paul secor

Allen - For what it's worth, I believe I got the gist of what you were saying from the beginning.

Guess this has run its course. The tune George Barnes introduced as most recognized was "Sweet Georgia Brown". The Harlem Globetrotters have used it as their warmup tune in most of the countries of the world. These days, the Flintstones Theme might actually be more recognizable.

Some of Archie Shepp's early recordings.

The Django box and the Eldridge box are both classic music. The music on the Django will probably be available from other sources, even after it's sold out. However, once the Eldridge is gone, so will much of that music.

Another good guess, but no cigar.

Nope - not "Feelings", "The Star Spangled Banner", nor"God Save the Queen".

He actually does play the theme from the Flintstones on that CD, but that's not the one. If no one guesses it before then, I'll post the tune later today.

It's the end of an era, and the era actually ended a good thirty years ago.

That was actually my guess in the time that elapsed before they started playing.

Happy birthday, young fella! :party:

On George Barnes' CD, 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore', he introduces a tune by saying that wherever he's played - in countries all over the world - there's one tune that everyone knows. Take a guess - and if you have the CD, please refrain from posting. The introduction only lasts about 15 seconds, but I didn't guess it until the music began.

The music comes across very well on CD, but it must have been dynamite to have been there when it happened. You're a lucky guy!

Hank Mobley with Kenny Clarke: Hard Bop (Arista/Savoy). Discovered while listening that the two cuts with Lee Morgan were recorded on my eleventh birthday - not that I had the slightest clue about who Hank Mobley was back then. Fats Domino was in my ears around that time.

I think that I'm coming down with a stomach virus and it's making me a little sicker just to read about all this food.

Nope, but it looks like we just might be it.

Seems like we've done this before, but I'm up for another round: Mingus at Monterey Monk in Japan Bird at the Open Door Trane in Seattle Lee Konitz at the Half Note Warne Marsh at Dana Point Albert Ayler: Copengagen Tapes Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron - Dreher, Paris, 1981 Archie Shepp at the Donaueschinger Music Festival Ornette - Paris Concert, 1971 Ornette - Hillcrest Club 1958 Bud Powell/Johnny Griffin - Paris, 1960 - 'Idaho' Jimmy Lyons/John Lindberg/Sunny Murray: Jump Up/What To Do About It Max Roach/Cecil Taylor: Historic Concerts Don Byas/Slam Stewart at Town Hall, 1945 D. Cherry, S. Lacy, Rouse, Rudd, Muhal, B. Harris, A. Davis, Waldron, R. Davis, Blackwell, B. Riley, N. Hentoff, V. Gillis, and the ever popular S. Crouch: Interpretations of Monk - Columbia University

This morning: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: 'Jaws Strikes Again' and 'Light and Lively' - both (Black & Blue)

Don Cherry's 'Human Music' would make a cool reissue, though it would probably have a very limited audience.

Congratulations, David! Hope your reading tonight goes well.

Haven't heard the cuts in question, or read Pete Welding's notes, but they're just one person's opinion, nothing more. All of us here have opinions and differences of opinion(s), so why all the fuss? As to the fact that his opinion appeared in the form of a liner note, anyone who takes liner notes as gospel deserves what they get. I'm grateful that Pete Welding recorded a lot of good blues music and was instrumental in the reissuing of a lot of good blues music. He's not here to defend or argue his opinions, so why not let this go and listen to the music?

A quick addition - Bill Triglia also plays on Don Joseph's fine Uptown LP, One of a Kind. It hasn't been reissued on CD yet, but the LP may still be available. It's worth seeking out and hearing. Belated happy birthday wishes to Mr. Triglia.

Sorry. Didn't mean to give a glib answer with no substance. As brownie said, the Philologies are something to go after once you have the Dials, Savoys, etc., in your collection and in your ears. There are certainly some worthwhile items in the Philology Bird collection. I only have a few Philologies because I have quite a bit of their material on LP. One that I do recommend is Philology W.80.2, Bird's Eyes Vol. 8. It features several cuts of Bird playing with Kenton's band in early 1954. It also contains a recording of Paul Desmond interviewing Bird on a radio program. The Philology series is hit or miss, especially in the area of sound quality (that usually doesn't bother me when it comes to Bird, but some of the things I've heard are next to unlistenable), but there's some great music and some fascinating oddities to be found. (I include the Desmond interview among the latter).

Yes, indeed. But some more than others.

The protaganist of Percival Everett's 'Suder' is a major league third baseman, who, in the process of losing it/finding it, plays a Charlie Parker record in the clubhouse. Another Gilbert Sorrentino: His story, "The Moon in It's Flight", begins with a short discussion of a bop classic: "Bernie was taliking about Sonny Stitt's alto on 'That's Earl, Brother.' As Good as Bird, he said. Arnie said, bullshit: he was a very hip young man from Washington Heights, wore mirrored sunglasses. A bop drummer in his senior year at the High School of Performing Arts." No one's mentioned a couple of obvious ones (probably too obvious): Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man listening to Louis Armstrong. Michael Ondaatje's 'Coming Through Slaughter', his ode to Buddy Bolden.