mikeweil

Wish they'd release his other three (?) Cadet LPs as Verve LPR's, I heard some of it on AFN and SWR radio back then and was thrilled, but the LPs were almost impossible to get here.

Besides some of the discs mentioned before - Coltrane with Ali is really essential - John Klemmer's Nexus always held a special place in my heart, some of his most inspired playing ever.

Duke Ellington Thelonious Monk John Coltrane Wes Montgomery Cal Tjader Hank Mobley Herbie Hancock Geoff Keezer Mongo Santamaria Tito Puente Modern Jazz Quartet & John Lewis

I upgrade only if the sound of the new edition is noticeably superior - which is the case with all the Columbia Legacy reissues. I'm not so picky about the Blue Notes, do not like the sound of most RVG's. I'm one of those who prefer to buy new material. And I always sell the older duplicates.

Yeah, the Savoy sides are beautiful. Would be nice to have them all together on one CD. He's one of the few musicians that I do not get tired of when listening to several alternates in a row.

Anyone heard Adam Rogers' CDs on Criss Cross and can recommend 'em?

George Benson is a bad mofo of a scatter. There is a Jon Hendricks CD on Telarc where Hendricks, Benson, and Al Jarreau do scat exchanges on Rhythm-A-Ning, and Benson comes out the winner, IMHO.

Red Mitchell scatting with a Swedish accent - hilarious!!! Helen has a hard time to keep from laughing.

... could have been me ... Besides that, as far as avatars are concerned, Cat Shatner might become a pest.

This is another favourite Stitt CD of mine: It has two LPs, the meeting with Paul Gonsalves and a quartet LP, both with excellent sympathetic rhythm sections and Stitt in fine form, he raises clearly above the level of his many blowing dates, and sound is very good.

Thanks y'all, I'll order them from the US. tjobbe, I have that Tjader - it was unreleased at the time of recording, and Hoffmann's release was its first appearance. There are better Tjader sessions and bands, musically ...

I have read so many positive things about the sound quality of Steve Hoffmann's remasterings of Time LPs on SACD, albums by Sonny Clark, Stanley and Tommy Turrentine, Kenny Dorham, but where can I get them? German mail order shops seem to have only the Fresh Sound / Blue Moon reissues of the same material. Thanks a lot!

Your pleas have been heard: Jazzmatazz announces: Roland Kirk - Here Comes the Whistleman (Water/Atlantic) Apr 13 Charles Mingus - Tonight at Noon (Water/Atlantic) Apr 13

I bought the Prestige/Pablo box set last month and find the sound to be very good - I had the Prestiges on LP and CD and find the new remastering to be slightly superior. I didn't have any of the Pablo albums before, so I cannot comment on them. I got the MJQ 40 Years box set last year, and although I had a lot of their Atlantic albums in some form, it watered my mouth for all of them, so the new Porgy and Bess CD will find its way to my CD bin, for sure. Hope there will be more. Still have to get the Lighthouse CD, and wait for a CD of the Fontessa LP with both the mono and stereo takes!

You mean the new RVG sounds like a Muse LP? Oh my crazy kittens ... Rudy should seriously consider retirement then.

Same here! Besides that, I see some names of doubtful jazz value on the list: Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye etc. may have been great artists in their own right, but jazz???

I hold McKusick in high esteem, he was the ideal player for the sophisticated arrangements on those George Russell and Teddy Charles dates. I have the Decca/GRP compilation, and the Fresh Sound LP reissues of the Bethelehem and RCA LPs, and love 'em all - even the stuff with the string quartet. What was the label and number of that single, BTW? Bruyninckx does not list it, only a Coral single with different titles by the "Key Men", and I'd like to pass on the information.

Which is where the African heritage in jazz comes in, because it is common practice in African music to use various differing subdivisions of the beat simultaneously, more often and more consequently than in any other musical culture I know.

Literally translated: The place of creation The place of broadcast I doubt these are musical terms in the strict sense of the word - someone like brownie or Claude should know better.

Indeed! And it's way cheap down in the Naples region. Plenty of buffalos there, no wonder they use it for pizza there. Much better than other cheese for pizza.

That's a legitimate way to view his attitude as a producer - self-indulgence seems to be a sign of the trade, with individual marks - Teo Macero, Orrin Keepnews, Joel Dorn, Manfred Eicher, even Michael Cuscuna somehow show an ego thing of some sort to confirm their importance for the music. There are great producers who just stand back and disappear behind the music - so it's no wonder I cannot come up with any names right now - Chuck Nessa perhaps?

No-nonsense playing? "No-nonsense" in the meaning that whereas Kirk often plays on the verge of gimmickry, which is alright with me, and which I really dig, here he just digs in and plays without superficial jokes or references to the black music tradition. No negative judgement intended.

Great choice!!! Perhaps my favourite Stitt album of all, with excellent playing by all involved!

The one that I missed that I'm really mad at myself for is the Helen Merrill. The Vaughan has a lot of the more commercial stuff, so left it on the shelf. The Brown/Roach is indispensable, IMHO, the Kirk is great. But some used copy should turn up at a reasonable price some day.

The Byard with Kirk is great! Some of Kirk's best no-nonsense playing. Same goes for the Kirk' Work album on Prestige with jack McDuff, although the former is much more outrageous.