mikeweil

My copy arrived a few days ago, and what I have heard so far sounds excellent! Congrats! Very good playing by all three organissimists. I like this live version of Senor Buffet much better than the studio recording.

There are so few Dameron recordings around that one might as well get them all. So far nobody mentioned the live recordings with Navarro which have been reissued in several compilations, none of them complete. The best known may be this:

Jesus! He was a young cat when I started to admire him, and now he's turning 70 .... time is running so fast. Happy Birthday Herbie, and give yourself and us some adventurous records to listen to.

I'm afraid I won't be able to contribute any guesses for a while, I'm very sorry, but my time is limited and, to make things worse, my computer's soundcard seems to be defective. Of course I can transfer the whole thing to my MP3 player, but still I have too little time for listening, for various reasons - sorry, but I appreciate your compiling these discs, in any case.

I think I read somewhere they recorded at Manhattan Towers because the acoustics were suited better for recording the Hammond organ - and furthermore RVG was still recording at his parents' house in Hackensack at the time - perhaps a B3 with Leslie and all simply didn't fit into the living room ...

Plenty of albums shown here, but not one cover ... beware of scratches. I bet there are some shown here that never were reissued - we should open a new thread and try to identify them all!

Must have been either the Oscar Peterson Trio with Sam Jones and Bobby Durham in Munich or the Herbie Mann Quintet with Steve Marcus, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous & Bruno Carr in Frankfurt, both in 1970.

I'll never wear one of these ...

I always had a lot of his respect for his educational and organisational activities, but his music never attracted me, too generic is just the right description. R.I.P.

Jeremy Pelt was in town Easter Monday - with J.D. Allen, Xavier Davis, Dwayne Burno and Gerald Cleaver. I have to admit I was a bit underimpressed. Allen sounded like a cleaned-up version of mid-sixites Wayne Shorter - the whole band was very accomplished, relaxed, to the point, really knew their stuff - but it all sounded to me like they were all working hard to digest all the jazz created during the last 50 years but had no idea how to do something new with it. A very classicist approach, a simmered-down Jazz Messengers approach filtered through Miles' 1960's quintet, but all without the freshness or excitement of their idols. And way to little humor in the music, not very much communication. Cleaver was the most interesting player, with a featherlight touch and very alert, but not given enough room to display his facilities. Pelt is a very accomplished player, but I don't hear too much originality, although he doesn't sound simply derivative either. The mix of 1950's and 1960's stylistics reminded me of Wynton Marsalis' music twenty years ago, but even that was a bit more excitingly played. Pelt's band really didn't cut loose ... Very good music, but not a bit raw or exciting.

She sings "You've Changed" on this DVD, as a simple duo with Bobby Lyle on piano, and it is fantastic ... it gives an impression of what a no-nonsense standards CD would be like. She's great on that DVD, in all respects, sings great, really owns her songs, moves great, looks great ... Turns out she did but two discs for Blue Note, one soul/pop and one with Christmas songs - has anybody heard these and cares to comment?

Jeremy Pelt was in town tonight - with J.D. Allen, Xavier Davis, Dwayne Burno and Gerald Cleaver. I have to admit I was a bit underimpressed. Allen sounded like a cleaned-up version of mid-sixites Wayne Shorter - the whole band was very accomplished, relaxed, to the point, really knew their stuff - but it all sounded to me like they were all working hard to digest all the jazz created during the last 50 years but had no idea how to do something new with it. A very classicist approach, a simmered-down Jazz Messengers approach filtered through Miles' 1960's quintet, but all without the freshness or excitement of their idols. And way to little humor in the music, not very much communication. Cleaver was the most interesting player, with a featherlight touch and very alert, but not given enough room to display his facilities. Very good music, but not a bit raw or exciting.

It's a well known fact the early boppers loved glamorous or big voices: Billy Eckstine, Kenny Hagood, Earl Coleman, Johnny Hartman ... I like 'em, I have to admit. Haggod was good and could scat - there are some Gillespie live tracks with Pancho and Dizzy trading fours. And I think he fits very well on those Miles and Monk 78's. I have that Jivin' movie somewhere ...

All of these tracks were subsequently added as bonus tracks to various Jimmy Smith Blue Note US issues - I had that LP but sold it after having all of them on the CD reissues. Six of the tracks are with vocalists: The two with Babs Gonzales (Round Midnight; You need connections) were on his Blue Note CD, the four with Bill Henderson (Aint that love; Willow weep for me; Aint no use; Angel Eyes) were added to the Summer Breeze CD, IIRC. The track with Cecil Payne (Swingin'Shepherd blues) was on the Connoisseur CD with Payne. The one with Lou Donaldson I can't recall right now. Maybe this and the other were on the Mosaic? I can't give you anything but love Plum Nellie Cha Cha J

The composer I am researching at the time ...

R.I.P. Sure one of the most original careers ever.

I never read this board on April 1 .... you guys should be careful, might cause heart failures ...

From me, too. and lots of good music!

Never heard of that one. Interesting. MG That's a very nice record indeed! Will spin it later. R.I.P.

Before the OJC thing and before the Twofer era - I, too have some. They always complied sessions anew to complete them in contrast to the scattered release patterns of early 12 " LPs. I had the three Sonny Stitt LPs, the King Pleasure, the Bebop vocalists ... nicely produced, and yes, good liner notes. RVG? Who's RVG ....

indeed

Finally got my tax refund, and ordered a level 3 copy as promised - very much looking forward to seeing and hearing the band!

And a stop watch... ... or an adding machine ...

There doesn't seem to be an online discography of the label, but I found a printed one: Porter, Bob: Signature record company ; master listing. Zephyrhills, Fla. 1989. 289 leaves. Gives performer and titles only, no personnel large pb EUR 19.25 Anyone here have this?

It was White's second record date, after the sessions for Andrew Hill's Passing Ships