paul secor

Welcome! Hope you stick around and join in on the discussion.

Hank Mobley's A Slice of the Top

I believe that Chuck Nessa has a complete collection of Bobo Stenson's recordings. Don't know whether he'd be willing to part with them, however.

Albert Dailey Trio: That Old Feeling (Steeplechase)

Art Farmer: Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic Japan)

When I was a teenager, one of the first jazz records I bought was Clark Terry's Duke with a Difference. I still listen to it and I thank Clark Terry for helping to introduce me to this music.

My wife and I are just going to bake banana bread, so we'll have that and some hot tea in a little over an hour from now.

This morning: Sidney Bechet Select - 7/30/1923 - 11/14/1923 sessions

Got two notifications on Friday for pms I read last Monday. Could've notified me sooner by letter.

John Coltrane Quartet: Creation (Blue Parrot)

Robbie Robertson was Hawkins' lead guitarist on that record. Levon Helm was the drummer. Sure you knew that and were just tired.

Masahiko Togashi

Bought (and still have) a mono copy in 1968. Still play it and enjoy it.

Shoveled out this morning - 6 inches of snow - not bad, tho the tv/radio weather people referred to it as a nor'easter before it hit. Guess they like to make things dramatic. I lived in Minnesota when I was a kid - til the age of 9 - and I can still remember what real snow and cold was like. Great when I was a kid, but I wouldn't want to deal with it now. The midwesterners on the Board have my respect.

Re Buddy Holly: The Brunswick/Coral thing doesn't hold up entirely. For example, ""Rave On" was issued on Coral and is hard rock n roll - produced by Bob Theile, I believe. The main thing that happened with Buddy Holly's records (this according to John Goldrosen's The Buddy Holly Story and Goldrosen and John Beecher's later bio, Remembering Buddy - the best Holly bios I know of) is that he decided to move to NYC and to break ties with Norman Petty - primarily for business reasons. The Crickets decided to stay with Norman Petty, even though Holly would have preferred that all of them remained intact as a group. Buddy Holly had recorded a couple of records in NYC, both with the Crickets - "Rave On", and without the Crickets - "Early in the Morning", and felt that a successful future in the music business would come there, rather than in Texas and Clovis, N.M. Buddy Holly was evidently open to many types of music, and even though the last studio tunes he recorded were done with strings, according to his widow, he was planning on recording an album of Ray Charles style material and talked about about asking Ray Charles to help him put it together.

All the best to you on your birthday! (and every other day, for that matter)

Played one for pater clem this afternoon: Tommy Flanagan: Alone Too Long (Denon) Actually, I was in the mood for some lyrical piano while I was decorating our Christmas tree, and hadn't listened to any Tommy Flanagan in a long while. I enjoyed the listening - no accounting for taste, I guess.

clem has it right. If you want early Little Willie John, the Ace set is the one. LWJ, like a lot of other early r&b artists, was a voice at the mercy of songwriters, arrangers, and his record company. Not to forget the record buying public, which was always in search of the new. Then throw in a self destructive personality/lifestyle, and it's amazing that he had the success that he had.

I was thinking in terms of personalities when I started this thread - mainly because I don't know what most members look like - but I've been around here long enough to know that things don't always end up to be the way they started.

A lot of you have better imaginations than I, so I'm sure there will be some good ones posted. I'll start with a couple: Chuck Nessa as Dr. Gregory House Someone else will probably nail me better than this, but - I wish I were Louie De Palma on Taxi, but I guess I'm actually more like Alex Reiger on the same show.

Glad that you've come out and decided to join us. Hope you'll stick around and add to the discussion.

Just my opinion - like everyone else's posts here. I still would rather read positive opinions - don't think that I learned anything about Tommy Flanagan (or Hank Jones) that I didn't already know before I read this thread.

I wish that there were street performers where I live.

I think it would be a good thing if posters would try and make positive comments about musicians they admire, as opposed to negative comments about musicians they don't admire. Not pointing a finger - I've posted negative comments about musicians. I do know that I learn more and end up checking out recordings when I read something positive.

Don't want to be negative, but I can't seeing this being a financial success. Just giving an honest opinion.