Man with the Golden Arm

...so that means that Wilson's "Easterly Winds" will still sound like poop. Buyer beware. As some have unloaded when the gettin' was good.

Yes, Whitehead says the same in the review bite I linked, but states that somehow Ran seems to like being 'over for dinner'. Care to comment on what you may or may not be keen on with the Schullers. How is the saxophone playing on "ST" in your opinion? And I wish that discussion from a show called "Here & Now" was available. It was one of those where I sat in the car and wanted to drive on and grab this disc. Very conversational and really down home, like Chuck's. Maybe someone can get it to work.

You know that was sort of the first thing that came to mind on this, certainy not this album in particular as I've never heard it, but just the overall 'Kohlhase' sound. It does have a Beantown Large Group feel to it? I think in the past I may have seen couw sporting notes on The Either Orchestra and such (?), and as of yet this one is still on the list of the un-recognized. And you all need not worry about big brother treading on this code you guys got going here. I been flipping back and forth like it's some big term paper trying to figure this out.

Just released on Boxing Day in the UK are some really cute little critters for which I had hands-on character development and design. The sculptor who did the line hit the mark on spot! You can even win the whole set here. In the UK from Vivid Imaginations. Unfortunately, I'm not on the royalty take but these guys really do look like the initial vision. Good looking stuff and we all know how much y'all like "vinyl"!

could post here all day with images. glenn barr, shag, et al... Noj! Art Center!! DUUUUDE. hey, how 'bout this guy...he draws articulated anthropormorphic cats for britz. on your Harrod's shelves now!

Late, Can't take credit for that. James Jarvis is the creator. One of those "urban vinyl toys" out of the East, from a Western designer. Would fit well with my King Kong shrine I got going though. Alas, only an avatar at this time.

Thanks for starting this one up. Googled and found a pdf of his kudos. Kind of funny what this came up with. Here is a link to Whitehead's review of 'ST'. At that same time he was interviewed w/ Schuller on our local NPR 'Here and Now' but they hve rehashed the archive. I have only a couple and always want to grab another. Has the "Vertigo" album on Owl ever been re-issued? I have a hefty pressing but am w/o a table. That was some spooky work. I love his Monk disc on Soul Note. Pretty stuff.

Man o man I have done minute searching ( google le obtuse) and am WAAAAY off the mark on the track #10. Pay no mind to my ignorance, but at least this is not what I thought. All I'll say now is "I'm lonely and I'm blue..." Good lord I do hope that some one who posts here will give us the real deal as it went down on this one. I had no idea that the vocalist ..... couw, I almost want to post a link to this that contains a great, great article about the piece. I'll wait for permission. B)

KB ...You know there is an Ecco outlet of sorts down in Lawrence. Used to be a sister store called the 'D & J Shoe Warehouse' in Salem, MA ...Eccos for $35 bucks... I've transcended the geekiness and think they are cool! Especially when they are 1/8th the price... But when it comes to all things tarsel-iary I immediately thought of this guy , not sure if his 'fingers' are on any Blue Notes?

Man, that's not fair...my coffee was still really hot! Sheesh, I was really hoping for some sort of nostalgia with a Packers - Chiefs match-up. Was it Brett's finger at the end that did him in or did he get a "call"? Well we will root root root for the hometowners now but them Pats looked a bit dicey despite the icey. And Conn... a lot of Belechik imitators? I guess if the NFL introduces the "de-animator machine". He looked like a losing coach at his post game interview. -_-

I'm thinking I might know track number #10 as being down this river. The trombone thread is sort of in fullest swing (sic) on this one as part of the mix. This disc is 'Swell'. As for #12, I do think this might be his most "serious" recording but for me his work on these-- here and here--, two stellar albums that Blue Note should be re-whipping onto the shelves, is where it's at!!!

