mikeweil

There are a few still awaiting proper reissue: A Drum Is A Woman Peer Gynt Suite Nutcracker Suite Suite Thursday Bal Masque Jazz at the Plaza Most of these were on French CDs, but all deserve the definitive treatment.

Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues At Carnegie Hall (the last Atlantic album not yet in my collection - used copies of the Master Recording vinyl reissue go for high prices, and I won't buy the odd Collectables pairing with Blakey/Monk; I hope the Warner Japan seroies will cover this) Duke Ellington on Columbia 1949-1952 (?) i.e. the period after Victor and before Capitol - would be nice to have it all in recording order.

The MJQ hat God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen and Variations on a Christmas Theme, probably more, slipped in on various albums. A whole album with Xmas music by them would have been a treat.

Allen, just PayPal-ed the amount you e-mailed - please make sure to sue the packstation adress. This will be too large for the mailbox at the door, and some packages obviously have disappeared earlier this year that stuck out the opening ... Thanks a lot, very much looking forward to listening.

Thanks for posting, Uli. Very, very nice .... what a great guy he was. I must have that album. Yeah! That belongs into every musician's early morning routine before picking up an instrument.

Happy Birthday, warm keys and everything.

Happy B-Day to our man from Texas!

Up - there are still some mysteries to be solved here. I am aware that people might be occupied with more important things at this time of the year, especially when I look at the US weather map ...

Really?! That's weird to even think about, would have made it a very different band, not bad, just different! It shows how open minded he was considered. Hall declined, I can't remember the reasons nor where I read about it. Could have been somewhere on this board. He definitely was the most progressive of his generation, even without going "out".

Keep in mind that Tony Williams asked him to join Lifetime before John McLaughlin got the gig ...

I never did see him perform, as I'm not that much a guitar fan (nevertheless I regularly end up playing with them), but I've always loved Jim Hall's playing, because it was not just guitaristic. Thanks for the music!

Wow .... Christopher Dell is known in Toronto. You're good! Well, the tune is by Bert Kaempfert. I think I have to be a little more exact with this band - it wasn't exactly West Coast, just based there for some months each year. The pianist was the leader.

oh no ..... one of the greatest jazz guitarists ever, IMHO. R.I.P.

Sent an e-mail about shipping to ole Germany ...

Okay, it's Tjader, but none of the other guys.

Okay, one more hint or two regarding # 10: it was recorded in 1953. Eddie Costa did one recording session with the same bandleader in 1960 (but only the most recent CD reissue has him in the credits). That bandleader, btw. is on another track of the disc - as I said, you know that band. And the guitar player of 1953, too ...

This is a great album - really much better than the LP with Bill Evans, as Steig really cut loose here. Bad thing is, it gets me interested in the Denny Zeitlin Mosaic Select ... My only complaint would be that discographical information could be a little more detailed, stating recording dates, which tracks were recorded at which date etc. It is only from Zeitlin's note that we learn that one take is now restored to unedited length and another is an unissued alternate. Jonathan, please make it easier for us discographers ....

Thanks, that's a helluva compliment! I'm afraid I wouldn't fare much better if I were on the other side of the bar ...

If I remember correctly Mosaic didn't do a Keynote box because of licensing problems - something that doesn't bother Fresh Sound Of course not ...

Sound varies widely on these Atlantic recordings - some of the early sessions from the 1950's were beautifully recorded, but at a low level, causing audible tape hiss. Some early stereo sessions are sonic disasters (as Michael Cuscuna named it at the occasion of the Atlantic MJQ box set on Mosaic). Each tape must be treated individually. However, a mint condition first generation mono LP, beats it all.

Okay, both of you identified Bags playing "Tenderly" - congrats. AFAIK, this is his only unaccompanied vibes solo ever. But # 3 is neither Mulgrew nor Steve Nelson. But Nelson is elsewhere on this compilation. Vibists are hard to identify, to a minor degree by their sound (mostly attack depending on their stroke characteristics and the mallets they use, and vibrato made by the revolving lids above the resonators), more by phrasing - but it's difficult.

Received the newly issued two CDs with the MJQ's Concert in Japan today. I will buy only those still missing in my collection. Well, I got European Concert as well, as the 32Jazz reissue was missing the announcements, which are very dear to me - I grew up with that LP. Sound is excellent, although I have the impression that they removed some of the cymbal brightness with the tape hiss (which is very audible on Atlantic recordings).

Well, in the case of Lester Young and other greats, the alternates are indispensable, but I could still keep my single CDs. Perhaps they will follow it up with a second alternates box? At least Fresh Sound did a box, contrary to Universal ... didn't Mosaic have that on their wish list, too? You can still get a Tristano CD with all 19 takes:

Geoffrey Keezer posted this on his facebook site - pretty amazing ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKUttYs5ow Jacob Collier is the name of this multi-talented kid.

Another hit! I thought that would be one of the hardest to guess in the compilation, but instead ... I too, thought the other track from the CD with # 17 was on Big Al's Christmas disc, but I can't locate it right now. But it certainly was a December BFT! # 10, BTW, was composed by the vibist on that track, but he wasn't the leader of the date.