Stefan Wood

African drum music. Kinda like Blakey's Orgy in Rhythm. Sounds good!

updated again

Check it out. Look for the seller kinggab.

Sorry, I'm a little slow in responding. I'll get to everyone ASAP, so be patient.

Okay, here we go, the following are $6 a piece: Barbara Dennerlaein - That's Me (Blue Moon) Mel Rhyne - Organizing (OJC) The Very Best of Latin Jazz (Columbia/Sony) Cindy Blackman - Telepathy (Muse) Cindy Blackman - Oracle (Muse) Don Ellis - Electric Bath (Columbia/Sony) The Brothers! - Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Ritchie Kamuca (RCA Spain, 16 tracks) Coleman Hawkins - Bean and the Boys (High Note) Arnett Cobb - Blow, Arnett Blow(OJC) Jimmy Forrest - Black Forrest (Delmark) Dizzy Gillespie/Max Roach - In Paris (BMG/Vogue) Roy Ayers - Daddy Bug/Virgo Vibes (Collectables) Great "Live Jazz" _ Hyeana Records, w/ Les McCann, Cannonball, Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, Roland Kirk, etc. Barbara Dennerlein - Take Off! (Verve) Norman Granz' JATP Carnegie Hall, 1949 (Pablo) w/ Sonny Criss, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, etc Coleman Hawkins - Hawk Talk! (Fresh Sound) Roy Haynes - Te Vou! (Dreyfus) Roy Haynes - When It Haynes it Roars! (Dreyfus) Benny Golson - Walkin' (Fresh Sound) Johnny Griffin - Change of Pace (OJC) Joe Henderson - Mode for Joe (Blue Note, regular version) Yusef Lateef - Lost in Sound (Collectables) Sam Jones - Something in Common (32 Jazz) Best of Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers (OJC) Mingus Big Band - Que Viva Mingus! (Dreyfus) Blue Mitchell - A Sure Thing (OJC) Bud Powell - Trio Plays (Roulette) Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper (OJC) Jack McDuff - Screamin' (OJC) Cal Tjader - Mambo with Tjader (OJC) Randy Weston - Solo, Duo, Trio (OJC) Cal Tjader's Latin Concert (OJC) Cimposium vol 2 (CIMP) Marion Brown - Porto Novo (Black Lion) Don Byas - A Night in Tunisia (Black Lion) Cindy Blackman - Arcane (Muse) Cindy Blackman - Code Red (Muse) Leo Wright - Suddenly the Blues (Koch/Atlantic) Charlie Haden - In Angel City (Verve) Cannonball Adderley - Phenix (OJC) Sonny Phillips - My Black Flower (32 jazz) Billy Band - Spirits Gathering (CIMP) Prestige First Sessions - Fats Navarro, Al Haig, Leo Parker, etc (OJC) Lucky Thompson/Gigi gryce - In Paris (BMG/Vogue) Cal Tjader Plugs In - (DCC) Barbara Dennerlein - Junkanoo (Verve) Barbara Dennerlein - Outhipped (Verve) Horace Silver - A Prescription for the Blues (Impulse!) Curtis Mayfield - Chicago Soul (Sony) The following are $8 each: Slide Hampton - All Star 69 (EMI) The Free Form Improvisation Ensemble (Cadence) Leo Cuypers' Heavy Days Are Here Again (Atavistic Unheard Series) Anthony Coleman - Self-haters (Tzadik) Frank London's Klemzer Brass All Stars - Brotherhood of Brass (pirana) Randy Weston - Modern Art of Jazz (Dawn) Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley - Breakthrough! (32 Jazz) Paul Motian - Monk in Motian (Winter & Winter) Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve 2003 edition) VSOP - Live Under the Sky (Sony France) Roscoe Mitchell and Thomas Buckner - 8 o' clock: Two Improvisations Curtis Fuller - Blues ette part 2 (Savoy) John Rae - Opus de Jazz (Savoy) The remaining are priced as marked: Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Man from Ipanema (3 cd Verve set) - $20 Mingus Bid Band Live (2 cds Dreyfus) - $10 Roscoe Mitchell/Thomas Buckner/Gerald Oshita - Space 2 cds - $14 Bill Barron - Tenor Stylings (Savoy) $10 Complete Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster (2 cds Verve set) - $14 Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal (JRVG) - $12 ASWAD - Roots Rocking (Island, 2 cds) - $12 xxxx = sold I accept Paypal and money orders. Please send PM if interested. Thanks! Updated again this morning

I have had this cd from Goldmine records for long time, and the sound has always been crunchy. I always found it fascinating that he tried for Motown to sign and promote the Parliaments. There is a bunch of good music here, but only hints of what he was later known for. This is classic Northern Soul material here, but with all the originality and essence that George Clinton could provide. Heavy stress on the vocals, as they were a vocal group then, not the horns and bass centric of Parliament or fuzz guitars of Funkadelic. Highly recommended!

