mikeweil

Agreed. I saw this trio live some months ago and thought Carter was going a little to much for the show than for musical content. He needs top notch company and be challenged to play his best. Gerard Gibbs is an excellent organist, but he too made more of a show than serious jazz, always keeping an eye on the girls in the first row. The drummer could be better be smoking a little less funny stuff ....

Herbie is a great comper. John Lewis too, and playing counterpoint at the same time. Hank Jones, impeccable accompanist extraordinaire. Currently I enjoy Joao Donato's organ comping behind Cal Tjader on "The Prophet", a 1968 Verve LP.

Got an email yesterday my copy was shipped!

Got some rare items on ebay recently: Cal Tjader - Tjader (Fantasy, 1970), finally a very good sounding mint copy after a warped one ... Cal Tjader - The Prophet (Verve, 1968) only a few ticks, I can't see why Verve forgot to reissue this great sounding album with some of Cal's warmest playing, nice Joao Donato organ, and tasteful arrangements from Don Sebesky. Very nice! Chico Hamilton Trio (Pacific Jazz) with Howard Roberts or Jim Hall and George Duvivier - the latter has plenty solos here! Japanese pressing with a later Liberty reissue cover. Just learned this is due out on LoneHill CD ....

No, it's the well-hammered clavinova!

Label, please, and a link to the budget price?

Austrian radio that is. Bennie played piano, bass clarinet, soprano, and tenor on that gig, backed by two able austrian rhythm players (or was one of them German?). We could vine this one here, if there's interest - what do you mean? ← Count me in!

Royal appeasement: If you do not listen to the whole set within the next three months you pass it on to me for the same price?

Of course he/she should. Same goes for musicians self-promoting, which is alright with me, as longs as it is no major label.

IIRC the vinyl box was issued several years before the CDs - so it was pressed from analog masters. The 10 or 11 CD volumes do not reissue the complete box, partly anthologized under some big name eg. 4 CDs with Coleman Hawkins, 2 with Roy Eldridge and other trumpeters.

My favourite so far is Pierre Hantai's 2001/02 recording on Ambroise/Mirare on a very clear and precise sounding harpsichord - a copy of an anonymous 1720 Thuringian instrument (you should have at least one recording on harpsichord) - he plays lively, with vigor and fluidity and takes no prisoners. Some of you may disagree, but I find the sound of a harpsichord to be much more expressive for this music than today's neutral, over-esthetic sounding pianos. The music regains much of its temperament and power.

Is there anything such as soft bop?!?! I don't find it being sedate at all - just different. They swing as hard as anybody without shouting out,

Logistically speaking, a formidable job!

I have heard Garcia-Fons, but the instrument in question does not sound like a bowed double bass ..... did you check the liner? I will order this anyway ...

Thanks for the good news!

These things are huge, by the way ....

I wonder which instrument it is that I mistook for a violin .... Is it really "trumpet marin" on the liner? I know of one "tromba marina" which is a .stringed instrument from the baroque era:

Hold it, king - only things hanging out on that session were from Rufus Harley's bagpipes ......

Thanks Agustín - I know most of these from Bruyninkcx. My question is whether Munsinger or Motsinger is a misspelling and the man in question is the same?

Is this available? Anybody heard this?

That probably was a license of a Capitol LP - I have one of these. The liner doesn't say anything about his biography. He must have been quite a popular artist at the fringe of jazz in the 1960's, although I have no doubts he could play when he wanted too.

I had the older The Bridge CD Keepnews compiled, still have the box, and yet I bought the new First Editions reissue - it sounds incredible!!! The first time they were able to use the original tape!!! You can almost touch the bass strings and sax metal. All other issues used second or third generation tapes.

With or without the LCJO?

Buddy Motsinger is/was a pianist active in California from the 1950's - among others he participated on "Cal Tjader plays Harold Arlen". One of Cal's earliest sessions was as a bongo player for guitarist 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 - Spring Fever 4 Star 1350 Fine And Dandy - Empty Ballroom Blues 4 Star 1481 Note: Reverse of 4 Star 1481 is by Ivory Joe Hunter. My question is: Could this Billy "Buddy" Munsinger be the same pianist? I couldn't find other session with the latter in my version of Bruyninckx.

Wasn't there some thread on him already? Too little time to do a search ... These are the pre 1970 jazz LPs: Atlantic SD 1406 Jack Wilson – The Jack Wilson Quartet feat. Roy Ayers *Atlantic SD 1488 Roy Ayers – Virgo Vibes *Blue Note BST 84251 Jack Wilson – Something Personal (Connoisseur CD oop) *Pacific Jazz PJ-46 Curtis Amy – Way Down *Pacific Jazz PJ-62 Curtis Amy – Tippin‘ On Through United Artists UAS 5232 Roy Ayers – West Coast Vibes Vault 9001 Jack Wilson – Brazilian Mancini *Vault 9002 Jack Wilson – Ramblin‘ (Fresh Sound CD) Those marked * are on CD - the Amy LPs are on his Mosaic Select.