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One more Saturday night at Winterland! Yes, we're back to home base for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 42, the complete show from Winterland, San Francisco, 2/23/74. The one that featured the earliest amalgamation of what would soon become the Wall of Sound, the one that is so "loud, clear, and defined," it's been ripe for release for quite some time and we're glad it's finally getting its due.

First set or second, there are no wrong answers here. From the unique show opener of Chuck Berry's "Around And Around" and an incredible "Here Comes Sunshine" that would then disappear for 18 years, to a medley of WAKE OF THE FLOOD tracks - "Row Jimmy," "Weather Report Suite," and "Stella Blue" - cementing their status in the canon and an unstoppable hour through the classic 1973-1974 Dead that is “He’s Gone”>“Truckin’”>“Drums”>“The Other One”>“Eyes Of The World,” it's all exceptionally hot.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 42: WINTERLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, 2/23/74 was recorded by Kidd Candelario and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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June 25, 2022 - 4:27pm

#351

Charlie3

Joined:
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Herbie, Jerry & Merle

Herbie Hancock is about the only one of the artists on your list that I have already, Oro. I have Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles, Head Hunters, Sextant, Thrust, and Man Child. I find all to be enjoyable.

1973-1974 Jerry and Merle is a sweet spot, lots of soul and jazz influences showing up in their stuff from that time, those Keystone Encores box set shows in particular are phenomenal. And an absolute highlight of the Merle and Jerry Collaborations would be Merle Saunders and Friends CD Fire Up +, that disc is on fire from start to finish, incorporating tunes that are straight soul like Lonely Avenue and Expressway to Your Heart, other stuff that is more jazzy like Save Mother Earth and Man Child, and some funky stuff like My Problems Got Problems and the phenomenal Welcome to the Basement. Merle Saunders, Jerry Garcia, Tom Fogerty, John Kahn and Bill Vitt tear it up. An album well worth tracking down if you don't have it already, just peak Jerry and Merle. CD was Released in 1992 and is includes most of the songs from the 1970s albums Fire Up and Heavy Turbulence, I think.

Another gem is Hooteroll?, a jazz fusion masterpiece from Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales. That is a great album, great to listen to from start to finish, cohesive and gorgeous music.

I think it was something in the air, 'cause there were just a lot of musical styles and genres being mixed together or teased apart into something new during that period from the late '60s to the mid-'70s. Funk flowing out of soul, jazz fusion explorations by a bunch of artists, the emergence of electronica with stuff like I Feel Love, lots of cool stuff all happening in a relatively short fertile time. Musical forms are constantly shifting, blending, and distilling new stuff through time, but that late '60s to mid '70s period seems like a particularly fertile time, especially for the mixing of jazz, soul, funk, blues, and rock and roll into new forms combining elements of each and taking them in new directions.
June 25, 2022 - 3:13pm

#352

wissinomingdeadhead

Joined:
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Box Set '22

Still going with Boston Garden '91.
June 25, 2022 - 2:06pm

#353

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

FTK, Soul Jazz

VGUY, that should be awesome. I read about it in Bass Player magazine. Interviews with both Les Claypool and Geddy Lee. They asked Geddy what he thought of Les trying to do this and Geddy teasingly said he was nuts!
Hopefully they’ll be a big brown beaver sighting?

