mikeweil

I'm getting old, too, but obviously stayed young enough inside to appreciate this.

I have all of Tony's original CDs, but just ordered the Akiyoshi-Tabackin select.

p.s. The Lord Disco says it is - has anybody here heard this?

Now the Discovery reissue of the Jack Wilson Quartet featuring Roy Ayers. Great music.

One question: Is this the same Jack Wilson?

Spinning my 1992 Japanese LP copy right now - great album! Like this much better now than when I bought it, I'm glad I kept it. Howard Holzer recorded this in L.A., so it sounds more like a Contemporary LP. Wilson is on the forefront, his excellent accompanists get only a solo or two - Leroy Vinegar and Philly Joe Jones - the latter is recorded much better than on any Blue Note LP, IMO. There is no better way to get an idea of Wilson the pianist, very wide dynamic range, good chops, good spirits. I'd definitely recommend it. My LP sounds great, but I will get me the Wilson/Ayers reissue. As I stated elsewhere, a dream team - Ayers had the most beautiful vibes sound of all during those years, and his melodic style is a pefect match to Wilson's slightly flamboyant tendencies. In other words, another recommendation.

The Two Sides of Jack Wilson - Atlantic 1964, 1992 Japanese pressing

How is Pee Wee Russel on this album - I would buy it for him in the first place ...

Can anyone here give advice on the Freeman?

Happy Birthday, many happy returns,and thanks for the great work!

The disc arrived today, spininng it right now. Amazing stuff! If all film scores were that great ... thanks for pointing this out. MacFarland's music grows one me more and more. What a talent. The way he wrote the whole score around that one, beautiful melody ...

He was a great player and aranger - I first became aware of him in both roles on Cal Tjader's fine strings album, Last Night When We Were Young. Great ballad player, too. R.I.P.

Couldn't access the Filmscore Monthly site, but when I saw that amazon.de had a copy of The Eye of the Devil in stock, I hit the button. Thanks for pointing this out.

Jimmie Rowles - Shade & Light Ahead (a sub of Black & Blue), 1978 with George Duvivier and Oliver Jackson Surprise find in a local second hand LP shop - very tasty trio date with Jimmie singing in many tunes in his charming manner. Duvivier plays a gorgeous imitation of a bee humming around in "A Sleeping Bee". Whenever I see a Rowles disc I do not have, I buy it. I never was disappointed.

Yes it is! Here's another new release that's interesting in that context because Somis was Corelli's last student and the teacher of Leclair, Guignon und Guillemain and in general of great influence on the newly forming French violin school:

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre has not been mentioned so far - a contemporary of Francois Couperin, musiaclly on the same level. Got her violin sonatas a few weeks ago and was very much endeared by the music and Florence Malgoire's excellent playing.

I suggested many years ago on this board that those 4(?) LPs of the Konitz Nonet scattered over several labels would make a great Mosaic Select ...

No Greater Love : Joe Wilder (tp,flhrn) Seldon Powell (ts,fl-1) Bobby Tucker (p) James Chirillo (g) Milt Hinton (b) Sherman Ferguson (d) New York, August 3 & 4, 1993 Come on home Evening Star ES-103 [CD] There is no greater love (jw,bt,jc only) - Day dream (jw,bt duet) - It's easy to remember - Love me tender (jw,jc duet) - I've grown accustomed to her face (jw,bt,jc only) - Samba de Orfeu - That's all (jw,bt duet) - Harry Lulu - Prelude to a kiss (jw,bt,jc only) - The courtship (1) - God bless the child (jw,bt duet) - Thinking of lady - Dylan (jw,jc duet) -

Billy Byers did the string arrangements. Do you know the Hampton Hawes album with strings Byers arranged? This would give you an idea of what to expect. The focus clearly is on Wilson's piano playing, the strings are arrannged in a kind of dialogue with the piano. Very tasteful, IMHO, not schmaltzy, a swingin' rhythm section, and one of the better jazz with strings albums made - I searched for years until I got a used promo copy on ebay.

A great talent - every time I hear some of his music that I didn't know before I am amazed. The sheer quantity of his recordings is frightening, but its diversity... he could write very subtle and sophisticated stuff and make it sound like easy listening. http://dougpayne.com/gary1.htm

He was in a relaxed mood, technically in good shape, had two great, old buddies from the bop era with him - must have been some of his happiest moments during those years.

Can't add anything except that I love his wonderful sound and phrasing. R.I.P.

Same here ...