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  2. CD Sale

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by felser

    I've changed the first post with the new list.

    I prefer exchange than selling but everything is ok if you want.

    Take care,

    Godd listening and enjoy,

    FAb

    PM sent on the Alexander/Herring, Rich Perry, and the Trio of Doom. My last trade with Fab ended up going very well. :tup

  4. 100 treasures for a desert island

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    I believe I have 17, and I count another five that I have had at one time or another but have sent on to new homes. The Getz Dynasty session is great, and I'm really glad to see it on there. Rene Thomas, Eddie Louiss, a drummer named Bernard Lubat, wonderful stuff and totally unlike anything else in his catalog. This set, I think from a Woolworth's cutout bin when I was in college, was my introduction to Louiss and Thomas, and the first Getz I ever actually owned. Louiss is the star of the show in many ways, though Getz and Thomas both shine.

  5. George Duke's MPS Fusion sessions

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    What is George Duke's "Muir Woods Suite" album like? It has been in the bins forever at a used music store here. I have looked it over and put it back, not sure about it. It looks like Duke with a large string section, from what I can tell from the liner notes.

    Hi

    Actually I'm not to keen on The Muir Woods CD. I play it very seldom. For me it's not really GD but more like an experiment....

    /Shaft

    Could you give us a little more detail? Does George improvise on Muir Woods? Are the strings used in an ambitious way, or more just for background color? What is is about Muir Woods that does not work in your view?

    Hi again,

    Strings are used very ambitious way. It is in parts almost "classical" music - kind of "Arty". Some parts are more piano-driven and more jazzy, but I like GD when it swings and make me wanna move, tap my foot etc. When I want to hear classical I put on Beethoven.

    Here is a link to Amazon. It can be optained for under $3 so if interested please don't hesitate.

    Muir Woods on Amazon

    /Shaft

    Thanks for the information.

    1 - I Like Muir Woods a LOT, but don't think funky GD - it isn't. But it does show his chops as a pianist and is a good listen start to finish.

    2 - I agree with the Zawinul criticisms. From Black Market on, I found him largely unlistenable, and I understand the childre singing in native tongue reference and especially don't like that sound.

    3 - Jim A., the Duke box is available through Caiman on Amazon Marketplace for a lot less than what Dusty Groove is charging, if I remember correctly. I ordered it earlier today for $41.85 + $2.98 shipping.

    4 - Jim S., these Duke albums have a rich harmonic palate and are rife with colorful keyboard textures. Whatever Zappa influence that is there is the "Waka Jawaka" and "Grand Wazoo" jazzy good-Frank, not the punk bad-Frank you wanted to send to his room.

    5 - Hello "Helen". I recognized you by your drummer discussion. Always fussing about drummers! You're spot on about Zawinul.

    6 - I don't find Duke from the period in question really comparable to Zawinul or Hancock, rather into something very different altogether, and quite well done and valuable, even 35 years later.

  11. CDs for sale Part III

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    PM sent on the following:

    Richie Cole "Pure Madness" (Alto Madness and Hollywood Madness) 2 CDs $15

    The Johnny Otis Rhythm and Blues Caravan 3 CDs $15

    Little Jimmy Scott The Savoy Years and More 3 CDs $15

    Dizzy Gillespie Odyssey (1945- 1952) 3 CDs Small tear on spine $10

    Billy Eckstine "The Legendary Big Band" 2 CDs Sealed $10

  12. Chase - re-issued again on CD

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    Posted · Edited by felser

    I think there was a group call LIGHTHOUSE too. Can't remember their hit.
    "One Fine Morning"...they were from Toronto, I think.

    Forgot about them. A little more pop than jazz for my taste,

    but there were parts of their first LP, I think

    (the one with the reflective silver cover...just like If's first LP as well),

    that had some nice moments.

    Lighthouse did a fun "Eight Miles High" on their live album. They were from Canada for sure, Toronto sounds right. Skip Prokop, who had been in the Paupers (shoulda woulda coulda been 60's psych stars if their bass player hadn't blown up at the Monterey Popfest), was the leader.

    If were fabulous for sure, but to me they and the other British bands with horns were doing a very different thing than the American groups, more reeds and keyboards and prog and cerebral, less brass and flash and bluster, so there isn't a direct comparison to really be made. Dick Morrissey had apparently been a well-respected jazz sax player in England prior to forming If. Anything our friends from there can add about Morrissey, especially his pre-If work, would be greatly appreciated.

