'Jazz Beat (Part 41)'.

Oh Yeah!! Lotus is next - thanks for the reminder. I don't have a TT anymore, but kept the vinyl of Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender AND Illuminations (above), just to have them! Illuminations is awesome!

 

McCoy Tyner - "Extensions"

 

Michal Urbaniak - Fusion III

 

I may have mentioned this already, but I saw them at a free campus concert without having heard any of the album. All I knew was that John was a "jazz guitarist". I was blown away by the volume, virtuosity & sheer speed of the music. I had the feeling that a lot of the audience was in my shoes. Quite a few people left after a few numbers, but the rest of us sat stunned until the end. One of our group of friends bought the album & we listened to it often.

 

On the TT! Nice stuff!

 

What a colossal inspiration, that guy!

 

Okay, if you guys do Friday Fusion next week, I'm in.

 

Just Be there!!

 

After Devadip & Mahavishnu's blistering A Love Supreme, I've gotta put this on. Not much else to say!!
"John Coltrane - A Love Supreme" (1964) with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones.

 

On the TT! Joe Mcphee - Nation Time . Original press on the CJR label. Very serious stuff!

 

Talk of the late, great George Duke had me reaching for this mid-70s gem. Interesting versions of Zappa's "Uncle Remus" and "Echidna's Arf" (the latter recorded about the same time as Roxy & Elsewhere),

 

The Laswell remix is quite different, and also very good.

 

Joey DeFrancesco- Organic Vibes


Great band on this including George Coleman, Bobby Hucherson and Jake Langley. Even Jimmy Smith's 1959 Hammond B-3 organ (which Joey plays) get's a credit in the liner notes!

 

Wishing for somewhere warmer. . ..

 

Bobby Hutcherson – Components (Blue Note Records)
— with Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers

 

"Clifford Brown - Brownie Speaks: the Complete Blue Note Recordings" (2014)
Great music here.

 

= MINUS

The new Don Was Blue Note business model: "Finding new and inventive ways to get our customers to pay for the same stuff over and over again"

 

Yes, very true. Personally I didn't have that "Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz" set and the new one was at a much reduced price ($16 new). But yeah, I agree, most would (should!) already have this.

 

Glad you got it, and I wasn't trying to point out fault with you. Now ya have to chase down the Pacific Jazz album

 

Bill Evans – You're Gonna Hear From Me (Milestone Records)
— With Eddie Gomez, Marty Morell; live at the Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen

 

Steve Turre - Spiritman

 

No, that's cool i agree with you - at least include all the material! Got lucky with the Pacific Jazz album, do have that one. For some reason there's always cheap, secondhand copies of that one around these parts.

 

Bill McHenry – Roses (Sunnyside)
— With Ben Monder, Reid Anderson, Paul Motian

 

Hey, good idea! Even better than coffee for waking up in the morning.

Borbetomagus - Zurich (CD)
Borbetomagus - The Rape Of Atlanta (LP)
Borbetomagus & Shaking Ray Levis - Coelocanth (10" picture disc)