soulpope

Another rather unheralded major voice of soulfull jazz.....

Yes, that's a nice album. Much though I love Junior, I find it difficult to say that he was a wide influence. Now, if Dan comes in, saying "there's no Three Sounds albums in there, what you playing at?" I claim ignorance because I don't know nearly as much as I should about them or Gene Harris himself. But I've got most of Junior's albums, including all of the ones before '77 except 2 of his Capitol jobs, and can't, therefore, claim ignorance. I'm always reminded of what Chuck Nessa says about him - Junior Mance is a very nice man and a very good piano player - or words to that effect. But give it a go, Soulpope - tell us why you think that's an important moment in soul jazz history. MG Important in Soul Jazz History - not sure whether I can cope with that ranking...but Junior Mance to me was as soulfull as it gets and based on the strength of his contributions a number of recordings, probably not even intentionally, just turned that way......an example ? Here we go : Of course Martin Rivera and Oliver Jackson also didn`t hamper the soulfull groove....

Not on Cd (to my knowledge), but PRESTIGE...

This or any other Junior Mance outing - Jazz Piano rarely was more soulfull......

Edit : Sorry just realized this is about Prestige CD`s - and "Fire Eater" to my knowledge never saw (stand alone) release as CD....but nevertheless this Prestige release is IMO underrated aka unheralded aka not well known.......

and all his other outings on Prestige.....

so in this case who btw what was the problem ?

I only know the informed gossip of those close to the source, but apparently mental health issues and poor handling of Lacy estate matters have left her in a serious pickle. Unless you were asking an aesthetic question... I have no problem with her aesthetically though I agree her voice is an acquired taste. it`s a shame - with supposedly a large number of dedicated Lacy followers - that no capable person was available to help/handle the estate properly.....but after the french lacy website went down not too long after his death, releases (there should be inter alias a number of live lacy/avenel/betsch recordings in existence..) of unissued material were rather scarce.....

these covers are bringing up quite some memories ....

There is a couple of fine Steeplechase recordings ("Swiss Night 1-3" in particular), but (to me) ahead of all is with Gordon thriwing with the b/dr structure, N.O. Pedersen playing some MONSTER bass here and A. Riel being non less than rocksteady...

RIP Mr. Abdul Wadud

Happy B-Day...also from Vienna

Yes, I order from CDJapan all the time and everything works fine. Unfortunately they tend to sell out of new releases very quickly; HMV Japan seem to have quite a bit of back stock that I'm interested in. This is SO frustrating......perhaps I'll e-mail them to see whether they can help. In case of HMV Japan you probably could hit the language barier rather quickly...

Can't wait! Some more raw/energetic/sloppy delight with Woody Shaw is the Andrew Hill session with Sam Rivers from disc #3 of the Hill BN Select. And lord knows there are spots in some of Larry Young's latter BN leader-dates that were kinda rough, but spectacular for their energy ("Contrasts" especially). Between a greatly expanded "Unity", and also "Out To Lunch" -- some of this is turning into a real and surprising wealth of new and important material. Let me put it this way - Elvin sounds like he's about three feet high off the floor, and Joe is right there with him. Woody not quite as much, but the whole thing sounds like a band just back from a really good break, if you know what Imen. I believe this description from J was (to me) the final "marketing kick" to purchase the forthcoming SHM-CD.....and as it`s release date is not too far away from X-mas, I`ve found already a reasoning for said acquisition

I`ve experienced similar problems in the past - sometimes, if loging out and in again, after a few attempts, it would allow me to go to the "adress" page...i could not find any reasoning for that.....this experiences made me try out cdjapan and based on their custoner friendly webstore I´ve made most orders via there...in case it`s an older release sometimes this is stocked only via hmvjapan which brings us back to step 1 :-(.....

Always a favourite bassplayer @my house, this being a very sad day.......RIP, my friend..

RIP

but this are still THREE women being the "ARTIST", right ? in case these covers make you feel "Uuuuh" (whatever that means), pls feel to re-use ...