mikeweil

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.

The package arrived here today. The LP is in very good condition, but: Patterson does not solo on This Can't Be Love. Lockjaw states the theme, at a rather fast tempo, plays the first solo, and is followed by a lengthy Paul Weeden guitar solo, in his usual edgy style. Then we get some nice fours with drummer Billy James. Nice track, but no Don Patterson solo. There is an unidentified string bass player on the track; if the track is from the Lockjaw session made November 13, 1962, it must be George Duvivier; curiously, Duvivier is credited for playing on the next track of the LP, From This Moment On, when it is in fact Wendell Marshall on the April 18, 1960 session - maybe another indication that the Patterson track is from the Lockjaw session, as are the supervision credits: Esmond Edwards and Ozzie Cadena - the latter supervised the Lockjaw session in question. Unortunately, the album credits do not include recording dates - this would spell any doubts. To me it is clear that this is the unissued track, not another version of Beano. I will see if I can digitize it - maybe next weekend. I am gradually entering the Patterson data into BRIAN to have a new revised disco ...

I have an online subscription of the Lord Disco. Thanks for the link!

I have a copy of Waiting Game on its way to me, Gary McFarland's arrangements made me even more curious about it.