The mail came early today and brought Friday joy. Guess the mailman decided driving around at 5 below put some fire under hisass. Thanks to Tom in RI and thankfully the only mad-couw not culled from the heard. I did a text edit and wrote my guesses and first impressions as it happened. A trully great disc... So far my top three releases from 2004 are just these past couple of blinfold tests. (Why bother going to the store and looking for some salvation in the drivel.) So here's my response and I can't wait to read the blurbs by the real knowledge base. So we will start at the bottom.... 1) "Generique" (can't keep some of these french discs quite right) from here: rhino or cinema. Got on a kick of this guy's stuff a few years back. I only have a few of his discs and have listed the compilations here. I'd love to hear more of his instrumental sides than I have heard. I just can't believe that I knew the first one off of one of these tests. Those jazz and afro cuban Mercury sets are great as well as the JiP:JeC collections. Truthfully I really only dig him cause he makes my nose look small. 2) Sounds like something I should have but don't. Dig it! 3) Boy I like this conga-fied greasey groove and then that sawankeh bari...Now this is something that I gonna go buy. A bit of those Lou D sides w/ Barretto that I love but with a lot more texture. This ain't Ronnie Ross cause it just sounds new to me. Man this cuts already spun twice ...Hoo Baby Couw!! 4) "Tenderly" is my guess after just 00:08... we can do name that tune can't we? Nice bone. Now after a minute and a half it goes Lateefy... this is one of those that you would want to buy if the record store was playing it while you were in there, only to get up to the register and have the guy tell ya that it ain't for sale. Well it's not the song I thought but some kind of groove though. I'm gonna says it's the bassist's date? Man you guys are spinning me around with this BFT thing. 5) I really do know this song but it ain't coming to me... That's what I get for trying to enhance the musical experience during those formative years. 6) Definitely has that "_____ in Paris" feeling to it. Other than that I have no clue. I do like it though. 7) Need to do more listening to all things Parker oriented so I can just whip off this song. More nice bone... I'm not going to just guess and look really foolish here. (edit here: as i skipped out at midpoint and didn't hear the Monk. so much parker in Monk and vv) This one got better after subsequent listenings. A great blend of these two tunes. 8) No idear? 9) Again no clue...I do like this segueability you gots on here. The hefty backbeat sometimes supplanted by the various instruments that conjure the belly of the groove. Now I'll wear my brain on my sleeve cause I don't know whether this is a soprano or a clarinet? Some huge sound from that thing. 10) Gotta be French but sounds a bit too much like William Parker and Leena Conquest. "your fanny's like two sperm whales floating on the seine"?. Maybe one of those live Eremite discs. I love that groove though, but the bombastic seems just because. I might have to cheat now and look this up later. This is a great segue from the previous BTW... Find that I'm forever cursing DJs on jazz radio for putting some lame shit after a great tune or having absolutely no sense of mix. Not here my friend!!! 11) "Hernado's Hide-Away' by some Threadgill-y low key Screamin' Jay Hawkins type. This sounds Chicago. 12) Title cut from here:spitvalve Man I saw him when I was just brought to the east coast at a little theatre at Brown Univ in Providence. (Shortly after seeing Anthony Braxton at the same venue. He of course did not seem so out of place in didactic environs.) That's a great album you got there and some stellar playing from the back stokers. I always loved his work with Bobby Previte and the other downtown boys. Hoy more bone!! Do I sense a trend here with the predominant boning. 13) No idea here but it's nice. Not something I' run out and buy but very nice little soother. 14) "Ask Me Now" .... I'm not a big knower of horns that don't turn up at the bell. So it's too straight for Lacy and the support is playing beautifully. Like the rhythm from the other horn. I almost expected this thing to go into some full blown romp rather than end so quickly. Very nice. 15) "Lover Man" no foolin' us here. These are some straight readings as opposed to Jim's previous hints at them through BFT4. But no idea as to who this solo is by. Guess i don't know much from horns that do turn up at the bell. Great player... sort of Rollins with only one lung. Man you did good. Ain't throwing this baby back.

With my own money at the Giant Tiger. Boy they had a great lp section right over by the stretch pants. Not really jazz but a first.- The first jazz album, before it was "smoov' jazz".- ...and Alexander, there is a lot of dough out of my pocket at the same time in that old Tower Records (now Virgin) you speak of.

