mikeweil

I hope I didn't go too far - I'm afraid I did not read that initial post carefully enough - I'll do better next time. My apologies, if appropriate.

I saved that under file name "Christiern's Christmas". Thanks a lot, please take my return wishes y'all, and thanks for the song (and, always, this incredible board) - it'll take some time with my slow connection until I can give it a listen.

Oh, another story I remember: A fellow student at high school almost got a nervous breakdown whenever his mother-in-law was remowing the dust from his turntable, always while it was running and preferably wiping the finger over the tone arm.

Chuck, you had well educating parents as far as vinyl is concerned?

Hysterical--I did the same thing, only it was on my mono turntable. The stylus (after heavy use) broke off, and being a young whippersnapper, I must have read some article about how records/styli work. So I got a needle, made a cone of paper, stuck the needle through the cone, and taped the whole assembly onto the record arm. It worked! Only problem is, I used this apparatus to play my dad's Ballet Mechanique b/w Roy Schuman symphony record! Man, I still remember that "experience!" Must have sounded unforgettably weird! I elaborated on that method when I had my own primitive mono player - a used machine of my brother's wife-to-be - and simulated stereo by holding my ear to the needle while playing the disc 'cause I noticed the sound coming from the pin and the speaker was different!

I tried that method on a heavily warped copy, I had nothing to loose, and I did! Nothing substantial, musically, at least.

Talk about karma!

I added the title track you omitted - accidentally, I'm sure! One of my favourite Getz albums. I would upgrade in no time when they added the unissued tracks.

If you have the Lewis/Perkins, listen again. I did! What threw me was the sound. Jim's LP copy has remarkably different sound, with more reverb than the CD (from the first batch of Pacific Jazz reissues Cuscuna did) I own. But I would have expected he included some Bill Perkins! I remember I didn't like Chico's drum breaks from the first time I heard this. ... so I was closer than I thought. And my personal rule for these tests is confirmed: There is always one item from my collection I only recognize after several attempts!

I remember when I used my parent's old mono record player in the beginning and explored the way a pickup stylus worked by placing a pin into the groove while the turntable was running and holding my ear very close to it .... In retrospect I'm amazed how much a vinyl record can endure ...

It was some very expensive model, of course, and their second attempt .....

A former roommate told me a story how he and his brother tried to repair a broken pickup with some special glue. After reading the passage in the instructions that the glue hardened faster and better when exposed to higher temperatures they turned on the oven and placed the pickup inside. Now imagine the looks on their faces when they saw that piece of molten plastic after half an hour ....

Now how in all the world did you do THAT?!? BTW, congrats to new status!!! Very appropriate for a new year in your life.

Oh geez! Another one to get .... The Danny Barker cuts on this may sound very good, too.

Yeah, but the one who steals it for me is Sir Roland Hanna! We will never have enough music of this incomparable piano genius!

Happy Birthday, John! Hope you got some CDs as a present! I just opened one of these to honour your day:

Remember that Zweitausendeins has them only for two or three months, until they run out of stock. I pick up several, musically most are very good, e.g. the Billy Mitchell, Al Grey, Jimmy Giuffre, John Klemmer etc. Only a few I still have to pick up: Alice Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Sam Rivers - although I dislike those mini-Lps as they do not fit into my CD rack!

I know one!!! Personally, I mean. A guy from Frankfurt who bought some Ebay items from me and picked them up here, he has a few. Otherwise, all are board fellows.

That Hosea Taylor also participated in several Columbia sessions of the late Babatunde Olatunji in 1962, playing alto sax, flute and oboe alongside Clark Terry and Yusef Lateef, among others. He solos on flute. Theses sessions were included in the Bear Family box set that I recommended in the Solomon Ilori thread.

Hosea Taylor was a member of some of the Olatunji bands featured in the box set I mentioned above. But I'm afraid he's not a prominent soloist, most of the solos were given to more prominent players, most of them to Clark Terry. Yusef Lateef, Budd Johnson, Bob Brookmeyer, Seldon Powell and Jerome Richardson are among the horns. Olatunji often had jazz experienced players in the band, I have a rare Roulette LP with Pat Patrick and Marshall Allen, where they get a lot of solos.

These were issued in the US as a 3-LP box set "The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor", Prestige P-34003, in 1977. OOP, of course, and not yet on CD.

At least Google takes notice ..... This search result seems to be fun, too.

I just ordered this CD, will get it before Xmas! I too thought these remarks very appropriate - considering how old this stuff is, one of the foundations of jazz drumming, its modernity is amazing, and his work with rhythmic themes is something I miss with most more modern drummers.

Yes, played by Roland Wilson. Tucker plays organ, Eddie Gladden on drums. Was a Xanadu LP, reissued on CD in Japan, but I regrettably don't have it ...