Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation, just out. As classic as can be and just about perfect.
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- September 18th, 2014, 3:19 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: What Are You Listening To?
- Replies: 575
- Views: 293615
- September 18th, 2014, 3:16 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Howard McGhee reissue
- Replies: 1
- Views: 507
Howard McGhee reissue
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/howard-mcgh ... Bq9SvmH58E
Has anybody heard this? Sounds very promising!
Has anybody heard this? Sounds very promising!
- September 11th, 2014, 5:21 am
- Forum: Record Reviews
- Topic: Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues (Smoke Sessions)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6482
Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues (Smoke Sessions)
Sean Jones, trumpet; JD Allen, tenor sax; Orrin Evans, piano; Luques Curtis, bass; Bill Stewart, drums. Recorded at Smoke, NYC. This is a live date recorded around the very end of 2013 and just released in August. If you like mainstream, swinging jazz, this is for you. Stylistically, it's the 1960's...
- September 11th, 2014, 4:05 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Putting together a jazz history presentation...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1089
Re: Putting together a jazz history presentation...
Thanks, Ron! I'll have a look.
- September 10th, 2014, 8:39 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Putting together a jazz history presentation...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1089
Re: Putting together a jazz history presentation...
I don't know. There are too many worthy individuals to include them all...
- September 10th, 2014, 4:59 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Putting together a jazz history presentation...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1089
Putting together a jazz history presentation...
Hello, everyone. It's been a long time since I checked in... :oops: But here I am to solicit your feedback for a presentation I'm preparing. The context: my company (something like 1400 employees) has a "Cultural Association", partially funded by management, organized by employees. Last ye...
- May 12th, 2014, 6:12 am
- Forum: Record Reviews
- Topic: Steve Swallow "Into the Woodwork"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6609
Re: Steve Swallow "Into the Woodwork"
I haven't heard the CD yet, but I saw them in concert when they were touring Europe prior to recording the music. It sounded lovely, and since they were at the start of their tour when I saw them, it could only have gotten better!
- May 12th, 2014, 5:59 am
- Forum: Record Reviews
- Topic: Stanton Moore, Conversations
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6258
Stanton Moore, Conversations
Stanton Moore, Conversations (Royal Potato Family records) Stanton Moore, drums; David Torkanowsky, piano; James Singleton, bass. 2014. We all know the trademark New Orleans drum style, featuring the famous "second-line beat": that sly, bouncing, instantly recognizable brand of syncopatio...
- January 11th, 2014, 12:57 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Re: Jazztalk is the greatest website in history!!!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11801
Re: And the site, she is dead.
Just checking in for the first time since mid-December, haven't even read this entire thread yet. But yes, let's keep it going, if at all possible!
- December 1st, 2013, 10:58 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Let us deify Sonny Rollins
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4161
Re: Let us deify Sonny Rollins
Got nothing against Rollins, but saying he's better than Coltrane is like saying Ford is better than Ferrari. "Better than" is of course silly at that level. But I would say that Rollins and Coltrane had very different strengths. To me Rollins had a kind of sardonic wit that is part and p...
- November 29th, 2013, 9:22 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Let us deify Sonny Rollins
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4161
Re: Let us deify Sonny Rollins
Scott, you need to check out more Rollins! A guy I work with also worships at the feet of Coltrane. He feels that other jazz musicians are mere mortals, pleasant enough but NOT COLTRANE. I'm going to work on him, though. Do you know "East Broadway Run Down"? 1966, with Garrison, Elvin, and...
- November 29th, 2013, 7:19 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Let us deify Sonny Rollins
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4161
Let us deify Sonny Rollins
Late-50's Rollins is just unbeatable. Just the two years of 1956 and 1957: Played in the groups of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk ("Brilliant Corners"), and Max Roach ("Live at Basin Street"). Also recorded with Kenny Dorham, Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt, and Abbey Lincoln. His own ...
- November 29th, 2013, 6:59 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Enlighten me
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2179
Re: Enlighten me
I must admit that slamming one's testicles against another person's face during that intimate moment could indeed be classified as a "lewd act."
But is the teabagger the person slamming or the person being slammed? Or both?
But is the teabagger the person slamming or the person being slammed? Or both?
