mikeweil

I had a Chess greatest hits comp that I wore out! I bought only "Consider The Source", "In Person" and "Down To Earth" on CD, i.e. the earlier ones. Still waiting for Universal to reissue a more complete version of "The In Crowd".

Would there be enough Ellis for a Select? The only one widely available is the "Only the Blues One", as far as I know, so... Bruyninkx lists five Herb Ellis LPs on Verve, and three unissued titles. Should fit on to three CDs. "Herb Ellis meets Jimmy Giuffre" was on Verve Elite CD.

1984 is available as download I believe. Anyhow, let's just hope the release of Psychicemotus is just the start and that they will eventually release them all. What's still missing? Live at Peps is out in 2 volumes. (Maybe one of 'em is OOP, but you can still find them.) The Golden Flute was reissued last year. 1984 is on Japanese CD. Psychicemotus is coming up (no matter how funny, I will get it). Anything missing?

My guess for the bassist backing John Lewis & Hank Jones on # 9 is Percy Heath. Not sure about the drummer, too low in the mix. Mickey Roker?

Just noticed this thread - I'm in, of course. Sorry, can't help this time for various reasons, but would like to get all 4 of 'em ... PM sent.

Thanks for the apology - accepted. I wasn't mad at you, just wondering. Feel free to join again any time your shedule permits.

Is there any website with all the lyrics?

Schildkraut, if anyone, but not always.

That was a Toshiba Direct-To-Disc LP, a rare bird, but well worth the search. A solo each, two duos, and two quartets with George Duvivier and Shelly Manne - the most swell piano duo ever Is there more from this "unofficial" recording? They are way loose on this! I love Lewis, and his duos with Hank Jones all the more! Lewis wrote that Koko arrangement for the MJQ Ellington CD. Now let's nail the rhythm men ... Now who's that organist, or, as the late, highly original AFN radio jazz moderator Clay Sherman used to say, the "orgler"? Wild Bill?

And please don't forget the live tracks included on the nest-to-last CD release of that album (unfortunately they did not add the live tracks to the RVG remaster, which sounds great). They throw a very interesting light on this music. (And are not that cool art all!)

Has anyone the RCA LP to check the timing? To me this sounds like a recapitulation of the fast first theme of that tune was simply cut off. The shorter version on the RCA Victor Jazz Workshop comp cuts off at 7:15, which is exactly the point in time of a break before the fast part is reprised. Maybe the RCA engineers loused up when selecting the tracks for the comp, thought the track was over ....

I guessed John Lewis in a post above - so it's not him, but Hank? All reet, is Tommy Flanagan the other tinkler?

Disc 23, track 13 - there's a track index in the back of the booklet ....

Sounds like a bundle of very small cast brass bells, each about 1/5 of an inch in diameter, the Indians use them as ankle bells for dancers. When used like a shaker they sound like this.

I will buy that Cellar Door set the day it is released over here, no matter when that is.

I like that Rolls Royce engine metaphor! The drummer is the biggest name in here, I still wonder no one has tried to drop some names... mikeweil? Care to give a shot? After re-listening: The only really BIG name I can relate this to is Kenny Clarke. If it is him, he's not using his own drumset (his snare and bass drum normally sounded fatter) and he's not too inspired. Sounds like he just played along. But those rimshots and hitting the left stick resting on the snare head with the right stick sounds like him, some ride cymbal patterns, and the way he synchronizes bass drum, snare and ride. Is this mono? Klook sometimes sounded like that on some 1970's recordings outside the CBBB, where he always was on fire, just to show Kenny Clare where the hammer hung.

Same here. But I love the early trio recordings with Cal Tjader!

Hasn't somebody saved the MJQ thread from the old Blue Note Board? There were some very nice exchanges on the band in there. I couldn't repeat what I said there.

Has anybody heard this one?

Agree that if they have it in stock, they delver fast. Ordered two more last months and they jumped over the drunk within five days. I waited four months for a rare CD they didn't have in stock - but I got it. If you do not want to be debited before shipment, simply avoid them and use GEMM.com or some other shop.

Did a little web search and found a list of his former students: Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Teadross Avery, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates, Danilo Pérez a.o. Not bad ...

Now that I relisten with this in mind, I find that Mr. Sangrey gives a very accurate description of the man's playing.

Could best be described as "free style organ trio". All the compositions are by Palmer, sketchy heads giving a framework for rather open improvisations, but they never take it to Ayleresque screaming level, and listen to each other carefully, never outplay one another, always get back to the thematic material of each piece. Just tenor, organ and drums. At first listen I found it too subdued, but now I appreciate the care they apply to their interactions. Very nice and clear recorded sound as well. Details: - Opposite Voltage -: George Garzone (tenor & soprano saxophone) Jeff Palmer (organ) Richard Poole (drums) PBS Studio, Westwood, Massachusetts, November 2, 1998 Backwards & Forwards De Nyall Metropolis Five Fingers Wind Tunnel Count Sirloin A Tear A Minute All tracks on Music Artists Co. CD MAC 2001. The label is that of drummer Richard Poole, who seems to be in the piano/keyboard sales business as well. Jim, I remember you mentioned an aversion towards Palmer's "nutty heads", and there is not much going on arrangement-wise, but I don't know any other organist that much engaged in free form playing, which is one of the torches Khalid Yasin left but rarely is carried on by the other B3 practitioners. I am listening as I write this and find the rather subdued approach very interesting - they do not jump at you. No greaziness here, of course. Duh! - only just now I noticed there is some soprano played by Garzone too! Kind of picking up where Shorter stopped his free from excursions.

In case you're talkin' about this one: This is "temporarily out of stock, says the Fresh Sound website. Or is it this one: which is listed as available.

I was out of town since Tuesday - imagine how I felt when I read all this here tonight!?!?