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Just noticed this has been discussed before: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=song%20x&st=0

I'd heard it was on the way, but I just came across it on the Nonesuch website... A new version of Song X, the rather wonderful collaboration of Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman. The original eight tracks have been remixed and remastered and... wait for it... there are six additional tracks from the sessions! Police People All of Us The Good Life Word from Bird Compute The Veil Metheny's been quoted as saying the extra stuff is as good, if not better, than the original tracks. August release date, apparently. With the Tubbs reissues, the Miles Cellar Door box and the Monk/ Coltrane this is gonna be an expensive few months...

July 12th 1929: Jelly Roll Morton records for Victor (again!) 1935: Red McKenzie records for Decca 1938: Bud Freeman records for Commodore 1939: Earl Hines records for Bluebird 1954: This is the date I have for the Clifford Brown session previously listed as July 11th; Jazz Immortal (Pacific Jazz) 1973: Keith Jarrett live in Bremen- Solo Concerts (ECM)

Will it get drunk and try and score with all the women at the gig?

This is great news!!!!!

Oh, they're so overrated!

There is a bar/ restaurant near to me that opened about ten years ago, based on a New Orleans paddle steamer (!)... kinda tacky, but not a bad place to go occasionally; the walls had some fine pictures of jazz icons and the music being played was always good... I remember hearing Miles, Dexter, Rollins, Horace, Mingus... (not sure how that fitted in with the New Orleans concept but, anyway...) Couple of years ago it had a 'revamp'... it now looks like an awful 80s day-glo disco, with music to match; tedious 'dance' music and formulaic R&B (in the current context of that term). Not sure what they did with the photos... I'd have nabbed them given the chance.

Think this session was July 12th, Marty.

More July 10: 1929: Jelly Roll Morton records for Victor 1946: Duke Ellington Orchestra for Victor 1975: Hilton Ruiz- Piano Man (Steeplechase)

Hey, I thought it was supposed to be musicians!

Here's a lady who has made a couple of underwhelming (mostly vocal) albums in recent years, but showed a lot of promise with her piano oriented albums earlier on, Eliane Elias..

... or Billie Holiday!

Happened upon this thread earlier... had a quick look and didn't see any mention of Sarah Vaughan!

Bley did go through a disappointing phrase in the eighties (but then, so did a lot of people!) but there is still stuff to savour. My own favorite latter-day Bley recordings would be: Live! (1981) Fleur Carnivore (1988) Big Band Goes to Church (1996) ... all live albums, coincidentally. The live setting seems to bring something out of this band that the studio recordings seem to stifle. There's also a good DVD available in Europe (not sure about the US), Live in Montreal from 1983, with Joe Lovano in the band.

Parts of El Juicio (The Judgement) recorded at these sessions also

His playing with a pianist is great also - check out his duets with Hampton Hawes - As Long as There's Music - mentioned earlier in this thread. His duet album with Denny Zeitlin - Time Remembers One Time Once - is a good one too. ← Ditto Night and the City with Kenny Barron.

Bah! Of course Pasadena! What was I thinking?! It had been a long day...

July 9th: 1929: Jelly Roll Morton records for Victor 1946: Duke Ellington records for Victor 1964: Another night at the Trident Club, Sausalito for the Bill Evans Trio- Trio Live (Verve) + many unissued pieces on the Complete Verve box 1971: The 2nd of three sessions for Keith Jarrett- The Mourning of a Star (Atlantic) (shoulda listed this one yesterday... oops!) 1983: Kenny Barron- Green Chimneys (Criss Cross) 1988: (9th & 10th) JJ Johnson at the Village Vanguard- Quintergy and Standards (both Emarcy)

Very good! Don't get excited by the line-up on the first track, as Sims and Mulligan are barely audible, just filling in chords in the background. This is pretty much just Monk and Miles all the way- indeed, the very solo that got Miles noticed at Newport that year and led to the Columbia contract. History in the making. A pity that the whole set wasn't included as it only totalled about 23 minutes and could easily have fitted onto the disc complete. (There are boots of this set around but the one track here is in very much better sound) The Philadelphia gig is a good one; any recording with this group is of interest in my book. 'Johnny' Coltrane [sic] is in fine form and the recording ain't bad, certainly better than the bootlegged airshots one has to go to for live performances by this line up. Is it worth the money? Depends. How much of a Miles nut are you?

Aw, shucks!

no i haven't, think it would be a waste of my time, ive heard his playing and imo its the jazz equivilant(spelling) to elavator music. to lightweight, i like the heavy, intense, blusey hard bop playing of pepper adams, leo parker, ronnie cuber, charles davis ←

A day early on the Miles Blue Moods session, Brownie! And I thought Dizzy's Newport appearance was July 6th; for July 8 I have him in the studio recording tracks for Big Band Sound, reissued on Birk's Works (Verve) More July 8: 1929: Jelly Roll Morton records for Victor 1957: Bud Freeman records one session for Austin High School Jazz in Hi-fi (RCA Victor) 1960: John Coltrane & Don Cherry- three tracks for The Avant-Garde (Atlantic) 1973: Miles Davis at Montreux- Complete Montreux Recordings (Warners) 1984: Miles Davis at Montreux again 1991: Miles Davis with Quincy Jones at Montreux, also in the box

Agreement with JSngry: +3 is a damn fine album, as are Global Warming (1998) and This Is What I Do (2000) Actually, there are many good things to be found in the Milestone albums- as we've discussed elsewhere- despite their low critical standing. A good investment is the 2 CD compilation Silver City, an excellent introduction to the later years. I have to say though, I thought the Live in London disc was rather disappointing; takes ages to get anywhere and when it does it doesn't stay there very long. Maybe I need another listen to it.

That's the theory about the bus bomb and at least one of the tube attacks. Of course, just speculation so far.