Peter Friedman

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions Of Ike Quebec , Disc 1

The Complete Illinois Jacquet Sessions 1945-50 , Disc 1 The Complete Columbia JJ Johnson Small Group Sessions, Disc 3

The Complete Master Jazz Piano Series, Disc 1 The Complete Blue Note Blue mitchell Sessions (1963-67), Disc 2

The Complete Atlantic And EMI Jazz Recordings of Shorty Rogers, Disc 2 The Complete Columbia JJ Johnson Small Group Sessions, Disc 2 The Complete Blue Note Forties Recordings Of Ike Quebec And John Hardee, Disc 2

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Grant Green With Sonny Clark, Disc 1

There is a very good DVD I would strongly recommend to those who like the playing of Horace Parlan. Horace Parlan By Horace Parlan Jazz Times called it "An intimate and touching portrait", and i completely agree with that view. This 58 minute DVD was filmed in June 1999 at Horace's home in the Danish countryside. Parlan plays beautifully in a duo stting with bass player Jimmi Pedersen. There is also a highly interesting interview. Horace's wife, Norma Parlan, also appears in the DVD.

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions Of Ike Quebec, Disc 1 - Mosaic

The Complete Blue Note Blue Mitchell Sessions (1963-67) , Disc 1

The Complete Columbia Small Group JJ Johnson - Disc 1

I approach this from the other side. I am not a musician, but a person who has been a highly serious music listener for more than 50 years. In those many years I have come to recognize that after spending time with a reasonably large variety of music, some has stuck to me, and other music has little if any interest to me. Within the realm of what we call jazz I prefer my music to usually be within the song form or blues form, to have some degree of melody, and in the fast majority of instances to swing. Since this whole discussion began with reference to Lee Konitz, my personal view is that I very much liked most of what I heard from Konitz up to a certain point in time where his playing very often was lacking in those preferred characteristics I identified above. I spent a fair amount of time doing a lot of listening to Free Jazz because it was something (at that time) new and having an impact. After a while I came to the realization that it was not music I cared about very much. There are only so many hours each day, week or year to be spent listening to jazz music. I found it far far more personally satisfying to use my listening time with the likes of Louis,Pee Wee, Roy, Benny Carter, Bean, Pres, Bird,Bud, Monk, Rollins, Dexter, Getz, Cedar, Barry Harris, etc. To turn Paul Bley's terse statement upside down - My (tongue in cheek) comment to jazz musicians who don't play music that has the qualities I find most appealing - Fuck 'em!

Durium, You are absolutely right. I have this one and it is, IMHO, a definite winner. One of the most enjoyable CDs I have bought in the past 12 months.

I could come up with a very long list of LP's that (to the best of my knowledge) have never made it to CD. Here are just some of those I would love to see reissued on CD. Ronnie Cuber - Cuber Libre - Xanadu Dolo Coker - Dolo - Xanadu (with Blue Mitchell & Harold Land) Frank Wess / Johnny Coles - Two At The Top - Uptown Teddy Edwards - Feelin's - Muse Art Farmer - Live In Tokyo - CTI (with Jackie McLean & Cedar Walton) John Lewis & Lew Tabackin - Duo - East World Ed Bickert Quartet - Bye Bye Baby - Concord (w. Dave McKenna) Sal Nistico Quartet - Just For Fun - Ego Sal Nistico - Neo-Nistico - Bee Hive Ross Tompkins And Good Friends - Concord (w. Al Cohn) Brew Moore - Brew's Stockholm Dew - Sonet Thad Jones 4 - You Made Me love You - Kiva/Elec Red Garland Trio/Quartet - Stepping Out - Galaxy Red Garland Quintet - Strike Up The Band - Galaxy Tiny Grimes - Profoundly Blue - Muse Sam Noto Quintet - Act One - Xanadu (w. Joe Romano,Barry Harris,Sam Jones, Billy Higgins) Sam Jones Sextet - Notes To You - Xanadu (w. Ronnie Cuber,Joe Romano, Jimmy Rowles, Sam Jones, Freddsie Waits) Bill Hardman - Home - Muse Charles McPherson - Mainstream (w. Lonnie Hillyer, Barry Harris) Charles McPherson - Today's Man - Mainstream

I got it from Amazon.com in the USA. It was a bit pricey.

My favorite small group recording with Frank Foster is this one: Elmo Hope Quartet and Quintet - Hope meets Foster - Prestige Foster swings hard with no Coltrane influence on this 1955 session.

Just found a copy of this quintet CD on the Japanese label Discomate JUST BE-BOP featuring Toshiko, Charles McPherson (as), Steve Huffsteter (tp), Gene Cherico or Bob Bowman (b), Roy McCurdy (dr) Recorded in 1980

In England, Tommy Whittle and early Don Rendell. Back in the USA there is Harry Allen.

One of my favorite albums by Anita O'Day.

I have a CD on the JAZZ LIFE label titled BALLADS AND BLUES that has the same tracks that are on STORMY WEATHER CD on Black Lion with one exception. In place of the very short track titled Teach Me Tonight, the Jazz life CD has Perdido which is 7 minutes,22 seconds. I also have a JAZZ LIFE CD titled DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES that has 3 tracks of Ben Webster with Bill Coleman and a British rhythm section, and 8 tracks of Webster with all Danish musicians.

Just listened to a lovely version of "There Is No Greater Love" by Steve Kuhn from the CD - SEASONS OF LOVE - on the Postcards label.

Frowning is about all you can do w/o getting arrested and/or committed... I have seen Scott Hamilton a number of times when he not only would frown at his reed, but take it off and fool with it or replace it a number of times during a set. Interesting how some saxophone players always seem to be less than satisfied with their reed, while others never seem to show the slightest concern over their reed?

I have been listening to the fairly recently released 2 CD set on Storyville titled: Lester Young - 100 Years - Forever Young This has a wide variety of live dates from the period May 1951 through December 1956. He plays with many different rhythm sections and 3 different trumpet players. There are many very fine tracks over this 2 CD set that indicates, at least to me, that Pres was capable of some wonderful playing during these post-war years

They are both terrific, but if forced to choose I would pick the Columbia (or Hep) sessions. The numbers that have Billie and Lester Young together are especially great.

I have "Little Pony" by Getz with Basie on a different 2 CD set as follows. BIRDLAND ALL-STARS AT CARNEGIE HALL - ROULETTE CDP-0777 7 98660 2 The 2 CD set has 2 additional track of Getz with Basie. Also there are 2 tracks featuring Lester Young with Basie, 6 tracks featuring Billie Holiday with Basie, as well as 8 additional tracks by Basie. This set also has 3 tracks by the Charlie Parker Quartet, and 13 tracks by Sarah Vaughan, some with Basie, and some with her trio. All in all a marvelous 2 CD set.

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I recall going with my friend John Norris to hear Shearing in the mid 90's at The Montreal Bistro in Toronto. George had Reg Schwager on guitar, Neil Swainson on bass, (don't remember the name of the drummer). The room was packed and we had to stand during the set. The music was , as one expects from Shearing, well arranged and with a delicate, yet swinging chamber music feeling. I enjoyed the set very much. The audience responded to the music with great enthusiasm.