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Hey Ubu
Love the selections and strangely enjoyed it more having read the liner notes... (New job is in sales and been driving a lot so lots of opportunity for listening) Makes me think about picking up the rest of those Camden issues, since you see them a lot. More study needed...
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Gato Barbieri "Yesterdays" which is now part of a compliation called "Third World Revisited".
Thats it! The RCA issue I have has pretty scant info
Thanks
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Maybe some Gato Barbieri on Flying Dutchman? Pretty sure Third World Revisited has him on e bass
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I've always liked Burton. First person I ever saw playing the vibes in the flesh and in duet with Chick Corea turned me into a fan.
Lots of his stuff is a bit soft and clean (his aesthetic and his labels maybe)
Quite like the RCA stuff since its pretty varied and have a couple of albums Tenessee Firebird, Genuine Tong Funeral and a couple of compilations all of which get dug out from time to time (Needs a comprehensive reissue program on cd since I'd love to hear Duster and Country Roads in their entirity)
I have a few ECMs and other than the Corea duets already mentioned I quite like the ones with Towner which are very soft centered but have some lovely moments.
Real Life Hits isn't bad (more Bley tunes) but the clean sound flttens out some of the interest.
Right Place, Right Time with Paul Bley has some great moments and a tremendous reading of Ida Lupino (a composition I'd buy any album for).
List of albums here:
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Not listened to this so much so some sketchy note for this. Interesting and fun and as ever I other than place and guesses at general personnel
1. Interesting and no idea even of the language. I'd guess african but no idea really
2. Not really my thing and a Glen Miller-y sounding band.
3. Like this better, fresh sounding and fun. Again a calypso/african thing going on and sounds like a mod classic I cant remember the name of...
4. Ellingtonian - Creole Love Call style thing which is great. I've always loved that too and this is great too.
More later...
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Having some fun with this and a positive id on something which makes a change for me!
Thanks and more impressions later
Hey, what positive ID? I'd like to know, if only by you dropping a hint or posting a link!
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Having some fun with this and a positive id on something which makes a change for me!
Thanks and more impressions later
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Hi Couw
Just a note to say that I've enjoyed the BFT. Haven't done a track by track response unfortunately since I've started a new job and been really busy but still might. Other than Korrossy no cigars for me...
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Have a great one!
c
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I've been selling the odd thing on Ebay and at the minute try to keep the collection self funding so the paypal account contains the money I have to spend. I like a bottom feeding trawl of charity/thrift/used stores for saleable bargains or any jazz worth listening to and try to fund new purchases from that too. Has the advantage of keeping the volume of discs down to since storage is a major issue anyhow.
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Try the stuff he did with Sparks. Excellent!
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Hey I'm still here! Thanks for the birthday greetings. It was a big Birthday too, 40, but it seems I did the mid life crisis a wee while ago so I'm fine about it so far. Life begins they tell me...
I've not been posting lately since I've been real busy getting set to move from London to near Edinburgh (back to the homeland) at the end of next week. I'm real excited but still looking for the elusive new job.
Thanks again guys
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I'm late here too but would like to tell my story about this record. I'd been gradually easing myself into jazz in the late 80s and been travelling round Australia and New Zealand after a spell working in Australia. In a late night chat with a guy from California in a hostel in New Zealand he recommended this which I bought on CD (even though broke) in NYC on the way home. So whoever you were thanks for the recommendation. Not sure I even had a cd player when I got home...
Played it loads back then and must re listen after all the comments.
I think its a classic and love it every time I hear it.
Never realised that ELP quoted Hoedown (always presumed it was Copland) which I'd heard. Also loved Dolphy from the first moment I heard him and bought the 5 Spot albums next.
Sure I have Phil Woods doing Stolen Moments in Italy somewhere... Excellent too.
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PERSONALLY, impossible, i do NOT think MBV at any point is all that (except early-middle, when we say that crap?!) if fx guitar & overdubs w/"dreamy" (kick me in the nuts if i ever say that sincere) overlays ARE your bag well... it's given Yo La Tengo a much longer career than anyone woulda guessed, esp. once they ran out of songs. i'm not anti- ambient music (dig Robert Wyatt on "Music For Airports") but the MBV cult to me like classical/avant- ambient for pop 'tards. might it be someone's very goddamn favorite flavor? sure, just like yr peak sexual experience w/him or her (him & her if yr frisky) is untranslatable to others.
whatevershebringswesing,
c
I love your posts clem agree or disagree with them (and I'm not a great responder on the forum). Interesting to think of MBV Loveless as an ambient thing, which maybe it is. I love Cocteau Twins too (similar?) but really there's little substance there other than the " dreamy" washes and Liz Frazer (under recorded lately). Sound rather than music?
