mikeweil

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She really deserves a more comprehensive and complete(!) box ... nevertheless, the webpage linked to in the last post says "SOLD OUT!" ...

Sad news. It's a pity his Pacific Jazz albums were not reissued, poor sales of Pacific Jazz CDs considered. What I know is the Johnny Griffin Riverside which I featured on my last BFT, and the Curtis Amy sides from the Select, but I certainly would like to hear more - he seemed to be somewhat more original than most B3 practioners. Besides the Amy sessions, how many Pacifics Jazz LPs have been issued?

That's one of the Riversides never reissued as OJC, so I never heard his playing - R.I.P.

Open Office allows you to save files in MS Word formats, too - works fine. Since they introduced the .pdf feature long ago, MS starting including it, too - they lost too many users. I support open source software whenever I can.

We had a first batch of snow a week before Christmas that melted down fast, but now we're all in a gigantic icebox. Ten inches of new powdery snow here since last week - I was glad I didnn't have to drive around much.

His old adress is still in the phone book, fwiw ...

One thing on my to do list is to drop by the place where he used to live when I pass through that area and have the time to pay him a visit - last time I saw him three years ago there were some probolems I do not want to write down here but it was enough to excuse any delay in CD shipment ... I wish him well and definitely will check it out when I get there - another old friend of mine lives only a few miles away that I need to pay a vist in spring.

A copy of Booglaoo To Beck is on its way to me ...

R.I.P. Considering his age, I wasn't too surprised to read this - my thoughts are with his family. I once talked to him shortly omn the phone, he was a very nice man dedicated to his work. The German jazz scene would be a lot poorer without him.

P.D. gave away so many copies Christiern could ask for royalties ... really lived up to his board name. Would be a nice Mosaic box set, all those interviews - Hawk, Henry Miller, Brecht - who else was in that series? I mean, it would be a helluva fascinating box set!

That it's talk only may be the reason why Fantasy never reissued this - I certainly would like to hear this!

My sincere condolences - 101 feels like a magical figure to me.

Correct - German drummer Klaus Weiss already passed in December, 2008, too.

I think everything worthy of release in the Blue Note vaults was unearthed - there is no more. Anybody can produce resissues of titles already released in some form. That's a simple explanation. And maybe he simply wants to slow down a bit and concentrate on some Mosaic projects ...

Drumming ain't either ... Tried, but I'm clueless ... I'll never forget that from now on! Best wishes for the next year!

Quite a long list from the Village Voice website: Rashied Ali, Charlie Banacos, Gianni Basso, Ray Beckenstein, Louie Bellson, Augie Bloom, Eddie Bo, Ole Brask, Juanita Brooks, Sam Butera, Irving Bush, Ian Carr, Page Cavanaugh, John Cephas, Jim Chapin, Moki Cherry, Buddy Christian, Omar Clay, Jeff Clyne, Chris Connor, Janet Cook, Leroy Cooper, Julie Coryell, Kenny Cox, Hank Crawford, Joe Cuba, Blossom Dearie, Roy DeCarava, Art D'Lugoff, Len Dobbin, Snooks Eaglin, Ray Ellis, Wilby Fletcher, Leonard Gaskin, Johnny Hawksworth, Ola Hanson, Dickie Hawdon, Joel Helleny, Eddie Higgins, Hugh Hopper, Ambrose Jackson, Billy James, Leslie Johnson, Dick Katz, Bob Keane, Charlie Kennedy, Ali Akbar Khan, Eartha Kitt, Paul Lagos, Carmen Leggio, Vic Lewis, Eddie Locke, Huey Long, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Lawrence Lucie, Joe Maneri, Frankie Manning, Charlie Mariano, Tina Marsh, Arch Martin, John Martyn, Mat Mathews, Shep Meyers, The Mississippi Rag, Whitey Mitchell, Buddy Montgomery, Pee Wee Moore, National Association of Jazz Educators, Morris Nanton, David "Fathead" Newman, Winston Mankunku Ngozi, Gerry Niewood, Jack Nimitz, Les Paul, Eddie Preston, Bobby Pring, Manny Oquendo, Jack Quigley, Kenny Rankin, Harrison Ridley Jr., Beverly Roberts, Jack Rose, Stacy Rowles, Fred Rundquist, George Russell, Fats Sadi, Soupy Sales, Jarmo Savolainen, Bud Shank, Sirone (Norris Jones), Hale Smith, Willie "Face" Smith, Henry "Butch" Stone, Luther Thomas, Wayman Tisdale, Donald True Van Deusen, Billy VerPlanck, Robert Ward, Guy Warren, Teddy Washington, Monty Waters, Klaus Weiss, Kitty White, Lyman Woodard, Dave Young, Zach Zachery, Zeke Zarchy, Torrie Zito.

