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I can't complain - Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson and Curly Russell recorded at the Birdland for Blue Note the day I was born .....

Seems there was one and I missed it! Amazon.de lists it as oop ....

Oh - so it's two!

The Barron discography mentions a 1996 CD issue: Verve CD: 314 531 123-2 - The Cool World/Dizzy Goes Hollywood Anyone has this to tell how the music is? As I posted above, Dizzy's output is so voluminous one has to think selective when planning a box set; but to me, a cut before Barron joined the band and another set with the Barron sessions would have been just as logical especially as Philips and Limelight both belong to Universal.

I saw a George Shearing from this series in the shop and wondered .... I will have a listen into it next time and tell whether it is dubbed from LP.

Almost everybody shies aways from giving me CDs after seeing my collection and knowing my peculiar tastes ...... so i always make me some Christmas CD gifts myself. Unfortunately the one I looked forward to the most, the Cherubini string quartets played by Hausmusik, sits at the post office until Tuesday ..... My wife gave me several very interesting books, autobiographical stuff by German authors reflecting the Nazi past of their fathers etc. - I will have some great reading time. Oh yes, and one book with all existing photos of Franz Liszt!

clementine said it all ........ Very sad news. His book on improvisation has something to say for everybody, regardless of style. R.I.P.

I dunno, but there was a violinist of African descent in his circle: George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of a freed Barbados slave and a Polish woman from Galicia - he and Beethoven premiered the A major sonata in May 1803. An autograph score in Bonn calls this the "Sonata per uno mulaticco lunattico" - no kidding! More here.

The Immerseel/Anima Eterna (that's his name in Latin!) set of Schubert's symphonies is great! Amazon.de sells it for only EUR 20 - but it's not too expensive from amazon.com either. All of his orchestra's recordings are a thrill, he now records for Zigzag, a French label: Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Strauss, Liszt, Mozart .... a Ravel disc is up next. The Schubert piano trios he did for SONY with Bylsma and Beths are excellent, too. To get back to topic: This one is high on my wish list:

Forget to comment on this choice: 1. I have this (the Fresh Sound LP reissue) but didn't recognize it 2. I think only one board member has a copy of the original 3. Considering that LoneHill is on the black list of many a board member, it is daring you acknowledge posession and use of that CD 4. The blacklist may be the reason why most never heard this. 5. .... and never got the idea to use this item, which was subtitled "A musical blindfold test" on the cover of the first LP, which may be unknown to some. 6. Great choice - I have to dig this out again. Maybe Mighty Quinn would take care of this if it weren't for that LoneHill CD.

Thought I'd post a pic of this here ... anything else available by this quartet? Their recording of the quartets op. 18 seem to be oop.

Had a listen into this at the local shop today: Great!

To quote from Mosaic's site: (My index numbers) Here's what I found in Bryuninckx: (1) - Norgran 1083 Jazz Recital (2) - Verve 8352 The Greatest Trumpet of them All (3) - Verve 8313 Have Trumpet will excite Verve 8328 The ebullient Mr. Gillespie (2 unissued tracks) (4) - Bruyninckx lists a single Verve 10213 and six unissued tracks recorded March 28-29, 1960 in a Chicago studio and four unissued live tracks from the Konzerthuset in Stockholm dated November 21, 1960 with Leo Wright - the latter also has Schifrin. (5) - Verve 8401 An electrifying evening (February 9, 1961) Philips 200-048 Dizzy on the French Riviera Philips 200-070 New Wave (6) - Philips 200-091 Something old, something new Philips 200-123 Dizzy Goes Hollywood Philips 200-138 The Cool World The next albums of the Moody-Barron band were for Limelight. The above does not quite correspond to Mosaic's listing, maybe Bruyninckx has some dates wrong or my edition is too dated.

Sad to see this goes so slowly! One of the very best Mosaics, in my opinion! "Sad"? It just gives some of us more time to get up the funds to pop for this. Word!

