mikeweil

Well said, Jim: To be a sideman or not to be a sideman, that is the question - at least for some people at some point in their lives. Hill certainly knew why he wanted Lloyd, he could have asked for Henderson right away. Maybe both Dorham and Alfred Lion opted for Henderson when getting Lloyd would be complicated - the sentence "XXX appears courtesy of YYY Records" is not often found on Blue Note covers.

Courtesy of couw, of course ....

Now who was it?

Definitely not. Electric pianos, harpsichords, you name it - but no organ. The Herb Ellis is a great - actually the one Herb Ellis disc I like the most, bought for Melvin Rhyne. His second career started with exactly that Ellis session in 1991 - if that's anyone's idea of "recently" ..... I have the Humair/Louiss/Ponty disc, it sure is worth a listen, some of the jazziest playing Ponty ever did. Louiss is in fine form too. And Humair is always great, one of Europe's best jazz drummers, he's played with practically everybody except Rollins and Miles (he said in an interview).

He mentions neither Elton Dean nor Tommy Smith !?!?!?!?!?!

My copy of Vol. 2 has 4 tracks marked as previuosly unissued, perhaps that refers to them being on the other twofer and should say "not on original LP"?

Is this the afro-cuban compilation, and where can I get it? Thanks!

Not to discourage you, but my experience is that Amazon.de is very slow in updating their files as far as unvailability of CDs is concerned. They stop backordering after some time and do not notice a title is deleted until someone orders them. This happened to me several times ...

I have a 1988 facsimile Lp reissue by Polygram France, which doesn't even mention Rostaing (or Guisnath) anywhere in the liner notes or credits. Otherwise the credits are identical to the ones brownie posted. BTW, Migiani is credited for playing "basse saxo"!!!

The Peacocks is very beautiful and was substantial in gaining the underrated Rowles some more attention at the right time, but was produced independent of the Renaud produced recordings, in the "Stan Getz Presents" series. Other than this and four trio tracks of Rowles' "Impressions of the Miles Davis Nonet" for the "I Remember Bebop" twofer anthologies, Columbia did not deliver, contrary to Rowles, who always DID deliver. BTW, the two CDs of the "I Remember Bebop" series Renaud produced were an improvement over the Columbia twofer LPs, as they included one unissued track from each pianist and collected complete sessions on one disc. Regrettably I was only able to get Vol. 2 with Rowles, Walter Bishop Jr., Barry Harris and Tommy Flanagan, anybody here have Vol.1? If I remember correctly it had Duke Jordan and John Lewis on it. To go back to the initial question of this thread, I think it will be hard to list all of the CDs issued in the Jazz Originals series: they did not have their own numerical series but were part of CBS' (Columbia Europe's) numbering system, some you can only recognize when you see the booklet front page. But as most of them were straight reissues of US LPs, I think the ones to search out are those not issued elsewhere or complied especially for it, like the Rowles, Jamal, and Bebop anthologies I mentioned. I could post discographical details if so desired.

Amazon France has it! This issue is in LP order with the two bonus tracks at the end; the Atlantic CD was in session order.

The Atlantic CD had two bonus tracks, Now's The Time & Yardbird Suite, 11 tracks in all. AFAIK this is all that was recorded.

The track order of Swiss Movement is more difficult than I thought - maybe the video would help, but as I said I couldn't get it: Wanted to order it from Rhino but they said they couldn't ship to Europe! The matrix numbers don't help, they have the Tracks in LP order: 1. Compared to what 2. Cold Duck Time 3. Kathleen's Theme 4. You got it in your soulness 5. The generation gap 6. Kaftan (first released on the 1996 CD edition) At the end of track 4 Les McCann can be heard saying "Cold Duck Time" in an otherwise muddled discussion. This is track 2, seguing into 3 without edit. So tracks 4, 2, 3 must have been performed in that order. After 1, McCann introduces the personnel, sounds like a closing number. McCann certainly wouldn't have done a vocal number as an opener, and this track is somewhat the high point of the set. 5 could well be the encore. This leaves Kaftan in between, so I'd suggest performance order was: 1. You got it in your soulness 2. Cold Duck Time 3. Kathleen's Theme 4. Kaftan 5. Compared to What 6. The Generation Gap This sounds reasonable to me when programmed. Any other suggestions?

