mikeweil

Excellent choice! Ed Thigpen on Cal Tjader's The Prophet Wayne Shorter, Gary Bartz, Alice Coltrane, Ron Carter on McCoy Tyner's Extensions Charlie Haden on Joe Henderson's The Elements Bill Evans and Barry Galbraith on George Russell's Jazz Workshop

Go ahead and start an "impeccable sideman" thread - Dawson (and Hank Jones) would be high on the list. Joe Chambers on Wayne Shorter's Adam's Apple Herbie Hancock on Roy Ayers' Daddy Bug Roy Ayers on Herbie Mann's Windows Opened Philly Joe Jones on Hank Mobley's No Room For Squares Mel Lewis on Herbie Mann's Great Ideas of Western Mann Thelonious Monk on Gigi Gryce's Nica's Tempo Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier on Ahmad Jamal's At The Pershing Frankie Dunlop on Ray Crawford's Smooth Groove Cándido Caméro on Introducing Kenny Burrell John Lewis on Sonny Stitt's Stitt Plays Bird

Agreed! Heard some local dixie band do an ugly version in the streets last Saturday - no understanding of Ellington's tonal palette and the particular mood of this piece ...

So this this would have a better home on the Monk family label?

Would any of you mind listing available (if admittedly bootleg) CDs of the material not included on the new Impulse release? Thanks!

Chris, I hope you don't mind that I made a copy and gave it to Mr. Bassman during his visit here yesterday .... hope he engages in the discussion this time.

Those Kenny Burrell Blue Note sessions are one more opportunity to discuss reissue criteria. The first Blue Note LP was all from one session, but Vol. 2 had two more tracks from that plus an uncomplete earlier session that had probably intended for 10" Lp release, and a track from a Kenny Dorham live session. etc. etc. Those Japanese CDs reissued the LPs as they were instead of completing sessions which was Cuscuna's way with the US reissues. I was glad when that twofer finally gave us the complete sessions on one disc. The other leftovers had been added to the respective CD counterparts. Sound was okay. So what's the use of continuing that scattered release pattern of those Japanese CDs only to keep old LP compilations intact while wasting a lot of CD playing capacity?

The complete K.B. Blues LP was reissued as part of the Introducing Kenny Burrell Connoisseur twofer.

Well, as Cuscuna aptly remarked, some sessions look good on paper but the results were not as convincing. Like the leftovers released on the "Lost Sessions" Connoisseur CD. And sometimes so many things were happening that a session, especially if it did not yield enough material for a whole LP, was left in the can in favor of a newer one. Alfred Lion reportedly was very critical. In the case of Burrell - he recorded for Blue Note, Kapp Verve, Prestige and Cadet during those years (1963-66) which makes me wonder if there were any contract conflicts?

That LP Summit Sessions never was on CD, at least in the US, right?

There are smaller models for singles or couples without children. The only reason my wife and I didn't buy one last year was that the sizes available wouldn't fit the kitchen cabinets we currently have.

All the tracks from the first two CDs were on US CDs as bonus tracks over the years, but the "Freedom" tracks still a wait reissue - I can't understand why Cuscuna never did this as a Connoisseur. It was him who dug this up for a Japanese LP release, after all.

Yes, the Licoln Center double CD was all there is as far as the concert itself is concerned - I would buy a sonic upgrade any day, all the more if some rehearsal material was included. The previous Monk's Blues also included all there is, including a bonus solo 'Round Midnight. I vote against a CD counterpart of the "wolf" double LP: it had the edited versions which thankfully were restored to completeness on the 1994 CD, it would make it a 3-CD set which Columbia sells at insane prices, and musically, Oliver Nelson's and Hall Overton's arrangements are worlds apart - so should be the reissues. I'd buy any of the Brandeis or Mexico material any day - the one or two tracks on the Misterioso LP are worth listening. There was an take of Honeysuckle Rose recorded at the end of one of the Jazz Workshop gigs, that Keepnews left off the double CD - probably beacuse he ran out of playing time, and it was faded in - IIRC the engineers had turned the tape machines off already when the band played one more tune. This and the recently issued Round Midnight from Newport 55 would make a good starting point for a disc of Columbia "leftovers", if the unissued concerts do not yield enough releasable material.

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RIP - he died way too young. That film was broadcast on German TV two years ago - very impressive, to see how he engulfed that culture completely new to him, and how they accepted and taught him in Tuva. Those Tuvinian musicians are amazing, as was Pena with his deeply authentic blues feel.

Got the testa-ment today - ready to testa-fy.

Of course you're right, although this here (from ebay) depicts the EP release - obviously the same cover used for all issues.

The autumn edition of Universal's German jazz promotional magazine, Jazz Echo, lists these as new LPR releases: Ernie Andrews - This is Ernie Andrews Ella Fitzgerald - Hello, Dolly Milton Nascimento - Courage Jimmy Smith - Stay Loose Jimmy Witherspoon & Jack McDuff - The Blues Is Now Marlena Shaw - The Spice of Life Sarah Vaughan - After Hours at The London House Dinah Washington - I Wanna Be Loved I think the Lateef was mentioned in the previous issue, but I don't keep them. No mention of any new series. Looks to me like some sales initiative. Jazz Echo (in German)

You're welcome! Oh, and watch your mailbox - you're gonna get some ..... well, before Xmas!

To complete my Cal Tjader 1950's collection, I need just three one more items: 1) Fantasy EP 4029: Vido Musso Sextet: Don Dennis (trumpet) Vido Musso (tenor saxophone) Cal Tjader (vibraphone) Gil Barrios (piano) Jack Weeks (bass) Bob White (drums) Los Angeles, California, January 6, 1952 Cuttin' The Nut Come Back To Sorrento Grunions A-Running 2) Fantasy 540 A 45 rpm single of Cal Tjader: As I Love You b/w I've Waited So Long The first of these two tracks has never been released elsewhere; the second was on LP and CD. 3) some rare 4 Star singles of Nick Esposito: Claude Gilroy (tenor saxophone) Billy „Buddy“ Munsinger (piano) Nick Esposito (guitar) Vernon Alley (bass) Joe Dodge (drums) Cal Tjader (bongos) Dottie Grey (vocals) San Francisco, May 1949 Empty Ballroom Blues Part 1 - 4 Star 1294 Empty Ballroom Blues Part 2 - 4 Star 1294 Spring Fever - 4 Star 1350 Fine And Dandy - 4 Star 1350 I'd be grateful if somebody had any of these in any format. PM or e-mail me. Thanks a lot.

Okay, I received my copy of Fantasy 8019 today ..... All tracks are in true stereo, tracks are as listed by Stereojack in his post above. The Squeeze Me, although credited to Waller/Williams on the label, is really (a very nice arrangement of) the Ellington tune. This track was never issued on any other Fantasy release I know of. Mary Stallings, BTW, also sings the Ellington tune. The cover photo posted above is by Chuck Stewart, of all people ..... Okay, the next mysterious Tjader item crossed of my list .

A rare Fantasy EP cover:

I could argue about the others' choices, but yours? No way - essential stuff!