mikeweil

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.

Being an longtime Clare Fischer fan, I would be delighted to have a box set with all of his Revelation sessions - I have only two or three on LP, and they are all great! How about this for a third set?

Ordering through amazon.de didn't work, now with your link to amazon.co.uk it did. Very much looking forward to this DVD. I remember seeing a snippet of a Monterey performance from the late 1960's on German TV as a teen that left me mesmerized ... hope it is on this disc.

Here's one that seems missing in the disco: http://www.plugrecords.org/Plug-01/MidweekBlues.shtml

Real great baritone player. Sad news, really very sad news - always liked his playing very much. R.I.P. ...

Thanks for the kind words Jim! Except for the Griff, no correct guesses - the Griffin was the giveaway track in these discs. Re Disc 1 - 2: not a Van Gelder recording, but 1-3 is. Still waiting for correct identification of the tenor on 1-2 ... Very interesting comments so far - there will be some surprises when I reveal the identities of some players here ...

I have some of these - to my ears the CD layers sound like new remasters, and sound better than the first OJC issues of these titles. In the case of the Gil Evans Prestige album, the SACD is the first time a stereo master was assembled on both layers. The LP and OJC reissues all were in mono. The Concord SACD reissues, otoh, carry the original stereo master on the CD layer and a new stereo transfer and a new multi-channel mix on the SACD layers.

Great to read you like it! Just tell us which you think are hot etc. ...

FWIW: here's another Europe only Bill Evans cover:

That one was on sale over here too, at several mail order shops and retailers.

dtto. How about keeping us updated about the total of donations?

Jane Ira Bloom - above all others. But I love the music of many, Mary Lou, many singers ...