My favourite is probably the Hill, not only because its contents are not yet on CD: I play this the most often! Liked the Elvin Jones a lot, before it was on CD, and the Tyner, although this has very muffled sound.

I'm afraid they go back to their older master tapes and do not make new transfers from the orgininal tapes. The French BMG branch issued its Rollins box independently from the US box, it seems to me. I avoided the French reissue of The Bridge because it sounded just like the box set issue, whereas the new US Bluebird first editions CD sounds magnificent!!! But I had to order that from a US mail order shop, they do not distribute it in Europe 'cause they wanna sell their own pressing!

... but not any farther, I'm afraid. Did you post this on AAJ as well?

Take your time Jim - I hate records or gigs where the uptempo numbers are in the majority ... B)

so this is the thread to post anything that doesn't fit anywhere else?

If it is the Fred Jackson who did the Blue Note sessions, post discographical details, please.

... a big hand for another exhilarating powerful set of the incomparable organissimo all stars, starring ..... you know who

Yes, they always used the last LP issue master tapes, in case of the Monk Lincoln Center Big Band concert that meant edited tracks, in the case of the Ahmad Jamal trio it meant reverb. The Legacy reissues all sound better - I sold my French CDs as soon as there was a Legacy reissue. But the series was probably the best Renaud could coax out of the limited budget for jazz reissues SONY France gave him. The high points to me are the three Jimmy Rowles CDs: - Jimmy Rowles In Paris (unissued solo piano material from 1980 never issued elsewhere, very relaxed with the most subtle timing I ever heard from a solo pianist) - Jimmy Rowles Plays Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (reissue of a rare US LP, solo piano from 1981) - Profile: The Music of Henri Renaud (solos duets with Michael Moore of Renaud compositions from 1981, it seems this 1993 CD was the first and only issue)

The monaural takes of Four and 52nd Street Theme are not in the box set!

I have the Stitt plays Bird in its Atlantic reincarnation. A marvellous disc! I love the combination of Hall, Lewis and Richard Davis. And Kay fits in well, too (often for my likings he seems to restrained, but here he sounds good to me). Mike: what was the concert order of "Swiss Movement"? That's one of my favorite groove CDs! And related to the Swiss Movement thing: anyone knows (hell yeah, I wish Atlantic/Warner/whatever had a clear reissue policy!) what else has come out as "Souvenir de Montreux"? The only other disc I have is the Kirk ("I, eye, aye"). ubu Connie Kay doesn't sound restrained to me at all, he's cooking it up the way he does, he's not Philly Joe .... he's very relaxed on that session. I once reconstructed an order, it should be visible from the video, but I was unable to get this so far. McCann requests "Cold Duck Time" during the applause at the end of one track. "Compared To What" certainly was not the opener, rather an encore. I've lost my note with the order, I'll have to do it again ... That recording was an impromptu jam session, more or less. The Les McCann trio had played on June 18, Eddie Harris on June 20. The jam session was on June 21, McCann had to fly back in and was late and had most of the music, so there was no rehearsal. Benny Bailey didn't even know it was being recorded! AFAIK only a Les McCann double LP was released from that Atlantic at Montreux evening, but no, this was from 1972, with Rahsaan Roland Kirk sitting in, but not nearly as exciting.

anyone know what this one is like? The down beat critic reviewing it back then started with the words: This record is hot, hot, hot! They have a helluva good time on that record. It took me many years to find. A second hand dealer had and said it was one to keep - and he kept very few records after having practically everything at his disposal at some time or another. A rare chance to hear Christlieb in a straightahead blowing context. There are two pianoless CrissCrossJazz CDs as well.