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Where would the music be without lawyers? God bless 'em. Editing of? There's editing?

I would imagine so. I used to dabble in the trumpet but the trumpet is an instrument that won't stand for you dabbling. You gotta play that sumbitch for two hours a day just to keep your lip in shape. At the time, I couldn't devote that kind of time to it and never did develop much in the way of an embrochure.

Most of the Complete Bitches Brew set had nothing to do with anything. It's a flag of convenience.

The guy who does my saxophone maintainence has a curious hobby- taking bits of different instruments and splicing them together to create odd new instruments. His latest creation is a digeridoo with a tenor saxophone mouthpiece, crook and bell (a digeriphone? a saxodoo?). He also created a very nice Dizzy-style upturned trumpet, using bits from old trumpets and a piece of a saxophone crook. So, I asked him if he'd ever considered putting a saxophone mouthpiece on a trumpet. A light bulb went on over his head and he started rummaging around for bits and pieces to use. So, I'd like to know if anyone has any knowledge about trumpet/ saxophone hybrids. Eddie Harris used a reed trumpet and Roland Kirk played a 'trumpophone'. Anyone know anything about these instruments? I'm very interested in how they were they created- it's a little more complicated than just jamming a sax mouthpiece onto a trumpet. Are there any other players who used similar instruments? If the guy can build the thing, I'm totally up for playing it!

Thanks for your unbiased opinion. Yeah, sorry for that post. I'd done a shitload of Benzedrine before I sat down at the keyboard. Had I been straight, I would surely have found room for 'inchoate, racially insensitive, posturing, plotless and vacuous.' Is there any chance that now the book will be published using the characters' real names that Shearing will actually turn out to be Bud Powell?

At the risk of kicking a sacred cow... I've always found On The Road to be tedious, poorly written, rambling, repetitive, irritating, shallow, pretentious, uninsightful, misogynist, narcissistic, pointless pseudo-hipster bunk. And now there's a longer version of it? So... even more tedious, rambling, repetitive, etc, etc George Shearing my arse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhkuT2bhbc Too much Abbey, not enough Max, but still.....

I don't think we're talking about a Hollywood blockbuster here. Ichaso has had a long career as a hack TV director, including a credit directing a lame Hendrix biopic (remember that one? No? There's a reason for that...). He's working on a movie about Hector Lavoe, fercryingoutloud. If that doesn't have 'straight-to-DVD' written all over it..... (Latin American market notwithstanding) There's no way he'd even get Snipes, unless Wes really needs the work these days. Not gonna happen.

Now that Vince Wilburn has a hand in these things an 80-85 box seems quite likely. After all, that's the stuff he played on and his genius must be fully documented. The latest versions of the Blackhawk material were expanded into two 2CD sets and were issued in a slip cover, effectively making it a 4CD box set. Seems like it would be unnecessary duplication.

Wasn't Snipes going to play Miles at one point? Nothing ever came of that. A Levoe biopic sounds interesting, not sure about the casting though.

I'm not sure I can! That track's gotta be 20 years old and I probably haven't heard it in close to that long. The ol' memory ain't what it used to be.... As I recall, it was a slow smooth soul track with lush harmonies culminating in a startling falsetto that recalled the likes of the Delfonics. The kind of record they just don't make any more (even then). If I remember correctly, the album was full of pedestrian 80's 'soul'. But that one track quickly acquired 'rare groove' status. I haven't thought about that song in ages. Now I want to hear it again. I must still have it here somewhere.

Me!! My 12" copy of 'I Don't Know Why' was much prized back in the day.

Only just discovered this*, so I haven't had a chance to explore it fully but it looks like a fascinating listen for Coltrane fans. An ongoing audio documentary series on the man and his work, with contributions from Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Cobb, Joe Lovano, Charles Tolliver, Dave Liebman, Ashley Khan, Steve Kuhn, Michael Cuscuna, Josh Redman, Jason Moran, etc, etc... http://traneumentary.blogspot.com/ *apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. A search brough up nothing.

Up. Something made me think of this. Whatever became of it?

Apparently, he'll also be giving away copies at his shows over here.

Well, if you will play a bass solo, you're asking for it.....

