analogak

haha...dangly bits.

who knows what tomorrow is going to bring probably suffers from the lineup-less um soulful new york studio cats, imo maybe? heatin' system was then with some chicago guys who knew what was up.

if i sell a CD, it is dead to me. i want nothing to do with the sounds contained upon it anymore.

there is moog. some of the longer tracks are moog solo explorations.

also agree water chose the wrong mcduff to reissue. however anyone craving should check out the heatin' system on cadet. recently issued on CD.

well i would rather have cheshire cat. on the avenue is on the level of freap and i could do without. i woudl think cheshire cat w. george benson at least has a selling point. think i mentioned this before.

but if you go on ebay enough you can also find stuff by horace sliver and art blackey.

noj, thank you for the kind words. things are cool.

oh "the call" used to be one of my top 3 albums ever when i owned it on vinyl (still do) but when i bought the CD my tumesence faded. the reason being i began to dislike the long spacey section in the second song. but overall that album has everything i could want (2 keyboards, eberhard weber, a soulful underrecorded drummer, on japo) but that spacey section made me lose my boner....making the fading of my love even sadder because it could have been the perfect album.

listening to dumpy mama wailer right now and i don't know why people don't like it. maybe because he uses clavinet on the first tune rather than organ? i dunno....but it is a good album and ends with a weird version of the sly tune "stand" that gets kind of trippy for a kudu album from 1971. and me personally, i am a fan of early billy cobham on these kind of sessions.

roositer road, i am about to sell like 95% of my CDs. among these are the betsch, person, melvin jackson and the kloss. i also have "mama wailer" and i guess i enjoy it a lot more than jon does because that is one of the twenty or so CDs i am keeping. the second half of the person disc (with the bigger band) is great but the first session is, to me, kinda boring. though i guess it is just pure so if you like some hearty tenor with some organ, etc it is good. the second half is great bernard purdie driven jazzy funky soul stuff. the betsch is good...interesting...doesn't sound like a classic but it is an interesting and worthwhile effort. the kloss has some very high points but is maybe patchy. high points are high, though. second half suffers from schlitten-itis. the melvin jackson is fun and good but i would rather hear a bassist lay it down than do weird scratchy high lines. that is just me maybe. i should listen to the lonnie smith again i guess, but i found it very enjoyable last few listens.

not that there is anything wrong with liking everything. if you hear a lot, and like it all...that is good.

yes bill barx, you seem very mellow. i cannot imagine you not "digging" something. speaking of which, i am now realizing that sal has not posted in a long time. i hope you are good, man.

euala, i think you just spelled cornet wrong. a coronet is something completely different. i think it is a crown (used in the penguin guide to show the writers favorite albums. nothing wrong with a mispelling...but then you went into this schpeil and i would disagree with you particularly on the above statement. i think even non-musician jazz listeners take an interest in the instrumentation they are hearing. i don't know how casual we are talking here, but i think once you start listening to jazz you are going to ask yourself what you liked and disliked about particular tunes so you can find more of what you liked and a lot of time this might come down to the instruments being played. maybe you hear a particular sound you like and you find out it is a bass clarinet. then you are probably going to look for more albums with bass clarinet on them. or maybe you hear an album with a piercingly annoying soprano sax solo on it. you might avoid soprano sax from then on.

how can this mystery be reconciled?

what about seeds of time? no eubanks but wheeler and priester instead. some good holland/smith action but overall the album is ruined by an overlong jive steve coleman tune which he calls an opus for whatever pretentious reason.

badfoot brown and the bunions bradford funeral and marching band is one of the best albums ever put down on wax.

how long can you people churn over the minutiae of this stupid situation?

i don't like albums where the longest track is my least favorite, and the boykins fits into that group. the last track has a lot of aimless (to me) percussion noodling before getting into the nice but very brief theme. other tracks are very good.

if i never hear another hard bop track, i will be OK too!

oh ugh. well after getting all excited i see many of the albums i am/was excited for are not among those available to this company to reissue. wtf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN30R-_WRK4

cliff sorry for being obtuse. captain marvel says SHAZAM!

rolf kuhn's "going to the rainbow" with his bro and chick corea on keyboards, tony oxley on drums, surman and skidmore...good stuff. will wish list that one too.

actually salomao by dave pike is awesome. but that album is more brazillian influenced than indian/psych rock. i am going to wish list that one. listening to that dauner indian influenced stuff, so much better than pike's attempts, imo.