blue-note-ojc

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND - GRANT GREEN - BLUE NOTE STREET OF DREAMS - GRANT GREEN - BLUE NOTE

To me, Monk is probably the easiest and most consistent. Benny Golson and Horace Silver I might have a shot at recognizing, but not nearly as consistently as Monk.

I can relate to the comments about this disc growing on you . I cannot reacall that I did not get too excited about this particular one when I first heard it. Maybe so, maybe not. However, I have found over the years that every Blue Note that I have purchased, I eventually was very glad I did, even if at the beginning I did not particularly think it was so hot. Those 50's and 60's Blue Notes that ALfred Lion did, and even some after his departure, were all first class. There was real music there. Listen to it carefully. Every time it seems you listen you hear more than the time before. I have never cared for avant garde, so in my case I cannot say the same for that. But then I never repeatedly listened to any of it like I have the staright ahead stuff.

DIZZY GILLESPIE - SONNY SIDE UP - VERVE CLIFFORD BROWN - CLIFFORD BROWN AND MAX ROACH - EMARCY (VERVE)

LAST WEEK JIMMY SMITH - ROCKIN' THE BOAT - BLUE NOTE

Freddie Roach - Good Move! - Blue Note Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones - Blue Note Not really today, yesterday. Tom

Can anyone tell me how the Lee Morgan tracks on this set are? I like Turrentine, but it is an otherwise unavailable (to my knowledge) Lee Morgan sideman deal that really interests me. Tom

I haven't played the CD yet, but watched the DVD twice the very night I got it. Well, I watched the whole DVD once and the interview twice. I loved the interview. Longer would have been better, but it was great seeing Rudy and Michael together. I was really interested by Rudy's staement that he wishes he could record Lee Morgan again. I wonder what the significance of that is. Why Lee and no one else being mentioned? More anecdotes from the recording sessions would have been good, but Rudy made it pretty clear that he was so busy with the technical side of the recording that he didn't really even hear the music as such. I doube if that would have left him much time to pay attention to the stories of the sessions that we might like to hear. However, I do not see how any serious student of Blue Note, or jazz from that era in general, could ever be without this. In my opinoin, Rudy Van Gelder is one of the most important men alive today in the history of jazz from that wonderful era. He was one of those who made it all happen. Tom

HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY

GENE AMMONS - BOSS TENOR - OJC

Could you tell me the name of the video with Wes, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb? I would sure like to get that. Tom

These were not all purchased today, but sine I last was on the site. Mostly I have been trying to get OJCs that I think may disappear with the sale of Fantasy. Cannonball Addereley - Paris 1960 The Summer of 55 Things are Getting Better Red Garland At the Prelude, Vol 1 Groovy All Mornin' Long Jimmy Heath On the Trail Dave Pike It's Time for Dave Pike Dexter Gordon Generations Tom

I voted for "Other" because my favorite Cannonball sets are those by the sextet with Yusef Lateef. IN NEW YORK, THE JAZZ WORKSHOP REVISITED, LUGANO 1963, DIZZY'S BUSINESS, NIPPON SOUL, and the Landmark IN EUROPE are the CDs that I am aware of. I have all but the last one. TO me this is the best group Cannonball ever led. I must also add that I saw that sextet live in 1963 as a teenager, and later the quintet a couple of times. The quintet was great, but the excitement of the three horn front line, the visual effect of that front line when playing the heads, and the ability to have two horns behind a soloist were perhaps the highlight of my live jazz experience. Tom

I know the above book did not get the best of reviews, but reduced from $25.00 to $4.98 may make it more interesting. Daedalus Books has it with catalog #42838. Their website is www.salebooks.com Phone is 1-800-395-2665. Tom

There were a lot that I enjoyed, but first would have to be Leonard Feather. I often learned something about the music when I read his notes. Tom