mikeweil

You got three, well, I got two, # 12 and # 13, and I know who sings on de bonus track, # 20. I was just gettin' afraid I wouldn't know anything on this d.....isc, until some very familiar sound hit my hearing nerves on # 12. Phew. This guy has been discussed at length on the board. I wonder if anybody else knows # 13, this fulfills my BT rule # 2: There always is a track from a CD I consider for my own test. It's a great disc, I enjoy it enormously, although I know only 15% of this ... Man, you succeeded very well in sequencing this to a musically satisfying whole. If we could start Organissimo Radio today, these BT discs would make some fine shows!

Freddie Hubbard (tp -2/5) Waymon Atkinson, Alonzo Johnson (ts -2/5) Buddy Montgomery (vib -2/7) Joe Bradley (p -1/6) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (B ) Paul Parker (d) Indianapolis, IN, December 30, 1957 1. Finger Pickin' World Pacific JWC 509, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 2. Sound Carrier World Pacific PJ 1240 3. Bud's Beaux Arts - 4. Billie's Bounce World Pacific PJ 1240, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 5. Bock to Bock - 6. Lois Ann World Pacific PJ 1240 7. All the Things You Are - * The Blues, Vol. 2 - Have Blues Will Travel / various artists (World Pacific JWC 509) * Beginnings (Blue Note BN LA 531 H2) * The Montgomery Brothers and Five Others (World Pacific PJ 1240) Harold Land (ts) Buddy Montgomery (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (B ) Tony Bazley (d) Los Angeles, CA, April 18, 1958 4321 Far Wes Pacific Jazz PJ 5, ST 5, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 4322 Leila - 4323 Old Folks - 4324 Wes' Tune - 4325 Hymn for Carl Pacific Jazz PJ 17, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 4326 Montgomery Funk (mof Montgomeryland Funk) Pacific Jazz PJ 17 4327 Stompin' at the Savoy - * Montgomeryland (Pacific Jazz PJ 5, ST 5) * Beginnings (Blue Note BN LA 531 H2) * Wes, Buddy and Monk Montgomery / The Montgomery Brothers (Pacific Jazz PJ 17) Buddy Montgomery (vib) Richie Crabtree (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (B ) Benny Barth (d) Los Angeles, CA, April 22, 1958 Olive Tree World Pacific WP 1243, Pacific Jazz ST 1010, PJ 10130, ST 20130 Not Since Nineveh - Baubles, Bangles and Beads World Pacific WP 1243, Pacific Jazz ST 1010, PJ 10130, ST 20130, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 Fate World Pacific WP 1243, Pacific Jazz ST 1010, PJ 10130, ST 20130 And This Is My Beloved - Stranger in Paradise World Pacific WP 1243, Pacific Jazz ST 1010, PJ 10130, ST 20130, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 * Kismet / The Mastersounds (World Pacific WP 1243, Pacific Jazz ST 1010) * Kismet / The Mastersounds with Wes Montgomery (Pacific Jazz PJ 10130, ST 20130) * Beginnings (Blue Note BN LA 531 H2) Pony Poindexter (as) Buddy Montgomery (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (B ) Louis Hayes (d) Los Angeles, CA, October 1, 1959 Monk's Shop Pacific Jazz PJ 5, ST 5, Blue Note BN LA 531 H2 6555 Summertime - Falling in Love with Love - Renie - * Montgomeryland (Pacific Jazz PJ 5, ST 5) * Beginnings (Blue Note BN LA 531 H2)

This was the first non-field recording of African music released in the US. African Drums and bells, shekerés, and vocals in the Yoruba language - Olatunji came to the US from Nigeria to study economics and ended up founding his African cultural center. It is not hardcore African, but there sin't any trace of jazz either. If you are a vinyl freak .... you can get an excellent sounding CD reissue in stereo with bonus tracks from Columbia Legacy for around $ 10 ..... that nonwithstanding, it is a classic in its field.

No reason to apologize - I appreciate it very much you take so much care to clear a detail the jazz world never would have cared for if I hadn't posted that question. The flap of a wing of a butterfly in China causes a hurricane in Texas?

Buttermilk .... as long as it swings ....

Freedom rules again! BTW, how about a thread "Provocative aliases, to be avoided!" .....

