jazzbo

Well, I didn't really mean to mispell "Trumpet Guy!"

Got a good listen on Saturday to Phil Grenadier's "Playful Intentions" on Fresh Sounds New Talent. MAN, this is a good cd. The sound is great and the exploratory but grounded writing and playing is just right. I can recommend this one. Must have been fun to record with your brother, Phil---and you both have reason to be proud.

I hope so too, this is going to be a great set. The advance copies sound great!

Brad, not a dumb question at all! Probably they have shipped it and you should receive it tomorrow or Wednesday or so. If you log in on the site and check your orders, you should be able to see the details. In my case they haven't shipped mine because I combined my order with the latest Duke Ellington Treasury Show volume, and that is not yet in, so it is holding up the process! But in the past when I've preordered like this they generally seem to ship the Saturday or Monday before the Tuesday new release date. . . .

For me it's either Aretha or Marvin. Both of them just reach out of the speakers and HIT ME. And both of them are such master technicians and all around master musicians. And they have the spirit, or the spiritual conflict, or something. . . . You know, when I lived in M'Babane, Swaziland at the close of the 'sixties, Percy Sledge was THE MAN there. He was the American soul artist they knew most and loved, because I believe he had come through there on a tour and just knocked them dead! This was the big one:

All the Philips material I've heard has been knockyoursocksoff burnin' fantastic, so a box would be somethin'!

As far as I can tell, he's been referred to by both names, but "Bennie" is the one that is most often used.

I really like Duke Pearson, he was a very important part of the last years of the sort of original company, and I really dig his playing, and his writing of compositions and arrangements, and his production as well (when I can isolate elements that I think are his production). The problem that has been prevalent for a long time is that a lot of his work as a leader was not in print or went out of print quickly, and "Duke Pearson doesn't sell." The Mosaic Select will be a big fix for many of us. I really like two of the projected albums, "The Phantom" and "How Insensitive." It will be good to see them come into print! Also the two trio albums that appeared as JRVGs are great showcases of his wonderful touch and swing on the keys.

Congratulations Late! Thanks for the info grey.

I certainly agree with your words Jim. Also agree that the Stash cd, or the Master of Jazz first three or four volumes of Charlie Parker, should be available in JRG remasterings of the source material using DigitalK2 in perpetuity!

You know it's funny, I've seen that "half of my heartbeat" quote attributed to Bird re: Diz, and Dix re: Bird!

Monk was certainly WEIRD, but I don't think he had enough exposure to be much of an influence on public perception outside of the fanatical followers of the movement and the musicians (when these weren't one and the same!)

Well then as to whether Bird or Diz was more important. . . I think Bird was a bit more important for the musical content. . . he'd soaked up the KC innovations of Pres and he'd also soaked up the harmonic inventiveness of Tatum and others. . . he was all about the music, and his dedication to his art and the virtuosity that both came from that and was a deep part of him regardless were a very important force in the new music. Not that Diz didn't contribute musically as well (and he was also a virtuoso, and both he and Bird helped to introduce important--different---rhythmic changes, among other musical matters), but most important was Diz's contribution as a showman, as a catalyst, as a spokesperson and trendmonger in my opinion. He visually became bebop to the masses, and he had the big band and the film shorts and the jive to promote the music as "the hip new thing."

In some ways I think Tatum should be allowed some parentage as well! (If for no reason other than Bird soaked him up and learned, but for other reasons as well.)

I think there were many fathers to the bebop litter. Pres should be mentioned, I'm not sure I could articulate specifically why, but he's in there. Dameron and McGhee. Byas. Coulson OP. . . . Maybe I'm stretching the term "father" here, maybe not. . . ?

Were they the "non Blue Note" RVGs from Cannon, Miles Davis Nonet, Watkins, etc?

Of these, the only one that I have heard is the Fontanna. . . which sounds FANTASTIC.

Well, that's news to me! Which titles grey?

Glad you found that entertaining!

Well, the "Lonson" was not my choice; I would have had no private messaging at the BN board if I had not changed my account; the moderator never responded for my plea for help when my private messaging there had a huge glitch. And actually I had been "jazzbo" at Blue Note as well, posting occasionally there under that name. For grins. Decided to adopt that here for grins as well! Glad you are here now.

Grey, glad you've settled in my friend!

Yeah, Jim doesn't even read his e-mail anymore! Just kidding. AAJ and Organissimo are apples and oranges. A balanced diet may include both. . . but one may taste better than another!

These Mizelli productions are . . . mood music for me. When the mood is right, they're fine. I have some of them, will probably get the two that I don't have. I have the Bartz, and I've had it for years and years, and I like it. (I like it probably the best of the productions.)

I think it's likely that they decided to not double dip RVG for the remastering of the same titles. . . . Those two Alfa Wilens are nice to see come back into print!

I took a look and one copy of the defective cd sold for 5.99 on ebay, and one was listed for 9.99 and closed without receiving a single bid.