Peter Friedman

I bought this set a few years and very much like it.

Don't see this cd listed on Amazon or CD Universe? Is is available in the USA?

This morning on my iPod while taking my regular early 2 1/2 mile walk. "Number 7" by Yusef Lateef from his LIVE AT PEPS session.

All or almost all of the Clarke/Boland Big Band material now being reissued has already been out on CDs. For example, I have the 2 Live at Ronnie Scott - "Volcano" and "Rue Chaptal" sessions and also "At Her Majesty's Pleasure" and "Off Limits" on a 2 CD set titled BLOWING THE COBWEBS OUT on the Emanon label. This was released in 1994.

Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong on my iPod

Congratulations. Looks like a good time was had by all.

This is a good one. I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Kenny Dorham.

the first frank strozier album on the Jazzland Twofer? (! imho) That's my memory too. And those are two more albums that I used to have but don't anymore. I just ordered the compilation. I don't recall any mention of this CD . Chris Anderson - Blues One - DIW This is a trio date recorded in NYC on May 18, 1991. It has Ray Drummond on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. I quite like this one and prefer it to the other recordings I have heard by Chris Anderson.

Geoff Keezer was a member of the Ray Brown Trio for a while and is on some of Ray Brown's CDs on Telarc. My favorite playing by Keezer is on this one: Ray Brown Trio - Live At Starbucks Keezer is also on these three. Ray Brown Trio with Ulf Wakenius - Summertime Ray Brown - Some Of my best Friends Are ...The Piano Players Ray Brown - Walk On

I have quite a few CDs of Xanadu material reissued on at least five different labels. 1. The French EPM label 2. Xanadu records - Millburn, New Jersey 3. Xanadu (Japanese) TKCB 4. Prevue (A Division of Classic Records) "under license from Xanadu Records" 5. Jazz Lips Music

I was discharged from the Army in March 1959. I grew up in Detroit and so returned home to Detroit when I left the Army. Joe Henderson was in Detroit at that time and i had the opportunity to see this basically unknown tenor player at a local club playing with local Detroit musicians. Sorry to say I don't recall their names or the name of the club where I saw Joe a number of times. I do recall that I very much liked his playing. Not long after Joe left Detroit to go to New York. He asked a friend of mine to keep some of his personal things until he got situated. It turned out that Joe did not claim those things far a long long time.

This morning's walk was made more enjoyable by this tune on my iPod. Jimmy Raney feat. Bobby Jaspar - "Tres Chouette' - from the Vogue CD with the title.

Hope to find Moody well and playing again soon.

""Keystone" from the Joe Henderson album MIRRORS,MIRRORS. This tune written by Ron Carter has, to my ears, a Monk feeling. A fine solo by Joe, and Chick Corea's solo is one of his best as a sideman. Billy Higgings playing here reminded me of Roy Haynes. Unfortunately, this tune plus "What's New" are the only tunes on the cd that I really like. But "Keystone" is so enjoyable that I need to keep the cd.

My favorites: Lester Young Pee Wee Russell Sidney Bechet Kenny Davern Benny Goodman Johnny Dodds Edmond Hall Just below that group Jimmy Giuffre Bobby Gordon Buddy De Franco Herb Hall Phil Woods Albert Nicholas Eddie Daniels Ken Peplowski Hank d'Amico Russell Procope

Listened to these two tunes this morning on my iPod while walking the neighborhood. "Wingspan' from Mulgrew Miller CD of the same title. With Kenny Garrett, Steve nelso, Charnett Moffett, and Tony Reedus. "Uncle Bubba" from Sphere CD with Gary Bartz, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Ben Riley. Both these tunes added immense pleasure to my 2 and1/2 mile walk.

