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Don Sugarcane Harris. Here's some sugar:

True, but the handlebar moustache is fake I'm afraid

You put it better than I did! "Icily Virtuosic" you nailed it right there my problem with post BN Tyner. Technique over feeling. Wasn't helped by the milestone sound that, to use your metaphor, turned the ivories into "diamond" headed drill bits. Another one for me is Eric Gale. I've never bothered to hear his own LPs cos his solos as a CTI and Kudu session man always seamed to have this samey, overly bluesy sound to them whatever the feeling of the tune.... That said I always loved his rhythm work behind the soloists.

Word. We love you madly Booker!

Dear Booker fans - I'm really loving the track "Tyra" at the end of The In Between. Great trumpet work too. Any one else dig this one?

This is so true. An amazing solo. Just listened to bus ride again for the first time in years and straight away sought out more info on Manning which brought me to your old post. He reminds me a little of Sam Rivers on Larry Young's Into something

Read this here http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue46/blue_note.htm "The box is Classic's latest attempt to produce a ne plus ultra pressing of a famous recording from vinyl's golden age. Not only is the original single LP spread over four single-sided discs, it is pressed on Classic's proprietary "Clarity Vinyl," a see-through, slate-grey vinyl that eschews the black pigment—aka "carbon black"—that has been a part of the vinyl formula since the very beginning of the LP era, when it was employed to make vinyl records look as much as possible like the shellac discs that they replaced. Classic believes that by leaving the carbon black out of the mix, the LPs do not become magnetized, since vinyl is not by itself a magnetic material. (The fact that magnetically charged records sound tight and constricted is widely, if not unanimously, acknowledged among audiophiles, and I will return to this subject later in this review.)" This seams to go against what they said in this thread here: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-103196.html "Vinyl is clear. There is however, an agent in the black vinyl that makes it smoother and quieter. Colored vinyl (other than black) can be noisier because it doesn't have this agent in it. In my experience, vinyl without this "agent" added does scratch more easily. (I'd heard it called "carbon black" before.) It seems the colored vinyl is softer, in other words. I've had minor "mishaps" over the past 25 or so years where my black vinyl wouldn't be harmed, where the colored easily picked up a small tick from it. The colored vinyl, too, seems to be worn a lot more than the black vinyl pressings I've seen. Groove damage seems to be more apparent on the non-black." Personally I still think black is beautiful

Now is it the chest hair or the sweat that makes it ugly ...... Both... The flute. Seriously, the whole thing is just... wrong! The hollow-eyed gaze, the way he's holding that damn flute, the sweaty, hairy chest, the way it's cropped just at the navel... er..and the title too

Just found this on ebay. Ugly as hell.

I hope you have a good dust cover

Where the hell did I post that? Was that this thread? Something about a guy with muttonchop sideburns kicking back in an Eames lounger on a flokati rug, with an arco lamp, listening to "Fire and Rain" from Hubert Law's Afro Classic on reel to reel - with a litho of "Moon Germs" on the wall... yeah, that's it!

Ron plays a simple but effective bass loop on we live in Brookyln baby. Great Psychedelic funk track

Keep your "Head On" (I know, I know, I should've thought of that 3 days ago)

Hey Teasing the Korean, before the crash we were talking about other stuff rotting in Creed Taylor's shed (ex wife's corpse, Don Sebesky Even Bigger Box ltd edition etc) when you posted something on Joe Farrel's Moon Germs that cracked me up - a kind super 70s CTi wonderland complete with lava lamp and all. If inspiration strikes again be my guest...

I know the feeling!