CHARLIE: interesting how you heard of SJ. Even more so how many of us come to certain music, fascinating really.
I heard if it after reading an article by Michael Chabon in Rolling Stone about his at the time new book Telegraph Ave (which I liked), but in this article he gets into this Soul Jazz that I’d never heard of, and I’ve been into lots of Jazz fir quite some time. It’s hard to pinpoint and like many styles or genres it casts a wide range: from syrupy string laden Mizel brothers productions all the way to more standard Jazz played by more recognizable names. The sweet spot to me is very much like what Merl and Jerry do on say 9/1/74, or the recent GarciaLive Vol 18, or on Fire Up and Heavy Turbulence etc. I like the oft used description of “Jazz with a backbeat”.
I have maybe 2-3 dozen albums but would say these are good ones to start with:
Donald Byrd: Black Bird
Charles Earland: Black Talk and Leaving this Planet with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson
Idris Muhammad: Power of Soul (title track is awesome Hendrix cover), and a (2 for 1) of Black Rhythm Revolution, and Peace & Rhythm.
Deodato: Prelude
Grover Washington Jr.: I like Inner City Blues and Mister Magic the best. Earth Tones off Magic is nice groovy mellow almost new age like? One of my favorites of his. I think Magic is a good first choice. Soul Box is pretty good too. I’d say ya might not like all the tracks on all the albums depending how your pleasure tends, but if you made an 80 minute best of from the three you’d have a super cd. If that helps? But I’d advise anyone interested to check out stuff online first.
There’s a good series of compilations out called the Legends of Acid Jazz that has some good treatments of many of the main cats, like genre guitar go to’ Melvin Sparks, and Leon Spencer, George Benson dabbles around the Soul Jazz edges. Jimmy Smith Back at the Chicken Shack is old school, and Dr Lonnie Smith is another of many keyboard/organists. One of the cool things is how like jazz, so many of the main dudes play on each other’s albums.
Many more but those are good starts.
The cool thing is it’s easy to Segway into things like MMW: End of the World Party and Uninvisble, and even on to the Beastie Boys, yes those Beasties Boys: The In Sound From Way Out and The Mix Up. I think of Curtis/Superfly as another cousin to all this. Herbie Hancock Head Hunters fits too.
To me SJ is like another kind of jazz fusion. Not the scorching Miles or Return To Forever etc, which is more rock like to my ears, but like a funky soul stew of jazz, soul and rock. Perhaps like some Motown cats played jazz?
As I say, sometimes hard to pin point, and certainly not for everyone, but to me it’s like the Garcia/licorice story.
Not everyone will like it, but those who do will love it!
June 25, 2022 - 11:52am

#354

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

A Farewell To Kings....

....yea. Primus will be playing it. Contemplating taking some fungus along 🤔.
June 25, 2022 - 11:23am

#355

Charlie3

Joined:
September 21, 2015

Soul Jazz, Acid Jazz

My exposure to soul jazz or acid jazz is limited and mainly consists of listening to Fusion FM hosted by Roy Ayers in Grand Theft Auto IV in Liberty City, not sure if that's exactly on point. Nice stuff, a mellow, jazzy, psychedelic vibe to some of it as I recall. Mister Magic by Grover Washington Jr is on my list of future acquisitions, maybe some Roy Ayers as well, who knows once I get started in that direction, just haven't picked it up yet. Hopefully Mister Magic is before the transition to Kenny G. that you describe, Oro. Grand Theft Auto in its various iterations actually turned me on to a bunch of great stuff on the various radio stations. Cool to just drive around listening to the radio, sparking the occasional police chase or just looking for hidden stuff. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. Not a bad option as far as an option for a time vacuum. You know you're hitting the GTA a little hard when you start to notice all the unique stunt jumps when you're driving around in the real world. (GTA fiends may get it, the rest of you will just have to play the game excessively, then take a drive in the real world.)
June 25, 2022 - 11:03am

#356

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

DMCVT

Mary says the tech team is looking in to why you can’t post.

Thanks Mary!
June 25, 2022 - 10:22am

#357

billy the kiddd

Joined:
November 8, 2021

Next box set/ Sugar Pie DeSanto & Etta James

Saw Sugar Pie DeSanto and Etta James both play at the S.F. Blues Festival, also saw Etta James play with the Dead in 1982. Next box is gonna be something from 90,91, 92, possibly Winterland March 1977. I hope its something from 1969/1970 with acoustic material included.
June 25, 2022 - 10:21am

#358

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

That’s why they play the game

To quote the great Chris Berman!
What a game! Now that was sports worth watching.
The outcome does not surprise me. The Bolts are like a bad case of the clap that just won’t go away, and I mean that as a complement!

