mikeweil

Which issue of this material do you have? As I said, the Spotlite LP doesn't list McGhee - personnel unknown except for Bird it says.

Huh!!!

I had a similarly dumb problem yesterday: All of a sudden the system would freeze in the startup procedure before it initialized the main hard disk. Pressing the reset button would start only in safe mode. Couldn't find a problem there. Same thing repeating during startup several times. I finally disconnected everything but screen and keyboard and an old Windows mouse and there it was again starting as if nothing had happened. Turns out it was the driver of the scannner ...... reinstalled it and everything's back to normal. Windumb!

I know this kind of problem - Windows needs to be restarted in regular intervals to work properly, it seems .... In Germany insiders call it Windoof - a pun made up from the words "windows" and "doof" (= imbecile).

Yes, sure. Cool! ..... and I'm standing in line for a week in Vienna August 4-11, 2007 - hope you're in town!

I've been told that for Germany and Europe Jazz, Classical, and traditional non-European music together count in at less than 10%. The rest is all types of "popular" music.

If one takes a good look at Noal Cohen's Lucky Thompson Discography (which surpasses my attempts at this subject) you will see that there is a 1951 leader session for Decca (which is currently available on an Ocium CD) with one unissued track (that I doubt still exists), sideman track with Hot Lips Johnson, and the tracks from Louis Armstrong's Autobiography in Jazz sessions (never heard these, don't know whether Lucky has solos). The ABCs are his own and the tracks with Pettiford and Quincy Jones, but he solos only on a few tracks of the latter. As much as I am an LT fan, I don't quite see the sense of this box. Everybody interested has the previous Impulse CDs or the Spanish issues of these or can easily find a used copy. p.s. Brownie - you don't have the Fresh Sound CD of the Rivoli sessions?

"In Case You Haven't Heard" - wasn't this a Woody Shaw tune? Norman Connors in 1968 ....... would be interesting to hear him in a hardbop context. On the Pharoah Sanders dates soon after and his own records it is hard to find out what his drumming style as an accompanist really was - sounds a little like the band swung on by themselves and he played along!

Spinning the Spotlite LP right now. As often, the credits seem to be only partly correct. But it sure sounds like the Machito band of the time! 1. Mambo - This is in fact Roger "King" Mozian's tune Asia Minor Bird on alto. Ubaldo Nieto's timbales cut through - that lick he plays at the end of the chorus (daddaboom) I copied - but try do do it his way! 2. Lament for the Conga (that's the spelling on the Spotlite LP, but Congo should be correct) This sounds like a misnaming of another familiar Machito band repertoire item, but don't ask me now to go through all of them! Trumpet could be Mario Bauza. The bongo player is José Mangual. These descending chord changes are very old - baroque composers used them as Ciacona or Chaconne or Passacaglia - interestingly, baroque scholars always tell they originated in Spain's Latin American colonies! 3. Reminiscing at Twilight If that's really Frank "Paquito" Davilla's tune, why shouldn't he be the featured trumpet on this track (he was a member of the band at the time)? If you listen to other Machito recordings of the time, his lead alto player Eugene Johnson sounds just like the lead alto here. The Spotlite LP, BTW, does not list McGhee for that session!

But: Would you buy a CD just for the sexy cover? (Answer: No - 'cause it's posted in the sexiest album covers thread!)

So I'm the expert? Rather an adoring fan! I'd recommend any of the albums mentioned before, but I'm far from having all he ever did. The one that started the topic, e.g., is missing in my collection. But most of my favourites have been mentioned. Lewis was very special.

I wish Black Lion would finally get around and issue the complete Montreux performance!

What LT Mosaic Select?!

You bet me to it! The 1994 Columbia Legacy double CD of Big Band and Quartet in Concert is still available from some US sites, has the complete concert and sounds fine, to my ears. I would hate to live without it! p.s. just checked CD Universe and found they sell the double for $ 7.85!!! Go get it. Type the album title in the search field on top of the page and you'll get a direct hit!

Don't understand what you want to say by "blocked me" - I didn't see your post when I replied to Ubu's as it was on the next page. No bad intentions on my side. That said, I pity you didn't have the funds to buy and release it back then.

Same here ! And here! (NYC) And here as well. Rented a shredder to remove some garden debris to make room for a new main water supply pipe being installed, so I'm glad the weather fits.

I know there was damage to his house during the recent storms, and that he has some tough business to deal with all the time. I too hope all is well ...

No! That one was recorded in 1965 IIRC for Duke Ellington's label, but not released at the time. I like it a lot, very nice relaxed trio pieces, including Randy doing some Duke, which equals Monk doing Duke in quality, though not in style. And you must have heard Randy doing "Three Blind Mice"!

Has anybody here compared the new RVG and the previous Blue Note CD issue? Is the RVG and improvement, sound-wise? The old CD has a rather low level compared to others.

Musically, excellent, but the sound of many Blue Note vault issues of the time was inferior compared to later CD issues. Muffled and flat.

Or the customs closed the border to search 'em one by one ....

The ENJA solo disc is as fine as the Owl - but the Marrakech is soooo cool and masterful, a summary of his musical wisdom acquired during a long career, and recorded in the surroundings of his beloved Morocco. Randy recorded a dozen or so solo discs in Europe in the 1970's, some are pretty rare, and they are all pretty much in the same vein, and all very good, but the Owl, ENJA and Black Lion/Freedom discs sound the best. I love each and every project that Weston and Liston have done together, including the one with strings. To my ears, it has the grandeur of a dream that has become true. Liston and Weston were a dream team. Like Hal Overton and Monk, and Gil Evans and Miles Davis.

I don't hear the bass drum as too loud - we're used to unnaturally soft bass drums from studio recordings beacuse audio technicians were afraid the cutting stylus would jump out of the groove, and producers didn't like it. Drums are recorded at too low a volume on most recordings.

Marion Brown, Afternoon of a Georgia Faun ECM LP