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  1. Here are two I don't believe have been mentioned that I like. Stephane Grappelli Meets Earl Hines - Black Lion Stephane Grappelli & Hank Jones - London Meeting - String
  2. I saw Vinnie play a few times when I was living in Rochester, NY. A very hard swinging drummer. The comparison to Philly Joe Jones is a good one.
  3. "Straight No Chaser" by the Kenny Barron Trio with Buster Williams & Ben Riley. From album GREEN CHIMNEYS on Criss Cross.
  4. Kind of funny that while the thread is about female vocalists, many listed males!!! My top 3 Billie Holiday Shirley Horn Sarah Vaughan Honorable Mention to Blossom Dearie
  5. I am also favorable to the Farrell session with Art Pepper.
  6. Mike, I have the January 26,1939 tracks you asked bout on this CD. Count Basie - 1939 - Classics 513
  7. I have these 2 CDs from the Newport In New York '72 recordings. The Best Of Newport In New York '72 - Volume One - Jam Sessions - Sequel NEM CD 62 The Best Of Newport In New York '72 - Volume Two - More Jam Sessions and the Jimmy Smith Set - Sequel NEM CD 633 sequel is a British label.
  8. Who are the other musicians on the Mobley session?
  9. A fine jazz piano player. I particularly like this CD. Jodie Christian Trio - Blues Holiday - Steeplechase 31337 W. Eddie de Haas & Wilbur Campbell
  10. I have these five Signature / Sony CDs: Erroll Garner / Earl "Fatha" Hines / James P. Johnson / Art Hodes - Classic Pianos Hawkins / Young / Webster - The Big 3 Yank Lawson - That's a Plenty Shelly Manne And His Friends Flip Phillips - A Melody From The Sky
  11. I was living in Detroit in the early and mid-60's. Heard the Bohanon-Fields Quintet live a number of times. I believe they were playing at The Bamboo Lounge. Though it was many years ago, I don't recall them sounding all that much like the Jazz Crusaders.They struck me as more of a straight ahead Hard Bop type of group.
  12. And Scott LaFaro, for that matter. Also Clifford Brown and Richie Powell.
  13. Beethoven: Septet , Op.20 Berwald : Grand Septet in B Flat Kreutzer : Grand Septet in E Flat Major All 3 septets have clarinet , horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, double bass
  14. I would recommend the following on Steeplechase; Any of the CDs by: Ronnie Cuber Junior Cook Duke Jordan Horace Parlan Kenny Drew Bertha Hope Johnny Griffin Teddy Edwards Jimmy Knepper There are also many very good things by: Dexter Gordon George Cables Tete Montoliu Michael Cochrane
  15. The Music from the Eddie Bert - Encore - session plus all the other Eddie Bert material from Savoy can be found on this 2 CD set : Eddie Bert Quartet & Quintet - Crosstown - Fresh Sound FSR-CD 427
  16. A number of Marian McPartland's recordings originally on Halcyon have been reissued on CD. Solo Concert At Haverford - Halcyon 111 Plays The Music Of Alec Wilder - The Jazz Alliance 10016 Ambiance - The Jazz Alliance 10029 Live At The Monticello - The Jazz Alliance - 10025 Concert In Argentina - The Jazz Alliance 10008 Live At The Carlyle - Prevue 25
  17. Just listened to the track "Diggin' In" from the Dexter Gordon box set of Columbia recordings. This tune is seriously joyful and swinging with Eddie Jefferson vocalizing and wonderful solos by Dexter Gordon and Woody Shaw. This track brought a very large smile to my face.
  18. Mention of Leo Parker suggests to me that Pepper Adams would have made a great choice to play with Miles, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe.
  19. The Blackhawks recordings feature , in my opinion, marvelous playing by both Miles and Wynton Kelly.
  20. The 2 already mentioned that I would have loved to hear with the pre-1964 Miles group are J.R. Monterose and Johnny Griffin. A couple of other interesting choices are Teddy Edwards and James Clay.
  21. I can't accept your comment about Bob Coopers solos not being relevant. That is very much a personal value judgement (to which your are entitled) but not one that speaks for me. In fact, when it comes to tenor saxophone solos I will take Coopers over Giuffre's every time. Giuffre was a highly talented musician who did a lot of very interesting things, but as a tenor player I rarely found him to be anything special. But as I indicated, personal taste is a key factor in how we view these things.
  22. A quick sampling of that Deuchar shows as much of a Mulligan/West Coast influence as Dameron, IMO, though. Don't agree. Among the soloists, Deuchar is pretty much out of Navarro (strikingly so, but with what I fancy to be a certain individual Scottish flavor), and I don't recall a chart or a piece that isn't fairly Dameron-esque nor any that are West Coast- or Mulligan-like. Two older Brit trumpeters who had some of that flavor I think were Eddie Blair and Bobby Pratt -- the latter two regulars with Ted Heath I believe. All three can be heard to nice effect on composer/arranger Johnny Keating's Dot album "Swinging Scots." Perhaps a sectionman fondness for/need to display a certain brassiness and sheen lay behind their apparent affinity for Navarro over Gillespie or Davis. In particular, not only do I hear some fairly specific Dameron-like manuevers in the pieces and voicings, but the whole mood of the music is what might called lyrical-muscular, and IIRC it's devoid of the contrapuntal or mock-contrapuntal devices that mark much West Coast work of the era. Also, a tenorman as forceful as Tubby Hayes would have blown apart any West Coast date. The ins and outs of what U.S. jazz (especially in the post-war era but earlier on, too) influenced jazzmen in other countries is fascinating. The affinity of the Scandinavians (and some Germans. likes Hans Koller) for the Tristano-ites is one obvious example. Without doubt, in most cases it mostly has to do with something semi-innate in the culture on the receiving end rising up to mate with a particular aspect of the culture on the sending end, so to speak. May seem like these are minor side issues, but they may be revealing of (again, so to speak) larger things. Larry, Though you may not perceive any West Coast Jazz influence on the Jimmy Deuchar session, I certainly hear a West Coast Jazz influence in some of the post-war Scandanavian recordings. I also hear the West Coast influence in some British recordings of early Tommy Whittle , Don Rendell and Ronnie Ross. As for your comment on Tubby Hayes, it should also be remembered that such non-West Coast style players as Sonny Clark and Max Roach were briefly part of the Lighthouse Allstars.
  23. Totti Bergh was a fine tenor player. I have 5 CDs under his leadership. One with Plas Johnson, one with Al Cohn, one with George Masso & Major Holley, One with Joe Cohn and Laila Dalseth (Totti's wife) and a quartet date of ballads.
  24. I could make a very long list, but here are a few that quickly come to mind. Art Farmer Quintet - Manhattan - Soul Note Jimmy Knepper Quintet - Cunningbird - Steeplechase Dave Pike with Cedar Walton Trio - Pike's Groove - Criss Cross J.R. Monterose Quartet - T.T.T. - Storyville John Hicks Trio - Is That So? - Timeless The Ballad Artistry Of Buddy Tate - Sackville Slide Hampton Quintet - Roots - Criss Cross Howard McGhee / Benny Bailey / Teddy Edwards - Home Run - Storyville Cedar Walton Trio & Dale Barlow - Manhattan After Hours - Twinz Pepper Adams - The Master - Muse Milt Jackson Sextet - Invitation - Riverside Ruby Braff & Roger Kellaway - Inside & Out - Concord Jazz
  25. There is a nice late period recording by Rex. Rex Stewart And the Henri Chaix Orchestra - Baden 1966 and Montreux 1071 - Sackville
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