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👍'The Stolen Moment' is a classic!

Great site. Thanks for turning me on to a fine musician - only played half a dozen tracks so far but he has his own sound and phrasing - still a lot more to enjoy!

Allen - according to the current (7/31/2023) Wikipedia article on JR Monterose, Dave was with Buddy Rich during 1951/52? (nothing about recording, unfortunately). "... he (JR) joined the Buddy Rich big band in late 1951.[1] Though the band had some excellent bop-oriented musicians (Rich, Dave Schildkraut, Allen Eager and Philly Joe Jones), Monterose soon left, citing the lack of soloing opportunities ..."

Beautiful ...

Highly recommended - put together with intelligence, insight and love ... None one of the music is from major labels, most of it hard to find, interspersed with comments from those who were there - Bird himself, Howard McGhee, Milt Jackson, Roy porter, Teddy Edwards, Earl Coleman, Max ...

Fine disc - if you like Lester/ Bird tenors, Larry is probably the best out there.

My feeling about Monk was that he was actually fairly conservative as to who he let on the bandstand. If they could play well through his changes he was happy. - if not, particularly the freer players, he was not interested.

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Does Mosaic still own this?

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Agree with Larry - just listening to his solo on "Laconia" from Clifford Jordan's 1957 Blue Note "Cliff Craft" - just beautiful - swinging, inventive, musical. And there is so much more out there. He deserves a Mosaic.

👍 Still waiting eagerly for Vol. 2 😶

#8 "Places Please" from the Ralph Burns "Free Forms" Clef LP from 1951. Lee Konitz cuts through the schmaltz. Ray Brown and Jo Jones are surprisingly in the mix.

I believe a lot of this material (15 volumes) was released on Mosaic CAPITOL JAZZ SESSIONS 12-CD set,

Some of the best Hawk to be heard - plus Tommy Flanagan is there.

👍👍👍 Getz's 'Talk of the Town' solo is one of the greatest tenor solos I have heard, and I'm not even a Getz fan ... Diz great, of course.

Re #3, while the pianist sounds like Tristano, I think it unlikely to be him - the solos, although similar in style, seem to display a slight lack of surety/ confidence that Tristano never did - listen to his (LT) solos on the Capitol session, recorded in January 1949, for example. The pianist is probably one of his students of the time (late 40's early 50's), such as Lloyd Lifton or Sal Mosca. The same reasoning could be applied to the tenor, although I have no idea who else of the school apart from Marsh it could be. The trumpet could be early Don Ferrara - he was studying with LT from about 1947...

#3 shows a strong Tristano influence - the pianist sounds like Lennie and the tenor like Warne. Somebody should ask Lennie Popkin about this ... If it is a Tristano group, the trumpet could be Don Ferrara - I have never heard any early Ferrara, and this cat sounds early (but he's trying to say something) ... The tunes lack something - there were some European groups in the early 50's that sounded like this - but I doubt they recorded at Van Gelders...

Beautiful - thanks for that.

Nice band: The European tenor player (Povel) is news to me - anybody familiar with his work?

You can read James Harrod's sad story of Bud at The Haig here: https://jazzresearch.com/the-haig-part-three/ It is given further coverage in Peter Pullman's excellent "Wail: The Life of Bud Powell" from page 205~

Some incredible Lee here. Did this ever come out on CD?

The site is here: https://ethaniverson.com/interview-with-wayne-shorter/

Just reading an old ‘Do the Math’ interview Ethan Iverson did with Wayne Shorter (2015). Wayne talks briefly about appreciating the Tristano people (among others), and Ethan has added a brief excerpt from an unreleased session of Wayne soloing with the Johnny Eaton group (1956), playing “What is this Thing Called Love”. I had heard talk of Warne being an influence on Wayne, and never paid it any special heed, but here it sounds as if Wayne is almost channeling Warne in his solo, even including quotes from the melody of Lee’s “Subconscious Lee” (same changes). Wayne was obviously very familiar with the music of the Tristano people, and of Warne in particular. You can listen to the excerpt - it's about halfway through the interview – a fine solo …

Hi Erlinda, Merry Christmas to you and yours. He was a fine musician with a very individual style. It's too bad he isn't better known - but there's quite a few tracks out there on Youtube ...