mikeweil

Check Michael Fitzgerald's site every day for a discographical update ... if he wrote that, that's the information he had. After listening, he will revise this entry.

I reckon these are one-to-one album replica without any bonus material?

There's a blog in German language: http://wesmontgomery.de/ I find his discographical meanderings typical German jazz enthusiast style, not very deep or thoroughly researched, but he posts some nice videos and photos, and even a link to a rare Wes live recording.

I see two albums with that title and different tracklists - can someone explain ... I'm glad I bought any of the JPJ Quartet LPs when I spotted one of them - a very underrated band, playing excellently and not simply a retro swing group, much more than that. These guys were playing! Same for any Hines Quartet recordings with Johnson.

Just had a listen - the sound Oliver Nelson gets from only four horns is amazing! Johnson's solos are enthusiastic - the themes are typical for a broadway show and a little superficial, but what these guys make out of it is very good music.

Which tracks are these? I thought all the tracks from Willow were live, some with and some without overdubs. Sorry Al, you're right and I was mistaken - all are from the Half Note, "Willow", "Misty" and "Crazy Moon" with overdubs. That LP also icluded the live take of "Four On Six" that's missing in the new box .

That Claude Hopkins and the Black & Blue sessions are on my wish list ...

I have that Clark Terry CD, will pull it out and play later today. I love Budd's playing, too - I was glad he was given appropriate credit in Ira Gitler's Swing To Bop - I do not expect every musician to record historically significant things each time he walks into a studio, but have the utmost respect for anybody who always delivers and never plays a bad note - Johnson was one of those who did. I have reached a point where I get any album with him I come across - he's always a pleasure to listen to, and had his own voice, which is as sweet as some of you report, but exuberant just as well. To me, he's one of those standing tall in the second row, right behind Hawk and Pres and the like. That Quincy Jones 4 CD set recently issued has good sound, and enough Johnson solos to justify a purchase - if you want to know exactly how many solos there are, you will have to wait until this evening.

In most cases when I ordered from Fresh Sound the discs arrived at my door no later than two days after their shipping in Spain. Great service.

Funny nobody mentioned "Monk's Music" or "Trane's Blues", or Sonny Side Up" ...

I had a Max Roach Quintet live from Italy or Switzerland - exciting band with Spaulding etc., but the endless solos drove me mad. Rollins guested with Max and his bassist - Jymie Merritt, IIRC, and played even longer ....

Seems I have to pick this up ....

Well, the printed name "Dana" is something visual, after all ...

Since this Bill Dana album matches the Vic Dana I posted in response to the Heino, I'd say the next poster has to match the Bill Dana cover Jim R posted ...

I see from your blog it's July, 2012 - can't wait!

Any news about the book? Is that July, 2011?

400 bucks? 76 discs?

But once they had established a mix, they kept it for the date, or did they mix from the multi-tracks tape after the session? Which year did they start that procedure?

When we removed my mother's household after her passing, an electrician friend examined an old fusebox in a small storage chamber. It was open on both ends. When he removed the cover, there were half a dozen mouse mummies inside. They had gone for the groceries in the chamber, and when my mother turned on the light to get something, they tried to hide inside that fuse box on the wall and electrocuted themselves. And she always wondered about tzhe strange smell inside the chamber and why the fuses melted so often ....

... and now, for most of us here:

Of course they had to use some mixing console when they used more than one mic. When you use only one mic, you go right into the tape recorder (maybe through some transforming or pre-amp unit), as every unit in between affects the sound. But by convention you call it mixing when you correct the balance of multiple channels after the fact - read the small print on the earliest Blue Note CDs where they proudly state that no mixing was required. When you do a live recording in mono with only one mic - which sometimes yields great results when the acoustics are good - you call it something like "air mix" ...

There was no "mix" - these dates were recorded directly to mono tape. They could have agreed beforehand about details of the mix, but not in the way modern multi-miking allows.