mikeweil

Paul, you should move this topic to the Recommendations forum.

I would limit this to the live recordings. The studio stuff has totally different stylistics and is from a different time span. The Tjader Fantasy sessions would benefit from chronological presentation, anyway - I sorted out some of the early recordings myself on CDRs, and it makes much more sense.

Yeah - a complete early Prestige Jug box would be great! I would add Zoot Sims and Sonny Stitt (isn't there a Stitt box in the making?).

Mike, the 8000 series was mono. The stereo issues were in the 9000 series. The first 3 sessions you list were not on the original Candid and originate from Cadence (the parent label). Thanks, Chuck - that explains these early recording dates. I wanted to distinguish the later issues which were not released in mono any more, but of course you're correct.

As a complementary listing, Mike Fitzgerald's issue listing from here. I'm missing some of the recording dates for the Taylor sessions.

Since I became curious about the way Candid held sessions of different groups on one day, I compiled a list of all original Candid sessions - please post any additions or corrections. Are the dates for the Paich and Chamber Jazz Sextet sessions correct? I have these from an older Bruyninckx disco. Thanks in advance! I used the 8000 series numbers to denote albums released back then, 9000 for those released later by Black Lion.

Yes it does - thanks! I received a copy of the latest CD issue of Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus earlier this week, but the CD sounds strangely muffled, as if the higher frequency range was cut off to reduce tape hiss. Do the earlier CD versions sound like this? Meanwhile, my missing copy of Candid Dolphy reappeared - it was misfiled between Bill and Gil Evans CDs .......

It SUCKS. The old Fantasy site had an elegant simplicity sorely lacking on the Concord site. Yeah, it really sucks .....

Disc was on my desk when I returned home on Sunday night - had one listen so far - great stuff, I will post later today or tomorrow. Thanks!

Essence of Funk - an all star band led by Lenny White with Donald Harrison, Bennie Maupin, Tom Browne, Billy Childs, and Ron Carter, doing only two Blue Note tunes, but all are in the Blue Note spirit: 1.Cornbread 2.Loose Change 3.Slow Drag 4.Eternal Flame 5.Freedom Jazz Dance 6.Jive Samba 7.Comin' Home Baby

That's an excellent album - and the Tardy is on my ever growing wish list!

There was a box of 3 LPs and 1 EP on Fresh Sound in 1988 with his complete French Columbia and Barclay recordings - another nice set. The sessions with Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Costa, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton,Nabil Totah, Osie Johnson, and Elvin Jones from 1956 are my very favorite Jaspar!

This reminds me to finally decide on one of the two BFTs I conceived as I am next in line - thanks again for switching, as it turned out I was and will be on the road for most of April. Please sign me up - PM sent. p.s. very nice appetizing cover!

I think (but can't remember the source) there was a loose connection between Eddie Harris and the AACM members - playing free form exclusively was not a criterion for membership. Eddie was well versed in free playing - he did a lot of it in his quartet with Jodie Christian, Richard Smith, and Bob Crowder. And just like the AEOC sometimes made fun of popular musics, so did Eddie. Or maybe Jodie Christian, who played on Eddie's albums up to "Instant Death", wasn't available. Christian played an electric piano of that brand in Eddie's group. Abrams played on one more session with Eddie in 1973 - one track was on the 2LP set "Excursions". And I think Eddie kept contact with his former bandmates and the Chicago scene - he invited Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, and Billy Higgins in the late 1970's, who had been on his very first Atlantic LPs.

Thanks - that explains it. Not too distracting, methinks - just the bass moved slightly to the right and the drums or rather the high frequency brush sounds slightly to the left, but I think they left the frequency spectrum intact. Wish I had a mono switch on my amp ......

All that I've bought sounded fine and lived up to their expectations. Andrew Hill, Matt Wilson, Larry Goldings, Javon Jackson, Lonnie Smith, Dave MacKay, Sam Newsome, The Voodoo Dogs .... I'd buy anything from them if I know I like some of the musicians involved.

http://www.billyhartmusic.com/ Nice .... so Mark Turner is now in his band. The great drummers as bandleaders ....

Will do!

Another fan here - this is some of the most beautiful jazz I have heard! Well, I'm a Dameron nut, sharing his birthday ..... great soloing all around. Re the piano attack: Dameron always talked about himself playing only arranger's piano, but due to this I think one hears the stark quality that makes one think of Ran Blake and the like.

I put you on the list for # 61 - I hope that's what you wanted. To participate in the guessing, there's no other way than to sign up for individual BFTs.

Huh? You'll be in Basel, too? I'm not sure... and I cannot speak Viennese slang, either. -_- Skip the Basel gig, too: It's one of those 45 minute gigs on a kurdish festival, and it's in Liestal, not in Basel, I was told last night.

You're flattering ..... p.p.s. thanks much for the dics! you hit home with these! p.p.p.s. I was lucky I stored these and the discs I bought in my small hand baggage - my big case was missing upon arrival!

..... not just the girls, but the organissimo blindfold boy, too!

I agree on the "extra" Jo Jones brings to a Tatum session compared to Bill Douglass. I always shied away from Tatum as his dazzling virtuosity is almost too much to bear, but now I can see what makes him so great. Thanks for the inspiration to buy this (the box set, that is.) I like the natural sound the engineers gave the groups on these sessions - like it much better than the way RVG recorded similar lineups in the same year. I understand this was mono, but the CD sounds like there is a noticeable difference between the channels - WTF is this? Anybody else noticed this - or is it remastered this way only on the box set?