mikeweil

A half and half mixture of pure alcohol an distilled water and a non-perfumed Kleenex - apply sparingly with a sprayer and wipe softly from center to edge, never in a circular motion. This will remove stains of all kinds. As for scratches, nothing you can do. There are polishes, but I never tried them. There are special mixtures available at Hi-Fi dealers with special ingredients which may improve sound even more than a simple alcohol/water solution - many think it's voodoo, but I tested it with a lot of friends, and they all heard a difference in sound reproduction in before/after tests. Sounds clearer, more room ambience, in particular, depending on your playback equipment.

About time ..... that Sun Ra is one to get.

Let's hear some! (I guess I will order a copy, anyway ...)

Joyeux anniversaire, Brownie! All the best to you and your family.

The only ones from this list that I still don't have and considered to get are: Jazz Crusaders – Lighthouse / ’66 / ’68 Stanley Turrentine – Up At Minton’s I once listened to the Jazz Crusaders in a record shop, but they didn't thrill me that much - what do you think?

A different selection of big band tracks arranged by Benny Carter or Benny Golson was on this CD (still availble as a marketplace item), but somehow the Axelrod arrangements sound a little more convincing than these Hollywood/Las Vegas style big band charts: Tracklist: 1. For You My Love 2. If I Had My Life to Live Over 3. Nobody But Me 4. Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) 5. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 6. If It's the Last Thing I Do 7. Blues for the Weepers 8. That's Your Red Wagon 9. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 10. It's You 11. I Love You, Yes I Do 12. I Wander 13. Wee Baby Blues 14. (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone

Yep!

The two LPs Benny Carter arranged are on this twofer CD, but the sound samples didn't make me want to buy it: Tracklist: 1 Nobody but Me 2 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall 3 Whispering Grass 4 Two Tickets West 5 It's Monday Everyday 6 The Power of Love 7 If I Had My Life to Live Over 8 For You My Love 9 If It's the Last Thing I Do 10 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 11 Blues for the Weepers 12 What'll I Do? 13 My Buddy 14 Du Bist Die Liebe 15 Margie 16 (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I 17 Three O'Clock in the Morning 18 Me and My Shadow 19 Cold, Cold Heart 21 Charmaine 22 Nothing Really Feels the Same 1-11 from Nobody but Lou 12-22 from Lou Rawls with Strings

One track, however, is missing that I'd really like to have: Dead End Street. It's on this compliation, which is more pop than jazz, it seems, but still has some great tracks on it: Tracklist: 1. I can't make it alone 2. Love is a hurting thing 3. When she speaks 4. (How do I say) I don't love you anymore 5. Season of the witch 6. Fa fa fa fa fa (Sad song) 7. When love goes wrong 8. Feeling alright 9. You made me so very happy 10. Your good thing (is about to end) 11. You're good for me 12. Dead end street 13. Don't explain 14. A whole lotta woman 15. It's and uphill climb (to the bottom) 16. For what it's worth 17. Gentle on my mind 18. All God's children 19. How can that be 20. Bring it on home to me 21. Can you dig it (Monologue) 22. Take me for what I am 23. Evil woman 24. Soul serenade 25. When a man loves a woman

Track list: 01 Motherless Child 02 God Bless The Child 03 Nobody But Me 04 Blues For The Weepers 05 Goin' To Chicago Blues 06 How Long, How Long Blues 07 Southside Blues/Tobacco Road (Medley) 08 Something Stirring In My Soul 09 Georgia On My Mind 10 So Hard To Laugh, So Easy To Cry 11 Old Folks 12 Somebody Have Mercy 13 Why (Do I Love You So) 14 Street Of Dreams 15 I Wonder 16 Let's Burn Down The Cornfield 17 One For My Baby, One More For The Road 18 Mean Old World 19 Long Gone Blues 20 Fine And Mellow 1,2 from Stormy Monday 3,4 from Nobody But Lou 5,6 from Black And Blue 7 from Live! 8 from Carryin' On 9 from Tobacco Road 10,11 from Soulin' 12 from one of the late 1960's LPs 13 from Too Much 14 from That's Lou 15 from The Way It Was: The Way It Is 16 from ? 17 from You're Good for Me 18,19,20 unreleased session with Curtis Amy Sextet I will fill in the two tracks I couldn't identify as soon as I hold the CD in my hands. But it seems only 5 or 6 of the tracks are on the CDs you want to get.

True ... but Kaempfert sure wasn't hip enough to call it "Cretin Love Call".

Voice of America

Play it loud!

Well, he probably had to get it out once .....

I wonder how this one is, his second LP for Capitol. When I saw that Mighty Quinn reissued this one, I ordered a copy from them.

I think this is a bit too closely modelled after Creole Love Call ...

I ordered a copy - I'm on a Lou Rawls kick these days. Nice to see how well connected he was to the L.A. jazz scene.

This was reissued on CD with c/w the other Rawls LP Matthews arranged, Black and Blue.

No idea - but I heard Dexter Gordon pronounce it that way in his concerts.

My amazon marketplace order for the Brookmeyer Select was finally cancelled. At least my credit card wasn't charged. Being a marketplace seller myself, I know their policy: First the buyer's bank account or credit card is charged, then the seller is informed and has to confirm shipment - if a seller confirms delivery before he ships he can get into trouble. Seems that amazon in other countries is not as careful ...

IIRC at least one of the tracks in the Select was recorded at the occasion of one of the Rawls sessions reissued here. Fine, straightahead, bluesy stuff - Rawls' 3rd and 4th LPs, respectively, with the Groove Holmes trio as rhythm section on some tracks. This twofer CD might be a side-product of Cuscuna's research for the Matthews Select.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqngiG7THSs has the same band playing Chameleon ... At the time A Real Mother was a hit, I played in a band whose guitarist said he almost had to vomit whenever he heard Johnny Guitar sing ... I liked it, and that groove with the Moog bass line was a killer. I will dig out the LP later. Yes he was commercial, but in a straight, unpretentious way - and he was natural born entertainer. I several respects, he was the Prince of his day. Fooling y'all with one of his jazzy piano tracks on my first BFT was of the more pleasureable moments in my life

I also remember Andrew Cyrille early in his career in Montego Joe's Calypso band, not to mention all those saxists passing through Olatunji's bands.

Davis played a lot of pop sessions, I have albums of Laura Nyro and the Rascals with him. He even toured with Nyro. Ron Carter played countless pop dates, too, like a Hirth Martinez album.

Please keep us updated. Good luck with all the proceedings!