mikeweil

Okay that's the thread I had remembered but couldn't locate ... thanks for re-directing me. I think my time has come as far as Howlin' Wolf box sets is concerned ...

... or this ... But there's not that much - he should give us another, easier try. How about "floor"?

Relax, Keith, relax ....

I am afraid Chuck is right .... who will have the financial ressources and knowledgeable personnel once the Mosaic and comparable people retire? Hip-O-Select?

I should have taken the time to listen through the whole compilation - at least two more than I know ...

Amazon.it got me by reducing their price to € 33,77 - I now get a copy for € 40 incl. shipping ... They sell the Nat Cole set for € 30.70, by the way ... but this will have to wait until after Xmas.

Received an e-mail that there will be several volumes of hitherto unreleased recordings of Jim Hall's trio from Toronto in 1975 (one LP of this was on Horizon) on Artist Share - bassist Don Thompson found some tape boxes. There also will be a live CD of Hall current band with Greg Osby, Steve Laspina and Joey Baron.

C'mon - that's a drummer's stool she's sitting on, and Citroen is her name - a bit far-fetched ...

Send me your download link as soon as you have it, and I'll send Hot Ptah his discs. I counted on you!

JPC sells Miles Davis long boxes at bargain prices: ... for € 16,99 ... for € 22,99 ... for € 16,99

Big hat and modern furniture ...

In Noal Cohen's Gigi Gryce disco it reads like this: Date: November 20, 1958 Location: WNTA TV Studio, New York City Label: [television broadcast] Gerry Mulligan (ldr), Art Farmer (t), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Gigi Gryce (as), Gerry Mulligan (bar), Kenny Burrell (g), Jimmy Jones (p), Vinnie Burke (b), Barry Miles (d), Candido Camero de Guerra (cng) a. What Is This Thing Called Love - 12:02 (Cole Porter) Jazz Band (Eng.) LP 12": EB 418 — Miles Davis All Stars Live in 1958-59 Featuring John Coltrane (1990) Jazz Band (Eng.) CD: EBCD 2101-2 — Miles Davis All Stars Live in 1958-59 Featuring John Coltrane (1991) Acrobat CD: TVTA 4 — The Miles Davis All-Stars Featuring John Coltrane: Broadcast Sessions 1958-1959 (2008) This was part of an Art Ford's Jazz Party TV broadcast. Ford was the MC. The identities of the bassist and drummer are unconfirmed.

You will need two discs, as it will be about 100 minutes of music - we'll see you get them.

It's all "jazz" vocals, with two or so leaning to other genres bordering on jazz. Still waiting for two CDs to arrive here to add two more tracks. If I get them in time, there will be a sub-theme ...

I will post a download link in two weeks. I selected roughly 90 minutes of music, and made high quality MP3 transfers, now I have to settle for a track sequence .... Participants so far: king ubu, seeline, Noj, Bright Moment, Hot Ptah, jeffcrom, Pete C, Hardbopjazz

I think this will never be resolved. If all record producers were the likes of Nessa or Horwich or Cuscuna, there would be no need to discuss this. But that's not the way the recording business is run. If the owners of the respective rights would reissue the music in question at reasonable prices or just made available at all, again there would be no need to discuss this. But much of the music was never reissued by them. Remember Cuscuna had to close the West Coast Classics series because sales figures were too low? Of course the conditions he works under are different, but still ... It's a very small market we are talking about, it probably should be run differently, perhaps the way Nessa and Horwich do it, and no other way. But as long as there's the internet with its blogs and labels jumping at the lack of reissues in many fields of jazz, it won't be that way. I think many of those label owners, Pujol in partcular, really care about the music, others obviously don't. If moral issues are to be applied, then to everybody in the chain from production to distributors (!) to the end buyer. I for myself can live with burning in hell for a few hours for the CDs of doubtful provenance that I bought - I bought far more legal releases, and if they would have been available in every case where I really wanted the music, I wouldn't have touched them boots. I really can't be angry at the European labels for jumping at the Fantasy catalogue now that so much was deleted after the label was sold. As long as there was the OJC series, they didn't have a chance, but now ... same for other labels. It's about profit - if there was any in sueing those labels for copyright violations, I bet it would happen. Since they do not, there's either no profit to be made or they simply do not care - now which alternative is the better one?

I have that WEA reissue - doesn't sound so great ... Only for non-drummers

That track at around 7:00 is from a Henry Franklin Black Jazz album with Oscar Brashear, right? Haven't listened to that one in ages ...

Since I started working in a transport service for handicapped people two years ago, I see irresponsible behavior every day - all ages, all social groups. Cell phones are a pest, in particular - business men driving expensive cars unable to buy a wireless transmission driving with one hand in difficult situations, because they are pressing their cellphone to an ear; kids stopping in the middle of the street 'cause their friend just told them something exciting over the cell phone .... I really pity that singer, but if reports are to be trusted, she crossed the street without really looking - that almost happened to me once, and I was lucky, but it was close. And even if you're watching out, it could be the others being unattentive. Swinging Swede is absolutely right with his statement ... R.I.P. Daniela, I just ordered your CD and hope it makes you smile whereever you are right now ...

BFT 92 spinning ... # 1 - reminds on the Manny Albam sessions from the mid-1950's ... all are competent soloists, but I find it hard to recognize anybody. # 2 - opens with a slightly flat tenor player. The writing that follows is very nice, but the overall intonation of the ensemble is awful - sorry, but after playing with oriental musicians in different tunings and listening to much baroque music in historical tunings, my ears are kind of over-sensitive to music that is simply out of tune, which is partly the case hear. I can't understand why the tenor soloist starts screaming, either. To me he and the sloppy intonation spoil the nice arrangement. # 3 - Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta? That brass section of four trombones was a trademark. The pianist could indeed be Palmieri. Excellent rhythm section that must have played together for a while. Who was that band's trombone soloist? Barry Rogers? Manny Oquendo on timbales? I never heard him play a solo on more than the usual two-pair timbale set, this here has him use four drums. Very earthy, hard-hitting drum solo style. I'd like to have that album ... # 4 - Violin in a rather sweet style. He's a little inaccurate, rhythmically, but that's very hard to do when bowing. Well he tries to swing hard ... but this is not my cup of tea. # 5 - Boogie woogie time! Nice stuff! I Like the way the drummer plays here, he's really with the piano player. Who is this? # 6 - Full-fledged swing big band with strings. Don't know who had strings in the band at that time ... a live recording with a very receptive audience. Nice. Yeah. # 7 - Sounds like a tune based on Honeysuckle Rose ... no idea again. I guess this includes some familiar names. # 8 - Strange tenor sound, strange intonation, to me he sounds like he's completely off the changes, even though the pianist gives him the most basic chordal accompaniment there is ... I don't know what to think of this. Sounds rather amateurish to me. Second half to come ...

... no interference with BFT 92 intended, of course - just now I'm listening to it myself.

Okay, it will be all vocals. Thanks for voting, poll closed ...

I dunno - I can't help thinking that they could have challenged each other a bit more. It's good, but a bit polite for my ears.