JSngry Posted February 7, 2015 Report Posted February 7, 2015 Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, George Tucker, Roger Humphries, May 8, 1965. Can't say that I've ever heard a Carmel Jones record that was less than top-shelf, but I only recently paid attention to this one, and it's gotten its hooks into me under my skin, repeats and repeats in my ear and in my changer. A treat to hear Barry Harris give up a Son-Of-Sidewinder solo on the title tune, which itself is a treat as a boogaloo which rather severely downplays the drums, sometimes to the point of having them remain tacit. All in all though, it's just five guys who speak the same language conversating in a very high level of comfort and confidence. Laton was talking about how sometimes he like to listen to a record just for the comp, well, here one is with which you can do that all day long, for real. It's Real Deal Time with this one, yes, yes yes. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 7, 2015 Report Posted February 7, 2015 Have had this a couple of times over the years - good record. Of course the initial purchase impulse was that we're fellow Jayhawkers... Quote
tomatamot Posted February 7, 2015 Report Posted February 7, 2015 I buy everything I can find of him. Quote
paul secor Posted February 7, 2015 Report Posted February 7, 2015 Good record - not great - but most things aren't great. Quote
JSngry Posted February 7, 2015 Author Report Posted February 7, 2015 Good record - not great - but most things aren't great. I'm beginning to be of the opinion that some things are great without being GREAT just because they're SO damn good, this album being a prime example. I mean, this was not an elaborately plotted "production" or "event", it for damn sure wasn't the byproduct of shuttered worried obsession over minutiae and paranoid eye-for-detail, this was just some guys who MIGHT have had a rehearsal or a few runthroughs and then, roll tape, get paid, go home. That the results came out this SO damn good is its own form of greatness, I do believe. It's just so damn....expert in the meaningful way, expert and RELEVANT to the moment, not Expert as in here's everything there is about that, this is "it". And perhaps...how much Jimmy Heath is there on record from 1965 to 1972? Not all THAT much, and if you left off at Riverside and picked up at Cobblestone, you'd have to wonder WTF? happened in between. Well, here a part of that is, perhaps not a MAJOR part of it, but still, progressing to be documented. Quote
Peter Friedman Posted February 8, 2015 Report Posted February 8, 2015 Yes, this is a wonderful session. Quote
Stereojack Posted February 8, 2015 Report Posted February 8, 2015 A good solid session - have owned it for many years. Quote
John L Posted February 8, 2015 Report Posted February 8, 2015 Nice discussion - i will have to revisit this one. Quote
Tom 1960 Posted February 8, 2015 Report Posted February 8, 2015 Enough fine playing by Carmel and Jimmy Heath to satisfy most tastes. Too bad Barry is a bit off key. Quote
T.D. Posted February 8, 2015 Report Posted February 8, 2015 ... Too bad Barry is a bit off key. Tom, I think that's recording engineer Richard Alderson rather than Barry. Alderson messed up a whole bunch of good recordings IMO; his efforts seem to be characterized by out-of-tune pianos with a weird timbre that I think of as "underwater". And I don't usually pay a lot of attention to sound quality. Quote
king ubu Posted February 9, 2015 Report Posted February 9, 2015 (please fix thread title!)(or am I wrong, as I see the one-lone-l-spelling repeated in the thread?) Quote
Niko Posted February 9, 2015 Report Posted February 9, 2015 confused me, too... but the album cover is with us... Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 15, 2015 Report Posted February 15, 2015 I kinda like Alderson's engineering and the roughness of it. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted March 19, 2016 Report Posted March 19, 2016 How many other boogaloos were there on Prestige? Quote
Peter Friedman Posted March 19, 2016 Report Posted March 19, 2016 Though I admit to being biased, it strikes me that , with only rare exceptions (none of which come to mind at present), when Barry Harris is on a recording it is a good one. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted March 19, 2016 Report Posted March 19, 2016 1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said: Though I admit to being biased, it strikes me that , with only rare exceptions (none of which come to mind at present), when Barry Harris is on a recording it is a good one. I've found to be true of Tommy Flanagan's sideman dates too...I'm thinking there was more going on there than I'm hearing, although what I'm hearing is fine... Quote
fasstrack Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 On 2/6/2015 at 2:20 PM, JSngry said: Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, George Tucker, Roger Humphries, May 8, 1965. Can't say that I've ever heard a Carmel Jones record that was less than top-shelf, but I only recently paid attention to this one, and it's gotten its hooks into me under my skin, repeats and repeats in my ear and in my changer. A treat to hear Barry Harris give up a Son-Of-Sidewinder solo on the title tune, which itself is a treat as a boogaloo which rather severely downplays the drums, sometimes to the point of having them remain tacit. All in all though, it's just five guys who speak the same language conversating in a very high level of comfort and confidence. Laton was talking about how sometimes he like to listen to a record just for the comp, well, here one is with which you can do that all day long, for real. It's Real Deal Time with this one, yes, yes yes. I used to have this. I like Introducing Carmell Jones, too. I can't remember the label... Quote
clifford_thornton Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 The Remarkable C.J. was on Pacific Jazz, and that's probably the one you're thinking of. Quote
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