mikeweil

Yeah, that's their problem - they probably don't have a remastering egineer knowing about the intricacies of jazz recording and mastering in the 1950's ff. My experience is that only that 20bit remastering series is done by them here, the remainder are just manufactured here (Germany, that is) from master tapes delivered by Fantasy in California. I never had any problems with these, only with those 20bit digipack remasters - they all sounded awful.

BTW - the CD od Lee Morgan's last Blue Note twofer had a Reggie Workman solo on musical saw edited out of the multi-track mix - you still can hear it faintly in the background. I liked this very much and was disappointed they didn't mention this edit on the CD liner - I kept my LPs.

My thoughts exactly. We could base our votes on the impressions we get from the discussions. I'd be ready to go early next year too, about March, if I'm realistic ...

This Spiegel set is still available from the Spiegel shop as well as from mail oder dealers like www.jpc.de, for the reasonable price of EURO 59,90.

Grado have cartridges from $ 40 upward that are excellent. My cheapo performs better than many models I had before that cost me four times as much.

A little too old, but great: John Klemmer's Nexus sessions from 1979, with Bob Magnussen and Carl Burnett, on Novus double LP - part iof it was on a RCA Novus CD.

Yes, on this CD from the Jazz in Paris series: Strangely, this omits one track of the LP, Piano Mecca, that was left off all subsequent issues. But, Clunky, this issue is listed in my discography, or do you need an update?

I based my first list on the revised edition of Feather's Encyclopedia and overlooked the Cohn entry; when I typed Sims, I said to myself "have to look up Cohn, but it was too late at night for my weary head to remember ... Now what do you all think about the characteristics of that birth decade?

I knew I'd omit someone important! I'll keep the list updated, thanks for corrections.

When I look at jazz musicians' birthdays, the diversity of artists born between 1920 and 1930 appears to me as between traditionalists with both legs in the swing camp, bebop pioneers, cool cats, hardbop heroes, studio staffmembers and freedom founders. A few examples: 1920 - Charlie Parker, *Dave Brubeck, Eddie Chamblee, *Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, George Duvivier, Jimmy Forrest, Gil Fuller, Don Lamond, John LaPorta, John Lewis, Shelly Manne, Jerome Richardson, Curly Russell, Britt Woodman 1921 - Harry Babasin, George Barnes, *Candido Camero, Buddy Collette, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, *Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, Errol Garner, *Jimmy Giuffre, Wardell Gray, *Chico Hamilton, *Jon Hendricks, *Hans Koller, *Yusef Lateef, Monk Montgomery, Chico O'Farrill, Mary Osborne, Paul Quinichette, Nelson Riddle, Ernie Royal, *Tony Scott, *Billy Taylor, Julius Watkins 1922 - Manny Albam, Ralph Burns, Johnny Carisi, *Von Freeman, Johnny Hartman, *Illinois Jacquet, Duke Jordan, Peggy Lee, *Mundell Lowe, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, Joe Newman, Johnny Otis, *Cecil Payne, Oscar Pettiford, King Pleasure, Perez Prado, A.K. Salim, Buddy Stewart, Ralph Sutton, *Toots Thielemans, *Frank Wess, *Gerald Wiggins, Joe Wilder, Ernie Wilkins, Kai Winding 1923 - Serge Chaloff, *Buddy DeFranco Red Garland, Dexter Gordon, Bennie Green, Al Haig, *Percy Heath, Elmo Hope, Milt Jackson, Osie Johnson, Philly Joe Jones, Thad Jones, Barney Kessel, Ellis Larkins, *Charlie Mariano, Fats Navarro, Mel Powell, *George Russell, Idrees Sulieman, Wilbur Ware, Chuck Wayne, Jimmy Witherspoon 1924 - Joe Albany, *Louis Bellson, Brew Moore, *Lucky Thompson, Kenny Dorham, Teddy Edwards, *Terry Gibbs, Major Holley, Jay Jay Johnson, Tiny Kahn, *Dick Katz, Henry Mancini, Hal McKusick, Bud Powell, Shorty Rogers, Charlie Rouse, Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, George Wallington, Dinah Washington 1925 - Gene Ammons, Walter Bolden, Charlie Byrd, June Christy, Bob Cooper, Al Cohn, Gigi Gryce, Wilbur Harden, Jutta Hipp, Stan Levey, Johnny Mandel, Dodo Marmarosa, Wes Montgomery, *James Moody, Marty Paich, Leo Parker, Art Pepper, *Oscar Peterson, Nat Pierce, Tito Puente, Henri Renaud, *Max Roach, Sal Salvador, *Gunther Schuller, Sahib Shihab, Zoot Sims, *Jimmy Smith, Cal Tjader, Mel Tormé, George Wein, Sam Woodyard 1926 - Ray Brown, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jimmy Cleveland, Ray Copeland, Curtis Counce, *Blossom Dearie, *Lou Donaldson, *Roy Haynes, *Jimmy Heath, Ernie Henry, Bobby Jaspar, Melba Liston, Billy Mitchell, Pony Poindexter, Frank Rosolino, *Fats Sadi, *Bud Shank, Herbie Steward, Mal Waldron, *Randy Weston 1927 - Ahmed Abdul-Malik, *Mose Allison, *Ernie Andrews, Walter Bishop, Ruby Braff, *Chris Connor, Sonny Criss, Allan Eager, Stan Getz, *Dick Hyman, *Elvin Jones, Connie Kay, Jimmy Knepper, *Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Gerry Mulligan, Gene Quill, Jimmy Raney, Red Rodney, Mongo Santamaria, Thornel Schwartz, *Doc Severinsen, *Martial Solal, René Thomas, Attila Zoller 1928 - Cannonball Adderley, *Larry Bunker, Frank Butler, *Teddy Charles, Kenny Drew, Art Farmer, Maynard Ferguson, *Frank Foster, Vernel Fournier, *Herb Geller, *Johnny Griffin, Vince Guaraldi, Hampton Hawes, Harold Land, *Lou Levy, *Junior Mance, *Albert Mangelsdorff, Cal Massey, *Joe Morello, Seldon Powell, Freddie Redd, Bill Russo, *Horace Silver, *Leroy Vinegar, Lem Winchester, *Jimmy Woode, *Richard Wyands 1929 - *Toshiko Akiyoshi, Chet Baker, *Ray Barretto, *Bob Brookmeyer, *Jimmy Cobb, Alan Dawson, Bill Evans, *Benny Golson, *Barry Harris, *Rolf Kühn, Mel Lewis, *Larance Marable, *Helen Merrill, Charles Moffett, Joe Pass, *Charli Persip, *André Previn, *Sonny Rollins, *Ed Shaughnessy 1930 - Pepper Adams, *David Amram, Clifford Brown, Betty Carter, *Ornette Coleman, Eddie Costa, Tommy Flanagan, *Friedrich Gulda, *Bill Henderson, *Paul Horn, *Ahmad Jamal, Richie Kamuca, *Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Mann, Sabu Martinez, Dave McKenna, Blue Mitchell, Hank Mobley, *Buddy Montgomery, Claus Ogerman, *Benny Powell, *Annie Ross * marks those who are still with us, AFAIK, please correct me, and additions to the list are welcome. For me this decade is somehow the history of jazz from traditional to free in a nutshell. It always strikes me John Coltrane and Ruby Braff were born only a year apart, or Charlie Mariano the same year as Fats Navarro ... What do y'all think?

