mikeweil

That's why I don't have any wallpapers here - I'd vomit every time I entered the room!

Haven't heard it so far, but I know this material comes from the same concert as the tracks on the "Here" live LP on Galaxy, which was included on the "Here and There" CD on Fantasy discussed above. So I guess it's in the same vein. For anyone interested: Cal Tjader (vibes, timbales, guiro, cowbell) Clare Fischer (electric piano) Bob Redfield (guitar) Rob Fisher (bass) Poncho Sanchez (congas, bongos) Pete Riso (drums) The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, June 17 & 18, 1977 Tu Crees Que Galaxy GXY-5121, Fantasy FCD-24743-2 Liz-Anne - - Morning - - Here - - If - - Gary's Theme - Cuban Fantasy Fantasy FCD-24777-2 Guarabe - Tamanco no Samba (Samba Blim) - Tu Crees Que? - Silenciosa - Descarga Cachao - Manuel Deeghit - Guachi Guara - Note: ?Gary's Theme? was omitted from the Fantasy FCD-24743-2 CD issue due to playing time restrictions.

(Sigh!) Another item for my long wish list! Always loved his voice! First heard him with Horace Silver and Gary Bartz, but I have too few of his records.

I used to read through a copy of Billnboard every now and then, step over the 8-track charts and think "What the heck is this?" This format never was available in Europe, only in the US shops reserved for US citizens. An American friend of mine had some interesting titles and I was mad I couldn't play them - he couldn't lend his machine to me.

I bought it several years ago in its first incarnation on Night Records, a previous Joel Dorn label. This was distributed by Virgin in Germany and sold out very cheap ... you still can get them cheap on ebay.

VME stands for Verve Master Edition - a CD reissue series in deluxe foldout digipak design with new remastering, bonus material if available, and new commentary added to the original liner notes - and sold at high price level. Covers look like this compared to the older version pictured above:

Tracklist from cduniverse: 1. Introduction By John Hammond 2. Swingin' At Newport 3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams 4. Lester Leaps In 5. Sent For You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today) 6. Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong) 7. Evenin' 8. Blee Blop Blues 9. All Right, Okay, You Win - (bonus track) 10. Comeback, The - (bonus track) 11. Roll 'Em Pete - (bonus track) 12. Smack Dab In The Middle - (bonus track) 13. One O'Clock Jump - (bonus track) That's the same tracks as on the 1989 Verve CD, only that this marks 8-12 as bonus tracks. Nothing new it seems. According to Buyninckx, four more titles were performed that are unissued: 14. Jumpin' at the Woodside 15. Corner Pocket 16. Shiny Stockings 17. April In Paris Session order would be: 1-2-14-15-16-17-8-9-10-11-12 with the regular band 3-4-5-6-7 with Jimmy Rushing and Lester Young added 13 all the above plus Roy Eldridge and Illinois Jacquet So they simply repeated the messed-up order of the previous LP and CD issues.

That's one on my wish list. Curious how Thad Jones and Ben Webster go together. Too bad they didn't include the alternate takes Orrin Keepnews had added to a Milestone Twofer release of that album in the 1970's!

Didn't know this existed, sure would like to hear it ( )! Jimmy Giuffre, Lenny Popkin and Ian Underwood - what a reed section. I bet a list of all the Lennox students would read pretty wild. Maybe that's where Don Ellis met Dave MacKay, the first pianist of his big band in California and fellow member in the Hindustani Jazz Sextet.

Yuo're always early? I guess so ...

Last chance for comments before # 6 hits our ears .... The Max Roach Quintet, sans piano, that's another fascinating but neglected stream in modern jazz history. For Max the turn came after Brownie's death, when Kenny Dorham was in the band. They recorded the notorious 3/4 album still with piano, one for Argo with piano, but then there was one without, with Mobley, and for the next few years Roach featured quintets sans piano. I bet Roach and Dorham cooked up that idea together, as Dorham recorded without piano for Riverside around the same time. Besides the EmArcy albums there were albums for Time, Riverside, and Candid. The absence of these albums from the Mosaic makes for an incomplete picture, IMO, especially 'cause one of Max' most important albums ever, "We Insist: Freedom Now!", was among them - probably too political in nature for Bob Shad, the producer at EmArcy, or for the label. In Roach's case I really can imagine he found the presence of a piano restricting, as his rhythmic commentaries to the soloists may have tended to clash with those of pianists, it would be very interesting to compare his playing with and without pianists - on the other hand, Mal Waldron, whom he hired after the piano-less bands period ended, was a "heavy" pianist, rhythmically. But the main reason for excluding a pianist may have been the experimentation with unusual time signatures: no other band at the time, not even Brubeck's, played more pieces in 3/4, 5/4, 7/4 and 9/4. The role of Roach's quintets for this aspect of jazz rhythm is almost totally underestimated, IMO - but this is an aspect of rhythmic exploration many musicians still avoid, as it is more difficult to swing or groove in these time signatures than in common 4/4 time. On a bottom line, Roach and some of the members of his band at the time, especially Tommy Turrentine and Julian Priester, have not been given enough credit for their innovations.

