mikeweil

Fully agreed! And much thanks to you Jim for pointing this out - I love music of this type and probably would have overlooked this. Mission accomplished!

US $3,050.50 - 9 hours before closing time - that makes 300 copies of the Mobley set .... If I had a copy and would sell it at that price I would buy the whole Mosaic catalog, one copy of each that is.

His true identity as reincarnation of Big Al Sears may finally have taken over ..... or maybe he checks all Texas record shops for that rare Tjader single that's missing in my collection .....

Realistically speaking, any of the subjects described here have come into my mind while playing, but I was best when I was just concentrating on what to play next and really nothing else and became "one" with the flow of things - which is thinking so fast that you're just thinking and not thinking about what you're thinking ...

Great choice! Because this is one which I alway wanted to know more about .... Thanks Larry for the recollections - this will sound interesting to me, that's for sure! I will see if the dumbminded ZYX guys can deliver a copy of this any sooner than the Helen Humes, which was AOTW sometime last years and which I am still waiting for ...

This was recorded in three sessions! Silver was offered the first session when Lou Donaldson had to cancel a session with Silver, Ramey, and Blakey as sidemen, so Gene Ramey may simply not have been the bassist of his choice, and he didn't have as much time for preparation as he wanted to. Curly Russell was called to complete the material for the first release, which was a 10" LP; Russel was his section mate in Blakey's band at the time. Percy Heath was Silver's frequent rhythm section mate after that, so he was a logical choice for the session which made up the second 10" LP. 10" LPs were thought of as separate recording projects just as the 12" LPs later on.

Those notes really opened my eyes as far as Silver's qualities as a composer and pianist were concerned. The Trio Sides and the Blue Note compilation twofer (as the single albums were more difficult to get at the time) were my Silver bible at the time and were played back daily! Here are the trio sides from the albums between 1956 and 1968 (album name in brackets): Shirl (Six Pieces of Silver) For Heaven's Sake (Six Pieces of Silver) Melancholy Mood [First Version] (Further Explorations) Sweet Stuff (Finger Poppin‘) Melancholy Mood [2nd Version] (Blowin‘ The Blues Away) The St. Vitus Dance (Blowin‘ The Blues Away) Cherry Blossom (The Tokyo Blues) Lonely Woman (Song For My Father) Next Time I Fall in Love (Serenade To A Soul Sister) The expanded CD edition of Song For My Father included a previously unissued trio version of Que Pasa that would fit in here, too.

THX

Forgot to say: This is music finally picking it up where Larry Young/Khalid Yasin left it for the musicians to come after him!

Got this from CD Baby two days ago - plain cardboard sleeve, so postage is low. Excellent music and highly recommended! Oh the good old days when Blue Note et al. had the guts to release this .... it was recorded in 2002! I see it coming that the best music will be on artist produced records - well, in many cases, it's already happening!

Yeah, Gravatt was (and supposedly still is) a mf on the drums ... Lloyd McNeill - that this excellent flutist never got the recognition he would have deserved is, IMHO, one of the loudest crying shames in American Jazz. I remember hearing ASHA on AFN radio when it was released, and being enchanted right away. I got some of his LPs later, but regrettably not the first one. Now that would be a worthy subject for a Mosaic Select!!! Is that compilation CD still available? I'd give something to hear that piece ASHA onec again ...

Great news! Track titles, or a link?

BTW - there is one more Blue Note album to be reissued on CD: You Gotta Take A Little Love I can't understand why this remains overlooked - it is as great as any other Blue Note quintet LP.

Silver was so great as a trio pianist I regret he never reocrded more than that initial LP and an occasional trio track on his subsequent Blue Note albums. Michael Cuscuna once collected all of them on a Blue Note reissue series twofer LP The Trio Sides - I will make my own CDR of his later trios because they are so fine and mellow. I will post a list later.

There's a copy of the 78 rpm record Galaxy 705 on eBay: 11141 Lullaby Of The Leaves 11164 Three Little Words So it seems the matrix # 11170 Bruyninckx gives for Lullaby Of The Leaves could be wrong - has he copied this from Jepsen?

I'll never forget seeing Doctor Bowie with Jack de Johnette's Directions .....

Don't wanna spoil your fun, but Bach himself reported March 21, 1685. As the reformed Gregorian calendar was introduced only in 1701 in Germany, this date would have to be corrected to March 31 (!), 1685 to fit into our modern calendar - but this never was acknowledged widely to irrational reasons.

That was on a RCA Novus CD c/w a John Carter/Bobby Bradford album - one of them had a track missing on that CD, however. West Coast Hot was the CD title.

Jan Hammer on Elvin Jones is On The Mountain Frank Strazzeri on Cal Tjader's Last Night When We Were Young Eddie Duran on Cal Tjader's San Francisco Moods

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!