mikeweil

Probably easier to get a gig with Miles' name than with just his own.

Musically speaking, I would agree about Mitchell, but Baker had some strange kind of charisma that Mitchell had absolutely no idea about. And Baker was more or less an equal partner of three great individuals in a group (Cream), while Redding and Mitchell were perceived as Hendrix sidemen. What became of Mitchell after Hendrix, btw?

Head Man beat me to it ...

Just found out there was a Japanese CD reissue, I will order a copy ....

Received my copy today of the Dick Katz reissue, "Piano and Pen" - excellent sound, originally (by Tom Dowd) and the rmastering. But I hate the Japanese for their strict facsimile approach, they could have included the half album "Jazz Piano International" featuring Katz ... was that reissued as well? Katz plays so well on this session, Chuck Wayne, too ... no wonder John Lewis liked him. p.s. there was a Collectables twofer CD with the one I asked for, but what does it sound like?

I literally can hear Shearing in my head doing something like this - but I checked the Lord disco and my collection an couldn't find it.

Back in the days "Exotica" was the only term in use for this genre, methinks. One Tjader sideman told Duncan Reid (can't remember who it was) that they got a gig in Chicago because the club owner thought they were a Martin Denny type band - he probably had heard Black Orchid (the Fantasy version). No surprise this tune was revived for Several Shades of Jade.

We are the champions!

Holy pants!

There was a nice joke circulating in Germany just before the last semi final: A Dutch and a German meet, the Dutch says, "we will play against Argentina tonight. The German replies: "Nice, we will on Sunday."

That is very well said

That's a very special album .. will have to pull this out and spin it later today. Same goes for the other duets on Closeness. I think everybody here on the forum has some music with Charlie Haden playing in his collection that he really loves, and that is quite an achievement. R.I.P.

What was he smokin' when he listened? I mean, this is one of a handfull of Tjader tracks that can be taken as a piece of exotica, but stil ...

Well, no mention of the smaller jazz part of the VeeJay catalogue ...

The Lord disco, as useful as it is, brims with errors and inconsistencies of this type. It all depends on how careful you are when entering the data. One differening prefix letter in the order number of an album and you have another album in the database. Yes, bibliographers are more rigorous. That's why I started using BRIAN for my discographies, as it forces you to be as rigorous. The trouble starts with the term "discography", which refers to a disc, but it was introduced when there were only shellacs. In the course of history researchers had to face the fact that you have to return to the source where the music happened, the session, if you want to do it best. Imagine some music that was reissued in hundreds of formats, like a Miles Davis session. If you work album based, you have dozens of albums with redundant info. If working session based, it is much easier to oversee the whole situation. Look at http://jazzdiscography.com and you will get the idea.

When using the BRIAN database you would add a session footnote about it. Including album titles is optional as it is not a defining criterion for a session, especially with older material reissued in many differently compiled albums. With album based discography, however, you have a problem .... I would list both: title A / title B Things like this happen. While researching the Tjader disco I encountered one LP with different album titles on cover and label.

I'm seriously biased about Mwandishi and Crossings as these were among the albums that rocked my world back then ... desert island discs for me. I never heard a better fusion of electric and acoustic sounds, or funky grooves beyond cliché with free form jazz playing. I pre-ordered a copy from amazon.de

The advantage is that this box keeps the original albums intact - I'll get me one, as this always annoyed me about the Warner double CD. And Rhino's mastering will be better, I suppose.

Even if it's not that uncommon for a 84-year old to die, it still may be a shock. To me it was, especially as Duncan Reid had told me of their meetings.

R.I.P. - this comes as a shock. Tjader biographer Duncan Reid had made friends with him and met him frequently over the last years, he must been a very nice man. Surely a distinguished career, from west coast to India and back ... I remember listening to his Inside albums continuously, but to the dates with Tjader or his own fabulous quintet date on HiFiJazz just as well.

... or more ...

Make that four:

I agree: If I needed a very slow version, I'd take Gumpert.

Exactly.