Daniel A

A former member of these forums has analyzed a few TOCJ-4xxx discs and found several of them to be bit-identical to the 80s McMasters. Can't say if it's statistically significant, but apparently it's not always a good idea to spend a lot of money on old TOCJ:s.

Hi everybody! I've actually managed to get Swedish distribution through Sony Music, and downloads are now also available from the European Amazon sites, Itunes and a few other places. Those using Spotify may listen to the album there. Of course the album still doesn't sell at all, despite a few positive revews in Swedish daily papers, but at least we're out there. A few jazz club gigs are planned for February/March 2010. I can consider myself lucky to have these great muscians at hand, and although it may not be the greatest musical achievment put on record I'm happy it came out as good as it did. Anyone interested in a copy of the album may of course contact me directly.

Give "A Tribute to Someone" off My Point Of View another spin. He does sound almost exactly like Bill Evans on it, which was his intention. I always thought early Herbie Hancock, not least on "A Tribute to Someone" sounded a bit like Victor Feldman (that's what Miles thought too, I suppose).

This one?

I'm not sure hank did too well during those years. Brownie met Hank in Paris and has posted about that here. If I remember correctly Hank slept in an empty room at a hospital.

Good point. Last time there was a format shift (LP to CD) the industry tried to increase its margin by setting the list price of CDs much higher than LPs. While downloads are not exactly more expensive than CDs, they should at least be a bit cheaper. The fact remains that the compact disc is considered as outdated as VHS cassettes in most quarters. And while people still want to take music with them in their Ipods, soon streaming will be the only viable option at home. Why waste time on downloading anything if it's instantly available for streaming, which it soon will be. "Spotify" (or similar services) is the next logical step.

If Duke Pearson may be considered obscure, 'Angel Eyes' is probably his most obscure date as a leader, so maybe this is of limited interest, but since someone brought it up...

Sorry for being unprecise! What I wanted to point out was that the title track on Angel Eyes is identical to 'Angel Eyes' from Hush. Even the redoubtable Michael Fitzgerald seems to have missed that in his otherwise very accurate Duke Pearson discography.

Hi guys! Duke Pearson himself later said that the producer, Fred Norsworthy, sold the trio session to Polydor without Pearson's consent and that he didn't get paid for it. There was another album recorded by Norsworthy for Jazzline as a feature for trombonist Willie Wilson (by suggestion from Pearson) - it didn't get released until 1970 as "Dedication" on Prestige with Pearson as leader. The track 'Angel Eyes' was recorded on January 12, 1962 during the session for Hush (and also released on the Jazzline album Hush), all other titles are from a session on August 1, 1961.

This may stem from the two different releases of the album back in the day, on Columbia and Philips.

Happy birthday, Clifford!

My Japanese 2006 reissue of Freddie Hubbard's "Polar AC" lists the following composer credits, all of them wrong: Polar AC (Chris Kenner) People Make the World Go Round (David Matthews) Betcha By Golly, Wow (Clifford Brown) Naturally (Fritz Pauer) Son of Sky Dive (Chick Corea)

Excellent suggestion! I will make a note of this.

Herbie Hancock 'Empyrean Isles' (BN/King) Clare Boland Big Band 'Latin Kaleidoscope' (Universal Japan)

Which musician in the history of jazz played the least number of notes?

I thought I had the Cosmos LP lying around, but I can't find it at the moment. Anyway, both the Tyner and Akiyoshi/Tabackin will be available for quite some time, so don't feel any pressure to get them right now. I'm not as sure as Lon that "Cosmos" will reappear as a single though.

It depends on which 44 minutes we're talking about. (Edit to say that I voted for Tyner and Akiyoshi/Tabackin)

I've always found Carter surprisingly dull on electric bass.

In memory of Freddie: 'Ready for Freddie' (King pressing) 'Charlie Persip and the Jazz Stetsmen' (orig Bethlehem) w/Hubbard, Ronald Alexander, Ronnie Mathews and Ron Carter

John, thanks for your reminiscences.

As a leader, 'Ready for Freddie'. And I love him at 'Empyrean Isles'. But I think there's also much to enjoy on his CTI albums.

Thanks for your wonderful playing, Freddie. R.I.P.

I'm having a good laugh reading the review of Martial Solal's first(?) Vogue LP from 1954, today cosidered fine by most reviewers. "Young French pianist Martial Solal has such a reputation in his own country that last year he was voted in the French magazine Le Jazz Hot France's top musician. But if this record is a fair sample of his work I can only say that he is over-rated."..."For one thing he is unoriginal."..."he lacks the ability to develop his phrases and often merely fills in with flourishes and runs. He just cannot improvise effectively for any length of time." Reading old reviews is very interesting, for sure!

A search for "Joe Henderson" during the period 1965 to 1980 resulted in some 13 hits. Not bad. Now reading the review of the second Kenny Cox album on Blue Note, it got a so-so review. It is mentioned that reviews for the first album of the quintet were discouraging. Amazingly, the reviewer ("A.M.") also states that "The music these five men produce is not barrier-breaking in the stylistic sense; indeed some of it might easily have been conceived ten years ago."

Registration went fine over here, except that I wasn't told that I had to "confirm" my registration, but I couldn't log on using the username I had chosen, I had to use my email adress. The "view as Acrobat" fuction seems to be broken for some articles ("Stack overflow" or some such), but when it's working it looks fine. Maybe they'll sort out the bugs.