Arthur Blythe was at the height of his powers also. His solo on "Blues On The Corner" starts at 19:00. Don't. Miss. It. it's really too bad that he didn't record more with McCoy ( the only thing I'm aware is a couple of cuts on "4x4" from 1979/1980.

That sort of power gets very boring very soon. It's going down to the deep end!

And that's the least we can say !

actually George was not in the band at this time. It was Joe and John Blake on the front line for the first almost two years. The 1st year was also the great percussionist Guilherme Franco. Then the last year of my stint with McCoy, Jerry Gonzalez joined congas and trumpet.

Ronnie Burrage , Hi Ronnie, the line up that I was referring to, was McCoy, Sonship, Fambreaux, George, Joe & either Franco or Nana Vasconselos...George schooled me from the time that I was 12 & we were friends, but McCoys group when Horizon came out, were the people that I was close to, especially Nana, who took me to the Brook the first time...Anyway, Sonship & Fambreaux were amazing together & George was really strong through those years & always made me just bust out laughing, ‘cause his chops were the meanest on top of the meanest😆...& then Arthur Blythe moved into my neighborhood, we became tight immediately, around the time that Ray was born, when he was with Mamie & that was it, studying with Arthur & learning from Wadud, Stewart, Hicks...Man, Fred Hopkins became a close friend & knew my older Sister, who went to the U of Chicago...Still, through all of it, I was with George whenever he was in town, the last time that I saw him was with Blood & he was killin’ it like always, truly inspirational, he treated me as an Older Brother/Ally & I’ll always carry that with me...Anyway, later for the past Ronnie...

Yeah but you said, "at that time" that band was not at that time, it was before.

Ronnie Burrage ...a’ight Ronnie, meanwhile by ‘81, I was with Arthur constantly studying & growing...It’s interesting to me that Mr. George Adams & Mr. Arthur Blythe treated my as a Brother/Ally/Friend & even Family, whereas most haven’t...Nana would just smile his warmest smile, give me props & love, at which point, we’d go eat...Yeah Man, that’s wassup, Ally’s, period...forward, to work...Be well, mych love, Fox🌬🔥🎶✨🎶🎵🕶

...oh Man...treated me as a Brother...& much love always...typing is whack yo...

YEAH AMAZING. WHAT CHOPS!

Yeah Ronnie! Check out Mr. Burrage's playing on Jack Walraths' Masters of Suspense from later in the decade of the 1980s.

...Oh yeah...always...Peace, Fox

The alto summit mentioned on the album is absolutely fabulous!

name of the album?LABEL?CD?

@@myroncohen7619 New York - Montreux Connection 1982 Columbia Records !

...I just remembered, the drummer with Paquito's group was Ignacio Berroa...just amazing...😎

He is Joe Ford (it's corrected now)

Great. I'll be checking him out a lot more now. Thanks!

@@chuckyspell Check out Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache band. Joe plays on a few of their albums.

@@mybookfacetube Thanks a lot!

@@chuckyspell Fort Apache like this timeless session at Montreaux tore the laws of physics apart. Health and balance, keep on doing, I miss Black Arthur, Z"L so much. May his spirit remain a blessing with us P-R-E-S-E-N-T-E Especially the barely distributed or referenced sessions he did in Berkeley and East Bay with vibes by Gust Tsillis and sessions at First Unitarian Church: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Song_(Arthur_Blythe_album) Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone Chico Freeman - bass clarinet, percussion Bob Stewart - tuba Gust Tsillis - marimba, vibraphone Arto Tunçboyacıyan, David Frazier, Josh Jones - percussion Early 80's the Reagan\Bush Mourning In America period when Columbia Records was purging its jazz label of all those giants who enlarged our national muses\musical vocabulary. Players who had steady work until then and were producing gems like the McCoy Tyner La Leyenda de La Hora album and catalogue with that depth-defying "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit." As in this clip, what more can be said other than REST IN PLAY ? And Ronnie Burrage so many listeners in so many Purple Grottos of their hearts and inner ears overflow with appreciation for your beats, spirited sessions and jazzlore. The great now late Berkeley Poet and inventor of Musical Memoirs, Al Young, Z"L has hopefully a few more manuscripts to be found, published and sent out into the World of and beyond jazz for the big Eternal Record Spinning in the Sky alongside Ezekiel's Wheel On Fire... Health and balance Keep on doing! Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee

Thanks! Have changed that.

Thanks! Have changed that.