mikeweil

Sure he is! I find myself buying CDs just because I hope to hear him well recorded.

Same here, only a few, as I have extended collections of Duke or Jelly Roll etc. on other labels. But I'd like to have many others, of course. The ones I have I got because I really needed them : Lucky Thompson 1944-1947 Kenny Clarke 1946-1948 Edgar Hayes 1937-1938 (for Kenny Clarke) Jess Stacy 1935-1939 Gerald Wilson 1945-1946 (oh how I wish there was another volume!)

Just ordered her new one: as well as a Japanese reissue of The Huntington Ashram Monastery, the only early Impulse still missing in my collection.

Thanks a lot, John! Meanwhile I found a cheap copy of the second Kenny Clarke. But we still have to wait for second volumes of Gerald Wilson or Lucky Thompson - especially the former is great!

woa! it's true! Good grief! Never noticed.

Is there any second volume out of the Gerald Wilson, Lucky Thompson or Kenny Clarke? And is there any complete online listing available? Thanks!

Blue Mitchell's Smooth As The Wind could fit into that category (Riverside/OJC) - his only album with strings and brass orchestra, but musically very successful and a great foil for his lyrical playing.

Anthenagin is the title of the companion CD (both on Prestige twofers, not OJC). Actually this was in part Blakey's working band of the time. Less fusion than some African percussion drenched jam session faintly resonant of Bitches Brew - there are not too many electric pianos on Blakey albums! I think he was in the mood at the time - he took a band with Jeremy Steig, George Cables, Stanley Clarke, 2 hand drummers and sometimes Tony Williams (!) as second drummer on a world tour at the time (see Mike Fitzgerald's Messengers chronology for details - but I remember that cast playing at J.E. Berendt's jazz festival at the olympics in Munich that was broadcast on TV).

Just wanted to say how much I love this album (Griffin's "Change of Pace"). Really an eye-opener for me, and it's easily the best Johnny Griffin album I've yet heard (though I haven't heard that many). Two thumbs up!!! A great idea for a thread! If you dig the Johnny Griffin Change of Pace album, which is among my favourites, you would probably like his 1990's Antilles CD Dance of Passion with trombone and frenchhorn, although it is not as startling as the former.

This is one of only two McLean CDs I have - his tone just won't get to me. Always slighty flat or whatever - perhaps JSngry can inform me what it is that makes him sound like this. But this is a beautiful album, I have to admit I bought it for Tina Brooks and Blue Mitchell and for the wonderful compositions - McLean's included. It is telling that Brooks' three tunes were kept off the orginal LP. Without the three tracks from the earlier session this would have been a much tighter album. Great choice!

If Coltrane ever wrote a book, it would have been titled "Life after Miles".

I wonder if this has something to do with the producers' tastes. Who was active for Impulse besides Creed Taylor and Bob Thiele? Thiele obviously had something to do with the load of avant-garde (at the time) saxists recording for the label, but also gave us that wonderful series of Ellingtonians in the most wondrous constellations.

You mean those digipaks? That's a real problem, they begin to show surface wear very quickly when not handled with gloves. No idea, but I doubt they sell some without the disk. One could make a laser color copy and put it in a jewel box ...

If anybody kicks your ass, I'll get on him - I'm very much looking forward to your BT, expecting it will have drums all over the place . Life kicks all our asses, that's sufficient! We share the music, that's important - and I wish I would have been more daring - maybe the second time around - didn't want to spoil my reputation right away ....

We're gonna keep this thing alive, that's for sure!

I have an excellent partial recording of the Ursonate by German actress Marianne Bernhardt. They state in the liner notes that the Schwitters estate never allows for complete performances! Are they afraid someone does it better or people will not by the Wergo CD anymore? One might suspect they want the work to be heard the way he intended it to be! Is the HatArt recording a complete one?

I better not. Andrew Cyrille has stated swing was a way of projecting maximum energy with minimum effort. Musically, everything that has some groove and makes you move swings - I saw a Bulgarian folk group during my vacation that swung their butts off - and mine too!

It just dawns on me that I expected to learn only about CD or vinyl purchases - simply because I rarely buy anything else at ebay. I have bought a few hundred CDs at ebay, 1 (!) LP - a promo copy of Jack Wilson's "Song For My Daughter" - and some spares for my mobile phone, a pair of trousers for my wife that didn't fit, some VHS videos and DVD's. Negative experiences: One CD was wrong, three or four never arrived - got a refund from all but one seller. Once I sold a CD to Belgium and the buyer never paid the five EUR - he was excommunicated soon after.

There is a physical difference between gold layers and other metals used. The pitches are in fact in the plastic (polycarbonate) and are coated with metal to make them reflective for the light of the laser. Gold layers are smoother, gold particles are considerably smaller in size than aluminum and those make for more accurate tracking, causing less reading errors. Less errors make for less data beeing recalculated by the computing part of the CD player, which results in a more natural sound - other aspects of tracking accuracy play a part here, and are the reason why some high end manufacturers build turntables to achieve cleaner tracking. But I an convinced a badly mastered gold CD will sound worse than a well mastered aluminum CD - but most labels issuing gold CDs take more care of other aspects of CD mastering and production as well. What I don't accept is the higher prices for gold layered CDs: there is one German classical label (MDG - Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm) that manufactures all their regular CDs with gold layers at normal high price level - and they are renowned for their good engineering taking utmost care to reproduction of the natural ambience of great sounding acoustics etc. - this shows that the gold layer alone must not justify the higher prices. Smaller pressing quantities may be a reason, and more effort and working hours, but most jazz CDs are not pressed in larger quantities and still sell at normal high price, so part of it is plain robbery for well-endowned high end fanatics who hear what they believe.

Sorry Agustín, the score is yours - must have overread this post. -_-

arghh ... another one I have and didn't regognize. Too much music and too little time! As an excuse: I enjoy listening to these older recordings much more on my new speakers -_- Congrats, brownie, for nailing this one!

Just curious. Mine was Brahms' 1st Symphony, performed by the London Classical Players directed by Roger Norrington (on period instruments), which was OOP by then.

I have to admit these boots never walked very close to me ...

Okay, since chucky d4 hasn'r contacted me in any form, I take liberties to move up a step to my original position and start a signup thread for my BT at # 18, moving him back to # 19 - I had been afraid this would have to start while I was still on vacation, but ... so look forward to some (I hope) good music!

Got this yesterday - beautiful. IMHO, Andy Bey is the greatest jazz singer performing right now. Next time he is over here - this CD is on the German Minor Music label - i will not miss him.