mikeweil

Up! I hope everything is alright!

Still can't believe that is Jack deJohnette! Will have to re-listen. Tom, thanks for these interesting choices! Very, very nice comments! I almost saw that Mingus band in Frankfurt, but I was late and the club was sold out ...

Read the others' guesses and pour more ashes ... didn't I give you those live bootlegs ? Or are they buried in the "to listen to" pile? Computer problem has been solved, BTW

At last, some bassic guesses ... you're better than you think!

This guy mistakenly thinks it was not Jimmy Smith's choice to play like that. As much as I love Donald Bailey, sometimes I want a meatier beat with organ - but then I put on someone else. It's not a matter of production or engineering, but of musical tastes. He cannot "dig it all", that's about it.

That's the core problem!

Same here. That concept behind the terms "traditional", "swing", "bop", "cool", "hard bop" etc. is simplistically evolutionistic - but today all these styles coexist. I'd rather read a thread in the artists or new releases forum.

Yes - that would be an option. Has anyone compared?

I sincerely hope you do - and when you have survived mine, nothing will happen to you any time . You still got the discs?

But it's a very rare item. I will be mad forever at BMG they didn't include that in their Vogue reissue series a few years ago - would have been a perfect match for the Solal-Sadi sessions. This is a case where I certainly would not blame certain Spanish labels ...

I'm still skeptical after the writeups in Jazz Times etc. - but the review told it was Byron's first major recording at last, so I will give it a listen next week in a shop.

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 ....