AJS: well said as usual. I agree. Pretty much sums it all up.
MIKE: LOL. and yeah, Kadri’s “enthusiasm” can sometimes be a little nerve racking.
PF: love the cup jokes etc, and the energizer bunny, hell last night I felt like I was doing speed!
Dark-Star: good to see ya xxoo. Sounds like your the drunk yelling from the arm chair. I’m just showing solidarity for my fellow Americans, and VGUY, STOLZTY, PANCHO, PT BARNUM etc.
VGUY/PRIMUS: will they be doing Farewell to Kings? Either way should be cool! Have Fun!

CHARLIE: cool stuff, thanks for the good read! Brought up so many awesome aural memories. You guys ever check out Soul or Acid Jazz (prefer Soul as Acid is not really appropriate). Charles Earland, Donald Byrd, Idris Muhammad, Melvin Sparks, Deodato, Jimmy Smith, Dr Lonnie Smith, Grover Washington Jr. (before he went all Kenny G) and so many more. Fits right next to Curtis the Superfly Pusherman etc, GOOD SHEET MON!
Lots of crossover between Soul, Motown Jazz etc. I always felt much of what Merl and Jerry were up to fit in this category. And Disco is perhaps cousins to all this? I like to make my own sorta best of CDs, and I made a killer 2 disc version for a friends young daughter who loved disco. But we like it too, it can be fun stuff, hell folks used to dis The Bee Gees but if you really check out their music it’s pretty solid (and those boys burned like chimneys. My cousin worked on their studio and said no burned like the BeeGees) and I Feel Love, that was my opening track! And what a great stoner song. Put that on a big stereo set up with good stereo imaging, get prepped ; ) , and sit in the sweet spot and check it out. It sounds amazing and that cool auto pan stuff is right outta Healy and Mickeys bag of tricks.

Ah yes, Music, sweet, sweet music, the antidote to what ails ya and the ills of the world.
As Mr Ones would say, Music is the best! Crazy how much great music there is…

CONEKID: almost forgot ya. I can understand your ongoing feud. Took us awhile to get over the Wings lol.
And as a life long Buffalo fan for good or for Ill, it’s still hard to like the Dolphins (sorry vguy) Dallas, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to root for the Patsies, even without Brady and Gronk!
I’m just curious, is because of the overall war that was that great rivalry or perhaps just the Lemieux issues?
I’m trying to remember, I’ll have to look for that show you mentioned.
June 25, 2022 - 9:50am

#359

simonrob

Joined:
June 7, 2007

Ah, soul

Hahaha. See what I did there. 🤭
June 25, 2022 - 9:30am

#360

Charlie3

Joined:
September 21, 2015

I Feel Love

You are correct, DaveRock, Donna Summer's I Feel Love is great, if I'm in the mood for some Donna it's either that track or Love to Love You Baby more often than not.

Sugar Pie DeSanto is awesome, one of my favorites. Soulful Dress is a great tune and she has a lot more just as good, or in a couple cases even better. I picked up a couple of CD's by her and Go Go Power, the complete Chess Singles is a smoker from start to finish, the better of the two that I picked up. Soulful Dress, Do I Make Myself Clear, In The Basement (with Etta James) and Mama Didn't Raise No Fools stand out in my memory at the moment as highlights of that collection. Do I Make Myself Clear is absolutely on fire.

And, yeah, the Stax boxes, the first three were an early acquisition for me in my soul collection, but there is also a fourth Stax Box - Rarities and the Best of the Rest - that covers some soul rarities, some gospel, and some of the other stuff released on Stax and related labels that ranges outside the soul category. That fourth one is not quite as consistently good as the first three, but it does have a few things that got in my head and my completist nature left me no choice but to pick it up.

For something from this century that sounds like it could have been released in the 1970's, check out Charles Bradley, particularly the track Ain't It a Sin. If you can watch him do Ain't It a Sin online on the you post it video site and not want to pick up some of his stuff I would be surprised. Started checking Charles out when I saw an article about his soulful cover of Black Sabbath's Changes, good stuff, cool version of the song.

