mikeweil

Will these be real mono grooves, requiring a mono stylus? If so, I'd be heavily tempted. But: Why didn't they include Coltrane Jazz and Coltrane's Sound, not to mention the My Favourite Things LP? No original mono mixes available? So no Equinox included in this box. I guess I need a single CD reissue as I, too, miss those few bars.

45 rpm time: The Nice: Brandenburger c/w Happy Freuds (Immediate) Cal Tjader, Savoy EPs XP8101 and 8117 with Hank Jones, Al McKibbon, Kenny Clarke or Richard Wyands, McKibbon, Roy Haynes Vido Musso Galaxy 45 with Cal Tjader: Cuttin' The Nut Don Patterson Prestige 45: People c/w Love Me With All Your Heart Cal Tjader Fantasy 45: Afro Blue (this is an unedited studio take different from the familiar live recording made at Carmel)

Spinning this right now - such a nice introductory riff he wrote! And they used Bach's string parts, too, and had a nice groove. This could have been my very first exposure to some of Bach's music - my mother loved classical music, had wanted to become a professional dancer in her teens and took piano lessons, but that was all rendered obsolete by the worsening living conditions under the Nazi regime - she was born in 1919. Everyday Sunday she played records of Beethoven or Schubert symphonies, but no Bach. I once bought her the Brandenburgs for a birthday present. Emmerson probably stirred my interest in this music. He was very influential - I remember playing an audition together with a drummer friend of mine for a keyboarder who was looking for people to form a new band, but it was just like Emerson - very bombastic rock. Oh well .... it's hard to grow old as a rock musician, and when you're getting health problems like he did - you should always know how and when to retire.

Right now Brilliant Classics releases more new recordings covering neglected areas of music than the majors. Licensing material for box sets is no longer the main part of their activity. Check their catalog: http://www.brilliantclassics.com/

What these companies do is bordering on box set obsession ... Mining their back catalog instead of supporting current artists.

Mine, too - I still must have the 45 of "Brandenburger" on some shelf. I liked the stuff he did with The Nice, but he lost me when he went bombastic with ELP. That band would have needed a better drummer, Carl Palmer never really understood the odd time rhythms of some pieces. Anyway, we lost another influential figure of our teen years - seems we're getting older .... R.I.P.

For an introduction to the music of Zoltán Kodály, a close friend and research fellow of Bartok, listen to his orchestral piece "Summer evening" (or something like that - beautiful music.

Thanks for posting - the perfect item for my wife's upcoming birthday party in April, found a new copy for € 19 from a German amazon seller.

It's a question of time for me, too - I simply cannot find the time to listen to two hours of music - all things considered, I'd vote for a 45 to sixty minutes playing time limit, like in the old days of LPs. maybe that would help. Or a bi-monthly test?

http://sunnysidezone.com/album/en-vie

I knew from the start this was an item to get, but what I just read makes me want to hit the button immediately! Ubu, you ordered from Catalonia? Details, please, for a European co-addict!

Got an original Verve mono copy from a Japanese seller in great condition - it reveals more detail than the stereo CD when played back with a mono cartridge! I really regret selling the mono pressings of some albums that I had ....

Schifrin did some great arranging and soloing for Bob Brookmeyer's Verve LP Samba Para Dos - it's on CD c/w Brookmeyer's Tombone Jazz Samba.

Just ordered a copy - must have overlooked this one.

I think every serious reading jazz fan has at least one of his books on the shelf, which is quite an accompishment. R.I.P.

I agree - I have the Prez box but would get the other two, now - was not so fond of jam sessions when they were first issued, but they're worth a closer look, of course. They could take care of some item from the Verve catalog that never were on CD, like some Tjader albums, or Gary McFarland's Profiles - there must be an hour of unreleased material from the latter's session, a full-fledged big band concert. Edit: This was an Impulse! LP. I'd also go for budget prcied versions of the Johnny Hodges Verve stuff.

Thanks for the good wishes, and for the nice pics, which I really enjoy this year, Mickey Mouse and all. Sorry for my late replay, but I caught some flu ... besides that, everything's fine over here.

I will find the time to edit all the links, I'm just too busy with other things right now.

Can she sing? Or scat? Or write vocalese lyrics? In French? Women imitating men's ways, that's only one side of the coin. I like the other side better. Jim always wants to have the last post, eh?

The price is now down to fifty bucks in Germany ...

I can do without boxing, but tap-dancing, yes. Remember all the other things included, that more or less killed people - jazz without this has to be different, of course. I'm glad she's there and connecting to this tradition, musically, in the first place - I can relate to that, as this was my way, too, decades ago, just listening to the records, fascinated - no idea about substance abuse, corrupt agents, racism, and was pretty disillusioned when I learned about all these things. Of course that's all part of the human condition, but I think it's the music that stays. She will get there, to what you're missing, Jim, in her own, different way, I'm sure. I'll definitely go see and hear her, when I get an opportunity. O course, I'm a scat nut, and since it's getting rare these days .... One afterthought: wasn't this "old" jazz culture a pretty much male dominated thing? Women dance, too, but differently.

They took one line, "Always Know", for titling the first Columbia Twofer LP release of vault material in the 1980's - wise choice. Monk always knew.

Give her a few years, she's still learning and practicing. Encourage her. Or go scatting yourselves! Those who are doing it always deserve a little bit more respect than those who are talking about it, IMHO. I wish her all the best. Name any other jazz singer her age attempting the same - most are trapped in the Norah Jones / Cassandra Wilson / Rebekka Bakken Bermuda triangle.

Why not? I can't think of a better training for a jazz vocalist. Exactly what Lennie Tristano and his school did when they gave Bird's solos to their vocal students to memorize. I think she does ist extremely well. It's hard to do, isn't it? Let's wait and see what she does in a couple of years. She's going to have ger first CD out on Sunnyside soon: http://sunnysidezone.com/album/en-vie - I just pre-ordered. This is right up my vocal jazz alley. Hope she tours in Germany soon. I love this kind of singing.

Yes, that's what I thought, too, after reading through the pages on that Joe Pass Discography site.