paul secor

Happy Birthday! Hope you get a chance to do some good listening and reading done today.

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Prince Fielder Alvin Fielder

Bill Lewis/Khan Jamal: The River (Philly Jazz)

Very nice pics. Thanks for posting them.

Bill Cullen Jack Barry Hugh Downs

Lee Konitz/Michel Petrucciani: Toot Sweet (Owl)

Yes.

Courtney Love Honor Blackman Obi-Wan Kenobi

Pozzo Pogo Albert

Hard to believe that it's been eleven years. Many thanks to Jim for keeping this going. All of us owe you more than we can say or give.

I've kept that one for Milt Hinton's playing.

James P. Johnson: Father of the Stride Piano

Penelope Lively's Dancing Fish and Ammonites I enjoyed this as a behind the scenes look at Penelope Lively's life and her thoughts on aging, memories, and reading. However, I'm pretty sure that it's her fiction that I'll end up rereading and not this book.

Bogie Hoagy Gogi

He seems to have Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/people/James-Kousakis/100002298000454 For me, his playing is the weakest part of that record. I think that might be the son. Looks a little too young based on the photo on the back of the jacket, and the 1981 recording date. But I agree with your assessment. That was why I was kind of wondering who or how someone with so little--actually none-- recording experience could be selected to play with veteran musicians. I might ask Bobby Bradford when I see him this week. His playing ability on that record might be why we haven't heard more from him.

I'm not going to get into a further discussion of RVG CDs - We've been there and done that. However, if it weren't for that "geriatric clown", you'd have very few BN SMH releases to listen to. Or you might buy a decent turntable and pick up a few King, Music Matters, Analogue Productions, whatever LPs and hear what that "geritric clown" did in his younger days. Clever - yes. Intelligent - no. About what I expected.

This will go through the courts and colleges and the NCAA will no doubt prevail for a while. But eventually it will happen.

Lou Gehrig A Man Called Horse Buckaroo Banzai

I'm not going to get into a further discussion of RVG CDs - We've been there and done that. However, if it weren't for that "geriatric clown", you'd have very few BN SMH releases to listen to. Or you might buy a decent turntable and pick up a few King, Music Matters, Analogue Productions, whatever LPs and hear what that "geritric clown" did in his younger days.

I don't think that anyone said that Hill played "composer's piano". That's a figment of your imagination. Leeway did say: "In similar vein, I find Hill's piano playing composer-ly (in the service of the composition), rather than virtuosic (in the service of the musician). Hill was a fine pianist, but the pianism was inextricably bound up with his composing." To me, that sounds a lot like Ellington. I don't think that anyone would say that Duke Ellington played "composer's piano".

In the words of a friend of mine who saw the videos - If Don Was worked as hard at producing worthwhile new music as he obviously does on his image, he'd have something worth talking about.

Princess Summerfall Winterspring Frankie Valli Buck Hill

Blue Train (BN/King)

Actually I love Andrew's piano playing and I for me it is more than just service to the composition It is certainly not virtuosic in something like a Bud Powell (for example) style...he does not spin out fast runs of notes... his solos often sound to me spare and extremely elliptical with reference to the beat... but his solos to me are riveting.... looked forward to by me... and they I don't know have some sort of inner logic. To the uninitiated I (which I am sure is not you Leeway) and even to some people who like jazz I have even heard the comment "that guy can't play" when listening to Hill solo.... I just disagree. Actually, I feel perpetually uninitiated . As I said in my earlier post, I think Hill was "a fine pianist." My point was that I feel that Hill was more interested in getting his compositions played in the way he heard them, than in the pianism itself. I could be over-valuing the former and under-valuing the latter, but I do kind of see it, and hear, it that way, based not just on PoD but on the body of his work. And I think that body of work will endure. That is a substantial achievement. I agree with your opinion that composition and the way his music was played seemed to be more important to Andrew Hill than just being a pianist. Then again, only Andrew Hill knew what the real story was.

He seems to have Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/people/James-Kousakis/100002298000454 For me, his playing is the weakest part of that record.