Top Ten Black Saint/Soul Note

[randyhersom]

Big red box says Booster Pack Blowout 30 cents per song as I'm checking new releases. Back button, a little math ... I'm paying 15 for what costs me 12.50 if I wait, Close Enough! Click! and ...

Geri Allen Etudes

Ran Blake The Short Life of Barbara Monk

Billy Bang (with Sun Ra) - Tribute to Stuff Smith

Max Roach and Anthony Braxton - Birth and Rebirth

New Air with Cassandra Wilson - Air Show No. 1

Paul Motian - Story of Maryam

some digging for a three track album ... and

John Lindberg - Trilogy Of Works For Eleven Instrumentalists

Billy Bang's on the headphones right now. Instant gratification is a beautiful thing.

Edited December 10, 2008 by randyhersom

[Kyo]

You can buy them cheap from the Back Saint website directly. I think they dropped prices further after they were purchased by CAM Jazz.

Very nice. I've been wanting to buy some of these on CD for quite some time,

with prices below 9 Euro per disc I finally will. And it's great to be able to sample

more obscure stuff via eMusic now, too!

[Omari10]

Don Pullen: Capricorn Rising, Joseph Jarman: Black Paladins Andrew Cyrille: Metamusicians' Stomp each of these dates to me are must have Black Saint LP's and Baikida Carroll's Shadows And Reflections: Soul Note is also a great recording

[clifford_thornton]

Really hard to pick and rank ten from the vast catalog of both labels. I haven't been truly disappointed by any of those that I've owned... well, the Waldon/Silvano duo isn't the best Mal and the Art Davis is a little underwhelming, but one could do worse than listening to either record.

[felser]

2 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Really hard to pick and rank ten from the vast catalog of both labels. 

Agreed.  Some favorites that immediately come to mind beyond the obvious Billy Harper titles include 'Sightsong' by Muhal Richard Abrams/Malachi Favors, and some of the Andrew Cyrille albums with Ted Daniel & Co. 

[JSngry]

Hemphill

[T.D.]

4 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Really hard to pick and rank ten from the vast catalog of both labels. I haven't been truly disappointed by any of those that I've owned... well, the Waldon/Silvano duo isn't the best Mal and the Art Davis is a little underwhelming, but one could do worse than listening to either record.

Sometimes I'm Blue with Kim Parker also falls somewhat short of the best Mal IMO. 😉

On the positive side, Seagulls of Kristiansund is close to the best Mal and Andrew Hill's Shades is awesome. Lester Bowie's The Fifth Power is very good.

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Hemphill

Yes.

1 hour ago, felser said:

Agreed.  Some favorites that immediately come to mind beyond the obvious Billy Harper titles include 'Sightsong' by Muhal Richard Abrams/Malachi Favors, and some of the Andrew Cyrille albums with Ted Daniel & Co. 

Those Cyrille albums with Ted Daniel are killer. Shout out to Nick DiGeronimo (bass) on a couple of those.

I like the Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus Spirit of Nuff Nuff.

Edited 2 hours ago by T.D.

[felser]

21 minutes ago, T.D. said:

Those Cyrille albums with Ted Daniel are killer. Shout out to Nick DiGeronimo (bass) on a couple of those.

+1 on DiGeronimo.

[Ken Dryden]

On 11/5/2008 at 3:58 AM, JohnS said:

Lots to chose from but don't overlook JOHN JANG: TWO FLOWERS ON A STEM (Soul Note)

Agreed.