What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

This again:

 

  On 3/18/2021 at 7:09 AM, Gheorghe said:

James Williams was so great, and he died too early. 

I´ll never forget how impressed I was by his playing on the first Blakey LP I had "In This Korner". And then seeing him perform with Blakey with that band with Bobby Watson and Valery Ponomarev...

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Williams' music always has a soulfulness and warmth, doesn't it?  Even when he's playing uptempo.  

I think that's one of the reasons he worked so well with Blakey.  TOTALLY agree with you re: In This Korner. 

Straight Ahead, Blakey's 2nd live record from the Keystone -- again with James Williams -- is excellent too.  

 

[Gheorghe]

I love it. That rubato on the beginning of "Thespian" is wonderful. Such a great album. 

[kh1958]

Charlie Barnett (Capitol)

Bobby Timmons, Chicken and Dumplin's (Prestige)

Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Pony Poindexter, Leo Wright, The Alto Summit (Prestige/MPS)

[JSngry]

  On 3/20/2021 at 5:40 PM, kh1958 said:

Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Pony Poindexter, Leo Wright, The Alto Summit (Prestige/MPS)

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WHOA! Never seen that, just the BASF/MPS version...who wrote the liner notes for this Prestige version?

[kh1958]

  On 3/20/2021 at 7:11 PM, JSngry said:

WHOA! Never seen that, just the BASF/MPS version...who wrote the liner notes for this Prestige version?

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Mark Gardner wrote the notes, dated August of 1969.

[JSngry]

Wow, that would have been a totally different take on the music than the MPS/JEB notes, no doubt...

[kh1958]

  On 3/20/2021 at 7:30 PM, JSngry said:

Wow, that would have been a totally different take on the music than the MPS/JEB notes, no doubt...

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In a quick look at the Prestige Discography, I counted 16 Prestige issues of MPS material. How else would Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald end up on Prestige?

[HutchFan]

 

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[JSngry]

  On 3/20/2021 at 7:40 PM, kh1958 said:

In a quick look at the Prestige Discography, I counted 16 Prestige issues of MPS material. How else would Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald end up on Prestige?

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There was a Clarke-Boland as well, correct? Who else?

Wondering how well that series got distributed nationwide. We had pretty goo rack-job service for Prestige when I started buying in 1970-71, but I never saw any of those.

[Chuck Nessa]

I have that one.

[HutchFan]

Brilliant.

[JSngry]

  On 3/20/2021 at 7:49 PM, HutchFan said:

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You know, I used to have to defend Wearther Report/Zawinual against the stickuptheirassjazzpurists about the synths, and my first - and still primary - line is that hey, colors, textures unique to electronics, not imitating "real" instruments but being real instruments.

So it was in the liner notes to either Quasar or Dragonfly, or maybe some interview, i forget, where they say something about "sounds like you've been listening to Weather Report, whaddup with that, Mr. Silence humming trioman?" And his response was - textures, I love the textures.

Well, yeah. DUH!

If Joe Biden was a jazz fan, I bet he'd say, "NEVER bet against the Jimmy Giuffre people!"

[HutchFan]

  On 3/20/2021 at 10:15 PM, JSngry said:

You know, I used to have to defend Wearther Report/Zawinual against the stickuptheirassjazzpurists about the synths, and my first - and still primary - line is that hey, colors, textures unique to electronics, not imitating "real" instruments but being real instruments.

So it was in the liner notes to either Quasar or Dragonfly, or maybe some interview, i forget, where they say something about "sounds like you've been listening to Weather Report, whaddup with that, Mr. Silence humming trioman?" And his response was - textures, I love the textures.

Well, yeah. DUH!

If Joe Biden was a jazz fan, I bet he'd say, "NEVER bet against the Jimmy Giuffre people!"

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Yep. Good memory. What you're talkin' about is in the liner notes to Quasar.   

 

[JSngry]

Love it when the memory actually works...the impressions are still always good, but the details....some days are better than others.

[Larry Kart]

  On 3/20/2021 at 10:14 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

I have that one.

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I reviewed it enthusiastically for Down Beat back in the day.

[jazzcorner]

  On 3/20/2021 at 10:33 PM, Larry Kart said:

I reviewed it enthusiastically for Down Beat back in the day.

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RE: Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Prestige/ MPS

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[sidewinder]

  On 3/20/2021 at 10:14 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

I have that one.

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Funnily enough I saw a blue label copy of that pressing in the racks here for not much £ and passed. Real curio. The MPS releases are quite common over here, either German, UK or French pressed.

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[clifford_thornton]

That is the Sax/Sex No End record, right?

[sidewinder]

  On 3/21/2021 at 2:26 PM, clifford_thornton said:

That is the Sax/Sex No End record, right?

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Yes, I think so.

[Larry Kart]

Indeed it is. That track transfixed me.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, I have the German MPS pressing, wonderful album.

[jlhoots]

  On 3/21/2021 at 5:19 PM, clifford_thornton said:

yeah, I have the German MPS pressing, wonderful album.

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I have a Japanese CD reissue - says Saba on the side.

[clifford_thornton]

It was first released on SABA, which changed its name to MPS in 1968. I just checked and my copy is in fact the SABA issue.

[HutchFan]

David Friedman - Of the Wind's Eye (Enja, 1981)
with Jane Ira Bloom (ss), Harvie Swartz (b), and Daniel Humair (d)

 

[HutchFan]

More David Friedman:

Shades of Change (Enja, 1986)