mikeweil

I see your point, and I, too, think it would be nice to listen to everything the Duke and his men recorded in a studio in chronological order, but ... I think Michael Cuscuna's plan is a different one. When the Centennial neared, RCA made and executed plans to make the RCA box, which Orrin Keepnews produced, and I'm sure Cuscuna suggested the same to Columbia, but they somehow missed the point of no return and then wouldn't take the risk - another box set already in the making and theirs definitely even bigger .... so all Cuscuna did issue for the centennial wer the Capitol and Reprise box sets and some single CDs. Now that Columbia practically backed out of their Legacy jazz reissue program they continue that with the Mosaic Singles reissues. They wan't to fill the gaps, not do the entire job all over again, which would be a daunting task, although both tape vaults are at their disposal.

It would be a huge box set. Too huge for me, at least ... and I think they don't see a point in replicating a reissue that most Ellington fans will already have. I'm glad they do the Columbia stuff in parts, like the small groups first, then the big band, and I hope the later stuff will follow, the late 40s early 50s Columbias before the Capitol sessions. I would have bought the RCA stuff right away if they had issued it in four smaller boxes. I won't complain about Mosaics's Ellington reissues.

Look at page 36 of the booklet - "Production credits" - I remember it took me a while to find it when I first read through it ...

Oh jeez - due to my removal I missed that news. I literally grew up with the sound of her voice, as my mother had a 78 of her in her collection. Never forgot that sound. I have all the reissues of the Capitol albums - a virtual Latin sound world of its own. One of the great voices of the century, I'd say - forget Jacko.

hr (Hessischer Rundfunk) is our local TV station. I remember that show series, but never saw these two. She says they've been touring the USA and all over Europe, nothing more. She mentions las Vegas. Little real improvising, I'd say. A far cry from Rhoda and Shirley, and her phrasing is pretty corny.

You're being nice to yourself - you will like the unreleased quartet session with Cecil Payne!

I have the two CD issue - it's fascinating to hear how the Fatha makes the Duke's music sound as if it were his own. And still it sounds like Duke. That's greatness.

Just ordered the Carmell Jones set - have the Weston already, which is great. I wonder which will be the next to go - I once vowed to order one Select each month, but ...

That process took place in Germany a few years ago ... there are others still, but the special look of Kodak colors is irreplaceable.

I lost but one disc in my recent move ... which is amazing considering the collection approches 6000 CDs. The replacement is on the way. I sort them pretty much the way Hardbopjazz does; the classical discs are sorted chronologically by composer and by genre within their works.

Same with musicians over here - they don't know sh... about the African core of jazz.

I could confirm Thelma Lowe (or Love), who was Lucky Thompson's wife, died in 1963 - she and Thelma Carpenter are two different persons. Sorry if I caused any confusion - I will delete or edit my posts above two avoid future misunderstandings.

Exactly that was the reason why I chose this album! There's no Larry Young on these discs, and no Scofield ... and yes, Embraceable You was the only standard tune.

I doubt some of the master tapes still exist. I researched the recordings Jack Wilson did with Roy Ayers, and the matrix numbers look like they were recorded for Atlantic but released on Vault - some was never issued. No idea whether the tapes were destroyed by the fire in the Atlantic tape storage building. No idea where the tapes of the Vault label are ... The Discovery label stopped operating many years ago - it was Albert Marx' label, IIRC. Since his passing in 1991, nothing much has happened with the label's catalog, which consisted of new productions (the two Jack Wilson Trio LPs recorded after his stroke included) and reissues of his productions for other labels in the past. A very interesting catalogue ...

I saw him live with John Handy and Zakir Hussain - great! R.I.P. I think it was him who said: "The whole music lies in the understanding of one note" ...

Same here.

The first to come to my mind are these:

Now their sellout page says "Unfortunately, this sale had to be discontinued on Friday, June 12. The titles are still listed below at their regular price." I'm glad that I already have practically all of those I want ... one good thing about them stopping the sale is that most titles are probably still available. Re the Gil Evans: Forget about the OJC and get the SACD - it sounds tremendously better!!! The others are a mixed bag, sound-wise: check at sa-cd.net for reviews.

There's a drummer George Brown that recorded with Wes Montgomery on his last Riverside organ trio album (October & November 1963). Add to this bass player Doug Weiss.

Congrats! You're better than you think! But the tenor player on 2-6 still has to be identified ... The channel separation on these tracks was somewhat changed through the convsersion to flac files, and even the burning, although I used the lowest spped my burner accepted. It is less obvious on the original CD. Sorry for that, but the CD I took it from is still available. Some more folks in for guesses?

Any idea how many CDs this is gonna be?

I will get me this one immediately - thanks for pointing this out! I saw Broom live with Rollins a few months ago and liked him very much - he took some inspiration from Rollins' way of rhythmic improvisation and fused it with his own - very interesting. I have always liked Broom, his approach to pop tunes in particular. I think too few guitarists play Monk tunes - they are associated with piano, but this is not the core of his music, which is melody and rhythm, IMHO - whenever guitarists play Monk, the results are either great, when the individualists do it, like Steve Khan, or bland, when they mistake Monk's music for tunes with changes to blow on, which they are definitely not. Here's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8102tMwpg.

His death came as a bit of a surprise to me - I knew of his age, but his looks didn't really change over the last ten to twenty years, which made him kind of ageless. He was a prominent and important figure among the Americans in Europe, and will he sorely missed.

Very sad news. R.I.P. A very important figure in the meeting of jazz and oriental music.