John L

Baillet is certainly one of the most entertaining and articulate jazz writers. He does seem to prefer his jazz to be warm, comfortable, and "intellectual." I recall some reviews of jazz festivals where Baillet sat very uncomfortably through hard bop acts like Art Blakey with Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley in order to finally hear his beloved Modern Jazz Quartet.

Maybe "In a Sentimental Mood."

There are also some cuts from Specialty (now Concord)

Interesting. Did Dorn really purchase the copyright to all of this stuff, which would appear to be from multiple labels?

To add: (from the Litweiler book) "Bley evidently recorded several nights during the six weeks his quintet with Coleman appeared at the Hillcrest, and reportedly more material from these sets is extant." (beyond the 2 LPs, I assume.) That 1 CD, reissued as "Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet" (or something that effect), will run you an arm and a leg--but it's worth it in its own way, I suppose. Rumor has it that Bley has a truckload of tapes from the Hillcrest. Man would I like to hear those!

My definitive guide to Sonny Rollins is on several threads right here at Organissimo!

I didn't think that I liked Mozart for years. Then something clicked and I changed my mind in a big way. It was the late piano concertos that grabbed me first.

"Listen to music that matters." Damn! And to think of all the time I have wasted listening to insignificant music only because it sounds good.

Of course, there are the Columbia tracks with Teddy Wilson, Billie Holiday, and Lester Young. Buck Clayton really rose to the occasion in that context.

The problem is that sometimes the terms are used to mean the same thing, sometimes not. Literal West Coast Jazz would include a lot of artists who would not fit the term "Cool:" Teddy Edwards, Sonny Criss, Hampton Hawes, Curtis Counce, Curtis Amy, Eric Dolphy, Art Pepper, Horace Tapscott, etc. Conversely, if you believe that the "Birth of the Cool" really was that, then we are talking about East Coast origins.

My father wasn't a big jazz fan when I was growing up. But he did have Kind of Blue. Thank God for that!

Hmmm, a disc of previously unreleased Monk sounds like a good way to promote sales of the book. Seriously, I am very happy to hear about this book. Several Monk biographies have appeared in recent years, but none of them are close the being THE biography that we all need.

Allen: Given the respect that I have had for this company, I would prefer to wait. If the shipment does not arrive in the next few weeks, however, I will reveal the name.

I would imagine that few non-jazz fans would buy any of these box sets, and would be more likely to buy In a Silent Way as a single release. I think that the In a Silent Way Box, although short, was probably the most revelatory in the series in the sense of filling gaps in the development of Miles' music, bridging the Second Quintet to Bitches Brew.

For someone who has no Basie, a fine companion to the Decca material is the recent Columbia compilation: There are some curious omissions and the programming leaves something to be desired in places. But the music is incredible, as is the sound quality.

Yes, Soul Power! Throw in Get Up Off of That Thing and Give it Up or Turn it Loose

OK, you take the Nano and I'll take the goil.

Thanks for all of your responses, people. Ironically, I am glad to hear that international shipping often takes a while. I won't give up yet. It was apparently sent by air, not surface mail.

Thanks. Yes, I paid by credit card and money was transferred almost instantaneously. I made the order over e-mail, and there was no specification that it would go UPS or something like that. Maybe my boneheaded mistake?

Early in the year, I made a rather expensive purchase from a company in England (which I will leave unnamned for now). This is a legitimate (not bootleg) label that obtains copyrights for their issues (all of which are 1960s and beyond, not public domain). Yesterday, I indicated to them that my order had not arrived. I got only a very short answer. "We sent out your order on January 7. Sorry if something happened to it in the mail." So they have over $200 of my money, I have nothing, and they claim no liability. What can I do?

I have been in Moscow, Russia since the New Year, and we have been in a constant DEEP freeze, the coldest winter on record for 100 years. I walked 30 minutes to work today. BRRRRR

For me, it depends on the music. I usually like alternates at the end. But there are exceptions. One is Charlie Parker. One of the greatest joys of listening to Bird is to hear how his ideas progressed in the course of multiple takes. Think of Bird of Paradise, for example. Hearing the two takes of Embraceable You and Parker's Mood one after the other, or the three takes of Crazeololgy in a row, is never less than thrilling, much better than waiting until the end of the masters for the alternates. On the other hand, when RCA programmed all the Jelly Roll Morton alternates in order, that was a real drag.

Now there is somebody who wants to make sure and not get his assed kicked by a Texas tenor player. And let us not forget: HERSCHAL EVANS

Has anybody gotten into multiple iPods yet? Hard Bop iPod for the left pocket, Swing iPod in the right pocket, some heavy Funk in shirt pocket Mini... 140 GBs: armed and dangerous!

Get the one that makes you look the coolest when you strut your stuff. Get the 60 GB, of course.