mikeweil

Can you post some examples?

Ahmad Jamal is a name that shoulf be on this list as well. Again, I'd prefer if we avoid that superlative term giant - it is pretty subjective as well. I like the way Mike Fitzgerald put up his list and would say, lets's list masters that have reached their 6oth year of age. A master is a musician with an individual style and mastery of his instrument - period. I strongly Cedar Walton's inclusion in this list - saw him several times during the last ten years and he never disappointed and was a model in taste, responsibility for the band and music, and has written a large book of great tunes. Tonight I'm gonna see Al Foster - he'll qualify next year ....

Benny Golson Clark Terry Von Freeman Several member of the Chicago AACM scene Milford Graves Al McKibbon Lee Konitz I'd prefer to talk about living older masters, not giants. Master is a term applying to all mentioned.

I knew you'd be the first to post when I read your name in the viewers' list! Whatever pic you feel you have to post, here's the thread to do so. ... as long as it is related to Blue Note, of course, in any way.

They're just afraid to link to serious competitors of the bands they signed ...

Sorry, but I felt an irresistable urge to post this picture here .....

That's Laura Tequila Logan, not Lewis! Webster Lewis played organ and clavinet on the Tony Williams LP, which I like very much, by the way. If the unissued Young date on Columbia is like the Arista stuff, it's not much of a loss, I suppose .....

I remember I read about the Schildkraut back then, or his "comeback". Sure would like to hear this!

I have the French LP predecessor of the Drum Suite reissue, and it sounds great. Can't tell if it was Columbia's studio, although there are photos on the back. It sounds considerably better than the Orgy in Rhythm, was prepared much better by the engineers - Van Gelder opened and closed mikes often during the Orgy sessions, probably had to as the solo routine was spontaneous, or he had a bad day .... The Blakey Columbia material after the initial Jazz Messengers sessions with Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and Blakey to me looks like Blakey tried tu fulfill contractual obligations after the Messengers had split in the middle of a Columbia contract. Silver was better off, as all the others went with him, he just needed a drummer and had his lone EPIC LP recorded in no time. Mike, what do you say?

No! There is one more track reputedly from the Five Spot sessions on a large Coleman Hawkins LP box set issued in Italy, but Cuscuna had his doubts about this or it would have been included.

It's one of her jazzier albums, if you like her later singing you will like it. I liked her voice better when it sounded young and innocent, like on the Warner Bros. LP with the late Benny Carter, if I hadn't sold my copy years ago I'd offer it to you ... sorry Dan

Just edited the list above. Thanks Chuck, just had found about the Adams and Monterose/Flanagan. Some nice stuff I missed from the vinyl era... There are still five numbers missing, anybody help? What's the connection between Uptown and Reservoir? Looks like Reservoir started after Uptown had stopped issuing temporarily .... I read the producers' names on the issues before and after and made some conclusions but don't wanna drop any names here ...

I tried an image search at AlltheWeb with Hard Bop, and the first image shown was Wynton Marsalis, which gave ME a headache .... ... or is this Branford?

... seems like this thread turned into a rehearsal spot for the Organissimo Tap Troupe ... ... first one to grow tired wins a weekend trip with Norah Jones ...

Use Opera to browse, and hit F12, demark animation of gifs activated and save your money ......

I'm afraid this won't help either, although it fits the state of mind pretty well ..........

The Flip, as it is the only Mobley session I've never heard, but honestly I'm just as curious about the Hill ....

The left half of the cover is dark violet blue with large letters in white J G with the rest of the names in small type; right half is black with white type. Label is black with silver print and the matrix number is CHESS-LP-8681 or 82, respectively.

Phew! Just ordered my Chico Hamilton set ....

Just started reading Paris, Trance over the weekend: a funny, to the point account of a Londoner moving to Paris in summer when the city is almost deserted. If you've ever been in a similar situation you will recognize at least a part of yourself ....

You should have considered a Boogaloo Sisters Swimsuit Calendar first .....

Any details, sidemen, date?

