John L

Those were the days!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVID FATHEAD NEWMAN He would have been 76 today here on earth. I still can't believe that he is gone...

Thanks. I thought that maybe it was something new. This is a nice box set, although I actually much prefer recordings of this trio made earlier (Paris, London) and later (Keystone Korner).

I consider this to be THE Gene Harris-Stanley Turrentine record. I like it much more than Blue Hour.

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Those are some interesting thoughts. Aretha really came from gospel. She grew up surrounded by it, virtually all of her primary influences were gospel divas, and she herself became a great gospel singer before crossing over. Part of the great accomplishment of Wexler et al at Atlantic (IMO) is that they provided a context for Aretha to unleash the sanctified thing completely upon her secular music. That needed to come out. Sure, it might have been done differently in another context. But it was quite an accomplishment. It raised the stakes for how hard gospel can be embedded in the blues.

I really wanted T-Bone's The Complete Capitol / Black & White Recordings but couldn't afford the price tag attached for an OOP 3-CD set. I ended up having to get the 4-CD Quadromania set which appears to contain the whole of the Capitol / B&W set without the alternate takes. I'd agree that it's some excellent stuff and I like it enough to want to add the Imperial 2-CD set to the collection as well. T-Bone Walker pretty much "invented" "perfected" "defined", for a lack of better words, the whole R&B/jump blues/soul vein you speak of. He is a giant IMHO, and doesn't really get his due, probably because he was fairly popular at one time. T-Bone is GOD, and here is GOD with the JATP... I have always really loved that T-Bone clip. It really captures his genius. Inventor of R&B/Jump Blues? I don't know about that. Joe Turner/Pete Johnson, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton/Illinois Jacquet, and some others might have a better claim to that title. But T-Bone is certainly the father of modern guitar blues.

If you mean the "unedited version" that begins with a minute of Aretha's moans over the guitar figure, then yes. Rhino's CD reissue of Lady Soul contains it as a bonus track.

Lightnin' Hopkins? He never recorded for any of those labels.

They both fit (and belong) on one CD. Hopefully, they will have the sense to do that, and maybe put the music in the order in which it was played.

I found the trio date to be surprisingly mediocre for that vintage of Monk. On the other hand, there is some exceptional music among the quartet recordings (IMO), although the sound quality may not be to the liking of many.

The Farlow set is exceptionally good. That is one that I go back to constantly.

Sam Cooke, Maria Callas, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Marvin Gaye...

Lonehill, Definitive, Gambit... I have trouble distinguishing between them. They seem to be in the same sort of business in what they reissue, seem to do it in a coordinated way (I can't recall seeing two of these labels reissuing the same music), choose the same sort of weird titles (i.e. the Complete After Hours Quartet Sessions), and offer the same kind of low quality liner notes. Are they really different firms? That said, they are reissuing a lot of interesting music, much of which has never been on CD before. I buy their discs sometimes, but only if there is no legit version available.

It's interesting you say that. I recently bought the great box set "Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959 - 1971." In the booklet, it said this about Marvin Gaye: "In his artistic heart of hearts, Gaye longed to be a troubadour, the next Nat King Cole or Perry Como, singing standards by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Brecht and Weill. He even told confidant and biographer David Ritz at one point, 'I never wanted to shake my ass... I wanted to sit on a stool and sing soft love songs.'" He did make at least one crooner-type, standards album - IIRC, his wanting to do these kinds of albums was mentioned a lot after he died. Not to mention that most of his mature albums (What's Going On and beyond) feature a very large share of slower songs that give Marvin plenty of opportunity to croon. Aretha on Columbia is certainly great music that doesn't receive enough attention. If what she did on Atlanta was ultimately even more powerful, that doesn't take anything away from the beautiful music that she made earlier. For that matter, the early gospel album is also fantastic.

Pick up some Lester Young.

I put in my order for the Zeitlin almost a week ago, and it still hasn't shipped.

That is a lot of soulfullness that left us recently. RIP, Hank.

Ed - Even if you don't like the concert, you might want to still try and listen to the older Dead. For many of us, including myself, the Dead without Jerry Garcia are not very interesting.

The Dead are probably the most recorded band in history. They played a lot of 3-4 hour concerts for many years, and almost every concert during their prime years (late 60s-late 70s) was recorded professionally. I am not a big fan of what they recorded in the studio. I would recommend live recordings instead. Live/Dead is indeed a fantastic representation of the late 60s "psychedelic" band. My own favorite period is 1972-1978. Some commercially available sets that capture them at their best are Steppin' Out With the Grateful Dead (1972), Dick's Picks 23 & 11 (1972), Dick's Picks 14 (1973), the Grateful Dead Movie Box Set (1974), Dick's Picks 3 (1977), the Closing of Winterland (1978). If I had to pick one from 72-78, it would probably be the Grateful Dead Movie Box Set: 5 discs at a budget price in superb sound that capture them at their absolute peak. If you don't like the music on this one, you probably just don't like the Dead. Of course, to appreciate the Dead, you have to be able to take the bitter with the sweet - you need to stomach the low moments and clunkers in order to appreciate the beauty of what they achieved during the high points. It is a great musical world once you successfully enter it.

Amen! Fortunately, he left us and future generations quite a lot to listen to. I last heard him live in the Spring. He was still in good shape then. RIP, Fathead. There are no substitutes.

Since you have an MP3, you can upload to to one of one of many free sites for public access. For example: YouSendIt

The best thing to do would be to place the file somewhere where we can all stream it. Given the knowledge at this Board, you should be able to get good feedback on whether this is a known performance or really something new. It seems strange to me that Bird & Diz would have chosen "I've Got You Under My Skin" for the Massey Hall concert. They didn't play that one very much. The only recorded Charlie Parker version that I know of is from his very last (Cole Porter) session for Verve.

I agree very much with the enthusiasm for this one. I first heard it after picking up the Turrentine Mosaic, as was blown away at first listen: a real gem.

That would be THE Fred Jackson. Both he and Chuck Willis were from Atlanta and both were active on the Atlanta scene in the early fifties. Fred also recorded with Billy Wright "the Prince of the blues" for Savoy, and with Little Richard, for RCA in the early fifties. MG Thanks, MG! I have those Billy Wright and Little Richard recordings as well, but never knew that Fred Jackson was on them. Is there some sort of full discography?