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Check out this one, if you can find it: Quote from here (1971 interview): "I’m known as a general percussionist. The only thing I don’t do is play sit-down drums too much any more; but I’m liable to start again, if I can get time to just get myself together with it for a few days, or weeks. So I play congas, tymps, and the whole family of percussion instruments." Steely Dan used him as a pianist on some tracks, too, IIRC.

Duh! The info in the liner notes is a little cryptic ....

The improvised closing cadenza of some Dizzy Gillespie solo (All the things you are?) became the main line of Tadd Dameron's If you could see me now.

The old Pablo boxes were using the mono masters. The liner notes in the Pablo solo box were not too elaborate. The music is so good you can enjoy it without much commentary.

That's one I really would like to have ...

What a coincidence - I had ordered the Birdland Broadcasts CD a few weeks ago and only today it arrived - great stuff. I was listening to Shearing only during the 500 km I had to drive today. There is a hilarious moment in the second broadcast when Shearing imitates a handful of famous pianists to real perfection, the last being Erroll Garner, after which the MC introduces him as "Erroll Garfinkle" ...

Julian Priester: Love, Love

The video has an earlier quintet with Don Elliott, Chuck Wayne, John Levy, and Denzil Best - there's more on YouTube.

Very sad news - R.I.P. I will take some of his records with on the long drive tomorrow - I was just thinking about what to take. p.s. Just spinned his MGM sessions with cal Tjader, Toots Thielemans, Al McKibbon and Bill Clark, plus several guest percussionists: Armando Peraza, Cándido Camero, Catalino Rolón (well Peraza was a regular). Great, diversified stuff - Shearing's MGM sides would deserve the Mosaic treatment.

Oh boy - he's still sooooo hip ..... he's looking at the trophy as if asking "Will this play my records"?

Yeah, they're all fine - but Total Eclipse has some special vibe - modern mysterious post-bop or whatever you may want to call it. Maybe it's pure nostalgia on my side - it was one of the first records I heard on AFN Europe when discovering jazz in the late 1960's ...

Here's a complete track list of the Mingus Hentoff set: 1 Folk Forms No.1 13:05 2 Original Faubus Fables 9:07 3 What Love 15:23 4 All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother 8:36 5 Stormy Weather 13:26 6 Melody From The Drums 9:18 7 Reincarnation Of A Lovebird No.1 9:17 8 Vasserlean 6:39 9 Mdm [monk, Duke & Mingus] 19:11 10 Bugs 8:29 11 Reincarnation Of A Lovebird No.2 6:58 12 Lock 'em Up 6:42 13 Cliff Walk 9:45* 14 T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 7:17* 15 Mysterious Blues 8:39 16 Body And Soul 13:49 17 Body And Soul [alternate Take] 10:48 18 R & R 11:51 19 Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 3:52 20 Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams [alternate Take] 3:54 21 Me And You 9:51 Looks like the extras are some Newport Rebels tracks (*). But those extras are not complete, as there was another (mono) take of the track with Abbey Lincoln (Nobody's Business) on the Candid Dolphy CD.

My thoughts too. Same here - that's probably my favourite album of his.

MC told me in an e-mail he decided to include Porgy and Bess as last album in the box as the following were more and more retrospect in their repertoire - that started with Jazz Dialogue, in his view. This decision was made before he learned about the few existing alternates. Besides that, 7 CDs is enough for a box set - after Jazz Dialogue there were the two LPs for Apple, Under the Jasmin Tree and Space, and then came their second period with Atlantic, which is another story. The Pablo albums were next and last and are covered in the Prestige/Pablo box. What's missing from the time span in the box besides Jazz Dialogue is some live material and the music for Odds Against Tomorrow which MC reissued on an OOP Blue Note CD - just the quartet versions, not the orchestral soundtrack. But both are available on some European reissue.

Thanks, Chuck!

Now which are the Gene Ammons LPs she play on?

After reading the posts above it must the Cal Massey LP on Candid. Has her only LP as a leader ever been reissued?

So your favorite date of hers is one on which she doesn't play ! Sorry - I was mistaken and noticed this only now ... I didn't have the LPs at hand and just remembered she was on one of the Candid LPs. Now which one is it? Her playing on the Quincy Jones sessions is so tasty I'd like to hear more of her ...

Hmm ... as far as I can see, there are but two bonus tracks: Close Your Eyes 02:07 and Blues From Free And Easy 2:00 - do they merit getting the single CD reissue as well?

Seems I will have to get me the Mosaic as well ...

The only Boland LPs from the MPS catalogue reissued in recent years have been these three on a double CD - highly recommended:

I rather spontaneously decided to put the discographical information on the Cal Tjader Blog - session based rather than album based, until the discography compiled with the BRIAN sofware will be complete. p.s. the link did not not work anymore. My blog seemingly was deleted - no wonder as I had not time to post anything there in years.

Got the box today - great stuff. Julius Watkins' soloing on Everybody's Blues alone is worth the price of admission. Budd Johnson ... what can you say. Highly recommended. This was a real band, and much better than the AMG review suggests. It's not really a box - just a cardboard slipcase with 4 slim cardboard LP-style covers and a booklet inside. Doesn't need more space on the shelf than one jewel case.

Sax No End has some of the greatest sax section writing I have heard in my whole life. This alone would serve Francy Boland a place in the jazz pantheon. They're not the cheapest store in the land, but they have a very wide selection of things, that's for sure.

Thanks for that recommendation - just ordered a copy. The Portrait album ranks among the 100 best jazz LPs of all time for some people ...