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Nuttree Quartet - Standards
2008 March 18 Release.
A modern supergroup of some of the hottest jazz players around releases their debut album led by the legendary John Abercrombie on Guitar with Gary Versace - Hammond B3 organ, Jerry Bergonzi - Tenor Sax and Adam Nussbaum - Drums. They are friends who have all played together before, but never all at once in the same group. Tracks are: Our Love Is Here To Stay, Come Sunday, Footprints, Sometime Ago, Witchcraft, Israel, Eronel, All Or Nothing At All, 12 Bars To Go and the Coltrane classic Naima.
Thanks for the heads up on this. Sound samples at amazon are intriguing
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The Hodges is a really solid set, plenty of blues. With Eldridge, Webster, Dickenson, and so forth, it's hard to go wrong. Now that this is going oop, perhaps a Hodges/Wild Bill Davis set?
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listed at cduniverse. apologies if these reissues have already been mentioned--a quick search didn't turn up anything. Street date 3/18
Paul Desmond--Bridge Over Troubled Water
George Benson--I got a woman and some blues
JImmy Smith--Live at the Village Gate
Oscar Peterson--Plays Count Basie
Kenny Burrell--Night At the Vanguard
Bill Evans-Plays the theme from the V.I.P.S. and other songs
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Thanks Chris--very eloquent and touching!
edited to clarify I'm referring to post #23!
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I still listen to other kinds of music, but I'm finding that there's a wealth of jazz that I've listened to but never completely heard. And that's an exciting thing for me
same here
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I've been listening to jazz, intently, for about 12 years and find that the diversity of the music is wide enough that it satisfies almost all of my listening needs--causal, intellectual, emotional, combination of those needs etc.... The range of the music, Johnny Dodds to Eric Dolphy, Condon to Coltrane, and so forth is astonishing. I mostly listen to rock only when I'm feeling nostalgic for my youth.
I especially get energized for the music when I can hear it live but, unfortunately, live jazz outside of large metropolitan areas is increasingly rare.
Even after 12 years, the universe of jazz recordings still seems infinite, there's so much I still want to hear. I wonder if I'll ever reach a point where there's nothing left that I want to buy/discover in the music. Kinda doubt it
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I recently purchased the 'Aftermath' CD and thought I'd bump this thread up....if the 'Reflections' CD is half as good, it's a winner. Great compositions and powerful playing on 'Aftermath'.
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I believe this list is complete:
I need to pick up more of these before they inevitably begin drifting out of print. How's the Michael White, that's one I've been wondering about? And Al Grey (glad to see you mention it Lon)?
So far, my favorites are the Billy Mitchell, Getz (Cool Sounds), and Lateef (Psychiemotus)
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I've ordered many times from Newbury Comics.
CDs used to arrive in 2-4 days.
The last 2 times I've ordered it's taken much longer. My present order is currently 12 days old & still not here.
I e-mailed & so far have not received an answer.
Comments??
This happened to me once. Turns out the item wasn't in stock and my money was refunded. THe problem was quickly resolved, but it took awhile for them to identify the problem.
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Just opened up Disc 4 of the Buddy DeFranco box.
I've had this set since 1990. Opened up Discs 2 and 3 in '92 and '02. I was talking with sjarrel about it the other day, and our conversation reminded me I still had one to go, so today is the day I checked it out and finished the box.
Years ago Cuscuna said in one of his catalogues that the DeFranco and the Shorty Rogers were his two worst-selling boxes. I bought both and enjoy them both. Maybe it's time to check out the next Rogers I haven't heard yet too!
I once e-mailed MC about a possible DeFranco Verve set. I didn't realize the earlier DeFranco set had been such a poor seller, makes my request seem kind of stupid in hindsight
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Some random thoughts:
--This is a nice swinging set from the Pablo years, featuring Milt Jackson and Joe Pass. Very well-recorded
--I've never warmed to the Impulse small group set, or some of the other Basie stuff from the later in that decade.
-- From the 50s, I really love anything featuring Lockjaw Davis
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I love this session, everything about it! The writing, Mobley, the wonderful Billy Higgins, and so on. I found it used a few years ago at a very good price (under ten bucks as I recall) at a record store in St. Louis. Actually I didn't know much about the session at the time and passed on it, came home and did a search on the O board, found the high praises, and then snapped it up. One of my personal favorites of all time, desert island for me
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I'm ordering the son, thanks for the feedback. Good to hear the music stands on its own. The association with the tv series--which is fun, I rented the DVDs a couple of years ago while on a Raymond Chandler kick--is a bonus. As is the cool cover.
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I need a west coast jazz fix (must be the subzero temps outside). Any love for these two Peter Gunn CDs? Does one session stand above the other? Sound samples sound enticing, but I've been a little hesitant about these in the past, thinking they might just be 'play the themes and collect the check' sessions. Cool covers.
