mikeweil

Santa never brought me the things I really wanted, but I got plenty o' nice things from my wife on the way ...

I have quite a bit of Millinder on LP - should dig 'em out over Christmas. Very groovy band, good players, and I dig Bullmoose Jackson a lot.

Since Cal Tjader didn't record no Xmas album, Vince Guaraldi's will always be my favourite

I'm not a fan of such boxes - you get a lot of music and/or interpretations you don't like. Rather get yourself the 17 CDs with the complete symphonies by the Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Ronald Brautigam's complete piano music, or Siegbert Rampe's (which is in single volumes and more expensive), and go further from that point, step by step.

I have the original double LP. So the CD which has a lot more material is no longer available from de Bastids? Too bad ... This was a very nice band, in fact it was probably the first B3 album I really dug. Check this out, you organologists!

Then the guy's real good! His German accent is real cute ...

That's a real great track with a really good solo, and I'm not one of Freddie's followers - but I'll never give away that LP.

When are you going to practice "Giant Steps" on dem bells?

The Teddy Charles session with Wardell Gray was Frank Morgan's studio debut - and Sonny Clark's!

There are plenty instrumentalists ignoring the lyrics, just going for melody and changes. If they knew the words they'd notice how weird some of their treatments are in relation to the lyrics' content ... I'm with Pres here, who knew all the words!

German news announced today that another German composer of note, Harald Genzer, died on Sunday, December 16. He was born near Bremen in 1909 and went to Berlin in the early 1930s to study with Paul Hindemith. After World War II he taught in Munich at the State High School and wrote a large number of compositions in all genres. I always liked his clear and very rhythmically oriented style.

There's a discography of Elmo Hope, too, on Noal Cohen's site I linked above - you will find the "Future" LP listed and several sessions with Land. If you check the "Future" sessions there, you will see that neither the Boplicity nor the Fresh Sound CD reissues have the complete session!

I saw that live, he was awesome!!! He almost went through the whole final like this! ... and deservedly won. Made Maguire look like a beginner.

Very sad news! R.I.P. He was one of the first, or maybe even the very first, producer whose name stayed in my memory, through many Atlantic LPs - he really shaped that label for quite a while. That typical Atlantic trademark mixture of soul and jazz, he did a lot for that. Thanks a lot for plenty good music.

Strange. I found myself logged out only in exceptional situations, as the result of major cleanup in the browser etc. What browser you you use?

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What will happen to all these album covers the day ads for cigarettes are banned?

Maybe you have enabled autmatic cache and cookie cleanup?

Maybe, but they're making a lot of noise!

That said, count me in as another fan of the CCQ. I have to admit that I prefer listening to them in session order. I burned my own 3 CD set from the 4 CDs on Contemporary - if anbody here wants to buy all four of them at once (3 OJC CDs and 1 Contemporary CD), send me a PM with an offer.

"Little recorded"??? Click here!

If he goes on like this he will break Doc Cheatham's longevity record. I wish him well. He has something special in his tone that nobody else has.

I, too, had a lot of Affinity LPs at the time - the only way to get certain Bethlehem, Capitol etc. sessions. I skipped this one as Rosolino's virtuosic playing didn't attract me that much, but Larry, your description is watering my ears ...

I love those first two or three albums with and without Jools (as she was called at the time), but found that Auger started repeating himself after that, solo-wise. There are great sounding remastered issues out.

... all the more considering the general condition he was in at the time! I love that solo! (And the looks Lady Day gave him.)