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Art Tatum from his Pablo Solo Masterpieces is the one that first got me and has always stuck with me.

I love how half of these audiophile companies sound like porn sites.

I think you're referring to Joseph Schillinger—The Schillinger System of Musical Composition. Kind of expensive and hard to find, but Gigi Gryce and John Coltrane found it handy... so did Glenn Miller, IIRC.

Yeah, for B3 this is a good one. It's on disc 3 of the Larry Young Mosaic. It's also on Grant Green's I Want to Hold Your Hand. Just looking through my itunes there are other versions caught on Mosaic sets: Anita O'Day's, Chet Baker with Russ Freeman's, Horace Parlan's, Max Roach's, and Maynard Ferguson's. Can't think of any notable takes of it on my vinyl off the top of my head...

Happy Birthday!

Just noticed this tour will stop in Berkeley in a week or so. I might check it out. Anybody plan on going wherever and whenever they are near to you too?

For the Tyler, forget Chuck's reissue cd, go for the LP in VG condition!! (sorry if the seller is a member here :rsmile: ) But in all seriousness, this is great news, and Chuck you can expect an order from me with some other items from your catalogue too soon!

Happy Birthday! Hope you're enjoying some Rollins.

The Snuggie!

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Donald Byrd & Gigi Cryce--Xtacy (Trip Jazz) Barry Harris, Charles Greenlee, Roy Brooks, and Vishnu Wood--Cadillac and Mack The Detroit Four (Eastworld Japan) Art Hodes with Raymond Burke, Pops Foster, Truck Parham, Barret Deems, Volly DeFaut, George Brunis, and Nap Trottier--Hodes' Art from the art hodes notebook (Delmark) Art Hodes with Milt Hinton--just the two of us (Muse) Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland--Concert in Argentina (Halcyon)

Ran Blake and Jaki Byard--Improvisations (Soul Note)

I also picked up this one today--another (unlikely?) Hubbard album, and playing it now: Count Basie--Kansas City 7 (Pablo) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, J.J. Johnson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Pass, John Heard, Jake Hanna

I just bought this LP today at the Streetlight Records here in Noe Valley, SF that is closing next month. Anyway, I'm listening now. Badass!

Television--Marquee Moon(Elektra/Asylum-Warner, German pressing) and now: Freddie Hubbard--The Hub of Hubbard (BASF MPS Stereo) in his memory

Herbie Hancock--Maiden Voyage (BN reissue--Classic Records) in the memory of Freddie Hubbard

I think I like his work best on Hancock's Maiden Voyage and Brooks' True Blue.

I was hoping for a recovery. RIP.

Me too. And I wasn't even a member here at the same time as him. But reading old topics with his posts can be not just entertaining but surprisingly enlightening. Edit: our membership coincided for a month it seems.

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Happy Holidays!!

Noal Cohen came out to introduce/moderate a pre-concert discussion with Teddy Charles back in early October, I believe. He did a good job and we have one mutual friend. I want to read this, b/c Gigi was not only a hell of a musician, but he caught hell starting his own publishing company and the powers that be, that famous non-instrumental group, tried to run him out of the business. Sadly, it seems they succeeded. As you'd expect from Michael Fitzgerald, it's a thorough straight-forward book. It has a full Gryce discography at the end. It covers the compositions and the publishing company struggle well. There are some revealing quotes from Horace Silver on that. Gryce's disappearance from professional music to become a teacher is a fascinating story. It mentions an intriguing third world suite called A.S.I.A. that has never been recorded--I'd love to hear that some day. All in all, an enjoyable read, and obviously a labor of love. If you can get used to the enormous block quotes, it is quite a story. I don't want to discredit this work because Michael is a former board member, and I have been guilty of an overabundance of block quotes in my writing so I understand the tendency, but some of the monster 4-page quotes in this book can be overwhelming. They could have easily been paraphrased or at least edited for their function. Did anyone else feel that way? Either way, definitely check it out. Gryce and his legacy deserve nothing better than the fine research that Cohen and Fitzgerald did. -Jay

I don't think Ira Sullivan has even been mentioned yet.

Great thread. I've noticed some of these (if not all) are available on Amazon for around $9 as MP3 downloads. I pretty much still never buy MP3 albums, but does that make the limited amount moot?

I've actually seen an album or two where Ray Charles plays alto sax--I believe for the entire album. I can't track down the info though right now. Edit to add that it was a tribute to Charlie Parker, iirc That's "Soul brothers", with Milt Jackson. Ray plays piano on most, if not all, tracks, but gets in some alto playing, too. And Milt gets in some piano playing, when Ray's on alto, and guitar playing. But they're both on their main instrument most of the time. But you've reminded me about Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz - Impulse Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz Live - Golden Age of Jazz Ray plays organ throughout these two albums. MG That's the one, yep. Oh, I didn't realize it wasn't the whole album. How are the Ray Charles organ albums? -Jay