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Those SONY executives never learn .....

Yes, on Impulse--should still be available in the Verve LPR series. If you ever see the Impulse sequel MORE OF... floating around used at a halfway decent price, that's worth snagging as well. (I think it's been out only as an import on CD.) Both were reissued together on a single late-80s MCA/Impulse! CD, which is how I have them. This is still available! The Pres album was the first encounter with her for me, too, and I was impressed. I agree she should be in the top 50 all time great female jazz singers - maybe even higher.

My best wishes for him! Always liked his playing.

... and I always waited for the singer to come in ...

Well, the irony is that Concord on one side deletes a large number of rare CDs, and on the other side releases material that's still available in more complete form, while one of our Spanish friends shows them how to do it ... It's a crazy reissue world! I only have the All Night Long OJC CD, so the question could be that I fare cheaper when buying the Lone Hill and selling my OJC - in this case I support a notorious bootlegger. But I'm not in the mood to support Concord's with its uninformed policy of deleting and reissuing either .....

Donald Byrd and Kenny Burrell did two all star dates for Prestige on December 28, 1956 (All Night Long) and January 4, 1957 (All Day Long). Both of these dates yielded more material than could be issued on a LP back then, but those additional tracks were subsequently issued on compilations and included as bonus tracks on the Original Jazz Classics CDs. According to the Concord website they are still available. But still, Concord reissues this twofer LP which includes the two LPs straight without the bonus tracks (which won't fit on this one CD): I'm afraid they even used the old twofer LP mastertape .... To top this, there's a new Lone Hill Jazz reissue, a two CD set which contains both albums including the bonus material and adds a complete third session, the Kenny Burrell - Jimmy Raney Two Guitars album (which is available as a separate OJC CD): Now tell me what to buy .....

An old friend/schoolmate of mine used to work in China for the WHO - haven't heard from him in a while, but I will try to contact him - he's some kind of jazz fan.

Well, everything that was originally on 10" LP and was re-compiled for 12" LP release also falls into that category. Here's a list of the 10" LPs that were not reissued as Connoisseur CDs (the numbers in brackets are the respective 12" LPs) but as "regular" Blue Note CDs (the McGhee was partly in both): 5002: Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Volume 1 (10/15/47, 11/21/47, 7/2/48) [1500 Series: BLP 1510/11] 5003: The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1 (8/9/49, 5/1/51) [bLP 1503] 5004: Tadd Dameron/Fats Navarro - Fats Navarro Memorial Album (9/26/47, 9/13/48, 10/11/48, 8/8/49) [bLP 1531/32] 5006: James Moody and His Modernists (10/18/48, 10/25/48) 5009: Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Volume 2 (10/15/47, 10/24/47, 11/21/47, 7/23/51) [bLP 1510/11] 5011: Milt Jackson - Wizard of the Vibes (7/23/51, 4/7/52) [bLP 1509] 5012: Howard McGhee's All-Stars and McGhee/Navarro Boptet (1948, 1/23/50) 5013: Miles Davis - Young Man with a Horn (5/9/52) [bLP 1501/02] 5018: Horace Silver Trio - New Faces, New Sounds (10/9/52, 10/20/52) [bLP 1520] 5021: Lou Donaldson/Horace Silver a.o. - New Faces, New Sounds (6/20/52, 11/19/52) [bLP 1537] 5022: Miles Davis, Volume 2 (4/20/53) [bLP 1501/02] 5023: Kenny Drew Trio - New Faces, New Sounds (4/16/53) 5025: Wynton Kelly Trio - New Faces, New Sounds (7/25/51, 8/1/51) 5028: Jay Jay Johnson with Clifford Brown (6/20/53) [bLP 1505/06] 5029: Elmo Hope Trio - New Faces, New Sounds (6/53) 5030: Lou Donaldson/Clifford Brown a.o. - New Faces, New Sounds (6/9/53) [bLP 1526] 5032: Clifford Brown - New Star on the Horizon (8/28/53) [bLP 1526] 5034: Horace Silver Trio, Volume 2 / Art Blakey - Spotlight on Drums (11/23/53) [bLP 1520] 5037: Art Blakey Quintet - A Night at Birdland, Volume 1 (2/21/54) [bLP 1521/22] 5038: Art Blakey Quintet - A Night at Birdland, Volume 2 (2/21/54) [bLP 1521/22] 5039: Art Blakey Quintet - A Night at Birdland, Volume 3 (2/21/54) [bLP 1521/22] 5040: Miles Davis, Volume 3 (3/6/54) [bLP 1501/02] 5041: The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2 (8/14/53) [bLP 1504] 5044: Elmo Hope Quintet - New Faces, New Sounds, Vol. 2 (6/54) 5055: Lou Donaldson Sextet, Volume 2 (8/22/54) [bLP 1537] 5057: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson (9/24/54) [bLP 1505/06] 5058: Horace Silver Quintet, Volume 1 (11/13/54) [bLP 1518] 5062: Horace Silver Quintet, Volume 2 (2/6/55) [bLP 1518] 5065: Kenny Dorham Octet - Afro-Cuban (3/29/55) [bLP 1535] 5068: The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Volume 1 (5/4/55, 5/13/55) 5069: The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Volume 2 (5/4/55, 5/13/55) 5070: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 3 (6/6/55) [bLP 1506]