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I just posted these on amazon--priced to sell, I hope. I know that using amazon is an indirect way to sell on this board, but I've never warmed to the paypal method and selling on amazon simplifies the international shipping stuff for me since there's just a flat rate. If you're interested, thanks for looking (i'm the low seller on each of these, I guess that's kind of obvious, but just to clarify). SInce I just listed these, my price might not show up on the front page, just click on 'used' and you'll find me (montgom159)
Jon Eardley Seven (oop) 4.99 SOLD
Red Norvo Music to listen by (oop) 4.99
Blue Mitchell Big 6 4.99 (Japanese import--but Fantasy remastering, I think) SOLD
Count Basie Jubilee Alternatives 6.99 (Hep records)
Benny Goodman Swings Again 9.99 (Sony France) oop, apparently
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They're not universally loved, but the Black Lion/1201/whatever 1963 dates from Montmartre show Byas playing very assertively and non-sentimentally, as does the 1961 Columbia date w/Bud Powell, A Tribute To Cannonball. There are those who find this phase of Byas' career less than satisfying, and I can see their point quite well. But still, the man was firing on all cylinders creatively and technically, and if he sometimes sounds as if he's trying a tad too hard to be "modern", it's still some hellaceous tenor playing nevertheless. I'd not be without it, just as I would not be without Byas' earlier work. Don Byas was BAAAAD!
Also in much the same vein, but on LP only, at least in the US, to the best of my knowledge, are Americans In Europe on Impulse!. which is rougly contiguous to the aforemetnioned Columbia date, and Verve's Jazz At The Philharmonic In Europe where Byas goes head-to-head with Coleman Hawkins & Stan Getz. The latter in particular exemplifies, neigh, veritably defines, the phrase "no bullshit"!
I picked up Tribute to Cannonball recently (used--it's oop)...thanks for the recs, this is an excellent session. I haven't listened to much Byas in the past, out of neglect, so this is a revelation to me. A wonderful strong tone, it comes through clearly in what, to my ears at least, is a really well-recorded session.
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The Atlantic material, particularly the trio session, is my favorite George Lewis. For me, George Lewis in large doses is a little overwhelming, but there are times when NOTHING else will do--he occupies a unique space.
Has anyone heard the Red Allen/George Lewis CD from AMerican Music?--it's one I've been curious about for awhile.
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Nice show, beautiful music. Lots of intensity, I can hear why Konitz would bristle at the suggestion his music is 'cool' in a lite sense. C'mon Mosaic!
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Red appeared at Newport in 1957 with Jack Teagarden, J.C. Higginbotham, and Kid Ory, and was recorded by Verve. It's criminal that this date has never made it to CD.
The two songs where Kid Ory joined Allen @ Newport are on the the Kid Ory Mosaic. And there may be another song or two from the concert on the Best of Newport '57 CD Verve released in 2007. Small consolation, I know. It's shame Granz didn't record Allen more in the 50s.
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Woody Herman, Blowin' Up a Storm: the Columbia Years 1945-47.
Very pleased to get hold of a used copy of this 2CD 40 track collection, which extends my coverage of this classic material from the 12 track LP (CBS Realm Jazz) which I've had since the 1960s, but doesn't go quite so far as the $119 7CD Mosaic box.
The sound on that Woody Herman set is excellent, imo. The Columbia engineers in the 40s left a nice legacy, for sure.
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Looking forward to this. The subject matter--Konitz/Verve--seems an obvious one for Mosaic, maybe we should start a lobby effort! I sent an e-mail about a year ago, I forget the exact reply but I received the impression it was under consideration.
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I'm reading 'The Imperfect Art' by Ted Gioia'. I found this point (below), from the chapter Neoclassicism in Jazz, to be interesting because it questions my implicit assumption of progress in jazz:
The idea that art should progress like science is a rather extraordinary one, no matter how much artists and critics alike may have come to take it for granted. By an odd set of circumstances, this belief in progress has gained force in the world of art while, at the same time, being discreditied in the world of science under the attacks of influential thinkers such as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. In the world of modern jazz, the deisre to be "progressive" continues to motivate an enourmous number of musicians and non-musicians.... It is hard to conceive of a pre World War II jazz artist displaying the same obsessive interest in being "progressive"; previous musicians such as Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington certainly experimented and evolved during their early years, but when they achieved techniques that worked for them, they were not hesitant to use them year after year, decade after decade. The beboppers...(discredited) their implicit notion that art should be an expression and not necessarily a progression.
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Billy Bang--Vietnam, the Aftermath
Americans in Europe (Impulse)
I hesitated in getting the Billy Bang, so many CDs seem to be going oop these days that I feel compelled (constrained?) to go after those first. But I've been intending to pick up the Billy Bang CD for awhile, I'm looking forward to it.
Bobby Hutcherson - Still At It
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