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Yes, I know. But too expensively priced for me right now considering I have a lot of the music within already.

Bump.

Bump.

I've been wondering quite a bit about Coltrane as an artist who plans and records albums... In some cases he obviously did this, like A Love Supreme or Giant Steps... For things like the Prestige recordings or some of the Atlantic albums he clearly didn't .... With the majority of the Impulse material, the case is less clear but my feeling is that often he mainly wanted to document his art but that he did not really plan the step from sessions to albums... In which case compilations are fair game...

Men might rightly argue that Coltrane shouldn't be compiled this way because it doesn't do justice to his art. However, it was this CD I received for my 14th birthday that ultimately opened my ears to the later Coltrane period.

Yes Its worth!

😁 ❤️ nice program:

the session with Buddy DeFranco

Windows: Windham Hill 25 Years Of Piano Windham Hill Records ‎– 01934-11591-2 Sleeve,jewel case, liner and CD all Mint Touch: Windham Hill 25 Years Of Guitar Windham Hill Records – 01934-11592-2 Sleeve,jewel case, liner and CD all Mint $9 shipped U.S. each or both for $15

the Eldridge session 🥰

Last week's Elsbeth.

October 19 Eddie Daniels - 1941

Miles Davis Plays Jazz Classics (Prestige) An Hour with the Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)

I believe that the original release of this music was not on Argo but on Winley records, which otherwise focused almost entirely on doo-wop. Note that Paul Winley also took composer credit for House Warmin'!

A warm, windy morning. Slept in and Memphis wanted to sleep in as well. Started off with a box set I finally found at a decent price that I have wanted, disc 1 of 2, Clarke-Boland Big Band “Blowin’ the Cobwebs Out” I’ve had most of this music on LP and cd for decades, but I always wanted this compilation and am glad to have it now. Sounds great here as well. This band was truly outstanding–dynamic, vivid, chockful of great soloists and exciting arrangements. One day I’ll find a decently priced copy of the other Emanonn box set of this band, “Historically Speaking”. . . .

I have the Japanese CD release. The personnel besides Ammons and McGhee seem to be Jake Fisher (g), Barney Richmond (b), Willie Mashburn (ds), and Waco (bongos). There's no information available about the sidemen, but they were likely Chicago locals active in the Soul, R&B, or Blues scene. Since it was released on Argo under the name Howard McGhee & The Blazers, perhaps there was a plan to market it similarly to The Aces (and not really about Ammons & McGhee?)

Yes, this does make sense if his Prestige contract was maintained even during his prison sentence in the 60s.

Any way you slice it House Warmin' is a great record. I did in fact purchase s second copy once - the Nothin But Soul issue - at a record convention but it wasn't overpriced and as memory serves, I think it sounded better than my first copy, which was one of those black and white Argo reissues. As for why no Ammons mention it seems pretty obvious to me that he was a Prestige recording artist and this was Argo. Pretty sure that after he helped make Prestige such a successful label that Weinstock kept him as a contracted performer.

I didn't know there is another famous musician, Sam Rivers, though the name might not be as rare as Ella Speed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3z0pypnpro