neveronfriday

OK, this is my coming out. Whenever the buying bug bites me, I find myself turning to swing and small swing sessions. There have been lots of excellent reommendations on this board and I've bought lots of them. Anything from Lionel Hampton toJohn Newman, from the great recommendations in the small groups swing thread(s) to the Billie Holiday and other vocalist threads. The Blue Note stuff I like, but I just get the creeps with some of those pingy RVG editions. My ears start to hurt because of the sound, not the music. That aside, I know that most people considered Tommy Dorsey to be "corporate", "lifeless", and whatever. Fact is though, that right now I'd like to fill one gaping hole in my small collection, and that's the Dorsey one. I have some tunes on some collections, but what I'm looking for is this: I need a series or some single releases that anyone here can recommend, especially soundwise. I'm not interested in purchasing a 10 to 20 CD collection that has every honk Tommy Dorsey or the Dorseys have ever recorded, but I'd like an extensive overview/collection of their work in the best possible sound. Whenever I look around the various shops, I always get completely confused about these releases. Lately, there hasn't been much, and before that there was so much that it is mind-boggling. So, can anyone recommend CDs he or she has, that are recommended? List them here, and I'll rely on you and start hunting for them. Thanks!

Hell, I missed that one. He was one great photographer. R.I.P.

Ditto. Cheers!

That's deus62. Deus is someone else. Cheers!

Marcus, thanks for the BFT. I was away in family matters for a while and could only listen to it these past two days. I enjoy it very much and am glad the cover fits the music. No guesses at this moment. I'm way too busy to type anything longer than two sentences which don't concern Count Basie. As there's no Basie on here, I have to pass. All I can say is that I enjoyed this disc very much, as was to be expected. My faves so far are tracks 2, 3, 4 (nice mute), 5, 9 (well, it's Ellington), 10 and 12 (that's from that verve Elite disc, isn't it?). Cheers!

Me too.

Good idea, John, but if you ever worked in a (public) library, you would NOT dare to place important recordings there. With budget cuts all over the scene, things are falling apart in many libraries, and getting the public to care about anything that is stored in there is a fruitless exercise. Private funding might be the way to go then, but if that can handle the demand out there for storage and preservation I sincerely doubt. What we would get are highly specialized collections, well-preserved, and the rest flying around mouldy in some backyard barns. Cheers!

I'll add James Taylor. Might not fit some of the ones mentioned so far, but hey, start yelling if you don't like my choice. Cheers!

my dad does. And with that, so do I.

Funny that this thread pops up now. Shortly before I left home for a bit over a week ago, I reorganized my CD collection and threw all the fusion and easy listening stuff into the pop section. Scary how much of that stuff I actually have. Two meters, I think. Most of it leaves me absolutely cold today, although there are some excellent sessions in there, somewhere (Return to Forever live, f.ex.). The same goes for all that drumming stuff. Terry Bozzio, that Wacko guy, etc. ... ever since I saw Jeff Hamilton, who blew the whole lot out of the water with the swing of one single brush, I filed them next to Boston, Whitesnake (that's the band whose lead singer blow-dried himself into oblivion some years back), etc. Cheers! P.S.: Before I moved all of the junk out, I thought I had more, err, jazz CDs. I don't. I think I drink and smoke too much.

2002 Walporzheimer Klosterberg, Riesling Spätlese, trocken, Qualitätswein mit Prädikat. Excellent wine at around 5 or 6 Euro. I can really recommend this vineyard in the Ahr region. Excellent and way above many others of the same prize range. They have excellent Rosés as well ... even better than the whites, but I guzzled all of those. Cheers! P.S.: Nope, Flurin, they did not have another one. But I bought three more at 2 Euro each, all of them in mint condition: Benny Goodman Quartet. Together Again. RCAVictor Gold seris/BMG 2002. Benny Goodman. The Complete Trios. Capitol jazz 1998. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. L.A.G.Q. Sony 1998. Ever since the government (well, about 92% of it) left here to relocate to Berlin, the second-hand shop prices have been dropping constantly (or the owner of this particular shop has a screw loose ... take your pick). Love it.

Flurin, I stumbled across the Santa Monica Civic '72 disc here in Bonn for - listen up - 2 Euro for the double set at a second hand dealer. It#s manufactured by Polydor K.K., Japan KA 8506 (was sold for 5,800 Yen that time). Count Basie is positively smoking on this one here, and one of my fave Basie tunes, Blues in Hoss Flat (by the great Frank Foster) is just marvelous. And the sound for such an early double disc is just damn good. The only downfall is, in my eyes, the Fitzgerald stuff. All those "in" tunes like You've Got a Friend etc, just don't cut it and are suckin' up to the audience of the time ... although she does pick up again at the end with the whole JAT"P" team on C Jam Blues. The rest is grand stuff (besides one more turkey in my eyes, Peterson and Brown doing "You are my sunshine" ... I'm a Peterson AND Brown fan, but no thanx here). I'm swingin' all over the place to the Basie stuff. Basie was just it. There's a marvelous longer piano ditty he does on here which just cracked me up (and which swings like hell). And for 2 Euro there was even enough left for a wonderful German white wine which I'm enjoying in the sun at the moment. Cheers, in the best sense of the word!

