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healing alone won't do it. You'll have to carefully copy and past using the stamp tool to reconstruct some lost 'pixels'. I can understand why a pro might want quite some money for the job. It likely takes several hours for a real good result. The eyebrow will be particularly difficult to get right. With better resolution, the resolution of the touch-ups needs to match which really means a lot more time. yes.

RIP Mr Thompson

August 2 1959, Walter Davis Jr. - Davis Cup (Blue Note) August 3 1985, Tony Coe - Mainly Mancini (Chabada), ctd the next day 1995, John Lurie finished recording for the Get Shorty soundtrack (started August 1)

same here, also on Opera. This slows things down quite a bit here. Using MSIE things are equally slow, also due to pics being downloaded from the .net domain.

reporting in for duty here as well!

1946, Count Basie Orchestra recording session for Columbia 1955, Krupa, Gene / Lionel Hampton / Gerald Wilson (Verve) 1957, Lester Young recording session for Verve

1963, Don Wilkerson - Shoutin' (Blue Note) 1980, Sonny Stitt and Art Pepper record for Atlas, ctd the next day (Atlas Blues, Bowl & Ballade)

not nearly sweaty enough

So he is the mysterious etc. guy. He plays on a lot of albums.

there is an option under [My Controls] (upper right hand side of your screen) -> [board Settings]. Like you mentioned, "no" to smilies means "no" to all posted images.

Cool down man, after all, you were the one who feghed up. People reminding you of your promises aren't exactly committing any crimes. And keeping silent didn't really help to make anyone understand either. You were in over your neck, so just post that you are in over your neck, apologise and carry on. Sheesh, you make it sound like the whole board suddenly turned against you. They might if you keep pushing guilt into their shoes. Now that you have awoken and crowed loudly, get up man, there's woik to do! To the rescue!

For an interesting (and rather early) take on Monk's music, I'd recommend the André Hodeir arrangements as played by the Jazz Groupe de Paris and by Kenny Clarke's Sextet, released in the JiParis series. Hodeir does some nice things in a Evans/Mulligan/Cool vein with that typical deep coloured and interweaving stuff with different instruments alternating in one or a series of melodic lines. Much like the jerky piano style of Monk himself really. The Clarke Sextet features Solal who has an own mind when it comes to approaching the piano. The Monk tunes are in the minority, but these disks should be checked out.

the uncut version of Ramwong is available on CD here The CD MwGArm mentions apparantly has an alternate take of Blue Fanfare. These Wewerka discs are a bit of a hassle to come by though.

Thanks, that explains then. As together they already make up for 42 minutes, I gather the Ramwong tracks were also edited? A real shame to put this music out in incomplete form.

Happy Birthday Gary!

so are these actually different takes or were some solos deleted from the original One Tension masters?

Yes, have that one as well. Your mentioning NJR having tracks from (One) Tension must mean that you have that weird combination LP that was put out in the US. My NJR (both LP and CD) has this sequence: - Now Jazz Ramwong (8:58) - Sakura Waltz (3:24) - Blue Fanfare (6:40) - Three Jazz Moods (6:10) - Burunkaka (3:26) - Raknash (4:41) - Theme from Vietnam (0:56) - Es Sungen Drei Engel (7:33) Interestingly, both these and the Live in Tokyo were released in Eastern Germany as well at the time.

Playing Live in Tokyo now and there are plenty polyphonics here. Side B features a long free and loose, slow to mid tempo piece. Pretty good stuff, but definitely nothing like the group dynamics and melodic developments of Ramwong.

1954, Jutta Hipp and her Quintet (Emil Mangelsdorff, as; Joki Freund, ts; Hans Kress, b; Karl Sanner, ds) record for Mod records (Europe's First Lady of Jazz)

The Mangelsdorff and his Friends album features 6 duets with 6 different players: Don Cherry, Elvin Jones, Karl Berger (vib), Attila Zoller, Lee Konitz and Wolfgang Dauner. Indeed a very interesting album, but be prepared for some outward playing. Most of this is mid tempo stuff without a clear song structure but full of melodies developing and degrading. Live in Tokyo features the quintet sans Kronberg. It has been a while since I spun the LP, I'll need to dig it out. I remember it as a pretty loose affair, at least when compared with Now Jazz Ramwong and (One) Tension. Of course it being live explains a lot in that respect, but there is also a departure towards freeer structures from the group dynamics that characterises NJR and (O)T. This live album is still song oriented with themes and players taking turns soloing though. Sauer is one of those intense screetchy players with very distinct tone and phrasing. Lenz is simply amazing. If you get a chance, check out Now Jazz Ramwong by the quintet, an absolute classic.

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plus 'We See' and 'Let's Call This', not released at the time.

Yes, the Wilen album combines two sessions, the first (7 january) has some Gillespie tunes and other bebop staples, the second session features 4 Monk tunes. Two more Monk tunes were recorded but not released at the time. That second session certainly seems like an attempt at an all out Monk fest! Does anyone know how the original Tilt LP was conceived? Was there an all-Monk B-side?