mikeweil

Pros: Some organ specialists incl. the host would make this special Cons: Could look too specialist for newbies. Couldn't we try it, and if it doesn't work, integrate the thread into the artists or miscellaneous music forums? Basically, I'm fer it too!

Mine was just shipped by Amazon Germany.

Anyone got a pic of her Minor Music CD Between Two Kings? Can't find one on the web.

The Grant Green Goin' West also seems to be new to US CD. With Herbie Hancock, Reggie Workman and Billy Higgins this looks nice to me. Have Silver's Soul Sister only on LP, this may come on my list too.

AMG says it was Blue Note LP 84141 with Donald Bailey, Lou Donaldson and Quentin Warren, from 1963, his next to last LP before he signed with Verve. Sounds interesting enough. Don't know if I will buy any of the others, I'm not an upgrade fanatic.

As far as I can see that Jimmy Smith Rockin' the Boat is the only not yet on US CD. What disc is this, can it be recommended?

Here's what I use for skin care, the smell is called Wild Utah : I use their pre-shave lotion which is meant for manual shave, but I use a probably twenty year old electric shaver that simply won't give up, replaced the blades once, that's it. If I shave manual I look like a freshly skinned lobster. Use their tonic after shaving, smells very nice. That's for the face, that is.

But this tasteless little ditty beats all the sh.. at the covina well website:

So you want to say this will NOT be an unforgettable encounter?!?!

Will take some time before I buy one of her CDs, they're expensive over here, 23 to 24 EUROs! But she has a nice website. This "chick" has been on the scene for some time!

Haven't heard her yet, but with these sidemen, there should be something to it:

This board will ruin my slipping budget line! I remember buying Freeman's Atlantic LP 'cause Rahsaan produced it, and encountered one of the most original tenor sounds of all time! Later bought the two Nessa LPs, they're great - a belated thanks to Chuck is in order! Happy Birthday Von Freeman!

Bob Belden would be the first to come to my mind, if he still is in the reissue business. Anybody got his e-mail adress? Or Michael Cuscuna, how about a Mosaic box set with the title (and respective contents) The Complete Columbia Live Recordings of the Don Ellis Orchestra? :tup

For completeness, if we start listing Hutchserson's dates with flute tracks, the Connoisseur CD Patterns with James Spaulding deserves a mention. He is also on the 1989 Hutcherson Landmark CD Ambos Mundos - flute only, and Roger Glenn on second flute -, which to me was a great disappointment.

This would confrim my impression that Mclaughlin and Corea sound somewhat like they are still looking for their place in the music, and Corea does not really sound connected to the rhythm beneath him. Seems like a lost chance, under these circumstances a trio record with Vitous, Garbarek and DeJohnette would have yielded music of greater potential - once they cut loose ...

Moody recorded two albums in Paris in July, 1951 for Vogue, one with strings, which was licensed by Blue Note, and one with a quintet. As far as I know both were not among those reissued by BMG France.

The Moody and Gillespie sides were licenses of Vogue recordings; the Gillespies were on one of RCA France's Vogue CD series a few years ago, don't know about the Moodys. The Sadi material originally was Vogue LD 212 and still awaits a reissue. It was recorded on May 8, 1953! Only the Sadi quartets with Martial Solal were on one of the three Solal CDs in that series - these were from 1956. They are very nice!

Maybe we should open a "really weird music" thread ..... can you post a link, please?

John, I see you get the idea ...

..... and, well, to listen to some demos, go to the buy page and click on the track listing!

Oh, forgot to mention: be prepared for some weird jokes.

Thelonious Moog website Ordered this after someone mentioned it in the "What are you listening to right now" thread. It's hilarious - I'd say they understood the core of Monk's music better than many a jazz cat playing uninspired routine chord changes instead of playing on the melody and mood - Monk never wrote down chord changes. They play them accurately, never mess with his compositions themselves, even play a whole Monk piano chorus on "I Mean You", just change the sound, and the results are gorgeous. It's a compliment to a composer if his substance is so heavy he survives the "Switched-On" treatment - like J.S. Bach and Frank Zappa.

Just listening to McGhee's Bethelehem LPs, highly recommended, an underrated player, very good music, good sidemen, nice arrangements. He certainly had a sound of his own. I also dig this one a lot:

Found me a copy of a Japnaese LP reissue of that 1958 Newport album at the site of a US shop. As I love Randy Weston's music just as much, this is a double stroke!

I remember a radio interview on AFN over here where he admitted his favourite big bands and/or trumpet players were Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Harry James, Stan Kenton - these all were some kind of entertainers and loved a gimmick and effect. I guess he liked it AND used it to sell his band, which was somewhat bigger than the others, he had to. It was tough for a big band in the rock era, I reckon Columbia took up with him because he played the Fillmore like all their great new rock acts, tracks from his albums were found on anthologies selling the new progressive rock bands. His humour is similar to that of Gillespie AND that of NRBQ, I'll take it just for the fun AND for the substance. No wonder that band worked hard and was pretty much kept busy just with playing that stuff. He would have needed much more time to let it breathe somewhat more - he was aware of this - remember Jim, he more or less invented that stuff, and it's hard to do!