mikeweil

Isn't there a Fresh Sound CD with the BOTC live material?

Yes, and Hank is only on four tracks! But there is plenty of Hank on the Milt Jackson Savoy sessions with Lucky Thompson, another fine collaboration of Lucky and Hank. Maybe the Trio date on Savoy was reissued under Kenny Clarke's name because he was the leader of that trio on live dates and more or less the chief of Savoy's house rhythm section. Daniel, you're right: that album listed on AMG is the one I'm talking about. I know there were some interesting Ragtime recreations on the Golden Crest label, similar to those on Angel. I found it! I did a search for all Golden Crest recordings in the CDROM version of Bruyninckx, and there it is (I used the older printed version the first time): Hank Jones, Barry Galbraith, Arnold Fishkind and Don Lamond, recorded January 31, 1958, on Golden Crest CR 3042 or S 5002. Do you need a track listing? Was recorded between the quartet with Bobby Jaspar for Savoy and "The Talented Touch" for Capitol.

Still waiting for the sisters to arrive, but the boogaloo brothers arrived here today to give my CD player a few spins. Fast delivery: Ordered on 3/8, shipment confirmed on 3/9 (Sunday!) arrived 3/14. Less than a week to get over the drink! I like it. First impression: Right in the middle between Soulive and the Larry Goldings Trio. Jazzier than the former, funkier than the latter. You guys take some chances, and succeed! Keep up the work. i want to give it a few lsitenings before I turn in a more detailed review, but accept my congratulations right away: very good debut record! (I miss a "thumbs up" among the smilies!)

I understand he is of Armenian descent, so it should be Moe-tseeun, but he said in an interview he takes it as a compliment if it rhymes with motion.

Me dummyhead sold the two Muse Lps before I held the 32Jazz reissue in my hands. It went oop before I could order it. Great stuff. Just looked up that GIGI LP in the Bruyninckx disco but couldn't find it, but I noticed there was a companion Hank Jones trio session cut at the same session as the direct cut with John Lewis I mentioned above. Was on CD as well. Must be great stuff, and very well recorded.

Well, the wierdest things I experienced was during my tenure with a 6-piece jazz-rock band in south-west Germany. Trombone, electric guitar & vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, electric bass, drums, percussion. We played a legendary disco/club in Heidelberg (perhaps you heard rumours 'bout this town) called the "Cave". A dark room 20 feet below the ground. The stage was the 7 x 15 feet steel plate used as the dancefloor on disco evenings. Six players on that small ground! The trombonist pulled out the slide between the heads of a couple in the front seats. It got even more crowded when three black guys from a befriended funk band sat in ... Strangely enough I played one of my best solos with that band on this particular evening, at the end of which the keyboarder almost broke his back when pulling the damn Rhodes up a tiny spiral staircase in the backroom exit. He swore he'd never play there again, not for a grand! We played some schoolkids disco a few weeks later where we were finished at 9.00 pm as the kids had to go home to catch their sleep before school the nest day. The place was on the first floor of some shopping mall with an escalator as the only way to move the equipment. Again, the Rhodes almost went downhill pulling the poor pianist with him .... I almost crashed an amp when I put it on the stairs and someone started the escalator without warning. One of the last gigs with that band was in a western saloon style country disco, where the late night routine included a fist fight of the owner with a guest. Well, at least payment was okay with that band. My lowest paid gig was with a 10 piece jazzband when one of the saxophonists caught the flu and they had to hire some pro who could sightread all that stuff. He asked for so much that the rest of us got 20 Deutschmarks a piece. But B-3er's mud story tops it all! I can see it as if it were a movie scene!

Yeah, that's a great one, and guess who was the engineer? And yes, a Zappa thread would be nice, I'll leave the honours to Young Buck to initiate it!

Of course I know Barbara Dennerlein, she's one of the most active jazz artists in Germany, has great chops, but I found her a little hyperactive when I heard her play with groups, playing uptempo with virtuosic solos in most numbers. Is there any album where she takes a little more time? If she could pace herself some more I think I could appreciate her playing a lot more. Anyway, I'll check out that solo album of hers.

I just praised the Savoy solo LP for his beautiful touch and the equally beautiful sound in the Audio Talk section. The Trio LP with Wendell Marshall and Kenny Clarke on Savoy is among my favourite, as is any date he and Klook played together, a great team, and kind of the Savoy house rhythm section with changig bassists, Marshall, Eddie Jones, Paul Chambers ... The duets with John Lewis are priceless. I have a Japanese direct cut LP they did for Toshiba in 1979, with some duets, trios and quartets, with George Duvivier and Shelly Manne, great stuff, well worth the search. I also recommend the RCA LP of the Donald Byrd - Gigi Gyce Jazz Lab Quintet, where he digs in with a lot more energy than usual, with excellent results. One of the most consistent jazz pianist of all time, and a great example on how to retain virtues of the swing era while opening up to modern developments! What's wrong about some ballads to open an album? I often feel like being pushed into a corner when it starts with a high energy number. I like if if one takes his time to pick the listener up at slow or medium tempo instead of having him jump onto a fast train at full speed!

