mikeweil

I always wondered what this sounds like ....

1. Those Who Are About To Die, We Salute You JON HISEMAN'S COLOSSEUM 2. Love Potion BUDDY MILES, STEPHEN STILLS, JACK BRUCE, DALLAS TAYLOR, DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH, CHRIS MERCER 3. Under The Jasmine Tree MODERN JAZZ QUARTET 4. Mary Had A Little Lamb BUDDY GUY, JACK BRUCE, BUDDY MILES, DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH, CHRIS MERCER 5. Primitive Ohio ROLAND KIRK QUARTET 6. Checking On My Baby / Texas Blues BUDDY MILES, GLENN CAMPBELL, BUDDY GUY, STEVE HEARD, CHRIS MERCER 7. Visitor From Venus MODERN JAZZ QUARTET 8. Bad Hat GLENN CAMPBELL WITH THE MISUNDERSTOOD 9. Hoochie Coochie Man BUDDY GUY 10. Debut JON HISEMAN'S COLOSSEUM 11. Stormy Monday / Kansas City BUDDY GUY, ROLAND KIRK, JACK BRUCE, JIMMY HOPE, RON BURTON 12. I Say A Little Prayer ROLAND KIRK QUARTET 13. My Time After A While BUDDY GUY, JACK BRUCE, BUDDY MILES 14. Black Queen STEVE STILLS, BUDDY MILES, JACK BRUCE, DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH, CHRIS MERCER 15. Slate 27 ERIC CLAPTON, ROLAND KIRK, DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH, JACK BRUCE, JON HISEMAN, RON BURTON, VERNON MARTIN 16. End Jam ERIC CLAPTON, BUDDY GUY, STEVE STILLS, DUSTER BENNETT plus others...

I found these:

Might be, but the CD sound worse. Sounds like the available tapes were defective.

This afternoon:

The McCoy Tyner - Tender Moments is the one I would buy, given it sounds better than the CD reissues. I regret I sold my 1980's French LP reissue.

WAADTLAND MORGES Chasselas 2019 La Côte Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée Nice Swiss white wine from the Waadtland just north of Geneva.

Holy Soulidarity!

They even were recorded on two consecutive days! I think they were titled like that on purpose.

In bed before sleeping, on headphones:

Last evening: ... plus another CD where Jean Goverts plays Chopin on two different Érard and Streicher pianos: Frédéric Chopin Und Das Fortepiano Seiner Zeit Deutsche Harmonia mundo HM 833

Finally decided to complete my Keynote CDs - this was next-to-last, the Hawkins set is on the way.

When I hear this, I have to agree with you! That's a gorgeous little video!

Tito Rodriguez' band was every bit as good as Machito's or Tito Puente's. He had his own style, the groove his band gets is great. Whoever likes Machito from the late 1940's, will like Rodriguez from that time just as well.

Indeed. Saw him live after the ENJA CD Attack The Future was released, and he was as great a bass player as anybody from his generation.

Whoever likes Cal Tjader will like these too, probably. Most tracks with a vibes/piano/guitar front line, with a few Shearing touches, too. Larry Bunker on vibes, good percussionists. The latter was reissued in the RCA Tropical CD series like the first one.

Earlier today, discs 4 & 5

Sounds nice - I will get me a copy. They swing hard, and I really like McBride. To my taste, Jimmy Smith was dominating a bit too much on the Jimmy & Wes sessions.

When Tjader biographer S. Duncan Reid talked to Tjader's children about Verve reissues, they said they had inquired but the label wasn't interested. Only half of Tjader's Verve LPs were reissued on CD by the label, another two (In A Latin Bag & Saturday Night /Sunday Night At The Blackhawk) by Cherry Red in the UK. One only in Japan (The Prophet). Three (Warm Wave, Along Comes Cal, Hip Vibrations) never were on CD in complete form, only single tracks on compilations. Tjader was positive about Warm Wave. He would have loved to record an all ballad LP with the rhythm section, but that never materialized. If the session tapes are still there they could release the album with and without the overdubs on one CD, that would be close to fulfilling Cal's dream. That's a killer album! But I'm afraid the tapes are lost. There even is a film of this concert. Some snippets were on the McFarland documentary released a few years ago.

Indeed. But it helps the collector to identify tracks. Sometimes listening to the music is the only way to confirm a tune's identity. Just one example: Fantasy always listed "Squeeze Me", the Fats Waller tune. When asked for the tune, the musicians probably had answered "Just Squeeze Me" - which is an Ellington tune. They didn't get that "Just" was part of the title.