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Folk Blues (Pop) Cuscuna x Chris Smith x Randy Newman; Richard Davis electric bass
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x Dylan, Bonnie Raitt & Maria Muldauer somewhere back there
Hunter / Garcia
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well, if jive ass pasticheur and blowhard Ethan Iverson has done little of merit, at least he "inspired" this thread...
fight the power, Ethan! get that J-- i mean George, and it's near certain the ghosts of William Grant Still and Coleridge T. Perkinson-- maybe even Louis Gottschalk and Scott Joplin-- will sneak back in from eternity and acclaim you a true "Soul Brother."
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On 1/20/2024 at 6:34 PM, JSngry said:
"most people" is an assumption that may be rooted in not paying attention to changing realities.
It was 1986-1987 before RCA began reissuing Rollins in earnest. That was a lot of time for the narrative about the 50s material to take root, even though they weren't all gems.
But the 60s were huge for Rollins creatively, and people are figuring this out. Still.
My Milestone overview thread is still coming. I know that "most people" don't prefer that stuff. I don't either. But I still like it, listen to it often. and hear in it a continuation of the ongoing Rollins arc in terms of tenor playing. In terms of record making, maybe not so much. But in terms of tenor playing, if you don't know (or get) 60s Rollins, you really might be lost by what came later.
Taste is indeed subjective but the realities/specifics of music are not.
Tai-Chi & lyricon!
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Nat Cole in "Indochina"
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On 5/29/2017 at 6:12 PM, JSngry said:
DISCO MONK - Larry Coryell, Jerome Harris, Al Foster, Bill Summers, Mark Soskin go in too.
We used to roller skate to this!
Sonny solo starts 3:36, goes to about 6:15, then it's time again to boogie!
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22 hours ago, mjazzg said:
'On Broadway' always works for me
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On 1/13/2022 at 8:04 AM, JSngry said:
I first heard Michael on that first Dreams album. Then on a Horace Silver record. Both were with Randy onboard. The there was his solo on James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight". Then with The Brecker Brothers albums - "Sneaking Up Behind You" was a pop hit, and "Some Skunk Funk" was/is a "cult classic". So he was a very well-known quantity before Steps.
Both Michael and Randy did a good amount of session dates, and Michael stood out everywhere he showed up. But he never really attempted to create a "straight-ahead" profile. Until all that had died down Check him out on Cameo's "Candy", that has become an iconic moment for players of a certain ilk.
Along the way, he'd do the oddball "straight ahead session, like with Joanne Brackeen or Hal Galper, but those were always on low-profile labels. So when he showed up on 80/81, it was a bit of a WTF? moment for a lot of people. I remember Bob Belden talking about it and smirking that "Ok, everybody thinks that Michael Brecker can play now because he's on a side with Dewey".
That was snide, but not inaccurate. He was playing a lot of flash, but not a lot of meat, imo. To his credit, apparently felt the same way, and spend the rest of his life being humble and working hard to keep digging deeper. Me, I didn't really care, but I came to respect the hell out of him, and do understand the high esteem in which he came to be held.
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On 6/27/2020 at 1:30 PM, JSngry said:
During his high school years he was Northeast Regional tennis champion for New England, and studied Mandarin Chinese through a State Department intensive language course, pursuits which he maintained throughout his life...
In 1992, he married Marguerite Serkin, and moved to Southern Vermont. He constructed their family home while teaching music at Bennington College, performing and recording in a wide spectrum of musical genres.**
Marguerite SERKIN one of four daughters of RUDOLF SERKIN and IRENE BUSCH (daughter of the great violinist & conductor, Adolph Busch); Peter Serkin her brother... Not a huge fan of Rudolf on record though his dedication to his teacher, MAX REGER, is admirable and... the Mazel / Malik connection to the Serkin family is interesting and seemingly unnoted?
Don't know his interest in classical but it'd be wild to learn he worked out on, say, Hindemith...
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this is a "pretty good" band with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette. on Antilles.
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On 7/19/2005 at 7:23 PM, Chuck Nessa said:
Not a fan of Joanne (as a musician) but you don't know what was being repaid (financially and emotionally) in that settlement (if it is true). I do not think we need to go there.
bump because enjoying Joanne on Freddie Hubbard "Sweet Return" including her own tune, "Heidi B," and of course thoughts of Charles Brackeen come up. With Roy Haynes, Eddie Gomez, Lew Tabackin.
Are people aware that Joanne and Charles had FOUR children together? Think about that when we understandably lament Charles' last 35+ years or longer, i.e. there was obviously MUCH more going on there than we as fans knew (or know).
