mikeweil

Take your choice: # 2:

Take your choice: # 1:

I have a photo in the booklet of a RCA Joe Newman reissue, just one mic (probably a Neumann) and the balance achieved by the distance to it: four horms, piano, guitar, bass, drums. Balance and sound are very natural and excellent! Wish they would do it like this today, but I'm afraid only few groups could play that way.

I strongly advise German speaking board members to read the English original, which is available as paperback (amazon.de) for about the same money as the newly published Fischer pocketbook. Too many errors in the translation (obviously done with the aid of a translation software, without proofreading of someone knowing about jazz), including the seemingly inevitable "Thelonius" ... . See the review in Die Zeit for some examples. There is a much better German translation (by Dorothea Trottenberg) of part of the Lester Young chapter in the July 1998 issue of the Swiss magazine DU, featuring tenor saxophonists (Giant Steps. Album Tenor Sax).

There are many important jazz musicians that lead unspectacular lifes that will never inspire any storyteller ... or other whre we do not not have enough documentary material to write a story about them the way Dyer did. On a bottom line, I was a little disappointed by Paris Trance, in the end it did not lead anywhere too substantial. Complete Review has some fitting comments about his other works, it seems.

I'm aware of this, but can use some Mr. B. as well. Still thanks for the warning ...

Call that matching trips!

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie ... just wanted to post his name.

Haven't yet seen the Eldridge set in shops here, but the Mulligan, another Verve, showed up at EUR 60,00! Completely identical to the Mosaic, i.e. part of their pressing. If you carefuly read their webpages, they announced this from the start, that some copies would be available through retailers.

Not sure about this, but I know he once stated: "There are only two kinds of music, good and bad." Now I wouldn't include a Michael Jackson tune or Britney Spears, but anything that has SOME realationship to jazz. This music has influnced so many musicians over the world, it's ubiquitous. On the other hand, there is music that may sound similar to jazz and makes an interesting comparison, which is a relationship to jazz made up by the compiler and/or listener. I go for JSngry's statement: Give the people what you want them to hear! You can't please everybody, but I'm sure each of us considers very carefully what to include and what not, and I appreciate everyone's choices, no matter how much our tastes differ! Tolerance and opennes is part of jazz and the scene (and this forum), or at least it should be, 'cause that's how it came into life!

You have my unrestricted consent! Keep up the good work - thanks a thousand times again for this forum - all the best wishes for your child - and treat the bad boys like they want you to ...

... with all my assembled forces of imagination I cannot see Carlos Santana in a tuxedo! With his his woolen cap on the head, that is.

I thought so, thanks. I will buy this for certain.

I firmly believe all who signed up are working on it! A crazy idea just strikes me: we could all send our tests all at once ... and not tell who discusses which disc ...

I put you at # 26, 'cause some other member pm'd me a few hours earlier, so first come, first serve .... I hope it's okay - we all will have a hard time waiting for our turn to come ...

Mine changes every now and then. The Ellington stuff of the Blanton/Webster band was on my mind because I did a reading of the Ellington passages from Geoff Dyer's book "But Beautiful" for some friends with this music. Yesterday I go a copy of the tv recordings I did as a member of the Kurdish folkjazz band I play in, and now these tunes are haunting me, they always do when we rehearse or perform them.

The rarest? Perhaps the Fred Jackson, the Charlie Rouse, Tina Brooks' Back to the Tracks ( ) ..... I have all three Moacir Santos LPs and love 'em - one of the true geniusses of Brazil's contemporary music, very original composer. Wonder what has become of him.

I'm in, if I manage to calculate the time shift correctly

From Blue Note Records Discography: Reuben Wilson Septet Lee Morgan (tp) George Coleman (ts) Reuben Wilson (org) Grant Green (g) Jimmy Lewis (el-B) Leo Morris (d) Joe Sircus (cga -2) VGS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, October 31, 1969 1. (tk 5) Hold on, I'm Comin' BN B1 31883 2. Ma Cherie Amour rejected * The Lost Grooves / various artists (BN B1 31883)

Chuck, is this the "Verve" set you're talking about?

I read a story he had two (the better) of his three tenors stolen and the one left was leaky, which didn't help his lung problems ...

Always was and always will be one of my favourite trumpeters!

Sure I back this up! Great disc! (Anthony Cox' second on that label is very good, too!)

The Blue Note Board was proof that one girl is one too much - guess who?