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A cautionary note? Addey's involvement is heartening, but Kurt Ludvall's is not, base on his work with Lovano's recent live recording at the Vanguard.

Release date 9/14/04- Milestone.

Sorry about all the Miles stuff (trust me, I got LOTS more ), but I am still wandering about in Miles Davis Country, in the vicinity of the Principality of GIL, so this afternoon: MILES DAVIS- "BIRTH OF THE COOL"- Capitol T 1974- "Dimensions in Jazz series" - a 1962 reissue, mono. Oddly, I couldn't find an image of this issue. A couple of arrangements by Gil Evans. Miles and Gil had already initated their relationship/collaborations. I recently picked up "Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans"- this is being remaindered (for a good reason?) and going cheap. Author is Larry Hicock. I need to get to this soon. And now for something completely different: "THE ROLAND KIRK QUARTET MEETS THE BENNY GOLSON ORCHESTRA" Mercury MG 20844 - mono (what else B-) ). I can't quite number myself among Kirk fans- at least not yet. That whole multi-instrument thing sort of bugs me. Still, I do hear good things and need to get a better sense of his music. Any fans? Couldn't find an image of this LP either, so:

I was traversing Miles Davis Country and wandered into the adjoining Principality of GIL: GL EVANS - SVENGALI- Atlantic Jazz Lore- 1982 reissue of 1973 Atlantic SD 1643 GIL EVANS- LIVE AT THE PUBLIC THEATER- Vol. 1 (New York 1980) -BlackHawk Records (never seen that label before). I think the Miles Davis-Gil Evans relationship has yet to receive an adequate explanation.

Bertrand, Friday's are usually tough for me to hang in DC, but as we get closer to the date, I'll see if I can make it. If I can, I'll let you know. Is the coupon available on online? I think I discarded my old Posts.

My wife is a major Food Channel watcher, so I have seen Rachel more often than I care to. She's part-babe, part-geek (rachel, that is ). The one thing that really bugs me about her is that side-of-the mouth, peculiar way she has of speaking. On the other hand, I have occasionally caught myself wondering if she "cooks" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) in the bedroom like she does in the ktichen Maybe it's time fore the "Babes of Food Channel" thread? .

Bill, that's a cool idea.

Oh man, those covers get me! What a great batch of albums

That's what's hanging me up-- pick up the remasters as they come along, or get the box and have it all now (I do have some Dolphy in LP and CD but not enough ). This is a tough decision, but all the positives for the box have me inclined that way.

Good to find another sojourner in Miles Davis Country What was it with Miles and the reverse language stuff: "Live-Evil," Selim Sivad," etc? Did Miles have an occult phase?

As they used to say: "Praise from Caesar is praise indeed!"

Coincidentally, I've been listening to the Complete Live at the Village Vanguard, and I completely agree with your comments, King Ubu. This set really energized my Coltrane AND Dolphy appreciation and enthusiasm. Indeed, it's fun to think of this set as "Dolphy Live at the Village Vanguard." From my perspective, in bypassing this set, one misses crucial aspects of Coltrane.

I'm developing a real Dolphy addiction, which is leading me to buying the Complete Prestige Dolphy box set. I have a good excuse as my birthday is coming up next month, so might even be able to get the wife to buy it . Anyway, anyone have this set? What do you think? I like the idea of the chronological arangement in theory; how does it work out in practice? Also, how is the sound quality? Comments and suggestions from other Dolphy fans and fanatics most welcome.

Jerry/Jamil was a great friend (and guide) for 30+ years. He was "perceptive" but NEVER "ambivilent" about anything. Late Coltrane was of great importance to him. Great "critics" take big chances when saying anything "negative" about artists they love. Chuck, thanks for responding to my thoughts on the Coltrane article; however, I'm not sure I quite follow your line of thought. But just to clarify my own, what I was trying to convey is that, despite the fervent prose and he author's obvious sense of engagement with the musicians, my sense of the piece was that the author admired, respected, was even in awe of what Coltrane and the other musicians were doing, but I perceived a certain reservation about it all. It was shock and awe, but not pleasure and enjoyment. Therein, I think, lies the ambivalence, which I think the author recognized. At least, that's my reading of the article. I'm not sure how you meant this in the context of the article. But, in one way at least, it supports what I am saying: when critics, great or small, both love and criticize an artist, they are expressing a kind of ambivalence about the artist, between what they love and what they do not, or maybe, what is versus what they wish would be. Anyway, a provocative and atmospheric report from the "front lines," "back in the day."

Continuing my peregrinations through Miles Davis Country, I reached a "milestone" of sorts (my bad): Columbia CL 1193- Mono ( ) How much did this artist influence Miles- and was influenced by Miles?-- Contemporary S7569

Looks like post padding to me one of the ways we did it...back in the old days.

Looks like post padding to me

Someone I haven't really had a chance to check out before: New Jazz 8254, Bergenfield, NJ. The first jazz musicians I saw "live" and still one of my very favorites: Galaxy GXY-5119 (OJC-474) I had to use image from the CD covers, as I could not find LPs image (same except for the OJC label).

I suppose one way to do it would be to keep checkin EBAY, looking for those copies where the seller is honest enough (that's the hard part ) to state that the disc is in poor shape, has noise, skips, whatever. Or, check for DMM and/or digital copies. These tend to go for fairly low prices as demand is poor. Another way is to go to: Blue Note and other jazz cover images I'm not computer tech guy at all, but I would think you could download these images and then use a photoshop or some other image program to enlarge the image to pciture frame size. Maybe some of the more tech savvy guys on this Board can give you the How-to on that.

I thought this the best, and most perceptive, part of the Coltrane review. Re-reading it, it seems to me that the author's reaction to it all was rather ambivalent, despite the hot house prose (which I enjoyed and which we could use moe of these days of commerical blandness).

Curious as to which "emoticons" get the most and least use. Anyway to tell? My guess for most: Least: :rsmile: What do you think?

Hey AB, with all the huzzahs and hellos (and I add mine), do you feel any "performance pressure" now (at least as far as posting goes)?

MONO a MONO It's back to the basics

Anything out there that is similar in approach and scope of Morton and Cook's "Penguin Guide to Jazz? for rock music?

Prestige 7611- the liner notes on this LP (the sleeve still has the Bergenfield, NJ address) are by Michael Cuscuna, written 1969. How old is Mr. Cuscuna anyway? he must have been fairly young at the time he wrote these notes. Still sojourning in Miles Davis Country: Columbia CL 2732- Mono. Anyone know when Columbia (at least in the case of Miles) stopped producing mono LPs? I was surprised to find a mono copy.