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Günter Bialas (*1907), Musik für Klavier und Orchester. (I witnessed the very first performance!) It is on a CPO CD together with his Concerto lirico for piano and orchestra and the Trois Moments musicaux for piano solo. The diverse pieces for piano and orchestra by Harald Genzmer (*1909), a Hindemith disciple, are favourites on mine, too.

Maybe if you ordered 10 copies as a belated Christmas giveaway .....

Word!

Sorry! No, I had to cancel my visit to the store and won't be able to get there until the 10th of January. The set with Bags is nice, eh? And I like its natural sound.

Same here, only that I didn't buy any of the others right away! ... spinning this right now. Richie Pablo Landrum, who happened to be an idol of my first conga drum teacher, is freakin' good here! He was an excellent conga player, especially in these grooves between latin, soul and jazz. Here's the only pic I could find, he's in the middle: CREED TAYLOR, RICHIE LANDRUM and WELDON IRVINE leaving Van Gelder's after Straight Life session - from the CTI website.

I don't know if it is as easy to use for ya, but as far as discographical accuracy is concerned, David Wild's Place serves the Trane lover pretty well ...

Donald Harrison - Free Style (Nagel Heyer) Hands On'Semble - Three (Hands On'Semble) Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light (Impulse) Dario Deidda - 3 From The Ghetto (GoJazz)

Tracks of Disc 1: You Don't Have To Go ~ Jimmy Reed I Wish You Would ~ Billy Boy Arnold Ain't Times Hard ~ Floyd Jones Strange Girl ~ L.C. Mckinley She Don't Want Me No More ~ Jimmy Reed Hurt My Feelings ~ Morris Pejoe Bad Boy ~ Eddie Taylor Wheel And Deal ~ John Lee Hooker Oop-De-Oop ~ Earl Phillips Found My Baby ~ Jimmy Reed I Was Fooled ~ Billy Boy Arnold Cinemascope ~ Pro Mcclam School Days On My Mind ~ Floyd Jones She's Five Feet Three ~ L.C. Mckinley You're Gonna Need Me ~ Morris Pejoe Recession ~ Joe Buckner W/ Tommy Dean Orchestra Nothing But Love ~ Earl Phillips Unfriendly Woman ~ John Lee Hooker I'm So Satisfied ~ L.C. Mckinley I'm Gonna Ruin You ~ Jimmy Reed Tracks of Disc 2: Ain't That Lovin' You Baby ~ Jimmy Reed Lonely ~ L.C. Mckinley Dimples ~ John Lee Hooker Big Town Playboy ~ Eddie Taylor I Ain't Got You ~ Billy Boy Arnold Hands Off ~ Jay Mcshann W/ Priscilla Bowman The Telephone Is Ringing ~ Pee Wee Crayton One More Mile ~ Joe Buckner W/ Tommy Dean Orchestra Come On Baby ~ Jimmy Reed Any Old Lonesome Day ~ Floyd Jones Business Woman ~ Camille Howard Someone To Love Me ~ Snooky Pryor A Frosty Night ~ Pee Wee Crayton Baby, Don't Say That No More ~ Jimmy Reed Trouble Blues ~ John Lee Hooker Down With It ~ L.C. Mckinley Ride 'Em On Down ~ Eddie Taylor Don't Stay Out All Night ~ Billy Boy Arnold Floyd's Blues ~ Floyd Jones I Don't Go For That ~ Jimmy Reed Tracks of Disc 3: It Hurts Me Too ~ Elmore James You've Got Me Dizzy ~ Jimmy Reed Crawlin' Black Spider ~ John Lee Hooker Here's My Picture ~ Billy Boy Arnold You'll Always Have A Home ~ Eddie Taylor Every Woman I Know ~ Billy "The Kid" Emerson Going Back Home Big ~ Joe Williams Trio I'm So Worried ~ John Lee Hooker Honey Don't Let Me Go ~ Jimmy Reed Judgment Day ~ Snooky Pryor Coming Home ~ Elmore James You've Got Me Wrong ~ Billy Boy Arnold I Love You Baby ~ Jimmy Reed Rosie Mae ~ John Lee Hooker The Twelve Year Old Boy ~ Elmore James Baby Left Town ~ Big Joe Williams Trio Tie It Down ~ Pee Wee Crayton You Tried To Ruin Me ~ Snooky Pryor My Heart Is Crying ~ Billy Boy Arnold Honey Where You Going ~ Jimmy Reed Tracks of Disc 4: Baby What Do You Want Me To Do ~ Jimmy Reed This Time I'm Through ~ Memphis Slim I Love You Honey ~ John Lee Hooker I Found My Peace Of Mind ~ Pee Wee Crayton Rockinitis ~ Billy Boy Arnold Cry For Me Baby ~ Elmore James Looking For Trouble ~ Eddie Taylor Stroll On Little Girl ~ Memphis Slim Blues Get Off My Shoulder ~ Bobby Parker I'm Gonna Love You ~ Eddie Taylor You Know I Love You ~ Jimmy Reed What's The Matter ~ Memphis Slim Take Me Where You Go ~ Elmore James Mama Loochie ~ Lee Diamond You Never Miss The Water ~ Billy "The Kid" Emerson Prisoner's Plea ~ Billy Boy Arnold Fiddle Dee Dee ~ Pee Wee Crayton I'm Gonna Get My Baby ~ Jimmy Reed Elmore's Contribution To Jazz ~ Elmore James You've Taken My Woman ~ John Lee Hooker Tracks of Disc 5: Boom Boom ~ John Lee Hooker Bright Lights, Big City ~ Jimmy Reed I'm A Woman ~ Christine Kittrell Just A Little Bit ~ Rosco Gordon You're So Hard To Please ~ Willie Cobbs Do What I Say ~ J.B. Lenoir I'm Sitting Here ~ Eddie Taylor Goin' Home Tomorrow ~ Little Richard Crying For My Baby ~ Harold Burrage No Shoes ~ John Lee Hooker Big Boss Man ~ Jimmy Reed Kansas City ~ Jimmy Witherspoon Somebody's Stealing My Love ~ Ivory Joe Hunter You Don't Love Me ~ Willie Cobbs What You Do To Me ~ Rosco Gordon Come Back Baby ~ Jerry "Count" Jackson It's Nobody's Fault ~ Christine Kittrell Oh Baby ~ J.B. Lenoir I'm The Man Down There ~ Jimmy Reed Big Legs, Tight Skirt ~ John Lee Hooker

