Man with the Golden Arm

yeah baby...Happy F#*@in' Birthday as Jimmy might say! i've been listening to a comp of my favorite Verve tunes lately. it's a tasty piece o cake. can we start a thread for "Jimmy on Verve"?

truly sad news and all that ubu expressed. just listen to the first cluster from his second disc "Chanchullo" and try not to move something.

wow, after my first blindfold test inclusion with jim's two-fer (hard work) i'd have to agree that anything this side of heavy metal goes, but maybe not? how many kids put on "rikki don't lose that number" and went on to having more horace silver than steely dan in their collections? after seeing some of the negative feedback in the BFT #4 thread maybe we should limit it to "dinner jazz". there are more than three sounds in the naked city.

this was at a temple outside of Tokyo. felt kind of funny embibing my locks with incense that is to keep evil spirits at bay (and this was the only ritualistic thing i did). i'm sure all those others that were a foot shorter believed it worked after i left the scene.

got this pack of goodies just yesterday. have not perused the thread recently as i did not want to be swayed. no googling, no amg. just my thoughts as it happened. now to look upon the takes from those ears in the know! Disc 1: 1) 'ask me now' solo...now a quintet...too normal for a european but it sounds more across the bay. someone blow insulation into the traps? 'as time goes by' quotes. 2) some heavy Tristano paws. but more african soul. man this is a great tune!! 3) absolutely no clue on the large group stuff. trumpeter's date? Creed Taylor's closet. 4) this is good! Jerome Richardson? no... electric geetar and clarinet? wacky man! sawaankaay!! 5) "my desire", sounds like that Aretha sings the blues big band early years record done up by James Brown...some Dinah influences but is it really James? too obvious...Little Richard or some obscurity? 6) very pretty voice...nice! these female vocs alway throw me. not that there's anything wrong with it but, i hear some Liza? she could afford a harpist at the session. 7) "little rooti tootie" ? this be the ICP... has that Megelberg / Guus Janseen / Dutch sound to it. great...man that monk, eh. 8) should know this tune. 'o' combo w/ bass? hmmm, that throws me off. 9) what a great simple first line strut...makes me hungry. was this group on the first Scorcese Blues show? 10) again no clue... 11) this doesn't make the terror holocaust sound too bad. is it some studio band... taking time off from the stooges and our gang. 12) whoa...nice segue with these last three. is this you Jim? some downtown obscurity. not Zorn in there? Roswell Rudd?? craaazzzzzy! 13) man Jim...you are nuts! this thing is so hot and i usually don't like this buggin' big band stuff. 14) "almost like being in love" love how this is recorded. there is an etherial-ness to that horn. is this from an lp? song is too long to be French. though maybe Rene Thomas but I don't know much of that music. this is a fantastic cut. Klook! gotta have this!! 15) is this another French group. does have a frantic vibes that play to that bit of Spike Jonesy thread you had going on. man that vibist is killin'. Disc 2: 1) "nature boy" ?... electric piano leaves me no clue. thought this was Mengelberg or Michael Moore... sax is very fresh... love how it melds over the propulsive Tony-esque drive ...'fusion'? as it should be! very nice. this gets even greater as it rolls along. Gerry Hemmingway? no clue... 2 ) a Leon Parker sound to it... but it may be an lp so it can't be him. i think it's mikeweil. [i was looking at that pic post thread and the images are very in sync w/ couw's conga flashimations.] 3) Marvin Gaye-ish with a very nice orchestrated detroit sound...not philly. a bit off tone on one of these guys. kind of Fernando Saunders voicings. no idea on this one. 4) now this one has that Fernado Saunders-esque bassline. beautiful stuff. 5) thought there was a thread here... now this bit of new orleans romp. great tune and i'm not much of a dixie land lubber. 6) not really a big band piece.. a large ensemble. some snakey sax make me think it's the hornist's date. is it dutch? a bit too sweet for an Odean Pope. jeesh no idea again. 7) sounds much the same as #6. a bit more advanced but less enjoyable. 8) you got a good segue goin' here. old stuff. i just don't know big band stuff. 9) i should know this i guess. works well with the last four tunes. live Rollins? but faster. whatever this is i need it. that bass solo is the knuckles!.. playing on top and down low at the same time... it's an octopus!! 10) what the heck...now some moogy funk. Olu Dara? this voice is a bit older. a great groove. excellent cut Jim! fantastic guitar comping. 11) Bob Stewart? kind of a first line thing with a lappy Frisell. percussion is on top of this one setting up a fine backbone. doh! Threadgill!!! very very circus, brandon ross, not frisell? Rojas on tuba ... never heard this one. aw jeez what the heck was that drum machine. someone should have taken that beat box away and put it in a box with stitt's varitone... that is some happening rhythm section though! maybe it's not a Threadgill date after all. the drummer is not Phaeron Aklaff. a bit too quick and electric but now doing a talking-drum thing. this is a fantastic closer!!! now i really know why i never listen to the radio. thanks, Jim! it's a keeper. can't wait to see all the other commentary on this set. and the answers of course. fun stuff!!!

