Dexter Gordon A Swingin' Affair (Blue Note, Audio Wave), XRCD24 mastered by Alan Yoshida. Now this is how you do a digital Blue Note reissue!
And that is how my Discogs wishlist keeps on growing and growing - before today only Dreams of a Love Supreme was on it!
Aw, SURELY you were used to that even pre-Discogs, weren't you? I do understand how much EASIER it is with it... Less than a week ago, I was 'browsing around' at one vendor's and found that when I was done, I'd added 77 LPs to a shopping cart there, and most of 'em were only a couple of bucks. Who can resist that? Probably not many folks here...
Ha ha - of course this happened before Discogs as well. However, I used to rely on my crappy memory and just assume that the stuff I eventually forgot about, was (apparently) just not important enough to me. These days I have to put actual effort into forgetting by manually deleting stuff from my wishlist (which I rarely ever do). But well, I could think of worse troubles in life!
It's stunning. Instruments are so lifelike. Very wide stereo. I am playing this after the Blue Note 75th anniversary SHM-CD of Go! and the contrast is immense.
I'm definitely in the mouldy figue zone but new material I have really dug have been the Washington, the Miles, and Shabaka and the Ancestors, Joe Chambers, Lafayette Gilchrist, the Heliocentric camp, Stefon Harris, Dave Douglas, Jose James and a few more.
Thanks for the report; I've only heard the 'old' (would have to look to see which exact vintage) BN LPs I've had since the '70s... most all of the Dex I have on CD is from unissued at the time sessions aside from the very early Savoy recordings.
Indeed; I'll pass on "being a boor" by citing examples... Now, when it comes to "crappy memory," I do have to say that in my case 'needing to put it off until later because I can't afford it now' assists in "forgetting." Luckily for me, I have LOTS of music to 'drown such sorrows in.'
And who would know the details on that better than you? Certainly not me... I'll always associate that terminology with the '50s and '60s myself, and the writers of that era; 'post 1880s' is 'recent enough for me,' and I like Ayler's 'New Orleans' style as much as I do Red Allen's, and always have...
Mtume Live At the East Pretty out there for Strata East, but also, one of the great albums of the 70's --like Sun Ra at his most free.
Yes, "mouldy figue" conjures the late 'forties and the traditionalists verus any kind of modernist really. . . I just extend that to myself because I feel I philosophically line up with them in that I feel there's a boundary line not to be crossed if a work or style is to be called "jazz." I just extend those boundary lines way beyond the figues of the past both forward and peripherally. ("I'm a peripheral visionary--I can see into the future, only off to the side.") Ever since I learned the Dewey Decimal System in Form 2 and did library work at the school I find there's a part of me hung up on classifications.
I still have tickets for 2020 shows that were postponed, maybe one day I'll get to use them. NP: Roy Brooks - Beat very solid hard bop with lots of bluesy numbers.
Right now Great sound today and I'm enjoying looking at a tree through the window behind the stereo . . . it went from bare to beautifully bedazzled with snow. We got at least 4 inches here over night. A neighbor says 5 to 6 according to his snow guage. I used to think he actually had a real gadget with accurate results. Took me a while to realize he was talkin about his trash pickup bin lid. SFJazz Collective "The Works of Horace Silver Plus Original Compositions" disc 2
and once again Louis Armstrong: The Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions #7 It's so nice, yeah baby it's so nice
For me, "I like" has primacy over 'what genre is that?' "Mixed genre" OR "one genre" can both be OK with me. I also LIKE that 'people aren't all the same.' "All the same" sounds kind of boring to me... My statements, of course, aren't intended to be representative of anyone but myself.
A tribute to Brooks from the Detroit Metro Times: Tribute to avant-garde drummer Roy Brooks planned and a link to one of my fave LPs he's on: I've also long thought these 2 Richard Davis LPs to be 'of like mind.'
"The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Studio Recording 1946 to 1966" Mosaic Records, disc 5 Such fun--Pops playing Fats!
I love Richard Davis, he's one of my favorite bass players, How cool is that sleeve for Epistrophy!? thanks for posting this, I'll hunt these down. Big fan of Cliff Jordan and Freddie Waits, these look to be great albums.
"Alkebu-Lan – Land Of The Blacks was recorded at The East, a radical venue in the Clinton Hill Neighborhood of Brooklyn, remembered for the Pharoah Sanders album bearing its name, and notable for not allowing White people to pass its doors." How 2021! Nowadays this would be called anti-racism.
You could do worse than go for the three at the top - the Thumbscrew, although separate albums were recorded at the same sessions. I did wonder how come Never Is Enough came out so soon after the other one but then realised when I saw a comment about it somewhere. The other one thoroughly recommended is Alexander Hawkins - Togetherness Music. 16 musicians altogether including Evan Parker and Mark Sanders.