And Curtis Mayfield, started checking him out when a friend suggested the Superfly soundtrack, and all it took was the song Pusherman to get me seeking out more Curtis, not to mention my dawning realization that the HBO show the Wire had a bunch of Curtis playing at various points and I dug it. Give Pusherman a listen and see if you can sit still. There's a good box set - Curtis, Keep On Keeping On, Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums 1970-974, a good way to get all his albums at once for a great price. The HBO show the Sopranos also had a bunch of soul tunes scattered throughout, I'm still looking to track down a copy of the song Sally Go 'Round the Roses by the Jaynettes. Or rather, I just picked up a copy this morning, further support for the hypothesis that I have an online shopping problem and a near pathological need to expand my CD collection.

I'll try and shut up now, but once I start down the soul rabbit-hole I can't stop.

John Perry Barlow

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One more Saturday night at Winterland! Yes, we're back to home base for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 42, the complete show from Winterland, San Francisco, 2/23/74. The one that featured the earliest amalgamation of what would soon become the Wall of Sound, the one that is so "loud, clear, and defined," it's been ripe for release for quite some time and we're glad it's finally getting its due.

First set or second, there are no wrong answers here. From the unique show opener of Chuck Berry's "Around And Around" and an incredible "Here Comes Sunshine" that would then disappear for 18 years, to a medley of WAKE OF THE FLOOD tracks - "Row Jimmy," "Weather Report Suite," and "Stella Blue" - cementing their status in the canon and an unstoppable hour through the classic 1973-1974 Dead that is “He’s Gone”>“Truckin’”>“Drums”>“The Other One”>“Eyes Of The World,” it's all exceptionally hot.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 42: WINTERLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, 2/23/74 was recorded by Kidd Candelario and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

Gram Parsons / Nellcote

Hello all, I hope everyone had a safe and sane 4th.

My ears perked up when I read "Nellcote". Gram was eventually kicked out of Nellcote during the Exile sessions for overdoing it on the heroin. Yeah, let that one sink in. Gram Parsons was asked to leave a 20 room mansion rented to Keith Richards at the height of his heroin habit. A place where the comers and goers added up to (I would guess) the number of people who traveled with the Dead to Europe '72. And Gram Parsons had to go. THAT'S a guy I'd want to spend a day with.

If I could choose any rock album to be present for during its creation, Exile would be the one. It took years for me to endure an end-to-end listen to it, but after many attempts it finally clicked. I highly recommend the documentary film "The Stones in Exile". It's probably on youtube. It's almost unbelievable that the tax rate for the wealthy in Great Britain was something like 90% in those days. I wonder if all of the big rock groups fled - Led Zeppelin, The Who, etc.

Emmy-Gram

There's also some good cover versions of Gram songs among those first three or four albums. Even after James Burton left-Luxury Liner with Albert Lee is great.

Sounds a bit dangerous spending a day with Gram Parsons though.

Tax Man

Maybe even higher percentages as the income increased.
Beatles said, "1 for me, 19 for you".
95% tax rate. Yikes!
I'm in the lowest bracket here. What is that, maybe 12%?
Cheers

Meanwhile the royal family...

probably uses paper money for bath tissue.

As fucked up as the USA is on many levels, thank goodness my forebears kicked the Empire in the crown jewels.

Any British posters on here, if you like the royals, please just accept/tolerate my American perspective.

Nevada doesn't have a state tax....

....so gamble away!!

Proudfoot

I doubt that anyone from the UK on here could give two hoots either way about the British royal family and to be honest I find it a bit strange that you do. To most of us here they're a harmless, pointless, anachronism.

Royal Family

Yes, I agree with Nick - they live in a separate reality to me. I'm neither for them nor against them. It's not The Stones we're talking about here though, is it?

Coltrane Ascension

I'm making my every ten yearly effort to get into jazz and I'm succeeding better this time. John Coltrane's Ascension is extraordinary. 1966 for goodness sake, and I thought Hendrix was really out there at that time. I had no idea music like Coltrane's at that time existed, Hendrix is boringly normal in comparison. I'm waiting for Interstellar Space to be delivered, could be too much.

