mikeweil

Now that I think about it, Helen Merrill probably was the first jazz vocalist I ever really appreciated. Bought a copy of A Shade of Difference in a sales bin not long after it was released, listened to it a thousand times - didn't have as many jazz records back then - and started to dig her subtleties. That one bar of scatting after the theme of "I want a little boy" outweighs all of Ella's chorusses for me.

I have heard it, and yes, you would! Hey, got an idea how I could? ubu hey, me got idea!

There were two double LPs by a Sun Ra Quartet on the Italian Horo label, with trumpeter Michael Ray, drummer Luqman Ali, Sun Ra on electric piano or organ throughout, and Gilmore, that have some of my favourite Gilmore. The Pete LaRoca session on Douglas is next, I really blame myself for not getting this on 32Jazz as long as it was available.

I'm in, of course.

yup, and this one is readily available as well. Is that a recommendable disc? These brothers never held a special place in my heart ....

When was it, and with whom? My opportunity was with a quartet with European (based) musicians, I remember Fritz Pauer from Vienna on piano, Jimmy Woode on bass and Tony Inzalaco on drums. My first conga teacher, Tom Nicholas, sat in, he's from Philadelphia but moved to Germany in the mid 1970's - he had worked with the G. C. Octet among others in the US. I always dug that man live more than on his records, where he didn't move me as much.

I just dusted off an old 45 rpm single I bought way back when I was still young and foolish, Give me one more chance c/w Get it, the latter being a real nice funky instrumental. The band doesn't sound as big as the listing, but they hit a groove. Cover depicts only five guys. But that list sure IS impressive. I'll give it a spin ... Click here and find out yourself!

Then answer is simple: Way too much good music to choose from I really admire you were able to confine yourself to a single disc. That Ruggiero is somebody to check out, he made several discs with that trombonist.

In other words, disc 4, tracks 5-11, and disc 5, tracks 1-6 ...

I feel that, too, and I'm twice your age! So either you work harder or ..... but no, let's keep up the good work, musically and domestically, I'll have a lot of repairs coming up in my mother's flat.

I could almost smell the foul air hanging over that first "fanpost". This had to be fake! I appreciate you made that public, B3-er, I wanted to find out with my question, but your method is far more effective.

For those who wonder why nothing much has been heard of him on the US scene in recent years: he moved to Spain and plays with a band named "Los Piratas del Flamenco"!

Things like this are the reason why some guys program this malware - to point out the stupidity of many Windows features. I get their point, but can't tolerate computers of people are abused or damaged who are guilty of nothing but using Microsoft programs. They should rather spend their energies on developping better software and putting it on the web for free download, like the Linux stuff. There need to be more affordable alternatives to Microsoft, or this won't change.

I had the same problem with my former Internet provider's software, which first kept changing the starting page in Internet Explorer to their homepage, even after I changed it manually, and then even disabled the manual change option! I had to edit the registry to get rid of it! Found instructions for this on some specialists' forum.

Sorry Jim, I have all of these, and it's none of them! But yes, insane they are - nice Idea for my BT and hoping everybody has forgotten til then!

Hm ... do you want me to edit my post with quote from your post accordingly? It doesn't update automatically. We could both delete our posts and do as if nothing had happened at all ....

The AMG link doesn't list a drummer, but a look into Bruyninckx revealed it is not Dunlop on that album - somewhat too busy for him, anyway, but that drummer sure is great, but completely unknown to me! - if it's that album.

Funny, that was the first album that came to my mind! But I listened to it only once at a friend's place, and that was many, many years ago. I realized what they wanted to do and why, but there was something with most European bands I missed, and that was the deep black groove. Now I can understand why they gave up on trying to get it ( ), but I liked it better. Maybe that's because I am of a later geneartion that didn't have to fight with their American idols, or not in the same way. If you're correct, it is not the leader but the two saxists who have changed considerably since then. The alto player died long ago and was one of the very best in Europe - I saw him live shortly before his death and he was outplaying everybody else in the band and would have given Jackie McLean a very hard time! The tenor guy has changed his sound radically since then to a pretty raspy tonal palette that does not attract me, as if he purged every trace of Prez' beauty from his horn. This all, assuming your guess is correct. A great compliment to a German band by an American player, BTW!

Jim, your first link to track # 3 leads to your guess for track # 2 - you probably didn't notice. I concur with you on # 3 - didn't realize it was the identical take. But who was the cat that Alexander used to go after ?

Not sure you are referring to my post, but if so, you're not quite correct: I said "he sure has heard his Steve Lacy", meaning he uses some licks or conceptions, but he sure sounds different.

If it's okay for you AOW clubbers I would like to join in on this one, have it and like it! Will have a re-listen!

p.s. The Keynote set is another example - owned by Universal, who toys with the idea of doing it themselves. It was on LP in Japan in the 1980's - one of Kiyoshi "Boxman" Koyama's masterpieces - and they would only have to take it from the shelf and remaster it! Ridiculous! I have some of the stuff on single CDs and it is prime small group swing on the level of the Commodores - and that's another archive Universal sits on - the longer I think about how much great music they are sitting on that is not available the angrier I get!

I bought this for the Eddie Vinson sides in the first place, but found out all the stuff in it is great, complete sessions, great notes, the Jay McShann stuff is very good. I recommend it, this is one that by far surpassed my expectations - it's a lot jazzier than the title suggests. As for the Vinson, that was his prime time and some of the best he ever did! This includes the complete 1940's Mercury sessions of: Albert Ammons Helen Humes Jay McShann Eddie Vinson Roy Byrd (= Professor Longhair, some of his rarest stuff) Julia Lee Myra Taylor Rex Stewart Buddy Rich Cootie Williams and two never before or after released Mary Lou Williams tracks, which are a gem!