Dan, I did not intend to get in your way ... I hadn't noticed the discussion threads had partly been started by others. But I like the idea of having the compiler starting the thread. So I'd suggest, as soon as the first discs are out, the Test Master should open the discussion thread.

Yes, good to hear from you, I can feel what you're talking about as I went through this only two months ago, and it's a similar crossroads experience for me. Good luck with your job applications!!!

How can he know when he's new to the board? I can think of more tasteful aliasses, of course, but still ..... I remember an old joke: Psychoanalyst welcomes a new client. To get things started, he takes a blank sheet of paper, draws a circle and asks: What do you think of when you see this? Client thinks for a while, then says: I think of a naked girl!. Analyst shrugs, pulls out another piece of paper, draws a triangle, asks the same question, and, of course, gets the same answer. He gives it another try and draws a square. When the client again replies he thinks of a naked girl, the analyst loses his temper and shouts: Naked girls! Naked girls! Nothing else you can think of? Patient stands up and says: Who? Me?! Now who produced all these dirty pictures?! I wouldn't see an inherent need to provoke. Could as well be he just wanted to make some fun. Dexter Gordon talked about his sexophone, now if he had used this as an alias? It's his behaviour that counts in the long run. It was the others making the ballyhoo.

I think it should remain the exclusive privilige of the Test Master to start the discussion thread!!!

For provocation, it takes two ... it only works if you let it bug you. It's his alias, after all.

Now if his alias was "normal", who would have taken note he's here???? B)

The ones I saw are all digipaks made in the EU. You're right about the reissue business: seems it is alway new guys running this business who have no idea what generations of reissue producers before them have been doing. Same goes for classical reissues. It's a mess! My suggestion is to part with older issues, unless they sound better.

Robert S. Gold (in his book "Jazz Talk") says "scat" was one of the prominent nonsense syllables used in early jazz singing with lyrics escaped from the singer's memory .... Besides Ella and Betty I would recommend: Leo Watson - the wildes of them all Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, Buddy Stewart Babs Gonzales (crazy) and the many newer singers who all scat up a storm: Kevin Mahogany Judy Niemack Nancy King and my favourite of all, Carla White. White did a whole album of scatting (Andruline, still available from her). The others scattered the pieces of the albums.

This is the way I see it. Looks like our big chief moderator here paces himself more successfully as far as his reactions are concerned. I think we members should take our time to reconsider when we feel we have been offended. It may be as simple as that. Always ask before you hit.

I suggest those among us who want to get them from Zweitausendeins better rush out - I was in the Frankfurt shop today, they had only half of them, the others were sold out already with no plans to get them again ... I ordered the rest from the website, where they are still listed.

Regarding the Historically Speaking box: If the price is reasonable, go get it, it's a great rarity! Disc 1: The Inferno Suite (4 tracks) previously unissued, not available elsewhere, recorded April 15, 1967 5 tracks from the New World Session recorded January 26-28, 1963 3 tracks from the Faces Suite, unissued recording December 14, 1967 not available elsewhere 4 tracks from Sax No End, June 18, 1969 Disc 2: 10 tracks from the All Smiles and More Smiles sessions, May 1968 and May 1969 4 tracks from the Folk Songs session, July 31, 1967 previously unissued, not available elsewhere 5 tracks from the Gyson session, December 15, 1967 previously unissued, not available elsewhere The unissued material makes it worth the price alone. The music is great throughout. It was originally sold for the equivalent of 75 $.

I dug out my copy of the book (the 1983 DaCapo paperback edition), and there it is at the bottom of page 273: The sentence Chuck quoted is following immediately after this. Gitler wrote a new intoduction to this edition, so he could have known. But I don't blame him. B)

Just got one of those e-mail error messages after posting!

here too.

If you dislike fusion, be warned that the second Warner CD is half of this. I have all the Warners and Verves, the latter are all good, his strings album is one of the best newer recordings of this genre.

I was lucky to start intentional listening to Beethoven's piano music more or less in the order in which he composed them (although my mother played the records with later sonatas a lot during my childhood), and on on period pianos. Some of the routine sounding figures make more sense on the characteristic sound of old Viennese pianos - the modern instrument tends to sound too neutral whereas the old pianos have a strong bold lyricism not unlike Monk's piano stylings. I experience that most often with so-called "lesser" composers of the 18th century that tend to sound repetitive or even dull on modern piano. Listening to the music in the order he composed them makes it a lot easier to appreciate his amazing progress.