  13. Chase - re-issued again on CD

    in Re-issues

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    How in the hell did this become a hit in the first place?

    Horn Band Mania! A brief moment in the evolution of American Popular Music, lasting roughly from when BS&T hit big thru about the time Elton John hit big.

    Brought to us by Al Kooper, 'Child is Father To The Man' is the first (and one of the best) I remember in the genre.

  14. Chase - re-issued again on CD

    in Re-issues

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    "Get It On" reached #1 on the charts, IIRC. HUGE hit, although the vilely revisionist toadies of "oldies radios" would rather you not know that...

    I have the first album and always liked it. But then I also like the first seven Chicago albums, the first five Blood, Sweat, and Tears albums, both Ides of March ("Vehicle") albums, Sons of Champlin, etc.

  15. free shipping on my ebay items

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    But he's a friend of Chuck so he can do it while others are slashed after one or two postings in this manner.......strange

    Unfair. Prove this. I haven't deleted any posts.

    I have had business dealings (sold to) with Tom for a number of years and he pays his bills. Never met him. Please don't add any other baggage to that relationship or the board. I do find it "unseemly" he only posts sales here, but since I have taken advantage of a couple of his offers I can't bitch.

    Tom's a good guy, and I'm glad he's here. I agree that it would be nice to have him share his thoughts with us on the music, as he is certainly very knowledgeable, but I am glad he posts what he does here, and have had many good experiences exchanging CD's with him.

  16. DISCS FOR SALE

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    Just listened to M'Boom: Live at S.O.B.'s - a very good one - someone should go for it before it's gone. Think it's o/p.

    Also Roach & Ibrahim: Streams of Consciousness is one worth getting.

    PM sent on following:

    Max Roach Streams of Consciousness/ w Abdullah Ibrahim

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk Brotherman in the Fatherland(Live, 1972)

    Keith Jarrett The Carnegie Hall Concert

  19. Upcoming re-issues from Concord

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    It is pretty uninspired, though I am not sure I have the Tyner, so I might get that.

    It's the closest thing to a classic CTI album Tyner ever made. Title track is pretty great.

    Sorry, didn't mean to imply the Tyner was uninspired. I meant the re-issues, as everything has been on CD once and generally several times.

    Totally agree with you. And "classic CTI album" is damning with faint praise when it comes to 70's Tyner, which was my meaning. Except for the title track, the Tyner underachieves (and is uninspired) considering what he was capable of in that period.

  25. Discs for sale

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    PM sent on the following:

    Bobby Hutcherson - Live at Montreux (Blue Note) $37

    Martial Solal/Joachim Kuhn - Duo in Paris (Dreyfus), very light & few nicks/scuffage $15

    Joe Lovano - Joyous Encounter (Blue Note, copy controlled) w/H.Jones, G.Mraz, P.Motian $3

    Bernardo Sassettti - Indigo (Clean Feed) solo piano $4

    Martial Solal - En Solo (RCA Victor, 2004 BMG France re-mastered issue) $8

    Martin Fondse Oktemble/Ernst Reijseger - Ere Ibeji (Bvhaast) w/N.Wogram, M.Moore in the band, one scratch outside the playing area $5

    Ralph PEterson - Tests of Time (Criss Cross) w/J.Pelt, J.Greene, O.Evans, E.Revis - two small scratches and minor scuffage $8

    Steve Lacy - Packet. 8 Songs by Judith Malina & 1 by Julian Beck (New Albion) w/Irene Aebi and Frederic Rzewski $5

    Vision Fest - Vision Live (Thirsty Ear) cd + dvd $5

    Wolfgang Puschnig/Mark Feldman - Spaces (Emarcy) $3

    Jeff "Tain" Watts - Bar Talk (Columbia) $3

    Fats Navarro - The Fabulous, volume 1 (Blue Note, TOCJ 1531) Japanese, 20bit, no obi $6.5

    Fats Navarro - The Fabulous, volume 2 (Blue Note, TOCJ 1532) Japanese, 20bit, no obi $6.5

    The Vandermark 5 - Airports for Light (Atavistic) (2 disc version, includes "Six for Rollins") $10

    Stanley Cowell Sextet - Setup (Steeplechase) $8

    Mulgrew Miller and Wingspan - The Sequel (MaxJazz) $8 light wear on the digipak

    Peter Tosh - Live & Dangerous. Boston 1976 (Columbia) $3.5

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