mikeweil

OH YEAH!!! VERRRRRY Nice Choice! I will play this LOUD!!!! tomorrow when everybody is out of the house! I LOVE Tootie's groove with Buster on the title track, and Herbie's dry Rhodes sound that's close to an African balaphone.

BTW - Vol. 1 features a vocalist Dick Gray - any more info about him? He sounds like a cross between Al Hibbler and Earl Coleman!

Claude, please post your review on SA-CD.net to correct the bias a little. Thanks!

Just ordered a copy of that second CD - thanks for the hint! I had been waiting for this to appear - Wilson's band was so great!

Moon Rise is a gorgeous vocal tune, IMO! In shellac days I would have worn that one out!

Complete LPs and under Dexter's leadership, unless otherwise noted: Prestige 7009 - Wardell Gray Memorial (1 track) Jazzland 929 - The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon Prestige 7455 - Booker Ervin, Setting The Pace Prestige 7623 - The Tower of Power Prestige 7680 - More Power (+ 6 alternates, 4 otherwise unreleased) Prestige 11018-2 & 11023-2 - Live at the Left Bank / XXL Prestige 7861 - D.G. with Junior Mance Live at Montreux Prestige 7829 - The Panther! (incl. 3 alternates) Prestige 10010 - The Chase incl tracks from CD version Prestige 24166-2 Prestige 10020 - The Jumpin' Blues + 5 extra tracks Prestige 10069 - Generation Prestige 10091 - Tangerine + 3 bonus tracks Prestige 10051 - Ca'Purange Prestige 10071 - Blues a la Suisse + 1 Prestige 10078 - Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1 track)

I re-listened to the enhanced CD (The Ultimate Blue Train) and its sounds fine on my system. A bit better than the previous Blue Note CD, I found back then. The interviews are nice, the video is only Trane's solo from the 1960 TV appearance with Miles. One should keep an old working computer for these things - the new QuickTime should handle it, but I had to temporarily reduce screen color resolution ...

I think I better check my Miles metal spine boxes ....

More wise words.

Perhaps they should get back to using the Pony Express?

Tell it to 'em, Jim! That's the truth! I went through hard times during my first university years for the very same reasons. This year in August we're married for 10 years. We met at a dance therapy workshop where I was playing, but nothing happened. But she organized another workshop in her hometown three months later, and I stayed in her guest room, she made dinner for me, and we had some time to talk and found we shared attitudes on a lot of things. Next she attended a gig I played near her town - 350 km from where I lived - and there were long intermissions so we had more time to talk, sitting on a bench outside enjoying the last warm and sunny day of the year. My girlfriend at the time was 7 months pregnant at the time, but it was a very difficult partnership, and a few months later I threw in the towel (as a consequence I haven't seen my daughter since she was four months old ...). When I told her I split on the phone she almost dropped the receiver (so she admitted years later). But it took months before we could meet again as one was always occupied on weekends. She then spent her Easter vacation at my place instead of going to Prague, and a few weeks later I told her I wanted to call her my wife in some café - she almost fell over ..... We married in August. She looked for a new job near my place - I couldn't move since I was responsible for my mother living in the same house - and moved here in late September. She always bugs me she wants to re-marry me as for various reasons we had only a small party and ceremony at the time ..... When you meet the right person you simply know that you want to marry her - I never had felt that wish before. And without her I wouldn't have been able to go through a lot of awful things over the years.

Thanks!

My copy arrived today!

MG has traded me some for a copy of the Jimmy Coe / Paul Weeden in the meantime ....

Happy Birthday!

I haven't heard the second Classics disc, but have the first, and a cassette of the Sounds of Swing LP, and only part of that is on the first Classics. I think all the material sounds good, although Synthetic Joe is a standout track. Some vocals, but with taste, and all kinds of things from ballads to bop.

We'll find out tomorrow. But I think you're correct. It is - if you don't like it, pass it one to me, it's the only Melvin Rhyne missing in my collection. I once had to pass it on because they wanted more than 100 for it in a Munich 2nd hand shop! If ya like it, make me a needle drop, please ....

It can be just as dull - or inspiring - to listen to the umpteenth date from the early 1970's fusion or late 1960's hard bop scene, so don't blow your cool.

Strange - I had that Halcyon LP, but it somehow didn't reach me. What was the drummer's name - Dottie Dodgion? I wonder how she could play with these shoes!

Yes - it originally was a Vogue 10" LP. Vogue is now owned by the BMG group. There was/is a Japanese LP sleeve reissue.

I was sure the Barcelona amigos would take care of it some day ...

I'm delighted to see the Julius Watkins top the poll!

Dameron's The Magic Touch would be a match for Smooth As The Wind - both are Keepnews-produced Dameron-arranged Riverside albums. Still, I prefer them on separate CDs.

The drum beat is unimaginative - you can't play simple oom-pah-oom-pah anymore ...