Refreshed my memory of other shoegazers Ride recently and I remembered why that whole scene sucked and how few of records from then have any residual memory.
I also read the Hawkwind thing and wondered
Are we on to Kevin Ayers now? I love that June 1st 1974 live set with Cale, Eno and Nico. Surely we should have had the whole tape by now
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Definitely not overrated. Its a classic of feedback and twisting, looping wall of sound.
(Well I love it anyway!)
It was stuck in my tape walkman for months (quite a feat) back at the time (maybe with Husker Du on the other side)
I think it benefits from Sheilds never really following it up but its way ahead of lots of other stuff widely feted at the time and half as original (Primal Scream, Stone Roses spring to mind)
Play it loud.
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Colin, "Yarona" is my favourite, but then it's 10 years old already - a magnificient live recording with a slightly more intervening trio than he leads now (the youngsters he has now are merely supporting, and alas a bit boring, I think). Good to hear Ibrahim is still in good form, though!
Still as majesterial as ever. Good to hear from you ubu! I'll look out for that one thanks.
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Saw him last week, solo at the London Jazz fest, and as ever mesmerising and transcendent.
Must get a recent album, African Magic the best of the recent sets?
Would love to hear a trio/solo live set like I heard since there is a lot in the hour long performance I'd like to revisit
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It's too bad that some of the greatest music ever made was made in eras where the quality of sound recording was very primitive. To be able to hear what Bird was laying down at the Dial sessions in modern hi-fi would be nothing short of mind blowing. Same with Armstrong and people like Lonnie Johnson, ect.
I think its a miracle that there is as much preserved as there is. While I'd love more and in better sound there is enough for a lifetimes study for me even before I move on to listen to other stuff...
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Ok I've had my own disaster now and could do with some help!
The thermostat in my boiler went meaning the boiler over heated realeasing huge quantities of steam into the flat over a week when we were away. Lots of stuff ruined but worst of all my mosaic sets have gone a bit mouldy on the black cloth boxes.
Now dried out it seems to be wiping off but I'm a bit worried they'll be ruined. The CDs (only one vinyl set) seem ok but anyone had this problem and know of any treatment to get them back to pristine?
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Seen him a few times and he's always entertaining. Saw the current lineup at a festival in the UK this summer and it was as strong as ever.
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Much to my embarrassment the only disc I have is the John Taylor which I never warmed to but maybe I've never given much time to either.
Great set of music and made me think!
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1. More vibes and this I quite like. I think I've overdone Monk at the moment but vibes are always good and this is playful enough to be kinda fun
2. Not for me, Like the tune and its not awful but a bit sappy...
3. Interesting textures and pretty likeable, Gil Evans ish?
4. Really nice can't identify though, Great after hours feeling
5. More flute and I quite like this, great organ too
6. Like this too, I like them slow
7. Know the tune but can't recall. (I'm not the oldest on the board I'm sure but my memory is rubbish)
8. Nice and I like this, my kind of thing
9. Lovely too again no idea...
Edited to finish
Great couple of discs with plenty to enjoy (and a couple to not enjoy) and again make me realise that I don't know the music (and musicians) that I have on my shelves already. I'll look forward to the results and the realisation that I have loads of these folks already and much to learn.
Cheers Tom
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jitterbug waltz
One of my favorites (to each his own, as they say). To me it has a certain magic... sounds easy in a way, but it's a bitch (for me, at least) to play. Most of the renditions I've heard are relatively modern (not sure what year Waller wrote it, but I know I haven't heard many older versions). The canadian guitarist Reg Schwager recorded it in the 80's on a record called "Resonance", and that version completely knocked me out.
I'm basically with Free For All, although there are a couple mentioned so far that I don't exactly "love".
I'd agree except for Dolphy's version which is brilliant.
'Summertime' for me, not that I dislike more that I don't want to hear it done again. Miles and Gil and Booker T have nailed it for me and that's enough
BFT 48 answers - disc one
in Blindfold Test
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I have a few of these so not so many to find...