FWIW, some entries from Bruyninckx: Dizzy Gillespie (tp, vcl) Hank Mobley (ts) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Charli Persip (d) New York, May 25, 1954 (Norgran 1083 Jazz Recital) - Sugar Hips - Hey Pete - One Alone (Lonely One) - Money Honey Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Jimmy Cleveland (tb) Hank Mobley (ts) Wade Legge (p) Lou Hackney (b) Charli Persip (d) New York, June 8, 1954 (Norgran 1083 Jazz Recital) - Blue Moon - Rails - Devil and the fish - Rumbola Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Henry Coker (tb) Gigi Gryce (as, arr*) Benny Golson (ts, arr°) Pee Wee Moore (bs) Ray Bryant (p) Tommy Bryant (b) Charli Persip (d) New York, December 17, 1957 (Verve 8352 The Greatest Trumpet of them All) - Blues after dark° - Sea breeze° - Out of the past° - Shabozz* - Reminiscing* - A night at Tony's* - Smoke Signals* - Just by myself° More to come .....

Regardless of what will be included - I think a Mosaic treatment of Dizzy Gillespie is long overdue. Considering the enormous quantity and diversity of the material for Verve alone (ranging from small working groups to his own big band, all star groups, jam sessions, special orchestral projects, and sideman dates) it's no wonder Universal did not attempt it - I found that compilation box set box set issued several years ago was a disappointment as it confirmed there would be no "complete" edition. Splitting this output into thematically focussed sub-units seems like a practical way. BTW - is there any Dizzy Disco somewhere online? I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't.

Yes, that's what it's probably is - starts out very softly. Doesn't sound like an effect controlled by the drummer himself - you can't play this pattern as softly as it starts.

In this case you should check out Paul Komen's take on the Diabellis on Ars Musici - I love it! I have followed Staier's career from the beginning and seen him perform several times, but I find he's a little too controlled in the studio - compared to his live performances, which are on the same level artistically, but he takes more chances. For me the top historic piano man in Europe at the time is Jos Van Immerseel, who also cut a Beethoven disc many years ago.

Let's call these outstanding finds a vault issue, as somebody suggested years ago. Just because it was recorded years ago, there's no logic in calling them re-issues. My choice for vault issue of the year: Monk & Trane at Carnegie Hall - but only beacuse I have yet to hear the Bird & Diz ....

Great! Sign me in, e-mail on its way - Mr. Bassman will sign up separately, but you can send his disc to me in the same package - we play together in one band and see each other frequently.

As you please, sir! That's July, 2008, to be exact.

Just confirmed the Schuppanzigh Quartett from Cologne recorded the Streichquartette op. 18/4 & op. 59/3 on the instruments from Beethoven's legacy that are preserved at the Beethoven house in Bonn! Here's a link to their discography page with listening samples - it's in German, but simply click on the MP3 symbols to hear them. The label (Ars Musici) is somewhat hard to get, but I will inquire. p.s. It is available from amazon.de, and also via Caiman - so it should be available from caiman in the US as well. Here's a review of that CD in English language.

The critics usually are very unforgiving when listening to Beethoven or other grand masters on period instruments - this may play a part in those ensembles rarely attempting those works. One that was well received and is at the top of my Beethoven wish list: on Harmonia mundi France USA branch. (Their Mendelssohn and Schumann quartets are great - here's a link to their page on the label's website). I have one of the quartets op. 18 by the Smithsonian String Quartet but this is OOP. I will look for others.

Yeah! My Man Pony! I'm working on his discography - it's a shame he wasn't recorded more often. He was in excellent company here, and honestly I cannot understand the aversive reactions to his vocals - there were more famous jazz musicians singing with far less vocal talent, and if you listen with an open mind: these guys capture the groove of the original on Miles' record so well, and the lyrics (by Oscar Brown Jr. IIRC) capture the mood and Pony hits the mood right there ...... This track is an excellent example how placing a single track out of its context can work its magic uninhibited: I never noticed how well they get that feeling when I listened to this track between the other tracks. Pony played very nice stuff: get his Prestiges and the Epic all star sax encounter Pony's Express as long as you can find them - I just bought the Jingle Bell Jazz compilation just for one Pony track from the sessions of the latter album, it's the craziest rendition of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer you'll ever get to hear!

..... for posting so many silly sexy album covers ......