Go get it! It's nice to have it all in one place, and the sound is very good, IMO.

I'm surprised how few jazz versions of songs in that long list I do actually have, and fewer have been done more than once. Does that say something about the quality of songs? I dunno - but before 1950 the basic groove of pop music was closer to jazz and made adapation a lot easier. The songs are followed by the jazz musicians whose versions I have or know of: 3. Imagine, John Lennon - Stanley Cowell 8. Hey Jude, The Beatles - Don Ellis 27. Layla, Derek and the Dominos - Bobby Broom 35. Light My Fire, The Doors - Bobby Broom 74. Superstition, Stevie Wonder - Bobby Broom 80. I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Marvin Gaye - Harold Mabern 83. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), The Beatles - Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock 101. Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Jimi Hendrix - Gil Evans 152. Foxey Lady, Jimi Hendrix - Gil Evans 157. I Only Have Eyes for You, The Flamingos - now that has been done by some people ..... 280. Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers - Rahsaan Roland Kirk 281. You Are the Sunshine of My Life, Stevie Wonder - Ella Fitzgerald, other Blackbird, The Beatles - Tony Williams The Fool On The Hill, The Beatles - Tony Williams Moondance, Van Morrison - Bobby McFerrin

Good idea!

There's a remark in brackets at the end of Dusty Groove's item description:

So this compiles tracks from Savoy and EmArcy - who needs this?

Here's to the 2nd disc. Track 12: Nice opener - very free waltz-type feel, but I like this somehow. No clue on who they are, though. Track 13: Oh - that's the kind of groove I love! You can do so much more at such a tempo. Pianist sets the mood in a great way, dark, but not hopeless. ***** = 5 stars from me. Who is this? Track 14: Monk's "Ask Me Now"? Nice - why don't clarinettists play Monk tunes more often? Track 15: Reminds me of Flora Purim - bassists has a Pastorius ostinato thing going. I was curious whether they were able to sustain the mood during the solos - and yes, they can! Nice how the alto saxist takes it to some kind of climax without overplaying. Track 16: Duh! Philly Sound in an Org BFT?! Well - these are studio pros - Billy Cobham drumming? A child of its time, for sure. Track 17: My concentration is fading, especially when worn out by such a tenor trio. Good players, but not the type of thing I listen too these days, so I have a hard time to comment on this ..... Track 18: I really prefer the slower tempos in jazz, the intensity it gives .... But again no clue Track 19: "Canto de Ossanha" - Baden Powell's tune. Very peculiar alto sound. Hard bossa, for sure ... Verrrry nice again. I'm really curious who the saxophone player is. Nice drummer too. Track 20: Well ... I have a hard time trying to relates to this, a little too abstract and ambiguous for me. The percussionist is trying hard to find a place in the music - it would work just as well without him. It's like tea with a spice or without it ... But the way they take it out is very sensitive - it's a good piece of music, just doesn't hit my mood. Track 21: Oh, at last a track I know, from this CD : AMG link. One of the most consistent pianists of his generation, althouggh he's still a little Tyneresque here. The older he gets, the more he cuts loose, which makes him a real piano giant now that he's beyond his 50th birthday. The conga player here, btw, is a legendary figure. Track 22: "Get Out of Town" with a loose edge that keeps it interesting. Piano is a damn hard instrument ..... Ron Carter on bass or one of his followers. On the whole, not as convincing to me as the preceding track. The pianist lacks that real assuredness in his approach. He's still struggling with the instrument. Track 23: Nice idea, but I find the phrasing of this saxist a little edgy, rhythmically. Oh - I made it through ..... Thanks for that compilation - there are some tracks I'm really curious about!