I'm listening to this session in recording order as I write this - and I think it's really weird how Monk has to lay out as soon as Miles starts soloing, then comes in for Bags' solo, plays his own solo in a very lean fashion, almost like a horn with bass and drums, and then there's a big hole when Miles returns for the out chorus - Monk doesn't play a single chord for the remainder of the take, not even during the theme. Miles was out of his mind. But with a different pianist it would no longer have been an all-star date, but a Miles session - any other pianist would have confined himself to being an accompanist in a much more conventional way ..... Monk is a like a big splinter in Miles's skin on this session.

BTW, anybody having the Prestige box set wanting to listen to this session in recording order should program the tracks as follows: 1 - 5 - 2 - 4 - 3 - 6 676-1 Bag's Groove 676-2 Bag's Groove 677 Bemsha Swing 678 Swing Spring 679-1 The Man I Love 679-2 The Man I Love On my copy of the 3rd disc from the box set, however, the index marks are not placed properly - when programmed the first note of track 5 is missing!

You're welcome! As much as I support Fantasy's enormous catalogue, I think in several cases including this session they should have abandoned the LP replica concept and completed the session for CD reissue. In some cases they did, e.g. James Moody's, Gil Mellé's or Teddy Charles' early Prestige LPs. But with Miles, Rollins, Monk or Trane ... I prefer the box sets 'cause I get the complete sessions assembled closely together.

Now is there anyone you haven't seen live? Oh, the advantage of growing up and living in Paris at the right time .... Here's a discography.

Johnny Griffin, J.G. (Argo) Ahmad Jamal, Chamber Music of the New Jazz (Argo) Yusef Lateef, The Golden Flute (Impulse) Ray Charles presents David Fathead Newman (Atlantic) Hank Crawford, More Soul (Atlantic)

I have to admit I always like Doug Watkins a lot more than his cousin Paul Chambers. Too bad he died so early. One of the few to be elected to play behind Charles Mingus' piano. Borrowed a cello for his own Prestige LP, played it for a day and had better intonation than some others had after years of playing. A real great talent.

More Patterson/Stitt collaborations are on these CDs:

'Nuff said about the Varitone, IMHO - let's marvel about the inspired intercation between Stitt, Patterson and James instead. And anybody wanting to hear Stitt (mostly on unaltered alto, two tracks on tenor), Patterson and James in the natural, might go for The Boss Men, which has a complete session spread over three different LPs, two of them originally released under Patterson's name. Patterson is so underrated - this discussion might be further proof if we fail to take a different direction.

All these titles including Blue Lament are on the 1989 CD reissue on Reservoir RSR CD 111 with the same title as the LP. I think the Reservoir CD issues should be included.

Merry Christmas, and, most important of all, peace to everybody.

If anyone deserves the Mosaic treatment, it's Hal McKusick - among others, of course.

Just my thoughts ...

Happy Birthday! This is a good occasion to ask for an impression of the recently reissued Capitol live album of the Cannonball Adderley group with Ernie Andrews: How's this?

Very well said, Jim!

Haven't seen the Avison recording so far - who's playing? I have an excellent recording of half of them by a French baroque ensemble on Alpha that's good enough for me. For me, the greatest on Arte Nova is Christopher Hogwood's series with the Basle Chamber Orchestra recreating original concert programs from the first half of the 2oth century, e.g. as performed by Paul Sacher. The series is called "Klassiszistische Moderne" (being and indication they might not be aimed at an international market - "classicistical modernism), with pieces by Martinu, Honegger, Strawinsky, Tippett, Britten, Malpiero and Casella. Details can be found on Hogwood's website or the Arte Nova pages. Matthias Kirschnereit's Mendelssohn piano pieces are great, too.

That pretty much sums it up for me. I know several jazz fans who dislike organ. And they don't relate to the funky groove that's invloved much of the time - they don't want to have anything in the music that could be commercial or popular. Many German jazz fans are like this - too intellectual or too conservative, and not the slightest affinity for black groove.

... and that includes me, for sure!