mikeweil

Judging from your (avatar) background, Jim - square and white - I guess you know what you're talking about ......

There is, of course, Humes' Aladdin session with Prez: December 22, 1945, Los Angeles, studio session Helen Humes vocal, Willie Smith altosax, Maxwell Davis & Lester Young tenor sax, Jimmy Bunn piano, Dave Barbour guitar, Junior Rudd bass, Henry Tucker drums. 126B Riffin' Without Helen (Humes out) 122B-2 Please Let me Forget 125A-2 He Don't Love Me Anymore 125B-3 Pleasing Man Blues 127A-2 See See Rider 126A-3 It's Better To Give Than Receive Complete session on Blue Note CD The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young CDP 7243 8 32787 2 5 Two of Humes' Mercury sessions include Buck Clayton.

Do they allow programming your CDs from different sources or rearranging the tracks, or do they make only 1 to 1 copies?

Really a nice website you have! ..... and I see you finally managed to get your chicken to act as an avatar

Remember I gave it a listen in a shop when it was first released, and thought it was the dullest Eddie Harris album I had ever heard. Didn't give it another try. I dunno ... the grooves were too weak.

This is one for me to get! I'm a big fan of Keeezer, who had an ongoing inspired musical relationship with Steve Nelson early in his career, and now with Joe Locke - Keezer works extremely well with vibists.

The US Prestige Coltrane box says: Sound IS pretty good to these ears, too.

German mail order shop JPC has some of them at reduced price (EUR 9.99 for single, EUR 16.99 for double CDs) for a limited time, among them the Farmer, Hutcherson, Chambers, Coltrane etc. Go to the English section, jazz part, type lonehill into the search box and you have them all.

Couldn't find any - seems to be too new. Release date was November 8.

Here's an excerpt from an inteview with guitarist Paul Weeden, who played on the session (he founded the trio with Don Patterson and Billy James):

Of the four sides recorded at the 1954 Charlie Singleton session for Sunset, only one title was issued as a single - Freddie Redd and Jimmy Cobb were in that band. Michael Frohne's recent Freddie Redd disco does not show any reissues. The four Paul Williams sides from 1952 originally on Norgran were reissued on a Swedish LP Saxophonograph BP-500. (Richie Powell and Sam Jones were in that band - the wealth of great jazzmen doing time in R&B bands in the 1940's and 1950's remains amazing.) The Gatemouth Brown 1956 Peacock sides should be available - I heard two of them many years ago but don't remember any trumpet solos - would have been unusual for a blues side at the time.

The Al Grey was reissued on US and Japanese LP, but may be hard to find. Those Al Grey Argo/Cadet LPs would make a verrrrry nice Mosaic .....

The Collectables guys bothered to put Vibrations on CD together with The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson - I should have bought it for Boozier alone. The Ballad album is with strings arranged by Quincy Jones, but very well done. It can be ordered from oldies.com for $ 12.97 plus shipping. There may be a lot of trumpet players technically more assured, but he had a beautiful, round, fat tone in the Freddie Webster tradition, especially in the lower range. I doubt that he solos on the R&B sessions he is on.

Glad you liked that one, Mike! Next I will get me the three CDs Beirach made with Mraz and Hübner for the German Act label ... very interesting, their takes on Bartok and Mompou. Maybe I will have the chance to play with a similar trio next year.

Here's the promotional text from the label's website:

Bought it today, what a pleasant surprise! Personal tone, original treatments of some well known tunes, a good backing trio but avoid it if you only like it straightahead - there's more than a dash of funky rhythms here. No wonder for a cat from New Orleans. Anybody else here like it? Donald Harrison alto sax Glen Patscha piano Vicente Archer bass John Lamkin drums Recorded December 1 & 2, 2003 at Avatar Studios, New York City, by Jim Anderson (that's why it sounds so good .....) Nagel-Heyer 2059

I had that one and sold it - he didn't get me there. Same with the Pablo solo albums. I'm not that much of a guitar freak, maybe someone more into the instrument can appreciate him better. Just me, of course. The first album where I really dug him was Richard Groove Holmes' Trio on Pacific Jazz: Pass is on half the albums and swings like mad and with melodic invention.

I ordered this, but can pick it up at the shop only next Monday ... Please keep the discussion burning on small fire til then. I used to play with a local saxophone guy who was proud he did a gig with Humes in the 1960's shortly after he had started playing ... I should send him a copy of this. I think he never bought any of her albums ...

Now do you actually buy any of the dics you like in the tests, or do you just forget to post here? Today I picked up this one from # 19: Last week I received Richie Beirach's Snow Leopard after a nice track on a previous test: So what?

This is a 12" Bulgarian tupan - the one used on track 4 may be similar.

Found a pic of a Bulgarian tupan player - although this has plastic heads and is larger than the ones I have seen in folkloric bands.

This is a Pakistani tabl baladi, from the same family, to give you an idea: It is a very interesting thing to apply rhythmic patterns and playing techniques of this drum type to the trap set - I am always disappointed that most Turkish and Kurdish drummers play standard rock/funk patterns instead of the ones from theuir own heritage, which are just as funky!

I will purchase this. Are there more tracks with Bulgarian rhythms on any of the other CDs? Can anyone tell the nationality of the musicians involved here, especially who are the Bulgarians? The tupan is the drum used in Bulgarian folk music, a small bass drum carried in front of the belly, ca 12 - 14 inches in diameter, hit with a thick wooden beater on the right head and a long thin wooden rod on the left head - when you rest the latter on the head while hitting the right side you get a snare effect. This is a type of drum and playing technique found all over Eastern Europe and the Orient over to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - the Greek call it dauli, the Kurds call it davul, but theirs are larger. Impossible to say who invented it. It is however probable it was brought to the Balkan area during the Osman occupation, or by the Proto-Bulgarians. I would have bet there was a trap set player besides the tupan - is it really only one drummer? If so, my hat is off!!! Was there no Varna Jazz Festival in 2004? One page linked does not display a year - anyway, I will try to coordinate our next Bulgaria vacation with the festival, if possible.

No mention of the Keith Tippett Group so far?!?! This and their next, Dedicated to ou, but you weren't listening were my most often played British LPs at the time. Both are on CD from Disconforme, maybe dubbed from LP.