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  • Academy Records & Cds 12 W 18th St New York, NY 10011 (212) 242-3000 Unless you're after classical, skip this one. This Academy is classical lp's and used cd's (good jazz selection for a used cd place, though). The 10th st and Williamsburg o…
  • at look at dustygroove turned up some missed obvious ones: Nite Liters, Instrumental Directions Jimmy McGriff, Let's Stay Together and some not so obvious ones: the Button Down Brass Superdude Movie Sounds (on Pickwick) Osaka Monaurail yes it's a …
  • Profile's Sands of Time lp on Encounter has a decent one.
  • those Chevron Music Makers lp's are a goldmine
    in interviews Comment by nickj January 2006
  • No love for Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy? Not a lot of piano at all, actually, but those echo effects are ridiculously raw power. Listen closely. Adventure Equation is one of my favorite Sun Ra cuts. I love this album so much.
  • Under all the John Coltranes, Pharoahs, Alice Coltranes, and the Oliver Nelson, some of my personal favorites that haven't been mentioned: Gil Evans, Out of the Cool Marion Brown, Vista + Sweet Earth Flying Ahamad Jamal, The Awakening Yusef Lateef,…
  • Ride Little Monkey, Ride!
  • I like Izipho Zan a lot, but I'd have a hard time justifying why someone should pay $60-90 for it over paying $10 for any of his other Impulses if they didn't have those already. At least that India Nav lp sounds fairly different than most of his s…
  • It's also up on O'Reilly's site.
  • I'm pretty sure that Monk in the Mansion was released, but I can't find any trace of it through google. I think it was released on some Grateful Dead-related label (I think?) and that the cd was available via their website. I have no idea how it s…
  • Ghetto Abstract I'm really enjoying this. Thanks again for putting it up!
  • Anyone know some dope "Lady Madonna"-covers? I??m working on one, but I??d like to hear some other people do their thing with it... Cal Tjader Plugs In has a great one.
  • I like Devotion and My Goals Beyond. I would also consider his work on Tribute to Jack Johnson essential. cosign, Devotion is fantastic. Not quite as extreme as Lifetime, but in that same jazz/psych vein, and Larry Young sounds great on this ki…
  • Lani Hall sings "Tiny Dancer" on the s/t lp that has "Love Song." Good album.
  • I read somewhere that David Baby Cortez is on those Harlem Underground lp's too... I've also heard that while Benson claims to have not played on these, he also apparently never bothered to sue Winley over it either. Ah, hearsay.
  • Dolphy pretty much had the bass clarinet on lock for the 1960's. In addition to his own stuff: All the versions of "Naima" he did with Coltrane were bass clarinet features, and he did some some crazy duets with Mingus, too. It seems like Bennie M…
  • -Charles Mingus Beneath The Underdog great film though totally depressing and the live sets were not long enough. how was it depressing? i had no idea there was even a documentary on it. i read the book about a year ago and loved it. It's depres…
  • This might be what you want. Some of these mixes do the trick for me on rainy days when I'm stuck in the office. http://quincyessentialmusic.libsyn.com/
  • This is another fantastic solo Monk album. I think these two Bill Evans lp's, while not technically "solo", are both And for what it's worth, this is pretty renowned as a classic, but I've never heard it Plus there's also that …
  • Can't find a pic of it, but how about that James Brown Thinking of Little Willie John lp with JB holding the Willie John record...
  • embryo - i dig ron carter uptown conversation, and brute force. and air of course. anyone feeling Novac or Earth Opera? I think is Novac is kinda Haven't listened to it in a long while, but I remember it being kinda blah wannabe psych. The Phi…
  • There's another Paul Desmond version on that A&M 1975 live album that I think is great, with a cool kinda "middle eastern" vibe to it. I think the Soulful Strings did a version, maybe on the Paint It Black lp?
  • If you're near Rochester, it's worth looking in at the Bop Shop, too. There was a big Vietnam Vets thrift store not too far away on East Main (I think?) that used to have a pretty consistently solid selection, but I don't know if that's still a goo…
  • definitely some funk on Joe Henderson's "Black is the Color" and "Multiple" "Backwoods Song" on the first Gateway lp on ECM the two Hubbard/Turrentine/Hancock "In Concert" CTI's the Compost Life is Round lp has some beats
  • My Zappa thought, for what it's worth: In his autobiography (which, to be fair, is a fairly amusing read even if you don't like his music), he goes to some lengths to establish that he's a real dude who doesn't care about bullshit quotes from famou…
  • Been enjoying the reissue of this one: dude was off to the pokey for possession and put this down in the 2 days he had left or something along those lines. It's really good. And no one may want to state the obvious, but why sleep on
  • Saw this last night and enjoyed it. I thought it was quite good by Jarmusch's standards and Bill Murray was great, though it's maybe starting to get a little old seeing him only in these kinds of roles. Solid flick, though. Mulatu's music is feat…
  • Does Garth play the clav on that one? I'll have to check at home. I was thinking of Cripple Creek and Ol' Jawbone.
  • an obvious early one I forgot: from 1969, no less.
  • Two good early uses of the clav were Billy Preston's big instrumental hit "Outa Space" (predating Superstition, I believe), which was played on a rented clav, and Funkadelic's "A Joyful Process" (also 1972). Bernie Worrell says that Stevie had boug…