I wonder what source they used for the Adderley - since this is public domain in Europe now, they're along the same line as Fresh Sound et al. - nothing I complain about. But I'd like to know if it's the complete session with all alternates they reissue.

I think all pics etc. posted as attachments were lost during the last board software upgrade. Some things that I had uploaded were lost.

I, too, was late on getting Jordan's message - it's never too late!

Sorry to be so late, but I have a hard time to listen and write down comments at the time, being kept busy with all kinds of things. All he needed was some discipline .... Very interesting compilation - not that I expected anything less ... The usual disclaimers apply. Track 1: Jeremy Steig? Eddie Gomez? Not sure about the bassist, some trademark phrases are missing. Oh, a live recording ... I don't know many recordings of Steig in a straight quartet setting. Somehow this sounds not quite like him or the context he would play in. A serious Steig disciple, then. The drummer sounds like a more recent player to me, from the technical aspect of his solo. I'm really curious about this. (An afterthought: Could this be the flutist Kenny Barron has featured lately? Anne Drummond or what was her name?) Track 2: A cleverly misleading intro leading into C-Jam Blues. Nice, sounds like one of those Black & Blue mainstream groups. Nice players. I like it more Duke-Monkish, but this is very much okay. Probably all familiar players. NHÖP on bass? They're seriously enjoying themselves. Track 3: No clue on this. Reminds me of Ray Bryant's slightly church-inflected tunes, but this is not him. Nice, but doesn't move me deeply. Track 4: Great! Brazilian, that's for sure. I love this kind of thing and have too little of it in my collection. More please! Who is this? Track 5: Tenor player sounds terribly familiar, but I don't get him. Nice. Oh - another sax? Alto - sounds too forceful for my taste. Now I'm stumped ... Track 6: "Blue Bossa" is much harder to play well than one might think. This pianist takes it too lightheartedly, and the tempo too fast. This is samba tempo, not bossa nova. In order to reach that specific blend of bossa and a jazzy blues feeling one has to take it slightly slower than Dorham and Henderson. I have yet to hear a version that hits that mix as precisely as Dorham's playing on the legendary Blue Note LP. Not a Brazilian, I hope! Track 7: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was". Nice with piano, bass and the string quartet. All play in fine form, but I would have appreciated a more pensive bass solo and no double timing for the piano solo. This and the drumset coming in on sticks (use your brushes in such a context!) kind of spoils the nice mood the strings set up. Too bad ... I like the beginning and end a lot. Track 8: Hah! faked shellac sounds. These should be Brazilians. Those trombones, the baritone sax, the choro influence, it's all there and still very contemporary. Verrrry nice!!! That vocalizing along with the theme before the piano solo is a nice touch. I love this Brazilian stuff! Track 9: Wes Montgomery's "Jingles" - played way too fast! This tempo reduces the tune to the changes, all the rhythmic intricacies of the theme are lost. I don't see any sense in playing such a tune at such a tempo, he totally misunderstood it. NO, sir! The irony of it is that he can't handle that tempo very well .... is this Larry Coryell? Pianist is much more adept at the fast tempo. Track 10: The opening theme reminds me of a disc of pianist Bill Mays I have, but these are different people. I find it somewhat disjointed harmonically during the tenor solo - the tenor, piano and bass all running versions of the changes far apart from each other. Freddie Hubbard? This kind of things doesn't thrill me anymore. Track 11: Is this a Horace Silver tune - "Kiss Me Tight"? The band has more of a Messengers feeling, especially during the trumpet solo. Nice soloists. I like this a lot better than track 10. In the tradition, but not so many cliché phrases, or played with freshness and conviction. To be continued after cooking the evening meal .... p.s. I won't look at the others' comments before posting on the second disc.

All not that difficult to obtainfrom amazon sellers, old and new editions:

The Hawk and Confrères was among the first releases of Verve CDs, IIRC. Still available from amazon.

Do I see that Schubert CD by Jos van Immerseel on the shelf?

Yes - for this reason there will be no alternates on this reissue. Track list:

I can see lots of bikers riding with their legs crossed ....