mikeweil

Don't know what to make of this:

If you like Hays playing solo piano, you should check out this one, too: But I must admit I find his style a bit abstract to really enjoy it on records, I saw him live with Al Foster's quartet and his own trio and enjoyed him much more. My favourite is this Blue Note CD with great references to 1970's free style fusion and two great tenor saxophonists - Hays plays very nice Rhodes piano here: His contibutions to Bill Stewart's trio CDs with two keyboarders (Larry Goldings being the other one) are great!

There are some tracks with a choir on this Duke Pearson LP (also included in the Mosaic Select) - one track has Andy Bey singing with them : The Sweet Inspirations also were on some of Yusef Lateef's Atlantic LPs, to nice effect, methinks - haven't heard that Newman LP you mentioned.

Sounds like an ad for a new brand of condoms for people with allergic reactions to latex.

In case you like Latin Soul Jazz, try Mongo Santamaria's Soul Bag on Columbia - Laws plays that raunching tenor solo on Cold Sweat! Many seem to forget he is from Texas and was part of the group of musicians that decided to move to California and become the Jazz Crusaders - Laws didn't join them because he had just gotten his grant to study flute at Juillard in New York. He joined Mongo to finance his studies, and became one of the greatest players and writers in that mixed style fusing Cuban music, jazz, and R & B.

Same here!

Up - anybody listened to this?

Starting all over with disc one - Gus Johnson is a gas!

Yes, this is very nice. There's a fine instrumental version on Ronnie Foster's Two Headed Freap album:

Great! Please keep us informed ...

Sexy cleavage, too!

Oh - I didn't look at the exact date of birth - thanks, hans, for correcting.

She was one of the top bebop vibists until she married and stopped her national career - you can hear her on the aerly Shearing Quintet sessions on Savoy and MGM and a number of Woody Herman tracks. 92 years - quite a stretch. R.I.P. - will play some Hearing sides with her later this evening.

Hopefully they go back to the sessio tapes for these reissues of the LT series - those that I had sounded considerably better when remastered for Blue Connoisseur CDs and the like. Some of these contained leftovers from several sessions - the Japanese revive the scattered release patterns ... I'm glad that I have all of the music I'm interested in.

Now that Savoy Bopland box is the definitive edition of that performance - highly recommended. Can be filed side by side with JATP and the like, methinks.

This is the one that made me realize how good he actually was - he fits into the vocalese concept of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross like hand in glove, and at the same time swings and grooves like he always did with the Basie Band. I need more of him - was that Fantasy with Cannonbal on CD?

Sophia, at last!

Can't top brownie's card - joyeux anniversaire!

Grant Green plays on the whole session, i.e. the complete Brothers 4 and Donnybrook LPs, and Tune UP from the compilation LP issued after he left Prestige. Just take a look at my discography .... The complete session is on Prestige PRCD-24261-2 Sonny Stitt / Don Patterson - Brothers-4, btw.