mikeweil

Keep rockin', buddy!

I'm feeling lucky more and more that I never heard a vocal rendition of this tune .....

Good luck with the returning procedure!

Another thought: Patterson played the Stephen Sondheim tune. BMI lists dozens of tunes with that title - maybe the one Jim is allergic to is a different one?

Got my 45 with "People" as played by Don Patterson (the flip side, btw!) from a seller at GEMM for a very good price. Turns out it fades out at 3'00", suggesting it was a much longer performance, as the "A" side, "Love Me with All Your Heart", which fades after 2'40", omitting Booker Ervin's solo, or they edited it out (on the CD it runs over 6 minutes). It isn't such a bad piece, the theme is not one of Stephen Sondheim's brightest, but Don plays it nicely. Just him and Billy James - swingin' along without making a big deal about the tune. Nice. I wonder how the complete version may have sounded ...... lost or buried forever in the Fantasy vaults.

Oh - another veteran of the music going to heaven. RIP.

Your expression "there is clicking all over the left channel" points in that direction - none of that on my disc.

What's your source for this?

Okay - at the end of track 4 during the piano cadenza I heard one light tick each left and right - but the "washy" sound one hears on the right channel comes from RVG's habit of closely miking the ride cymbal.

To quote from the thread you linked: "It's been revealed" - where and by whom - is there no source to quote? I have pretty good ears and usually recognize a needle drop, but here ..... if so, it's a good one!

That's strange - I'm just listening to my US manufactured CD from 1991: no clicks or signs that it was dubbed from LP. Michael Cuscuna usually admitted this when he had to use an LP for the source. No mention wahtsoever on the liner. I'd say you have a defective copy. Could you post a link to your search result?

Try Hiroshi Tanno or others, AFAIK it's been offered by quite a number of sellers; this is even the second time it's on CD in Japan (missed it the first time around).

Yes it is!

Tjader was Cal's first Fantasy LP after his roughly ten years with Verve and Skye. It's clearly a child of its time, but the grooves - they could be described as some kind of souljazz montuno - are good, especially on the opening track. I love Cal's organ playing - yes he does it himself, via overdub - and the blend of vibes and Rhodes piano - Al Zulaica was an underrated player. This album opened Cal's music up to more modern rock/pop trends,in part due to the influence of producer Ed Bogas - famous for his soundtrack to Fritz The Cat, and a former member of Big Brother & The Holding Co. The next album, Agua Dulce (available on the Fantasy CD Descargas) was more like Salsa, curiously, although recorded with basically the same band. If you wonder about Cal handling these pop tunes, go for it - I love his rendition of the Beatles tune, She's Leaving Home. He makes it sound like it has been a popjazz ballad all the time.

Since I don't have my Dorham Lp any more I will go for this CD reissue - hope it sounds good. Considering the Adderley as I accidentally got the German ZYX didipak issue ....

One of the most popular Cal Tjader LPs from 1970 titled simply Tjader has finally been reissued on CD in Japan - Dusty Groove and CD Universe have it. Just ordered my copy. This is on many people's wish list.

Click here for a list - no years of recrding or issue, unfortunately.

Yes, the Japanese and the first US releases shared the same remastering as far as I can tell. You mean the first "Denon" US releases? As far as I can see they were from the same Japanese production - at least I couldn't see any difference. These popped up here every now and then, like they had manufactured rather large quantities that didn't sell as fast as they had expected. The US Savoy web catalogue still has quite a number of these CDs.

I guess so.

Atlantic is another label that needed proper discographically informed reissue treatment! Rhino sometimes, but not always did this. FWIW, the box set has the first two seconds of Coltane's Equinox cut off, too!

Sound was mostly very good on these, but they were sloppily edited: sometimes there were mistakes in the credits, and they rarely added bonus material. Seems they never consulted Bob Porter's Savoy discography and thus stuck to the often scattered release pattern of the LPs, with often short playing time. Due to this I find it out of place to call them one of the best reissue series. Savoy is a label that never received optimal reissue treatment. The Arista reissues came close as far as content is concerned (completed sessions etc.) but their cover design was not so good. But Bob Porter compiled them, and he knew the Savoy vaults better than anybody.

Okay, now the download works - thanks!

Wanted to listen to the single MP3 tracks linked, but got "http error 404" all the time .....

I had been wondering ..... if there is anything not available over here, how about sendin' me some in exchange for the BFTs? No Russian punk jazz bands?

I second the recommendation of the expanded CD edition of the Columbia 10" with Miles, but it's really only the culminating point of the preceding sessions for Musicraft (probably compiled on some Chronological Classics CDs) which have almost everything she was about to do in a nutshell. This early stuff is clearly my favourite Sarah - "If You Could See Me Now" and "Lover Man" in particular - compare the latter to Lady Day's (equally fascinating) rendition and you know where modern jazz vocal begins.