- November 29th, 2013, 4:04 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Enlighten me
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2179
Enlighten me
So this guy wrote a letter to Obama criticizing this, that and so forth. Obama sent back a hand-written reply in which (echoing the language of the letter-writer) he referred to "tea-baggers." A newspaper article says this: "‘Tea-bagging’ commonly refers to a lewd sexual act. Since th...
- November 28th, 2013, 11:26 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Thanksgiving menu
- Replies: 11
- Views: 906
Re: Thanksgiving menu
And while most of us are indeed either paranoid, psychotic or both (I resemble that remark), one doesn't have to be either to be really really careful with Turkey. Sadly, one reason is the wretched conditions in American factory farms, another is the very nature of poultry manufacture. [...] Check ...
- November 28th, 2013, 5:12 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Thanksgiving menu
- Replies: 11
- Views: 906
Thanksgiving menu
First of all, happy Thanksgiving, y'all. Here in Europe it's just another working day, but Yanks usually celebrate on the weekend. Every year my American friend Jonell invites a bunch of people to her house in Chartres for a big Thanksgiving meal on Saturday night, leftovers eaten for lunch the foll...
- November 27th, 2013, 5:49 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What was the first adult literature you enjoyed?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2857
Re: What was the first adult literature you enjoyed?
That's a coincidence, someone recently recommended "Michael Strogoff" specifically to my son (an adult). He chanced upon a cheap used paperback copy at a flea market and is now reading it.
- November 27th, 2013, 5:46 am
- Forum: Audiophiles
- Topic: Apple music player alternatives
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21584
Re: Apple music player alternatives
I read somewhere that the reason iTunes stands out among Apple products in its sucky interface is that it was developed by another company that Apple acquired and was then just rebranded. And indeed Wikipedia confirms this: "SoundJam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Gr...
- November 22nd, 2013, 12:25 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Sports you used to follow that you hardly do now.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1584
Re: Sports you used to follow that you hardly do now.
Now there's a man with his feet on the ground. I followed the New York Mets in 1968 and 1969. I was 10 and 11. It was the right time to root for the Mets. After that I lost interest and have followed no sports at all in the intervening years. The only exception is if France is in the World Cup. When...
- November 21st, 2013, 8:54 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Outstanding piano trios
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4213
Re: Outstanding piano trios
Yeah, that Flanagan guy wasn't too bad. George Colligan has a new one one out with Larry Grenadier and Jack DeJohnette that sounds very nice. Oh, and one of my favorites is a Kenny Werner trio from 1995 called "Live at Visiones," with Ratzo Harris and Tom Rainey. Imaginative journeys throu...
- November 20th, 2013, 8:41 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What was your first favorite adult TV show?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1795
Re: What was your first favorite adult TV show?
Doug, you left out "McHale's Navy" and "Gilligan's Island."
- November 20th, 2013, 8:38 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What was the first adult literature you enjoyed?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2857
Re: What was the first adult literature you enjoyed?
I was like Monte. From an early age I picked up the nearest book and read it. If it was too far above my reading or experience level, I dropped it and went on to the next, but I never really thought about whether it was adult or not. I do remember page 23 of the paperback version of "The Godfat...
- November 19th, 2013, 8:46 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Where did you first start posting on the internet?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 581
Re: Where did you first start posting on the internet?
I began in 1994, I think, but at the time the only game in town was Compuserve, so not really the Internet. I had heard about a brilliant new application called Mosaic, but couldn't figure out how it all worked. I bought a Dummies-style book about the Internet and it drove me crazy because they didn...
- November 19th, 2013, 8:31 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Junk food you'd eat more if nutrition/weight wasn't an issue
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3624
Re: Junk food you'd eat more if nutrition/weight wasn't an i
My preferred junk food is salty, greasy and crunchy. Chips, pretzels, crackers, that sort of thing. And peanuts. I would eat lots of that stuff if it had no effect on my weight or health. I have no attraction to sugary junk food.
- November 19th, 2013, 8:30 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What was your first favorite adult TV show?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1795
Re: What was your first favorite adult TV show?
I thought you were referring to "adult" content. I guess you mean not cartoons? Because Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke I watched when I was a child