i'm the tallish one wafting spirits-

I've only the Rhino in my collection. And should add "Intuition". Can anyone comment on the fact that Tristano recorded the bass rhythm parts and then speed them up and played overdubs for some sessions? Was it that he couldn't find a player with enough speed? I recall this from maybe the liners of that disc?? Just thought that was pretty ahead of it's time.

I guess when I think back Hot Wheels was my main affection. And boy if only I was in tune with my pinker side, like the post from RDK above, and bought up all the fucshia red-liners...$$$$ and kept them in the blister. and Joe... my most haunting memory as a kid was one day pestering the shit out of my Dad to take along my mini trap set to grandmas house. I actually think that the kick drum got stuck around his calf. He went Keith Moon on that baby!!! ouch!

No shit...and the fact that you have to deal with the weight on the inside as well as determining the height and stunted length of their little appendages, combined with vinyl shrinkage and such leads you to something that looks like the above. All that is important because those fokkers CAN'T fall down. (sp edit)

With the season upon us I'm curious as to what was your favorite toy or game you had as a kid or even something you think outstanding that you have purchased through the years.

Hey Joe G...odd as it may seem I did the lame character styling for that guy back in '87. There is a whole new series of re-issues coming next year...much better than that guy!

Honey Milford... but i still like Peter Johnson!

b3er...too bad that denon didn't have some photoshop back then...but Joe's teeth are whiter than that perfectly starched shirt. Joe was not on last legs then and I think that might be just the way he looked. McDuff and the boys are really something on that one. Essential!!

that's really too bad. i frequented, as lurker, the aaj and saw some great exchanges being tossed about between the two. hard to find a bar-room these days where one can eavesdrop a bit and leave with an incredible education of british jazz and such. you could certainly read under the mortar fire and take with some superb insights from both. peter was a great wealth to that board and an important contributor. unfortunate that it's come to such an outcome.

DEEP, please forward funds for the urgent removal of rhino-splattered coffee from my keyboard! (sorry conn, but that was funny)

how is it that miss keys can act all julliard and monstrously talented at times and then hands it over to this seemingly faux hip hop twistin' the radius over the ulna shit when she speaks... i certainly hope that her handlers aren't attempting to sacrifice her true talent for demographical approval if ya gets my mariah carey went down the long dark road drift.

...you oughtta get a yellow card just for thinking about Miller Lite!

Maybe Hans can report on that vocalist...she makes ol' Greetje Bijma look like Shirley Temple. Heeyikes! That last sample is the real groove of them all.

My one of many radio scores happened to extrapolate into a bigger deal... I won some tickets to see an "Evening of Windham Hill Artists" at the Berklee Performance Center... free tickets! score!!...so I finally called this woman (as I had been hounded by co-workers to do so) to go to the show. She agreed and fifteen years and two daughters later the prize is still paying off. Granted I will never set foot into an "Evening with Windham Hill" (yawn smiley here) ever again but just that once... I still get grief from her for nodding off during the first date festivities but never ever give her a hard time for heading to the exits of the same venue months later when Ornette pulled out the violin (another freebie).

Will those two sessions fit on one disc? Boy, old BN would sell off a pantload of those. Agreed that those two early BN silver discs were not up to snuff.

Yes, I recall discussing this RVG on the old BN and can go back to my first ever CD purchase - a pair of Best of Blue Note from Japan... a year before any re-issues appeared on disk. The "SFMF" on this set is nearly perfect with no distortions at all and an itty bitty bit of vinyl sound during the brief silent passages, so... it's too bad with all the capabilities of remasterings today that BN couldn't have given these things a bit more attention instead of marketing the crap out of Rudy's ears.

i thought more apt for an occasional "Crazy Guggenheim"!

And while your out surfin for d'imp please refer to a guy of class talent who graces some jackets. Karl Hubenthal. Great influence on one of my heroes Murray Olderman.

...or a one way ticket out? how i hate that guy.