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Oh yes, that's right. Thanks.

The Denmark releases contain recordings made for United from 1951-1953.

I love Jimmy Forrest's albums as a leader on New Jazz / Prestige, but my favorite Jimmy Forrest on Prestige might be on Brother Jack McDuff's "The Honeydripper," and especially "Dink's Blues." "Bolo Blues" on "Out of the Forrest" is also prime.

Just had the opportunity to hear Soul Sister. Dexter is in great form throughout! It is easy to ignore the numerous new SteepleChase Dexter releases that keep appearing, as some of them have increasingly contained marginal material as the barrel of unreleased Dexter in Europe nears the bottom. But this one is exceptional. I recommend it highly.

I feel the same way about most artists. But some artists I love so much that I want to be surprised, want to be able to choose something for which I cannot anticipate most of what is going to be played from memory. So I deliberately accumulate as many recordings as I can and sometimes choose one at random.

The way that I arrange my CDs is kind of crazy. I somehow need to put them in a rough order of the history of jazz, but then keep all CDs of a single artist together, and kind of keep certain movements and subgenes together...kind of. In the end, it is a mess. I can find artists with more than 8-10 CDs in my collection right away, but cannot remember where I filed quite a number of CDs. With age, it is getting worse. Thank God that I have my collection ripped to hard drives where everything is organized by artist in alphabetic order.

There is a broadcast of Billie Holiday from April, 1959 from Boston with Mal Waldron, Champ Jones, and Roy Haynes.

I have a lot of Crown LPs in blues and jazz. They did cut corners on the packaging, never included a dust jacket, sometimes re-used the same photo for covers of different albums. But some of the music was out of this world.

When this was first released back in the 70s, I took a cassette version with me to an intensive foreign language course in Santa Cruz CA. Since it was one of only a few cassettes that I had with me, I listened to it over and over again. I think that I know almost every note by heart now.

I love Stanley Turrentine's CTI output, virtually all of it. The subsequent Warner Brothers albums were sort of hit miss. I don't listen to them much, partly because there is so much other great Stanley Turrentine to consume. But the CTI albums were definitely PRIME. Sometimes nothing else hits the spot like they do,.

I missed this the first time. Sounds great. "The melodic and harmonic language is at times quirky like Monk's, but often bluesier and not as jagged-edged;" Bluesier than Monk? Ain't so such thing.

That is a great idea to make a catalogue available, and I imagine that people like Loren Schoenberg must already have something that documents the entire collection. At the Museum, the most difficult question is WHAT to listen to. It is hard to make a choice if you do not even know what is available.

It would be really nice to hear that version of After You've Gone.

OK, thanks. Clearly, he kept very active during the first half of 1983.

Romualdo - Try this one - it worked for me https://yt2mp3.info/en37/ The Young/Eldridge/Goodman/Wilson tracks may not get any sort of release soon as the Benny Goodman estate has apparently been blocking the release of all recordings where he is present.

OK, I finally listened to this out of curiosity. I agree that this is certainly well below Dexter Gordon's usual standards of excellence, although his playing here is still arguably professionally sound. This was his 60th birthday celebration that was not meant to be recorded. So we might cut him some slack if he had a few extra drinks that night. I also note that there are exceedingly few other Dexter Gordon recordings from 1983-1984, bootleg or otherwise. I don't even know of any others. Was it a down time for medical or other reasons? From his spoken voice, it would seem that he is struggling with something.

I don't recall if this has been discussed but Loren Schoenberg has been quietly making more of the Savory collection available through broadcasts. Some of them are on Youtube. The broadcast below is particularly substantial, containing two utterly amazing jam tracks from 1938 with Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, two fine tracks led by Bunny Berigan, and two of the tracks from the famous 1938 jam session with Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, and Fats Waller in MUCH better sound quality than any previous reissues. I downloaded the music from Youtube and cut out the spoken part. Very satisfying!

Sad indeed. RIP

Some good records were made, no doubt. With time, it will become clearer which ones will endure. The funny thing is, I think that a lot of us wanted to like some of these records a lot more than we were eventually able to. The lesson might be this - as much as we might miss the classic jazz of the past, turning back the clock is a risky proposition. You can't erase history. You can play the old stuff, but it is damn hard to compete with it on its own terms.

Very sad. I somehow didn't pay much attention to her for a while but then later became a big fan. She was an enormous talent. RIP

Yes, that one is extraordinary, particularly for Coltrane. I am also quite attached to Miles in Europe, My Funny Valentine / Four and More / The Sextet in Newport 1959 / Almost anything from the 1967 Europe tour / Juan-Les-Pins 1969. In a certain mood, I will also pull out something from the 1971 Europe tour with Bartz, Jarrett, Henderson & Ndugu. That band had a certain unique groove.

He was a fine contributor to this board. RIP

Wow. RIP

Thanks, Gheorghe. I would say that I will listen to it and see for myself. But I am in no rush at all. There is too much great Dexter Gordon on wax to want go through the pain of hearing something like that.

I saw Dex many times in the 70s but not in the 80s. He always maintained a very high degree of professionalism even if he might of had one too many a few times. I never saw him "completely drunk and unable to play." I have a number of concert recordings from the 80s that, while some of them suggest a bit of decline, are also professionally sound. So if there is a tape of Dex so drunk that he completely messes up, I have not heard it.