Anybody have a list of the vinyl issues? Mike Fitzgerald's site doesn't have one - hard to believe .... or let's compile one here: UPTOWN LP/CD listing: UP 27.01 Joe Thomas – Raw Meat UP 27.02 J.R. Monterose - Live In Albany UP 27.03 John W. Bubbles – Back on Broadway UP 27.04 unissued UP 27.05 unissued UP 27.06 J.R. Monterose & Tommy Flanagan ... and a little pleasure (CD: Reservoir 109) UP 27.07 Dicky Wells – Lonesome Road UP 27.08 Hod O'Brien – Bits and Pieces (Reservoir) UP 27.09 Allan Eager - Renaissance UP 27.10 unissued UP 27.11 Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia - To Tadd With Love UP 27.12 Joe Thomas / Jay McShann – Blowin‘ In From K.C. UP 27.13 Haywood Henry – The Gentle Monster UP 27.14 Frank Wess / Johnny Coles - Two At The Top UP 27.15 Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia - Look Stop Listen UP 27.16 Pepper Adams – Live at Fat Tuesday’s (CD: Reservoir 113) UP 27.17 Don Sickler - The Music of Kenny Dorham (CD: Reservoir 111) UP 27.18 Charlie Rouse - Social Call (CD: UPCD 27.50) UP 27.19 Budd Johnson / Phil Woods - The Old Dude and the Fundance Kid UP 27.20 Barry Harris - For The Moment (CD: UPCD 27.47) UP 27.21 Al Grey / Buddy Tate – Just Jazz (Reservoir) UP 27.22 unissued UP 27.23 Don Joseph - One of a kind UP 27.24 Peter Leitch – Exhilaration (Reservoir) UP 27.25 Maria Muldaur - Transblucency UP 27.26 Kenny Barron - Autumn In New York (CD: UPCD 27.41) UP 27.27 Claudio Roditi – Claudio (LP and CD) UP 27.28 Carl Fontana - The Great Fontana (LP and CD) UP 27.29 Tommy Flanagan - Nights at the Vanguard (LP and CD) UP 27.30 Freddie Redd - Lonely City (LP and CD) UP 27.31 Pepper Adams - The Adams Effect (LP and CD) UP 27.32 Jimmy Gourley – Salute To The Bandbox (LP) / Left Bank of New York (CD) UPCD 27.33 An Uptown Christmas UPCD 27.34 Charlie Rouse - Soul Mates UPCD 27.35 Chet Baker - Boston, 1954 UPCD 27.36 Charlie Parker - Montreal 1953 UPCD 27.37 Densil Pinnock - I Waited for You UPCD 27.38 Serge Chaloff - Boston 1950 UPCD 27.39 Don Sickler - Night Watch UPCD 27.40 Sonny Clark - Oakland 1955 UPCD 27.41 Kenny Barron - New York Attitude (+) UPCD 27.42 Charlie Parker - Boston 1952 UPCD 27.43 Jack Sheldon - Playing for Change UPCD 27.44 Dodo Marmarosa - Pittsburgh 1958 UPCD 27.45 Coleman Hawkins - Jamestown 1958 UPCD 27.46 Lee Wiley - Music of Manhattan, 1951 UPCD 27.47 Barry Harris - For the Moment (+) UPCD 27.48 Charles ‘Baron’ Mingus - West Coast 1945-49 UPCD 27.49 Allen Eager - In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee 1947-53 UPCD 27.50 Charlie Rouse / Red Rodney - Social Call (+) Issues from UPCD 27.33 were CD only releases. Bruyninckx lists an unissued Feddie Redd trio session recorded the day after the sessions for UP 27.30. (+) markes an expanded CD issue. Some titles are now owned by Reservoir. Please post or PM your additions, I'll edit them in.

My greatest finds probably were: - a mint copy of the Larry Young Mosaic in a second hand record store for the equivalent of $ 30 !!! (later on I found the Shearing and Freddie Redd sets there!) - A.K.Salim's Afro-Soul Drum Orgy on Prestige, very good LP, with Yusef Lateef, Johnny Coles and Pat Patrick, at a store in Rome - an original pressing of Randy Weston's Bakton LP - Johnny Griffin's lone Argo LP

Buy it! If I were to review it in downbeat, i'd give it four stars: ****, meaning "very good", and I'm very (!) critical .... The only thing I think that could have been "better", or different: I would have programmed it differently (I dig odd time signatures, love to play them, but would have opened the CD with a straight tune), and, playing some drums myself, I prefer a more colorful snare and fuller bass drum sound, it's a little dry for my taste. But this is all I have to critize. I store my new CDs in a tower beneath the system and listen to them for a while before I file them away, and the Boogaloo Sisters stayed there for weeks!! I mean, buy it, order a second copy for a friend, it's one of the best organ combo CDs I've heard in a while, with a lot of styles from funk to straightahead to pensive to experimental, has a great guest soloist, and excellent core members, it hits right in the middle between SOULIVE and the Larry GoldingsTrio, covers a lot of ground, please reserve me a copy of the follow-up ....