mikeweil

Go ahead! I really would like to hear what Siberian jazz sounds like! Please post a link here. The previous stuff is nice, but not what I listen to on a daily basis.

Joe Henderson, Black Miracle (Milestone) - all tracks, no solos

Don Patterson with David "Fathead" Newman - Mellow Soul Prestige LP 7510 with green label, probably a 1970's re-pressing. Bought from a GEMM seller for € 20 incl. postage, very good condition. I'll never understand why there never was a OJC of this. Maybe a RVG?

From the label's website (Proprius):

JPC sells this box with three SACDs and a bonus DVD with interviews for € 29,95 - other sites ask for three times as much. The sound of this 30 year old recording is indeed spectacular, putting you right into the club, and it features some top figures of the Swedish jazz scene, Arne Domnérus on alto and clarinet and Lars Erstrand on vibes in particular. Bengt Hallberg is on piano. The playing is not too progressive, with some Goodman/Hampton references, but recommended nonetheless for all those with audiophile tendencies. JPC link

At that price it's a steal! And, contrary to other Keepnews produced Savoy reissues, this really has all there is! A cornerstone of California bebop - you won't get any more or better 1940's Dexter or Wardell.

Well, so far I liked all of these players whereever I heard them, so .....

Thought about ordering a copy, but no: I will pick this up at their shop during our vacation in Vienna next month!

Contact them via e-mail, they speak English and are very friendly! shop@redoctopus.at

Why didn't they release that as a doubletime 2CD reissue, in the first place? This is a case where clinging to the "original LP" kind of counteracts.

Here's a link to their English site: http://www.speakerscorner.de/Speakerscorne...te/E/index1.htm Acoustic Sounds distribute them in the US - they have links on their site to distributors in other countries. I tried to get the Velebny Saba LP reissue some time ago, but was too late .....

I sent some by PayPal - wanted to do this for a while, thanks for the reminder. Thanks again! For the board an' all, I mean!

Oh yeah, happy birthday with a lot of rim shots! :party:

Kenny Burrell, always soulful, always a lot of feeling. If I could choose but one jazz guitarist, it would probably be him.

Tonight we're going to see Joshua Redman with Reuben Rogers and Antonio Sanchez at the Centralstation Darmstadt.

p.s. on the cover of that CD one can see that Monk uses a standard solid body Fender Jazz Bass. This makes his smooth sound all the more amazing. He plucks with the thumb on that pic, too - maybe this is a reason?

The Mastersounds CD on Concord website

Monk Montgomery was unique - perhaps there is some specialist here who konws what type of bass he used. IIRC he tried to emulate the feeling and swing of an upright, on which he was pretty good, too - he played upright on the Montgomery Brothers Riverside album, and on some others I have - e.g. the Johnny Griffin on Riverside with Buddy and Monk. I have the impression it took quite a while before the other bassists figured it out. Rock and soul bassists brought an entirely different approach to the instrument and its sound, which now totally dominates - Monk's approach seems to be forgotten. I like it very much, too. There is a CD Fantasy FCD-24770-2 The Mastersounds with their two LPs Fantasy 3305 Swingin' with the Mastersounds and Fantasy 8062 A Date with the Mastersounds combined (one track left off for playing time restrictions), which you should get before it goes oop. Since Buddy played vibes most of the time it provokes comparison with the Modern Jazz Quartet, and they come out fine, IMHO. Count me in as a fan. I always wondered why they chose that other group name - perhaps to point out the different approach when Wes was not playing - more elaborate arrangements etc.

This is his solo piano CD on HighNote, Underground Memoirs. Very high on my wishlist - I have heard only good things about it. I've seen Cedar Walton live more often than any other jazz musician, and I do not regret it. Always there, very consistent, to the point, creative - what more can one ask for?

Happy Birthday - in stereo!

I have an interview with Jon Hendricks somewhere where he takes position against those criticizing Monk for lack of pianistic technique. That was around the time the Underground LP was recorded, which had a tune with Hendricks' singing his own lyrics to one tune. Hendricks was with Monk and he went to the piano and played a textbook arpeggio worth a classical pianist of Horovitz's staure, and said, he could play like that, but didn't want to, preferred to play his way. I personally find Monk's pianistic approach unique and very attractive, and any attempt to replicate the exact attack and rhythmic phrasing, which is very intricate and anything but primitive, should blow away any doubts about his technical abilities. Wisely, all pianists playing tributes to Monk avoided this, 'cause they simply couldn't do it. This angularity, which at the same time swings like mad, is impossible to copy. I simply do not get the point in all this discussion of Monk's pianist abilities - he could play what he wanted to, and it's outside of the pianistic mainstream, but it was what he wanted, and it works, so WTF? Anyone wishing to hear to hear Monk's music played pianistically straight should go for for other pianists, but he won't get Monk, who was one of a kind. I love him for that. Anything else misses the point, IMHO.

First a rare Calliope LP with live TV recordings of the Cal Tjader and Chico Hamilton Quintets, from 1957 and 1956, respectively. Now the Chico Hamilton Trio - Japanese Liberty reissue of the rare Pacific Jazz Trios with George Duvivier (who has a lot of features here!), Howard Roberts, and Jim Hall.

That's Tony Scott - Hermeto Pascoal always wears glasses due to his very sensitive eyes - he's an albino. Scott was simply a "white eminence".

R.I.P. I "discovered" him only last year - great violinist!

Yes, indeed .....