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Seems so.

:party: Happy Birthday! :party:

Art Pepper Select - the Art of Pepper/Omega session

Hank Mobley w. Lee Morgan: Peckin' Time (BN/King - Japan)

Thanks for posting the coupon. My local B&N has cut back on music - looks like they'll be cutting back even more - but there's still some decent stuff to be had.

David - The gig I was at was a different one - early '68, and Neidlinger and Bergamo weren't on it. As I say, I don't know for sure that the saxophonist I heard was Charles Gayle - just making an educated guess.

I was thinking the same thing when I ordered today. I'm sure that next week someone will post something on the Listening thread or somewhere else; I'll think - hey, I don't have that - and I'll be back for another order. The OJC catalog was so vast at one time that, and still is pretty big, that it's hard to have everything worth getting.

I'm kind of like a drug 'pusher' in this regard. I think I've posted info on two sales (Concord and True Blue) and a coupon for Borders in the past 24 hours. But I haven't bought any recorded music in six months or more (other than two gifts). And no, I don't work for any of these retailers. Used the Borders coupon today, too. Thanks again!

Thanks BeBop! Just saved me a small bundle. Of course, if you hadn't posted I wouldn't have ordered anything & I'd have saved even more.

$13 million! Imagine the Nessas (or Black Saints, or Emanems, or FMPs, ...) that could have been recorded with that kind of money.

Only heard him play live once - with Barry Altschul and Dave Holland at Studio Rivbea - but that was a great night. My favorite Sam Rivers recording is the Improvising Artists where he duets with Dave Holland on tenor and soprano. Recently got Contours. I've played it once so far, and enjoyed the recording, especially Mr. Rivers ' playing, very much. Reading this thread reminds me that I should take my Contrasts LP off the shelf and play it. It didn't get through to me back in the early 80's when I bought it, and I haven't listened to it since then. Time to listen again. I wish that he had stayed with Miles a while longer. It would have been interesting to see where that band might have gone. I tend to sometimes overlook Sam Rivers, even though he's a great musician. Perhaps that's because he's kept a somewhat low profile. No excuse for me overlooking him, though. We should be grateful that he's with us and is still playing.

Oh yes indeed. There's a whole non-mainstream Jazz world that really never gets any discussion, mostly because no one knows about it, you really have to be an insider to be hip to it... I used to read the Funny Rat thread, but rarely contributed to it. I had a problem with certain musicians - "non-mainstream", as you put it - being isolated from the rest of the music. I try not to listen to music in that way, and I think it would be a good thing if and when people had something to say about "non-mainstream" musics, musicians, or labels, they would post their comments in normal fashion, rather than posting them in an isolated thread. I think that's happened to some degree since the Funny Rat thread has faded, though some musicians who were mentioned in F.R. seem to be ignored now. The Funny Rat thread may have begun with good intentions, but it became a kind of insiders' club, with a limited group of people talking with each other. At least, that was my take - not a good thing for the music, imo.

:tup Very, very fine stuff, Red! Many thanks for posting those.

Missed this yesterday, but belated happy birthday wishes to Mr. Taylor. May he have many more birthdays. I feel truly blessed that I'm alive while he is, and have had the opportunities to hear him play in concerts and clubs on a number of occasions.

When I read the thread title, I thought it was Gilligan's birthday. But - Happy birthday, Minga!

Belated birthday wishes to one of the finest saxophonists on the planet.

Ornette: The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic)

L.C. Green & Sam Kelly, Johnny Howard, Rocky Fuller, Henry Smith, Eddie Burns: Blues Guitar Killers! - Detroit 1950's (Barrelhouse) - raw blues recorded by Joe Von Battle

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Just before dinner: Jackie McLean: Bluesnik (BN/King - Japan)

I just sent a PM. Was there something to find?

Fascinating video, Larry. Thanks for posting!

That just might be a bit too subtle for Chewy.

To make another aural comparison, the early OJC LPs - up to about 275 or so - sound better than the corresponding CDs. After that, the LPs read "remastered by ..., and, at least to my ears, there's no real difference between the LPs and the CDs. I assume they used digital masters after that point.

I only have a small number of Tal Farlow recordings - the McGhee BN, a one disc compilation of the Fuersts, and The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow. I've thought about getting the Mosaic box, but The Swinging Guitar CD keeps putting me off from it. His playing, along with the rest of the group, has always sounded rushed to me, and listening to it makes me feel on edge and nervous. Same band on the Fuerst, and I like that one - go figure. Anyone have a comment/opinion on Swinging Guitar in the context of the entire Mosaic? Incidentally, Ed Diehl, a guitarist whom I have the highest respect for, and who these days is playing at a level far beyond his recordings with Hank Mobley and Jack McDuff, seemed seriously offended when I told him that I found it hard to get into Tal Farlow's playing. (I was speaking of Swinging Guitar.) Wrong thing for me to say - it seems that Tal Farlow was his strongest influence.