Well, now that I have moved in, it's so far so good for the outlet. It definitely provides a more distinct and clear picture on the tv. I won't comment on the sound yet because I am moving furniture around and the sound is stil bouncing all over the place. But it isn't a bunch of hokum... yet.

Chuck, compared to what you were offering on your label, yes Pablo overall is conservative. But I still stand by my opinion on that album.

Naw, you need a line conditioner for that!!

I don't think the JJ Johnson/Nat Adderley "Yokohama Concert" can be called conservative. This is one great live double lp set.

Here's some more info: http://www.audiophilia.com/hardware/ma6.htm

I am moving into a condo and I went ahead and bought a high end wall outlet for my stereo system. This is the place that I got it from: http://www.acmeaudiolabs.com/ I will report back after I receive it and the break-in period. I am curious if anyone else has done this for their systems?

Cool! Now RCA would do the same thing for their Living Stereo line.......

Oh, it's worth getting. I don't want to put people off. I had been used to the music he has put forth on Mirrors and Phantom of the City, so was expecting something along the same lines, but was thrown a curve. I'm not really big on standards right now.

The sound is excellent. I wasn't aware these were reissues.

Along with the Joe Chambers cd, I picked this up on cduniverse.com. Like the Chambers cd, there are a number of covers on this album, mostly, by hint of the title, are by Bill Evans. Friedman has in the past been associated with Bill Evans in his playing, but really, they are different, as I feel Friedman has been more experimenting and outgoing in his playing; he takes more chances. This is a trio cd, with George Mraz and Lewis Nash, and to quote someone on AAJ, this thing swings! The few uptempo songs (35 w 4th st, and Blues in A Hurry) are great toe tapping fun, as are his versions of the Evans' tunes, Waltz for Debby and Bud Powell, written by Chick Corea. I highly recommend this cd.

I picked this up on cduniverse.com this past week, and gave it a couple of spins. I really had high expectations, but this disc is a lot milder and low key than I would have imagined. I think it has to do with the selction of tunes. All but four are covers (Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Sid's Ahead, In A Sentimental Mood, Stella By Starlight, Surrey with the Fringe on Top) , and the ground has been plowed so many times that even with the stature and talent of the supporting cast (Gary Bartz, Rufus Reid, Eric Reed, Bobby Sanabria) can't elevate this and make it sound fresh and new. Some of the covers sound boring, which is the worst offense for me in a jazz album. Of course, the Joe Chambers written tunes are more exciting, continuing in part where he left off from that amazing and under appreciated cd on Blue Note, Mirrors. Third Street starts off the cd with a bang, and Irina (originally written for Bobby Hutcherson on the Blue Note album Patterns), he plays vibes with authority and is a momentary flashback to the golden days of that Blue Note era. But I am not excited by this cd, which is a shame, since Joe Chambers is one of my favorite musicians, and I have been wanting him to get the attention he so richly deserves. Perhaps the choice of material is a conscious effort to do that. I was expecting something on the level of Mirrors, but this is quite different.

After about 30 years, this local area chain is going out of business. So if you live in the DC area, it might be worth your while to check out one of the many Kemp Mill stores to see what they have. The one in Dupont is 45% off everything, while the one off of Metro Center is only 25%, but the stocks of course are vastly different. They never had the greatest jazz selection, but it is worth checking out because they were carrying new stock as late as a week ago. All used cds are 6.99 with a discount on those as well. Check it out! Stefan

Promised Land is his last recording (along with Billy Higgins) and I highly recommend it -- he redoes Mapenzi on it as well. I wish Sony would reissue the Mainstream dates -- not just Harold Land, who has some great, GREAT stuff on the label, but also dates by Paul Jeffrey, Curtis Fuller, Roy Haynes, and others. A New Shade of Blue is blistering!

I have the Fuel 2000 cds. They sound better than the old cd issues......

Riverside did a number of those car noise lps, unless I'm thinking of another label......

Gotcha. Some people are just cheap....... I remember working at a used record store and some guy comes in, looks at our prices (averaging $3 - $7), and loudly complaining at the prices, talked about how down in Florida he could go into a thrift store or some place and find these same lps for a quarter a piece. Naturally, I showed him the door, and pointed the nearest thrift store out to him.

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To heck with that, I'm going after the Rufus Thomas "Funkiest Man Alive" compilation. I'll be doing the Funky Chicken on the way to the cash register............

I'm not sure what you're saying. The guy could have bid $4.99, or .01, or $8.98 and the Buy It Now option would have disappeared. The seller should have placed a higher minimum starting bid if he wanted to get the money he asked for.