mikeweil

It sure does!

Caught him earlier this year with a local big band - his sound and soloing were gorgeous! Got Ron Carter's CD "Stardust" today - some excellent Golson on it!

I observed I prefer recording order in most cases, and that includes alternates, as it transports more of the energy development on the date. But it all depends on the album. When material was originally released on 10" LP, that should be the "original!" order, of course. Having faster or slower tracks at the beginning of LP sides has something to do with the tracking which is slightly different on inner and outer regions of an LP side, so that must not be the track order a musician preferred. If you use programming, it is less effort to program six tracks in LP order than to resequence the complete session of ten takes - given that recording or LP sequence is printed in the liner notes ...... When there are too many alternates on a disc in recording order, hit the random play button ....

The Cowell was on Japanese CD, but I never could get my hands on a copy of that one .....

I just thought, it's a big shame that none of the long standing jazz labels like Blue Note wouldn't release this .....

Alright, listening to just two of the samples convinced me this is one to get!!! Drums and two keyboarders! And Larry Goldings and Kevin Hays, two of my favourites! Saw Hays last year with Al Foster - you have to see these cats live to really get what they want to do. His own Blue Note "go round" had some great Rhodes playing on it. My bank account is aching, but ...

As much as I love his playing in the Larry Goldings Trio, his two Blue Notes didn't quite capture me - neither did his rather restrained performance on the Pat Metheny live album a few years ago. I'll try and check out the audio samples ...

There is an Argentinian guy active on the German scene, Marcio Doctor, who plays a unique self-made kit of various percussion isntruments varying according to the musical context, but with an approach similar to trap set players, but not quite - what I have heard him do so far is excellent!

My idol Bill Summers - his name popped up in my head just as I was offline ... ..... of course!!! Did anybody restrict it to players under 50?

Live long and prosper! And have a beautiful day as mellow as the Joao Donato organ grooves I listened to this morning!

Finally, after another round of careful A/B comparisons of tracks, could identify the "Journey's End" from this Crown LP with "Land's End" from the January 20, 1957 Cal Tjader session recorded at the Blackhawk. It's the same track from start to finish, but the high level of surface noise on the Crown LP supresses all the crowd noise and room ambience audible on the Fantasy LP, and they faded out a second or two at the end to eliminate the applause. Mrss. Bruyninckx and Lord, correct your discographies! Ugh - another item crossed off my list of Tjader mysteries ....

Nothing against Poncho, but I'd say he's a Latin percussionist rather than a jazz percussionist. In fact all percussionists currently active on the jazz scene have some ethinic background, Cuban, Carribean, Brazilian, African, Oriental, Indian ...... but only when they are able to expand their repertoire beyond placing authentic rhythm patterns into a jazz context I would call them jazz percussionists. - Jamey Haddad is a candidate. - Arto Tuncboyacian (of Armenian desecent) - Mino Cinelu - Don Alias and: - Milt Holland - a veteran who was among the first Americans to study in Africa, plays very fine Bossa Nova drumset stylings as well (e.g. on Laurindo Almeida's "Artistry in Rhythm")

Just found out there is a CD called "Fried Bananas" - judging from the track list: cat # acmem45cd tracks 1. AMAZON 2. HERE 3. EYE OF THE DEVIL 4. A FELICIDADE 5. FRIED BANANAS 6. WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW 7. A MESSAGE TO MICHAEL 8. MY LITTLE RED BOOK 9. I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER 10. WALK ON BY 11. ALONZO 12. SONG FOR PAT 13. THE TRA LA SONG 14. SPOOKY 15. GET OUT OF MY WAY this is a compilation from the three LPs Skye released at the time. I'd rather get me the single CD reissues from Dunhill - great Steve Hoffmann remasterings, they are offered used or new on ebay etc. for reasonable prices.

I finally located and ordered a copy of Fantasy 8019 ..... I will post my comments after listening.

I keep looking for used copies of these 78's on ebay and gemm.com, but that second version of Galaxy 705 never shows up, just all the others ....

Sorry but I overlooked your question - too much happening this summer. The only Tjader recording of Fried Bananas I could identify was on the 1968 Solar Heat LP for Skye, reissued on Dunhill Compact Classics DJZ-618. The latter CD is OOP but still available at sellout prices, and I it was reissued on a low price CD titled Mambo Sangria BOA 1010. Nice, but not among the top Tjader albums.

Getting back to the Tjader track once more: I CDRed the Bew Moore LP together with the single track from the Crown LP, re-sequenced to have Dues Blues and Journey's End at the end, and I now doubt these two tracks are from the same session. Sound and ambience is totally different, there is no applause on Journey's End, where the audience starts frenetic applause before the last note has vanished on Dues Blues. The group on Journey's End plays much more subdued, and the vibes sound is different. I suspect this rather comes from one of the Tjader quartet studio dates - Crown or Jazztone reissued tracks from these on other LPs, often re-titled - so far I couldn't identify this with any track from the Fantasy LPs/CDs. I still wonder where the standard discographers got that date, and why they link Journey's End to that January 1958 concert - I guess they never listened to that track.

I only have one: An Eastern Rebellion Timeless LP signed by Cedar Walton. Reading about Benny Golson above, I could kick myself I didn't ask him for one earlier this years at a local concert ....

It sounds excellent, no hint of tape hiss, almost too clean. Now how about Priester's other ECM LP?

My favourite among Haynes-led dates. Rahsaan in great form, too. Yes, it's too short.

If you remember: SONY always managed to get their Miles box sets out in time for Xmas shopping ..... and not too early.

I, too, hate the smell of solvents. In most cases, carefully warming the stickers with a hairdrier softens the glue and makes it come off easier. Used to apply this method to stickers on LP jackets - after taking out the LP, of course.

My dealer informed me that the majors have totally independent issue schedules for their continental sub-companies. This includes packaging details. And this is the reason why some titles may be available in the US and not yet in Europe - e.g. he hasn't even a release date for the latest batch of Sony/Legacy reissues .....

Both Monk discographies I have refer to Keepnews and say he's just plain wrong. They say that the recording took place sometimes in July '57. ← IIRC there was an argument between Monk and bassist Wilbur Ware during the Half Note engagement, which led to Ware abruptly leaving the group, being replaced by Ahmed Abdul-Malik, who is on the Carnegie Hall recording. This would be further evidence for the Jazzland date being recorded before that concert.

Happen to listen to these today - making my own CD transfer as Savoy seems to ignore them. Good pianist, but Hank Jones is more elegant and has the more beautiful touch. Legge is not as fluid in sixteenth note phrases.