mikeweil

You're added to the list. To estimate the time span - one month per BFT is realistic.

A joint effort at this by organissimo board members can be found here.

Very interesting. My experience is that it takes two totally different approaches to playing depending on whether you have to play softly or not. It is much harder to really groove and play soft at the same time, which I have to do with one of the groups I'm playing in. As a consequence I do not use any dampening on my drumset - which drives engineers crazy. But it is much more resonant and the tone is warmer. I disagree with jazzhounds view that a drum sounds the better the harder you hit - this works only with plastic heads and muffled drums. I use REMO Renaissance heads which imitate the sound of calfskin heads, and sometimes it sounds pretty much like a 1950's drumset, the sound of which on records I like very very much. If you hit too hard you get more noise in the tone.

Besides the latest Harrison - glad to hear you like it, c-ball-a - I have Eric Reed's "Happiness" - which is just what the title implies, excellent inspired good spirited modern jazz, interesting arrangements, traditional but by no means dated. Excellent sound, too. I will check out that organ trio disc on Monday and post my impressions here.

His friendship with Johnny Griffin developped in the R & B band of Joe Morris - "Wow! (Gee)" was his feature number, recorded on an Atlantic 78 in 1948. Elmo Hope, Percy Heath and Philly Joe Jones were the rhythm section! Details on this can be found in the Elmo Hope discography on Noal Cohen's website.

Indeed - I remember reading this on the Fantasy news page before the sad news about Lucille Rollins' death was posted here.

That's a great one! One of the best tenor "battles" ever recorded, IMHO. The Cobbs are nice, too. I'm afraid much of this catalogue will be missed only after it's gone and scoring high prices on ebay!

I always had the feeling this happened to most Blue Note fans ...

The two LPs combined on this were originally recorded for and released on Pacific Jazz and United Artists, respectively. Nothing much to be done about the sound here, I'm afraid.

I suggest you e-mail your wishes to Water. AFAIK any label decides upon what they would like to reissue and then asks whether it is available for licensing - or the label pubishes a list of titles available for licensing.

An afterthought - would the Steigs really fit that well into the Water reissue scheme? They seem to be leaning more toward rock and soul, rather than the experimental jazz funk Steig did. OTOH, where does Eddie Gale fit in here (I have to admit I haven't heard them)? Just a thought.

All the Steig LPs on Solid State or Blue Note were very good - it took me years to hunt them all down. These, together with the double LP for Groove Merchant and perhaps the Mike Manieri tracks with Steig tossed in, would make a perfect Mosaic - although I seriously doubt we will ever see this. The later albums were released on Blue Note after they had bought Solid State - seems like they shared the unissued material with Sonny Lester, who issued some Steig and Chick Corea on Groove Merchant that was recorded before that time.

I think Melvin Rhyne would qualify. He was born in 1936, recorded between 1959 and 1964 (four sessions with Wes Montgomery, one as a leader, and one unreleased with Eddie Harris), three tracks with Buddy Montgomery in 1969. But starting in 1991, he recorded more than 20 CDs, among them 9 as a leader (two tracks more or less privately recorded with Jimmy Coe in 1987 were not issued until 1994).

OTOH they reissued a much higher percentage of their catalogue and kept it in print! And they were a little earlier than Blue Note. On an average, Blue Notes are of higher quality in editing and sound, but some Fantasy CDs sound very good. At least the newer remasters do not sound as boosted in the high and low end like recent RVGs.

This is available on a hybrid SACD that for the first time seems to have used stereo tapes located only recently - there was a discussion on this in the thread about the Fantasy SACDs, too. In other words, skip the OJC for the SACD.

These originally were pre-Pablo recordings on Norgran 78's. The Pablo was audibly dubbed from some later tape transfer - the ten or so tracks released on various Verve compilations have far better sound.

You bet this wouldn't be updated very often ... ... and noone else to blame but the (black) webmaster. And no response to get kicks from but the views count and the guestbook - if he would open one.

Not maybe - it was!

I am spinning this as I write. I wouldn't call this a terrific CD - Gee was no J.J., not even no Bennie Green. His intonation leaves something to be desired. Green played smoother, more melodic and more inventive. It's nice, but I wish they had made a whole album of the second session with Kenny Dorham (in a very lyrical mood), and Cecil Payne (could have had more of him) - Foster is somewhat uninspired here. Do you have the Atlantic with Griffin - is that hotter? You should check out Bennie Green if you haven't already done this.

This site might lead you further.

That's a question for Michael Fitzgerald! Are you sing the BRIAN database for all the Basie stuff?

Naw, older than Basie! Herlichen Glückwunsch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, only half of it: (from AMG)

Regarding his suicide, one last time: It seems he suffered from severe depressions. Here's a telling quote from Soulful Detroit Forum: These live albums are of special importance to me: The way the audience goes along with him, just like in a church, still sends chills down my spine. You won't get something like this from a white audience - very deep, very black music. His live album was the first music making me feel this. Thanks, Donny!