Was going to start a thread on this before it came out and forgot about it... Yep, I sprang for £1.20 to get Prince's new album... and got a free Tory newspaper. Had to take a shower after. Listened to it a few times now and here are some thoughts.... Planet Earth: Rock ballad with a 'what-are-doing-to-the-world?' lyric and an anti-war sentiment. Pretty good song but as a piece of social commentary, it's no 'Sign O The Times'. Gets better the longer it's on. Sorta reminds me of 'Anna Stasia' from Lovesexy or 'Free' from 1999 Guitar: Terrific, catchy guitar pop with a great riff and a typically Princey tongue in cheek lyric ('I love you baby.... but not like I love my guitar') Think 'Peach' Somewhere Here On Earth: Very mellow, atmospheric ballad, with flutes, muted trumpet, synth washes and piano with Prince doing his best Delfonics falsetto. Very pretty but more of a mood piece than a memorable song. The One U Wanna See: Pop/ rock tune. Not bad but you've heard him do this kind of thing better. Think 'Take Me With U'. Future Baby Mama: Slinky mid-tempo 'R&B' tune with a nice melody and an amusing lyric. His sly humour lets him get away with it. If R. Kelly was singing it, this would just be creepy. Mr Good Night: Sort of a continuation of the previous track, like an old school lurve-rap tune. Ok. All the Midnights In the World: Pleasant little rock tune with a hint of his pop-psychedleic Around the World in A Day era. Chelsea Rodgers: 70s disco throwback, with a bouncy bass line, choppy guitar and stabbing horns. Very catchy and the kind of thing I can imagine turning into an extended jam in concert. Lion of Judah: Dull, plodding rock track. Pince at his most bombastic. Skip. Resolution: Breezy pop with a not particularly insightful 'isn't war terrible?' lyric. (Interesting that the album is bookended with anti-war songs, though) Didn't stike me at first but has grown on me with repeated plays. Still, it feels like filler. I'd give it a 6/10. If you're a Prince die-hard (or you get it free with a newspaper! ) it's worth having. The merely curious needn't feel they're missing out.

Just been listening to 'Out of This World' from Coltrane (Impulse!), one of my favourite Trane performances.

When didn't it? Been using Firefox for about six months. Immediately wondered why I spent 18 frustrating months using IE.

I wish I knew. I've had this tune going round in my head for the last three or four days and I cannot think what it is. It's driving me nuts. Good tune, though.

There may well have been a discussion on these already (and if so, apologies but a search didn't turn up anything)... Any opinions on these recent Mingus releases (or any others)? Cornell 1964 (Blue Note) Not Heard: Played in Its Entirety at Ucla (Universal) In Paris: the Complete America Session (Universal) The Universal titles may have been out for a while but it seems we only just recently got them here in the UK

What's lame about it? Seems to make sense to me, given that 'Chasin'' was from the 1961 Vanguard sessions and had nothing to do with Newport.

When I was a kid- about 6 or 7- my mother had a part time job in a charity shop. One day she brought home this stack of old records- mostly 78s!- which I started to work my way through. They were mostly awful. However, in amongst the stack were three 78s by Earl Bostic. I was immediately transfixed by the sound of the saxophone and- on a couple of sides- the vibraphone. Also in that stack was a 45 of Dave Brubeck playing 'Take 5' (a different take than the LP version, which I've still yet to see issued on CD!)... again I was hooked by the saxophone. After getting bored with TV at the age of 11 I started to listen to the radio constantly- and I mean constantly! I would stay up till midnight, with a radio under the covers searching for interesting things to listen to. It could be jazz or blues or classical or reggae, whatever. Radio seemed a lot less 'compartmentalized' in those days. I started hearing jazz-funk things like the Crusaders and Herbie Hancock's disco-oriented stuff. At that time we had an excellent record department in our local library (it is now pitiful!). I started to explore all the artists that interested me... Herbie, John McLaughlin, Weather Report, Chick Corea... all for free! (I also head Coltrane for the first time- Ascension!!! Scared the shit out of me) Of course the name I kept hearing in relation to all these artists was Miles Davis. Someone I knew owned a copy of Bitches Brew, which just blew my 15 year old mind. Shortly after I found a copy of KOB, which blew it again for entirely different reasons. When I was 17 I got a job in a record distributors. I was like a kid in a candy store. I got to hear ALL kinds of amazing music; jazz, blues, folk, world music, r&b, soul, rock and roll. An amazing time where I just soaked up everything I could. As much as I love discovering new music now, I still try and get the feeling I got delving into all that different stuff during that period.