Daniel A

Up for MG! Now listening to Ted Heath 'Rodgers for Moderns' (Jasmine 80s reissue).

There's organ om my CD (Collectables) copy, though far down in the mix. Listen behind the piano solo.

I'm sure there have been others, but Swedish jazz basist Georg Riedel (has played with many Swedish greats as Jan Johansson, Lars Gullin, Rolf Billberg, Jan Allan etc.) wrote a ballet in 1967, 'Riedaighlia'. It was made specifically for TV and won the Prix Italia that year. Sorry to say, I don't know of any recordings.

This may be old news, but a copy of a long OOP Clarke-Boland album (Three Latin Adventures) available from UK Amazon Marketplace made me check out the British company The Disk Kiosk. It appears as if they are allowed to manufacture some kind of industrial CDRs under licence from Universal, among a couple of other companies. Not much jazz, but some. Confusingly some titlles still seem to be oficcially avialble from Universal as well.

Finally, Al! Hope you'll enjoy it!

Clare Fischer 'Manteca' (Pacific Jazz PJ-10096, mono). Not particularly good pressing. Good music, though.

Unplayed promo copy of 'Kind of Blue', would you believe that?

I'm following with 'Extension' - mono Pacific Jazz. 'Great White Hope'; I spotted that one too yesterday, but the Yamaha YC-30 organ and the overdubs made me hold off (though I didn't listen to it). How is it, MG?

Hush is a very enjoyable date. Some (but not all) of the tracks feature both Johnny Coles and Donald Byrd; the latter plays rather better than usual. Pearson himself also sounds more confident as a soloist than on some of his other recordings. The trio tracks are arguably a bit more low key, but all in all I'd say that this is actually one of my favourite Pearson albums.

Somone trying to get maximum dollar out of 'Windmill Tilter' before the upcoming CD reissue gets widely known: http://cgi.ebay.com/KENNY-WHEELER-JOHN-DAN...1QQcmdZViewItem Reserve not met at $150, two more days to go.

Just ordered the 420 page Hank Jones discography! Heh-heh... I'll save Milt Hinton for later.

MG, life is too short to keep on holding off! After all I'm happy I got to hear it at last. Now I'll order that Hank Jones discography and get going again...

But as for the sound quality, the bass is poorly recorded. Absurd 60s Atlantic stereo separation. Will probably look for a mono LP in due time.

A bit more melancholic than Pearson's other albums, but quite right for my mood at the moment. Except that 'Dedication' is a Willie Wilson session. Or a cat farm?

As some of you will remember I've long been a fan of Duke Pearson, even if it was perhaps more apparent on the BNBB (he was probably discussed a little more back there). I have all of his leader dates and I have heard most if not all other recordings he participated in. Well, not exactly true. There was one album I never got when it was reissued by Koch in the late 90s - 'Prairie Dog'. It's not like it's a rare album or anything and it could probably be found instantly online, but I never tried that hard. Why? Because then there wouldn't be any unheard Duke Pearson left. Then today after work I walked into a used record store. I picked a Nicholas Payton album I suspected was OOP, an early Clare Fischer big band album on Pacific Jazz (Extension), and then suddenly - a cheap CD copy of Prairie Dog lay before my eyes. After a moment of hesitation I decided that now was the time. So now I'm sitting at home, trying to figure out how I should go about listening to it. I think I'll make some tea, sit down, close my eyes and just listen. (It somehow reminds me of the moment years ago when I finally broke the seal on that first pressing of 'Sweet Honey Bee'.) And then perhaps start to think of how I should live my life post completing Pearson collection.

The eBay seller behind this auction has his own take on vinyl gradings. He's using MINT as well as M as different gradings. NM represents a record with "no audible scratches" but which may have "visual flaws", while VG++ is still described as "Vinyl will be in Near Mint Condition". Also notice the VG- cover. It's comforting to know that it could still somehow be considered "Very Good".

What's up with all these 1000-Yen Universal reissues? I can't recall ever seeing them this cheap.

Nice to see you back, brownie! As if you could stay out of a thread on Solal...

I'm not so sure.

Just a short comment regarding pressing and sound quality: I have not compared these two releases, but the Solal albums on French Columbia I've heard have all been tremendously good pressings. I know that some albums on the various "local" European Columbia imprints turned up on Liberty in the US. The one album I've heard in its Liberty incarnation (by Swedish pianist Nils Lindberg) was inferior to the Swedish Columbia release.

The Liberty LRP 3335/LST 7335 surely is the original US release. But it was not released until 1964, or 1963 the earliest (link to Liberty discography: http://www.bsnpubs.com/liberty/libertya.html ). The French Columbia FPX 221/CTX 40.181 was released in France already in 1962. The recording date for 'Jazz à Gaveau' is May 3rd, 1962; the follow-up 'Concert à Gaveau' (FPX 253/CTX 40.187) was recorded on December 11th, 1963.

I'm pretty sure the Pathé is the original. It was briefly on CD, but is now OOP: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry493547 The CD also includes the other album recorded at the same venue, 'Concert à Gaveau'.

Why don't you try the All Music Guide? Lots of info - and it's even for free!

And, yes, 'Pensativa' is a lovely tune!

Has anyone around here heard the CD reissue of "Extension" and "Songs for Rainy Day Lovers" (for some reason titled "America the Beautiful")? This review indicates that it's a vinyl dub. It also incorrectly states that the later title was recorded in 1978. I'm a great fan of Clare Fischer's large group arranging and -writing. And I also have a soft spot for his adventures into easy listening, so the CD looks interesting... Allthough, if it's a needle drop I could as well get the individual LPs instead.