analogak

i feel like chester thompson got a raw deal with WR. he's a very good drummer...could have helped them more. i think he wasn't ethnic enough. a random but great place to hear chester thompson is on some of those o'donel levy groove merchant albums. for those that like funky grant green...check levy out. i think some of his albums hold together better than green's of the time.

is anyone doubting sharon jones authenticity? i think just her bandmates. she is legit as heck. oh yeah i forgot gravatt is on that lancaster vortex side, isn't he? not an awesome album... a cool gravatt performance is his album with terumasa hino, motohiko hino, cecil mcbee and mtume...called "hogiuta". he also did a nice album with masabumi kikuchi and juni booth called "east wind". eric gravatt was "big in japan". when i think about his way of playing with tyner...people saying he was too busy and bashing...but the next man to take over was sonship and that guy really is busy and bashes...but i love his style!

i think...and no offense to anyone here...that some people who are taking sides on OP don't seem to "get" what he was about. for instance, comparing him to turrentine or marsalis-those both seem like bad examples. i don't have enough handle on what is going on today to have an apt comparison, but i know those are not right. actually i think one should step outside of jazz for an appropriate example...probably someone on the fusion/prog tip of things might be a better example! but whatever...the man is a freaking great ambassador for and to jazz. been a starter drug for many people. also good for people on the fence who might not like jazz-what the hell can they complain about if you put on many a peterson album? also good for the tech heads because his technique is unquestioned. also good if you just want to relax to something. he deserves a ton of respect. actually, right? am i crazy? a lot of the criticism and praise heaped on him seems like the kind of arguments one would use for a sick fusion guitarist (steve vai?).

these videos need a bit more irony or something.

with your attitude, you have already lost the battle. i don't mean this in an insulting way...just that ANYTHING you need to think about the merits of it or sort of fit why you should like it or listen to it into little cubbies of thought...that is a bad way to listen to anything. don't force it. either you feel it or you don't. me personally, i need a steady rhythm or i can't get into it. but imagine if the music was a woman and you had to keep analyzing why you liked her and trying to find good parts about her...how long would that last?

i am sorry, man. that stinks. but you will almost certainly be happier wherever you head off to.

ak, I'm a big Mike Nock fan, but I've never seen that one. Let us know what you think of it! ga, i have it on scratchy vinyl already...it is a trio session from 1970? 1971? the fourth way rhythm section, basically. mclure is on ebass the whole time. nock is half on acoustic, half on epiano. a few spacy funky-ish tracks, a few more jazz-sounding but still spacy and only one song that is a bit out. i wonder if i will hear it as less spacy with CD remastering as opposed to my scratchy and muffled LP.

i do not celebrate your holiday, yet i won a fair amount of money gambling this weekend and purchased via dustygroove these compact discs- ahmad jamal-live at oil can harry's hal galper-guerilla band mike nock-between and beyond randy weston-blue moses jack mcduff-the heatin' system o'donel levy-windows george duke-feel johnny hammond smith-wild horses rock steady luis gasca-luis gasca john betsch-earth blossom shelly manne-2 3 4 bill mason/gary chandler-eastbound two-fer barry miles-white heat there is more jazz from my favorite years being released these days, it seems. i am heartened.

are you sure hymn was pre dave hubbard? because the album cover uses the dianetics typeface.

are you sure you mean hymn of the seventh galaxy?

well hey man, different tastes. i don't mnd that broder fog guy i youtube linked before but cliff obviously doesn't like his swing. though i haven't heard anything he has done in like eight years...who knows...

or i guess the brother al song reminded me of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLhuv-kLj_I but if you poetry slammed it.

his cadences are obvious and uninspired and his lyrics are hitting me in the testes with a hot skilllet with shards of glass taped to it. the accompaniment sounds like a band of suburban teenagers who like pavment and guided by voices or phish playing as best they can something they would consider "rap" accompaniment like if their friend came over and said "play a rap beat because i am going to rap". though at the same time, shaq fu...

yes the twin cities do it like this?

louis luger, i think peterson was about my first entrance to jazz as well (the montreux jam, which marcello mentions-ali and frazier). my dad loved it and played it for me to show me and my friend what jazz was about when we were 15. will put on the LP right now.

that song sounds a little amateur night at the nuyorican.

this is tyrone washington and his soulful band. we're going to make you feel the best that we can.

don't you think it is offensive people toiled to create "music" and then some technically adept people come along years later and are able to ape the music to a tee yet not add much and people like you who have no desire to 'dig in the crates" accept it for what it attempts to be and wants you to see it as rather than the pastiche it actually is? people like you without the desire or knowhow or gumption of someone like clem or MG who do not do this extra work and take what is fed to you, (which is fine)...but the problem is you then defend it to the death whereas you should be smiling and laughing and forgetting about it in three years like your favorite porn starlet of the moment (when will you forget about your treasured aguiliera album?) do you think clem or MG give a dump if you insult something they like? if you tell MG that willis jackson and jack mcduff were a boring and uninspiring duo will he flip out? i doubt it.

weren't the dipp kings making efforts to conceal their own "identities"? such as making their albums seemed old, attributed to other "fake" musicians, etc? seems like even they know it is kinda bogus. but jesus, alexander, it is all in good fun. it's FUN. not particularly substantial. not too deep and it isn't life or death. no need to flip out on people who have most definitely heard a lot of music (not i-i mean clem and MG).

a little syl johnson on the ones and twos last night...

these dips are a bogus enterprise.

i bet those dip guys were playing in a ska band 5 years ago

listening to "joel's domain" right now. respect.

are you sure that is a problem? it can help you party all night.

yet that seems a little wishy-washy. this is not some la la la fantasy land. this is reality. where MEN live. MEN with strong opinions. this negative flanagan talk i am reading is leading to some good discussion.