usually an impossible question-but I have one-despite my love for various Coltrane, Mingus, Monk, Ellington, Tapscott, Murray and other favorites of mine- recordings-my favorite album is Anthony Braxton's Dortmund(Quartet) 1976 w/George Lewis, dave Holland & Barry Altschul. Every time I listen to this record, especially composition 40F, which hass, for my money, the greatest alto saxophone solo ever put on tape, I am sure that this is my all-time favorite recording.

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Iīm glad to hear that you like this album so much because I ordered it last week and Iīm looking forward to listen to it. Braxton/Holland/Altschul/Lewis(or Wheeler) is one of my favorite groups of all time.

I canīt say I have one absolute favorite album. I have to made a list of at least 50 and Iīm sure nobody wants to read that list.

where on earth did you order it from?

because more than a few people would like to know how to find this long out of print album

I ordered it from Skivhugget. A swedish recordshop in Gothenburg. I found it on their webpage. But I havenīt got the cd yet so if itīs out of print maybe I donīt.
I have ordered records from them before that never was delivered.

That's the truth. I've been trying since it showed up several times in response to my requests for George Lewis albums.

In answer to the thread question: No. If forced to pick one, I suppose I would, but really, No.

Stupid Thread KING MUTT,

My favorite:

Dale Wimbrow and his Rubeville Tuners play the music of Stan Kenton and Ernie Tubbs.

Rack'em

DEEP

I'd have to say the one that turned me on to this stuff.....Money Jungle...........
You rack, I'll Break.....LOL

GaryD

His favorite recording is an out-of-print Anthony Braxton. Damn, it takes a lot of work to be hip these days.

This week, my all-time fave is the Roy Eldridge hits compilation on Verve. Last week, Sonny Fortune "From Now On." Next week...maybe Carol Sloane, "Heart's Desire." Dunno.

In spite of all my affection and esteem for the *GREAT* Steve R., I have to agree that this is a perfectly wacky thread.

PS: My favorite food group is "grilled" and my favorite activity is breathing freely.

MINGUS - 'CUMBIA AND JAZZ FUSION'

music has never been any better. frikken genius.

let it be known that i have no hesitation on this thread.

Mind if I sit in on this set?

Difficult to pin down just one...depends on the type of music I'm into at the time I fire up the old Victrola.

The CD's that spend the most time on my CD changer are THE INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR of Wes Montgomery, TAKE FIVE by Dave Brubeck, I REMEMBER CLIFFORD by Arturo Sandoval, THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK by Oscar Peterson, BEST OF CHET BAKER PLAYS, BEST OF JIMMY SMITH and just about ANYthing by Miles Davis.

This is a pointless endeavor. I'm gone over a week and this is all you can come up with? Whatever I'm in the mood to listen to is my favorite. Right now my favorite is McCoy Tyner's Time for Tyner. He plays great with Hutcherson on this one. Later it will probably be Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul on French RCA, followed by Walter Davis' Davis Cup.
BTW, RODOMONTADE is talkin' 'bout the wrong George Lewis again. And I thought Tony Braxton was an RnB singer. Guess he'll never learn.
Goodspeak - you gave me a good idea for listening later - Take Five. Haven't heard that one in a long time.

Jazzfans,
John Coltrane's-A Love Surpreme
Peace and all that.

markj, end your adolescent prattle. if u need have a group to belong to then develop with an original mature idea how to get one. it's immature to try to copy and buddy up to a bullies in order to join a filthy trashmouth group.

jazz is about originality not plagerisms. also you cant talk to much about lewis, who is probably the greatest musician alive. lsiten to brax 'donauschingen' or shut up.

To answer the question: Yes, some people do.

Mark J-to dis the *great* George Lewis-who if he isn't the greatest musician alive, is certainly one of the greatest-and most anyone who has ever listened to his mastery of the trombone would agree.

And dare I ask, but have you *ever* even listened to the man play?