There's an even weirder Reece album than that called The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh. It is definitely NOT worth seeking out. On the definitely worth seeking out side of the fence, check out an album called This Is Jazz Music of the 40's and 50's on iTunes. In addition to Dizzy Reece, this one features Tony Crombie, Don Rendell, Howard Roberts, Ronnie Ross and Eddie Thompson playing both separately and together. There was also a 50s LP titled 'Changing The Jazz at Buckingham Palace', one side of which featured Tubby Hayes and the other Dizzy Reece. Lavish colour photo of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace on the cover. Weird concept -presumably aimed at tourists. The Dizzy Reece material from the " ....Buckingham Palace" issue was reissued as part of the Jasmine CD titled Dizzy Reece - A New Star.

Just pulled out my two favorite CDs by Abby Lincoln. "You Gotta Pay The Band" with Stan Getz, Hank Jones, Charlie Haden, Mark Johnson & Maxine Roach "The World Is Falling Down" with Clark Terry, Jackie Mclean, Alain Jean-Marie, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins Plan to play them soon. R.I.P.

I don't recall any mention of Herb Geller? I have seen him live a number of times in the past decade and he was, in my view, excellent. Another overlooked terrific alto player is Canadian P.J. Perry. These are alto players I have seen play live, and have likely forgotten many others. McLean, Stitt, Woods, Quill, Shank, Hodges, Frank Morgan, Herb Geller, Charlie Mariano, Lennie Niehaus, Sonny Red, Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, Ernie Watts, Bobby Watson, Cannonball, Charles McPherson, Frank Strozier, Benny Carter, Joseph Jarman, Med Flory, Gary Pribek, Greg Abate, James Moody, Marshall Royal, Russell Procope, Gary Foster, Willie Smith, Steve Wilson, Don Shelton, Jerry Dodgion, James Spaulding, Ornette, Donald Harrison, Kim Richmond, Dick Oatts, P.J. Perry I had one opportunity to see Bird just before he died, but didn't make it - a major disappointment. Also missed seeing Art Pepper live.

Charlie Parker is clearly my favorite. After Bird there is a long list including Jackie Mclean, Charles McPherson, early Lee Konitz Phil Woods, Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Paul Desmond, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Cannonball Adderley, Bud Shank, Ernie Henry,Gary Pribek, and many others.

After doing a bit of research I discovered 15 additional composers who were contemporaries of Beethoven who have written string quartets that have been issued on compact disc. I have not heard string quartets by all of these composers, though do have cd's of string quartets by roughly half of those listed below. Boccherini Cherubini Donizetti Gehot Hummel Kuhlau Paisiello Ries Sacchini Spohr Vanhal Viotti Vorisek Vranicky Wranitzky

I also have it on the Mosaic set. It's a very good session. In fact just about everything on the JJ Johnson Mosiac set is prime music.

A couple of other recordings of George Coleman as sideman that I like a lot are these below. Louis Smith - Just Friends - Steeplechase Ahmad Jamal - Olympia 2000 - Dreyfus

I really like George Coleman's playing on the Chet Baker series on Prestige, as well as on the recordings he did with Miles. Talk about being in the minority - I actually prefer the Miles recording with Coleman to those with Wayne Shorter. I am a big fan of Wayne Shorter's playing on his Blue Note dates such as SPEAK NO EVIL and NIGHT DREAMER and others as well as his sideman sessions with Lee Morgan. But for me, with Miles, Rollins, and Coltrane and (though not at the level of the two just mentioned) Coleman were more musically satisfying than was Shorter. I recognize that the odds are high that I may be all alone with this opinion.

Having a very large collection of recordings is what prevents the boredom that can happen when listening to the same few things frequently. Though I have no interest in pop or rock or most so-called avante-garde jazz , I do like both classical music and blues. I find that by listening to a couple of classical things each day it makes for great variety from the jazz I usually play the vast majority of the time. I also enjoy a wide variety of styles within jazz. So for example right now a Sidney Bechet is playing, and next I plan to play a cd by Freddie Redd. I find alternating listening between a variety of jazz styles does a great job of keeping things fresh for me.