Joyful Noise

I've never got as far as Ascension, I'm afraid. I keep meaning too-a bit like I keep meaning to read James Joyce's "Ulysses" - I Feel it has to be done, but it's a daunting prospect. "Blue Train" and "Giant Steps" -and "Live at The Village Vanguard" are the only Coltrane albums I have played regularly - great stuff, but different from the later albums.

Maybe the nearest I have got to that sound is the Sun Ra Arkestra. I happened across them by chance supporting the MC5 about 20 years. Sun Ra had passed on by then but they still blasted into the stratosphere like nothing I had ever heard before. At the end of the MC5's set both bands filled the stage for possibly the loudest jam I have ever heard in my entire life. Reading about them, original sax player John Gilmore was apparently influenced by Coltrane. Many-100's in fact- albums to their name and still a riot live - up to 2019 when I last saw them.

Nick

As a nearly lifelong jazz-head, Coltrane is my guy, especially when it comes to adventurous forward-looking music. That said, Ascension is hard for me to get my head around. Too much going on with all of those instruments. Interstellar Space is the polar opposite as it is a series of duets with drummer Rasheed Ali, which allows Trane’s singular brilliance as a horn player to shine through. Very much out there without all of the madness of the large ensemble. I think you will dig it.

Free Jazz

NICK
While you try some more Coltrane (Live at Temple is stunning) can I recommend trying ‘Free Jazz’ by Ornette Coleman, Recorded in 1960 it just seems unbelievable that music like this existed then. Although having said that the music being produced by Stockhausen in the 50’s is pretty out there.

Cacophonous jazz

Colin - thanks I'll try Free Jazz next.

Wokeupdrad - that's reassuring about Interstellar Space

DaveRock - don't fight against Ascension, just empty your mind and let it enter you, I love it. In fact it's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, I'd never let my wife know I listen to something like that, she struggles with Kind of Blue. When I was 14 it was masturbation and now I'm 63 it's Coltrane, who would have thought?

My name is John, and one of my fantasy baseball teams . . .

is named John's Coal Trains. I don't know how many in the league have ever picked up on what I was going for there, but as someone with tons of Coltrane music, I couldn't resist!

Free Dead & Co tonight

Freee D&C webcast tonight on Nugs! Dark Star!

New sounds

Nick-I've just listened to about 5 minutes of Ascension here on my laptop. Sounds quite dense and hallucinatory, even on this small contraption. I have forgotten the word for it -but I had that sense of seeing sounds, rather than hearing them. Just briefly. Completely different from what I have been listening to this year -so - order in.

I hope you enjoy it Dave

My wife's out this evening, I'll have another listen then. i find I can only take one version at one sitting, the two together would be exhausting.

Sanders and Coltrane

I recently got turned on to Pharoah Sanders, who played with Coltrane back in the day. I've really been digging Floating Points. There's a live performance with the London Symphony Orchestra that's just amazing. Minimalist and ambient and better with every listen.

I have one or two old Coltrane records. I need to dig in deeper. I was just looking at the wiki and realized that there's some albums out there with Coltrane, Sanders, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones. Whoa.

Well, that caught me off guard....

....I was playing King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard on the home stereo last night while making dinner with the wife. She says "Who is this? They sound kinda ping-pong-y". I told her. She says "Well that's a stupid name but the music sounds pretty good". If you knew my wife, you wouldn't expect her to say that.

Synesthesia

DAVEROCK, you had synesthesia, which I think is not uncommon when listening to highly complicated, atonal/atypical or cacophonous music. Terry Riley does this to me on a regular basis. Listened to DP 7-Ally Pally. Great stuff, and I don't even mind that it's not a complete show. It COULDV"E been a complete show, and I'm ok with that. New NY/Crazy Horse album today. Looking forward to listening to that, and the VERY early Elton John "psychedelic" album, "Regimental Sgt. Zippo", although I'm not sure it will be a rewarding listen. I hope everyone enjoys their weekend, and maybe, just maybe, experiences a little synesthesia!!