Two disks again??? YIKES!!!

Same here! Expect it to hit my mailbox any day! p.s. We're only in it for the fun - and the post count - aren't we ?

There a two by Mitchell and Cook from the time they were still with Silver on OJC, originally done for Riverside or Jazzland: The Muse dates are all good, besides his two there were some with Bill Hardman (they had a band similar to his teaming up with Mitchell, saw it live, was great!) and one with Mickey Tucker. His quartet date for VeeJay (released on Affinity) is good, too. Haven't heard his SteepleChase dates, but suspect they're okay. He was a role model for a musician always appreciative of his peers. AMG entry

One LP of the Poppin' and Burnin' (a Wes Montgomery quote on Farlow, BTW) was compiled from previously released material, but the other LP was an unreleased session with Oscar Pettiford on cello that was only partly successful due to the rather stiff playing of drummer Henry Bellson (Louie's brother).

All I know that it was a good deal and they were issued at the occasion of Capitol's anniversary a few years ago. Only the Mosaic Classic Capitol sessions box offers more, as it has complete sessions, yours have the highlights. They are pretty rare outside of Japan, I think. Wasn't there a thread here or on AAJ about them? Maybe you started it?

I have probably posted this before, but all the collaborative sessions by Jack Wilson and Roy Ayers under their respective leadership for Atlantic, United Artists, Blue Note, and Vault would make a very nice Mosaic Select - may Mosaic put their efforts into this! Roy Ayers - West Coast Vibes - United Artists Roy Ayers - Virgo Vibes - Atlantic (only one session with Wilson) Jack Wilson - Corcovado or Jack Wilson Quartet feat. Roy Ayers - Atlantic Jack Wilson - unissued big band and quartet sessions - Atlantic, prob. lost Jack Wilson - Brazilian Mancini - Vault Jack Wilson - Ramblin' - Vault Jack Wilson - Something Personal - Blue Note plus another only partially issued session (Vault LP 108) with unknown personnel.

ALL of them hard boppers cut their teeth in R&B bands, up to Coltrane, Turrentine ....... well almost all, but many more than one might think. Joe Morris once had Johnny Griffin, Matthew Gee, Elmo Hope, Percy Heath and Philly Joe Jones in the band. Tadd Dameron, Randy Weston, Johnny Coles, Connie Kay ... that's where they got the groove. And before R&B it was hard core swing bands, like Lionel Hampton's, the godfather of R&B.

Set # 3561 arrived today. It's much better than I expected, I had only the first three sessions on individual CDs, and the larger ensembles are the real winner for me; great arrangements, good groove! They should have called it "The complete Blue Note Blue Mitchell - Junior Cook sessions", as it was their co-lead band, and cook plays great throughout, I've never heard him better.

Carla is nice, I own 2 of her cds, but to compare her to Helen or Anita this is a different story. Mind you, I should know better we should not compare, but at the end of the day we all do, when I sit down to listen to music, I make a choice!! Thanks I'll spin Carla tonight!! Thank God we can make a new choice every time! I love them all, they are all so great, each in their own way, and I love the differences. Nice to hear you like Carla, jazz1! There are sound samples on her website I linked above, I'd recommend the latest two, The Sweetest Sounds and Listen Here.

... not bigger, but better:

The Friedlaender cover photos were great, this is my favourite (sorry, couldn't find a bigger one):

No Swiss TV, but 3sat, they often broadcast recordings of Swiss jazz festival around the time normal people (who are definitely not interested in such things as jazz) are sound asleep - but there is a VHS recorder in my posession, and moreover, I know how to use Showview and stuff, hehehe B) I'll watch out for her!

BTW, talking about German Jazzers going East - if you ever can get a copy of George Gruntz' MPS LP "Noon In Tunisia", grab it! This is some really exiting Jazz-Arabian fusion. There is a TV documentary in the SWR vaults, they should get that out on DVD!

Of course I do realise this, that's my justification for my weird combination of jazz history and autobiographical elaborations .... I'd sure like to recommend a Kronberg CD, but I don't know of anything really adequate, too bad he is gone ... There are some of the Mangelsdorff groups with Sauer and some of his available, if you like Albert, you won't go wrong with any of his MPS albums; the Sauer releases (there is a new trio available through Zweitausendeins) I haven't heard. Hearing him live was enough for me I am aware of the (east, in this particular case) Asian influence, but well, it just didn't move me that much - I was listening to a lot of Asian and Arabian stuff as well and found the inspirational sources much more exiting. And I'm sure there is a cup (of tea and else) for everybody!