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"Joanne Brackeen grew up in California and taught herself jazz piano from listening to records. She moved to New York to be closer to the heartbeat of the jazz scene — so close that, in the late '60s, her apartment was around the corner from the fabled East Village club Slug's. One night, with her four small children tucked in, Brackeen ran down to Slug's to hear Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Blakey's pianist was elsewhere, so Brackeen slid onto the bench and started to play, and the next thing you know, Blakey hired her and took her to Japan. That story says something about both musicians. Not many women played in the top bands then; it was radical."
https://www.npr.org/2008/11/13/96915298/joanne-brackeen-a-maelstrom-on-the-keys
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On 6/19/2007 at 6:31 PM, mr jazz said:
late to the party but always loved Caravanserai and I agree with all the comments about Shrieve-he played so well amidst all the percussion. Where I differ is regarding Welcome-a fine side 1 that drifts somewhat on side 2 before a beautiful Naima ends the record. I think Borboletta is full of great music-one with the sun,life is anew, give and take have some scorching solos and Broussard's solo on Aspirations is well played. Side 2 features the extended promise of a fisherman with more inspired playing. Airto's bookmarking percussion is a nice touch. An underrated record that screams for remastering. The remastered Welcome is worth picking up as the percussion and drums are much clearer to my ear. I don't think Santana ever reached the heights as he did on these three seminal recordings all valuable in their own right. lotus has its moments but drags in a few places, still worth owning.
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1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:
Not willing to spend money to explore.
It's great! Glad Pat has the resources and interest to pursue it. Essential for admirers of Busoni, Ives, Nancarrow... Joe Hill Louis... Hal Russell... Varese, Zappa...Anthony Braxton, George Lewis... others
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Imagine walking into a cathouse expecting Jelly Roll Morton and the Madame shows you THIS instead --
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On 12/26/2021 at 2:30 PM, JSngry said:
I've had a Zawinul Spotify thing going for about a month now, and it's almost all post-WR/Columbia stuff.
Without fail, I find the music to be deliriously joyous and just ALL kinds of crazy wackgood.
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Wayne tune
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On 7/1/2023 at 9:12 PM, JSngry said:
Obscured by it's commonness.
Airdate Oct 7, 1967
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from excellent 1979 George Duke produced album "Carry On," well worth the... $5 or less it's likely to cost.
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19 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Joe Ford?!?!?
I didn't catch that at first! But given that Joe was a music teacher in Buffalo then, it seems very likely he played piano too... Wild he ended up with McCoy if that is corredct. Curious about Gayle playing "harp" also, presumably more Alice Coltrane than Julio Finn (harmonica).
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3 hours ago, JSngry said:
Thanks, good to know that.
Westinghouse!
from Buffalo Courier Express 20 March 1972, when Gayle was assistant professor of music at University of Buffalo
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some interesting Bruce covers-- sung in English-- by Japanese Joe Ozaki
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16 hours ago, JSngry said:
respectfully, I have to side with the dissenters here.
a WKCR host did a three-hour long Astrud show tonight-- seemed like three weeks it was so g.d. repetitive, and mostly insipid. Softly sung fake Chet Baker w/ a Brazilian accent, slow song, medium tempo song repeat repeat repeat, by the time she gets to "Light My Fire" (why not "Celebration of the Lizard" or The End" also? Or at least "Peace Frog"!) I'm ready to shed a tear too...
... and then listen to three weeks of nothing but DELLA REESE to cleanse myself.
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On 1/16/2018 at 4:03 PM, JSngry said:
Two words - Bruno Carr!!!!
x Wayne "Footprints"
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10 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:
Frank Wolff produced the Lou linked to there, and it's not even the best thing he did in that era. I think Lou's Natural Soul is as good as anything Blythe ever did (my fav of his would be Lennox Ave for the texture behind him). FWIW, I realize that I just contradicted myself but some days you want apples and some days you want oranges.
thanks Dana-- I garbled my reply, meaning to say George Butler went from doing liner notes for Lou to producing Arthur a decade plus later.
interesting to recall Bob Thiele produced this one:
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On 6/27/2008 at 9:04 PM, paul secor said:
I can hear what you're saying, but I think that LD made more good records than AB.
but did LD, even in context and in all his phases, make a single album as great as Blythe "Illusions"? Likely, because of their biz realities and temperaments, Lou never thought it necessary to try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP0-Yv3RjlY
George Butler produced and fine, like most Lou, liner notes by George Butler who goes on the produce Blythe's Monk tribute a decade plus later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVpIoYuI2Yw&list=PLGSxK-_xeRIZ2qVIjyK4a2h8Y1jcv0rwx&index=2
David Sanborn R.I.P.
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this whole episode-- though one pick numerous others-- shows Sanborn's great range and empathy. Hard to criticize his solo career choices when he did so much for others also; getting paid for it, granted, but not just... Interesting to note / compare Hiram Bullock with Sanborn (tv, live, record) with Bullock's work with Carla Bley too.
(this also instructive for those (mostly white) people who (still) patronize Stevie Ray Vaughan, watch him kill it himself not just with Night Music band but as sideman on closing "Sailin' Shoes"
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also with Wayne Shorter, Carlos Santana
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also with some trumpet player excelling with mute and mullet both