mikeweil

Pretty much the same here ...

I bought that Cd cheap, and for Geoffrey Keezer - and I will keep it for Keezer.

Monk looks so much a happy man on this cover! BTW: I wonder how they did this - with mirrors? Monk sitting in a corner of mirrors?

I don't get this. I think these people are mixing up his playing and his composing all the time, as if it were one and the same. But he kept re-working his music by playing it and improvising on it all through his career. His execution as a pianist certainly was in peak form during his Columbia period. And he had a good working band and recorded with it much more often than in the previous decade - so it sounds like he repeated himself more, but in fact we just have a better documentation of what he did all his life. "Consensus" - these guys should try to play like Monk, and exactly - then we'll talk again! Complete nonsense, IMHO.

I had a copy of Windmills - thought he was a very good singer, but that the strings were too much up front in the mix. Saw him live with an all star band doing both - great drummer with monster chops and great groove! One of the best bossa nova jazz drummers around!

My best wishes for you - the appropriate advices are here already! Get a good resume from your company!

Sorry, my mistake - I was talking about Red Holt, of course. I'm heavily drum-biased, ya know ...... Still, R.I.P. Eldee Young - and I remember his cello playing, too. My apologies.

Here's my SACD library - not as many, but I can recommend all the jazz titles, sound-wise. I would consider the Gil Evans Prestige as absolutely essential.

Claude, I saw from your list that you already have the Milt Jackson Invitation SACD - does that sound better than the OJC CD?

R.I.P. - he was one of the first drummers I really listened to on some Ramsey Lewis compilation LP I had early in the 1970's. - shame on Universal that we still have to wait for an expanded CD reissue of the classic Ramsey Lewis Trio LPs.

Isn't that included in the Prestige twofer CD - or was that deleted?

There was a Maupin interview recently where he states that all rumours about the tapes of The Jewel In The Lotus being in bad shape are nonsense, and that it will be on CD later this or next year. This is such a beautiful, highly realized album .... Got Penumbra two weeks ago, like it, but it doesn't evoke the same warmth in me as Jewel - I wish the rhythm section would be a little more flexible.

Now is that unedited "Impressions" reason enough to get this and sell my 1993 Impulse CD? And, why didn't they include the complete version in 1993? There's sufficient space left on the CD ...

Are those Impulse LPs available anywhere? CD perhaps? I always regretted that I didn't buy them at the time.

Neither your typical organ nor a typical flute record: Harold McNair's "The Fence". There is organ and piano in the rhythm section, and he plays flute on some tracks - the sound combination obviously left some imprint in my memory.

I'm in, of course (still have to post my thoughts on BFT 48, so take your time .....)

Only thing I'm missing is the "Today's active topics" link at the bottom of each page.

Just now that I started getting used to live without this board ..... ..... just kiding. The looks are alright with me - I like something new every now and then, and never really warmed to that violet and peach look. If it's so much work to program different color schemes - I can live without these choices. It's more important that the post counts are saved .....

One more time for: It's just as good as the other Columbia live dates - although I like the quartet with Dunlop better.

I'll have a listen when I encounter this at my retailer - if I will buy it, it will be for Tony.

I know of an LP issue Phoenix LP PLP-8008 - no idea if that was the first, but it's the same issue number as the Trip and has all 8 tracks.

Maybe so - when I started listening to music it was the second half of the 1960's, when the Beatles dominated the radio. Almost no jazz on German radio, at least not during hours acceptable for a schoolboy. AFN had half an hour of jazz every evening around 7 p.m., but the Germans not before 10 p.m. - I stumbled over that AFN show by accident as I was listening to the science fiction stories to practice my English - the jazz was before or after that. They always had the latest releases, even some rare stuff like Lloyd McNeill's self-produced first album that I never saw anywhere - still would like to buy it. During afternoons while doing homework it was classical stuff, mostly 20th century, later it was jazz or pop. But I wouldn't say I came to jazz through rock - rock, pop, clasical and jazz were all present on records in our household, and I listened to all of that at the same time and took my choices - still do it like this.

This has always been one of my favourite JOS recordings! Along with Mellow Mood from the same session - I burned my own CDR to have them in session order. Don't like the session with big band as much. But that small group session with Wes and Grady Tate and sometimes Ray Barretto is great stuff.

I added the version of Patterson's people with Arno Marsh as a bonus track - sure would like to hear a whole set with him! Nice stuff - more please!

Used Lp copies are all over the place, dusty groove, Gemm.com, ebay - you name it.