I've sort of nibbled away at jazz. Like Evan above my first ever album that got played all the time was the original score by Neil Hefti to the Batman TV show. Boy do I wish i had that one just for hangin on the wall. I remember running around the living room with a little blanket safety pinned around my neck. But my earliest memories (and I believe I might have shared anecdote on the BNBB so excuse for sounding senile) were my Dad's Jimmy Smith albums. He just had two - 'Bashin', the Unpredictable...' and 'The Monster'. The local drive-in eatery that was a diner in the winter had a juke w/ "Walk On The Wild Side" as a single. Still one of those yesterday like memories of dropping a nickel a few times when we would go there for a weekly nite-out. Probably had more to do w/ it being something familiar and even more to do with flipping through the buttons and watching the lights on the box. 'Bashin'' side one had heavy rotation at home along with some Sinatra, and my favorite of all covers "Whip Cream and Other Delights" (Had a fit when Mom informed me that she got 50 cents for it at her garage sale while I was in college.) Never paid much mind to anything jazzy after that save for a friend's "three words for you" lecture after telling him how I thought Clarence Clemmons was the nuts on this album called "The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle": "...John Fucking Coltrane. Man!" Well after that I again didn't take the hint and became an LP buyer (at $2.99 - $3.99) of Stevie Wonder and the Kudu Grover Washingtons. So I guess the first jazz I really played and actually "listened to" would be 'Mister Magic' and 'Feels So Good'. Wore those babies out! Then I went to college and just started listening to the same crap everybody else did - late 70's and 80's rock. Not even something cool like the Talking Heads but just rock...sheesh. Not until the re-issue era and having a design teacher who was into Reid Miles (I could've cared less at the time) did I put it together and see the light. My first CD purchase was a pair of import Japanese Blue Note comps, (and 'Aja'). At that time 'Chronic Town' and 'Murmur' were heavy stuff but once I uncrated that little Sony-D4 and pulled out those two discs that I paid just an unbelievable amount of money for at the time, $16 or so each!!!! and cued up "Moanin'" it was all over.

Thanks for posting this couw and a good looking site from the little I have perused thus far, tooter. Are any of Ross' titles slated for any kind of re-issue? Had never heard his own work as a leader until the Giles Peterson's comp. What a wonderful player. Most of us on this side of the pond might pass him up, but "the colored girls go: doo do doo do doo..."

Rooster...I recall you having a Thomas Hart Benton avatar so here's a heads up to a contemporary - Loren Long. His work, albeit his name heinously expunged from the cover, from Madonna's Kaballah inspired lesson is absolutely stunning. Check it out. It really has that warm middle America beauty to it. Though, Caldecott will probably give her and her Big-Bertha boy-toy legacy publisher the meat of any kudos.

I sure wish that the big band charts w/ Gerald Wilson, "You Better Believe It!", were available in singular and not just on the Mosaic. I just can't bring myself to fork over the dough for the set. I have never heard that album and am curious. Commentary? Anything like a Smith / Nelson affair?? Thoroughly enjoy "Moment of Truth" and Addey's great sound.

Thanks for posting that link. But my eyes kept going up and down and side to side per your prescription. Yowzaaa. That's no mere 4GB behind that hammer!!

No, the mini is just 4GB. So for another $50 beans you get a unit that's 2 oz heavier and 11 gigs heartier. Nits But as you say Chris it is USB equipped for the Windows folk. Guess that's their niche.

Beat me to the post. I agree and see that it's actually a 15 giger for $299. But it is another TWO OUNCES more. Apple just tosses these things out like smelt hoping for some early biters.

and no doubt Blue Note probably thinks we are all used to it by now.

I just wanted to thank you for all the work you have done Jim - with the two discs as well as the thesis of answers provided (and just as importantly reading the banter of the boarders). Your ability to share your thoughts with such precise spontaneity shows profound streams of conciousness. On the way to literate circular breathing. I have really enjoyed these discs wholly for the past few weeks. While I can't compare to some of the astute ears here on the board my fascination and attempts to unearth answers on my own, after my initial posting, enlightend me to so much whether on these discs or not. And now with the answers at hand I can explore even further. I did errantly suspect early on that the thread of the test might have a Chi-town sway and now I see that in fact quite a bit had very few degrees of seperation from there. Booting myself for not calling a couple of the cuts I do now know...'Try Some Ammonia' was always a favorite (you know it's bad and that you need to listen more seriously when something sitting on the shelf goes unrecognized ) and a stunning closer. And Wilkerson was a monster. Saw him a couple times live w/ Eight Bold Souls and it was truly like being in the pen with a rogue rhino! And now Hadley Caliman?? and WoodyTheus??? Great Great Stuff! I'll keep perusing and hope that I can attain just a smidgen when I ready a disc for the crew.

Always good for spitting my coffee on the keyboard. Here's to an ungulate with a big rack of humor! Now go and grab one of those McGriddles and a bunch of candles!!

Bestine! Great for printed matter as well. (pesky old LP stickers) Takes off greeazy finger prints and all other petro based gooeys.

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