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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.

Three more reissues are slated for January. Perhaps the choices could have been more daring, but the Jan Hammer album (recorded in 1968) has its merits. I have not heard the Stu Goldberg album, though. JAN HAMMER TRIO Maliny Maliny promising music / MPS / P441092 1968 Price: 18.00 € (incl. 19 % VAT, where applicable) JAN HAMMER - piano, organ GEORGE (JIRI) MRAZ - el-bass CEES SEE - drums STU GOLDBERGEye Of The Beholder promising music / MPS / P441112 1982 Price: 18.00 € (incl. 19 % VAT, where applicable) STU GOLDBERG - piano JIM LACEFIELD - acoustic bass DAVE CRIGGER - drums KEN GOLDBERG - tenor sax, flute, piccolo LEE PASTORA - congas, bongos DOUG CAMERON - 1st violin, concertmaster CLAYTON HASLOP - 2nd violin JIMBO ROSS - viola DAN SMITH - cello ALPHONSE MOUZONVirtue promising music / MPS / P441102 1977 Price: 18.00 € (incl. 19 % VAT, where applicable) Alphonse Mouzon - drums, perc, keyb, voc, arr Gary Bartz - soprano & alto sax Stu Goldberg - keyboards Welton Gite - el-bass

Either I've not been paying attention and all of these have already been posted here, or the source of this information (Swedish online CD store) is just not reliable, but it looks like there's a batch of RVGs coming up for February 11, 2009: Paul Chambers Quintet Grant Green - Grant's First Stand Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond Leo Parker - Rollin' With Leo Horace Parlan - Up and Down Stanley Turrentine - A Chip Off the Old Block

While browsing a Swedish online CD store I noticed several upcoming reissues of old OJC titles from Concord (several of which were recently deleted). They are not advertised on the Concord webpage and I could not find info anywhere else, so I'm posting them here. Release date is given as January 12. Abdul-malik Ahmed - Jazz Sahara Austin Claire - When Your Lover Has Gone Babasin Harry/Enevoldsen Bob - Jazz In Hollywood Bishop Walter Jr - Walter Bishop Jr Trio Brookmeyer Bob - Dual Role Of Bob Brookmeyer Burns Ralph - Bijou Cohn Al - Broadway Cook Junior - Junior's Cookin' Curson Ted - Plays Fire Down Below Dickerson Walt - To My Queen Draper Ray - Ray Draper Quintet Eardley Jon - Jon Eardley Seven Ellis Don - New Ideas Erskine Peter - Peter Erskine Farrell Joe - Sonic Text Gordon Joe - Lookin' Good Gorond Honi - Honi Gordon Sings Harper Herbie - Jazz In Hollywood Harris Bill - Bill Harris & Friends Hawkins Coleman - Bean & The Boys Jenkins John - Jenkins Jordan & Timmons Johnson Budd - Let's Swing Johnson Osie - Osie's Oasis Jones Carlmell - Jay Hawk Talk Jones Elvin - Elvin Lea Barbara - Barbara Lea Mabern Harold - Wailin' Mariano Charlie - Boston All-stars Matthew Gee All-stars - Jazz By Gee Mcintyre Ken/dolphy Eric - Looking Ahead Mckusick Hal - Triple Exposure Melle Gil - Gil's Guests Mobley Hank - Messages Moore Ada - Tbc Moore Wild Bill - Bottom Grove Pearson Duke - Dedication Pike Dave - It's Time For Dave Pike Poole Billie - Confessin' The Blues Prestige Blues Swingers - Outskirts Of Town Price Ruth/Manne Shelly - At The Manne-hole Priester Julian - Keep Swingin' Raney Jimmy - A Reece Dizzy - Asia Minor Richardson Jerome - Midnight Oil Rouse Charlie - Takin' Care Of Business Singer Hal/Shavers Charlie - Blue Stompin' Spann Les - Gemini Tatro Duane - Jazz For Moderns Watkins Doug - Soulnik Woods Jimmy - Awakening There are 50 titles, and all of them have "CC 50" added to the title. I don't know what it means - Collector's Choice?

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Here's the previous thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...=0&p=371898

From Wikipedia: I'm steering clear of CDRs. I got one print-on-demand title which was leased from Universal (A Clarke-Boland Big Band album); it does not play on older CD players. In that particular case, liner notes were also missing.

Although, he was the only one who didn't wear a suit... But thanks!

The release gig was successful, and one tune (Lady in Cement) is now on YouTube: Not in best visual quality, but the sound is decent. Filmed simutaneously with a laptop webcam and a mobile phone... I'm in the process of making a deal with a distributor, but so far the CD is only available directly from me. Prices: Europe: 11€ + 2€ shipping = 13€ US: $12.50 + 3.50 shipping = $16 If anyone's interested drop me a message.

It's from a Swedish police comedy, "Kopps".

Thanks for the notice! I got "Patterns", since I only have this session on LP. Somebody should get "Total Eclipse" immediatly! It's an incredible album. Harold Land, Reggie Johnson and Chick are all in top form on that album, and while Joe Chambers arguably is just a little better on some of his best recordings, his playing is nevertheless great too.

Went for 25 dollars. Stated as a Japanese import, no less!

Дмитрий, поздравляю тебя с днём рождения!

They are probably just doing what they can to stay in business. There may have been misguided decisions by EMI/Blue Note in the past, but this time everybody must accept that these titles have been repressed on digital plastic discs for the last time. If they are going the lossless download route - which will be the only way to distribute these recordings with a profit - it probably just makes sense to let many of them disappear to create some attention when launching the downloading service.

I wish you a happy birthday, David!

It is on this CD; 'Upstairs', written by Bacharach for the musical "Promises, Promises", covered by The Jazz Crusaders on 'Powerhouse' but not by too many others. Until now, of course! Thank you so much for your appreciative words! This is all about playing tunes we like (or that I like, since I've chosen them all), and while the interepretations are not advanced in any manner I hope they'll bring the good vibe we got going while playing them. 'Lady in Cement' has long been a favorite of mine; I love the time signature shifts! Bacharach was also using time shifts quite often and I've tried to get some of that into 'What the World Needs Now' which alters between 5/4 and 3/4 during the solos. And thanks everyone for your support! I feel very privileged to be able to bring tunes to a band and make music that people find - if not challenging - at least nice to listen to.

OK, will think of that next time! You others may still discuss it here, though...