Leeway

I've been a Woody Allen fan for a long time; however, I must admit I ten to like his earlier films more than his later ones. Still, hardly any of his films are without reward. Favorites: Bananas- flat out funny Play It Again, Sam (there's a great scene where Woody is putting a jazz LP on the turntable and completely destroys it from nervousness). Funny and sophisticated. Annie Hall - funny and romantic. Manhattan- I think this is his masterpiece Hannah and Her Sisters - underrated and underdiscussed I think. Check this one out. Excellent. Manhattan Murder Mystery - this draws on many Hitchcock motifs and techniques. Maybe Woody's tribute to Hitch.

Contemporary/OJC. Best vinyl sound for the buck. I wanted to hear some Benny Carter. He plays beautiful alto here, and some fine trumpet. Maybe I'm missing it, but it seems to me that Carter doesn't get anywhere near the attention he deserves. Joined on this LP by Ben Webster, Rosolino, Vinnegar, Kessel, Manne. Great lineup.

Ouch! Well, of course, I beg to differ

I was contemplating the Davis/Coltrane set myself. Checking the Mosaic site, I didn't see any mention of whether these are from analogue masters-- perhaps I missed it? I was sure these had previously been labeled as such. Or are these LPs from "dreaded" digital sources?

Would that be too much to hope for?

All good ones. But I thought they would be too obscure. I'll divulge that my choice was Quintet in Chicago. Have people heard this album????? I can't believe no one else voted for this one. This is Miles group minus Miles. It's got Wabash, Limehouse Blues, Grand Central....a great gem. I agree. I consider "Something Else" more of a Miles album than a Cannonball album. It has MD's fingerprints all over it. I voted for the Chicago album also. Would it piss a lot of people off if I were to say that Cannonball made a lot of so-so albums? Sorry. There is a generic quality to much of his playing, and many of the albums. A few Cannonball albums go a long way.

??????????????? First and last ! Might actually be rarer now than the original BN pressing This was mentioned before, but some of the Applause pressings make viable subs for the real thing - until either the real thing turns up or the money for the real thing turns up

If you have a reasonably decent rig, the amount of wear you will place on an LP in normal use is not worth worrying about. Man, I just put the record on, play it, put it back and go on to the next one. I don't want to turn it into a fetishistic thing. I just want to enjoy them. Not to be morbid or anything, my guess is your records (and mine) are going to continue to be enjoyed by collectors and fans long after you (and me) are gone

I found the list of CTI releases pretty interesting. I'm used to seeing a lot of CTI titles in the vinyl bins on a regular basis, but the ones on the list are some I have not come across-- had not even heard of in some cases.

I've been listenign to a lot of 70s jazz and so must be getting used to cheesy synthesizers I do usually have an allergy to them, also. As for SH's performance, maybe working with a solid pro like Buster, and not having to prove himself as a forward-thinking leader, SH may have just relaxed and played to his talents on this one.

Yes, I like this one too. I like Stefon Harris quite abit, and this is almost as much a SH date as it is a Buster Williams date. The sound is excellent. I read that RVG wanted to showcase SACD surround sound, and this disk is something of a demonstration piece. However, I listened to it in good old 2 speaker stereo and liked it just fine.

I love Pearson' arrangements.

Conn series pressing. and: Liberty pressing. On a couple fo cuts, there is a strong Miles influence. "West of Pecos" has more than a passing resemblance to "Milestones." and: and: Hey, how did that get in there?

Post-turkey listening session: Freddie Hubbard - "Straight Life"- with Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Ron Carter, and Jack DeJohnette. CTI. A classic session. 1970. Then: DAVE LIEBMAN - "PENDULUM" 1978- Artists House Randy Brecker on trumpet, Richard Beirach on piano, Frank Tusa on bass, and Al Foster on drums. Recorded live at the Vilage Vanguard. Cool version of Shorter's "Footprints" Some vocals: A JAZZ DATE WITH CHRIS CONNOR Atlantic 1286. Some great sidemen on this gig: Oscar pettiford, Sam Most, Al Cohn, Eddie Costa, Osie Johnson, Ralph Sharon. 1956. Blue Mitchell plays trumpet. 1972. Polydor. Blue Note (United Artists) 84413. 1971. GG playing some very funkified jazz/R&B, with a big band behind him. Odd, but the thing does swing. Epic PE 30325. 1971. The ultimate party album. When you put the LPs from around 1970 together, one can see a desire, maybe for commercial, maybe for artistic, reasons, to pull together jazz, R&B, rock, funk.

