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Thank you! Although, am I missing something or is there no individual Savoy/Denon disc that features the Tiny Grimes Quintet sides?

I only figured it out by using the translator. I got lucky. Hopefully it will be archived. The setlist was: Moto Grosso Feio N.E.W.S. Nature Boy MacArthur Park Who Needs Forever? Legend Antigua Universe The first five were arrangements written for Lee Morgan, but no one knows when he was supposed to play or record them. We may never know. The last 3 are related to Miles. Legend was played at UCLA in May 1967 by the Gary McFarland Orchestra. Neither Miles or Wayne played on it, as far as I can tell. Antigua was played by Miles and Gil at Berkeley in 1968. Universe was played by Wallace Roney, but he may have been the first. The conductor was saying these were all premieres, but not the last 3.

I had a hard time navigating that site. Maybe they'll post a link to a recording of the show?

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Great to hear and many thanks.

https://youtu.be/npH-DULg5lI?si=osrh0UItFESs0m-k

Let's not overthink this. Such as set would only need to be constructed by the individual user, pulled out of a "complete" set. Simple as that All of the richness of Bird with none of the "redundancy" of consecutive takes of the same tune. So buy a/some complete sets, then chop it/them up.. Win/win!!!!!

Monday Michiru “Introspection” Polydor cd single

Packed away, so much have to (quoting Jefferson Starship, 1978) find my way back to this album.

Playlist is all set up. I'll hold of on adding the code to the page until we get a little closer, and then I'll send you the link.

👍 Yes. This set sums it up for me. Spinning it right now.

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Jack Teagarden “Has Anyone Here Seen Jackson?” Jass cd Standard Transcriptions from 1941, 1942 and 1944

Interesting ... and apparently totally under everyone's radar with all that "Listening" talk about Prestige during recent months ... But ouch ... what a hefty price. I'm tempted but am very much on the fence, given how many Prestiges are on my shelves anyway and how many have been shown "for art's sake" in previous books such as "East Coasting" and "Jazzical Moods". We'll see ...

Sure, I'm going to imagine that he has been mentioned already in this thread, but I am going to espouse that Art is one of those great alto players that belong here.

Seems like I have the reissue you are referring to. Before listening in I'd have said (based on my strictly personal preferences) that I cannot see any real use for a harpsichord (beyond pure gimmickry) anywhere except with Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five. But you made me curious so I had a listen to tracks 9 and 10 first. I agree that Ben Webster pulls it off any time, but I do not find that thing that sounds like an amplified harpsichord here (unusual ...) all that disturbing. Not necessary but not all that unpleasant. However, please note my (and maybe "our") stance on the use of the harpsichord in jazz from that era is clearly a Euro-centric one as we have been treated to that baroque instrument elsewhere in jazz from the late 50s/early 60s (Horst Jankowski - note I am talking about his PRE-"Black Forest" days here! - or George Gruntz, for example). The harpsichord was easily resorted to by those who were out to "thirdstream" European jazz. So IMO the jazzier licks (at times almost organ-like) that come from the harpsichord here are OK and do not bother me. So ... just my 2c. Will listen closer to the "rest" later.