paul secor

Wonder if Jim felt like a doctor pulling the plug?

Wasn't thinking - I have or have had 8 or 9 of those myself. Thanks for posting the list.

Seems like there's a seed for a new thread here: Why do we collect all these books? It'll just have to wait until we solve the music addiction thing first.

Hey, Cliff - I was in the ballpark.

Pretty cool looking speakers - hope their sound does justice to the musicians. At $10,000 a pair, I'll probably never know.

He does have another one as a leader... And at least a couple of dates as a sideman.

Perhaps Larry came on a bit strong in his initial post on the subject: "Jim - if you're a non-fan of opera, you won't get a fair bit of where Armstrong and Bechet in particular are coming from." I believe that he's toned things down a bit in following posts. quote name='Chuck Nessa' date='Sep 7 2007, 09:09 PM' post='691125'] IIRC, the opera house of note in NO at the time was French. Beyond the "Frenchy" influence, a large number of early phonograph records (anywhere in the world at the time) were classical - solo piano pieces and vocals (song and aria). These records had influence on "jazz" musicians all over the country. The piano records had a large influence on the NY stride players in the early days. If one is really interested in early jazz, attention paid to these recordings pay rewards.

Listening to the crap Cecil plays over KD's composition and solos, I bet KD wished he hadn't shown up either. I think the producer (Tom Wilson?) wanted to present Cecil in a more mainstream context, and hired the players. Of course, Cecil was having none of it, and the session just doesn't jell. Cecil and the others seem to be having a tug of war, and nobody wins. To further complicate matters, the session has since been issued as a Coltrane-led date, which makes Cecil the odd man out, even though it was originally his date! A noble experiment that failed. An experiment - I'm not sure how noble it was. One thing's for sure - Cecil will play his music, his way, without concern for whatever "concepts" record producers may have.

Enough Already!!!!!

I don't want to see so many musicians pass that a separate thread is needed.

Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago (CBS Sony - Japan) I find that I listen to this mostly for Miles and Tony Williams. I know that the others are there, but Wayne Shorter's and Herbie Hancock's playing has always seemed emotionally distant to me. It's no doubt a personal quirk - I know many others love their playing - but I just don't feel much of a connection to their music.

Are you kidding? They're ahead of Leonard Feather???? When did that happen? I think it's a given that everyone is ahead of Leonard Feather.

To me, that's an authoritative review.

You did it to me too. You're a menace!

I'm confused - not all that unusual. Do the two takes of "Kige's Tune" come from the Ezzthetics session? "Kige's Tune" was recorded on the Stratus Seekers session eight months later. Did they record it earlier also? Either way, I'm getting this - I love all of Russell's bands from this period. And if the bonus cuts are with the Dolphy band, all the better.

So in between tennis, I was flipping around and No Reservations is on and Bourdain is covering Ireland. This show is cool as shit! Nothing like watching him on a train in the morning on his way to Dublin, and the man cracks open a can of Guinness to wash down his breakfast! Sure wish I would've caught the Cleveland episode. Cleveland was a great episode. Bourdain hung out with Michael Ruhlman, Marky Ramone and Harvey Pekar. You can see the episode comic book by clicking here. Thanks for posting that. I missed the Cleveland episode, but I've been watching reruns of previous No Reservations. The thing I like about the show is that he comes across as a real person and there's a lot of true humanity on the episodes I've seen. I wonder what Bourdain's secret is? He sure doesn't put on any weight, considering the amounts of food and alchohol he appears to consume on camera. I don't want to assume that he does a lot of illegal substances, but ....

Don't mean to sidetrack, but I have a Monk 2 CD set on Storyville with performances from Monterey - Sept. 21 and 22, 1963. No info given except the dates and the musicians - Monk's 1963 quartet - Rouse, Orr, and Dunlop. Good music, decent sound (stereo), and the back insert says "issued by arrangement with the estate of Thelonious Monk". Any ideas of how this came to be?

Looks like his half brother, Pete Covay, to me.

Love it. Duke is not surpringly gorgeous even outside his courtyard, like with Trane. The mark of the greats. Is it the original pressing? I've got the Classic reissue. My copy's a reissue also - King/Japan.

A good reason if he feels that strongly. But you would think that if he had such a love of vinyl he would have used a decent pressing plant to press his LPs. I bought some Xanadus that were wretched pressings. Not all were like that, but enough to make me think twice about buying Xanadu LPs.

Ellington/Mingus/Roach: Money Jungle

Sounds like Don Schlitten got burned leasing material for CD reissues in the past. I wonder if there's any chance he'd lease recordings to Mosaic?

An obituary from JazzTimes: http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/...m?article=11206

I was never a big fan of the Penguin Guide, but Brian Morton's tribute/remembrance is a reminder to me that there is always a person behind what we read, and in the end the private side of a person may leave more behind than the public side.