jazzbo

Many happy returns!

Okay, I'm old enough to have bought that Illuminations lp back in the day. I really like it. IF you like Alice's harp playing and IF you like her writing and arranging for an orchestra, this will be enjoyable. I like the Laswell recreation as well, but Illuminations deserves to be reissued with additional material. I have a British cd now that is good. . . but doesn't stack up to the Santana reissues from the U. S. of the past four years.

The tube doesn't do her justice!

You know, I haven't ever watched the original three but one time in the theaters when first released. I don't personally consider them timeless classics. They were fun. I actually have enjoyed I and II MORE than these . . . .(Yes, I know I am different, even weird!) Visually they are better and I like the undercurrents within them of politics and philosphy, love and loyalty. And to be honest I really enjoyed having Natalie Portman in the films. . . . I think she's so beautiful.

Last night I saw Tammy Pescatelli and John Hefron at the Paramount Theater here in Austin (my favorite place to see acts). They were so so so so much funnier than they were on tv! And Tammy is quite cute in person.

WAY TOO MUCH. But it's part of what makes me an American! I didn't watch tv when I lived outside the States and I paid the cultural price with alienation and depression. Now at least I can talk to people I meet and have frequent contact with about what was on the tube! One show I won't give up watching as long as they run it: "Now" on PBS.

Some of the bonus material on Shakedown Street makes me wonder: think Lowell George may have been an inspiration for Bob to start learning the slide?

It's old news!

I don't find it somber overall at all. She may have her reasons for not repairing the harp. I have a few things broken that stay that way. . . . The minute my wife goes on an extended vacation I bet they'd be operational though!

C, I'm glad you are having fun with your vibes! I actually think he chose Victor for his pianistics and songwriting and that he didn't have any intention to go beyond the traditional strings and hammers acoustic piano in his band at that time, he was still thinking in terms of traditional jazz quintet instrumentation. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it were the composition(s) that sealed the deal for Miles to pursue Victor as a more permanent chair; he did use the tunes for some time after. . . !

Yes, I don't usually lean to the right. And the last three years of state government under Bush's buddies have taken their toll.

This is me visiting Houston a few weeks ago. Scary enough!

Aric, that was not ME in that photo. Nowhere in that post did I refer to that person as myself.

David Baldwin's series of Lee Wiley recordings on his Devil's Music label, now in its fourth volume, fills that bill in all ways but notes: the sound is excellent, trouncing all other issues, and there is a dizzying completeness. Here's hoping that series continues

I've been easing my way through this set, making sure I have fully absorbed one disk before moving on. . . . I listened to the bonus disk first, then worked my way chronologically. I've made it up to Shakedown Street and it strikes me that despite what the booklet says about Lowell George's producership being sort of nonexistant, I can sort of feel his hand in the way the band sounds on this one. . . .

I've got all the Mercury discs. . . I really love most of the material. . . sometimes however I can't get past the cheeze and wiz to get to the VOICE. . . . I do a lot of selective listening to the later sets.

I'm with Jim on this one too. I LOVE Dinah. . . but I can't say I reach for any of the Roulettes I have. Don't reach for the Sarah Vaugh Roulette material either. . . .

Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Wingy Manone, Woody Herman, and . . . . Oh, I know that's not quite fair, but. . . .These folk were VOCALISTS too, and damned fine ones!

Porcy, see if you can sell that locally. . . . Tony, amazing score! Congratulations! The Commodores will have you very pleased I know.

Thanks, but I'm challenged when it comes to "streaming" at the moment. . . and for the near future. Thanks for the date of the one I'm missing, from June 1975.

Alright! Then there is one other one that I haven't yet found! Anyone know if it is out?

Ordered the Grateful Dead movie and soundtrack cds combo. . . . I'm in trouble!

I like the Chronogical Classics I have, the bad thing being that they overlap with the King Jazz material I have in three other forms! I totally dig the Jazzology releases of the older stuff, Jazz Record Story, Trios and Quartets, Apex Blues. . . .The Delmarks are also great. I ran across some lps that are out of print that are really nice solo piano on Euphoria; one has Hodes doing "Watermelon Man" and I love it! I'm a big Hodes fan. . . I still have some more to get but I'm slowly doing so, because I don't want to be at the end one day, and I am savoring them slowly. . . .

Hope it was a great one!

Well apparently the title piece/suite was only played live three times, and none seem to appear in the Dick's Picks series. . . there's the one on the box set, and the one on One from the Vault, and another from August 1975 I think that I haven't located yet. . . .