Outside Cats (ILM Version)

https://www.sfjazz.org/globalassets/discover/blog/blog-images/pharoah_5050.jpg

Lol, great thread!

https://cdn2.jazztimes.com/2017/12/SunnyMurray.jpg

:D
There's a great photo of Sanders playing outside (in front of a tunnel?) that I'm unable to find right now...

spiritual outside jazz cats

Yes! That and also this kind of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YJknPA4Uoc

And:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOOF7o00mEw

https://www.earshot.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Eric-Dolphy-Photo-by-Don-Schlitten.jpg

https://neuguitars.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/sonny-sharrock-10-1991-01.jpg

That picture of Dolphy reminds me that I just got emailed about an album where a guy recorded all of Dolphy's compositions on acoustic guitar and...it's only 26 tracks long! I though he had a much bigger book than that.

I'm not that surprised but then again I didn't know he put out as many albums as a leader as he apparently did.

That sounds like the 6-volume project by Miles Okazaki to record all of Monk's compositions on solo guitar

not a sin

https://townsquare.media/site/838/files/2019/06/celebratingandrewcyrille-9.jpg?w=980&q=75

if a cat wants to go outside

I know we don’t listen to him anymore, but as the thread originator I have decided the second half of this song is the national anthem of outside cats - is it a sin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kiPXYCg9rI

https://img.discogs.com/H0dFfbfgS-dx9DwNEX0f8f9rGNU=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5136239-1532337324-6502.jpeg.jpg

nice

So my expat buddy who lives in Brussels sent me some youtube links and other things re one Jos Steen, who mostly sold his stuff via CD-Rs at gigs of which there were few, and he...passed away in 2012.

To the extent that their information is reliable, according to Discogs, "Shoes" was issued in an edition of 10 [sic] copies.

Most reliable discography found so far:...and at the bottom of that webpage you can read about the guy and his stubbornly individualistic, reclusive lifestyle.

https://www.united-mutations.com/s/jos_steen.htm

The worst thing that could be said about Jos Steen is that he was clearly influenced by Captain Beefheart -- except that out of all the people who were influenced by Beefheart, Jos Steen was the best I've heard.

from email discussion continuing the same thread:
My reply--Got it, thanks! Reminds me---I think you were the one who turned me on to Ben LeMar Gay, John---I was listening to his 2021 offering and starting to think of my sometime semi-neighbor Lonnie Holley, when I noticed that Gay's notes on the album incl. influence of Alabama summers in the country with his granny: the music of the wind and the trees and the other shit that musicians say, but I was already thinking something like that, though also like Holley, he's not shy about use of studio resources (ditto range of instruments and voices) Here's his latest, all of it streaming for free https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/open-arms-to-open-us
He mentioned the previous Gay album we'd heard, mentioned AACM connection, queried more re the Alabama bit (still not having read Gay's comments on Bandcamp page for the current albbum), and I added:
Yes, that's the one you introduced me too, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun : that title's confident, cautionary-if-you-read-it-that-way view of manmade wondahs under the Sun------also comes to mind while listening to the new album, and I guess my Alabama association comes, along with his comments on the Bandcamp oage, from the way his sounds remind me of Lonnie Holley's musical sculpture, a few blocks from here, which can chime and clang and bronngg, but only when there's enough wind to lift the found components, rust and all---then again, like Holley's actual albums, Gay's build on a momentum of determined rhythmic emphasis--which can change, like everything else, from track to track, but there's still enough continuity to keep me listening, loose and tight (not really all that loose: he's got some flexible sense of purpose back there).
https://daily.bandcamp.com/certified/lonnie-holley-mith-interview?utm_source=footer

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81my4UlZHFL._SS500_.jpg

Lonnie Holley also a good call

Yeah! So he ended up Top Tenning that latest Ben LeMar Gay, Open Arms To Open Us, in a couple of polls, as I might do yet.

Re: Jos Steen..

https://www.discogs.com/release/8663825-Jos-Steen-Plays-The-Beatles-Greatest-Hits-Vol-4

B2 Rain
Vocals, Guitar – Bob Dylan