mikeweil

Is this currently available?

This Bear Family CD has all his singles for Savoy (1952), Groove (1954), Rainbow (1955), MGM (1956) und Vik (1957), titles are: Guitar Mambo ~ Riverboat ~ Love Me Baby ~ Oh Happy Day ~ Where Is My Honey ~ I'm Tired ~ Stranger Blues ~ I Wish I Knew ~ Down To The Bottom ~ You Better Heed My Warning ~ Midnight Hours ~ Please Tell Me ~ Shake Walkin' ~ Greasy Spoon ~ Bandstand Stomp (Ho Ho Ho) ~ Rock With A Sock ~ Old Devil Moon ~ Guitarambo ~ Spinnin' Rock Boogie ~ Chloe ~ Ghost Of A Chance ~ The Man I Love ~ Bobi ~ as well as some Mickey & Sylvia tracks as a bonus. Is this listenable, more R & B or whatever? Any comment would be appreciated.

The Weston Colpix Lp is a lot jazzier, because it's jazz musicians playing jazz arrangements of (among others) some Highlife tunes, whereas Ilori's albumn is some African and some jazz musicians playing African music. You dig? B)

If you want to dig a little deeper into Juju music, I recommend this anthology: Rounder CD 5017 The late Babatunde Olatunji recorded several highlife albums for Columbia, with Clark Terry and other jazz soloists, currently they're only available on the Bear Family Box set - hurry for this one if you want it, it's deleted!

Wasn't there a US reissue in the Afro/Cuban etc. roots series, or was that Blakey's African Beat - I suppose it rather was the latter. Amazon.com has a track list from a Jimmy Smith TOCJ, so be careful when ordering!

If you like Blakey's African Beat - with Solomon Ilori playing a prominent role, you will like this one as well. For my knowledge, a good example of Nigerian Highlife Music, and very well recorded. I enjoy it.

I'd certainly like to hear this one, only have the tracks with Rahsaan Roland Kirk on his Mercury box set: AMG's Michael G. Nastos says:

There was a 1994 CD reissue on French RCA (BMG 74321 192512): I agree this is the best of his French RCA albums.

It is still listed as available on the Dreyfus website. I like it very much, a track from this was in the first Blindfold Test!

I know of four or five LPs on Black Jazz, and he plays as much Rhodes piano on them as organ. They are all available on CD from Black Jazz, BTW. I have them on LP, like Carn's organ playing very much. I'm afraid that Savoy date is hard to get ....

When I listen to Rouse's albums as a leader, e.g. this one: I tend to think Monk was VERY important to develop his individuality. When I think of Rouse I think of Rouse playing Monk, not the other stuff, because that's him!

That may be the reason why Patton didn't catch my attention as much as Melvin Rhyne or Don Patterson. The only Patton that went to my soul right away and made me groove was Got a good thing goin'. I'll check him out more closely after your comments. What is the one desert island John Patton disk, in your opinion?

As I said, I have 'em all ....

Yes, on a very obscure chaepo CD Jim Sangrey and I discussed on the late BNBB, under Herbie Hancock's name, "folio collection, The Jazz Masters, 100 anos de Swing, EF 20015. Obviously a Spanish issue. Graphics and credits are negigible, but sound is okay.

You mean this one? Hard to get, but not impossible.

That is what I am waiting for!!!! Hell Yeah!!! And the Miles Davis live at the Cellar Door - that band was a killer live! Always was my favourite electric Miles.

Now this is one long overdue for a CD reissue!!!

I'd rather expect he lays a friendly hand on your shoulder and gives some pointers ...

I hope that Eddy Louis is one of the 5, nobody seems to mention him. I said "top five" without really thinking about it ... Don Patterson, Melvin Rhyne, Larry Young are definite choices. Maybe I should have said top three. I also dig Rhoda Scott, Larry Goldings, Sam Yahel, Jeff Palmer, the newer Lonnie Smith sides, the early Groove Holmes Pacific Jazz sides ... some Charles Earland, well, some of all of them, but the three are my heroes. I dig Eddy Louiss, have all of his trios with Kenny Clarke and the ones with Jean-Luc Ponty - where else do we get an organ trio with violin! these are great!" But his later stuff with synths leaves me cold.

The many faces of Jimmy Smith (the Powell and Monk similarities are great) .... very nice gallery, thanks y'all!

Pat Martino joined the Blue Note artist roster three or so years ago. Please complete/correct the following list of artist currently with the label: Pat Martino Terence Blanchard Wynton Marsalis Greg Osby Jason Moran Norah Jones Van Morrisson Stefon Harris Jacky Terrasson Cassandra Wilson Chucho Valdes Jane Bunnett Ron Carter ... a similar shift towards singers and modern mainstream to that of Verve, I'm afraid ...

Not to offend you personally, DrJ, but sometimes I think the Blue Note myth catches up on us and we simply expect a little too much. We tend to forget that not all Blue Note sessions yielded ***** albums - Sonny Red, or John Jenkins or whoever was a young cat cutting his teeth when the album was made and thankful for the opportunity. I know this is close to blasphemy for most of you, but I find Sonny Red's tone much more listenable than Jackie Mac .....

Now that is one I go back to quite often with joy and pride that I was clever enough to buy a Japanese LP when it was freshly reissued. I like Boland's rhythmic writing on this one very very much! If you wanna get rid of it, drop me a PM, please!

Actually this is two LPs: VGM 0001 Live At Jorgies Volume One 1. All Of You 12:54 2. Heartstrings 6:05 3. Summertime 7:30 4. Back To Bach To Bock 14:03 (that's how they spell it on the cover ....) VGM 0008 Live At Jorgies Volume Two 1. (Stella By) Starlight 11:32 2. 'Round Midnight (incomplete) 3:32 all recorded on August 19, 1961 Wes Montgomery, guitar Buddy Montgomery, vibes or piano Monk Montgomery, basses Billy Hart, drums Sound is mono but very good for an amateur live recording, the mood is similar to the Half Note live recordings or the European live bootlegs from 1965. Billy Hart was very young then and plays it very straight, but the brothers are all in fine form - I wouldn't miss it. If I remember correctly there was a CD with all six tracks. 'Round Midnight is incomplete because the tape ran out, but the break before the solos is absolutely gorgeous! Volume Two also includes two radio interviews (15 and 25 minutes) from 1966 and 1968 obviously taped with a cheap cassette machine with automatic level control, plenty of tape hiss but rare - perhaps you remembered that sound ..... Considering there are too few live recordings of Wes, and that he played fantastic on all of them, I'd easily prefer these over any of the Verve or A&M studio dates.