JSngry Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Gary Burton - Tennessee Firebird (RCA Victor stereo). A strange one - Burton's group playing with Nashville country musicians - The Osborne Brothers, Charlie McCoy, Chet Atkins, etc.. Not everything works, but some tracks are very enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 This ended up being a significantly better record than I was expecting...the Quintet cuts with Dolphy are more heated than the other stuff of theirs I've heard, the vocal cuts are warmly quirky with an old-school huge sounding sax section providing the backgrounds, and the drum solos are nothing short of magnificent. I was expecting some equally pleasurable but significantly less substantial music. But ok, this then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 ...the Quintet cuts with Dolphy are more heated than the other stuff of theirs I've heard.... I agree - these are the best Dolphy-with-Hamilton tracks out there. I don't care too much for Chico's singing, though. Right now: Vernard Johnson - Live (Glori). One of Dr. Johnson's best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Prompted by some recent discussion, since I hadn't heard this one for awhile: Lee Konitz - Spirits (Milestone) I remembered it being good. I hadn't remembered that it was this good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Frank Rosolino 'Frankly Speaking' (Capitol Japan) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Frank Rosolino 'Frankly Speaking' (Capitol Japan) Another favourite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Thornell Schwartz! Cuttin' up! Paul Humphrey on neutral ground. but - Bob West on Fender bass? Huh? Why? Uh...no, please? Sorry, almost de rigeur for the time. I agree with both your posts and would add that I don't like the sound the X77 makes. But Thorny!!! That man made so much good music with organists, it's just not true. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Teddy Edwards - Heart & Soul (Contemporary OJC). Gerry Wiggins is on organ rather than piano, and he's kind of overwhelming at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 This morning's vinyl Ramsey Lewis - Going Latin - Cadet (Chess UK) Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers - The love I've been loking for - Atlantic Dorothy Norwood - Look what they've done to my child - Savoy (If this were big enough to actually READ the sleeve notes, you'd see Melvin Hassan listed on guitar. I've always thought it strange for him to have used his Moslem name for a gospel album.) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 A rare thing that I can "handle" this record, but this morning it's hitting the spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Produced by Keg Johnson!!!!), and adorative liner notes by Stanley Crouch(!!!!) Produced + Liner Notes written by Michael Cuscuna 1975 & 1976, respectfully. Blue Note hittin' dat new note! You got the guitars of Barry Finnerty & Joe Beck on the former, and Rodney Jones on the latter. Arthur Blythe is around but not really in the forefront, Steve Turre is all over the place, but mostly on bass, Arnie Lawrence has a cameo or two on Peregrinations, and on the whole it would easy to dismiss both as lightweight, inconsequential, well-produced fujazak wallpaper, easy and not entirely incorrect. But... Chico is really bringing his pulse mojo to the fore on these sides. No, ain't nothing much happening on the top or in the middle, but you get down to the bone, and there's Chico, keeping some serious, dancing, happy time, no matter what the groove, and doing it strongly. And every so often, it works, not as "music" but as mojo, something that works on your body by bypassing your head. I find that to one degree or another on almost every Chico Hamilton record I get, old or new - Chico himself, he got that mojo. Yeah, it would be easy to dismiss these records, easy and fair, and not really incorrect either. But it would be equally wrong to do so without first paying heed to the drummer, because the drummer got something for you ass, jack, yes he do. And he can keep you coming back for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 (edited) This is a really fine, fun record. Edited August 2, 2012 by JSngry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 almost, but not quite. Some neat parts, just not much of a sum. Too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 "Timbale Rock" is a fine, focused, energetic & purposeful piece of latinfunkjazz and was a pleasure to have playing in the room. But they stuck it at the tail end of Side Two, so I had to listen to the rest of the record before it got to that, and that was not so much a pleasure. Once again - if all it took to make a good record of this "type" was clean, crisp production and foolproof licks, then there would be no bad records of this type. Well, that's not all it takes, and there are plenty of bad records of this type, this one being among them, in spite of having more clean, crisp production and foolproof licks than you or me or anybody else could shake a stick at. Eddie Harris laughs at you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Interesting player, Jim Pepper was. I hear some folks say, well, you gotta learn bebop to make the changes, and ok, but this guy sounds like he never really wanted to play bebop, but he makes the changes just fine and in his own voice.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 This evening's vinyl Thionne Seck - Yow - Syllart Bill Leslie - Diggin the chicks - Argo (DG mono) Jack McDuff - Kisses - Sugar Hill Grover Washington Jr - All the king's horses - Kudu (Pye UK) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Yusef! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Hank Mobley 'Peckin' Time' (BN/King Japan, mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Back to this three lp box set. I can't believe how good it sounds on vinyl. I have the cd equivalent. No contest! I love Teagarden. One of my favorite musicians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sidewinder Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Ah - Vinyl West in good old Stuttgart. Great shop ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Not played in years, surprisingly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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