As far as I recall, they were just wondering why one needed such a big case for such small filter devices. There was also talk of a so-called "Zobel" link which has been given high praise by some voodoo mags when used on EXTERNAL connectors etc. I find that to be quite controversial, to say the least. You can get the things for around 30 cents and they are supposed to do wonders if used right. Puttin the right music on does the trick for me. Cheers!

501 posts with this one.

Yep, but not unheard of in the world of hi-fi mumbo jumbo.

Up!

And, to switch from Swedish (that one was a laugh to read) to German: The other day I bought one of the better European Audio mags and stumbled across this company (and the cables named A.62, A.62 V. 2 and B.62). I ordered a set of cables because they came recommended by several reliable sources, and ... Eureka! They're a real blast at a fragment of the usual cost. They easily blow my Cardas Crosslink (for all of you who know that one) out of the water and I can heartily recommend both the A.62 and B.62 if you need a cable which does, well nothing. I have a pretty "warm-sounding" Marantz setup and needed to tone that one down a bit, and these cables are just the thing. They don't add but purely transport the sound. Quite a revelation (and a slap in the face of many much more expensive companies). beg, steal or borrow. http://www.funk-tonstudiotechnik.de/dakabel.htm (FUNK Studiotechnik). Cheers! ... and off for some Paul Desmond ...

http://www.americans-swinging-in-paris.com/ With samples.

Hi Joe, you should really get those sessions out there again, remastered and all. They are absolutely wonderful and I've had the Stash CD running several times already (the sound quality is not really that bad, I think). Nice to see you here on the board! Cheers! P.S.: I'm on away from my own PC at the moment, so posting is a real hassle. Thanks everyone for your comments. I'll be back on Sunday, own PC and all.

Hi everyone, I'm at my dad's on some dial-up connection (God, stoneage all around), so just a quick question. While listening to a whole bunch of jazz CDs yesterday, we stumbled across one from 1993: Art Farmer/Lee Konitz with the Joe Carter Quartet & Trio. 1993 Stash Records, USA (licensed by Stash from Empathy Records). I found these sessions (August 1983 and October 1984) very (!) enjoyable, but I have no idea about the second label mentioned above. Empathy Records? Any info on this one? And Joe Carter? Any recommendations there? Any more anyone knows about any Art Farmer/Lee Konitz sessions I should check out? Cheers!

Well, I just checked my files: the neato divider was ripped off from another site. This one: Oceanen (Scroll down the page to see it). I'll contact the designer to see if it's freely available. Cheers!

Yep. Monday or so. ; )

Hi everyone, the Count Basie Website team has been slaving away these past weeks to get the Count Basie Website up and running. Special thanks from my side go to John and Flurin for coordinating all the others who are investing a ton of working hours. Big thanks to all of those as well. But, stop, the site is far from finished. Although the pace has picked up considerably, the heart and soul of the site is still missing. But I know what's coming, so it really is something to look forward to! Still, we need your help right now to run the acid test on those pages that are online, just so we don't find errors 10 minutes before completion. Please have a look at these two sets of pages: 01) Count Basie Website :: Homepage [The homepage is active and from it, you can jump to ...] 02) Count Basie Website :: Impressum [Check out, for example, the contributors part to see what pages will look like]. The design is final and not all of you might like it, but you can still help by letting us know if you notice any inconsistencies when viewing the site in your browser of choice. I'm especially interested in hearing from MAC users to make sure the site displays properly on those systems as well. Thanks for your help and ... Cheers! Volkher P.S.: I will update this thread as other things will need testing. Watch this space. I would like to delete the other thread on color resolution and just keep this one for general testing puposes. I'll see if I can do that myself.

Sent mail re 01) Benny Carter - Jazz Tribune (1928-1952) - 2 CDs (RCA France) — 2 CDs - OOP - sc - $12.49 02) Fletcher Henderson - The Indispensable Fletcher Henderson, Vols. 5-6 (1927-1936) - 2 CDs (RCA France Jazz Tribune) 2 CDs - OOP - co - $12.95 03) Earl Hines - The Indispensable Earl Hines, Vol 5-6 (1944-66) - 2 CDs (RCA France Jazz Tribune) — 2 CDs, 1944, 1964-66, co - $11.95 Cheers!

I have been getting each notice twice for two days now? WTF? Cheers!