mikeweil

Just stepped over this while brosing through Eddie Harris listings at various web shops - who are the sidemen, and when was it recorded, please?

Was looking for thread about Eddie (Who?) and found this one while spinning a CD reissue of two of his VeeJay LPs, and this here amazes me: The way he jazzes up all these Henry Mancini tunes is great. As I have already stated here, I love his music, and in a way he still is underrated.

You think it was Freddie Waits since Roy Brooks played the musical saw, too, right? The liner notes say Waits played drums and recorder, and Reggie Workman was on bass and percussion. Since one of the basses lays out during the saw solo, and the sound of the bass tells you it is Jymie Meritt that plays on, it must be Workman. Could well be this was discussed here before, but I couldn't find when searching before opening this thread.

Bingo!

Jusz ordered a copy of this:

Happy Birthday!

Updating the OOP list never was a priority on the Mosaic website.

Enlarging the cover reveals you're right - but it's impossible to read the writing.

Will do so tomorrow!

It is a much more varied set than you might think due to the different approaches John Lewis applied to each studio album. Almost no repetition of tunes, which is totally the opposite with the live albums. But I can send you a list of the single CDs I have for sale now that I have the box ...

Disc 5 with Suite and the Fugues - the latter are excellent, the Suite was recorded a bit more convincingly by Christophe Rousset on his (long oop) CD for Harmonia mundi France - but this is the only minor problem I have with this fine effort.

This reissue of all of Arnett Cobb's Okeh sides is a limited edition of the Jazz Circle Basel and the only complete reissue of this material - it took me 30+ years to locate a copy!

Cedar Walton's two CDs for the Astor Place label - Composer & Roots

Let' see whether I can afford a set next month .....

How's this? I'm very curious about Marenzio (he was one of Dowland's influences), but never heard any of his music. Now playing this rare CD, took me several years to find a copy of this recording by the late Laura Alvini, played on a copy of a Gravicembalo col piano e forte that Bartolomeo Cristofori invented.

from the Clifford Brown EmArxcy box set

Roy Haynes?

Ambos Mondus is a nice Hutch album, but the mix is strange, as if the engineer had serious trouble with the jazz drums and the Cuban percussion. Eddie Marshall should have known his busy use of the bass drum would would muddle up the rhythm section. He didn't change his playing a bit for the session, but it doesn't work when you view the congas and timbales just as add-ons. Take Montara as a contrast, where everybody involved knew what to do! I like Ambos Mundos, but would have preferred a different drummer. Yesterday's listening in the car: This morning: Caramba's title track is an admitted take-off of Eddie Harris' Listen Here, but fails to generate the same level of groove and excitement, despite the presence of Harris associates Cedar Walton and Billy Hggins. So, back to the real thing. Eddie Harris' Atlantic albums are an indispensable part of my jazz upbringing in the 1970's, more than Coltrane. I think he was great. The new remaster of Silver Cycles sounds terrific!

There are two more recent Japanese CD reissues (TOCJ-6700 and TYCJ-81075), but i have no idea which mix they use. Everybody on the board owning one of them, please check and report!

Great article! Thanks for linking.