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O10 This is for youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig91Z0-rBfo 
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O10 thanks for the Amazon link for that CD. Already ordered. 
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pjw, not a casualty of war , a planed war crime .Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris aka " bomber Harris" , talked the Americans into bombing civilians as a matter of course.After the war he said " If the Germans had won I would have been hung as a war ... 
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O10 That Shango "Drums of Passion" is an outstanding example of a modern day African drum and chant songs recorded in 1960 100 years after the end of the centuries of the cross Atlantic slavery migration. I am going to try and find a copy on CD. ... 
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alec re Johnny Griffin I have a large selection of his albums including, of course, his "shootouts" with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omR-3SCfjHQYou can definitely and clearly hear "Lockjaws" husky tone as he takes the fir... 
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alec That  Tord Gustavsen with  'Blue Church Choir“ was awesome. And the German city of Dresden, where they performed that moving composition, could not have been a better suited place for it.Dresden, a city with no strategic targets (armament fa... 
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For me, "gruff" crosses over into attitude and connotes a bit of unfriendliness or "pissed-offedness" (as in "he was gruff with me"), so I'm hesitant to use it unless I believe the player is intentionally expressing that (which they sometimes do... 
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Played Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins this AM ("Bluesy Burrell" - 1962). I'm thinking Hawkins sounds "frequently husky" on these - or maybe "sometimes husky." keegiam Sonny Rollins describes it as "gruff", frogman "husky" and James Carter ... 
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Hello all.Trying to catch up here been busy. A lot of great new posts.acman thanks for the  Espen Eriksen Trio and  Tingvall Trio as well.alec I agree that the  Tord Gustavsen trio and the Espen E trio have a similar sound. very soothing and r... 
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Thanks keegiam. Up to this point I was not aware that Coryell had recorded and released a live acoustic album. Found it and ordered it. 
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Thanks keegiam for that Coryell acoustic clip.  Under The Sign Of Capricorn is not on the 1974 Coryell album titled "At Montreux" with The Eleventh House. There is only one unaccompanied acoustic song Coryell plays to start out the show titled "I... 
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Thanks frogman for your response. As old and sub par as the Don Byas video is I can still clearly see his name engraved on the top inside of the bell at exactly the 5:10 mark of the video. I also see the raised "rocker"On the newer James Carter vi... 
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This is priceless. Don Byas live in Stockholm 1962."I Remember Clifford"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1LHw551HDA 
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Thanks alec for the Bud Shank clips. Listening to them now. 
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In the above Sonny Rollins interview he mentions a Herschel Evans. Evans played in the Count Basie Band and he also had that "gruff" tone.Evans died very young of heart failure in 1939 but I was able to find the following video in which you can he...