mikeweil

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?

Look at this post for an explanation.

Just got the video from a tv recording I made a few weeks ago, and to my surprise I saw I did just that, only that I used two moongel pads above the beater ... and one on the front head. Sounded good.

All the Jack Wilson / Roy Ayers collaborations were great - a dream team, IMHO!

Lester Young's trio sides with Nat King Cole and either Red Callender (Aladdin) or Buddy Rich (Clef) deserve mention.

Bought the Koller "Exclusiv" CD today - sound is very good, a little bit on the bright side as is the case with most recent reissues: when will those remastering engineers understand they boosted up the treble because the LP mastering and reproduction and playback equipment had its limits in those days, so you have to reduce them a little when remastering to CD? It's a pity there are only four tracks of the quartet with Pettiford and Zoller on this CD ... the ryhthm section on the nonet tracks is a little stiff compared to the Zoller/Pettiford/Pratt team.

There is one by Rhoda Scott, Alone: Verve Gitanes, but OOP I guess. Maybe she did some more, I dunno. Jeff Palmer did one too, Outer Limit: It acn still be ordered from him, I was informed, but only on cassette (remlapjp@yahoo.com)

Reminds of the habit of a religious group from India, the Sikh, who never cut their hair or beards. He is playing in Frankfurt as a member of Lou Donaldson's group in January, but only among six trad jazz bands on the traditional carnival time jazz band ball ... too bad.

Until I get any further info, I suggest you ask them by e-mail: jazz@jazzinstitut.de - they should know a cheap hotel close by.

Bruyninckx lists them too. There were some on Signal, later bought and reissued, but only the version with the horn soloist, on Savoy.

I updated the master list with links to the respective answers. Would you like me to post concise track lists there as well to have it all in one place for looking up - I mean, to avoid duplications?

Just can't wait to get it 'n' listen ...

I love it!!! Must get me the DVD, my VHS has bad muffled sound. It moved me to tears, still does, and Dexter is marvellous! To me, one of the best jazz movies made so far.

I mean what is spinning in your head what you can't listen to right now, real existing stuff, not fantasy products. Duke Ellington's "Jack the Bear" from 1940 with Jimmie Blanton is in my head frequently these days.

I'm proud to say this seminal session was recorded the day I was born: