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98.7% of jazz fans, no hyphens, could see Malaby live and come away believing he's a competent-to-hokey striver... which is fine, even with a decade plus of some fans (Jim Macnie in the old, not entirely decrepit, Voice comes to mind) drastically overstating the guy's historical abilities & achievement... as if Malaby's on an amazing "quest" (apologies to Mal Waldron, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin et al) & anyone interested in American music-- all types-- should follow, indulge its longuers... which is far from the case. (And yes, I've seen him numerous times, which is why I don't anymore.) ... as for professional attire, maybe at the Lighthouse he'd have worn flip-flops too? imagine if we had any/more film of Gene Ammons, Chu Berry or Don Byas (I can't choose!), Arnett Cobb, Eric Dolphy always dressed for the gig (I wonder why?), Lockjaw Davis (to keep the tenor of this post), Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Forrest, Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Heath... I'd go on but... Now if we wanna talk about Lee Morgan's hair, especially with The Autobiography of Malcolm X imminent, even if it's-- maybe?-- a young black man's misplaced tribute to Lee Marvin's hair... like Tony's untucked shirt, that's fair game.

extreme unction & he dresses like a slob; a couple tolerable section gigs don't count, as many dozens of others could have filled the same role equally well or better. the guy's hit/miss ratio seems absurd (silly) as well because what he's 'swinging for' (apologies for baseball analogy, I just listened to Buddy Johnson) is usually so banal... (compare to Buddy Johnson). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATBlrxdczc

i can listen to Barry preach-- & watch him smoke-- all day

cocaine is a hell of a drug; first, the once brilliant Lowell George-- fried barely 1/3rd of the way through "Dixie Chicken," Little Feat's last tolerable stand, songwise-- then Bobby... ... with Billy in pink from an unidentified Brooklyn Heights rooftop--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvew42zIMZA

don't lose the belt buckle tho'! i've been wearing this one for the Civil War sesquicentennial etc myself--

ribot, grimes, taylor, halvorson

sidenote: maybe someday while Anthony is still alive, Werner X. will figure out that he can make more $$$ selling CDs that people actually want to buy than sitting on them and putting out new ones nobody (mostly rightly) gives a damn about? Box up the complete Hat Cage and Feldman recordings for those interested while one is at it and voila-- decent amount of $$$, a rush of mostly fulsome international press etc. I think everyone can live without the Charlie Parker Project (mediocre idea executed at same level), most of the rest still merit wide dissemination etc. Also, note AB's 1985 chops, & slim George Lewis.

dizzy gillespie for president don siegel et al i withold judgement on the OTC question except to note Lalo Schifrin could do damn near anything &, if we look (listen) closely, in x # of ways, it's Teo & Miles who are playing catch up-- in practice-- with best soundtrack dudes, whose job allowed them great liberties & resources etc. david soul plays butch in "Magnum Force" too of course, another fine Schifrin score & an excellent action movie, tho' lacking most of Siegel's visual flair & ambiguities.

i should note the esteemed Señor Goldberg has provided the recording date; the release date was for "Dirty Grape" was July 1968... Moby Grape "Wow" was released in April 1968... "coincidence"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaEZvk0eJhM Side Q: is there not yet a worst/cheapest/tackiest Prestige album covers ever thread yet? "Dirty Grape" doesn't quite rank but it's on the outskirts, at least.

anyone still wanna 'argue' that keith jarrett's insipid ostinatos* or wynton marsalis or ken vandermark or ____, ____ & (especially) _____ ever mattered? * keeping Dewey Redman in pork chop money-- however well-intentioned-- justifies nothing; the music sucked then and now.

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great set, great composer; Villa-Lobos probably thee greatest, most underrated 20th c. composer of them all... funny to realize, after the fact, what a HUGE influence Villa-Lobos was on Messiaen also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRanER4Q4E

also, Hindemith & Ancerl >>>>>>>> Hillary Hahn is excellent, Chandos doing another Sibelius cycle under anyone's baton is ridiculous, even if it's mostly a souvenir for the Limeys etc & Chandos has been down that road before-- sometimes even covering ** themselves ** unnecessarily, like when Polyansky & Noseda both recorded Rachmaninov "The Miserly Knight" within a few years of each other. Nemo Jarvi's Chandos recording of this is pretty hot tho'--

box, "Soul & Swagger," forthcoming on the estimable Rockbeat label, hot damn! http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Swagger-The-complete-Royales/dp/B00HGTNKAU

WHOAH!!!

Walter Johnson Granville "G.T." Hogan Frank Butler Hamid Drake is about at the same level, relatively, as Granville. Nothing to be ashamed of tho' Hogan made more good records in his time. Or is someone going to pretend Wm Parker is a "great" (even a "good") composer or that any of those Brotzmann Inane-tet records are worth a damn? Really? In a sound world of Mitchell, Braxton, Threadgill, Hemphill? (Bartok, Varese, Vila-Lobos, Messiaen?) (I only wish there were film of Walter Johnson.)

Absolutely not. He's a competent, demi- 'eclectic' drummer-- big deal. But he's got the look so oooo, he must be 'awesome.' Hardly, or rather, hardly exceptional or exceptionally interesting. Revere Chauncey Morehouse, Vernell Fournier and Osie Johnson and on down the line and by the time you get to Hank or Hamid Drake... why would anyone bother, except somebody's gotta make the gig.

If not 'overrated' per se (since he's largely ignored), Drake is definitely over-revered... He's fine, 'looks great,' whatever (I've only seen him do jazz, not funk/reggae), but hardly a mind-blower and if I never hear another Wm Parker/Hamid Drake duet live or on record... I'll be fine, thanks. (Excellent point btw on why we can-- & ultimately must-- mostly ignore Miles saxists in this era; to me they're like a section trumpeter in a Ray Charles band or whatnot, definitely NOT Fathead level or anywhere close to it, Sonny Fortune included) Now this drummer--

Black Swan is definitely GHB's weak link... But are they really sitting on a treasure trove? Since there no Paramount masters to own, how many Paramount label records do they have at hand & have access to? Definitely lots of Document label titles deserved better presentation/sound, likewise the crappy JSP knockoffs (some of which do have decent themes.) Black Europe >>>>> Paramount Box qua anthology commerce (MP3s+ steamer trunk false 'luxury')