mikeweil

I don't think so. Ruy Castro, e.g. mentions neither Almeida nor Shank. Gilberto's music comes from the Samba Cançao tradition, which was of little importance to Almeida's music.

Chronologically, you're correct. But stylistically, the music Almeida and Shank played was not Bossa Nova, but a blend of Choro, Baiao and other semi-classical and folkloric styles. Bossa Nova as such did not exist before the first Jobim-Gilberto recordings. To somebody not familair with all details of Brazilian music, it sounds similar due to the use of guitar, and Almeida, too, played bossa nova later in his career, but not with Shank, as it did not yet exists as a musical style.

IMHO Guitar Forms would have been a top notch album if they had done all of the tracks with Evans. The combo tracks do not live up to that standard. Just my two cents, of course.

I'm not surprised, as Herbie Mann was one of the first to really get the Brazilian feel, much better than Getz or most others. A compilation with all of Mann's versions of Brazilian tunes would be great. "One Note Samba was originally issued twice, one a Mann LP and on an album with half Joao Gilberto's first bosssa nova tunes, licensed from Odeon in Brazil. An earlier version was on a United Artists LP: Never heard the Shank LP, btw.

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The Lord Disco lists only one (!) session with a trumpet player Randy Eckert, in 1977.

The weekend bottle: Le Champ des Murailles 2020 Corbières Appellation d’Origine Protégée

Yup. My King Pleasure discography will be online in a few days.

Working on the King Pleasure discography this afternoon:

Never would have guessed that. Debussy's tune, of course .... I only bought Rollins' first two albums on Milestone, never got around to hear or even buy the next ones. Yes he is - most here are fixed on the post Jimmy Smith school of jazz organ and overlook the stream coming from Fats Waller - the guy here and Jackie Davis may be the most prominent. A great player, and he had much more sense of humour than Smith in his whole career.

I know that tune ...... urgh .....

This afternoon: http://www.encelade.net/media/com_hikashop/upload/cvweb_miscellan-bd_1680796610.jpg

2. From the same LP. Whoever was resonsible for these extraordinary combinations of musicians deserves a monument!

Finally figured out how to listen to BFTs on my tablet, making it easier for me to listen than being tied to my desktop computer. This was one of the facts keeping me from participating. 1. Now that really was easy. I immediately thought of this jam session: https://www.discogs.com/release/1839026-Various-Newport-In-New-York-72-The-Jam-Sessions-Vols-1-And-2 Why the first trumpet soloist never rose to star fame escapes me. Really good playing throughout. I like them much better than JATP. Oh, and that drummer was one of the greatest. His creativity is the only justification for that much rechnical proficiency.

Yup. The "traditional jazz" part of Volume 2 was not on CD, so they added the two Don Byas tracks to the CD of Volume 1 with the tracks of the same Bud Powell Trio.

Correct. But there were added as bonus tracks to the CD reissue of Vol. 1!