mikeweil

Legal issues aside - how is that Sam Lazar ARGO LP?

I had similar thoughts after listening to it when the first Japanese reissue came out - the personnel had me expect much better music.

Sad news - although I never quite came to really liking his playing style, I appreciated how competent and tasteful and all he was. Great drummer, for sure. R.I.P., Joe ...

Type in Duke Ellington .... my own name becomes "while malice" ....

He's one of my favorurites in that respect - his recent records sound like he still uses the ride he had during his days with Miles.

My thoughts are with you. We had a small 3.5 quake here a few weeks ago, which is big for Germany, but 8.9 .... I sincerely hope they manage to keep the atomic plant in Fukushima under control.

Great article! I agree that discographies should be published online where they can be kept updated at any time.

Sorry - no .... but the reissue engieners probably made the best of it. I never liked RVGs sound on the CTI LPs - too much noise reduction, still a lot of hiss, very artificial instrument balance, drums too low in the mix, unpersonal bass pickup sound, uniform piano sound, hardly any natural room ambiance, you name it - for my ears, a low point in jazz audio engineering. You can hardly hear Cobham's cymbals - they probably mixed them down to avoid the high level of hiss on these tapes. The playing is very good, but the recording is ruined, IMO. Maybe the bad sound is the reason they left off this one from the first batch of CTI reissues many years ago?

Maybe Analogue Productions reissues them as a set of 45's ?

For me jazz is both the art of the soloist and the composer - it wouldn't exist without one or the other, just like classical musi wouldn't exist just as sheet music without a performer. At least I was always more interested in bands integrating both, like the Modern Jazz Quartet. I still can memorize most of John Lewis' solos from European Concert (disc one) or The Comedy, but also several solos by Wardell Gray or Lester Young and others put to words by Annie Ross, King Pleasure, or Jon Hendricks - e.g. Twisted, Jackie, Farmer's Market, Moody's Mood For Love etc.

Thanks - sounds interesting enough to give it a chance. Seems I will order a bunch of organ discs from CD Baby as soon as funds allow.

Thanks!

This is a tribute to Larry Young / Khalid Yasin's later Blue Note discs - didn't know Peterson was involved in this kind of thing. Has anybody here heard this? CD Baby

Fresh Sound released a twofer CD coupling The Blues Message with Curtis Amy and Burnin' with Jim Hall:

Can't wait ...

A good reed is hard to find ....

Just ordered a copy with the single - I need more Gene Ludwig!

Played this several times today - it's nice, but not more than that. I would like to hear a bit more punch and bite, it all sounds a little too much like a friendly evening jam after a day's work ... Rudy Van Gelder's engineering sounds too tame for me, to polite. The Herb Ellis CD I mentioned has a lot more punch and realism, just sound-wise. I'm very curious how Hamilton will sound live.

Listening to Across the Tracks right now - nice album. The groove reminds me of the album Melvin Rhyne made with Herb Ellis. I will get me Gene Ludwig's last recording as soon as funds allow ...

How about this one?

Happy B-Day, Pisces Brother!

Sad news - never got around to listen to some of his music. Any recommendations?

I'm going to see Scott Hamilton on the 13th of March - he's on tour with a German piano trio and passing through town. What other CDs would you recommend (I just ordered Across the tracks)?