mikeweil

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 ...

.... and the first Bill Evans Riverside LP.

Thanks for you thoughts - that's a helluva compliment that you enjoyed it although organ is not your daily dish. No Groove Holmes on these discs, and no Larry Young. The organist on 1-3 has been identified, as is the Griffin disc. The guitarist on 1-5 was indeed heavily influenced by Wes, and made no secret of it.

Very sad news, I had overlooked the post about his illness due to me being busy moving etc. - R.I.P.

Thanks a lot, Jim, for your guesses - I counted on you getting DP or Melvin Rhyne or the Turbanator or Goldings in seconds, but I am glad at the same time I came up with some organists you didn't recognize. Some surprises among them, maybe ... The Shepik has been guessed by thedwork already, and it's really a nice disc. No Joey D or Dennerlein here ...

That guess on 1-4 is right, of course. An overlooked album, IMO, and IIRC Griff's only organ album. As to 2-8: No Joey D on these CDs ... I avoided some familiar names and chose tracks by some others. There is no J.O.S. there or McDuff or McGriff, no Groove Holmes, but ...