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Leroy Jenkins died on February 24, 2007, not in 2008. Edit: offensive remark removed.

Frank Morgan died on December 14, 2007, not in 2008.

Chris Anderson Pete Candoli Jimmy Cleveland Walt Dickerson Bob Florence Jimmy Giuffre Johnny Griffin Neal Hefti Prince Lasha Teo Macero Ronnie Mathews Jimmy McGriff Dave McKenna Phil Urso Gerald Wiggins John Young (the pianist) Lee Young (Lester's brother)

The question is who left us in the jazz community.

Agreed. If you suffer from insomnia, this is the perfect disc to help you on the way... I think you're both nuts. Why? Because it makes me yawn? To each their own...

Agreed. If you suffer from insomnia, this is the perfect disc to help you on the way...

"All About Rosie" appears on Bill Evans - Piano Player and on The Birth of the Third Stream, both Columbia CDs. Piano Player - AMG review The Birth of the Third Stream - AMG review

Sound samples (scroll down)

Not bad, but I prefer Bill Evans in trio settings.

Today would have been my mother's 102nd birthday.

Got to reluctantly agree with you there, for the most part... So do I. Don't forget Gene Quill, by the way...

I think it depends on who is playing that guitar and what the rock tone is. There's a lot of guitar players out there. Organ??? I prefer the sound of guitarists like Tal Farlow, Sal Salvador and the like. Rock-influenced guitar sounds in jazz make me run in the opposite direction Yep, organ. Funny, isn't it, on this forum...

Same here. There's some harmonica stuff on the Art Ensemble box Chuck put out and I didn't like it at all. You must be thinking of Roscoe's "sound" on Delmark. I did produce that session but think the harmonica sound last less than 20 seconds. U R a tuff crowd. If I remember correctly - but my memory could be playing tricks with me, it's not getting any better - there is some repeated harmonica on the Art Ensemble box. I don't have it anymore, so I can't check.

I fully agree. Forgot to mention them in my post above

Not to be too nosy, but if you aren't keen on jazz violin, why would you spring for the Stuff Smith Mosaic? A friend of mine, who co-owns a record/CD store here, got a used copy relatively cheaply and offered it to me. I listened to it several times, with the result mentioned earlier...

Same here. There's some harmonica stuff on the Art Ensemble box Chuck put out and I didn't like it at all. Not fond of violin in jazz either, though I don't mind Venuti's playing on the Lang/Venuti Mosaic and Grappelli's playing on the Reinhardt Mosaic. Stuff Smith, on the other hand... I really disliked his Mosaic. Guitar playing on jazz albums that sounds like rock guitar and organ in jazz aren't my cup of tea either.

Same here. I have the Japanese CD issue of In the Ver•na’cu•lar (TOCJ-6305, released in 1999), but I'd be interested in the other Roulettes as well.

I don't know where Jazzpizzi-Cat lives and I don't know much about law that's applicable to internet sites, but, putting aside any moral issues one might have, are you saying that the European and not the American copyright law applies to Europeans exchanging copies on a U.S.-based internet forum like this one? Isn't U.S. copyright law exclusively applicable to U.S.-based internet fora, no matter who are involved?

We're obviously mere mortals who need guidance... Both of you need to put aside your personal antipathy ( if you're able to do so ) and go back and read more carefully . (...) My insistence on reasoned discourse should only irritate those without the intellectual capital to meet the challenge . Nice tone, gentlemen, not condescending or intellectually superior at all What I meant was that I don't like to be told what to think or find.

You could have read the rules (see rule #6) before posting your request.

Maybe I'm really getting old, but a lack of inspiration or, as someone said to me a while ago, a certain indifference seems to be a problem with a lot of younger pianists these days, at least in the "iron repertory" as we say here (Beethoven, Mozart, etc.) Can't think of any names right now, but I've bought quite a few CDs by younger players and subsequently got rid of them because of it. They're often technically impeccable, but something seems to be missing from their playing.

We're obviously mere mortals who need guidance...

I've listened to a few sound samples of his interpretation of "Kunst der Fuge" and wasn't impressed. Could be that my crappy computer speakers are to blame, but I found his playing a tad "cold", technically impeccable but lacking in inspiration/feeling - hard to describe what exactly is missing. I'm looking forward to your opinion, Gökhan.

Has anybody heard Pierre-Laurent Aimard's interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Kunst der Fuge" ("The Art of Fugue"; BWV 1080) on DG? I've read some rave reviews in the Dutch and U.K. press, and I was wondering what people here think

The last time I visited them was at their Pentonville Road shop. I left with a suitcase full of LPs Must have been in the 1980s...