mikeweil

AFAIK there were no problems when my parents had to research their "arian" ancestry before they married in June, 1939, just three months before the war started in September. You had to trace it back three generations, and I remember my mother once told me they couldn't trace it any further back, anyway. I believe my mothers side may have some hugenotte traces from south-west Germany, but my father's branch stems from that small village not too far away from the town where Elvis Presley did his service in the 1950's. I never took the time to deeply investigate my family name's etymology, I'll do some search on the web ...

This is one to get, it seems - thanks for pointing out: Jim, do you have any idea why there are so few trumpet albums with organ - or rather organ records with trumpet without a sax? Do you know any others besides Kysor's?

Nothing Butt The Soul, of course!

The first Blue Note CD reissues were not conceived as limited editions, many titles nevertheless went out of print once the sales figures dropped below a certian margin. This is the criterion, not musical value or whatever. It's ALWAYS the sales figures, at least for a major company. Fantasy operates on a different basis.

The Candid Records website says Skylark is a piano trio with Arthur Harper and Mickey Roker - that was easy to find out. What I needed was some advice, and that's what you gave me, as always. Thanks, fellowes! Those early Prestige piano sessions look nice as well, I see many dangers to my budget ...

The Mobley and Blue Mitchell are likely candidates. Where to start, where to stop. I'd like to have that Ellington, but can afford it only by the end of the month ...

It IS smoking! p.s. That photo of Jim and the Turbanator is VERY nice!

Discovered this thread only now while searching something entirely different, and only 'cause the search function didn't work! My family's name is WEIL, like Simon's, and for reason's unknown to me there is no Jewish ancestry in out family, but my father's side came from a region in Germany where there are a LOT of streams and villages called WEIL or Weilbach or Weilburg or you name it ... There is an old German word "weiler" meaning a very small village, maybe it comes from that. Mike is the American short form of my first name, Michael, that's it. I'm not that fond of using fantasy names to diguise one's identity on the web. Great to read all those stories, I hope you don't think it's odd I revive this thread.

There is an offer for Shirley Scott's Candid CD Skylark on ebay Germany. Is this a good Cd of her, or would you recommend something else for starters? Thanks for any advice! p.s. the seller calls the label "Candido" ?!?!

Rhoda Scott is bad! Now that may be a jazz christmas album for me to look after ... Among pre-Jimmy organists, Milt Buckner deserves mention. If those Jelly Roll organ tracks are available, I's sure like to hear them!!!

I have four Doug Carn LPs from that label and find them all very good, but you have to like vocals. Carn wrote lyrics to many famous jazz tunes by Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner and even John Coltrane, and Jean Carn sang them with a big voice with a wide vibrato, but in a jazzy way far removed from her later disco outings. I like it a lot. There's a lot of black consciousness in the music, in a positive way, and Doug Carn played excellent organ and Rhodes piano on these records, all the sideman are good, Michael Carvin, Charles Tolliver, Alphonze Mouton, René McLean, Garnett Brown, Olu Dara and Walter Booker are among them. Others I have are the two Henry Franklin LPs and one by Calvin Keyes. Good music, not overwhelming, but certainly better than a lot of other more commercial stuff issued in the early 1970's. Nice mixture of modal bop with a few funky touches. BTW one tune on the Henry Franklin LP "The Skipper", "Beauty and the electric Tub" was not written by Henry Franlin as credited, but by Doug Hammond - that's what the composer told me, a very good drummer who led his own groups in the US and Europe and now teaches drums at the conservatory in Linz, Austria - Steve Coleman cut his teeth in Doug's trio. I guess the Doug Carns are the best in the Black Jazz catalogue.

Is it worth the search, do you have it, btw, and do ya like it?

... with Wynton's soundtrack on Blue Note?

Just noticed there was an earlier thread on this board about this calendar!

Just noticed there is another thread on this board about this calendar!

