mikeweil

They have such a crappy website, and such a strang reissue policy... You're right - only later I noticed that it's not updated and none of the Muse reissues is listed. To use the search function of some online shop will get one better results, I guess ... But the strange reissue policy is common to almost all labels with a jazz vault at this point in time .

I have the box set and nothing to complain about the sound!

Perhaps this page or another on the Sibelius Help Center will get you what you want - there's a font download link down the page.

Try this singer for an original - different style, but great, and has paid her dues.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea. I'm not keen on country or Rap of Hip hop either, but would perhaps listen to some essential item from this style. One of the reasons keeping me from participating in the AOW forum on a regular basis was the weekly rhythm - I found it too fast a pace to keep up. But I guess it is possible to participate on a deliberate basis as well.

There is a CD Tumbao TCD-010: "El Barbaro del Ritmo". Mambos by Beny Moré with Perez Prado and his Orchestra. Tracklist can be found on the BlueMoon website. This is not in the aforementioned box set and recommended. Without Blue Moon's Tumbao series, most of this music would be unavailable or only in inferior editions. They do a fine job with this! The Arsenio Rodríguez CDs are indispensable!

If my Czech dictionary serves me right, it is an acid jazz gig at a club called Organizzmo ( ) promising an "unusual musical experience" .... on some May 17. There are double bass and synth accompanying. You goin' ?

Doh! I had that issue for a while and didn't notice. You sure? You still have it? But as I said the "Deep Passion" on the Pettiford album is a different tune and definitely not based on "Body and Soul".

Deep Passion was on the first of Lucky's two LPs for ABC, recorded in January 1956. Both LPs are complete on an OOP Impulse CD titled "Tricotism", # 11352. But if you listen to "Deep Passion" you are really listening to the track "A Lady's Vanity", as both titles (or more) were confused on these albums and subsequent issues. There is another version with Lucky on an ABC LP by the Oscar Pettiford Orchestra, reissued on the OOP Impulse CD # 11432 which verifies this. So to listen to the real "Deep Passion" on the Lucky album you have to click on "Vanity". "Deep Passion" is a Thompson original, while "Vanity" is an improvisation on the changes of "Body and Soul".

Count me in with lots of suggestions!

Click here and type in the names .....

The times vary, but I'm getting to bed way too late, and I'm getting up way too early. ALWAYS too late!

That is what it looks like, and that's what it is for sure! A little less R&B than the Blue Notes, but still some touches of it.

Do you happen to know the story why it was stored away?

Congrats! Despite the fact that the booklet will soon fall apart, this is one great set!

I got me a sealed copy of the Duke Ellington Centennial 24-CD box set on ebay Germany for 75 EUROS! That was a great steal for me!

I'm afraid the unedited first edition is extremely rare - I'm sure Michael Cuscuna would have used a copy to edit in the missing portions or included them as bonus tracks, if would have been able to find one. I suggest you contact him regarding this.

Unfortunately you're right. I'm afraid when the James Joyce of Jive, Jon Hendricks, will have left us, there will be nobody to fill the big gap he will leave - noone was as good as he at writing lyrics to improvised solos, and most younger singers don't seem to be interested in this technique.

If it was still available, I'd buy the EmArcy box - back then it was beyond me. "I've got a date with the blues" alone would have been worth the price, there was a single CD issue of this that I also missed. Too bad!!! The Getz is fine, one of the albums where Helen's humour is displayed to great effect - they must have had a hell of a time in the studio!

I found that on ebay Germany last year, was the only bidder and got it very cheap! Verrrry nice! He has a warm voice, and a sackful of stories to tell. About Mingus, the Hamilton Quintet, the West Coast Scene .... My only complaint is that these beautiful snippets of unaccompanied horn playing he does between the storytelling are too short and too few. A great piece of oral history, there should be more like this, but I'm afraid sales figures would be even lower than for jazz books ...

Sometimes it helps me to kick a tune around in my head without writing it down until I have the complete arrangement, not just an idea on music paper. Just like I would have to learn without sheet music. If it's rounded so well that you can memorize it, it will be okay and have its own inner logic.

Richard Wyands is very, very good - I would rank him up there with Cedar Walton and the like. He has grown to be one of the best "modern classic" pianists on the scene without the general jazz public noticing. One of the last of the musicians born in the 1920's that are still alive and kicking. I think his latest recording issued was with Jimmy Cobb's Mob on Milestone. I have a Benny Carter Quartet CD on MusicMasters where he displays all of his mastery. He certainly deserves more credit. On a list of great musicians who never recorded for Blue Note, he would rank high

It was on October 12, 1978, in Frankfurt at the old Sinkkasten, nice but smoky cellar club, a legend of this region. (I used to keep records about the concerts I attended at the time, and luckily I still have them securely filed away ...) Forgot to mention tubist Bob Stewart, I can still visualize him taking VERY DEEP breaths before uttering low register glissandos sounding like satisfied moans of a gigantic elephant. I think I have to get me that CD: what is the issue with the most tunes on it, please? Gerry Niewood ... I was surprised to see him with Evans. I still have a nice LP of his, on A&M Horizon (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece), with David Samuels among the sidemen, recorded in 1976, that doesn't tell much about him. His biography on AMG says it all. Better player than his career might suggest.

Forgot to mention: they are not identical. Four more Pettiford tracks in my collection!

I have that on a Japanese CD (have ordered the Mosaic a few days ago) and find it beautiful. Leo Wright's intonation is not the purest, but so was Jackie McLean's - Leo was a man of his own, and he wouldn't have landed a secure post in one of Germany's best radio big bands (RIAS Berlin) for many years if was an second class player. I have heard him play better than on this album, but the main reason for not releasing it was Mitchell and Junior Cook having their own regular band after Silver disbanded, and Lion preferred promoting working bands with his releases.