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gonna check out rhythm ranch!

Actually I thought it was pretty good, though I can imagine it disconcerted some fans because much of it is very "outside" (& the outside stuff is often quite lengthy!) Re: Scofield--some of his earlier (1980s to mid-1990s discs) are good--I used to spin Shinola or was it Out Like a Light a lot on my brief-lived radio show. & the album with Joe Henderson, So Near So Far, is terrific. But I dunno about the later Scofield (walked out of one particularly dull Toronto concert, pushing my way through the droves of entranced guitarheads in the audience). Hey, Hub-Tones is a very good album--not FH's best (I like Ready for Freddie & Open Sesame more of those I've heard) but it's still got lots going for it, including the presence of Clifford Jarvis. Of recent discs I think the more disappointing ones I can think of were the Taylor/Dixon/Oxley; Metheny/Bailey's Sign of 4; Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake's Back Together Again; about two-thirds of Bill Frisell's albums after the departure of Joey Baron; David S Ware's ludicrous Threads; Dave Douglas's The Infinite; Robert Glasper's Canvas. douglas and ware, of recent, rarely fail to disappoint.

You know, I had that on vinyl and I loved the original version of it because Gonsalves was playing into the wrong mic and throughout most of the solo what you mostly heard was the crowd going crazy while just barely being able to make out what Gonsalves was doing. But they really screwed it all up with the "complete" cd release because now you mostly hear Gonsalves while barely even hearing the crowd. The original version had more of a goosebumpy quality to it. Not to mention the incredibly irritating aspect of the "complete" cd moving in and out of stereo throughout. It's especially frustrating when listening to it through headphones. the vinyl is far superior. a more dramatic emotional player couldnt have sustained that.

beautiful django broadcast on blue lake last night. rheinhardt in some magnificent settings. the 1 am set, featuring the glenn miller all stars, was magnificent. the davern followup was perfecto.

What is ice 24? He must be pissing on an icicle. i am pissing ice, so to speak. dont want to go out in the ice for other than ...ice

What is ice 24? a magnificent anheuser-busch ghetto brew, natural ice, (8% alcohol at 99 cents per 24 ounce can)

...doing natty ice 24's tonight, so i'm certainly not allowed.

'bitches brew' disappointed me after 'in a silent way' and 'kiliminjaro'

Received an advance copy before release and was delighted. I admit it was largely because it was a new Ornette, but it took me a month to calm down. Ornette's sound is wonderful and that's what I focused on. Denny seemed to inspire OC, so it worked for me. When I listen now I can't erase the old impressions. havent heard it for awhile. i must revisit.

'the empty foxhole' with ornette, charlie, and denardo disappointed. (isnt it something to comment that one is disappointed with a 4 year old drummer?)

'the other side of jimmy smith' is most unfortunate. how can such a MAGNIFICENT artist get himself roped into such a hopeless, depressing enterprise?

what an enjoyable thread, and what beautiful sincere disagreement!

Uh... did you have the volume up? Have to disagree with "limp, uninspired, and utterly boring", but different strokes. I think this is a great performance, and it gets better every time I play it. I think even people who don't care much for Scofield would be impressed with his playing on this. i second the notion

wes montgomery and jimmy smith with arrangements by oliver nelson

anyone be owing or hearing 'live at the festival?'

Jerome alludes to airchecks of the 1940s band, but I couldn't find any in my initial online searches... just the Hal Kemp tribute record from 1957. Heh... probably should've posted this in Politics. No comment on the Garment-Greenspand bandstand alliance. alan greenspan played in jerome's group for some time. the later jerome had some kind of bouncing sound for the stereo. Economist and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Born March 6, 1926, in New York City. Considered by many to be the second most powerful man in the United States, Greenspan has headed the seven-member board since 1987, doggedly fighting to keep inflation down and increase consumer confidence in the economy. Raised by his mother and grandmother in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, Greenspan actively pursued his interest in music. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Juilliard School and spent a year travelling with the Henry Jerome Band as a tenor saxophone and clarinet player. From 1944 to 1948, he attended New York University’s School of Commerce, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics. He earned his M.A. in 1950, but left before finishing his doctorate—he ultimately received his Ph.D. in 1977—to form an economic consulting firm, Townsend-Greenspan, with the bond trader William Townsend. Townsend served as president of the company until his death in 1958, when Greenspan became its president and principal owner. In 1952, Greenspan married Joan Mitchell, a painter. Their marriage was annulled after only a year, but it was she who introduced him to Ayn Rand, the novelist and social philosopher. Greenspan, who remained friends with Rand until her death in 1982, was greatly influenced by her philosophy of “Objectivism,” or the pursuit of economic self-interest to the exclusion of the interests of society as a whole.

