jazzbo

Hey, wake up Big Al!

Yeah, I bought the cd just to get that session! (We are all likely to have the rest of the material.)

I wouldn't be surprised if he "really means" Moto Grosso. This may be how he thinks of it. I think of it more as "Fat Mess."

On cd on the Chronogical Classics Bud Powell release.

I've been enjoying the RVG too. It sounds great to me on my main system. Yes, it's a bit brighter than the McMaster version, but it has so much life and detail in comparison. It's the best I've heard this session.

Thanks for weighing in Wolff. My limited exposure to BN vinyl mirrors your experience. Hot, bold, nearing the saturation/distortion level, not the prettiest on cheap playback systems. And the RVG cds sound very different on different playback systems I have: very nice on my best system, okay on my livingroom system, barely adequate on my computers. Overall, because they sound very nice to me on my main system, and better than McMasters and actually more lifelike than TOCJs, I'm a fan of the series. The domestic ones in general sound different than the Japanese and the most recent ones can sound better than earlier ones. I really like the four of the latest batch that I have, the Dexter and the Coltrane being the best I have ever heard the material.

The playing is of an order that trancends recording quality. And I have a lot of cds where this is the case, I can really stomach bad sound for stellar performance. This isn't one though where the sound stinks. I happen to think that Newman recordings like this are quite listenable. HighNote's reissues of the Onyx Newman stuff sound the best I have ever heard the material.

I am DEFINITELY not a huge Dylan music fan, I like his work with The Band and Blood on the Tracks and New Morning and that's about it, but I liked Tarantula, and I'm not much of a renter of videos or buyer of videos or dvds; I prefer to see films in the theater rather than watch them at home. I may try to see this this weekend. Thanks for the info. I sort of EXPECT it to fall apart at the end!

UP OVER AND OUT! That rules.

I've read reviews of this film that call it a trainwreck. It still seems interesting to me as a concept and I've been trying to talk my wife into going to see it. . . I'm getting a little bit of success but someone called it "incoherent" and my wife likes films that cohere. . . . Anyone have a report?

This will make one of my friends very happy, he's been looking for this cd for some time with no success.

Ah, the typoes continue. . .the tradition continues!

There's a cassette available though! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=20823

Thanks for passing that along RT. It's not available any longer!

Yeah, I found that page, but not a link to a track listing (though I swear I looked at the Slim Gaillard discographical material last week but don't see it now; maybe I'm just not seeing things right!)

I couldn't find the track listings there either Mike. However good ole Worlds Records comes through as usual. Try this link: http://www.worldsrecords.com/cgi-bin/store...87&saved=artist

Nice stuff and I'll agree entirely as long as we also agree that there can be fundamentally solid "jazz" without even the blue feeling. . . . I find that to be the case from Storyville to Barbary Coast to Harlem to Juan-les-Pins to Gunther Schullerville. . . .

I'm weird. I even like the title track! In my opinion this one is pretty good, and one track is phenomenal. I'm glad I have it.

Sweetnighter is a good one. Man, those Shorter pieces on the second side are among my favorites of his work of the seventies. Just great stuff!

Yes, I've read about that. . . Man Dash, and Shirley, two great players. . . hopefully that will appear one day.

Yeah, look for artists: Hines, Rushing (James AND Jimmy!), Roy Eldridge, Buddy Tate and Jay McShann. I'm not sure all of these are Master Jazz recordings, but I think they are. . . .

I know there were solo Earl Hines, group Earl Hines, Roy Eldridge and Jimmy Rushing releases. . . everything I have heard is KILLER!

I'm pretty much in the same boat with Tatum as you King U--though I only have the Group Masterpieces, but I've moved into Decca waters and have some of the transcription material. . .trying to steel myself for my eventual and inevitable epic journey into the Solo Masterpieces box. . . .

Yeah, I think a lot of critics don't get, never have gotten this music. I don't claim to myself yet, but I really don't even find cheeziness in some of the ones that are claimed to be cheezy. . .and I wish all the Impulses were in print on domestic cd. . . . It's pretty amazing stuff as a body of work!