Bluesnik

One of my BN treasures. With the artists mentioned .And some more.

And Basie at organ on some tracks.

The Randy Weston Select is really good. I got it from a fellow board member here.

I rediscovered this a while ago and am now wth the Jones-Smith Inc. group, Basie's Bad Boys and upcoming the Kansas City Seven. What a treasure of a boxset.

Very nice article...

Yes, I also liked his work.

He looks a bit like George Clooney

Yes, really interesting. Specially when Robby Kruger is shown. I knew he was an SG player, but here he plays one with regular humbuckers and has another one with P90s, single coils, beside him.

A quartet with a stellar lineup.

Yes, I agree. Perhaps the two best and most moving jazz autobiographies I've read.

My father's exactly like that , something I've never really understood. As a kid he loved opening and rebuilding radios. Later in his 20s and 30s he was very much into photography. And he finally became an engineer.

Yes, I am.

I also buy less and less. And specially not nearly as much as I once did. I nearly don't buy anything now. One of the advantages of having more and more. And I also don't have anything listing what I have. To create it would be an awesome job, though I'm considering doing it more and more.

And now with: With the great Amancio d'Silva. He was from Goa, a place I've been to. And also the fantastic Joe Harriott. Terrific late night music.

That would be something for me. I like very much the British Fleetwood Mac. Although I also like the American, specially Rumours.

I saw one about CSNY the other day. Very good. And what I wanted to say and nearly forgot: A compilation I got the other day from Craft, titled Poppies Assorted finery from the first psychedelic age. And as psychedelia has always held a special place for me, it's very appropriate.

Another guitar trio I like a lot. With either Howard Roberts or Jim Hall. And George Duvivier.

Thanks a lot.

Well, I forgot the Red Norvo trio with Mingus, from an early phase in Farlow's career. That was terrific. Farlow, Norvo and Mingus! Ah yes? I didn't know that and I'd like very much to hear it.

It's, I think, the best trio Farlow ever had. It was put together for a job in a club and it was a working band.

The Farlow trio with Vinnie Burke and Eddie Costa is one of my favourite guitar trios. They recorded often and I think some of the albums in the Farlow Mosaic feature that trio. Plus the Fuerst and Second set mentioned before. Those were private recordings, coupled and put out by Fresh Sound or some of that Spanish labels. And I also got that Jubilee album mentioned before. It was reissued as a CD sometime in the late 80s or early 90s by Fresh Sound

I followed this route too. Since I don't need the last Wolff unpublished picture. His cover pics are more than enough for me. And in this respect I've a very good and very recommendable BN cover book I got in the early 2000s, I think. It's called The cover art of BN by Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham, but I don't know if it's still available. On the other hand I also have the right one from this picture, which I got heavily discounted from TrueBlue. This book I don't like so much, because the pics are mainly color, from the late sixties, as mentioned above (I assume it's the same book). And I don't think this period is the most interesting in the BN story (Hank Mobley in a turtleneck sweater). And it's not very well bound, pages are already falling apart.

Don't know the answer to that, though it looks like a battery issue. I have an amp with a built in tuner. A good thing. But I hate those robotuners Gibson came up with around 2015. They detect the note and tune the string automatically. Something to be avoided at all costs, at least according to me. I have and use one of those cliptuners and when the battery once ran out the display went mad showing all kinds of mysterious things. And now that I remember it I also have a built in tuner in a Takamine accoustic.

Yes it's free as well. And it works very well. I would recommend it too. I have a friend who uses it a lot to ID songs off series, and who's found real jems like that. On an Iphone though.