And do you think it's cool to insult Anthony Braxton by insinuating that Toni Braxton is more worthy of musical discussion? Are you really serious or do you *need* Danny D'Imperio's approval more than your next meal?

SLAMADAM DUNK, REYNOLDS!!

and i dont use upper case too often.

as for you (thelil) back to westlaw.

steve reynolds wrote:
>>my favorite album is Anthony Braxton's Dortmund(Quartet) 1976 w/George Lewis, dave Holland & Barry Altschul<<

ooh ooh - I love love love that album!! Thanks - I haven't dusted if off for probably 3 years. I'm going to put it on as soon as I get home.

At the totally opposite end of the spectrum, my favorite album ever - my one desert island disc(s) is Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook.
I know it's not generally regarded as her finest songbook. In his bio of Ella, Stuart Nicholson said that Duke didn't even write arrangements for the sessions (tho he had promised them). But I just love Ella on those tunes in both the big band and small group settings, and nothing can compare to Ella and Ben Webster trading licks over In A Mellow Tone.

Nothing to do with d'imperial. Your blustering pomposity speaks for itself Reynolds. You discuss lewis and braxton so much it makes me nauseous. If they are the greatest musicians alive, I'll stick with the dead. You guys want to listen to crap, be my guest. As long as I don't have to hear it you can take your cecil taylor and tony barkston records and play them at volume 11. BTW, I think Toni Braxton is more merit worthy. So there.

Frankiepop, if it wasn't for adolescent prattle I wouldn't waste my valuable time here.

markj, face it, your post read like a deep(doo doo) clone. slow down, move over or get rolled over. your a deep wannabe, wannabe part of the gang, & wannabe a wallabe. so tan my hide when i die clyde tan my hide when i die.

so now Braxton & Lewis are "crap"?

are you serious?

if you are, why would expect anyone to listen to anything you have to say.

A. Braxton will always be among the top in the listening polls for these ears and i don't have to explain why. But for absolute?...hmmm, i'll go for the Bremen and Lausanne solo concerts, K. Jarrett.

Tie me Wallabe down, sport; tie me Wallabe down...

[Lighten up guys, MarkJ is offering an opinion...comparisons on sale in the lobby.]

They tanned 'is hide when he died, Clyde and that's it hangin' on the shed.

Cool tune, thanks Frankiepop :)

I dunno, I find it excruciatingly difficult to come up with a 10-best-releases-of-the-year list. How can you pick a SINGLE best (or favorite) album you've EVER heard? There's just so much music and so many different things music can give. Beautiful melodies, intriguing harmonies, terror, sadness, joy, pain, humor, disgust, eroticism, hatred, awe, etc. How do you compare Ellington with Braxton, Coltrane with Young, Taylor with Tatum, O'Day with McLaughlin, Shepp with Kenton, Parker (Charlie) with Parker (Evan) with Parker (William)? And why would you want to?

Too much sports thinking, IMHO. There are lots of kinds of beauty, and I don't think it makes sense to be ranking everything (even in my own mind) as if I were judging some kind of Olympic skating event or the awarding of an Oscar. Is a warm blanket better than a good beer? Is Picasso better than Chez Paul? What's the point? Why not just celebrate excellence wherever and whenever we find it?

Maybe if I could pick a 100 disk set or something. (But it would have to be an anthology of my own choosing, of course!)

Sorry to be so ranty tonight.

answer for horn: Listen to mingus 'cumbia jazz and fusion' it's over.

I'm with H.L. Jones..."A Love Supreme"!

fp,

As I wish never to disagree with either you or Steve, I think I'll go with Braxus "Dortcumbia." It's on the Mondton label and it's the absolute Ming.

Something by Trane...I would say the Impulse reissue...since that would include the sum total of all my "Favorite Thangs" but it would not include what playing now.
LIVE IN JAPAN!! Soo Either the Impulse Box or Live in Japan.

