mikeweil

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:

The youth hostel is closed for renovation and will re-open in May 2004. For hotels, click here. (It's in German, but understandable, I guess it is neither complete nor cheap, I'll ask some friends there for info.)

This session also was on a Black Lion CD BLCD 760223. This has two more tracks: I Hear You Knockin' (Maurice Simon on baritone added and Wardell playing in a R&B vein) Man With A Horn (a feature for baritone saxist Maurice Simon with Dex and Wardell laying out) Wiggins plays celeste and piano on "Jingle Jangle Jump", piano only on "The Rubaiyat" and "One For Prez" and organ on the others.

Love 'em all, can't choose. Kirk Lightsey definitely should be on the list.

Me too - except for the book falling apart! Got me a sealed copy on Ebay this summer for just 70 Euros!!!

BTW my cymbals are all UFIP, I like their rather silvery sound. I have a Sabian mini cup ride for my timbales, but everything else is UFIP, they make excellent splash cymbals. Reagrding hearing loss: I impaired my left ear with too many agogo bells in samba lessons I gave. Yes, you have to use protection. I got even more sensitive after this, sometimes even normal high hat playing is too much.

Nice to read somebody else feels similarly about his bassdrum! As I posted above, I muffle only with two moongel pads and strike very softly; I'm practicing to control the bounce of the beater to have an open tone or a muffled one when I let the beater rest on the head. As I started playing hand drums I always try to get a sound as if I strike the drum with my fingers - I recently used a rubber ball beater used with electronic drums on a 18" converted floor tom with good results, very clear open tone. There's much room for experimentation, but only if you use an open sound and play softly, if you want a kick and muffle I feel it doesn't matter very much what brand you play ... Right now I use a two sided beater and switch around according to the music played: one side is rather hard and suede covered, the other is soft lamb felt. I use two bass drum pedals, a DW 500 and a cheap Sonor but couldn't say they are so much different, only that the DW is much more convenient to set up as it has the tightening screw at the side.

Considering this institute is only 25 miles from where I live, it's a damn shame I haven't been there yet .... -_-

Thanks, late, sounds very insteresting. Never had any problems before with HDCDs, although my player has no little red light ...

Ubu, the session in question was scattered over both LPs with Trane. Couw has self-made inlays somewhere her or on the web until I find the time to .....

The recent reissue of Victor Feldman's Latinville for Contemporary, who used to record live in the studio with rather minimalist miking, reveals a comparatively soft sounding bass, although his swing and latin groove are great.

Did you compare with the LP? My copy has the usual slightly muffled Atlantic LP sound of the 1970's - if the CD improved on this, I would upgrade. Heartily recommend the Nessas!

Avery Sharpe holds the torch Stewart and Holley ignited - there is a nice Sunnyside CD of his (Unspoken Words) with him singing along, one tune being called "A Major Slam in A Sharp(e)"! Clifford Jordan did sing every now and then with nice results, Chris Anderson too - but I wouldn't recommend him .

Thanks, Jim - now board life is as easy as ever ...

Martinu called his works names, but was very loose with these: Toccata, Serenade, Symphony, you name it. Some composers simply avoided conflicts with the implications of form by not using them, like Debussy, and perhaps Martinu would have done better by doing so as well, but who really cares? It's fascinating orchestral music, period!