Daniel A

Here's another one who can attest to the hight production standards of the Fischer reissue. The sound is fantastic and the album is recommended to all Fischer sceptics (if there are any).

Some Hampton Hawes: This is Hampton Hawes (Contemporary, 70s pressing, yellow label) Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes Trio at Montreux (JAS)

Thanks, folks! I really appreciate it! My birthday was spent like most other days: taking care of my 14 months old daughter. One of the benefits of living in Sweden is 420 days of paid maternity/paternity leave, and I'm fortunate enough to get seven months at home. Not up to my usual salary, but enough to manage on. In the evening some friends and relatives joined us for home-made pizza and red wine. I honestly can't remember what albums I played, but I think Dexter Gordon's 'Landslide' may have been in the player once or twice. The days when the likes of Maynard Ferguson's version of 'MacArthur Park' played at full volume at my partys seem to be gone...

Belated congrats, Guy!

Was Kenny Burrell on a Duke Pearson session? I wondered the same thing. Did a little searching ... only thing I could find was A New Perspective which of course is a Donald Byrd record. Interesting - he says '63, but the video "corrects" it to 1959, around the time of the Duke Pearson trio albums (upon which it does not appear that KB appears). He also mentions Israel Crosby and Arthur Edgehill on the date. A little Googling reveals nothing about these guys on record together Makes me kind of curious ... He goes on to say that Lion and Wolff were brothers - he didn't know why they had two last names and that they were from South Africa ... Maybe it was a session Duke Pearson was arranging for BN? But that would have been post 63-64? Who knows? I got excited and thought I'd overlooked a small group session with Duke Pearson and Kenny Burrell Ike Quebec died in January of 1963, so if the rest of the story is correct it would have had to be pre '63.

Astonishing. Thanks, brownie!

Happy birthday, Reinier!

MG's right, but there are six bonus cuts. The track listing for the Japanes reissue of 'New Time Shuffle' is: 1. Return of the Prodigal Son 2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough 3. New Time Shuffle 4. Blues for Del 5. Manha De Carnaval 6. Here's That Rainy Day 7. What Now My Love 8. Night Song 9. Samba De Aviao 10. She's A Carioca 11. Pres Delight 12. Better Luck Next Time 13. Bonita Tracks 1-3 and 11-13 were recorded on June 23, 1967 (released on 'Return of the Prodigal Son'), tracks 4-10 (which are on the 'Bluish Bag' CD release) were recorded on February 17, 1967.

I'm not with my CDs right now - I've gotten New Time Shuffle from this batch - but it would seem to me that there's one session on that album, six cuts, that hasn't been on CD before.

Once again.

I hope Young has co-workers in this project, because his statements on MP3:s (see earlier thread here) reveals a lack of understanding of the technology behind compressed audio. For a majority of people MP3:s above a certain bitrate cannot be distinguished from the uncompressed original. Those interested can visit hydrogenaudio.org and read up on listening tests. I consider myself concerned with audio quality and I've done blind tests (there's software that enables you to do so called "ABX" tests on your own) that have revealed the bitrate where I can't tell the difference anymore. I enjoy my LP collection, I still listen to CD:s when I'm in my living room, but MP3:s are a very convenient way of bringing the music with me in the car, on my mobile phone, when on vacation etc. Surely they sound better than the majority of compact cassetes everybody were happy with for a couple of decades. That said, I'll welcome the possibility of downloading high-resolution digital files, but it is an incorrect assumption that those listening to MP3s do not care about sound quality at all. Many do, and many MP3:s do sound quite OK.

Ubu, "still asleep" is an incorrect translation. It should read "he fell into sleep" which is an expression meaning that he passed away.

Happy birthday, Marcus! I hope you are fine!

Steve Kuhn Live in New York (Cobblestone)

Hans Koller & The Big Band 'New York City' (MPS, Dutch pressing).

The Bob Brookmeyer Orchestra 'Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments' (Verve)

sorry, I only read your excerpt.

Smooth jazz seems to be mainly an American thing. I'd dare to say that in most of Europe smooth jazz has always been close to non-existent.

Actually, it's not too bad!

Yes. It's probably the only BN sleeve which was IMPROVED when Applause issued it I got my copy cheap (4 EUR) because someone has painted the cover all blue and then just written "Jimmy Smith, Plain Talk' with a white crayon!

Neither could I, so I put up a photo of my copy. Feel free to use the link! Now playing: Jimmy Smith 'Plain Talk' (Liberty pressing). McLean's appearance makes the whole album for me.

Wayne Shorter 'Odyssey of Iska' (Liberty UA Inc. black label).

Martial Solal 'Jazz Jamboree '67' (Muza)

Huh - didn't know of this J.C. Moses appearance. Interesting. He plays fine in this setting, although it is perhaps more conservative than some of his other appearances. I find Sample more enjoyable here than with the Jazz Crusaders; he gets opportunity to stretch out a bit. Sound clip available here: http://www.recordmania.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=f4b7f0b55c1010629e7eb4923c71a818&query=joe+sample&ref=search_records This is also available as a cheap CD reissue under the title 'Fancy Dance'.