Jump to content

jazzbo

Members
  • Posts

    44,455
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Donations

    0.00 USD 

Everything posted by jazzbo

  1. I'll agree with you Chuck, this is a great piece, and Freddy Jenkins was a wonderful player.
  2. Well, the subliminal sure worked on me! Thanks for weighing in with the email address Jim. I'm really enjoying this one!
  3. Here's a recommendation for Quartet Out, "Welcome to the Meat House." This cd from this esoteric and under-utilized quartet of Dallas Musicians (capitol M for a reason) is a real treat. Hard-swinging (yeah, in its way) and revved up from beginning to end, it shows several things clearly: that these guys can PLAY, that these guys can think on their feet and write themes that WORK, and that these guys can breathe and boogie together in the way that working bands can and not as often as we'd like DO. It's free and it's structured and it's blowing and it's well thought out and it's what a "jazz" album should be. I see this as an "open letter to Bob Belden" that NYC is not the only place that STUFF HAPPENS. Okay, seriously though there are great musicians hard at work in other places. And they should be recorded. I would like to think that a copy of this cd and a copy of a live recording done by the Marchel Ivery Quartet in the last months sent to a dozen record labels would mean that a team of A&R and recording folk would be on the way to Dallas. I'd LIKE to think that. I have to be realistic and know that is maybe one of my pipe dreams. But check this cd out. If you need help finding a copy of this, leave your question here or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com PS: In the fine Blue Note tradition, I managed to get a typo into the subject line! Where is my mind? If the moderator would like to edit this I'd be quite happy.
  4. Finished Caetano Veloso's "Tropical Truth" and Hampton Hawes' "Raise up off Me" and have started to re-read "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. (For like the fifth time.) There really is no timelier book in several ways; it's a great companion to the time we have now in America with our myth-making dogs at the helm. I'D LOVE TO SEE SOMEONE MAKE A MOVIE OF THIS!
  5. I really doubt that a possible little wrinkle may have been noticed in sales dips because of the close of the bulletin board.
  6. I really doubt that a possible little wrinkle may have been noticed in sales dips because of the close of the bulletin board.
  7. I have a lot of this stuff, but there is material new to me, and I'm sure this is going to be a great set!
  8. Yeah, that sound calls the children home! People who say he had no technique are just clueless! Despite Bertrand's negative response, I do honestly think there is a resurgence in interest in Ayler and his music.
  9. It's a decent book. There's room for a better bio, but will we see one? Unlikely.
  10. Good stuff. The Tristano stuff is mostly as far as I remember live radio material that had all star sessions. . . good stuff.
  11. The Akiyosha/Kuhn is very good. It has a sort of George Russell feel to me to the arrangements. Has guitar, two basses and two pianos and drums. Uses a few c and w themes, but boy is it NOT country and western!
  12. Here's another I've never seen before:
  13. Here's one I never saw til yesterday:
  14. Here's one I really like that I bought recently. . . I'm redblooded and like it for obvious reasons. . . and is an excellent album as well!
  15. And the Babs (though I haven't heard this cd version) is a HOOT AND A HOLLER AND A HALF. Nice record to have reissued!
  16. Well, being enamored with bossa nova lately, I did the Barron. Yeah, not much blowing, but sometimes I don't need a lot of solos, especially in bossa nova if the material is interesting, and hearing this musical in this style is interesting. But that's me. The Akiyosha / Kuhn I didn't really expect to like but it's very interesting and I like it a lot. I haven't heard the cd version of the Salvador, but I was pretty unimpressed with an lp version I've heard. . . .
  17. It's amazing music. I am a huge fan of Armstrong, and this is a great set to have. Almost all if not all the music is available elsewhere, but it's a wonderful assembly and a very well produced set. Verve did a great thing by putting out an expanded "Autobiography Sessions" release in the last few years. It includes the little monologue introductions NOT included in the Mosaic set. Still, I like the sound on the Mosaic as well or if not better, and NOT having the introductions is not that big a deal to ME. It may be to others.
  18. The German Ayler cds sound pretty darned good as well. The music is. . . something else!
  19. "The Candido is DUDSVILLE. The Bartz, to my tastes is horrible, a disco travesty. " DOESN'T sound like a diss to me! 'Scool. I dig 'em though because I'm liking all kinds of music these days for different reason; certainly not the jazz purist I might have been! (And finding hollow a lot of the stuff I thought was so hip when I may have been a jazz purist!)
  20. These things are a matter of taste I guess. The first time around was better in my opinon; I really enjoyed some of the episodes. This time around. . . tamer, more generic, still some laughs. The intro with it's Reid Miles influenced montage is the only real improvement if that is one. Seems they decided to "dumb it down" which is a shame. More intelligent shows like the earlier version of this and the "It's Like You Know" and the private eye show that Michael Richards had FAIL. Ah, the land of the free and the home of the brave!
  21. Hmmm. . .I like "Music is my Sanctuary" AND "Beautiful." Oh well. I know I'm different!
  22. It's been a LONG time since I heard her work. And I think this cd probably has almost all of it (?) I heard French RCA lps. . . . It was interesting. . . I wasn't THRILLEd but I was a lot less interested in the early years of recorded music in those days. . . .
  23. I used to totally LOVE Weather Report. Saw them about five times, on two coasts. I've rebought this in the new remaster and it sounds great. But. . . I don't really get into WR any longer. "Tale Spinnin'" is the one I like the MOST. . . it's special. Must be the berimbau!
×
×
  • Create New...