Donald Byrd "Chant" Blue Note Japan cd TOCJ-50275



Some very extroverted Herbie Hancock here, and as always Doug Watkins plays with authority.

Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
Bass – Doug Watkins
Drums – Teddy Robinson
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Trumpet – Donald Byrd

Recorded on April 17, 1961.

Weber Iago "Os Filhos Do Vento:Children Of The Wind" cd

Helen Merrill Gil Evans "Collaboration" Emarcy cd



Beautiful.

Sorry to mess up your thread, Lon, but I found this old thing and almost busted a gut.

I don't know if any of you guys know Marty Stuart, or of him, but he has had a long career in bluegrass, country and a few years back, had a show where he invited a comedy act every week.
When I first encountered him in the Nashville arena I had not recognized him from his childhood days and passed him off as just another of the Nashville "hat crowd" I had become cross with.
This is hilarious.

I know Bicycle Joe will get a kick.
Forgive me for making you chuckle.

https://youtu.be/Pkdci55adqk

Bluegrass music was a large part of my life during the coming up stages.
This youtube does not qualify.

I preferred the Beatles, Paul Revere, Tommy James, Rolling Stones, Stepenwolf, Jimi Hendrix.
But the soul of bluegrass never left me. Some of my best times have been at an Olde Timee music fest with families making music together.

Thank you, Lon for that addendum.

I still try to keep respect for the thread's content, mine and yours.
I just wanted to share a laugh.

96 years old today

SMILE was written by Charles Chaplin
https://youtu.be/bCkf61t1AIs

BicycleJoe, it's amazing that his pipes still work! Wow. 96!


There's no theme, Joe, but if you look back, this is I think the third iteration of a "spinning" thread. Might be a fourth, but Lon has been the one who started them and supported them and posted a 4/5 of the content, keeping them alive for everyone.
Inviting everyone to share, he just reminded me that they are not his threads. I see his point!
As a "tip of my hat," well shy of a salute, I think of these as Lon's threads, mainly because of his level of contribution, not through any ownership.

He was quick to clarify.
So, the idea is for all of us to have a chance to explore music we may not yet have discovered or possibly not heard in too long.

No theme expected, but I had never just posted something funny, here, just for the sheer ridiculousness of it. I had a laugh and wanted to see if others got a chuckle.


I'm playing some old classic country style music for now.
Sorry for the shit pic.

Kenny Burrell and the Jazz Heritage All-Stars "Live at the Blue Note" Concord cd



What a player. . . for decades carefully refining his sound and playing.

Disc 3

Busy night, so I'm going with something more mellow for now.

It's an artist I found in an article on AAJ a bit ago and sought out more.

Joe Turner "Stormy Monday" Pablo/OJC cd.



Recorded 1974-1978, previously unreleased tracks

Alto Saxophone – Bob Smith, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Bass – Charles Norris, Larry Gales, Robert Haynes, William Walker
Congas – Frederick Woods
Drums – Bruno Carr, Charles Randall, Washington Rucker
Guitar – Cal Green, Evans Walker, Gary Bell, Greg Beck, Pee Wee Crayton
Mastered By – Phil De Lancie
Organ – Gildo Mahones
Organ, Piano – Jimmy Robins
Piano – Lloyd Glenn, Sylvester Scott
Producer – Norman Granz
Remix – David Luke
Tenor Saxophone – Bill Clark, Curtis Peagler, Rashid Ali, William "Wild Bill" Moore
Trumpet – Blue Mitchell, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Edison, Jake Porter, Joe Banks, Roy Eldridge
Vocals – Joe Turner

Eric Mingus "Um . . .Er. . . Uh"



"Grandpa blew his brains out in the house. . . he didn't have the courtesy to take it outside. . . .His blood's in me." Wow. Unfortunately I can relate.

Lon wrote Quote:


I guess that means you won't be able to enjoy any of my posts unless you already have the record in your collection. Or any of the posts that anyone makes that you do not already own the record. I'm glad you were able to document your collection, I'd like to hear some of it someday. The ones that you post that I already know are very rewarding, the ones that I don't know that I haven't listened to before that I take the time to seek out are even more rewarding. I enjoy being turned on to new things. I would think that is the main purpose of this thread to share what we think others might find worthy. Like I said before to me it's the music that is most important not the medium or the equipment it is played on.

Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt with Al McKibbon on bass Newport Jazz Festival October 31, 1971 in De Doelen Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

https://youtu.be/NetadSNIqdA HD 1080

Hey Same old DD you may know this one.
https://youtu.be/ijJbULMSK5I Lo-Fi 240p
ELVIS PRESLEY Duet With Jerry Reed GUITAR MAN Remix Mashup 1981

In July 1967 Reed had his best showing on the country charts (#53) with his self-penned “Guitar Man,” In a remarkable twist of fate, when Elvis came to Nashville to record on September 10, 1967, and one of the songs he became especially excited about was “Guitar Man.”

Reed recalled how he was tracked down to play on the Elvis session: “I was out on the Cumberland River fishing, and I got a call from Felton Jarvis. He said, ‘Elvis is down here. We’ve been trying to cut “Guitar Man” all day long. He wants it to sound like it sounded on your album.’ I finally told him, ‘Well, if you want it to sound like that, you’re going have to get me in there to play guitar, because these guys are straight pickers. I pick with my fingers and tune that guitar up all weird kind of ways.’”

Jarvis hired Reed to play on the session. “I hit that intro, and [Elvis’s] face lit up and away we went.

Yes, music is a powerful force, I've seen it in action as you have in the assisted-living home (I visited my father at least once a week at his assisted-living place for seven years and have seen their music programs). It's a fascinating thing. One of my father's friends is in firm belief that we humans developed music in imitation of birds. I guess that's possible, but am not certain. It certainly has been with us for a long long long time and I hope it will be with us for as long a time ahead. A unique and fascinating way to communicate!

