Blue Note. Classic Or Dud?

and the sidewinder one is ok too

Downloaded Art Blakey's Indestructible (his last Blue Note album, from 1965, with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton and Reggie Workman) and the two volumes of 3 Blind Mice (live stuff from 1962 with Freddie Hubbard, Fuller, Shorter, Walton and Jymie Merritt). There are days when all I want to listen to, ever, is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' stuff from 1960-65.

I have been loving Pete La Roca's awesome Basra album a lot recently. It is a travesty that such a talented dude fucked it all off and became a taxi driver.

Dud mostly. The less rhythmic propulsion a track has, the more likely the track title will be an intransitive verb with a dropped 'g'.
― dave q, Monday, August 12, 2002 7:00 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol great dave q post

RIP RVG
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I picked up a great book of lp covers from the label from a cheap sale a few years ago.
They really did have a great sense of style.
Seems to have been a major influence on mod. Presumably the modern jazz that's initially a short form for was best epitomised by the record label.

RIP Rudy Van Gelder

humans will be listening to some of those tracks as long as the species has electrical power

.. must have at least 8 or 12 of the RVG remasters on disc -- will need to dig them out

Finally got around to watching 'Blue Note: Beyond the Notes' last night. It's nice and pleasant but didn't really contain much in the way of insights that any fan wasn't already familiar with. Highlight was watching Shorter & Hancock goof around. I could have gone for a lot more of that.