jazzbo

I am not a jazz guru on any board! But I don't hear his playing as shakey on almost any of the recordings. Different yes, seeking, questing, cautious, maybe even unconfident, but not shakey. USED to hear it that way a bit but don't any longer.

I dig Pink too.

though the sound bugs me a little. . . . Not a crucial thing though.

Looks focused enough for me! Thanks for the Una Mae photo as well.

I get separate links Mnytime. Yeah, probably they shouldn't have been there. . . but they can lay a claim to being there. . . they're sort of box sets.

For me it's the Moncurs. Just never have seemed as great to me as everyone else seems to find them. But then few here get excited as I do about the Hodes dates, so vive la difference!

Una Mae Carlisle. . . wish there were dozens of pictures of her available on the net! I really dig her playing and singing.

Very cool photo Chris!

I'll agree that this stuff is subversive in its way. Nice analogy. It's really very interesting stuff.

I really like these sessions. The vocals are on neither of those you mention, but on "How Insensitive." They are not like the vocals on "Life Every Voice!" But I like them. But then I'm different! The Brazilian inspired items on this (and on other Pearson sessions) I find among the best of these years of Blue Note's history. And the Xmas album is my favorite Xmas album.

course there's this one too: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...20&hl=blackhawk

Well, there's this one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...04&hl=blackhawk

Well, there's this one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...04&hl=blackhawk

and to and hear some similarities!

Lately I've been listening to

No, didn't make it ever to the Smiling Dog. Should have! My experience would have been fine if I had lived there from when I was knee high to a grasshopper. But I didn't, and I was a fish out of water, and I really sort of have been in some ways since I came back from Africa. I came back kicking and screaming and I left part of me there at Waterford-Kamhlaba School!

Darned if I can remember exactly. . . . I was in the area sporadically from 1970 to 1980. . . I lived most of that time in Burton, Ohio, in the final abysmal two years of highscholl, then after two years at the University of Chicago I lived most of the rest of the time til late 1980 in Burton. Ten or twelve times a year or more I'd end up at the midnight movies in a theater in the area, and record shopping.

Another lovely voiced Brazilian. . . Maucha Adnet (and band)

The lovely and beautifully voiced Gal Costa, the flower from Bahia!

Ms Jessica Williams, what a pianist!

Beauty side by side. . . .

And then there's Mary Lou. . . .

Okay, I guess I'll be the lover of beauty that starts this. Let's have a thread for visions of lovely musicians, who enrich us with their beautiful music! I'll start off with Hadda Brooks:

Points well taken about Pops, Jim. I told my wife more than a decade ago that I thought Louis Armstrong was underrated and she thought I was nuts. "EVEN I HAVE HEARD OF HIM" she let me know, which was pretty amazing at the time, really. But I still think he hasn't gotten his full due. He was just an amazing human being in so many ways!