John L

Thing is, I actually prefer this board. I guess I sometimes feel nostalgic for BNBB as my doorway to jazz discussion on the Internet, but... hardly ever think about it that way now. As far as I am concerned, there is no comparision. This is jazz talk without the commercial product and company reputation BS. In retrospect, we were blessed that the Blue Note site shut down. Otherwise, we might still be there. Well, OK, the Blue Note board was pretty darn bitchin' place before the Norah wave of female coodie infiltration.

shut the fuck up, orrin.* edc * yr book was bad enough (for the most part) p/s-- what other producsers is he dissin' as 'frustrated musicians'? i beg of thee bill grauer-- return!! Nobody can toot their own horn quite like Keepnews. These new voluminous notes should make quite a case for Keepnews central importance in jazz history. So far, my two favorite Keepnews moments in liner notes are: (1) The introduction to the Thelonious Monk Riverside Box, where he characterizes the contents as "all of my work with Monk" as opposed to the other way around. (2) The liner notes to the Don Byas/Bud Powell disc "A Tribute to Cannonball." Even though Keepnews had nothing to do with the record, he still managed to focus a good part of the notes on himself. (The success of the record is due to Cannonball's excellent production, and, of course, Cannonball learned everything that he knows about producing from Keepnews during his time at Riverside.)

All I know is that I wouldn't mind boxing ashlee5 into my set.

So who is going to start the parallel thread about overrated jazzwomen? Then we turn to overrated jazz albums, jazz books, jazz concerts, jazz tunes, jazz arrangements, jazz BBSs. Then we can shut down the board, go home, and listen to Mozart.

The loss here does not so much concern unissued blues records. Yazoo is one company that has really invested in improving sound quality of older blues recordings. When they released the newly remastered Blind Lemon Jefferson recordings several years back, that was a revelation relative to what came earlier. Even after Revenant's superb job in cleaning up the Charlie Patton digital releases on their boxed set, Yazoo even topped that with their last two Patton reissues. The problem is that seeking out the very best 78s and providing the best possible remasters takes time and money, all of which will be stolen immediately by the European pirates.

Interesting choice. It certainly wouldn't have occured to me to put Jackson together with Hall. On the other hand, I imagine that Hall would have fit in pretty well in the MJQ.

This is one of my favorite Kirk albums as well. I can remember him touring with this material not long after his stroke. It was very moving.

The ones that I have looked at are just plain MP3s that can be saved with a right click.

They made this 2-disc set the only way to obtain the newly discovered Son House 78. The collection is nice. But the liner notes leave a lot to be desired. Given the rarity of the music and many of the artists in question, it would have been nice to have some information about them. Instead, we get a long extremely anal essay about the joys of record collecting, especially the extreme pleasure of finding a rare 78 (regardless of the music on it).

These may still be available direct from the source in Italy. Somebody posted something to that effect a few years ago.

Yes, there are alternates on this CD that were not on the Trip album, including a fine version of Sometimes I'm Happy. That Trip album (Pres at His Very Best) was a trip for me at a time when I was just getting into Pres. Back in the day, I played the grooves of that album stone bald.

Late: On Archeophone, I only have the Lost Sounds compilation in addition to the King Oliver. Lost Sounds is a quite interesting and convenient collection of some of the earliest recordings of African Americans. Both the King Oliver and Lost Sounds collections contain very substantial and well researched notes.

I agree with everybody on this thread. I love Kenny Drew's Undercurrents. I also agree that the Bill Evans/Jim Hall record is a great piece of work, and I agree that it is a snoozer.

Don't bother. There now exists a far superior alternative:

I have the Retrieval set, and it is definitely a sonic improvement relative to what I had before: Chronological Classics. Chronological Classics does include some different music: tracks by the group headed by Wingy Manone that used the name New Orleans Rhythm Kings for a while.

Nope. There is some gorgeous James Clay on this one too:

Well, according to AMG she was singing Gospel before she went into R&B. Yes! I had plain forgotten that she was the lead vocalist for Sounds of Blackness. They made some good music.

No, I wasn't aware of him. That is interesting. In general, I don't follow much of what is happening in contemporary gospel, and tend to listen to the older stuff, when Gospel was Gospel and not Gospel House, Smooth Gospel, or Gospel Hip Hop, if you know what I mean. As for Ann Nesby, I followed her into gospel from R&B where she had already made her mark, especially on that great track with Al Green. A soulful and powerful voice like that doesn't come along that often, especially not today.

Wow! I snatched up Nesby's gospel album "In the Spirit" as soon as it was released last year. It is nice, but there is nothing on it quite approaching "Let Your Will Be Done." Thanks for the link. Nesby has a magnificent voice, but has suffered from poor and cheap production on many of her records. That said, her duet with Al Green on "Put it On Paper" stands as one of the greatest classic soul releases of the last 10 years, or of of any time for that matter.

If you make it the complete studio recordings, they would.

" T-Bone Blues" and Jimmy Witherspoon's "Evening Blues" are both outstanding albums.

A ton of the greatest Getz has already been mentioned. But I have to put in a word for these two. Beautiful, just beautiful. And deep.

Yeah, I'm afraid it is. I always fade in-and-out over the Dead. Sometimes I can't get enough of them, others, it's like: "Do I really need to hear Playing in the Band or Not Fade Away another time?" They should have played "Not Fade In and Out" instead.