Crisis is my favorite Ornette album of that late '60s period, I just wish the sound was better. I know that room was boomy to begin with but I've always wondered if anything could be done to make the album a little less so. (I also like, although it's from the following year, not technically "late '60s" but the same kind of era in Coleman's style, the not-often-discussed Friends and Neighbors -- also a boomy, home-made sort of recording, but as such in keeping with the whole recorded with friends and neighbors at the Prince Street building. BTW, great pics from the Prince Street era here: “Ornette at Prince Street”: A Glimpse from the Archives )
Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief Recorded live in 12/30/2013 @ Cornelia Street Cafe On Intakt Records I think I saw the trio on 12/30/15 and/or 12/30/16 I’ve seen them another 2 or 3 times as well - I think 4 times total over the years Tom Rainey on drums Mary Halvorson on guitar Ingrid Laubrock on tenor & soprano saxophones Some written thematic materials somewhere inside these 5 freely improvised pieces. Pretty amazing recording and telepathic is NOT an overstatement with this trio. Not sure they are playing this year on. 12/30. They didn’t last year for the first time in almost 10 years. I sure hope they book the gig this year. Will need to get there early to get a good spot.
As good as the regular cd of this sounds when I saw a copy of the Sony K2 HD cd at a good price I went for it. Does indeed sound very good. Chet Baker "Sings and Plays From the Film 'Let's Get Lost'"
Here's my top 10 of Blue Note live albums (from their heyday): Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland '54 Art Blakey - At the Cafe Bohemia '55 Kenny Dorham - 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia '56 Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard '57 Kenny Burrell - On View at the Five Spot Cafe '59 Donald Byrd - At the Half Note Cafe '60 Stanley Turrentine - Up at Minton's '61 Ornette Coleman - At the Golden Circle '65 Lee Morgan - Live at the Lighthouse '70 Elvin Jones - Live at the Lighthouse '72 Plus a handful of modern releases (including archival material): Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall '57 Horace Silver - Live at Newport '58 Charles Mingus - Cornell '64 Dexter Gordon - Squirrel: Live At Montmartre '67 Joe Henderson - State of the Tenor '85 Greg Osby - Banned in New York '97
Roscoe Mitchell - Ride The Wind (w/ Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra) Revisiting this release from earlier this year. Highly enjoyable album, and surprisingly accessible.
I'm weirdly that way with Sonny Rollins output on Blue Note, particularly A Night At The Village Vanguard... had to double check that it was actually BN... i just don't really associate Rollins with BN.
Was playing: Gretchen Parlato’s first album Gretchen Parlato - vocals, percussion Lionel Loueke - guitar, vocals Aaron Parks - piano Massimo Biolcati - bass Café - percussion
Was Playing: Joe Maneri Quartet - Dahabenzapple Finally got around to getting something from Joe Maneri, but I only had time to listen to the title track earlier.
Taylor Ho Bynum - Enter The Plustet Roscoe Mitchell's Ride The Wind is one of those albums where i immediately wish that i had more like it in my collection, or that more like it even existed. This album is not like Ride The Wind, but i still found that it flowed on from it really well from a listeners perspective.
Is it just my copy (ALAC download), or is there a squeaky sound on the title track? I thought that I might just be hearing things while listening with headphones today, but then it was there in the car, too. It's not the usual digi-noise sound, it's more like a metallic squeak, maybe a noise from the drum kit. I dunno.
Blue Note Top 10 or so Don Wilkerson - Preach Brother! Baby Face Willette - Face to Face Big John Patton - Blue John Grant Green - Idle Moments Stanley T & the 3 Sounds - Blue Hour Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Larry Young - Unity Horace Silver - Cape Verdun Blues Hank Mobley - Caddy For Daddy Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Cannon Balls - Something Else! Sonny Rollins - Night @ the VV Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue I really like boogaloo a lot more than this list indicates, and I love Jackie Mac and Wayne Shorter who aren't on it either.
I cant stop playing this one. The collision of Coltrane and Davis on this tour and the style collision of bop/post bop meets modal are so loaded. Plus even though the recordings are somewhat average the audience can still suck you right in to a ( reasonable ) seat .., its fast becoming a favorite live lp
That's cool. I saw my shows in the mid-seventies. Just can't get into the 'eighties and 'nineties Dead. As I say I've tried.
Currently I’m sitting in the middle of the third row at The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley waiting for tonight’s performance from Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom. Playing with Allison tonight is ( among others) Myra Milford on piano and Ben Goldberg on clarinet. Show starts in about 45 minutes. Should be good! I haven’t seen Miller before and it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen either Melford or Goldberg.
again. That XRCD cost almost less than that beer since I got it from the incredible exclusivedisc sale .
