mikeweil

Yeah, that's where Manfred Eicher's esthetics get in the way - he ain't funky, it's as simple as that.

Happy Bithday, and more bass!!!

Yep

I opt for a tie, without having heard either CD - hope to remedy that soon. Couldn't find the Monk today, and find the prices of German online sellers somewhat high.

Found the Priester in a local shop today, for only € 12,99 - jpc.de asks for € 18,99 - and it sounds excellent. No signs of tape deterioration, almost too clean - a hint of vinyl hiss would make it sound more human ...

I shouldn't have asked ....

This is one I will look for during my next shopping trip in Frankfurt ...

How's dis - de bastids is offerin' dis: Dusty Groove

Roy Brooks is not on this album. The liner credits Freddie Waits for drums and recorder; Reggie Workman for acoustic bass and percussion. Since Jymie Merritt's electric Ampeg bass is still heard, I always concluded it was Reggie Workman playing the musical saw solo ...

Agreed - especially since Bob Belden removed a solo on singing saw in one track, you can still hear it faintly in the background. Can't understand why he mixed it down for the CD issue, I found it eerie and very fitting ...

RIP I liked from the first time I heard him - on a Ted Curson Atlantic LP. Excellent pianist, one of Europe's best. Those trio LPs deserve to be reissued!

I once saw him live with Herbie Mann - that was back in 1970. Very engaging saxophonist. Sadly overlooked. RIP, Mr. Marcus ...

Yeah, Happy Birthday - and many happy returns!

Same here - I'm curious how the previously unissued material is. Buyers - listen and post!!

I found his playing on these dates was nice an' mellow. I have a CD by New Orleans pianist David Torkanowsky "Steppin' Out" from 1988 where I like him very much - I think it's a trifle better than his own Landmark dates.

My left sideshield once cracked at midnight while approaching a stop after I had left the highway. I was scared to death and thought some mad kid was shooting stones from the bushes, but nobody was there. The reapairman told me a small rock thrown up by a tire was enough if it hit at the proper angle .... I still found tiny bits of glass months after the incident. Put on Frank Zappa's "Village of the sun" and think you were lucky ...

I have never heard "M Squad Theme", I only had the Prestige 24160 anthology, and that track definitely was a quartet performance. The recording date in the liner was that of the Moodsville album. I, too, was annoyed when they didn't add that track to the OJC CD ....

I only had a brief look at the track list, but remember there were mono and stereo versions of some titles, probably because they were from different sessions.

Last Tuesday at midnight the WDR TV re-broadcast a Francy Boland portrait with rare footage including two songs with Carmen McRae, some small groups with Sadi, and of course lotsa CBBB. I didn't know this was scheduled ... fell asleep and woke up about half into the show, what a surprise, but to late to tape it ...... This man was a great musician!

That session is on one of the Rearward CDs, IIRC.

We do!

This will always be something to debate - recording order vs. album sequence. But: The first issues were singles, so programming after A and B sides would be just as plausible. Consider recordings first issued on 10 inch LPs - hardly anyone has them, but often they were the first albums and tracks re-sequenced for 12 inch LP issue. I think there are two types of buyers: Those who want to re-experience something connected to the album they first bought, and those with a more systematic or curious approach. I once listened to Charles recordings in recording order, no matter whether it was R & B or Jazz, and his development as an artist in these parallel artistic streams seemed more clear to me in chronological order. The feeling of the sessions with Milt Jackson, e.g., comes through better with the sesions intact with stable rhythm sections. What I was more concerned about when I saw that box in a shop earlier this week was whether that record player actually worked. The guy in the shop told me that you could cook your meals on it, too .....

Whay does amazon.com have a different cover? Is the 1997 Universal CD edition okay, soundwise? (I have always shied away from these jam session type affairs, especially with a superfast track like Triangle, but if Stitt is so good on it .....)

Only four weeks ago there was an article in DER SPIEGEL about the last Nazi criminal he was hunting, Aribert Heim, the "Mengele" of Mauthausen - Wiesenthal almost fell victim to his experiments - who is still alive, obviously, at 91 - what an injustice! RIP Mr. Wiesenthal!

You don't have to ask me, no matter how sweet it is ....