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  3. joke thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    A Professor was giving a lecture on "Involuntary Muscular Contractions" to his first year medical students. Realizing that this was not the most riveting subject, the Professor decided to lighten the mood slightly.

    He pointed to a young woman in the front row and said, "Do you know what your ass hole is doing while you're having an orgasm???"

    She replied, "Probably deer hunting with his buddies."

    The Professor laughed so hard he could not continue with the class.

  5. Kenny Dorham

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Just wish he hadn't showed up for Cecil Taylor's Hard Driving Jazz date. Good player, 100% wrong context.

    Listening to the crap Cecil plays over KD's composition and solos, I bet KD wished he hadn't shown up either.

    I think the producer (Tom Wilson?) wanted to present Cecil in a more mainstream context, and hired the players. Of course, Cecil was having none of it, and the session just doesn't jell. Cecil and the others seem to be having a tug of war, and nobody wins. To further complicate matters, the session has since been issued as a Coltrane-led date, which makes Cecil the odd man out, even though it was originally his date! A noble experiment that failed.

  8. Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I have the chance to buy Volumes 1-4 of these, but they look like second pressings from 1963 or so. They are the black label (stereo) with gold writing with a deep groove. The record jackets have the pictures pasted on the covers.

    Can anyone confirm what they first pressings looked like? Were they the heavier yellow?

    These sound like originals. The original stereo releases were on the black label, the monos were yellow. By the mid 1970's, all Contemporaries were yellow. The deep groove is also a giveaway. I can't say for sure, but I believe that deep groove pressings had largely disappeared by 1963.

  9. BFT 51 - Signup

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    PM on the way.

    My vote is for a single disc. I think that having every BFT be two discs or more has led to some of the burnout and drop in participation. I also find it easier to find the time to comment on tracks from just one disc. It gets to be challenging when there are 30 to 40 tracks to listen to and comment on.

    I thought it started getting out of hand when just about every BFT was a double set. I listen to each BFT twice before commenting, and as much as I enjoyed participating, I have dropped out for the time being because I feel that two discs were too much of a strain on what little listening time I have.

  10. Moby Grape

    in Re-issues

    Posted

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    Forever Changes: Live

    This album is a pretty good chronicle of his 2001 live performance of the original.

    Recommended.

    It never struck me as an album that would come off well live, but now you've piqued my interest.

    I third the thumbs up. I had to be out of town when he brought the show to Boston, and was doubly annoyed when I heard the positive reviews from people who went. I knew this had to be a one-time event. The DVD captures it really well, and it's surprisingly strong, especially considering all the years that had passed.

  11. New Jazz non-OJC mono reissues

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Sure? Is anyone ever truly "sure" about anything?

    I'll put it another way:

    Do you really believe Blue Note, Prestige, whomever...really gave Scorpio the masters?

    I don't...

    So do you think they reissue either from CDs or from clean LPs? For example, I have several of their reissues of obscure Columbia material. This is stuff that has not been reissued on CD. I can *usually* tell if an LP was mastered from another LP. These sound like they're taken from a very clean source. If it's a digital source, it sounds like it's from the masters.

    This from someone at Scorpio:

    Most of the reissues are from digital copies (DAT's) of the master tape, legitimately licensed by Scorpio. Columbia, Capitol, et al are not about to turn over their master tapes, so they offer DAT copies from which the LP's are mastered.

  16. Kenny Dorham

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    With the appearance in recent years of albums by today's players who celebrate the music of past jazz masters, I'd love to see one that pays tribute to KD's wonderful material.

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    Here's one worth seeking out

    Don Sickler - The Music of Kenny Dorham (Reservoir) rec. 1983

    Don Sickler (tp), JImmy Heath (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Ron Carter (b), Billy Higgins (d)

    Spring Cannon / Escapade / Windmill / Phily Twist / La Mesha / The Fox / Blue Lament

  17. Name Three People...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Lionel Bart

    Tony Newley

    Max Harris (does anyone remember?)

    No :D

    Come come - British jazz musician who wrote the theme for Newley's TV series "Life of Gurney Slade".

    :excited: It was a big hit.

    Only for those who live in the country where it was aired! We Americans know Newley, of course, but have never heard of the series. :unsure:

  18. Name Three People...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Lionel Bart

    Tony Newley

    Max Harris (does anyone remember?)

    No :D

    Come come - British jazz musician who wrote the theme for Newley's TV series "Life of Gurney Slade".

    :excited: It was a big hit.

    Only for those who live in the country where it was aired! We Americans know Newley, of course, but have never heard of the series. :unsure:

  22. "We Three" label confusion

    in Discography

    Posted

    I'm hoping somebody can clear something up for me. Yesterday I bought a used LP of the Roy Haynes' trio record "We Three" with Phineas Newborn and Paul Chambers. Great side, of course. I've had it forever as an OJC LP and on CD, but this appeared to be an original copy and it was at a killer price -- $3 -- and even though it physically looked a bit scuffed and the cover spine was maybe 60 percent split, it was still impossible to pass up. As it turns out, it sounds great, with just a bit of surface noise. It's a mono recording, by the way.

    OK, here's the question. On the front of the jacket, the label is listed as New Jazz. However, on the back, the label is listed as Status. The inner label on the record is the orange Status liner with that familiar logo (the s-that's-also-an-arrow.) I always thought this record first came out on New Jazz (purple label), which is the indication of my OJC. I know that New Jazz and Status were both Prestige subsidiaries. So what gives with this LP? Why does it say different things in different spots? Frankly, it looks like a fuck-up, which I suppose is entirely possible -- like a misprinted stamp or something that gets recalled right away. Perhaps it's worth more on the collector's market because of the mistake.

    So, if anybody out there wants to offer me an obscene amount of money for this, I'm all ears.

    Explanations anyone?

    The original is definitely on New Jazz. Status releases are, for the most part, reissues from the Prestige/New Jazz catalog. They came out in the mid 1960's. They were sold at budget prices, usually $1.50 - $2.00. Often, the covers and labels don't match. This may be because they had some covers left over, and pressed up a few Status records to go in them, or perhaps it was too expensive to change the cover art. I have seen Status records in New Jazz covers, I have seen Status records in covers that have a Status sticker pasted over the New Jazz logo, and I have seen Status records in Status covers. Such is typical of a small operation like Prestige. The Status pressings, like many New Jazz pressings, are noisy - usually hissy, because they are pressed on low grade vinyl.

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