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February 10 Paolo Fresu - 1961 Met him with his 'Devil Quartet' in Göttingen November 6, 2009

Here are some of my favorite versions of "Invitation". And one more.

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… plus Retrieval https://www.challengerecords.com/catalogue/13/Retrieval

I play some guitar and I love jazz guitar the most, more than other guitar work in other genres. I also play some bass, and piano, and peformed as a drummer. I would love to have a piano here but have no space (as it would have to be a baby grand or a grand). . . so I play guitar more than any other instrument, and Tal Farlow's talent just astonishes me.

This is now sold. Thanks, trane123.

I just finished the 33&1/3 book "Donny Hathaway Live" by Emily J. Lordi, and it's hard to believe this was the only book written about this great pianist, vocalist, Composer of film music, songs, and I just learned from the book, a Piano Concerto! I just heard the concerto (sometimes called a symphony in the book)yesterday, and it's better than anything I've heard of the thankfully departing head of JALC director Chicken Marsalis. If Donny hadn't passed at 33 in 1979, he would've gotten my vote for music director at JALC, and maybe I would've gone to some of their concerts. He was a jazz pianist also, and was classically trained, so "Chicken" had nothing on him.

Haydn - String Quartets Op.54 - Aeolian Quartet

The front cover is cool too. Like he's channeling Lon Chaney.

Rhino Handmade and Hip-o Select did good work a couple decades ago,

Some moth thoughts about Stan and Holman. The practical problem for me with Kenton Items at that time was that some of his best & swinging recordings as New concepts.... / Modern Concepts / Plays the music of Russo & Holman a.o on the Capitol label were hard to get In Germany when I started collecting his band in the late 1960s. Holmans arranging was not Stans favorite kind so we have not much with the Kenton band itself. Great luck was -after he had parted with Capitol - founding his new label Creative World and reissueing nearly his com- plete Capitol issues (however not with the original covers) from a sales bureau from the Netherlands. The Bill Holman arrangements are my favorites because I have nearly every Holman Item under Bill's name. In addition to that Holman & Mel Lewis had a great collaboration with the WDR radio bigband from Cologne in the 1980s. The Radioband did not have a regular drummer at that time so very often Mel Lewis came over to Cologne to rehearsh and perform with Bill directing his suites and compositions which were tranmitteed via FM radio in 1a quality. Have recorded many of them and made my privat CDrs. The station had offered a 'radio recorder software' for interested listeners. Making copies for private use was officially allowed. Here are some cover prints with a foto which mada my late fried W. Weiss who hat visited every rehershal and shot fotos. This collaboration was extended to some other radiostations here in Germany Its not Kenton music per se however. https://up.picr.de/50570533rv.jpg https://up.picr.de/50570532mu.jpg

Siegfried Kessler was such a great pianist. I loved his playing from the first moment on. I heard him with Archie Shepp for example. It´s strange that sometimes I read or hear that music lovers even today call that "Avantgarde" or say it´s to heavy stuff for them. For me it isn´t even an "electric album"......well the keyboards, thats all. But it still has so much the old conception of theme-solos-theme and it is not much more advanced than "In a Silent Way". So it´s hard for me to follow those who tell me they find it "weird" or "far out" or who knows what. I had heard Miles in 1973 with Liebman, Reggie Lukas, Pete Cosey, Mike Henderson, Al Foster and Mtume, that was my first Miles, and I must admit when people told me to buy Bitches Brew cause it´s the first "electric album" of Miles, I was almost disapointed first....imagine, Aghartha, Dark Magus, Pangeea still were not even recorded !

Bill Heid - Dark Secrets (Savant) I love the back cover photo.

There were some good records on that label. I have this, and maybe a few others, I think one of Bird in Washington, Bud Powell in Washington, and Dexter´s "American Classic", Woody Shaws "Master of the Art" Oh yeah I have this, and the Howard McGhee Vol. 1 too. But I must admit I spinned more the first half of the CD, the McGhee. I´m not so much a guitar fan and it´s a bit too focussed on the guitar....don´t misunderstand me, I like Kenny Burell, Grant Green, but they are mostly in settings with horns and with piano, I like that more.

“Howard McGhee Vol. 2” Blue Note cd, Connoisseur 10" Series. Also reissues the Tal Farlow Quartet Blue Note 10" session. Good stuff! 550×549 144 KB

They only did EMI-owned material, right? The did good work.

Definitely nothing wrong with cherrypicking when it comes to Kenton, but personally if I were to pare down to a single source, it would be the Holman-Russo charts Mosaic-- damn near all the information you need is on that.

Yes. Jerry Roche, the founder of Mighty Quinn Productions, worked at Mosaic for 13 years. He had the bad luck of diving into the CD reissue game right as the market was loosing steam.

Yes it is. Right now “Lester Young in Washington, D.C. Volume 1” Pablo/OJC cd 300×300 15.1 KB With the Bill Potts Trio, recorded at Olivia Davis’s Patio Lounge, Washington, D.C.; December 7, 1956. One of five volumes on cd from Pablo. Very well recorded and a whole lot of good late Pres.

Yes, those sections with the mostly orange-colored horizontal bars (such as at 2:00 and 3:00) are like those I remember seeing in that other online source.

Imo, this is Joe's best recorded version: But at the other end of the galaxy... Words!!! Jimmy Heath did a nice one on The Gap Sealer.

This is now pending sale.