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I'm going to leave this up here for another day then I'm going to move it over to the Hoffman forums to see if I can move more out over there. I have to get these off my shelves. I have CDs laying all over the place these days and it's got to stop.

I read some remarks about this release elsewhere and hadn’t heard it in a LONG time so decided to spin this Atlantic cd edition: Yes “Tormato”

The jam session with Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Ben Heller, Sid Weiss, and Jo Jones is from the November 16, 1938 Martin Block’s Make Believe Ballroom broadcast. To me this is the Holy Grail of the Savory Collection. The tunes included, “Tea for Two,” “After You’ve Gone,” and “I Know that You Know.” The last one has been available in rather poor sound. In the attached program you can hear, at the beginning, part of Young’s “After You’ve Gone” solo and then within the program all of “Tea for Two” and “I Know that You Know” are included and in great sound. Hope spring eternal that one day these will see a wider release.

One of the best Thiftstore-finds of today

Woke up early and couldn’t go back to sleep so I’ve decided to spin a disc after watching a little bit from the DVR on headphones.. I’ve chosen Charles Lloyd Trio “Ocean” on Blue Note cd. A good late night/early morning vibe. Sounding so good on the system as it warms up!

Thanks, Mike. So basically the history from 1959 onwards. So it would complement "Latin Jazz- The Perfect Combination" by Raûl Fernandez (about 70 to 80% of that book focus on the pre-1959 revolution era). "Cubano Beo Cubano Bop" by Leonardo Acosta also devotes more than 50% to the history of the pre-1959 period (which is fine with me, but at least to me it is marred by an awkward and overly stilted translation which makes reading a chore).

Yes, I know, but I wasn't discussing this so was confused. Thanks.

Those are the ones. IIRC there are no new songs with Christian but several unreleased performances. The jam session with Prez that was done for a radio show is terrific.

Wonder if these are the same tracks I listened to at the Harlem Jazz Museum back in 2006 - I particularly searched for Lester & Charlie material on their computer (and most of it was with the Benny Goodman band/small groups)

That's a very cute, romantic story; Yes, the Jazzland record is live material from 1948. The notes do not actually say where it was recorded. By the 1970s, when the "twofers" were appearing, Fantasy owned the catalogs of both Riverside/Jaazzland and Milestone, among others

Solo Monk is part of this set; the other cuts are solo piano from all of his other Columbia albums. There was a single sample disk, similar to Miles' Plugged Nickel:

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I also have this but have not listened to it lately. It seemed to me that´s a sampler of some remainders, I have heard that some of the stuff was on a sampler album titled "The Jazz Scene", at least that´s what an older musician (Allan Praskin) told me. The 1949 combo sessions, well somehow they sound half hearted. It´s the same group that shortly afterwards went to Paris for the first time (with Dorham, Haig, Potter and Roach), and what they played there is exiting. On the studio date nobody knows what was the reason to add Tommy Turk. Tommy Turk was a great technician on the trombone, but in general I miss the "message". The session with the vocals is fun, I like it "In The Still of the Night" and so on...... Since "My Ideal" is the "torch song" of me and the wonderful young Andreea Irina, who is my love since I noticed her when I had a gig in town and for coincidence we did "My Ideal" as a ballad feature, and SHE was in the audience, I spotted her, the most beautiful girl I ever seen, and you know the lyrics...."or will a pass her by and never even know that she´s my ideal"..... and after the first set I went straight to her and said "you see, I didn´t pass by, I recognize you, you are my ideal" and that it was. When I spinned this for her, sure he loved the voice of Earl Coleman, but she really soaked up Sonny Rollins´ solo. So deep that girl, so much music, I mean stunning beauty, youth, and in combination with outstanding musicality. My Ideal remains our torch song..... is the Tadd Dameron thing the live sessions in the Roost ? I have it, it´s great. But I also have an old Musidisc LP which has two features of Kenny Haggood doin´ "Pennies from Heaven" very slow, and "The Kitchenette Across the Hall" which I never could find as a standard, it has nice lyrics about a guy who falls in love with a girl that lives in the "Kitchenette Across the Hall". Maybe the tune and the lyrics is Tadd Dameron ? I think I have the double LP "Tadd Dameron Band 1948" on the Milestone label, which is strange, since Milestone for me was a label of the 70´s with artists like Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, former Blue Note Artists.....

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I like all kinds of modern art, that´s why I love to visit art galleries and by the way, you meet important persons. Here with Leo K., a good writer about culture, arts and music, it´s me bending down just to listen in deep concentration what he says me about me presenting my upcoming album in that location, we two brainstorming, me listening hard since.....you know hearing after decades of live music is a challenge 🤣 At the same art gallery, with famous writer Leo K., I was a bit scared I have just a spent look on this, but dig....it sometimes takes days until I find some sleep..... but the mind was bright ! Landed a place to prezent my new album and also landed a gig at another place, you just close circles where you can....

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I have listened to this also recently I don´t know this one, but I have one that´s called Solo Monk, the one with "Dinah" on it. I like to play "Dinah" too sometimes just for my own fun and the audience´s fun if I start a set or do a last encore without the other boys..... Anyway, about Monk: Just a few days ago I had a control visit for my bipolar disorder and the psych doc said I might slow down and I told him if I have that "trips" that go for some days with no sleep, it´s where I create music" and when he didn´t understand it, I told him to check everything he can find about Monk, maybe he will understand what I´m talkin bout and why I don´t want to "slow down" !

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More EKE: Disc 14

WHOA. I'm in.

Disc 1 Terrific!

The Treasury Department had a number of different war bond radio shows, like Treasury Star, Music for Millions, and such.

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Thanks for the tip. Preordered!