mikeweil

Is this 1996 CD still available, and is this a duo with drummer Randy Gelespie?

Manifestation and Reverend King are the only Coltrane not yet reissued in the US. Now only why???

I start to think there should be an individual thread for every jazz organist of note on this board!

Personally taught??? Wow!!! With that in mind it is hard to understand he isn't known any better! Are there any other CDs besides the Savant releases?

Too many options, I'm afraid ....

... and there won't be any Getz clones

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couw, you deserve a BN cover honorary designer degree!!!

I just got me Bill Heid's latest Savant CD da girl after recommendations by B3-er and others here, and suggest we feature this guy on his own. A GREAT organist. Young and Patterson, but quite a lot of his own. I second the statement every organ fan should have some of his, and this certainly is not the last one I bought. A great "sequel" to Unity, in a way.

I have this on tape and like it a lot. I'll give it a spin on my way to work later. Will get me this CD although it seems to be an expensive affair. Vick plays soprano on the title track. Willis recorded this piece with Blood, Sweat & Tears before, so the label hoped they would sell some copies for his reputation with that band. Nice mixture of hardbop and funk but not the ordinary way, his writing and playing here is much more like the stuff on Hugh Masekela's Blue Thumb double album. This and the BS&T are not available at the moment, AFAIK.

... then let's prepare for master class!

... some crash wouldn't let me post the cover the last time around:

Someone posted elsewhere on this board the twofer CD by Blue Moon has better sound than the Koch single CD. It's terrific, one of my two desert island bass clarinet albums.

I have her Mapleshade CD and like it! Afterglow

This certainly does not sound sound like Annie Ross or Betty Carter to me. Must have been some of the countless L.A. studio singers. The Aladdin and UA sessions King Pleasure did had Ann Onimous on 'em, too ...

Thanks from me too, for the great disk! Like in BT # 2 there was a track from an album I own I didn't recognize: this time it was Jack Wilson playing The Good Life (so much 'bout me naming any item from my collection .... ). I bought that one many years ago as a Japanese LP, but somehow it didn't catch my attention as much as the Jack Wilson / Roy Ayers collaborations, which I really love. That Wilson has many faces/facets, lots of chops, and sometimes I'm not quite sure wether he really has a clear identity of his own because of his chops. I remember he developped an amazing facility playing two keyboards simultaneously and recorded this for Discovery, but suffered some serious accident with brain damage and had to re-learn all over - and succeeded! But I haven't heard much about him since this. Ed Bickert - have an LP of his on P.M.Records and knew him as a great Desmond sideman, but as I said I'm not that good at guessing guitarists. Guaraldi was great, a real good jazz pianist. I cherish his trios with Eddie Duran and recommend them to all of you. That Hampton Hawes is one of the few MPS productions of US pianists I never heard. Don Schlitten produced a handful of LPs for them, is this one of them? Hawes was one of the really deep blues players among jazz pianists. That Louis Stewart track leaves me with mixed feelings - I dig the fluent and effortless way he negotiates those changes, but I prefer tracks with a little more arrangement than just a head-impro-head scheme - as great as the impros are, it gets a little monotonous for me. That Lalo Schifrin / Eddie Harris thing is one to get for me - Lalo was real funky for a South American, even more than Joao Donato! But the real surprise of the test for me is Larry Goldings on the Harry Allen track - he hits a lot harder here than I know of him as a pianist - or organist -, and I like it! I ordered that CD and will post my comments ASAP. BTW - who's up next ???

Hell Yeah!!!

Me too

As I understand there was a first issue with unedited versions. It should be possible to dub from an LP in decent condition .... There was another session for Pacific Jazz with Jim Hall, Red Mitchell and the legendary Red Kelly, A Modest Trio That's even rarer. Would be an excellent choice for another Pacific Jazz Connoisseur series.

I liked that Luis Gasca LP For those who chant very much back then, have it on tape somewhere. Not yet on CD AFAIK, but would buy it on the spot. Joe was very nice in latin or "exoctic" contexts, I liked him much better on these than on the "neobop" stuff he did, especially live, because there was a certain sameness on the surface.

That Jaspar In Paris (what a misleading title!) stuff is some of the most rewarding I know among his many albums. He excelled in the company of American musicians.

Wow, what a discussion! I can understand Jim's sentiments, this is against his working ethics, but I will point my thumb downward over Harry Allen only after listening to the whole album - I ordered a copy - or even better, after listening to several albums of his. From his AMG bio I can see that he seems to be a real tribute cat: Getz, Zoot, the Blakey Birdlands ... There is a thin line between being a tribute cat and a copycat. Can't say more without hearing more. At least we agree on the drummer, Jim. Duduka de Fonseca is one the most respected guys in his field, I have an excellent drum method on Brazilian rhythms he's written. I'll look for some recordings when I'm back home. p.s. my memory did not serve me right on the Dexter Gordon track - of course it is Cedar Walton and Palle Mikkelborg and not Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock, who are on other tracks ...

That's a great one!!! Pierre Sprey (the engineer) played the CD to Dwike Mitchell before issue, who said this was not Walter Davis but Monk playing through Walter Davis' hands ...

Always at your service ... My experience is that 1) striving for authenticity is very important 2) because on the way you learn what you can do or reach and what not 3) that helps in finding your own thing e.g. it was very important for me to study Mongo Santamaria's playing and trying to exactly play like him, I learned so much on the way and had to admit I couldn't do it. But it also gave me an idea of the directions I could take. In the end, the only authenticity possible is to be true to yourself. If that means trying to play exactly like someone else without any malice, it's okay with me ...