At the exhibition at the Lisson gallery I read an old interview with Devon Turnbull, in the interview someone asked him what his favorite all-time record was and without hesitation he said

Songs for Drella Reed Cale,
this is the Live full concert 1990
https://youtu.be/EKwo3QFWp4c. Lo-Fi 480p

"Songs for Drella by Lou Reed and John Cale, 1990, particularly the song “Style it Takes.” This album is a beautiful tribute to Andy Warhol. The story goes something like this: Reed and Cale had a pretty tumultuous relationship during and after the Velvet Underground, who of course were famously managed by Warhol. Although Reed and Cale did a fair amount of public trash talking about each other in the 20-plus years between Cale leaving the band and this album, they both remained close with Warhol and it was at his funeral that they decided to come together one last time to honour him. The resulting album is a beautiful, sparse and intimate outing that chronicles Warhol’s life. It’s packed with references to him and the culture he created in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s in downtown NYC that directly influenced my generation of creatives in the downtown NYC of the ‘90s-‘00s. Only the two musicians appear on the album on vocals, guitar, piano and viola. I love small simple ensembles in general and it’s on this record that you can feel immersed in the nuances of every aspect of the performance by these two masters. There’s also a great video recording of a performance they did at BAM in 1990, which is right down the street from my house. I have an unopened (for now) VHS copy, but it’s available on YouTube and you should go watch it.

Urban Bushmen - Logorhythmic Black
https://youtu.be/Et72mifCgAI Lo-Fi 480p

“Art Ensemble of Chicago, Urban Bushmen, 1982 on ECM. AEC is another one of my absolute favourite bands. The synergy of their improvisations, the instrumentation and the energy/spirit of their music is everything. I don’t remember where or when I bought this copy, but it’s a Japanese pressing by Trio-Kenwood. Speaking of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (which birthed AEC), a new release that has been one of my favourites of 2020 is by the Chairman of AACM, Kahil El’Zabar. Spirit Groove, 2020 on Spiritmuse Records. If you buy one new jazz record in 2020 this should be it.

Steve Reich - Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1974)
https://youtu.be/pANyhXRsp2g  Lo-Fi 480p

Steve Reich - Drumming
https://youtu.be/uDhwFTw4VnI  HD 1080p Live

Steve Reich - Drumming. Part II (1974)
https://youtu.be/RB-woRXwY-Q  Lo-Fi 480p

“Steve Reich, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, 1974, 3xLP box set on Deutsche Grammofon. I’ve been a Reich fan since I discovered him through my dad when I was in high school in the ‘90s. There are few composers more visionary than him. I’ve been lucky enough to see a number of amazing performances of his works, but I found this DGG box set at the WFMU record fair sometime in the late ‘00s. Absolutely beautiful box set in every way. This is one of my most treasured records.”

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three [Film Soundtrack] (1974) David Shire
https://youtu.be/1-cfS5uxz_8 Lo-Fi 720p

Bob Dylan "Together Through Life" Sony Blu-Spec CD2



Dylan is one of the very few "rock" artists I still listen to with enthusiasm. I've come to really like his work of the last three decades. The Blu-Spec CD2 series from Japan is very cool--LP reproductions that include reproductions of anything that came with the original LP release, including "hype stickers."

drford wrote on 08/07/22 at 19:16:41:


I adore all the music Mingus created in '64 with Dolphy, Coles, Jordan, Byard and of course the other half of his heartbeat Dannie Richmond. Over the last four decades I think I've collected all that have been taped official and unofficial--and in the last decade a number of the unofficial have become official!

Mingus has been a Favorite since his residency at the Village Gate, I missed this one, catch it now.

https://youtu.be/ZHMG62jYtvo Lo-Fi 729p

Recorded September 10, 1965 at the Village Gate
"Don't Let It Happen Here."
Charles Mingus - piano & Vocals
Hobart Dotson, Lonnie Hillyer, Jimmy Owens- trumpet
Charles McPherson -alto sax
Julius Watkins -french horn
Howard Johnson - tuba
Dannie Richmond - drums
(from Alexis Lambros David collection)

Audiophile mono vinyl and shellack remastering.

Backtomusic Lo-Fi remastering demonstrates the unique sound features of vinyl and shellac records, the most important of which are clarity and musicality. The records were digitized on vintage tube DIY monophonic audio equipment and were not subjected to any additional processing with the help of noise cancelers and declickers, which, from our point of view, cause music incomparably more harm than good.

See more at https://www.backtomusic.ru/en/

Complete playlist https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PLJ9msOEuaaqIwkQ5awozzK-1fc2NtgBkm

https://youtu.be/ImvjZ7fUUBU HD 1080p

Moanin' · Charles Mingus

Blues & Roots Original MONO Recording
Tenor  Saxophone: Booker Ervin
Double  Bass: Charles Mingus
Drums: Dannie Richmond
Piano: Horace Parlan
Alto  Saxophone: Jackie McLean
Trombone: Jimmy Knepper
Alto  Saxophone: John Handy
Producer: Nesuhi Ertegun
Baritone  Saxophone: Pepper Adams
Recording  Engineer: Tom Dowd
Trombone: Willie Dennis
Composer: Charles Mingus

Stanley Turrentine, "Sugar" KICJ-2560 King/CTI RVG series UHQCD from Japan. This disc sounds great!

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Part of this series of Japanese UHQCD RVG reissues:

Returning to Tania Maria, "Bluesilian" cd. I can't help but smile at her verve and groove and her excellent pianism.