blind-blake Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Anybody have a copy of this for sale or trade? Any kind of copy will do (wink wink). It seems to be long out of print. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Turned up on emusic this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 wink wink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 I never thought that was his best work - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 I never thought that was his best work - Yeah, the stuff he did with Reagan really takes the cake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 I never thought that was his best work - What do you consider to be his best work, Allen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 (edited) 1946-54; the trio stuff from '53 or '54. Much as Haig was a friend, his later work suffered from some problems - he seemed to have lost the great continuity and density of his best bebop playing. Some of it was an attempt to be "contemporary," I think, and he may have lost some edge during his alcoholic/wandering years, sadly. I do think Barry Harris was right when he told me one night (we were discussing Haig and a few others on a car ride from NYC to Connecticut) that "I think a lot of musicians, when Bird died, lost their way, didn't know what to do next." on the other hand, as I heard him night after night, there were times when he caught that edge, and hearing him in person was much different, as he was such a great musician that certain things he did, musically, made up for other deficits; and he had one of the most beautiful and pure sounds I have ever heard on the piano. The club One Fifth (in NYC) had an amazing 9 foot Steinway and it was particulary gratifying to hear him on that instrument - Edited October 24, 2008 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-blake Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Turned up on emusic this morning Great news! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 1946-54; the trio stuff from '53 or '54. Much as Haig was a friend, his later work suffered from some problems - he seemed to have lost the great continuity and density of his best bebop playing. Some of it was an attempt to be "contemporary," I think, and he may have lost some edge during his alcoholic/wandering years, sadly. I do think Barry Harris was right when he told me one night (we were discussing Haig and a few others on a car ride from NYC to Connecticut) that "I think a lot of musicians, when Bird died, lost their way, didn't know what to do next." on the other hand, as I heard him night after night, there were times when he caught that edge, and hearing him in person was much different, as he was such a great musician that certain things he did, musically, made up for other deficits; and he had one of the most beautiful and pure sounds I have ever heard on the piano. The club One Fifth (in NYC) had an amazing 9 foot Steinway and it was particulary gratifying to hear him on that instrument - Thanks, Allen. The trio recordings from the 50s are what I usually reach for as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 yeah, Haig was still a terrific musician and great accompanist in the '70s, but somewhere along the line the fire sorta went out - I hesitate to say this but I think post-alcoholic syndrome may have had a little bit to do with this, as he often lost the continuity in his playing in a way I have heard other pianists lose it - and I mean pianists (and one in particular) with whom I worked and who, though sober, had lost some essential ingredient to their playing - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 I saw Al Haig once in the seventies - can't say I heard him though! He was on at a Manchester club called The Band on the Wall and I arrived to find the place packed to the doors. At the other side of a sea of people a completely inaudible Haig could just be seen at the piano! Nice he could still draw an audience of that size, I suppose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 he was still a consummate musician - and hearing him in person was an altogether different thing than hearing him on a record - his touch, his taste, his SOUND, were all intact still, and these came through best when one was in the same room as him - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 It case it wasn't apparent, Duke 'N' Bird was just reissued on CD by Test of Time (a 441 subsidiary). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 he was still a consummate musician - and hearing him in person was an altogether different thing than hearing him on a record - his touch, his taste, his SOUND, were all intact still, and these came through best when one was in the same room as him - Trouble is, I never quite got into the room! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 I love Al's work with Bird of course. Those air checks from the Roost are a treasure. Also his work with Stan Getz is beautiful. I caught Al in New York in the mid seventies at Gregory's. That place was so noisy. At the end of the set he just walked out of the club. So I started running after him. I wanted to talk. But he lost me in no time. I guess he was running faster. Denis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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