Synesthesia

Mr Ones - yes, that's the word, thanks. Maybe also that I had never heard the music before . I can remember "Bitches Brew" having that effect on me too. This is in drug free state - not after taking psychedelics. Terry Riley is hypnotic too.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Found those guys within the last year or so by way of Mild High Club. Picked up a couple things by Mild High Club and mildly dug their mellow, trippy, jazzy sounds. Saw they had a collaboration with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and it piqued my curiosity, so I picked it up. Album is Sketches of Brunswick East by King Gizzard Lizard with Mild High Club. Groovy, spacey, jazzy sounds abounding with a nice flow through the album. Probably pick up more of their stuff, just not sure where to start, seems like they vary their style from album to album. Open to suggestions.

All the talk of Coltrane and no mention of A Love Supreme? That and Blue Train are about the only Coltrane I actually have, cool if I'm in the right mood but not an artist that has sparked me to compulsively buy up his albums like some other artists have done.

King Gizzard....

....it's true that their style differs quite a bit from album to album. They put out seven records in 2017 (!?!). I just started listening to them a couple of months ago and enjoy them quite a bit. They can get VERY psychedelic. As far as starting point, try Butterfly 3000? That perked Mrs. Vguy's ears lol.

Order up!

Well between all the awesome suggestions from y’all, cross referenced with some other research I’d done, I was finally able to order up some new tunes! Unfortunately, several great ones were not currently available (at least on CD, many on vinyl) or were kinda pricey imports, but that helped funnel final cuts to the following. Still have a huge list of fine ideas, but these oughta keep us busy for awhile, especially with new Dave’s and hopefully a box sooner than later!
So a bakers dozen In no particular order:
Mickeys new Planet Drum (pre-order)
Grant Green: Idle Moments
Oscar Peterson: Night Train
Kieth Jarrett: Koln Concert
Pharaoh Sanders: Karma
Christian McBride: Inside Strait Live at VV
Wes Montgomery: Smokin at the 1/2 note
Sun Ra: Greatest Hits Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel
Tito Puente: King of Kings
TM: Monks Dream
Mingus: Live at Carnegie Hall
Getz/Gilberto
Hank Mobley: Soul Station

Thanks Again, Happy Listening!

Hank Mobley

Yes to Hank Mobley, Soul Station is great. I liked Soul Station so much I picked up Roll Call, Workout, and No Room For Squares as well. Good stuff.

Have to add Butterfly 3000 to my next order, been feeling like it's about time to pick up Neil Young's Royce Hall and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion solo releases now that Hitchhiker is on the way, so might be soon. Just finished listening to a bunch of Otis Redding that I just got, along with some Eddie Harris albums I picked up after the soul jazz discussion on here got me digging around. Swiss Movement, Eddie Harris and Les McCann Live at Montreux 1969 turned out to be fantastic, familiar with the version of Compared to What from that show from other collections, but the whole set smoked. The Electrifying Eddie Harris was hot as well. Another example of this site facilitating my ongoing, compulsive CD acquisition.

Meanwhile in GD land

6 7 80 high energy
8 20 80 high energy
8 26 80 interesting lil' show
November 85 has lots of high energy shows
Just a little bit longer until the new Davez

Hey!....

....I listened to the second set of 5.26.77 Thursday night. Twas enjoyable.

Danger Oro Robinson!!

Oro - A great selection of jazz discs! Thumbs up on Hank Mobley & Grant Green. But as the robot said: Danger Will Robinson!! Once you get started down the path of Jazz…

While awaiting orders, next Dave's & a Box. . .

Sheesh! What an ear(eye)-boggling, mind-blowing number of musical nudges and directions lately. Sounds like many orders were inspired too. While digging deep into collections and/or waiting for deliveries, anybody that's curious about King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard can listen/download their 12th album (2017) which was released as a free download. Search: "King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland archive". Onward.

Dave in a box

Wasn't that an SNL bit?

This madness must stop!!

Dave has to get some announcements out, cuz I'm hip deep in books and CDs ordered after tips on this forum.

I gotta take time off from my time off just to read and listen to it all.

A couple of Guinness and a few keystrokes on my laptop and BAM! there goes the retirement....

Save us Dave! Say sumpin'! (Never thought I'd utter those words, at least in that order.)

