John L

I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, Shawn. I have always enjoyed reading your contributions to the forum. As you can see from all the warm responses, you are always welcome here.

Great score! For some reason, that Andrew Hill CD is very hard to find. It is a good album as well.

Take 3 discs and call me in the morning. He's back!!!

RIP

I've been spending much of my time in Nigeria lately, and have met a number of Nigerian musicians. I am struck that many Nigerian horn players idolize Grover Washington.

That is a compilation of songs that either influenced Johnson, or are covers of Johnson, EXCEPT Bob Dylan, "A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall." Does anyone have an idea as to why they would include that track here?

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It is not going to be released anywhere else?

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee! I travel and live all over the world, and good coffee is the one comfort that I will not give up. I bring a suitcase of it with me everywhere I go.

Thanks for the heads-up on this one!

I am fairly sure that these were not available on CD before, but I don't know about LPs.

Pretty good taste, in my view.

Last I heard, he was still looking for Allen. They say that you can find anybody through Facebook.

Is that the same one with the Rein de Graaff trio that was released on CD in this form: Is IS good!

RYM gives 1965 as year of release: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/thelonious_monk/monk_in_france/ Discogs gives 1961 as year of release: http://www.discogs.com/Thelonious-Monk-Monk-In-France/release/2750426 I guess both aren't to trust... No, they aren't. Judging from the catalog number of Two Hours With Thelonious (Riverside 460/461), it was released in 1963 or, at the very latest, early 1964. It would not appear that the music is from 1965.

Yes, the Trema version came out first in the 90s. The March 6th concert had been available for some time. But suddenly a new March 7th tape was apparently uncovered and released by Trema. Hyena must have also taken the tracks from that source.

Well I'll be... Brownie - I just listened through the Trema/Europe issue of the March 7th concert. Romualdo is right. Those tracks are exactly the same as the ones on the Riverside Monk in France from 1961. As for the last three tracks, we should probably start comparing with other different Monk concerts. That March 7th concert was "discovered" in the 90s, and the tapes of the 61 Monk in France concert would appear to have been doctored for somewhat different sound.

The 1990 set had terrible sound. I stopped listening to it a long time ago. The two King of the Delta Blues releases had very fine sound (IMO), although they included only one of the alternates. The value added from this new release is that it gives the same type of treatment to the alternates as to the masters on the King of the Delta Blues releases (In fact, in some cases, what they call "alternates" here were the original perfomances issued on 78s).

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Make sure that you have some Johnny Guitar Watson in the mix.

I don't really understand what people are upset about. The reviews contributed were not spam. The opinions were genuine.

Yes. But if they originally had it the other way, I wonder why they changed it?

If we were making those posts because we love Chuck and want to support him, that would be one thing. If we were making those posts because we genuinely love All Music, that would be another thing. ...So it is both things, and that makes it OK.

As I understand, Volume 2 was recorded first, on April 9, 1965. Volume 1 comes from April 10.

The music of Surf Ride was also released in the US as The Discovery Sessions. It is currently available for download at Amazon: Discovery Sessions