mikeweil

Besides Don Ellis' Columbia LPs this was the one that helped me learn to count and play odd time signatures.

Okay, I could have asked Wiki rightaway: members. Thanks - that's a far more impressive list.

I'm curious who else was in the "Wrecking Crew" besides Hal Blaine, Glen Gampbell and Leon Russell ...

I'd buy this LP if I ever came across a copy ... looks like this session was the only ever recorded by a percussionist naming himself "Moncel".

Another attempt - does anybody happen to know where Mickey Tucker moved to - Australia or New Zealand? I remember I read somewhere he has a teaching job there. He should have a lead sheet ....

Yes, the woodwind and strings overdubs were mixed down, but they had Armen Halburian overdub some new percussion tracks on the title tune. The arrangements - by William Fisher were nice. It's a tasteful album. If they had done the CD reissue right, they would have released Daddy Bug in its originally issued form and added the version wothout overdubs as bonus tracks, including the one unissued track first released on Daddy Bug & Friends.On the CD issue of Virgo Vibes they added the unreleased tracks available and it came out nicely.

That puts it more accurately. me thinks ...

I have to announce my disagreement. The pairing is unfortunate, as most who might like jazz in the vein of Virgo Vibes probably won't appreciate Daddy Bug. Totally different albums. Daddy Bug would have been called a classic had it been released on CTI ...

Take your time, Jim!

Got this Gary McFarland LP for five Dollars on ebay: ... includes Jimmy Raney on guitar, Richie Kamuca on tenor, and Steve Swallow on bass - I'm quite curious how it sounds.

BTW - this was recorded in 1999!

Foné has the reputation of being Italy's No. 1 audiophile label, so the sound should be excellent. Minimal microphones, highest quality equipment, excellent sounding recording rooms etc. - I have a classical piano recording that sounds superb. I must have an article somewhere about the label.

I got me some more Shearing - seems I should have checked out his Capitol albums more thoroughly. This is a real classic. I never before heard a pianist so authentically merging his classical grounds with standard material and various jazz piano stylistics as personally as Shearing does on this album. I didn't get the idea when this was first released on CD and passed it on, but now ... Hearing influences of Tatum, Wilson and Waller side by side with Poulenc and Satie without getting the impression of an endless series of quotes, that's quite an achievement. This transcends categories and simply is great piano playing! Another classic - I'm deeply impressed. The way they render Everything Happens to Me is unreal! One nasty sidenote: They could have titled this album Black & Blind .....

That's the band I saw live last year - didn't blow my mind, I must admit.

Tyrone Washington's Roots is among them ...

Another book to add to the wish list ...

No idea - she was to jazz vocals what Steve Lacy was to jazz soprano sax - exile to Europe included. Maybe vocalists in a pure jazz vein are considered too hard to listen to?

There are three sessions with both Teddy Charles and Charles Mingus present that I compiled on one CDR - all in a similar mood. Date: January 6, 1955 Location: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ Label: Prestige Teddy Charles (ldr), J.R. Monterose (ts), Teddy Charles (vib), Charles Mingus (b), Jerry Segal (d) a. 680 Violetta - 3:37 (John Nielson) b. 681 Relaxo Abstracto - 5:23 (Teddy Charles) c. 682 Speak Low - 3:16 (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) d. 683 Jay Walkin' - 3:36 (J.R. Monterose) e. 684 The Night We Called It a Day - 2:41 (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) f. 685 I Can't Get Started - 7:10 (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) Date: July 8, 1955 Location: Audio-Video Recording Co., 730 Fifth Ave., NY Label: Debut Miles Davis (ldr), Miles Davis (t), Britt Woodman (tb), Teddy Charles (vib), Charles Mingus (b), Elvin Jones (d) a. Nature Boy - 6:12 (Eden Ahbez) / arr: Teddy Charles b. Alone Together - 7:13 (Arthur Schwartz, Harold Dietz) / arr: Charles Mingus c. There's No You - 8:01 (Hal Hopper, Tom Adair) / arr: Teddy Charles d. Easy Living - 5:02 (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) / arr: Teddy Charles Date: November 12, 1956 Location: NY Label: Atlantic Teddy Charles (ldr), Teddy Charles (vib), Hall Overton (p), Charles Mingus (b), Ed Shaughnessy (d) a. 2188 Laura - 5:00 (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) b. 2189 Unknown Title c. 2201 When Your Lover Has Gone - 2:27 (Einar A. Swan) d. 2202 Just One Of Those Things - 5:59 (Cole Porter) e. 2203 Blue Greens - 11:39 (Teddy Charles)

Seems you're right ....

Up - any idea where to get this?

It was released on LP on the German WERGO label - one of Meredith Monk's early albums was in the same series. I will have a look tomorrow whether I still have it ...

Clint Eastwood --> Old West Action Carlos Santana --> Carnal Sonatas

There was this 4 CD box, which is a nice overview, but far from complete - I didn't buy it, as there were too many of my favourites missing.

I'm looking for a lead sheet of the tune Pisces Brothers - Roy Brooks wrote it. I have it on Mickey Tucker's Muse LP The Crawl. When we took a break during our last rehearsal, we noticed that we are all Pisces - me being born on February 21, the saxist on February 24, the guitarist on March 7 - we must play that tune!

Took my wife to hear Scott Hamilton tonight. The German trio bakcing him was very competent, nice swinging and tasteful drummer, good balance without much amplification. But we left after the first half - there was something missing. He plays all those phrases we all know from the masters, he quotes quite a lot, which I usually like, but the whole music he plays sounds like a quote all the time, as if he played all those licks to get an idea of what the life and feeling of those jazz greats was all about. Among the tunes was Robbins' Nest, and back at home I played my wife Illinois Jacquet's 1959 version, and she immediately got the idea of what was missing. I dunno - am I beeing too critical? And yes, he frowned at his reed during eveyr other tune, and consumed a whole box of 'em, it seems ... Nice sidenote: I met an old aquaintance that I hadn't seen in years - back in 1980 our girlfriends lived two blocks apart, we had played a few sessions together. He's a saxist, spent about ten years in New York, his name is Chris Zimmer - any of the New Yorkers here every heard him?