Has anybody heard that one?

Of course # 8 was the Flintstones theme ... I really wonder who that is ...

Thanks Hans, for this disc - I have to admit I had a totally wrong impression of your musical tastes, which appear to be very open and diversified - I had somehow thought you were a mainstream man, but it's not that simple. I finally received a copy just before Christmas eve and these are my thoughts on second listen - I didn't take any notes during the first. # 1 - The chords the pianist plays sound very familiar - but I can't tell whether it's the tune I have in mind. I don't like the mix - drums are barely audible, bass is too much up front, so the ostinato gets a little annoying. Nice idea, but not well enough done. # 2 - Trumpeter has a very nice lyrical sound and shows some Chet Baker influence - I don't think it's Chet. Can't tell who this is, but both players sound familiar. They way the take it out is very nice. # 3 - Violin and piano, very tasteful performance. Oh - guitar - I hear a Reinhardt influence, but knowing you are a colelctor of Oscar Alemán ... excellent piece of music! More, please ... # 4 - Uhhh - this saxophonist is way drunk or totally strung out, totally out of tune ... if this is supposed to be free playing, I can live without it. Sounds like they all play in different keys and tunings. No idea what this supposed to be ... was this a rehearsal? If so, they should have erased the recording ... # 5 I know that big bass sound ... and the tune, too ... Nuages? Double bass, I mean two basses? Nice. Huge sounds! Again one of the two sounds familiar, but I cannnot pin him down. # 6 - These two sure got rhythm! I hear a definite Hawk influence. Oh, Slam Stewart! So this must be Don Byas, from the Town Hall Concert released on Commodore. Great stuff. Amazing how much modern bebop-like conceptions there are in Byas' playing - an underrated giant. # 7 - Love For Sale - done in a 7/8 groove. Able players, but I have no idea who they are. # 8 - When I hear a vibes/Marimba duo, I think of David Friedman and Dave Samuels, but this is almost neo-swing, so I doubt it's them. I know that tune, but can't remember the title - surely a player from a pre-bop generation or follower. Sounds like an overdub to me. # 9 - Bass again ... nice idea to build the flow of changes from arpeggio playing. The changes sound familiar again ... original concept, for sure. Aladar Pege? Probably not, the way he strums later on - great idea to have the piano player playing so sparsely at first. So it took me until the very end to figure out it is Night And Day the played - like the two players were the personification of these two - very nice idea. # 10 - Oh, I have that one. Charnett Moffett, from his first Blue Note LP. One of the best bass sounds I ever heard. Critics hailed him as the most complete bass player since Stanley Clarke - I think he's a much better jazz player than Clarke, relying less on pet phrases. Great, huge bass tone! He should be heard more often! Nice groove he made with these drum machines. An excellent player! # 11 - Almost too sweet - I don't like cello with that much vibrato nor clarinet players with that kind of sound. Sorry, not my taste, although they are competent players. # 12 - Tadd Dameron's Our Delight - good performance! Tommy Flannagan & Hank Jones or someone like that ... # 13 - Some bebop warhorse - tenor player sounds almost bored, but his playing is not. Another good performance, again no idea who they are, though that tenor sounds familiar. # 14 - That's an old Cuban tune, La Comparsa, by Ernesto Lecuona, IIRC. Is that Bebo and Chucho Valdes? There is not enough piano playing like this! I wish one of these guys or Edward Simon would make a recording of Lecuona's piano pieces! That ostinato left hand pattern (Cubans call it guajeo) is great! # 15 - Arghhh! So many familiar sounding players .... 'nother good 'un. Thanks for that very enjoyable ride!

I third it, and love the Kenny Werner - their take on "I Hear A Rhapsody is magnificent"! One that comes to my mind is a David Lopato trio CD - have to pull it out first ...

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