mikeweil

Many thanks to all who contributed to making me order this set - the band jumps and swings like mad, sound is terrific, and Hamp's vocals are completely unobtrusive. Great stuff. Anybody still in doubt should go for this.

Can you imagine "A Love Supreme" (the first part) without the fadeout? I bet this was Coltrane's decision.

My copies of the Ellington Small Groups and Hampton sets arrived today - so I enjoy the first disc of the Duke set on my recently acquired Focal Spirit Classic headphones - great music, great transfers, great listening - I won't regret it. These remasterings sound so much better than the French double LPs ....

We all are Charlie.

The finest Rivesaltes rouge I ever had - just opened a bottle of 2010 vintage.

IIRC Fantasy never reissued Contemporary or HiFiJazz albums inthe Acid Jazz series, only Prestige dates. But I agree they slept on this one.

RIP - will have to pull out some of the Monk records he plays on. I always had a hard time to decide whom I liked better with Frankie Dunlop, John Ore or Butch Warren. I think his time was a bit more solid than Warren's.

I bought that one immediately after the Fresh Sound vinyl reissue was out. Sounds great, too. Love it! Highly recommended for a slightly different organ trio experience.

"Schlagt" would be Viennese dialect - who knows what brain was behind that cover text ...

I listened to samples of the whole Empty Bed Blues album, and Baby Bay Blues is the only one with sax and piano. I bought a download of this track. The Lord disco suggests George Coleman, but it is a soprano, and besides the fact that Coleman never played soprano in those years, it doesn't sound like him. It's clearly Pony Poindexter. But who's the pianist?

I was able to listen to a sample of the track Paul suggested, and indeed there is a soprano sax audible sounding a lot like Pony Poindexter - CD copies of this album are easy to find. Thanks one more time - this was the last unresolved question in my discographical research on Poindexter.

Thanks all - very much appreciated. Lord lists Mercury MG20672/SR60672 with the following personnel: Josh White (vcl,g) acc by Jerome Richardson (ts,fl) Bobby Scott (p) Bill Lee (b) Sticks Evans (d) Victor Allende (cga) Beverly White (vcl) Lord has the Empty Bed Blues with George Coleman on some tracks, but the one with an unknown sax player, too - given the bad luck Pony often had in those years, this might be the one. I'd have to listen to it to identify Pony - maybe I can locate a copy. Thanks again.

In the latter case this forum might be responsible, at least in part.

I won't regret it, I'm sure. But thanks for your empathy - such are the worries of a jazz nut.

I'm crazy - let the Duke small groups follow. The shipping costs are about the same when I order both at once via UPS or separately via standard mail. Okay, that means no more CDs for the next four months.

I gave in and ordered the Hampton .... the Duke will follow by the end of the month. I cross my fingers. I would hate to miss it, but if it goes last chance I stll have enough funds to pull the trigger earlier.

Could this have been recorded for another label, not Columbia?

OMG ....

Thanks, a search in Lord yielded the same results.

Re: George Russell I think one fairs better with the two sets Fresh Sound has just issued: One 4 CD set with the 190-62 Decca and Riverside albums and one double CD with the 1956-60 Smalltet and Orchestra sessions for Decca and RCA including two tracks from a Columbia collection. A bit pricier than the real gone box but probably better in any respect. Since I have only three of the eight LPs involved an none of the bonus material this looks very tempting.

Never was much of a clarinet fan, but I really love his one album on bass clarinet with Blakey, Blues Bag. R.I.P.

Saxist Pony Poindexter states in his autobiography that he played on a Josh White session for Columbia, in the early 1960s, around the time he played with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Now I got a copy of Jon Hendricks' LP Fast Livin' Blues for Columbia, and he repeats the statement in the liners, and Hendricks tells he was inspired to the lyrics of his title song while attending the very same Josh White session. Lord or Bruynickx do not list anything like it - could this be unreleased, or does anybody know anything about this session? Thanks, as always.

All the dance and ballet teachers and choreographers I worked with basically memorized everything, just took sketches of spatial distribution of dancers, directions of movement etc. Labanotation is not suited for everything.

Will paypal some in January - until then, happy holidays!

Searched the web for more affordable McFarland and bought a few since my last post, and all were great or at least very nice: Soft Samba - McFarland had a genuine feeling for bossa nova, certainly much deeper than your average American jazz musician How to succeed in business without really trying - was lucky in finding a cheap used copy on amazon, great scores, highly individual approach to big band writing Soft Summer Breeze - a compilation of stuff from the mid-sixties includig the very rare Prestige 45 with Jobim. the trombone bossa album with Bob Brookmeyer - nice, but there is not enough variety in the rhythm section the album with Bill Evans - how much he makes of this small, unusual line-up, and what an original approach to vibes I will have to get more - but some is still not on CD, or out of print. Some questions: - how is the Tijuana album with Clark Terry? - what percentage of the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Box Set is McFarland arangements? Thanks, as always ...