When she was young, Marianne Faithfull recorded in that "Lady Jane" style, all love lyrics, pretty voice, pretty arrangements, etc, while, at the time, by all accounts, including her own, she was living the prototypical sex, drugs and rock and roll life style (neatly wrapped up in the figure of her then-boyfriend Mick Jagger). Now she sings in a hard, gravelly, voice about tough things like addiction, loss, pain, but apparently her own life is cleaned up. In retrospect, Marianne is a heckuva cabaret singer. Vanilla Fudge- "The Beat Goes On" - ATCO. Wild ambitious history of music? hopelessly confused concept album? anti-war album? head music? All of the above? I love that Gothic organ sound, but it appears in better form on their first album.

Still raining, still listening: Pretty uneven. The covers of "Saving All My Love For You" and "Crazy" don't do it for me. Best cuts, for me, "B Funk" and "Macho." Not much of a Brubeck fan, really, but wanted to hear Mulligan: "Compadres" "Live in Mexico" quartet with Brubeck, Mulligan, Alan Dawson, Jack Six. Leonard Feather's liner notes talk about the Newport Jazz Festival in Mexico, which seems to have consisted of a couple of tours of a group of musicians in 1967- 1968.

Liberty pressing. Perfect for the martini bar. BN Rare Groove. Perfect for the whiskey bar.

Oh YEAH, the light show Those psychedelic amoeba images are still vivid to my mind. I think it was called the Joshua light show, but it might have gone through changes in name over time. I never sat in the orchestra section, always the first or 2nd row of the balcony. Felt better up there! B-)

Listening to Sonny Fortune's "Waves of Dreams" -- A&M Records, 1976. I don't think this one made it to CD; at least it doesn't appear to be in release at this time. AMG gave it a low 2 star rating, which I think is plain wrong. There is some typical 1970s MOOG and ARP synthesizer stuff, but it never gets in the way of the music and is nicely textured into the whole. The playing is excellent, with Sonny on alto and soprano mostly, and Charles Sullivan on trumpet. There are a lot of interesting musical ideas at play. I suspect if this was on Blue Note it would have gotten much more attention. "Leeway 4 stars"

Uh.................no! Was it New Year's '69/70, by any chance? I was fortunate to have seen him twice myself. The first time was my first rock concert (!) Here are my ticket stubs: "A pillow concert" ?? Somehow incongruous to think of Hendrix doing a frat "pillow concert" That's a really nice memento! The Hendrix show I saw was on May 10, 1968. Sly Stone was the other performer. For some reason (or none at all) I have only the haziest recollection of Sly. Somehow they didn't connect for me that night. I remember Hendrix doing some of his guitar antics-- playing behind his back, using his teeth, etc. But he was also laying down incredible grooves, wah-wah, feedback. And I 've always loved Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding and thought Hendrix played his best while with them. I just thought the whole group was so damn cool

Certainly an, er, idiosyncratic style

Pay the man:

Now THAT is a viable working philosophy

I saw them open for the Doors, so that's probably what you saw, too. Didn't Jimi produce Cat Mother? I remember something about their association, too. Then there's always "Eire Apparent", the Hendrix produced psychedelic disk that sounds like Jimi is all over it. But it might just be the band cloning his sound. Remember what has been said: Those who can remember the 60s probably weren't there Yes, supposedly Hendrix "produced" Cat Mother, although what that entailed is anybody's guess. It would have been nice for Jimi to have thrown in a few guitar licks Did I tell you about the time I saw Hendrix at Fillmore East.............

Yes, that's a excellent link. Thanks