Here's a list of all CD's with Melvin after 1990: Altenburgh ALT-70007 Mark Ladley Trio - Strictly Business Altenburgh JGA-70013 Mark Ladley Trio - Evidence Criss Cross 1070 CD Brian Lynch - At The Main Event Criss Cross 1059 CD Melvin Rhyne Trio - The Legend Criss Cross 1089 CD The Tenor Triangle - Tell It Like It Is Criss Cross 1080 CD Melvin Rhyne Quartet - Boss Organ Criss Cross 1143 CD The Tenor Triangle - Aztec Blues Criss Cross 1114 CD Eric Alexander Quartet - Eric Alexander In Europe Criss Cross 1118 CD Melvin Rhyne Trio - Mel's Spell Criss Cross 1137 CD Melvin Rhyne Quintet - Stick To The Kick Criss Cross 1164 CD Melvin Rhyne Trio - Kojo Criss Cross 1183 CD Melvin Rhyne Quartet - Classmasters enja CD 8020-2 Ronald Muldrow - Yesterdays Evidence ECD 22101 *Project G-5 - A Tribute To Wes Montogomery Justice JR # 10 01-2 Herb Ellis - Roll Call Paddle Wheel KICJ 146 *Project G-5 - A Tribute To Wes Montgomery Paddle Wheel KICJ 147 Melvin Rhyne - To Cannonball With Love Positive 78024-2 Royce Campbell - Make me rainbows Savant SCD 2016 Melvin Rhyne Trio - Remembering Wes Timeless 764737011 Jimmy Coe - Say What Verve 314 549419-2 Nicholas Payton - Dear Louis (3 tracks) Wooju WOOJU-1 Juli Wood - Moovin' And Groovin' *two issues of the same CD.

Fine, many thanks Jim, I e-mailed Tom. Can't wait, this is a great invention!

I think the organissimo members have a right to see this right here!!!

Sex Machine and Cold Sweat, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - so many of them are great.

Got it today, very nice. About LP size, but they poked a hole in at the top for hanging up, so if you want to frame a page, you have to use a black background sheet. Freddie Hubbard, Baby Face Willette, Horace Silver, Sam Rivers, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green/Hank Mobley/Wynton Kelly, Ron Carter, Grachan Moncur III, Sam Jones (!!!), Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley (the Soul Station cover photo!!!) and Blue Mitchell/Chick Corea. Great choices, besides the January page - there are better photos of Freddie Hubbard by Francis Wolff! - I have nothing to complain: I recommend it.

Not to mention Milt Hinton and Ray Brown ....

I too notified them about the error and was sent a corrected copy soon after. They had mistakenly used the master tape for the twofer Lp issue Groove Brothers. The same batch of issues had a Mongo Santamaria twofer CD with two tracks omitted, don't know if this was corrected. The recent CD issue of Herbie Mann's Great Ideas of Western Mann had a wrong bonus track at first: instead of the one track from that session issued on the Blues ForTomorrow anthology they used the title track of that album; this has been corrected, and again I was sent a replacement copy without hesitation. Terry Hinte of Fantasy assured me they take every possible precaution to avoid these errors, but they keep creepin' in at the most unexpected places. Don't be pickin' on Fantasy alone, Blue Note ain't any better: Besides the mixed up credits on the Clifford Brown Memorial Album CD, they forgot to list one alternate take from the Howard McGhee - Fats Navarro session on the respective CD issue, and on the Connoisseur 10" series Frank Foster - George Wallington CD they forgot to list one alternate take from the Wallington session that was on the CD. The first copy of the Three Sounds Lighthouse CD I bought had an entirely different pop album on the CD - the label showed Three Sounds etc.!!! Don't know about Early Art. But I suspect this could be an error that was on the original LP; there was a discussion of this regarding the tune titlings on the Thad Jones United Artists LP when they prepared the Thad Jones Mosaic box set - this may have happened more often than we would like to think. One example: When Monk recorded a new tune for a Riverside in San Francisco, the engineer (or Keepnews) asked him for a title, and he mumbled " ...worry later", which they wrote down as the title - it was San Francisco Holiday. I always thought the titles on one of some pieces of Lucky Thompson's ABC LP 111, reissed on an Impulse CD, are incorrect. It includes two tunes, Deep Passion, but that melody was recorded by the Oscar Pettiford Orchestra on ABC as A Lady's Vanity - which also is on the Thompson, but as Deep Passion. The latter tune is a themeless improvisation on the chord changes of Body and Soul that would fit the title Deep Passion much better, this have been a reversal of tunes, but since both are track 4 on the LP sides, all titles for both sides could have been reversed or even mixed up ... I have some more LPs were labels were mixed up, but am too lazy to pick them out...

Is that a reissue of the Paper Man album or unreleased material? Maybe he should start a subscritption to raise the necessary funds.

If anyone got a negative impression of this disc from my posts, please take the time and give it a listen and decide for yourselves. Vitous is one of my favourite bassists, I guess I just expected some more fireworks from this disc. It's great to hear Garbarek's take on the blues - I like him more on this disc than ever before. I once hit random play, and it worked wonders, started with the duo track, and then all the trios, the quartets and quintet last - that sounds better to me. I would have preferred Hancock over Corea.