James, the accents are both on the last syllable. Now I won't torture you with the correct pronunciation of my full first name, Michael, in German, as "ch" is a sibilant not that often used in English, as in machine, Mee'chu-ell (u as in "run", ell like the Spanish article). Thanks to a pm of a fellow boarder the tap dancer looks real sharp now ... B) ... he reminds of a German comedian/actor very popular in the 1960's, Heinz Erhardt, who's probably unknown outside of Germany. August 5, 2003 edit: This, of course, does not apply to the rotating girl at the side - I change my avatar every now and then.

I too think others did a better piano sound than RVG - have to admit he never was among my favourite engineers - but there are exceptions to the rule: Hank Jones' August 1956 solo piano sessions for Savoy "Have You Met Hank Jones?". Beautiful piano sound, helped of course by Hank's delicate touch, the liner says he thought this was one of the finest pianos he ever played. Can't understand why this was never reissued by Denon; I would have got me a copy the day it was out. To me, one of the best solo piano LPs in jazz history.

Agree: The Griffin LP "Change of Pace" was remastered by him and sounds very good. Very natural, and it was a very good recording for its time in the first place, like many other Riverside LPs. I recently bought and enjoyed Griffin's "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me", recorded by Wally Heider, another excellent recording job, and this was remastered by Phil DeLancie, another Fantasy regular doing a better job from CD to CD. Fantasy's remasterings may not be as "spectacular" sounding as the RVGs, but they come pretty close to a nice and mellow LP sound, which is good enough for me. At least they are not as overly bright as some recent Blue Note remasterings.

Try Marr-cee-ull Sou-lull, that comes closest. French isn't easy for you American folks . I once saw Carmell Jones with an Afro-Jazz Group very popular here in Germany at the time, Mombasa, founded and led by trombonist Lou Blackburn (another ex-Californian transplanted to Germany), and Lou always said Car-mell, with no recogizable accent on either syllable.

That would be a nice Mosaic Select set, eh? B-3er, have you heard her 1996 solo organ CD for French Verve, "Alone"? Very nice stuff. Was there any other jazz organist ever doing a whole record solo? I know of some single solo tracks on Don Patterson's LPs, but a whole album? What a challenge! And duos as well, I think she did it more often than all other organists, at least on record. By the way, has anybody heard the LP she did with the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Orchestra? How's this one?

A thread I miss right now is the one discussing the MJQ and John Lewis' and Milt Jackson's contributions, hassles and so on. Someone posted a nice list of four tracks with John Lewis soloing in different contexts to exemplify his status as a jazz soloist, among them "The Sextet of the Orchestra USA plays Kurt Weill" on RCA. Now that I've got me a copy on ebay and have it spinnin' I'd sure like to look up that thread and find out about the track he mentioned and all the other recommendations. Anybody saved this one? It's a shame all this is supposedly gone forever. They should let a voluntary team of ex-BNBBers go through it all and eliminate the crap and burn the rest on CD (here's a new Mosaic!) ...

I guess that thread started way before I came to BNBB, so I'm new to the game: Still alive? Phew! Marcus Belgrave? Bobby Bradford? Dupree Bolton? It's too bad I can't browse the BNBB for trumpeters any more ..

Here's what I just posted at the AAJ board: We could have seen it coming ..... maybe the Verve bug crept over there after they started collaborating ..... it'll never be the same. Let's take revenge and never go back! Let them starve at their new board - if they ever open it up - or at least hang there for a few weeks without a post - or let's all register as aric1, aric2 etc. and scare them ...

If we want Aric back - here - someone should send him an e-mail with a link. I hope he will swallow that bait ...

The only Blue Note 10" Lps not reissued as Connoisseur CDs or regular CDs were: - Urbie Green Septet - 5036 - best from the west: a musical blindfold test / Modern Music from California, Vol 1 + 2 - 5059 and 5060 Something says me the Green was on Japanese CD, the latter on a Fresh Sound LP. I'd rather see Mosaic Select editions of the individual works of some artists in the 10" era. There should be enough Jutta Hipp material recorded in Germany to fill a 3 CD set!

Don't forget Gil Mellé! Wasn't he the guy who hipped Alfred Lion to Rudy Van Gelder? I like the pictures of the old Hackensack studio in the booklet of the Herbie Nichols box set (the Blue Note slipcase edition). Looks pretty much like Ma 'n' Pa's living room.

Thanks for clearing that. Plas Johnson was the first I thought of, but I wanted to ask you guys, if only to establish this BB as the fastest information source ...

That's exactly what makes Thompson my all time favourite saxophonist!

That's an attitude keeping many small scale reissues on the shelf, I think. If they can't get a minimum out of it, they rather won't do it at all, even if someone else does the work. Perhaps just getting the tapes and cover art or whatever out of the vaults must be too much work in such a case. An irresponsible attitude, they don't care for the diehard fans that will keep them alive, in the long run. Too small a deal, ridiculous, just plain ridiculous!

Jim, I recently got me a copy of the Pink Panther (1963) to admire Al Schmitt's sound, but the liner says Jim Malloy! Did I confuse albums? And could you elaborate on what you dislike about the CD transfer? I bought the CD to at least have it until I manage to locate an LP copy.

Does anybody know who played the tenor sax solos on Hernry Mancini's 1964 Pink Panther album? As always, thanks in advance!