhaps more.
He is on most Lars Gullin and Arne Domerus recordings. Here is a list of some of the other CDs on my shelves on which Riedel appears - Stan Getz, Niels Lindberg, Jan Johansson, Harry Arnold, Thad Jones, Jimmy Rowles and Benny Carter.
R.I.P.
That's what I get for using Wikipeda instead of discogs for my research. I have almost all of the recordings he made with Lars Gullin. I never did pick up the Getz material from Sweden though.
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1 hour ago, Ken Dryden said:
I found the two CD version a couple of years ago for around $5. Great music!
I have the double SACD/hybrid version that appears to go for big bucks these days. Spinning it now.
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I believe this is the only recording of his that I own...
RIP Mr. Riedel.
I initially thought this topic was about the glass maker & I was wondering why it was in the Artists forum.
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Edited to reflect that I was replying to Eric's comments about the way Don Was is running the reissue program and NOT anything negative about any upcoming release from Wayne Shorter's archives.
12 hours ago, Eric said:Interesting article, he really strikes me as a great guy to be running the label. I like many of the young artists on their roster. The reissues are pretty cool too - the Tone Poets in particular are gorgeous and the are doing some obscure titles this year, which is fun.
While I think a lot of the reissues coming out are really well done, I think the loss of the personal connection to a lot of the artists as they continue to leave us is going to result in more rejected sessions seeing the light of day. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, time will tell. But I do think it's a bit sad that some of these late artists' wishes are no longer being followed. For instance, Donald Byrd told Michael Cuscuna that he didn't want the live material from Montreux released but the current team decided it was a good idea to ignore those wishes and put it out. A lot of fans of his work from that era are very happy and sales seem to be good, so Blue Note did the right thing from a business perspective. I guess I wrongly thought that Blue Note was different.
I have to wonder if Wayne's rejected session is on the way now.
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15 minutes ago, jazzbo said:
Um. . . okay, you can have your last word. . . I think you're over-reacting to me, just my opinion.
Ha ha ha ha... really... last word? Okay.
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3 hours ago, jazzbo said:
To me it's clear enough, I have an immediate sense of what "featuring" means that may differ from what you infer from that. Not wanting to argue back and forth with you, we often see and hear and prefer things differently. Sorry you were disappointed.
That's where you're wrong... you clearly want to "argue back & forth" with me as you always have an comeback for me. If you really don't want to go back and forth, just drop it.
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30 minutes ago, jazzbo said:
OK. It clearly indicated it was featuring her, and to me it;'s also clearly Redman's date with a travel theme that he wanted vocals for.
Clearly? The cover has "Joshua Redman where are we" in large letters at the top, with "featuring Gabrielle Cavassa" in much smaller font down the bottom. I don't think that's an indication that she's on all of the tunes. I was expecting her to be on one or two tunes, not 9 out of 12.
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1 hour ago, jazzbo said:
I like it more than you I guess.
It's not a matter of liking it or not. In general, I'm not a huge fan of vocals, so when I see a saxophone player listed as a leader, I expect that this saxophone will be the lead voice during the record. In this case, he's part of her backing band.
And to clarify, as a vocalist, she's pretty good and I can understand why you like this. I just think it should be a Gabrielle Cavassa CD, not a Joshua Redman CD. It's really almost a slight to her, like they needed Redman's name on there to sell it.
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11 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Joshua Redman “Where are we Now” Blue Note cd
Featuring sensual singer Gabrielle Cavassa. Not a bad thing.
I bought this expecting a Joshua Redman date. Instead, I got a Gabrielle Cavassa date. While "not a bad thing", it was not was I was expecting or wanted.
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On the positive side of things, if his name really is Bill F, that name isn't appearing anywhere on line where we wouldn't want to see his name.
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From what Bill has written here in the past, he would appear to be in his 80's at this point, so a long absence is likely not a good thing. Hopefully he's just on vacation.
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16 hours ago, sgcim said:
The WDR big band recently released a concert they had performed in 2022 under the Phil Woods Legacy title on You Tube that had some meticulous readings of PW's big band arr's that put to shame the US PW Memorial concert held in PA, a year or so after PW performed. Apparently PW revised a lot of his charts, and they somehow got copies of the revisions and performed them very well with stylistic solos that showed they had some knowledge of PW's style.
