mikeweil

Keep honkin', Jim!

By public demand, here's the disco again. Please pm me if anything is missing. Disco Don Patterson.pdf

I sincerely hope there will be some more reading your c......omments than myself, they're a lot of fun to read! There will be some surprises, for sure. One cue: There are five(!) singers with two tracks each on these two discs .... 1-8 and 1-12 have been matched already. 1-2 and 2-10 is also the same singer, as are 1-3 and 2-6, and 2-7 and 2-12, and 2-8 and 2-11... hehe .... Oh, and the singer of 2-9 is female ... It was her first recording, but she was 38 at the time.

You've got good ears - it is the same singer! Second singer guessed ... Just my thoughts ... Thanks for the interesting comments!

You can still join in, I have new download links if anyone is interested. So far only one singer has been guessed, but beyond that I would really like to know what you think about them ...

No, it's not Adams. The player is one of my favorite guitar players and a very underrated, and under-recorded guy. What about the trumpet player?

How about the sidemen on that Lou Rawls track?

At least some of them have radio announcements, like the reconstructed take of Surrey.

So far nine different tracks have turned up on various Verve issues, recorded between June 22 and 29, 1965. Has it been confirmed Van Gelder engineered those sessions? If there are any more unreleased takes, they are certainly not usable. No Blues (Miles Davis) 12:52 If You Could See Me Now (Tadd Dameron) 8:21 Willow Weep For Me (Ann Ronell) 7:35 Impressions (John Coltrane) 5:03 Oh, You Crazy Moon (Jimmy Van Heusen) 5:19 Four On Six – live (Wes Montgomery) 9:30 Misty (Erroll Garner) 6:40 Portrait of Jennie (J. Russell Robinson) 2:45 The Surrey With The Fringe On Top - edited (Richard Rodgers) 5:18The Surrey With The Fringe On Top - reconstructed 6:12

Thanks for the warning - I'll never walk into a hotel in Cologne.

C'mon folks - there are two more very well known singers on this compilation besides Lou Rawls (that was the giveaway track) - and even with two trackseach! It's not all about identifying them, but about what you think of the different singing sytles.

My best wishes, too ...

Yes she is. She was on Stanley Clarke's standards trio set a few years ago and to me, the best player of the three.

IIRC Windows media Player couldn't identify all of the tracks - so how about commenting on those? ... and even if you couldn't control yourselves, you still could comment?

Thanks for the reminder! I always tend to forget that one 'cause it's hidden in the box ... I buy some Xmas album I never heard before each year - this time it was Anita Baker's Christmas Fantasy, and it is magnificent!

There's still time to join in - send me a pm or send it to jeffcrom, and you will get download links.

Yes, it's mostly McLean's intonation that puts me off - whenever his pitch is okay I can enjoy his playing. I think this and the piano was what made me sell that CD.

PM sent!

Still one of my favourite trumpet players ... I have to admit the two albums with MacLean are the only ones I didn't really like, but for McLean, not for Dorham ...

I have no idea, and after having a listen to the Kelly Trio tracks in a local shop, I decided to pass this one - nice but not overwhelming.

Hi fellow jazz addicts, I sent out PM's with the download links for two discs: disc 1 - 12 tracks running 63:47 - disc 2 has 14 tracks running 56 minutes... all vocals ... Hardbopjazz informed me that track info still is displayed when he plays them - if so, please ignore them and fight your curiosity. I'm rather curious about your comments. Nothing spectacular, just a few favorites and some that I think are underrated or have been overlooked. Enjoy!

Okay, I sent PMs with download links for the first disc - more to come within the next 24 hours. I will open a discussion thread. Glad I kept my wife's old computers with a solidly working Windows 98 system - on it the software I am accustomed with works fine, I ripped the tracks without any track info and was able to adjust volume levels of some tracks. Phew!

Aren't the overdubbed tracks the same as on "Willow Weep for Me"? That one was on CD in the LPR series. You're right! I didn't know that LPR existed ... This double CD, BTW, has (almost) all the Half Note tracks with (disc 1) and without Wes (disc 2) in one package ... Disc 1: 1. No Blues 2. If You Could See Me Now 3. Willow Weep for Me 4. Impressions 5. Portrait of Jenny 6. The Surrey With the Fringe On Top 7. Oh You Crazy Moon 8. Four On Six * 9. Misty Disc 2: 1. Blues On Purpose 2. If You Could See Me Now 3. Somebody's Blues 4. Another Blues 5. Old Folks 6. Milestones * this is a 9:20 live version issued on the Impressions twofer CD, but not included in the box set it seems! OTOH the version of Surrey included is the 5:16 edited one ...

Same here - just at this moment I do the compilation all over again on my wife's old machine which has the software I am familiar with that allows me to overwrite all track info while ripping the tracks. I think I can upload the first part in a few hours when I'm back from work or during a break. Sorry again for the unconvenience ...

No newly issued items - every track in this set has been released in some form. The four Half Note tracks with overdubs are on CDfor the first time, if I'm not mistaken. But all the alternates and tunes not on the original LPs had been issued on posthumous releases and on some CD.