mikeweil

This was one of the few Blue Notes CDs I bought as a Japanese edition (it says: Digital transfers by Yoshio Ozaki), as no US CD was available - I think Jazzbo is correct, and they issued the US CD with that transfer within a year. What I always liked about was the start with a medium tempo tune (the classic Strollin') and not one of those fast-paced ones - starting an album with a fast tune always gives me the feeling of having tu jump on a train at full speed. It is very interesting that Silver re-recorded two tunes from his early 10" Blue Note trio LPs on that one, Yeah, and the title track, Horace-Scope. And he finally got Nica's Dream on a record under his leadership, after the jazz Messengers Columbia LP (April 5, 1956), and the version on a Kenny Burrell Blue Note session (February 10, 1957 with Mobley, Silver, Watkins and Hayes) that remained unissued - that tune must have been very dear to him. The first looking back at his career? That was a classic band, of course, and one of the greatest hard bop frontlines, Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook - the latter shows his Mobley influences here a little, listento his solo on Where You At?. Why Alfred Lion didn't give Junior Cook an LP of his own remains a mystery to me. Or did he think he had enough tough tenors? Joe Henderson and Stanley Turrentine were still in the future, Mobley was only temporarily active at the time, so why not?

If you still buy vinyl, try the mono Blue Note LPs from Classic Records, which are said to be excellent and worth the high price.

Standard audio CDs can hold up to 80 minutes of music - so if the LP's playing time is under 40 minutes, both the stereo and mono mixes could be included. Would make for an interesting comparison, as both mixes often were different. I know that the rock group Buffalo Springfield mixed their first LP by themselves in mono and "poured their heart into those mixes", they simply didn't know about stereo back then, and were disappointed when a stereo mix was done without their consent or participation, the sound of which they didn't like. The Buffalo Springfield box set includes both mixes. The one mono LP that I regret having sold is the Modern Jazz Quartet's European Concert, which sounded fuller in mono, if my memory serves me right - I still have the same turntable. And I remember cases where different takes were included on mono and stereo releases, mostly due to malfunctions of early stereo tape machines, but the mono takes were the preferred ones. The MJQ's first Atlantic LP Fontessa had several takes different from the stereo version reissued on CD. It may be a similar technical problem as with early CDs: It takes a few years before a new technology is fully developped - before they had mixing consoles allowing central placement of instruments in the stereo spread, early left/right mixes often sound awful, and Rudy Van Gelder has corrected some of these mixes when he prepared the RVG CDs, e.g Mobley's Soul Station. Changing to stereo also started that whole crap of multi-track recording, which causes more problems than it solves, IMO, as far as recording is concerned. For a mono recording with a single microphone, a group had to have some sort of natural balance. Today you find this only with audiophile recordings using only two microphones, only then you have stereo with a correct room ambience and no phasing problems.

My thoughts exactly!

Cindy Blackman was (still is?) with Lenny Kravitz' band for some years. Doesn't sound quite like what I've heard her do, but you never know.

I have all of this quintet's CDs and it#s not on them. And this definitely not Tony's drum sound, which was a lot heavier during his last decade.

I doubt the original tapes will be found, as Richard Bock edited them and not a copy, and the snippets are lost forever. The only chance to hear the complete versions would be, as I posted above, a first issue LP in good condition. They probably couldn't find one, as Cuscuna is not afraid to use one when it's the only source for tracks otherwise unavailable. Anyone here having a first edition copy with "This Is Always" and the longer versions should contact Cuscuna immediately!

The cause is that designers make covers following visual criteria in the first place, and if it looks better the other way round, it's done with a mouseclick. You'll find plenty of pictures by media stars used both ways. Just type a famous name into image search at some search engine and take a close look. With a label like Mosaic, of course, where music takes priority, this shouldn't happen.

All the dates mentioned are great. What strikes me about Hall is that he has so much good taste and lyricism, and rhythmic drive at the same time without getting superficial. I think it was Hall taking modern jazz guitar to the next level after the Charlie Christian innovations - he was the reference point for John Abercrombie and the likes. He belongs among the top ten jazz guitarists, in my opinion. First time he made me prick up my ears was with his solo in A Little Boy on helen Merrill's LP A Shade Of Difference.

RIP. I too knew him from his work with Roach, and some other project I do not remember right now. Would be interesting to hear his compositions in the clasical vein.

No, we haven't. Glad to see you're up! Sorry if we have caused any inconvenience, follow-uppers!

If he mistook Ernie for Andy, the translator is a jazz fan, at least ...

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I'll take a set of these two CDs instead! Have it only on LP ...

One thing that keeps fascinating me about these Blindfold Tests is the rules that apply, without us having established beforehand. Some apply to the tests as such, like: 1. There always (?) is an obscure Blue Note item, or a hidden gem from a release of that label 2. (you name it!) Some rules are my very personal thing: 1. There always (!) is an item from an artist or even a track that I considered for my own upcoming compilation 2. There always (!) is an item I have in my collection that I do not recognize or only after some hints or going through my collection. Rule 1 is represented in BFT # 8 by track 9. Rule 2 is represented in BFT # 8 by track 11 - but I said in my first guesses post that I had to contemplate on this a little more, which I did, 'cause that voice sounded familiar, and there it was! Bought it at ebay last year and so far have listended to it only twice, which is wrong - it is much too good an album - and there are far too many singers of that caliber that are neglected, which she was until five years ago. Now do you recognize that lady? If not: It is on this album. The German catalog of that label group doesn't list it any longer - go get it while it is still in print.

Can someone please post a link to sound samples of that immensely popular band Someone Else?

There was a time in the 1980's when I had Silver spinning every day! Time to revive this habit, thanks for the opportunity!

I'd say we rather confiscate his record collection ...

Okay, let's make it official to keep things running: Daniel A or rockefeller center, can you step up?

Forgot to say that the inclusion of track # 3 was a very smart move, IMO. B)

Buffalo Springfield The Rascals Cream from the early 1970's: The Electric Flag The Flock Gentle Giant

What's very interesting is that there is an uptempo version on this album that makes for an entirely different mood! As I have said elsewhere, to me this vibes/Piano teaming was one of the great collaborations in jazz!

I forgot to include the sentence "of course this is couw's favourite trumpeter" in my guesses"