So I wrote a highly complimentary post mentioning the above,along with the statement that there had been too few tributes to PW, and their's was certainly the finest I was aware of, etc...
I didn't think much of it until I got an email yesterday from You Tube saying that WDR had responded to my effusive review. I figured they were thanking me for my positive review, but the first words were "I wonder if a review like this belongs here due to its negative flavor. The statement that only a German band and a US band were the only tributes to PW gives a misleading representation of the response to the PW Legacy."
I started writing a response apologizing for giving them such a positive review on their concert, and that I'd be glad to delete my praise of their concert, and added the fact that Wynton Marsalis had publicly put down PW over a mic on a jazz cruise that his daughter had attended, and was forced to retract his statement over said mic when he came back from his break.
I also added the fact that Oliver Nelson had received several death threats from his big band when he decided to feature PW on lead alto and give him the majority of alto solos in their concerts. I then deleted the first post I made, and all of a sudden, someone erased the entire two posts that both I and they had made on the subject!
WTF, WDR?!
Interpreting the written word is tough enough without throwing in language translation. Some English words translate into multiple German words & some of those words have a completely different meaning (positive/negative) that can be lost in translation. I once wrote an Italian record label to offer my help writing English liner notes and it was not well received by them at all. I'm sure my good intentions were lost in translation.
I'd love to hear more about what Marsalis said about Phil. I know what Phil said about him & while I think it was a bit too much, Phil had some of it right i.e. an entire family should not have been granted an NEA Jazz award. But Marsalis is one petty SOB if he came back at a dead guy for saying what a lot of people were saying at the time.
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Wilbur Ware - The Chicago Sound (Riverside/Milestone Japan).
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John Funkhouser - Still (CD Baby). I forget where I found this one but it's pretty good stuff. It's still available on bandcamp if you want to hear it. Crazy that it was recorded and mastered in West Springfeild, MA, not far from my hometown of Holyoke. West Springfield is not what anyone would consider a hotbed of music so I would not expect a recording studio being there.
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The Jack Montrose Sextet (Pacific Jazz). This is from the West Coast Classics CDs that Blue Note released back in 1998.
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15 hours ago, jlhoots said:
Booker 2020 Fracture (extended) - 100% syrah
I really like Booker's White. Their Oublie GSM red blend is very good too. I don't even know if I've had the Fracture.
Unfortunately, their wines are getting very difficult to obtain here on the east coast. What they send this way is usually grabbed up by the restaurants. I don't understand why wineries allow this as it limits the number of people who can learn about their wines and forces anyone who wants to try them to pay the exorbitant restaurant prices, which prices out many potential drinkers.
I hope that Constellation is true to their word and leaves the Jensen family to run the place as they have in the past. I'd hate to see this winery go the way of Meomi.
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16 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
Oslo 1975
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11 minutes ago, ejp626 said:
Sadly I've just changed to a new job where it will be next to impossible to listen to this type of music at work (we can't even play ripped music because the USB ports are turned off and needless to say playing music from "the cloud" is frowned upon...). My recent order of the Don Byas set (and Sonny Clark) is fairly likely to be my last order, but I suppose never say never.
I recently left a job in a classified lab with those same restrictions you mention but we somehow managed to be able to stream Spotify in there. I assume the IT group somehow managed that one network port so that it was "one way", so we had no way to move data out but we could stream things in.
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30 minutes ago, sidewinder said:
'Alligator Bogaloo' indeed it is on the Liberty. I think it has been sampled but for sure it appears on one of those French Blue Note 'club' CD sets put out by 'DJ Booster' (whoever he is).
I have a framed photo of cornetist Melvin Lastie supplied by Mosaic, from that very session. Tons of cigarette smoke !
I guess I've been either misspelling or mispronouncing "boogaloo" my whole life.
Is this Lou Donaldson LP titled pronounced "bog a lew"?
So, What Are You Listening To NOW?
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I never did pick this up. Notable for having John Abercrombie's major label debut on the second session, "Nasty!".