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By the way, Flanagan later (1989) recorded another (longer) version of "Lament", on the great "Jazz Poet" album.

I have the MHS CD issue of the "Trinity" album by Tommy Flanagan, where it is listed as "Palarna". I thought that was the correct song title. Many thanks for posting this explanation. I find it fascinating how a song title can get so messed up. In any event, I find this recording to be quite beautiful. Bill, if you have a database or use iTunes or otherwise have some way to conveniently check your collection, I would recommend looking for other versions of J.J. Johnson's "Lament". It's one of the great jazz ballads. When JJ was a guest on Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz" show on NPR, she asked him if there was a sad or emotional story associated with his composing of the tune. I'm sure most of the listeners were expecting (like Marian) to find out that there was indeed some story behind it. JJ's answer was that there was not. Whether he was being open and honest or not, it's interesting. The tune kind of begs for a story to go along with it.

The evolution of these discographical errors is simultaneously aggravating and fascinating. Aggravating because it can cause you to waste a lot of time trying to figure out what's what, and fascinating because it will never cease to amaze me how careless people can be with such information. "Dalarna" (named for a Swedish province) is an actual tune written and recorded by Flanagan (originally on the 1957 "Overseas" sessions in Stockholm). The song also appears on the 1990's session "Sea Changes". I had three versions of this in my collection, all misspelled as "Delarna". It's also spelled that way on Roland Hanna's tribute to Flanagan, "Tributaries". So, apparently somebody not only carelessly misidentified JJ's classic ballad "Lament" for the Musical Heritage Society CD release of "Positive Intensity", but also mis-spelled the incorrect title incorrectly (as "Palarna"). Brilliant. As far as "Torment" is concerned... I don't know where that came from... "Lament" to "Torment?

Bill, I was trying not to openly identify the Davis and Flanagan tracks. I guess I'm kind of "old school" when it comes to BFT's. We used to try to keep the ID's sort of a secret until more people had a chance to post. The track from Afro Jaws has already been mentioned now. With regard to Flanagan's version of "Lament", it looks like an error occurred on the CD release (either that or there's a little-known alternate title for "Lament" that I was unaware of). I found this info at Michael Fitzgerald's discography page for the session: Date: October 18, 1976 Location: CBS Recording Studios, New York City Label: CBS Tommy Flanagan (ldr), Tommy Flanagan (p) a. b-05 Lament - 3:39 (J. J. Johnson) CBS/Sony LP 12": 25AP 447 — Positive Intensity (1977) Sony CD: 467692-2 — Positive Intensity b. Tenderly - 2:23 (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) c. Dalarna - 3:43 (Tommy Flanagan) Inner City LP 12": IC 1084 — Trinity (1980) All titles on: Musical Heritage Society CD: MHS 512684K — Trinity (1990) It is assumed that all these solo piano performances were from the same session. Raben gives this date for "Torment". On Inner City LP issue and MHS CD issue, "Dalarna" is listed as "Torment". On MHS CD issue, "Lament" is listed as "Palarna".

I'm about to get much busier than I am right now, so I took the opportunity to listen through it once tonight. Here are a few thoughts (much of this wasn't up my alley, as it turns out). 2. St. James Infirmary, circa 1940-ish? The opening sounded like Benny Goodman. Is that Jimmy Rushing on the vocal? Did Goodman ever record with Rushing? This one is probably a gimme for most people, but I've never spent a lot of time with the big band music of that era. I'm pretty sure it's Rushing, so I guess it may not be Goodman. Hm... 5. "You Belong To Me"? That's all I've got. 6. Well, no mistaking that that's Lockjaw… and a quick look at the track timing and the album I suspected it was from reveals… that I have this (Riverside) session. It's a session that I've listened to less frequently than many of his other recordings, but since it's Eddie, I'm keeping it. I've always been a fan of Eddie, who was one of the first great and distinctive instrumentalists I bonded with when I was discovering jazz. 12. tenor sax g?, b, d bossa-ish. Modern (guitar? using chorus and delay effects)… like the tune, not crazy about the solos or the effects. 13. Airegin. Opening is reminiscent of Supersax, but then it went somewhere more modern/recent. Not really something I would choose to listen to. 14. Lament. I'm not sure if I mentioned this in the "Most Beautiful Melodies Of All Time" thread, but it deserves to be in there (possibly at the head of the list). This sounds like Tommy Flanagan, and therefore I think I must own it, and… (checks files)… yes I do. Five stars. I'll try to check back in again later. Thanks, Bill.

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Just noticed this thread, and had not heard about this release. I've been using Macs exclusively since about 1990, and have loved every one of them, but I'm not really very interested in computer technology and keeping up with what's new. I guess I don't like change very much, and there have been OS upgrades where I was unhappy for awhile in terms of getting used to new software design, when I thought the previous one was wonderful. These days, I'm getting far more apprehensive about upgrades in general, after what I went through with iTunes 11.0 (installed it reflexively, then realized I hated it, and put in a TON of effort to uninstall it). I have a 2011 iMac running 10.6.8 (I can never remember which cat that is... the whole cat thing just confuses me). Generally using Chrome, sometimes Safari. Other than e-mail, TextEdit, and Preview, iTunes is about the only app that I use regularly. I'm currently quite happy with what I have (as usual). We recently upgraded our modem to xfinity's latest high-speed model, and I have experienced roughly zero improvement from the old (very old) one we were using. I rarely feel like my computers are running too slow. Anyway, I guess I'll consider this upgrade, but I'm not going to jump right in. Thanks for all the info... I'll be following this thread, and try to find some time to study the info at the above links.

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