mikeweil

Get those OJC CDs while you can. Fresh Sound did a reissue of the complete tentet stuff, and there are plenty other CDs with the pool of musicians involved.

Rooster, your new avatar always makes me want to swat that bug on my desktop!

Please note that he passed three years ago - I just happened to look him up on AMG after listening to a Randy Weston album. Still a bit of skepticism remains, I must admit.

Cows have been accused of the same .....

So this and the fearless leader set still do not replicate the complete contents of the previous Prestige box: The Dameron date is missing (RVG) and the Elmo Hope and Ray Draper dates. The big box also skipped the aforementioned tracks without Coltrane - maybe they used the same masters? At least they copied the concept without much thought.

"Spellbound" I assume? If it's his other OJC I'd gladly take it off your hands! It's Mosaic I have a surplus copy of - two sessions, one with Kenny Dorham and Cedar Walton, The other with Sonny Red. Both are excellent. Reserved if you wish!

So, how exactly are names of the two, to distinguish them? Any birthdates to make it easier? And someone credible tell Mr. Chadbourne, please.

According to Eugene Chadbourne's entry at www.allmusic.com they were one and the same person.

So the webmasters finally developped their secret defense weapon to working condition!?

Pulp of peach and banana, freshly made with a Green Star Juicer - rather a meal than a drink.

Gute Besserung, Josef! edit: to be imagined with a Viennese accent.

I sincerely hope they will do a Cal Tjader CD some day soon. Cal's contribution to get the festival going was substantial: The CD now billed Monterey Concerts was actually a preview performance at Carmel to get the upcoming festival some attention, and it worked! Please take not of a plea by Cal's daughter posted on the Cal Tjader Forum.

Sad news - I only know him from those Horo LPs, but what I heard I liked a lot!

Looks interesting. What is it? Best described as a rather easy listening latin album with bongos featured - Willie Rodriguez and Don Lamond handle them nicely. It's not too much a showoff, nice variations, sound is excellent, nice guitar from Tony Mottola, flutes and reeds from Stan Webb. It is intended as a stereo test record - extreme sounds left and right, if your tone arm doesn't track correctly, you will hear all kinds of unpleasant things. Mine stood the test, but I noticed the channels of my turntable connection were reversed ..... Found it in a local second hand shop last week, paid € 22 for it. The sound is worth it, the rareness too, the music is worth only € 10 .....

Cal Tjader - Vibist Savoy 45 rpm EP XP-8117 with Richard Wyands, Al McKibbon, and Roy Haynes The cover is mint, the record is not, but when played wet most surface noise disappears. This EP sounds a lot more dynamic than the later Savoy LP reissues from the 1980's ...

I must admit that I like this better than J.O.S. albums with Turrentine ...

I play this one quite often, very nice rhythm section, too.

Found this pic of the late 1950's Tjader band with Vince Guaraldi, Al McKibbon, Willie Bobo, and Mongo Santamaria:

With this morning's delivery from Newbury Comics and an overlooked CD added I'm at 120 plus boxes. Seems I lost oversight - bought the Vlifford Jordan from Newbury and found I already had it from the Zweitausendeins bins ...

Hmmm .... I always got my money back from Caiman when they couldn't deliver. I guess the availability of Concord/Fantasy items is as unpredictable to them as it is to us. Just never trust the "in stock" statement. I have an order standing for a French classical CD from a Swiss dealer, and they don't deliver nor answer my e-mails for three months now. Caiman returned the money for the very same CD instantly and informed me they couldn't get it. Yes, but Caiman still only sends the money back once you complain and demand it... .... Sorry to hear that - I never had to demand it back! But OTOH I'm rather cautious with more exotic or OOP items - I'll order this from ebay sellers as they're more likely to have them in stock.

Hmmm .... I always got my money back from Caiman when they couldn't deliver. I guess the availability of Concord/Fantasy items is as unpredictable to them as it is to us. Just never trust the "in stock" statement. I have an order standing for a French classical CD from a Swiss dealer, and they don't deliver nor answer my e-mails for three months now. Caiman returned the money for the very same CD instantly and informed me they couldn't get it.

