mikeweil

'nuther organissimo missile hit Germany today - organissimo strikes again! Great job throughout, the growth is noticeable all around, but Joe's major leap seems the most obvious to me. Congratulations to a matured guitar player! My favourites are Greaze Monkey (although I would have prefered the congas a little more up in the mix ) and the track with tenor sax, where I like the recorded sound the best, the bass drum sounds warmer on this track. Only minor complaints - this is everything as good as the first one - but on a more advanced level! Thanks guys! p.s. although I paid for it, it feels to me like a gift!

RIP M. Boland ..... He sure had a fine retirement time on the banks of Lac Leman. One of my favourite arrangers, very rhythmic, and never took the easy way, wrote varaiations where others were content with repeats. A sad loss again.

Musically, it is excellent - I have the previous French 2 CD edition. But someone told me these were mastered from second generation tapes with reverb added, so I wonder about the sound of the new one. If you like the recent Argo reissue, this is a must!

Dem lucky dudes were on vacation ......

I got a Japanese pressing of this on eBay last years and was a little dispaoointed - I finds it's not among the better half of either musician's recordings. I'll bring it along for you next time I visit Paris ...

That's indeed a nice one (like all of Gryce's LPs, I should say) - there was a Trip LP reissue of this.

Weston recorded several solo piano LPs for various (very) small French and Italian labels - I have never seen most of them. If you want I could send you details. Enough material for a Mosaic Select, although there are many repeat performances.

If so I consider this egocentric and unprofessional! Does he think he will live forever?

While reading this again I remember that I have always wondered why Parker didn't get the Mosaic treatment like Serge Chaloff did. Now he wasn't a virtuoso in the same league, but had fire and spirit, and was a bop pioneer. That's enough for me. His last sessions with Bill Jennings are reported to be rather bland, I read somewhere, but everything else sounds fine to me.

I would accept that, but only if there's a passage that ownership of the recordings includes the duty to maintain them and keep them available for the public, even rare stuff that sells only in samll quantities. CD on demand would be an option. In Germany there is Books on demand, which enables anyone to publish their stuff, the book is printed when ordered and delivered within days. Why not the same for seldom ordered music?

Don Patterson's only Cadet LP Cal Tjader on Verve: Saturday Night, Sunday Night at The Blackhawk Along Comes Cal Warm Wave Hip Vibrations Cal Tjader on Fantasy (1970's): Tjader Last Bolero in Berkely Last Night When We Were Young Chico Hamilton Trio (Pacific Jazz)

Any idea how much this is gonna be sold for? Glad I never got around to buy the earlier Rounder CDs ... Am I getting this right, the Lomax book will be included? Great!

What?!?! No more responses to such a great album? Thanks again, Al, for stepping up - reporting back in for board duties after a trip 300 miles and back ... ... thanks for being welcomed with a choice that could have been mine! I have a special thing going on with Dameron, as we were both born on February 21. That beauty he often refers to as his primary goal in writing is something I can relate to on a very deep level. I find the vocals are appropriate - the beboppers had a taste of their own concerning vocalists (Earl Coleman, Kenny Hagood, Kay Penton), and Barbara Winfield fits in great, I think - no ondulations, just a straight reading of the lyrics, I kind of like the color of her voice. (Is there anything else she recorded?) A chance to hear the seldom soloing Tate Houston ..... Tadd's writing is so great, with nice melodic parts for everyone, and that's the reason these all-stars love dto play them. Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, and Charlie Shavers or Joe Wilder - what a trumpet section! Jimmy Cleveland, Britt Woodman, and Julius Watkins (only one Frenchie here, Al .....) - and where else do we get to hear Ron Carter and Philly Joe Jones together? (I think he has his own very peculiar way of playing latinized rhythms, like nobody else does.) Great album by one of the great writers in jazz! Great choice!

Agreed - one of the best efforts I have heard so far from Roberts. Duvivier is splendid here, too. Jim, you have that album, too?

Now that I finally got a copy of the Japanese Lp reissue of this .... it will be reissued on a LoneHill CD under Jim Hall's name (hah! he wasn't even on all the tracks), with the Hall / Red Kelly session added ..... ← The Lone Hill CD only contains the three tracks with Hall, and all of "Good Friday Blues". ← Oh - so I will get less duplication - very nice!

I'm in, as always ..... PM sent.

This cover of a 1979 issue somehow gives me the goosebumps ...

A CD reissue of Home Comin' is available at VH1.com for $ 5.56

The 1994 CD is titled Lucky Thompson - Happy Days (Prestige PRCD-24144-2). It includes the complete L.T. Plays Jerome Kern And No More (Moodsville 39) and L.T. Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (Prestige 7394) LPs. One of the items to get before the Fantasy reissue catalogue melts down .....

Now that I finally got a copy of the Japanese Lp reissue of this .... it will be reissued on a LoneHill CD under Jim Hall's name (hah! he wasn't even on all the tracks), with the Hall / Red Kelly session added .....

Oh no! Too sad ..... Always loved his big sound, especially on Work Song and the Sam Jones Riverside he played on. R.I.P.

Sadly many of the old Cuban musicians seem to pass after touring the world at old age - Machito, Mario Bauza, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo, and now Ibrahim Ferrer. Adios, and R.I.P.

I hear ya, Jim!

I tend to misplace CDs with several possible places to sort them in - and when I look for them I can't remember where I placed them ... My wife once supposed a Gabrbarek CD lost, threw away the jewel case and paperwork, and after she had moved in with me, I found it placed on top of another CD in the wrong case ..... I'd say wait a little. Oh - once I missed my favourite pendant - when I cleared the room to move out it turned out the cat had tossed it behind the bookcase.

A shapely lady's leg in front of the chair would be more to my liking ...