John L

Masters of Jazz covered virtually everything live through early 1939. The live tracks alone make up about 4 full CDs of amazing music. Too bad the series got cut short. A couple CDs of the Lincoln Hotel recordings from 1944 would have been a musical Godsend.

Jonathan, Since it appears that you are a big Warne Marsh fan, maybe you could also look into that huge stash of unreleased recordings made by Revelation records in the early 1970s that are listed in the on-line Marsh discography...

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This is one incarnation. No publishers information is given, although the liner notes acknowledge that the tune was written by Barry Harris.

I might choose that too. Billie and Louis are certainly my two favorites. After that, I might choose Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, Helen Humes, Jimmy Rushing, Carmen McCrae...

A lot of punk was fake. The Sex Pistols were real. They didn't just played the punk rock. They walked the punk walk.

I might consume more than a liter of coke products a day, and I don't even drink soda. Here in Nigeria, where I am currently living, Coca-Cola bottles the most dependable drinking water. I drink it, make coffee with it, even make soup with it.

This deserves some thought. There might not be much of a market for sequential Joe Daley releases. A number of people would probably buy the first one and then stop. Putting it all together from the outset and getting a bit of hype going around it as "previously unheard essential jazz" might actually maximize profits.

RIP Red really had a way with lyrics, one of the people who could really deliver a blues song in full.

You are the MAN, Jonathan. I'll buy three of them!

well put. "During its prime" is the operative phrase here. During their prime, iambic pentameter, royal masques and epic poetry were pretty cool too. But art forms evolve, and artists move on. Unfortunately, not so with the school of hard bop. Miles knew he had to, Coltrane knew he had to, Ornette knew it too. However, lesser luminaries continue to flog this musical form decade after decade after decade, long after its artistic life has fled. Hard Bop had a lot of similarities to small group Swing, and often provided great blues players a good backdrop to work their magic. As long as there were a lot of great distinctive blues voices around, it made sense. When Red Holloway played it in 2011, it still made sense. RIP

Sad news. RIP It's not like you can replace people like Red Holloway these days.

I am also a certain buyer.

I meant my comment to be sort of a pun. They are the real ones in that they are the only ones that actually exist on CD. Sadly, that is probably because they destroyed the already weak market for the planned legit releases. But that is the reality of the market these days.

The fake Horos turned out to be the real ones.

Given my very large collection, I look at CDs as still a convenient way to store lossless digital. Yes, I could rip them all into lossless, and will do that some day. Right now, I don't have the time. I will wait until technological progress makes it easier. I have ripped my CDs into high quality MP3s, which work well on iPods, and that is usually good enough for me.

I agree! This is a first rate piece of work.

Maybe it is not quite what you are looking for, but all of the information can be found here: Modern Jazz Discography: Art Pepper

I waited and hoped for years that this 1950 JATP Carnegie Hall concert with Pres and Sweets would make it to the digital age. It has a sublime extended solo from Pres on Ghost of a Chance. Little did I know that it has been hiding at iTunes under the following disguise, packaged together with JATP Bird with strings: Beware, however, that the MP3 of Norgran Blues (here eroneously titled Morgan Blues) is defective and cuts off before Pres' solo. But Ghost of a Chance is here in full. I can't think of a greater pleasure that can be purchased for 99 cents. It is also astonishing to hear in the Norman Granz introduction to this concert just how much bigger a reception American audiences were giving Flip Phillips in 1950 relative to Lester Young. It wasn't like that in Europe. Europeans were hipper.

I don't recall the very first Solid State album ever being on CD: Presenting Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra.

RIP

That Signature session is one of Coleman Hawkins' best (IMO).

Waiting to Exhale turned my head around about Whitney Houston in a major way. Before that, I didn't think that I understood what all the fuss was about. After that, I became a true believer in Whitney, even if none of her other recordings that I have heard can reach me quite like that one. It is very sad how somebody who has everything going for her can lose it all in self-destruction. RIP

Jimmy Carter was one hip President!

Yes, I saw Cyrkle open for the Beatles in 66 at Candlestick Park, along with Paul Revere and the Raiders, Bobby Hebb,and several other acts. I can't remember hearing them play anything other than Red Rubber Ball.