I love How Farrell dips his toes into the more Avante grade aspects but keeps it together all the same nice balance and agreed not topical for CTI I love the Joe Farrell Quartet Lp from around this time also on CTI
I would have just played Sam Rivers at the meeting and played "air-saxophone" as your presentation. People would remember it even if they didn't remember your name.
McLaughlin uses a Photon guitar synthesizer here which is used in a variety of ways to get some interesting soundscapes with his playing. The Trio is great here with some great percussion and the occasional roar of thunder from 'skin man', Trilok Gertu. This is a lovely, fascinating performance all the way around and offers up a bit of a different perspective on McLaughlin, who is inventive and complimentary to his band mates w/his acoustic guitar. One of my long time favorites of 'non-Maha John'. The usual follow-up of something much earlier or later, in this case earlier. From the 1973 Montreaux Jazz Festival, McCoy Tyner and the gang... who came to play. It took me a few times, maybe more, to figure a few things out, but it packs a powerful wallop now that I can somewhat follow the genius of the leader, his flowing arrangements, and some very talented players who are disciplined enough to reign it in. Alphonse Mouzon (H Hancock) drums on this venture,
Loving this new one....my favorite working jazz band makes an album as good as its live sets....and with Linda May Han Oh and Joey Baron, the best rhythm section around....Lawrence Fields is great on this one too, and Lovano's best playing on record I've heard in a while...
The Pleasures Of Being Out Of Step/Notes On The Life Of Nat Hentoff Picked this up today. Pretty good doc on the late writer who was one of the best on jazz. Glad to find a free streamer, too (you'll need a library card id). Didn't realize he produced We Insist!
I'd like to watch that....as a would be and then budding journalist in NY, Hentoff was always a kind of guiding light, a moral compass. He is listed as producer on a lot of Candid's album's, he was the label's A&R guy and shaped what the label recorded in the early '60s.
While I don't love the album, the opening track is amazing to me. The intro is out of sight and I love the drum sound!
Can't wait to hear this. It's an automatic buy for me, as I also have the other 7 in the series. They're all great!
Well, looks like I've got a few more early Miles Davis LPs to track down! If Blue Haze and Blue Moods are as good as Bags Groove and the Steamin'/Cookin'/Workin'/Relaxin' combo (even if some of musicians are different), I'm on 'em.
Nah...when it comes to me and Miles Davis, setting the bar too high would be something like playing Agharta or Dark Magus and then following it up with The Man With The Horn
Hey, I know that store! Very nice store and LPs but you are right, the prices are too high. I've bought from them in the past but I think they have gone up and they are too expensive for me now. Did you try CrocoJazz, about 10 mins walk away near the Pantheon? Prices are a bit more reasonable but still highish on account of the real estate. The owner is a bit of an avant garde fan and a hoot!
That's a bit like saying, "If that Renaissance ceiling fresco is as good as the Sistine Chapel ceiling, I'm on 'it." But no reason to avoid the records just because they're not the pinnacle masterpieces that, say, Workin', Relaxin' and the Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins 10" portion of the Bag's Groove 12" are.
