mikeweil

Branches of the majors on different continents are entirely independent in their release schedules - Universal Europe or EMI Europe often have later release dates. They're not smart in doing so, as they could imagine the diehard fans will not wait and get them from online retailers abroad and lessen their sales numbers, which are small enough with items like these.

I'm not in any way a violent man, but I'd like to smack that sillyass motherfucker upside his head more than just a few times. Luttuce face it, he's asking for it! The way he looks, he knows his fate: being sliced and served with oil and vinegar!

I think Jan Hammer is one of the greatest synthesizer players because with him it sounds like a physical instrument, not a plastic keyboard with electronic devices attached.

Thanks, brownie!!!

Was there a Chronological Classics CD devoted to Leo Parker? They're the only ones who could handle that. Leo Parker sessions "suffer" from the fact that much was reissued under the name of (now) better known co-leaders or sidemen (e.g. Dexter Gordon).

I most certainly will not argue about that!

Before: After:

Denon followed a strange reissue policy after acquring Savoy: 1 - a series of straight LP replica reissues (often ignoring Porter's discographical research, no bonus tracks, often wrong credits) 2- some CD reissues of the SJL single or double LPs. Besides that Vogue did some CD reissues of SJL issues - I guess the Maggie is one of those.

Whew ...... the last two are from the twofer LP series Arista released during the time it owned Savoy. No list online, but (add SJL prefix): 2201 Charlie Parker - Bird: The Savoy Recordings, Master Takes 2202 Lester Young - Pres: The Complete Savoy Recordings 2203 John Coltrane / Wilbur Harden - Countdown 2204 Milt Jackson - Second Nature 2205 Yusef Lateef - Morning 2206 Cannonball Adderley - Spontaneous Combustion 2207 Errol Garner - The Elf 2208 V.A. - The Changing Face Of Harlem 2209 Dizzy Gillespie - Dee Gee Days 2210 V.A. - Brothers and Other Mothers 2211 Dexter Gordon - Long Tall Dexter 2212 The Red Norvo Trio with Tal Farlow and Charles Mingus 2213 Don Byas - Savoy Jam Party 2214 Billy Eckstine - Mr. B. and The Band 2215 V.A. - Black California 2216 Fats Navarro - Fat Girl 2217 Art Pepper - Discoveries 2218 Pete Johnson / Cozy Cole - All Star Swing Groups 2219 Howard McGhee - Maggie 2220 V.A. - The Tenor Sax Album 2221 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n' Roll Vol. 1 2222 Dexter Gordon / Wardell Gray - The Hunt 2223 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 2 2224 V.A. - The Changing Face Of Harlem Vol. 2 2225 V.A. - The Bebop Boys 2226 Yusef Lateef - Gong! 2227 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 3: The Ravens 2228 The Individualism of Pee Wee Russell 2229 The Individualism of Wild Bill Davison 2230 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 4 2231 Gigi Gryce / Duke Jordan / Hall Overton - Signals 2232 J.J. Johnson - Mad Bebop 2233 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 5: Ladies Sing The Blues 2234 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 6: Honkers 'n' Screamers 2235 V.A. - New Music: Second Wave 2236 V.A. - Brothers and Other Mothers Vol. 2 2237 The Trumpet Album, arranged & conducted by Ernie Wilkins 2238 Yusef Lateef - Angel Eyes 2239 Curtis Fuller - All Star Sextets 2240 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 7: Sammy Price - Rib Joint 2241 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 8: The Vocal Group Album 2242 V.A. - Black California Vol. 2 2243 Charlie Ventura - Euphoria 2244 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 9: Shouters 2245 Sahib Shihab - All Star Sextets 2246 V.A. - The Black Swing Tradition 2247 V.A. - The Modern Jazz Piano Album 2248 Marian McPartland - At The Hickory House 2249 Frank Foster / Frank Wess - Two Franks, Please 2250 Boyd Raeburn - Jewells 2251 V.A. - Giants of Traditional Jazz 2252 The Original Johnny Otis Show, Vol. 2 2253 V.A. - The Trombone Album 2254 V.A. - Cool California 2255 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 11: Southern Blues 2256 V.A. - The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Vol. 12: Ladies Sing The Blues Vol. 2 2257 Bird's Night: A Celebration of the Music of Charlie Parker 2258 Little Esther Phillips: The Complete Savoy Recordings 2259 Charlie Parker - Bird at The Roost, Vol. 1 2260 Charlie Parker - Bird at The Roost, Vol. 2 2261 Ray McKinley - The Most Versatile Band In The Land 2262 Harry James - First-Team Player of the Jazz Varsity 2263 The Four Buddies - Complete on Savoy 2264 Louis Prima - Plays Pretty For The People That's where my list ends. There also was a single LP SJL 1100 series, which I might add later. The V.A. compilations are more valuable than one might think, as they collected many complete sessions by artist whose material would not fill an entire album. The only way to comprehend this would be Bob Porter's Savoy discography. The CDs Keepnews compiled in the 1990s are always leaving off some tracks!!! Same goes for the series I listed - often additional tracks turned up after the LPs were released and were added to one of the compilations. Discographically and reissue-wise, Savoy is the greatest mess of them all .....

Tenor Conclave: A Tribute To Hank Mobley Grand Central If I'm not mistaken, it's Coltrane on the cover, and the band is named after one of Trane's tunes .... well, it's their 2nd album, the first was a Trane Tribute, Ravi's in the band - but the pic still the wrong one!

Good to see that he is back in good shape so he could attend the ceremony!

That's what I think. Guitarists, of course. But the ryhthmic concept - nobody copied it!

Mindless mirroring of images for covers is more common than one might like to believe!

Mike, I think there were a lot of fusion and prog rock bands that were influenced by Mahavishnu. Guy Please go ahead and drop some names - I'll gladly stand corrected.

.... but reading the small print one finds a release date of September, 2007 !!!

amazon.de offers them for € 9.99 per disc.

Yes, those swing Vanguards sound great! Wish they had been reissued on CD in a less haphazard fashion.

?!?!?!?!? There was a Fred Katz playing cello in Hamilton's group, and Collette's successors were Paul Horn and Eric Dolphy, then Charles Lloyd ....... Dick Katz was a New York pianist. (You mixed 'em up, I guess ...)

Jim Anderson reported in his thread here that none of the CD issues of the Pink Panther album do it justice, but that it was one of Tommy LiPuma's greatest jobs.

Dug out this nice Gerry Wiggins Contemporary LP yesterday - another excellent Roy DuNann effort:

Re: Emergency - Yes I think it was influential, but more on a general level, encouraging jazz musicians to go the rock route if they felt that way. The players involved were so unique it was impossible to copy the sound. As far as the playing concept is concerned, Weather Report was copied the most, I think. Mahavishnu was rhythmically too intricate (at least for most people here - the only other guy fond of these rhythms on the local scene is still one of my best friends). Tony as a drummer was very influential - after "Believe It" his licks popped up on plenty jazzrock albums I heard in the discos here playing such things.

Hard to say when it exactly happened. Seems he still worked on the sound after turning to that bigger kit - albums like the Stanley Clarke debut LP on Nemperor and his last for Polydor "The Old Bum's Rush" are evidence of that. "Ego" clearly still has the smaller kit in use. "Believe it" has the new one at full throttle.

So you won't bid ..... no use asking any wife in such a case!

... and this ebay item will stay unsold and unheard, it seems.

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