Re: Dave in a Box / This is Madness

Agree. This is pure insanity. But I think Dave is going to do the right thing.. we will get two announcements this week and some serious remote fidgeting/log rolling in the twofer release videos that follow.

If not, Dead Boys come join us at the Vault, this Saturday. It's going to be wild. Everybody is going to be there. #FreeTheReels #1968OrBust

Hopefully Dave is going to do the right thing.

1980 has a bunch of great shows

as do

81
82
83
84
85

What was the box tease? Multi year? Multi venue multi year?

"I talk to the wind..."

(As long as I don't wave to the wind...ugh)

Jeff & The King

Thanks for the heads up on King Giz & Liz.

I see the talk here about how great they are, so nice to get a copy of something to listen to.

.... back a few subjects,,, but strong thumbs up for Les McCann and Eddie Harris on Compared to What. Got this cut on an Atlantic collection years ago and fell in love with.

..... unwed mothers soon need abortions.... (indeed!)

Bay Area Box

Avalon, Fillmore, Carousel Ballroom, Harding Theatre, Warfield Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, Winterland, Greek ,Frost, Golden Gate Park, & more. Get ready.

Charlie3

Charlie3 I just ordered that Montreau Les McCan cd on your recommendation. Thanks!

BTK Bay Area Box

BTK I'm all over that box! Living in the Bay Area, I went to most of those shows!

Next Dave's Picks

9/20/70, acoustic & electric. If It's in the vault, please release it. No one is getting any younger.

Billy The Kiddd....

....I pray that you are correct. That would be incredible!

Compared to What, first wah wah

While we wait for the announce, Swiss Movement album was huge back in the day, clearly recall we wore out that vinyl when it was released late 1969. The song (or maybe the record) was Grammy nominated. Dig "Cold Duck Time" there too. The great Leroy Vinnegar played bass and was given credit for developing the so called "walking" bass lines. Concert video available on utube. Resisting leaving new enticements for rabbit holes, all too soon to be distracted by 43, however Oro's list has me thinking specific albums/recordings to mention, rather than artists, will post after 43 fever fades. Back when the science fiction discussion was going on, meant to note author HP Lovecraft, horror crossover. Some science fiction is in music and here I tread carefully, HF. Though "Are You Experienced" was a total revelation about what could be done on electric guitar (and in studio), notably Third Stone From the Sun, Axis was released just before I first saw Jimi play, remains #1 with me, lots of science fiction. The song "Up From the Skies" is such a nice jazzy tune, a landmark because Jimi broke out the wah-wah pedal which had just been invented to bring effects of trumpet muting to electric guitar. Sure Clapton played with it on Tales of Brave Ulysses same time, 1967/68 but Jimi mastered it so well so fast. Something else, in those prescient lyrics, Jimi notes climate change or "change in climate". Check out Pat Metheny's version of Third Stone, on tribute album Stone Free, with a nod to Jaco (also utubable).

Jazz Sabbath

U-tube Jazz Sabbath, a riff on the actual Black Sabbath songbook, and actually, a pretty decent jazz piano trio, led by Adam Wakeman (yea, related to That Wakeman). Hilarious, but actually a pretty earnest recording of Iron Man, etc., done in post bop swing fashion.

Last 5
Neil Young - Dorothy Chandler Pavillion
Neil Young - Royce Hall
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments (Vol 3)
Nick Drake - Way To Blue

Tickets for Emmylou for August, and Bruce H in November, but really hoping to get an outdoor show or two in over the summer. Something about music under the stars…

Sabbath live

Probably known to one and all, but Adam Wakeman played on stage with Black Sabbath during their final concerts in 2017.
Last 5 ?
Classic Recordings Billy Riley
Somethin' Else cd 6 Eddie Cochran
Green Steve Hillage
Astralogy Astralasia
Discipline King Crimson

Honourable mention for Sue Foley's Live in Europe dvd, too. Featuring 2 live shows from 2005. Great tele tones on these finger plucking blues.

king gizzard

playing here in October, all ready sold out. Tickets going for 5 times face value. nope
Sure hope Dave's next one is from 1980, Gainesville anyone? But as stated there were a lot of gr8 shows from 1980.