Finally, my two cents. Sorry to be so late, but we were on vacation and I hardly have the time for concentrazed listening which all of these carefully assembled discs deserve. I didn't peak at any guesses or use search engines etc. Track 1: A track full of surprises: Pianist starts out in a Monkish fashion, but then the drummer comes in and lends it a puckish pulsation; the cello takes it in yet another direction. Nice as an overture (which may have been the reason you selected it), but as a standalone track it would leave me dissatisfied. Track 2: Uhmm .... I never was a fan of singing and picking by the fireplace. Its naivitée is not without charm, and it navigates the threshold to folky kitsch successfully. But the lack of ryhthmic synchronicity between all of them leans towards an amateurish approach still gets on my nerves. Someone with an American background probably can relate to that - I cannot. Track 3: Is this supposed to be "Thelonious"? Usually I'm not a fan of Monk's rhythmic intricacies beeing tempered with, but this seems to work - but it's way too short and seems to serve as a transition, much like track 1. Track 4: A nice ballad treatment - the name of the standard stays hidden in my unconscious - but a bit too laid back for my taste, I wish the tenor player would have been a bit more adventurous. But whoever this is knows what he wants to do. Judging from the sound it must be a rathe recent recording. But, as with all preceding tracks, I have no idea who this could be. Track 5: This track's intensity curve goes straight up, down, and back up and down again. Not to my taste but fully realized, though I do not get its message. Track 6: The vibes sound is almost early Milt Jackson. Rather authentic i.e. Brazilian sounding bossa nova treatment. Nice. Very nice. The counterpoint between vibes and the horns is unusual for that genre. Is that Jack Sheldon playing the trumpet solo? Could be a mixed band of West Coast and Brazilian musicians - guitarist sounds very much Brazilian. Is the whole album like this? If so ..... Track 7: Nice how they get themselves together after that scattered intro. Verrry nice mixture of circus band and jazz. Like it a lot. Trumpet player is very good! All are good. Track 8: Nice but not deep enough for me, or simply beneath me. My fault. Track. 9: Very forlorn sax sound. Like cautiously trying to find the notes - the whole music - again after being traumatized very badly. Would like to hear more of that band. Track 10: Okay they're downright angry, not intimidated like the guys before. I like the former treatment much better. Not enough variety in this track. Track 11: That's more to my taste. Nice how it turns to be "Purple Gazelle". On the whole I think the pianist takes to many liberties with the changes and the rhythmics. It's more challenging and difficult to stay closer and still do your thing. When they start the solos over the straight 4/4 swing groove it could be anything. More connection between theme and solo, please! Track 12: Consequently realized, but I don't listen too much of that kind of thing anymore. Track 13: I hate equally tempered tuning with strings - like sucking on a lemon. In fact the whole ensemble is out of tune. Awful! Less sentimentality and better intonation and it would sound a lot better. The idea itself is nice. Track 14: Similar conception, but much better in tune, although this still sounds like most musicians are not aware of the intonation problems occurring with sich instrument combinations. Some lone Frisell type guitar - again a nice idea overall. Track 15: That rhythm had me from the start! Nice how the pianist accompanies the bassist when he carries the theme. My favourite track so far. Who is this? Track 16: Some serious calypso infected tune. Great clarinet - very Carribean and deepyl jazzy at the same time. But these are jazz players. Nice how they interlock. Another winner for me. Now this is a case where Carribean percussion would have spoiled it. They got the idea! Singer has a very nice warm timbre. Is this some Gunter Hampel unit with Jeanne Lee? Only the flutist is not to my liking, and the writing at the end sounds "German" to me. Track 17: If he would do this with less hectic/percussive phrasing I could like it. Track 18: There's a nice Monkish substream in this BT - Brilliant Corners, isn't it? Very unique way of treating this!!! Taking Monk back to some musique de salon and inserting those trills when nobody espects them anymore .... How's the remainder of the disc you got this from? Another favorite! More to follow. Please don't take it personal when I dislike some - I enjoyed listening a lot, and two or three are serious candidates for the buying list. Thanks very much for the care with which you programmed the tracks - excellent job!

I'm guessing that the discography is no longer there for out-of-print sets. Correct. A quick Google search turned up this page that seems to have the discography info from the original Mosaic site. http://audiophileaudition.com/audaud/JAN02.../jazzJAN02.html Thanks! It's also in this post of the thread brownie linked.

I have experienced milder forms of this. I'd say try different software for decompressing the mp3 files before burning. Since there are minor differences between software for compression, there could be compatibilty problems and using a different one for decompressing could compensate. Besides that I always burn only at 4 x speed. I use Feurio, a German language burning software which always decompresses without problems.

I have both but would prefer "Members" which happened to listen to earlier today - I think it has some unique features that only Max could have conceived.