(i hate to keep harping) Harpo at Work Hipsters seem to prefer Harpo in Hi Fi, released the year earlier, and not just because it has the expression "hi fi" in the album title. That side featured a medium size jazz group with interesting players such as reed maestro Buddy Collette and swinging cellist Fred Katz. Hearing Harpo Marx in a jazz setting, the results more than just satisfying an urge for good music in this genre; it fulfills a popular fantasy in which the outrageous, anarchistic nature of the Harpo character joins forces with the rebellious spirit that is jazz. In turn that cuts to the quick of why the music of Harpo Marx is so unique, indeed why the entire idea of the man as a musician is so compelling. Marx the man is virtually indistinguishable from the character of Harpo he created in the public's mind, yet it was clearly the former who entered the studios to record instrumental albums, including earlier projects for RCA as well as the Mercury recordings. For once, however, there is no dichotomy between image and reality. One actually serves the other, as one of the strongest aspects of the Harpo character was the way he would take a breather from the madness all around him and sit down and play a haunting solo on the harp. The fact that the character was mute enhanced the idea even further; here, in music, he could really express himself, and oh so eloquently, turning a knuckle one way to get a certain tone, muffling a ringing chord with a twist of the palm. Chatter about his lack of orthodox harp technique added another layer of enhancement, connecting back to the idea of Harpo the rebel: of course the sweet little munchkin would never learn orthodox classical technique, not him. Everything to do with Harpo the musician was actually true about the man. He was not mute, but he was a selftaught harpist whose abilities left symphony players and instructors scratching their heads. That such a player might be sympathetic to jazz is a given. Although pianist Chico Marx was the brother with the heaviest credentials in the genre, including once having Mel Torme drum for him, there are plenty of other signs in Marx Brothers films that can be interpreted as jazz simpatico. Free jazz buffs even relish a moment in Monkey Business when during a chase aboard a ship, the gang commandeers all the instruments on a bandstand and carries on roughly in the tradition of an Albert Ayler record. As for Harpo at Work the jazz connection would be Charlie Parker With Strings. From the opening "Laura" there is a strong smell of that project and that is meant in a way suggestive of exotic perfumes, perhaps an entire hillside of lavender growing along the Grand Corniche on the French Riviera. What is apparently also a virtuoso display of pedals on the harp is also a gorgeous performance of this standard that stands alongside any of the jazz greats. The program also includes a few Duke Ellington favorites as well as an "All the Things You Are" and an "Imagination". Even more so than the Bird With Strings project, this material inevitably comes off sounding like easy listening, a conclusion that is influenced greatly by the sound of the harp itself.

Is it kosher to play the Koto or Harp while wearing Lederhosen or only the Zither? i'm sure some of our chicago freestylers will be doing so soon.

pearl chertok did an album with percussionist willie rodriquez which was most unique for its time and a fine listen. it may have been titled harp and bongos.

marilyn mazur played in ahmad jamal's group for quite some time. they embellished each other and were magnificent together. i hope they someday get together again. much of the music was quite energetic.

kimio eto and bud shank on flute made an absolutely gorgeous album, koto and flute, on pacific jazz, i think.

http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/ anyone know about this neat site? here's the page of his latest restorations. http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/pages/recordings.html

Wow, that's a bit harsh. I think he has done more for the Cowboys than either of those two. I think at the very least he's toughened them up mentally (with the exception of Bird Brain Owens). I will say I think he's better at acquiring talent than he is as a game day coach. contract negotiations between parcells and the cowboys had recently broken down. here's a recent SI article on parcells by peter king. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writ...ells/index.html

(when will the jazz indies get together?) if and when they get big, they will probably act big. (from english al jazeera) Bands such as the Pixies could sell more of their music online via Myspace [GALLO/GETTY] Thousands of independent record labels have agreed a deal to sell downloads of their music via the networking website, Myspace. Merlin, a new agency representing the labels, has agreed the deal with San Francisco-based firm Snocap, and will use their retail initiative - Mystore - to enable music to be downloaded via websites including Myspace. The deal opens up new revenues for the labels behind bands such as the Arctic Monkeys and the White Stripes. While indie record labels account for about 80 per cent of new music releases, they represent only 30 per cent of total revenues. The announcements were made at the music industry's influential five-day conference in the French town of Cannes. Merlin said it would act as the "fifth major" in the world with a view to rectifying the "poor cousin" status of deals previously offered to independent labels. Martin Mills, who heads the indie music organisation Beggars Group, said: "We'll be the largest major company in the world if we act together." Corporate deal Indies in all the European countries as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and others have joined Merlin. The deal with Snocap, which was founded by Napster creator Sean Fanning, is the first of its kind. A co-founder of Myspace, Chris DeWolfe, said last year that the group hoped to be one of the biggest digital music stores available. The hugely popular social networking website is now owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The major music corporations - Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI Group and Warner Music - account for 70 per cent of world music sales. Source: Agencies