mikeweil

Now this is the band I really wanted to salute you:

Mon salutations à ton anniversaire!!!! (Pardon my French, en cas this is appropriate! I do my best .... )

Seems faster even on my slooooowwwwww connection. I started thinking it was me .... every time I am on the road and have finally hunted down some internet café, the borad is down ... Life without the big O? Unthinkable!!! Can somebody write a song "The Big O"?

I'm afraid I can't follow you here, Chuck: please explain (probably only my English).

They sell it for $ 13.98 plus shipping.

Okay, found it thanks to the post above: http://www.rockandgrooverecords.com/

Found out its on Rock & Groove 4 - but no more. Wonder what the first three were.

Click here for a nice gallery of Vitous album covers.

Yeah, who did save this rare bird? Never saw a copy of these LPs. I have read somewhere that the rave about them was indeed a little too much, but nevertheless ...

That was only the third LP of this quartet: First Meeting ECM 1145 recorded May 1979, Oslo John Surman, Kenny Kirkland, Miroslav Vitous, Jon Christensen Miroslav Vitous Group ECM 1185 recorded July 1980, Oslo same lineup Journey's End ECM 1242 recorded July 1982, Oslo John Taylor for Kirkland I like them - but saw the band live in 1982, and they played much hotter on stage than on the albums. As I said, his reworkings of early Weather Report material on these is very interesting.

They did one or two more duo records for Concord. These are all verrry nice!

Hah! You sure?!

Jim, as serious as I take your concern, wasn't it you who said you have to be crazy to play like that - about Johnny Griffin, that is? Maybe this is a new case of tenor madeness?

Can you post a participants list while the burner's workin'? Thanks, especially big thanks considering your work situation!

Here are available Tjader jazz CDs with Fantasy material from the 1950's without any Latin stuff on 'em: Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-275-2 Cal Tjader/Stan Getz Sextet Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-436-2 Cal Tjader - Jazz At The Blackhawk Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-950-2 Cal Tjader Quartet Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-988-2 Cal Tjader - Tjader Plays Jazz Fantasy FCD-24771-2 Cal Tjader - Our Blues Fantasy FCD-24775-2 Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen & West Side Story This one has the early trios coupled with a jazz session with Hank Jones on Rhodes piano and Shelly Manne from 1976: Fantasy FCD-24764-2 Cal Tjader - Extremes And this one has the San Francisco Moods Suite I love so much but also a Latin Bolero ballads album: Fantasy FCD-24742-2 Cal Tjader - Sentimental Moods Finally, two live CDs with mixed material - the first is 2/3 jazz, the second 1/3 jazz: Prestige PRCD-24026-2 Cal Tjader - Monterey Concerts Fantasy FCD-24755-2 Cal Tjader - Black Hawk Nights The later jazzy stuff on Verve, Fantasy or Concord is unavailable except for the 1976 Galaxy on the Extremes CD above, or the 1981 Concord with Scott Hamilton The Shining Sea, which was reissued in a double package with a Latin LP.

The Watson was a British reissue, IIRC, and should be available used somewhere. Ask for the cover! As for Tjader, you want to start with Latin or Jazz?

Got the Prez King, too, VERRRRRy nice! Gotta look for the others on King and Argo.

When preparing my BT CDs for shipment I looked for these, but they were so expensive compared to the bubble bags that the difference covered half the postage!

What label was that recorded for? Riverside, Jazzland, Prestige?

Now I remember that I bought The Three Sounds Live at the Lighthouse, and the music was some banal pop, although the CD was printed correctly ... the other copy the shop had was okay!?

I was glad I had all that stuffed typed, so I didn't look into Bruyninckx ... Of course there were numerous sessions for RCA and Mercury, Lou-Wa (no kidding!), Warwick, Tangerine, Pzazz, Cinema, Blues Spectrum, Black & Blue, and JSP. I have edited my post accordingly. That Pzazz LP cover you linked beats 'em all!

Got it a few fays ago, and love it! Deep music, and much more profound than the early Impulse Trios I got today. Here's the real heiress of the Coltrane legacy!

Just received and listened to this one: This is the bassist of the Gégé Telesforo band, Dario Deidda from Salerno, with the same young pianist, Juan Oliver M., and drummer Stephane Huchard plus various guests (including Gégé on one track), doing an array of grooves between jazz and all types of music. Very enjoyable and recommended to everybody who liked tracks 2 & 12. This guy is equally accomplished on acoustic or electric bass - grooves on the big box like Christian McBride!

Of course you're right, John. Perhaps I should say it changed to more strictly standardized system with mechanical sounding implications narrowing individual approches - we all complain many younger musicians sound alike, don't we? BTW, the answers are complete now. Much work to search out these f)(/&$%=)§ pics! poooh!

Of course I didn't mean to imply this. But basically I think each of the cultural zones in the world has a slightly different feel for musical time: European, African-American, Oriental, Indian, East Asian are only the most important. If you pay attention and grow up in the right environment, you cross borders, and that's what a lot of "white" jazz musicians did. I agree that a standardized training system tends to overshadow this "ancient knowledge" of rhythm - it is one important factor why jazz soloists of even second or third grade sounded so remarkably individual.