Allen Sherman "My Son the Folksinger". Maybe not the best musically. But the largest influence on my life.

Frankiepop,

Fusion over? Oh...I don't THINK so. Incognito, Kiluea, Spyro Gyra, Rippintons, Rick Braun, Doc Powell, Mike Stern, Doug Robinson, Steve Khan, Ronny Jordan, Yellowjackets...I could go on.

I heard a Doc Powell CD while visting tower records a couple of years back-and that music is not fusion, it is merely product.


Incognito?? you've got to kidding, man-that is some smoothed out commercial sonic wallpaper.

if this stuff is jazz, then, well you know....

I can only imagine what the Rippingtons & Rick Braun's recordings sound like-:)


please don't go on-I think you made frankipop, Larry Nagel & Darryl Thomas' points all one post.




One Fell Swoop, baby

Uh, Goodspeak, I'm fairly certain you and frankiepop are talking about two entirely different things here.

Now about the real question, I think its just as if not more valid than most of the stuff on this board. This thread doesn't ask us to pick the absolute "best" or "greatest" album, like so many other threads do. Now THAT would be pointless, and impossible. Instead we're asked to pick our FAVORITE album, that may or may not be the greatest performance of that artist, or their most critically acclaimed or popular. Rather, it's the album that we get the most enjoyment out of, that consistently rewards repeated listening. Is this pointless, well in the big picture, yeah it is. I really will make no meaningful difference to anyone else here what my favorite album is, or what any of you consider to be yours. BUT, you could say that about EVERY thread on this or any other jazz bbs. So there.

Oh, btw, my favorite album, it is a difficult question, possibly Jackie McLean's "Destination Out", Trane's "Crescent" is up there too, also Lee Morgan's "The Procrastinator". I enjoy these discs probably more than any others I own.

thanks Joe-as I think the *best* Braxton recording isn't Dortmund. Of the one's I've heard, I rank Willisau 1991 w/Crispell, Dresser & Hemingway as a greater recording, but it is also a much more difficult music, and therefore, not one that I get the same type of energy from-unless I'm in the mood. It's alos not a recording that gets put in the player on a whim. Like the most intense Cecil Taylor music, it's music that demands concentration and study-tough to hame music like that a 'favorite". Dortmund gets my vote as my "favorite" because of it's incredible energy and traditional groove from start to finish-and because of George Lewis' playing of the trombone at the age of 24-playing it like no one had ever played it before-exciting and the type of recording I could play everyday.

Other recordings that I considered were New Tijuana Moods, Blue Train, Tenors, Live at The Five Spot, volume 1, Alive in the House of Saints, Monk's Music and a few others...

Fusion over? Oh...I don't THINK so. Incognito, Kiluea, Spyro Gyra, Rippintons, Rick Braun, Doc Powell, Mike Stern, Doug Robinson, Steve Khan, Ronny Jordan, Yellowjackets...I could go on.>>

goodspeaker, i never meant to say fusion was over and done. i meant to answer to the previous post, that once u have heard MINGUS 'CUMBIA & JAZZ FUSION' the search for the absolute favorite recording ever made is over. this is it for me, so far.

this isnt a rock/jazz fusion recording tho. it's a cumbia/jazz fusion of music. impressive recording by mingus and winner of critics poll of downbeat mag as record of the yr, back in the days they actually chose a great lp for jazz recording of the yr instead of todays schmucky picks.

Frankiepop,

Sorry, man...it's what I get for not referring back. My bad.


Steve R,

Huh?

like I said...


One Fell Swoop, baby

thelil,

What about "Tubby the Tuba"?

LOL!!! Tubby the Tuba!!! About 4 months ago, I made by debut as a vocalist for a kids concert performance of Tubby! (I voulnteered to do the gig only thinking that I'd have to do the narration, which is my thing, but then I get to the first rehearsal and they say- "oh, by the way, this is where you sing!" The kids loved it though!