Thoughts from a tardy typer

For me, posts on Stanley Clarke or Stanley Turrentine are more interesting than the Stanley Cup.

Lots of great recommendations.

I 'll add one more pianist - Abdullah Ibrahim
He was known as Dollar Brand when oppression made him an exile from South Africa in the early 1960s.
He can be joyous, spare or spiritual, sometimes simultaneously.
I love his solo stuff, and his septet, Ekaya ("Home")

Last week my NPR station played his latest. Solotude.
a revisit to some of his best tunes, played with the experience of other veteran musicians we admire.

Also - it's Lee Morgan's Birthday !
Three weeks ago my wife started my day by saying "it's Eric Dolphy's Birthday"
Three days days later i climbed down from that invisible aviary a better person.

Abdullah Ibrahim

Dollar Brand

wow. thanks JJ. a blast from my (somewhat lost) music past. everything I have is on LP. been a long while cause the turntable done not set up nowadays.

Africa - Tears and Laughter -- Ishmael. The Perfumed Forest Wet With Rain. Did you hear that Sound?

Stanley Cup

Wasn't that an award given to Stanley Mouse, the famous artist who lived across the street from the G.D. in the H.A. with Alton Kelly, who along with Rick Griffin and others, formed Family Dog et al??

suggested jazz:
Sonny's Crib - Sonny Clark
The Oracle - Hank Jones
We Three - Roy Haynes
Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley

anything from Charlie Haden's series The Montreal Tapes

and synesthesia, well... would have expected someone to nail that term quickly on this board. Looking forward to Ed Yong's "An Immense World" on animal perceptual systems incredible range.

Penguin guide to Jazz on cd

I've invested in a copy of the Penguin Guide to Jazz on cd 7th edition. Over 1700 pages of CD reviews and Somethin' Else is one of their ' Core Collection' recommendations. I've been playing it today actually. I much prefer it to Kind of Blue. I find Kind of Blue kind of boring, too polished.

Last 5

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Cannonball Adderley -Somethin' Else
Tristeza-Dream Signals
Led Zep IV ( don't ask, I just needed a bit of Stairway)
Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure

Davez 18

7 17 76

Orpheum 76

A classic, awesome run

Did anyone mention Errol Garner?

Concert by the Sea, Carmel, Calif., 1955.

And if you dig Cannonball Adderley's Something Else, you'll love his Quintet in San Francisco/Live at the Jazz Workshop, fall 1959, with Nat Adderley on cornet (sans Miles).

That is all!

Les McCann!!

So grateful for the broad discussions this past week, I’ve acquired 3 books, and already read 2 of them.
Also, I hadn’t dug through my Les McCann in a long time. I had forgotten how stunning Invitation To Openness is!! 3 songs, 52 minutes. Very much in a Miles electric vein. I also highly recommend Les’ “Layers” album. It’s on deck for me. Last 5:

Les McCann-Invitation To Openness
Little Feat-Little Feat
Linda Ronstadt-Linda Ronstadt
McCoy Tyner-Sahara (Recommended from someone on here!)
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Apocalypse

Music is the Best!!

Recent itch feels good to scratch

More great suggestions.
One in particular triggered a reaction.

I spent my time and money on children in the 90s and am still catching up.
So I never knew about Hank Jones' "The Oracle" with Dave Holland and Billy Higgins until a youtube click a year or two ago.
I still listen to it that way, but the only single thing I reach for as often since then is the bonus disc from Dave's v38, highlights of the nite before 6/23/74. (seems to me every verse and chorus on every tune has at least one great Jerry fill).
This does give me an excuse to enthusiastically warn about jumping in the Dave Holland rabbit-hole.
From early collaborations with Anthony Braxton to recently with Zakir Hussain, with sessions in the 70s with Bonnie Raitt and Vassar Clemens, there aren't many of his bass lines I don't adore.

And BLUECROW, once he has reached you, Abdullah Ibrahim is a strong and steadying presence in perpetuity .

Music IS the Best

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