mikeweil

Here are the other jazzy reissues:

Most of these drummers' jokes are in circulation among Irish musicians - attributed to Bodhran players ..... One more: At the rehearsal, the guitar player asks the drummer: "Now could you play with more dynamics in that song?" Drummer replies: "What? I'm already playing as loud as I can!"

They pick the rarest and some of the best from the Warner/Atlantic vaults, and in very good sound: I have the beautiful Herbie Mann Stone Flute, and Miroslav Vitous' Magical Shepherd.

Hey, you should pass that one on to Bill Fenohr - AFAIK it is one of only two Blue Note items not in his collection. Or did you remedy that im the meantime?

With all respect to your feelings, and my own, at the same time I feel some relief there ain't no more - at least one collection that can be complete! Of course I know what we are talking about here - it's a sad thing. But wouldn't Hank turn us on to other players? So what is your least played Hank album - and unjustly so?

They provoked that among the French, watched what happened, and decided against it.

More than once, I reckon ...

where was that heard? BFT 1, track 12! B-)

Today I got this disc: (Amazon.com link) and track 7 turns out to be theone Jim Sangrey and myself suggested. A nice disc. There are used copies from $ 1, so don't hesitate!

Probably the fastest BT inspired purchase so far, while # 17 is still in the guessing stages:

"Ends Sep-27-04 14:32:29 PDT" I hope Mike Fitzgerald sees this in time!

I already sent him an e-mail reminder earlier today. In case ....... I could step up to keep things moving.

I e-mailed him earlier today. In case he does not react, I could step up any time.

Same here. Jack's not relying on rudimental patterns as much as the drummer here.

I hear Ya! Or let one soloist play a number with only bass, or drums, or bass and drums. Not everybody has to play every tune!

I find it impossible to seprate the position in the solo order from the person etc. It's all closely intertwined. Changing solo order in a creative way can change the whole piece drastically. I remember playing Monk's "Straight No Chaser" in a quartet with vocals, piano, bass and percussion, and with the usual solo order: vocals, piano, bass, and fours with the percussion, nothing happened. I then suggested to change the order as follows: theme - fours of vocals and piano with percussion - bass - vocals - piano - theme, and we always played the hell out of that tune, and the bassist delivered some of his most exciting solos!

I have to disagree here. If you want the Jamal trio with a drummer, go for the subsequent edition with Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier. But one of the many unique aspect of the early Jamal trio with Ray Crawford was their interplay, avoiding the danger of clashes between guitar and piano by defining the respective roles of both instruments under rhythmic aspects just as much as harmonic conception. Jamal, as lean as his piano style was opposed to e.g. Tatum, who led a piano/guitar/bass trio after Jamal's and Nat King Cole's success, had a lot more freedom when Crawford played rhythm in a percussive way - Jamal did the same for him in a similar fashion - and a drummer would have filled up all the space left open by this role definition. The use of space was perhaps the most startling aspect of that trio - Miles admired it, and noticed how much Crawford would swing the trio with his percussion effects, and encouraged Philly Joe Jones to use the same accents. If I'm correct, Crawford may have introduced these bongo patterns on the guitar - Herb Ellis picked that up while with the Oscar Peterson trio. But Crawford does it in a very precise fashion, using different sounds fitting with the changes, and using variations he picked up from Cuban bongoceros, whereas the others stuck to the basic pattern. Ray Crawford is a very underrated guitarist, IMHO.

There were two long OOP CDs on French CBS covering all the Epic/Okeh titles. Only half of this was on a US CD. Shall I include them in my next shipment? Shrdlu informed me these CBS CDs used second generation master tapes (with some reverb added?), but except for 8 tracks in the Mosaic Jazz Piano Masters box and the US CD I mentioned, this was the only way to get these so far.

I have Paris without regret by Ursula Broschke Davis (Nathan Davis' wife?), which throughs the spoltlight on the Paris exile of James Baldwin, Kenny Clarke, Chester Himes, and Donald Byrd. Interesting reading. (University of Iowa Press, 1986)

Received today from an ebay auction:

Have another French cognac!

Drummer Victor Lewis' career strongly supports this: He did sessions with David Sanborn, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow a.o. where he played downright funky or rockish and even contibuted tunes (7th Avenue on the first Sanborn) that the Woody Shaw quintet would have played just as convincingly.

I have the Rivers and Young Mosaics. I have the Wilson on Japanese LP and all the Silvers on US LP - might get me the latter, anyway. Will get the Hill for sure.

Too bad they didn't add the four sides Jamal recorded for Parrot 78's, with Ray Crawford and Richard Davis, immediately before the LP. Must be the rarest Jamal ever!

Finally got me a copy of Giorgio Gaslini's Lampi, an excellent disc!