mikeweil

He writes Allen "Pee Wee" Tinney, to be exact. I listened to the Esoteric 548 and Xanadu 107 LPs I have - Stompin' at the Savoy clearly sounds like Monk, display some of his characteristic traits that you can hear on his 1944 Hawkins sideman recordings. Swing to Bop aka Charlie's Choice OTOH has some typical swing piano lines out of the Teddy Wilson bag that I never heard on any Monk recording, but Kenny Kersey used on the other Minton recordings. This would mean there's an error in the discographies ... Can't say anything about Up on Teddy's Hill - the piano is barely audible on that track.

Yes, Little Church was one of the studio tracks - perhaps marcello forgot 'cause the instensity of those live tracks overshadows the studio material.

Yeah, he was killin' on Live/Evil - can't wait for the box set of this! I saw some live Miles in Berlin on TV with the next band with other rhythm men and Jarrett, and he was great there, too. Can't accept the funky part of his soul, eh?

So why can't he just say, okay, that was back then, now is now, I was experimenting, and my tastes have changed - most natural thing to occur. I wouldn't have any problems admitting that some things I have played in the past are no longer to my taste. Or is it just those bugging journalists? Or rather him contradicting himself?

This excellent recording on period instruments includes Syrinx and the trio - very beautiful, and not a bit academic. I gave this to a friend who was not so wild about period instrument recordings, but she loved this!

Konrad Hünteler's recording of Telemann's solo fantasias: on Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm. He plays a unique flute by a famous Baroque wind instrument maker, Jacob Denner, of whom many oboes have survived, but only this one flute, which was discovered in a Nürnberg house before it was laid down. I heard him play this in concert - it is so beautiful! His other recordings of baroque or classical music on this label are all played on this flute and highly recommended. Bach's flute sonatas with Karl Kaiser and Musica Alta Ripa on the same label were highly praised by German citics.

That pretty much sums it up for me, too!

I'd rather start a new sign-up thread - you've told us so often this is not the sign-up thread that it might be confusing. You could-re-title, but when some members start reading the thread ... A new thread would enable you to have the participants list on the first page etc. with doing so much re-editing etc. Just a recommendation, of course. I will link to anything you set up. Remember the Easter holidays are later this month - some might be on vacation. Starting the discussion early in April might be fine.

Geoffrey Keezer turned down an offer to join what was to be Miles' last band - he had an offer to go with Blakey at the same time on James Williams' recommendation, and chose Blakey because he had been dreaming about becoming a Jazz Messenger ever since he started playing jazz piano. He told this in an interview on GMN.com.

You would expect Carlos Santana to go jazz with Herbie, Wayne, and Tony on board - instead it's them going rock, and in a not so inspired sounding fashion - that's what makes Swing of Delight so disappointing to me. I sold it after a few years, didn't jell. Herbie's much more inspired on, say, Andy Summers' Charming Snakes.

Those pling plongs sound more like a guitar to these ears. Bruyninckx lists Kenny Kersey for the two tracks I mentioned in my previous post. But he lists Kersey or Pee Wee Tinney for most tracks, except Up on Teddy's Hill - will have to re-listen more carefully tomorrow - my wife wants to sleep and asked me to turn off the music. More to come.

Well, he played electric piano on his first duet LP with Jack deJohnette on ECM, Ruta & Daitya, and did it very well. I like him best of all Rhodes players with Miles, he was the most daring - on the Live/Evil sessions, on key detuned, and the way he used it was so creative, using it like some weird scale or percussive color at the same time. Jarrett knew Charlie Haden hated playing bass riffs, and still had him play a lot of them when Haden was a member of his quintet - obviously he learned his lesson. Sometimes the challenge of doing something you dislike or don't know yet brings out something new in a musician.

Most of the time, some more relaxed, mid-tempo jazz. A Teddy Wilson piano trio on Black & Blue was a favourite for many years. But it changes all the time. Often it is some baroque music, preferably harpsichord or lute music.

In his Monk discography for Jazz Podium magazine (why the heck didn't I write a date on the photocopy???!) Hans Lukas Lindenmaier listed only two tracks with Monk from that date, Stompin' at the Savoy and Charlie's Choice. Will have to spin this tomorrow for aural evidence. Edit: Swing to Bop and Charlie's Choice are two names for the same track, I noticed.

Please post the total amount here at the end of the month. Thanks!

I got it from Cadence last year.

That was a Duke Pearson album for Jazzline with a two trumpet frontline (Byrd and Johnny Coles) reissued under Byrd's name on Black Lion.

Forgot to mention: John Abercombie plays guitar on most albums, and much more wild stuff than on his own organ projects!

Palmer is one of my favourites. He made another CD with Blythe for Soul Note with Rashied Ali (!) on drums. He's not liked by everybody, but I dig what Jim calls his "nutty" side. Here's a list of his albums: Improvising Artists IAI 1003 Jeff Palmer - Solo Organ - Outer Limit Statiras SLP 8081 Jeff Palmer - Laser Wizzard Soul Note 121 201 Jeff Palmer - Abracadabra Audioquest AQ 1014 Jeff Palmer - Ease On Reservoir RSR CD 137 Jeff Palmer - Shades Of The Pine Soul Note 121301-2 Jeff Palmer - Island Universe Soul Note 121302-2 Phil Haynes - Live Insurgency - Set 1 Music Arts Co. MAC 2001 Jeff Palmer / George Garzone – Opposite Voltage C.A.P. 949 Jeff Palmer – Burn‘in The Blues Some of them are hard to find; all but the first two were on CD. Some info here. If you have trouble finding some of the CDs, PM me about the sources.

The ones I have all sound excellent, although partly very different, as done by different engineers, including Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade (the Larry Willis with Gary Bartz). Musically they're all very good, too - when I got the Willis Tribute CD I thought "Why doesn't Herbie (to whom it is dedicated) make such a CD every now and then?" The Victor Lewis and Joey Calderazzo discs are great, if anyone's interested. Have the Palmer/Blythe, and love it, another trippy disc. Second the recommendation for the Wallaces.

I should add I applauded Al, but at home! (Insert handclapping smiley)

Duh! Al, you nailed that tune, and stopped me scratching my head to the bone to remember where I knew it from! What a shame - my favourite Byrd album - but haven't listened to it in years, and ubu's version is not this one, of course.

Wolfgang Dauner - the first to own one of two V.C.S. synthesizers in Europe - George Harrison had the other one!

Christy Doran? Although he's not obscure.

Are his initials W.D.?