What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Hidden in the sleeve - my programme for Kenny’s 75th Birthday tour. In addition to Konitz, I’d forgotten that Dave Holland was in the lineup that night.

Edited February 21, 2021 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

On 2/20/2021 at 9:22 PM, JSngry said:

BTW - I was blessed to catch the James Brown Show in a club (yes, club!) in Dallas in spring of 1981. The hits had long ago stopped coming, he was either without or about to be without a label, young Black people laughed at his old processed hair ass, it was surely a very dark time for The Godfather, probably the nadir of his career. The crowd was at most 300 people, and mostly white Boomers (of which I was definitely one). But it was still THE JAMES BROWN SHOW - SHOW, just like the old days, full service presentation, JUST like the old days, no intermission per se, just band instrumentals/JB teaser, female singer set, band feature set and then...IT'S STARTIME, and good god, yes, it was James Brown, still The Hardest Working Man In Show Business, STILL Mr. Dyneemite, still in there 1000%, still throwing up that hand for EVERY flub, no matter how irrelevant, It was amazing, cementing my truth that James Brown was indeed a force of nature, records be damned, popularity be damned, HERE was the reality of the truth. "Living In America" and all the samples and other deifications were yet to come. I saw the man at damn near the bottom and he was STILL James Brown. Not just anybody can do that.

But that was a gig. The broader reality was a LOT more complicated. But I know what I saw, heard, and felt, so let it be complicated.

Jim,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and recollections on James Brown -- and all else too.  Today, I spent about ten hours on the road traveling home from an unexpected trip, but I was mulling our conversation for much of the day.  I appreciate your knowledge... and your love of the music!  THAT is the thing, right there!  That's what carries the day.

 

The USPS delivered a package with this LP in it while I was out of town:

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by HutchFan

[Rabshakeh]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The USPS delivered a package with this LP in it while I was out of town:

 

How is this one? I can always use Oliver Lake recommendations.

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

How is this one? I can always use Oliver Lake recommendations.

Impala is excellent.  The band includes Geri Allen, Santi Debriano, and Pheeroan Aklaff.   It's available on YT here.

I also ordered Lake's LP Gallery from the same discogs seller.  Planning on listening to it later today.   

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by HutchFan

[Chuck Nessa]

 

[Chuck Nessa]

And now

[clifford_thornton]

10 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

How is this one? I can always use Oliver Lake recommendations.

that's one I've never had, either, though the band is pretty awesome on it. 

[HutchFan]

First listen to the other Oliver Lake LP that I ordered:

Oliver Lake - Gallery (Gramavision, 1986)
with Geri Allen, Fred Hopkins, Pheeroan AkLaff, and (on one cut) Rasul Sidduk

Just as good as Impala.  Maybe even better.  Too soon to tell.

 

[kh1958]

Ornette Coleman, Opening the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams)

James Blood Ulmer, Live at the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams)

Twins Seven Seven, Slang in Trance (Caravan of Dreams)

Ornette Coleman, In All Languages (Caravan of Dreams)

[HutchFan]

Jessica Williams - Update (Clean Cuts, 1982)
with Eddie Harris

 

[jazzcorner]

 

 

[HutchFan]

Eddie Harris & Ellis Marsalis - Homecoming (Spindletop Records, 1985)

 

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

First listen to the other Oliver Lake LP that I ordered:

Oliver Lake - Gallery (Gramavision, 1986)
with Geri Allen, Fred Hopkins, Pheeroan AkLaff, and (on one cut) Rasul Sidduk

Just as good as Impala.  Maybe even better.  Too soon to tell.

 

yeah, I like this one.

[HutchFan]

Jessica Williams - Nothin' But the Truth (BlackHawk, 1986)

 

[kh1958]

Ronald Shannon Jackson, When Colors Play (Caravan of Dreams)

[HutchFan]

Jane Ira Bloom - Slalom (Columbia, 1988)

 

and

Harvie Swartz - Smart Moves (Gramavision, 1986)

 

[Daniel A]

Patrice Rushen 'Prelusion'. Very much of its time, and very enjoyable!

[jazzcorner]

 

[HutchFan]

James Newton - Luella (Gramavision, 1984)

Flute – James Newton
Vibraphone – Jay Hoggard
Violin – Gayle Dixon, John Blake
Cello – Abdul Wadud
Piano – Kenny Kirkland
Bass – Cecil McBee
Drums – Billy Hart

Somebody was asking about "favorite jazz flute records" elsewhere on the board.  My answer: This one! 

Mostly because Luella is so much MORE than just that.

 

Edited February 24, 2021 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

Gramavision used to be a player. Plenty of quality catalog.

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Gramavision used to be a player. Plenty of quality catalog.

Damn straight.

 

[JSngry]

And then they didn't. Seemed like they moved away from a well-rounded(ish) catalog and went more into Scofield/MMW type stuff at the expense of....other things. Nothing wrong with that, of course, those were still good records, but it made me less inclined to go there with them, as those other things either went elsewhere or else OTHER other things sprung up elsewhere. Once that happened, I didn't really give a hoot what was new on Gramavision. I knew it wasn't going to be James Newton or Bob Moses or Billy Hart, so..

I'm sure they had their reasons, everybody does.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Gramavision used to be a player. Plenty of quality catalog.

Rich kid with money.

[HutchFan]

16 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Rich kid with money.

Wish more rich kids spent their money on making jazz records!  

Especially if the records they make are as good as Luella, Castles of Ghana, Oshumare, Impala, etc.

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Just now, HutchFan said:

Wish more rich kids spent their money on making jazz records!  

Especially if the records they make are as good as Luella, Castles of Ghana, Oshumare, Impala, etc.

 

Un-rich folks can be irritated.