mikeweil

... and Jim: thanks again for your hard work, but take care of yourselves. We can live without the board for a few days, although I have to admit it's real hard ...

Highly recommended. Luckily I never had to face a system breakdown like this, but had to set up a new user profile for myself when the monitor settings started playing weird a few months ago and nobody knew how to fix it. I was glad I kept a handwritten sheet with all my passwords etc. on it ...

Maybe they changed the title after learning about Benny Golson's Blues March? When was this first recorded/copyrighted and when was the Jones/Land recorded?

I'll probably get most, if not all of them - the Jamal is long overdue and it's really great they do this one at last. All legal issues settled, after the Argo was reissued, it seems. The Silver has two unissued tracks in the discographies .... The Gordon I have long wanted on CD. As most Woody Shaw fans will have the Mosaic, no reason to reissue Woody III - nice to get the live tracks.

The credits for the excellent audio quality of these recordings go to Roy DuNann and Howard Holzer, the two great Hollywood engineers responsible for almost all Contemporary sessions. The fine sound they captured is hard to improve upon even today, I rank them at the very top of jazz recording engineers in the 1950's.

Among those I saw live: Dexter Gordon - the incarnation of cool hipness Eddie Harris - he had a cold, so he was not in top form, but ...

French/German arte TV broadcast a well done obituary last evening - quite an interesting career, although it seem he retired to a playboy status in the last decade of his life, his parties being among the most desireableon the Côte d'Azur. For all the things he's done for French recorded jazz, he deserves a place in jazz history. Now how jazzy are these records with Lucky Thompson et al. guesting?

No problems here, erverything works fine after the transfer.

What an irony - "Don't Smoke In Bed" as sung by Lady Day comes to my mind. R.I.P.

Joey de Francisco? Trudy Pitts?

Thanks a lot, Tom!

Wayne Shorter, Adam's Apple Thelonious Monk, Big Band and Quartet in Concert Modern Jazz Quartet, European Concert Herbie Hancock, Crossings Tony Williams, Ego Miles Davis, Live-Evil Duke Ellington, New Orleans Suite ... strictly personal choices!

The wikipedia entry contains some questionable judgements about his albums and inaccuracies as far as the chronology of things is concerned. Why are there no writers' credits on Wikipedia? Whoever writes an entry should take responsibility, or how does it work?

Fits both sexes, it seems ...

I subscribed to both after buying them at the newsstand for many years - subscribing saves me 50%! I kind of dislike to see downbeat focussing on their own glorious past in recent issues, though ...

Thanks for posting that - I had no idea!

James Spaulding came to my mind, too - a semi-free album in the late 1960's for Blue Note would have been the thing. Dtto. for Joe Chambers and Julian Priester!

(In case you want to learn more about these gentlemen .....)

Next step is: .......

Creepy Louch!!!

Looks like all possible BFT problems are done with after we are through this one ... headaches included.

in the above sentence, i think you meant to say the beatles. Burt Bacharach would probably also beat stevie in that category. I was talking about my collection - as far as the whole scene is concerned, I dunno, but you may be right. Larry Goldings did some great greezy Stevie Wonder covers, and yes, Stanley Tuurentine did a whole CD for Blue Note, Wonderland, but I've never heard it.

She asked me to submit a big thanks top you all - the interview will be done by e-mail and has to be rather short as it is intended for the local daily newspaper, but for the longer portrait your statements are extremely useful. I will ask her to send me a copy for translation and posting here, and I will try to attend the concert with her, it's 100 miles from where I live. If I can manage to do it, I'll report in the live jazz forum.

The titles on True Blue's Last Chance list are all OJC LPs!