BillF

"It's All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 1947-57" on Night Lights from WFIU.

Re #1: I also heard Maynard echoes in the trumpeter, but thought the group had an East, rather than West Coast sound, which is where I would have expected Maynard to be in the mid-50s.

Less angelic, perhaps, but looking up

On a quick listen to your samples, it sounds like: Tracks 1-16 Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker Tracks 17-26 Lee Konitz & the Mulligan Quartet (with Baker) Tracks 27-32 Mulligan Meets Monk Tracks 33-38 Mulligan Meets Ben Webster A real treasure house for 2 euros! Allmusic and CD Universe's websites will help with the discographical details. If you get stuck, ask me again.

Happy Birthday, Peter, from another Scorp! Keep playing those great discs!

My first Parker album, bought in 1958, was on the London American label and looked like this, but with the white lettering coloured in. It was one of 5 vols. A friend bought another vol and we used to exchange them. In terms of young people's disposable income in those days, they were very expensive. I guess "The Immortal" was very much to the point, as he'd only been dead for three years at the time. I bought my first Dials in 1959 on a 10" LP on the French Guilde du Jazz label. The sound quality was terrible, which I believe remained the case till Tony Williams did his good work in the 70s. Cover and disc design were like this. Love the old piano player logo on the disc!

My first Parker album, bought in 1958, was on the London American label and looked like this, but with the white lettering coloured in. It was one of 5 vols. A friend bought another vol and we used to exchange them. In terms of young people's disposable income in those days, they were very expensive. I guess "The Immortal" was very much to the point, as he'd only been dead for three years at the time.

Very sad to hear that. I saw him play many times - with Tubby Hayes and with Phil Woods are the ones that stick in my mind.

The Savoys for nostalgic reasons, as they were the first I owned at the age of 18. But the Dials, particularly those recorded in California, are wonderful, too. The Verves are in third place, though I couldn't do without Bird and Diz and the "Now's the Time" and "Kim"/"Cosmic Rays" sessions.

The Kid and the Brute Brutus Julius Sneezer

Love that cover! Me too--I think the 10" covers are often underrated. Very true! http://www.birkajazz.com/archive/blueNote10inch.htm cool--thanks for the heads up on that. check this out: http://amodernist.blogspot.com/2011/09/john-hermansader-for-blue-note-records.html Yes indeed!

Edgar Rice Burroughs Mandy Rice Davies Randy Mice Davies

Joey DeFrancesco Cisco Kid

Jimmy Noone Lady Day I P Knightley

The Peter Zak Quintet at Small's on Friday May 10th 2010 Peter Zak (pno) Ryan Kisor (pno) Walt Weiskopf (tnr) Paul Gill (bs) Quincy Davis (dms) http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=2799

Have just added it to my rental list.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles Two Ton Tessie O'Shea James Light

Love that cover! Me too--I think the 10" covers are often underrated. Very true! http://www.birkajazz.com/archive/blueNote10inch.htm

Sittin' round the table

Cynthia Payne Lash LaRue

Tom

Love that cover!

I've had 50 years of listening to the Bird and Diz session and love it! I've always been happy with what Buddy's driving swing added to the session and it's pretty obvious to my ears that Bird, Diz and Monk felt the same. Fully fledged bopper Allen Eager never played better than on "Daily Double" with Buddy behind him in 1947.