Ted O'Reilly

...and I'm with both of you. I've had the Swedish Phontastics on two CDs, and this would seem to be everything. I'm really enjoying this set.

I could be wrong, but I think ALL those Haden releases from the Montreal Jazz Festival are sourced from CBC tapings. It's just that they weren't all commercially available, but were broadcast. The source of this (probably bootleg) could very well be someone's air check recording. That would account for any extraneous hiss.

I scratched my bean about Hamilton: classical clarinet, gut-bucket tenor. Why?

Crisp, do you have a link for these?

Here he is: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marvin-holladay-mn0000859706 and the end of paragraph one may indicate that Pepper send him in as a sub...

I admit to total ignorance of the albums you auditioned. I have never had any interest in pop music since perhaps the onset of the Beatles (I know, I know...but I just don't care.) Given your setup, I'd like to hear what your reactions might be if the samples were perhaps Ellington, Bird, Miles (KOB has dozens of iterations!) or Wayne Shorter...

Well, that's a different Bill, of course... That's from the days when CBC had a wonderful outlook, not the 100%-Maple-Syrup-Beaver-Rocky-Mountains insular attitude it's taken on for mostly-political reasons in the last 20 years.

I believe that image is flipped. Trumpet looks backwards.

This looks lovely, but the shipping charges to Toronto are outrageous! $28.40 on a $24.98 purchase? Then, add in currency exchange? Uh-uh....

...and here in Toronto, we lost the veteran trombonist Laurie Bower on Tuesday. He was a strong mainstream jazz player, and in addition was a fine vocal arranger with his Laurie Bower Singers, a busy group a la the Anita Kerr singers...lots of pop success... http://www.discogs.com/artist/1513266-Laurie-Bower-Singers http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/laurie-bower-emc/

Has "vinyl" become the new word for "flat-spiral-recording"? The amoeba site seems to think so, referring to 78s as "vinyl". The samples sound pretty good, in a brief listening session. Here's a site I check out now and then: http://www.jazz-on-line.com/index.htm which offers mp3s free...

Don't know anything about Lorden, but he's a veteran sideman, spending a long, long time in Harry James' bands from the '40s through the '60s (mostly on alto), and then a few years in that Miller band under both McKinley and Buddy DeFranco. Lorden seems to be one of those eternal go-to fine musicians (all the reeds, some arranging) that are the backbone of the professional scene now long-gone.

...and, a lovely man. So too is Ron Carter. I recall seeing him act as a 'shepherd' for the baritone master Cecil Payne at the Bern Jazz Festival in the late '90s. Payne had very limited vision, but Carter danced attendance on him, showing great care and compassion.

It used to be Milt Hinton, I think...

If you're into the whole 'jazz puns on Christmas songs' thing, hie yourself on to http://wallacebass.com/?p=4462 and be prepared to laugh and groan and dig into your memory banks for song titles...

No "Skeleton In The Closet" from Louis Armstrong? It's the highlight of the film Jeepers Creepers...pure Halloween! The Decca recording's good, but try to get the version lifted from the movie.

You Tube does it again, twice: "This video is not available". In Canada, anyway....(But I have that disc, if only I could find it!)

I'm a fan. He had a good segment last week on the then-next-day Canadian election.

I remember that, too. And wondered "where is Part 1?", which of course there was, but... Also from the same session (as it turned out) was Turvey, Parts 1&2. No doubt put together as The Complete Topsy-Turvey by someone....

...and a Happy Birthday from me, too!

If I remember correctly, Columbia made this the last LP with Brubeck, and I had a 2-lp Canadian version (did CODA magazine's John Norris write the liners?) of this that was never US-released. In 1995, Columbia Legacy did it justice with a 'complete' 2 CD set. It's definitely among the best of Brubeck's live documents. Almost as good was the two-year later (1972) Berlin concert with that band and Paul Desmond added.

I'd say pretty much 100% the same material, and that any timing differences are whether or not the productions include applause times or not. I happen to really like that album (and that trio -- got to know Marty Morrell well after his Evans trio days) and especially the composition "Up With The Lark", which was a staple for the '70s group, but rarely played by other jazz artists. Also, if I recall, the concert was recorded by a Tokyo radio station for broadcast purposes, and taken up by Fantasy for release. There are a couple of extra tracks that never came out, I think: "Emily", "Who Can I Turn To" and "Waltz For Debby", all represented in the Fantasy (and other) vaults.

The Pres Mosaic will make the Young/Basie Mosaic (239) redundant, right?

Sad news... Woods was a wonderful player, and a most interesting, intelligent and articulate man.