I used to go to the forum front page and browse through all forums that interest me, but reading about "My assistant" introduced me top this little feature, and I will use it in the future. At last, a useful thread ...

It's a shame - they do not spend any money on serious reissues - just straight from the "original master tape". No looking into discographies or databases, it seems. I don't mind if they are digipacks, jewel cases or mini-LP cover, I'd even take naked CDs with downloadable artwork - just as long as they take care and include those bonus tracks released on obscure albums. What else was on that Pettiford tribute, BTW?

BTW, a new album recorded in Prague with his quintet and an orchestra is due out soon on Columbia, "Coral". I missed him playing in Prague only by a few days earlier this years.

This latin cat was born in Puerto Rico in 1968 and knows his horn. If you like one, you might as well get all of his six dates as a leader on Columbia: http://www.davidsanchezmusic.com/

I wonder why they didn't include any bonus material of the Time Out album, as they do with all the others. Take Five always sounded like there was a piano solo edited out, and if so, I'd love to hear the complete version.

Thanks, that's a bargain!

It is probably wishful thinking to expect they include it on the MPS CD reissue?

Perhaps he monitored on headphones only, and since all models sound different, it may have sounded fine on his, but not on others or speakers. If so, a newbie's error .....

How's the music? Is this worth getting?

Sound quality is indeed okay on this one. I bought this the first time around and Vol. 2 soon after and think it is one of Joe's best efforts. (I had hoped Blue Note would sign him, why in all the world didn't they keep him?) I take this as an opportunity to make a statement outside of the Tyrone Washington/Joe Henderson thread, that Joe really played his very best in sharp company and challenging and/or new evironments - that's way the Verve tribute CDs were so successful. In live situations he had very good rhythm sections, often young players, but in the company of such giants as Ron Carter and Al Foster he gave his very best. And this is the case with all of the recordings I personally rank among his best, including the Andrew Hill Black Fire date, some of the sessions with Kenny Dorham, some of the Milestones, the Miroslav Vitous Infinite Search.

This was in fact one of the phrases of Lucky's speech available on the Candid CD that Alan Bates used to title one of the unnamed tunes of the session ... something he asked jazz fans to always do.

don't know this one, is it on CD? About half of it (there were several quartet tracks recorded at this occaison) was on a French Jazz Anthology/Musidisc CD in 1990, # 550152, but this is OOP. Send me a PM in case you have problems in getting it ... This is Hampton's mondernest session and shouts out loud for a decent reissue, the material was issued in scattered fashion originally, I still have only part of it on two different CDs and a cassette dubbed from an old LP.

He plays very well on the August 1956 Lionel Hampton session. This has Oscars Dennard and Pettiford, Jimmy Cleveland, Ray Copeland and Gus Johnson on it. I also find his last sessions for Groove Merchant have some fine music that only suffers from fadouts of too many tunes. Has anybody here heard the rare Ralph Sharon LP from January/February 1957 with Eddie Costa, Joe Puma, Oscar Pettiford and Osie Johnson?

These rank very high on the list indeed. I'd put the trios with Oscar Pettiford and Skeeter Best up there (ABC/Impulse); the various sessions with Milt Jackson for Savoy and Atlantic; some of the French stuff, perhaps the Candid session; - it is simply so much he has recorded. He used to be my top favourite player for many years, but meanwhile slipped to rank number two behind Lester Young.

Is this rare in the US? I know a copyshop next town who will print ANYTHING on a tee shirt or sweatshirt of your choice, as long as you have it as a data file on floppy disk or CDR, including, of course, Blue Note LP covers .... and it's not expensive! And it doesn't wear out!