jazzbo

Do you get the 'vibe" that this thread is here to stay? Recently been digging all over again the vibes of Tubby Hayes.

Grew up in big city, then went to foreign biggish city, then foreign small city (town really) then to small US town, then schooled in big city, then back to small town, then to big city, then to small town, then to small city where I stayed. . . . (Though it has gotten larger around me). I guess small city is where I would stay, though I've recently discovered I wouldn't mind a larger one like Honolulu in due time. . . . But my wife really prefers a larger city, being A D.C. area kiddo, and I forsee a big carefully considered location decision in our future in about five years. . . . I voted for small city. . . .

Jack Teagarden or Mildred Bailey, take your pick. . . .

Actually, I think over time a lot of the O'Day material WILL come out on Verve International; already some dates have been out, at a pace that makes me think more will be forthcoming, there are Japanese releases, and some of these cdan be downloaded from the Verve Vault at a bargain (10 dollars for a digital facimile of a Japanese POCJ cd is a good deal!)

Cool! Nice discovery, thanks for the heads up!

I too am very eager to hear that Cannon! Post 1960 Cannon IS my cup of tea! And I'm mighty thirsty!

If I've said or done anything. . . . Dreadful sorry Clementine. . . . -_-

Al. . . crud. . . so many greats gone. . . . RIP big man!

Yes, I spent last Sunday through last night at the Halukelani in Waikiki. . . it was heaven on earth! I actually used the cover image of the Bethlehem "The View from Jazzbo's Head" as an avatar last year for a while but. . . my inspiration for the handle was a tin toy my great uncle had when I was a kid called "Jazzbo Jim." He was a minstrel-banjoist. As my grandfather played banjo, this toy meant something to me. . . . And it makes a good handle. . . . (Would be even better if I were a "James"!)

Let me also add my deepest condolences.

I really like all those that I have heard. . . . I guess if I had to keep just a few they would be the "Salted Ginko Nuts," "Farewell to Mingus," and "Toshiko's Piano" for no other reason than sentimental. . . .

Wow, for some reason, this thread should have a soundtrack! He'll be glad to know he was missed!

Got back from a week in Waikiki and saw my email announcing this preorder, and that the Bix Volume 5 on Origin Jazz has been released. . . . Dang! Preordered and ordered!

KOB: I've had lps and tapes and then the earliest US Cd, then the Gold cd, then the cheap cd, then the box set, then a DSD remastered Japanese cd, then the US SACD. I still have the Gold cd, the box set, the Japanese DSD cd, and the SACD. I listen to the DSD cd most often; I think it sounds wonderful. Giant Steps: I've had LP, tape, early Atlantic cd, Heavyweight Champion box set. Just have the box set now. All this started in the mid-seventies. I listen to KOB more than Giant Steps, by a goodly margin.

But you left out mentioning Garrison, who actually is (I feel) the ANCHOR to it all. . . . It's an amazing work, a milestone, a landmark, a definitive document of Coltrane's intentions and musical hopes at that time. It seems created with little concern for commercialism and it turns out to be one of the most commercially successful jazz albums ever. If only that were something happening with frequency!

I still think this is one of the best reissues of the year it came out in. . . I still dig it out and groove to it.

That is not Peggy Lipton indeed. I still have THAT poster. It's in a closet somewhere. . . but I have it. I was crazy for Kinski in those days!

I did say "sometimes". . . -_- I agree she has some weird image ideas sometimes, part of being a big pop diva I guess. But fresh out of the shower. . . I think her beauty would be worth mentioning twice.

It isn't good writing, and lord knows I don't want to hear that cd. . . but sometimes her beauty is worth mentioning twice. . . . If I were single, I'd probably have a poster up on a wall (and put my old Shelia E poster up)!

Great label, own a few. Most of the ones I might get, I have the material on other labels. I have a few Lizzie Miles Documents though. There, some words.

Heck Kay BURNS on broadcasts with Miles from the early fifties. . . But I tell you I really don't dig the Heath-Kay rhythm section much at all as a steady diet. It keeps me from listening to a LOT of MJQ. Just a personal thing. . . .As a drummer. . . or ex-drummer. . . .

Thanks, I ordered a cheap Concord two cd collection of two of her earlier albums and I'll check those out. . . . The video footage on this dvd from 2004 is really something!

Okay, I admit, I know NOTHING about Tania Maria's music. . . what little I remember hearing years ago didn't make me explore her work. However, on the very last track of the concert portion of the "Ed Motta Em DVD" . . . he accompanies Tania Maria with vocals (and sound effects) as she sings and plays electric piano. I've never heard anything else quite like it except maybe a few things by Airto vocally, and it is EXCELLENT percussive piano. I really really really dig it. . . it's a composition introduced as "Funky Tamborin." It's all just "scat"--rhythmic vocalizing along with the piano playing, and it's Brazilian in that way that Brazil has of beat and timing, and it's phenomenal. Okay. . .anyone. . . is this an anamoly, something strange, not like her regular work? Anything else like this at all out there by her?

SS, no it has not been to my knowledge!

I think he gave it to a hot mamma.