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Buck Hill - Capital Hill (sic) (Muse)

Snooks Eaglin - Down Yonder (GNP Crescendo). Recorded at two sessions in 1977: Paul Secor's birthday and my birthday. Snooks had recorded R & B singles and blues albums to this point, but this was his first full-length New Orleans R & B album. Ellis Marsalis is on piano.

Modern Jazz Festival - This album is on Columbia's budget Harmony label, and I guess that division couldn't afford a proofreader. Gene Roland's name is spelled correctly in the back cover credits, but spelled "Rowland" on the front. Zoot Sims is credited with playing alto sax on "I Cover the Waterfront." (I know that he played alto at times, but he's definitely on tenor here.) And Joe Puma's "Give Me the Simple Life" allegedly has Tom Stewart on soprano sax and "Steve Lacey" on tenor horn.

Modern Jazz Festival (Harmony). A very interesting 1957 collection, on Columbia's budget label - the record is molded plastic, not pressed vinyl. There are tracks by Joe Puma (with a very young Steve Lacy), Randy Weston, Paul Quinichette, Zoot Sims, Tony Scott, The Jazz Modes, and Mat Mathews. Ralph Sutton - Piano Moods (Columbia 10")

Yes! Thanks for a great 100th BFT. I loved the range - from The Boswell Sisters to the Jazz Composers Orchestra. And now mikeweil owes me a beer. I'm not sure when I'll be able to collect, but I won't forget!

Happy birthday, rocker dude!

Lennie Niehaus - Vol. 1: The Quintets (Comtemporary mono)

African Highlife (Fontana). Another spin of this one, which I mentioned in the African Music thread.

Benny Goodman - Plays World Favorites in High-Fidelity (Westinghouse). A very good band BG assembled for the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair, with Roland Hanna, Zoot Sims, and Taft Jordan, among others.

Jack Montrose - Blues and Vanilla (RCA Victor mono)

Matt Kaminski, a fine jazz organist, is the Atlanta Braves' organist - he's not on that list.

Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside mono)

Teddy Edwards - Heart & Soul (Contemporary OJC). Gerry Wiggins is on organ rather than piano, and he's kind of overwhelming at times.

Prompted by some recent discussion, since I hadn't heard this one for awhile: Lee Konitz - Spirits (Milestone) I remembered it being good. I hadn't remembered that it was this good.

I agree - these are the best Dolphy-with-Hamilton tracks out there. I don't care too much for Chico's singing, though. Right now: Vernard Johnson - Live (Glori). One of Dr. Johnson's best.

Gary Burton - Tennessee Firebird (RCA Victor stereo). A strange one - Burton's group playing with Nashville country musicians - The Osborne Brothers, Charlie McCoy, Chet Atkins, etc.. Not everything works, but some tracks are very enjoyable.

New Albion issued what is perhaps my favorite Anthony Braxton solo album, which I'm listening to now:

So here we are ... Too cool!

I searched this thread out, two years later, as I was listening to Gator Tail. Just a reminder that The Magnificent Goldberg's posts are always interesting, but sometimes rise to the level of amazingly informative and essential. Quite the scholar, in his own way, is our MG.

Bill was one of the first people I "connected" with when I joined up here, so +1 on that sentiment.

Lester Young - Complete Studio Sessions on Verve: the sessions (on discs one and two) with Nessa's favorite pianist, John Lewis.

Don't know if this "counts," but I like record store stamps on old LPs. Last night I listened to a Senegalese album that was sold at "La Maison du Livre et du Disque" in Senegal. And every once in awhile, one of the Vee-Jay, Riverside, Prestige, or Blue Note albums I find in Atlanta record stores will have a stamp from what must have been the hippest record shop in town, the Music Inn on Hunter Street (now MLK Drive) in the West End.

Well, it's certainly been done before.

Not sure this will help but here is a note from Cuscuna that was stuck inside my box. Yes, I got a promo. Wow - thanks for that info. Now playing: Martial Solal - Vive la France! Vive le Jazz! Vive Solal! (Capitol stereo). A U.S. reissue of an excellent 1960 session, which presumably had a less ridiculous title on the original French album.

Anthony Braxton - Four Four Orchestras (Arista); side four. I enjoyed Braxton's For Trio so much this morning that I thought I'd give part of this another try, to see if my negative feelings had changed. Nope. It still seems random to me, and not random in a purposeful way, like some of Cage's music - just rambling and unfocused.