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This just in: Brad's choice: Endgame Brilliance!

Chris, scoot the photo further to the right, it's bigger than screen size. Right up over Max's shoulder. . . .

Thanks Mike. I think that's Harry Lim in the right corner.

How 'bout this one? Metronome All Stars maybe?

Hey, maybe the Natural Essence? Got that vibe to me!

Reuters: July 3, 2003. Austin Texas Famed international jazz bulletin board Organissimo.org has announced that their Album of the Week tradition is firmly in place and that longtime poster and contributer Brad will be selecting the Album of the Week for the week of July 20 through July 26. Upcoming Album of the Week selector jazzbo slyly hints that members should expect a selection from another artist named Edward who goes by a nickname. . . .

Hey, I spent the bulk of my childhood in Philly. . . had to choose Franklin. May have anyway: he was a gifted dirty old man wasn't he!

Okay, I thunk and thunk and decided on an album for discussion the week of July 6 through July 13. . . . Duke Ellington - FAR EAST SUITE (click here to buy) It's time for Duke as an album of the week project, and this is an album that many have and that has been discussed, but not to death. Get your spinning devices ready!

That would be a nice store!

If you already have the RCA set, you really don't need the JSP at all. I actually think the RCA set sounds very good, the JSP sounds a little different. . . the difference between the two is really remastering from the original parts (RCA) and the other from 78s (JSP). I really like the Rounder cds as well. And Retrieval has a good set of solo piano pieces that are well worth having, with Davies transfers.

Well, I definitely missed recommendations of this recording on other boards. I haven't been bowled over by the whole Buena Vista Club recordings, or a lot of what Cooder has been doing in the last decade or two. Not saying it isn't great, just saying it's not my thing. But I really like this one! Hippity hoppin', digital reverb, dubbin' and all.

Agreed! I'm glad you got to see him.

S, I've given up on the "scene" here. I used to be out in it briefly (not in jazz) and it gave me little pleasure and taught me a real disdain for drunken frat boys et al! I rarely venture out, my wife is happy with that situation for the most part (i. e. she doesn't mind not going where I would want to go!) and I do miss the occasional great event. . .but ultimately the way the city is biased towards alternative rock bands etc. I don't miss out on too much. . . .

Thanks to Harold for getting me to listen to this cd! Chacaito is the bass player for the Buena Vista Social Club, and here he has his own album. Very interesting music, contemporary as well as traditional, excellent sound (the bass violin on this sounds the way a bass violin should sound on a cd!) Nice use of a few violins, the Hammond organ, and some pseudo-psychedelic guitar. . . and a great use of one of the most recongnizable of Mingus riffs!

Well, I would suggest the JSP set with J. R. T. Davies transfers. That will have a mass of important recordings by him, and is a great place to start and for many to just stand pat! Really, it's cheap, the sound is very good, and the music is Jelly delux!

Oh gosh yes Brian, Derek: AMAZING. I watched him over and over with Lou Ann Barton here and there and at Antones over and over and over. What a great player!

But yeah, Harrell is a very interesting player; I've liked some of his recordings quite a bit. Would have been something to see him in action. Glad you got to experience that!

Well, I sure didn't make it. I didn't even know it was happening! I really don't get out much as my life isn't geared for it. Last time I was at the Elephant Room was a get together for the return to town of an acquaintance of mine, Mel Winters, who is an amazing composer/pianist and a great but reluctant trumpeter/flugelhornist. I was very disappointed that the P A system was even on and that it kept being made louder and louder. . . . The musicians were the ones responsible; I wanted to hear just the instruments in that nice small space, but no!

Jim, we've sort of discussed this a bit before outside the board, and we've made some tentative stabs at it on boards, what I'm talking about I guess is music as a vehicle for the spirit, or spirituality, or some such. I totally believe that Rollins experience. It falls in line with what I've started to believe about music as a method of rising and advancing the spirt, or communication of human essentials in a unique manner, or something along those lines. I'm not sure I can put words to what I feel music is and is capable of. It's as old as our two-legged-walking psyches and it is one of the few universal things in human culture. I think it has always had a hand in our civilizations, and a hand in bettering the human condition. And it will be with us to the bitter end, or the better end. Look how Miles and his employees and two nights in a not so posh club in San Francisco communicated with all those persons, and through the magic of technology has communicated with so many many others for over forty years. One day maybe man will understand all there is to understand about this. . . but I doubt it. I continue to marvel more than struggle to understand in a clinical way any longer. I marvel at the music and the beings that create and disseminate and are reached by the music. I need it as a part of my world; I know you need it as a part of yours. I think all reading this thread need it as well. Music has actually been a method by which fraternity came into my life. And I think fraternity is needed now, more than ever, or perhaps it is always needed desperately for the advancement of the human spirit. Anyway, thanks for sharing that experience Jim.

Jim, I think I know what you mean, and I also think that partly you feel that way because you are a tenor saxophonist with decades of experience and Newk hit you in a way that perhaps he would not have hit nearly every other member of the audience that night? I say that because I have seen Texan drummer George Rains many times here in town in the eighties, and I saw him one night in a small club with Angela Strehli's band and he was playing on a level he never had before. I had been studying him from fifteen feet away for a few years, week after week, literally, and all of a sudden I was watching him and he was just playing in a manner that I never had imagined he could play, or really that anyone could play: every bit of time was at his disposal and he could make the band crawl or dive, soar or sprawl, he was a part of every note and every nuance. Guitarist Denny Freeman was fully aware of it, and he would look back at George in wonder now and then. After the second set I tried to talk to George and compliment him but I didn't get a chance to. I've wondered if there was some special ingredient to his evening that made him suddenly this supernatural drummer. I'll never really know. BUT the gal I was dancing with that night, who I had been traveling with from Antones to the Continental Club and all over town following Lou Ann Barton's and Angela Strehli's bands for about a year, didn't notice anything different about George that night. She just danced her dance and drank her vodka, as she always did. But it was a night of drumming that floored me. It both inspired me after that to work harder, and also undermined me because when I faltered I felt I'd never be able to come close to such a performance/talent. I've never witnessed another such supernatural performance from a drummer since. However, I think a large part of the experience, the identification of the experience itself, hinged on my knowning his work pretty intimately and serially, and on my knowledge of drumming itself. . . .

I was thinking of how awful some bass from the seventies up has been recorded when listening to the cd by Cachaito . . . the bass on this cd is so nicely recorded, rich and yet not muddy. Great cd too!

Dan has the right idea about this movie! How about just one angel if the budget will only allow it. . . .

As Stefan mentioned elsewhere I too haven't had a problem with these new Verve digipaks in removing the cds. . . I sort of spin them out of there rather easily. I haven't bought any of these new batches yet, but the Impulses et al from the last batch are great releases as far as music goes!