BillF

That Fast Show clip is wonderful! And Geoge Crater! That takes me back! Didn't he have an album on Riverside called Out of My Head? The only other jazz parody to compare with these people must be Henry Jacobs' 1958 "Interview With Shorty Petterstein". Ghost of miles included it in his WCIU Night Lights show for Dec. 31 2005, which you can find archived by going to nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org/shows.

Great set of videos! Thanks, Larry! I think the last might be of the Tribute to Charlie Parker band which was part of the Paris Jazz Festival in 1964. (Probably they also played elsewhere in Europe during a tour.) Somewhere I have the brochure for the Paris Festival with the most mouth-watering selection of musicians imaginable - from Pee Wee Russell to George Russell, IIRC - but I haven't managed to unearth it. If I find it, I will certainly post it. Unfortunately, though, I didn't attend the festival. The brochure was given to me by a French friend who went, no doubt to demonstrate to me what I had missed!

John Coltrane Quartet, Coltrane (Impulse)

The above criticisms center on Pell in the 1950s and don't necessarily apply to the later performances which you and Larry Kart describe.

You're probably right. Although a committed West Coast jazz fan, I felt no impulse to go out and buy Pell albums after hearing those tracks on the radio. (I certainly didn't feel like that about Niehaus or Graas, who led similar-sized outfits.) Now I come to think of it, IIRC ghost of miles included the Pell tracks in his easy listening show, Afterglow, rather than in his jazz show,Night Lights, which fits with what you say. I've now found support from jazz writers for this view of Pell. Ted Gioia seems to find him hardly worthy of mention in West Coast Jazz, while Robert Gordon's brief references to Pell in Jazz West Coast are decidedly uncomplimentary: "little more than scaled-down big-band dance charts with slightly advanced harmonies, the sort of music that Dave Pell would later manufacture in a seemingly endless series of albums" "no doubt Fagerquist was largely ignored at the time because he laboured so often in the commercial vineyards of the Dave Pell Octet" "the innocuous series of recordings by the Dave Pell Octet have little to offer the serious jazz listener. (Dave Pell himself once termed his music 'mortgage-paying jazz')" Ouch!

The George Coleman Octet, Big George (Affinity)

You're probably right. Although a committed West Coast jazz fan, I felt no impulse to go out and buy Pell albums after hearing those tracks on the radio. (I certainly didn't feel like that about Niehaus or Graas, who led similar-sized outfits.) Now I come to think of it, IIRC ghost of miles included the Pell tracks in his easy listening show, Afterglow, rather than in his jazz show,Night Lights, which fits with what you say.

Eastern Rebellion (Timeless) With George Coleman, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins in 1975. Really inspired record!

Well, you can't go wrong with Giant Steps, can you? Especially for a fiver! Have you tried Manchester's Vinyl Exchange? Hundreds of used jazz CDs there, despite the store's name! (Welcome to the board, by the way.) Hello Bill, I've never bought jazz CDs at Vinyl Exchange - haven't been in there for years. I very rarely venture into Manchester these days, used to go about once a month when Decoy was still open. So Vinyl Exchange has a good selection then? Richard Yes, get in there before it closes! You know how it is with the record trade these days! Virgin, Decoy, Polar Bear - where are they now?

Did anyone hear Maynard during the period of this record? I heard him ten years later - in 1969 when he was resident for some time here in Manchester, having formed an alliance with local promoter, club owner and trumpeter, Ernie Garside. Maynard even set up a business manufacturing trumpets and mouthpieces during his stay here! He took over a twelve-man rehearsal band which Garside had formed and I saw them one evening at the Manchester Sports Guild. Maynard's showmanship was sensational and electrified the band, who played like men possessed! I believe they made several records, I think with nationally-known British jazzmen included.

Well, you can't go wrong with Giant Steps, can you? Especially for a fiver! Have you tried Manchester's Vinyl Exchange? Hundreds of used jazz CDs there, despite the store's name! (Welcome to the board, by the way.)

John Coltrane Quartet, Ballads (Impulse)

See my reply in the Lee Katzman thread. Many thanks!

As I said in the first post in this thread in 2004, I have this CD & like it. The other 5 tunes are: Bossa NoNo (Med Flory) Trentino (Pepper Adams) Body & Soul BeBop Love Song (Bill Holman) Embraceable You Thanks jhoots!

I've just received True Blue's catalog which includes Lee Katzman Meets Supersax: "Trumpeter Katzman is the main soloist and wrote 6 of the 11 tunes on this 1982 collaboration with Supersax." Anyone heard this one? What are the other 5 tunes? Can you recommend it?

Just received True Blue's catalog which includes Lee Katzman Meets Supersax: "Trumpeter Katzman is the main soloist and wrote 6 of the 11 tunes on this 1982 collaboration with Supersax." Anyone heard this one? What are the 5 other tunes? Can you recommend it?

George Coleman, Amsterdam After Dark (Timeless) With Hilton Ruiz, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins in 1978.

John Coltrane/Archie Shepp, New Thing at Newport (Impulse)

If you enjoy what used to be called "West Coast Jazz" (whichever coast it was on), you should try to find Dave Pell's Octet on RCA. Well, I do enjoy West Coast jazz, but don't have any Dave Pell in my collection. I think I've heard some octet tracks on the radio - on a ghost of miles WFIU show, IIRC. A bit of an unexplored area which I should look into. So I'll back Jazztropic's request for a recommendation.

Ah, Walter Norris! I haven't played any of his music in a long time. The first thing I ever heard by him was his Live at the Maybeck Recital Hall and I really liked it. I ended up buying several of his albums. He's got an interesting, analytical style to me, though I can't listen to it for long periods. Yes, and the amazing thing is that he was on piano for Ornette's jazz-history-changing record, Something Else!!!

Review in today's Guardian of a new album, Given Time, by the Clark Tracey Quartet which features "the dynamic young Brandon Allen on tenor". Gareth Williams is on piano and Arnie Somogyi on bass.

"Five Points" is the only bonus track on my OJC Intensity, manufactured in Germany.

Frank Rosolino Quintet, Frankly Speaking! (Affinity/Capitol) With Charlie Mariano, Walter Norris, Max Bennett and Stan Levey in 1955.

Great album!

I have thirteen Art Pepper albums in my collection, the latest recorded in 1960.