mikeweil

I'd be tha last to blame you - as long as we get it, someday Keep up the good work!

Same here exactly!

I too thought of Gato at first listen, but there is something in the phrasing that is not characteristic of his playing. I do not nearly know all of his records, but I have my doubts ...

Hi John, I will step in this again with distribution of Germany/Austria/Suisse etc.... Marcus: will send a PM... Cheers, Tjobbe Thanks tjobbe for doing so - I would love to but still don't have a burner and need a new computer soon .... I'm in of course, will send e-mail! As always, looking forward to it!

Sometimes I will get an e-mail notification, sometimes I won't ....

Well, this music is not for enjoying, I reckon .... One might wonder wether this man has listened to any post-1965 Coltrane at all.

I hate those lazy programmers who don't care to write scripts for other software - this is what really supports the Microsoft Monopole. When I try to access the new site with my slow connection and Opera, my computer nearly crashes. Too much fancy stuff. The Bill Gates curse works pretty well. Imperfect programming, wherever you look.

... that's another Uptown I'd buy right out of the gate! Same here!!!

Seize the opportunity and buy it, you won't be disappointed. It's a reall goodun! Junior Mance plays really well on it, too! BTW, the copies I saw in a German retailer on Monday were digipaks like the Verve by Request series, not mini-LPs - can't see why they still call it LPR series .

I suspect you know that Oscar Sala passed away a year or so ago. I think I read that article back then, It may have helped his rediscovery, as there were three CDs with his music and his interpretations of Hindemith pieces (which he had to reconstruct) on Erdenklang (http://www.erdenklang.de), which I can recommend. The Trautonium is a unique instrument with a playfeel much closer to a violin than a keyboard, and much more human in its expressive means than any synthesizer, but it is an endangered species. Sala's instrument was the last of its kind, and I sincerely hope his assistant in his last years manages to maintain it.

Now that I have bought and listened to this CD at last - Bob Redfield's playing here is certainly more rockish than anything else that I've heard, but not that much like Carlos Santana's. The way I understand it the line wanted to point out the influence Tjader had on Santana, not vice-versa, and perhaps lure some Santana fans to buy the CD with the remark on the guitar playing. That aside, the CD is great, that band smokes!

Universal France certainly is not the one to blame - the branches in different continents follow independent release policies. As Joe M said, it is Universal/Verve in the US who decide not to release this. Let's thank Sunnyside for doing the job - I hope it will get them some bucks to pursue their own very interesting projects - Eddie Higgins has done some for them etc.

Klook live had a powerful sound, crisp but with a lot of warmth. He didn't want the drums to be obtrusive on a studio recording, so it may be just a matter of how he was recorded. I have some live recordings done only a few years before his passing where he blows the band away. The Savoy or Prestige studio recordings are definitely not representative, as far as his sound is concerned.

Agreed, but I like the original of this one much more:

Hell Yeah!!!

De Nada! BTW: Is that Spanish, English or German???

Thanks for the inspiration to give this a spin! I dig Mongo very much and find these tunes to be "commercial" in a much more appealing and musical way than today's efforts. And the band with Marty Sheller, Bobby Capers and Pat Patrick swings them nicely. My purchases last week: Ebay: Russell Gunn, Ethnomusicology Vol.3 Butch Thompson & Doc Cheatham Adonis Rose, Unity Manuel de Falla, Complete Solo Piano Works, by Jean-Francois Heisser Henry Du Mont, Motets JPC: Silvius Leopold Weiss, reconstructed Lute Concertos Hank Mobley, The Flip Lee Morgan, Sonic Boom Andrew Hill, Lift Every Voice Jason Moran, The Bandwagon CD Baby: Juli Wood, Moovin' & Groovin' Emil Richards, Luntana John Santos & Machete Ensemble, S.F. Bay Mackrosoft Parts 1 - 3: Life Imitates Clouds, Journey To Vaginus, 1st Mack To The Moon Some more coming up during the week after a serious hiatus from the online shops ....

My thoughts exactly! Thanks a lot for starting the thread and Christiern's insightful post!

Just wanted to prove we really need an abbreviations thread .....

TRSTW = This really seems to work

Yes it's a cover of a classic tune from the 1960s. Or anyway a tune from a classic album--not sure if anyone else other than this saxophonist has covered this tune since the original composer's version. hmm ... I checked my Dolphy, but it is not among these. If it's Jackie Mac, I don't have too much of his albums. Ornette? Too lazy to check. But the tune sounded more like Dolphy to me. More an alto players' tune than a tenor like we have here. I could - or probably am - wrong, of course.

TRSTW

That is why my LP must be a later reissue - it is not a Kangaroo Pak. AFAIK the opening cover was the first LP issue. This was discussed somewhere in the obscure album covers thread.

The "two T's" are the proper German way of spelling ... This was also sold as an audiophile double LP with identical content; the band toured with Jordan, I missed them in Frankfurt - it wasn't sure wether Jordan could make the gig, so I skipped it, only to learn from a friend a few days later that he had played magnificently that evening! So it goes - a few years later he was gone ... Weiss was one of the first German drummers playing really well with "American" feeling; his band did several recommendable LPs that are hard to find now, one with mal Waldron guesting.

It was still the 10" LP era in 1953 ...