Peter Friedman

My views will be somewhat different than what others have said. Perhaps my favorite Trane on Prestige are the albums with Miles. There seemed to me to be a bit more organization and structure than on many of the other Prestige dates. Though I do like most of that material too. As has been said, some of the tunes on Prestige go on too long for my taste. But on the whole, I find Trane's playing on the various Prestige recording much my satisfying ( to me) than his work on the Impulse label. I have never been able to get excited about Mal Waldron's piano playing which most who post here seem to consider extremely good. I much prefer to hear Coltrane with piano players such as Wynton Kelly, Sonny Clark, Kenny Drew, and Tommy Flanagan. To my ears they all swing more ( or at least differently) than Waldron, and Kelly, Clark and Drew have a much more blues oriented approach than Mal which I find blends extremely well with Trane.

Another one of my all time favorites is gone. Back in the 50's when I first became interested in jazz, the Cafe Bohemia records with Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham and Doug Watkins grabbed me hard and I still love those sessions. If Horace Silver is on a recording I will undoubtably like it. My major recollection of seeing the Horace Silver Quintet dates back to 1957. I had been doing my Army basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas.when the initial training period ended I was entitled to a leave and headed home to Detroit by train. It was necessary to change trains in Chicago and A friend and I decided to spend a night in Chicago before continuing to Detroit. We learned that the Horace Silver Quintet was playing at the Sutherland Lounge. A cab took us there and we spent a glorious evening listening to Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Horace Silver, Gene Taylor, and Louis Hayes. It was a special experience that has stayed with me all these years later.

There are quite a few Xanadu albums that have never been reissued on CD. The Beehive label albums also would be very welcomed on CD reissues.

My strongest memory of seeing Jim Hall was a number of decades ago. I was in New York for a long weekend and discovered that the Jim Hall - Ron Carter Duo was playing at a club called The Guitar. My wife and I along with another couple went that evening and stayed for two marvelous sets. The atmosphere in the club was extremely quiet and it seemed as if pretty much everyone was there to listen carefully to these two wonderful musicians. It was a night to remember.

British alto player Geoff Simkins impressed me very much on these two CDs on the Spotlite label The Dave Cliff / Geoff Simkins 5 Play The Music Of Tadd Dameron Dave Cliff Duo & Quartet - Sipping At Bells And by the way, Dave Cliff is a damn fine guitar player.

I agree with Jazzbo that Pee Wee Russell 's best work was much earlier that the quartet with Brown. My favorite playing by Russell in his later years was on the Jazz Reunion album on Candid.

I agree with the two Larry just mentioned, and also like Kempff.

I thought this thread was focused on LIVING female jazz singers. Here are a few more that I like. Claire Martin Madeline Eastman

Among living female jazz singers try Mary Stallings.

There are some musicians that I can listen to straight for long periods of time. I can play 3 or 4 of that persons CDs one after another. With Sonny Stitt I find it much more satisfying to play one CD and then switch to listening to someone else. I like Stitt's playing very much, but he is not the kind of player I want to listen to for an entire afternoon or evening.

Only $3.99?? What a bargain! I've had this for years and like it a lot. Glad to see someone who enjoyed this session,. Never claimed in my initial post this session could be compared to some of Johnny's better known releases. Just that if you happened to already be a fan, not to overlook this release. Just my thoughts. I also enjoy this session and agree with your comments.

don't think I need that much Haydn as for non-HIP though, I'll add the Szell, repackaged into another cheapo set: I like the Szell box. Also recently got the Jochum box of the London Symphonies plus 3 additional symphonies. Am enjoying the 5 or 6 I have heard thus far.

These 2 CDs have compositions and arrangements by Frank Wess The Frank Wess Orchestra - Entre Nous - Concord Jazz Order In The Court - Arranged and composed by Frank Wess Entre Nous - Arranged and composed by Frank Wess Shiny Stockings - Arranged by Frank Wess Lover - Arranged by Frank Wess ************************************************************************************** Frank Wess - Tryin' To Make My Blues Turn Green - Concord Jazz Composed and arranged by Frank Wess Come Back To Me Tryin" To Make My Blues Turn Green And So It Is Short Circuit Surprise! Surprise Small Talk Arranged by Frank Wess Listen To The Dawn Alfie

Terrible news. A truly fine jazz musician. The IPO label just recently released a lovely quartet CD by Frank Wess with Kenny Barron on piano. R.I.P

I lean toward Marantz. They make a very good quality product at a very fair price.

Sad news. Tommy Whittle was a nice tenor player in the style of Lester Young and the Brothers. R.I.P.

Sad News - Rest in Peace.

I became interested in the music of Shorty Rogers And his Giants, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, The Lighthouse Allstars and Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond at the time their earliest records were released. At roughly the same time period, the early to mid 50's, I also became a big fan of Bebop and Hard Bop. As Larry indicated, I learned to appreciate all three styles. From there my jazz interests also began to move back to swing, and eventually to traditional jazz.

Nobody has mentioned the Anderson Brothers - Peter and Will. I have two very recent CDs with them and they are terrific. Also Gilad Edelman who has brand new CD on the Sharp 9 label.

Very sorry to hear this sad news.

I am still waiting for a substantial number of Xanadu LPs to be reissued on CD for the first time.. The word was that Don Schlitten was not in favor of reissuing his material on CD. Yet about 35 or so Xanadu LPs have been reissued on CD on a few different labels?

One thing that makes these two CDs especially interesting is it offers an additional opportunity to hear Billy Root in a small group setting.

Here are two more Harold Mabern CDs on the DIW label Harold Mabern Trio - To Maya With Love Harold Mabern - The Leading Man

My copy is a Japanese CD. Label on the front cover and CD says Warwick with Century Record Co. Ltd. Japan also mentioned. The front cover has the original art work from the Warwick LP.

John, you're right that they're both very good, but I'm not sure I'd call any release 'obscure' with those musicians contributing, to say nothing of the fact that I wrote the liner notes for Volume One! (There's also a Volume Two, which doesn't include Cedar but does have Ellis Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Oliver Jones, Kenny Barron, Barry Harris and Renee Rosnes as pianists with Dave on bass. Cedar is a particular favourite of Young, 'cause there's yet another trio release not yet noted: "Tale Of The Fingers" (Justin Time JUST 143-2) with Cedar, Dave Young and drummer Barry Elmes, recorded in Toronto on Feb. 24 & 25, 2000. It features two of Cedar's compositions: Bremond's Blues and A Bell For Bags. It's a terrific 'groove' album, and I recommend it highly...Edited to add that the duo releases are all on Justin Time, and Walton's NPS is one of the three tracks Young and he recorded for the duet project. Ted, yes Tale Of The Fingers is a good one as are the two Dave Young Duo CDs.