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The Sunrise Orchestra CD far surpasses those! They are good, but you haven't really heard him if you haven't heard his first couple of solo albums. He was also on an Eric Kloss album on Muse, 'Essence' where he took an amazing solo on one long cut (forget the name of it). A shame that one's never come out on CD.

I think even that underrates it. I've always considered it the greatest jazz organ LP ever. Earland was my favorite, and this is his masterpiece, especially the second side with 'Aquarius' and 'More Today Than Yesterday'. If it can't make you smile, nothing can.

What the last two said.

From AMG: Chuck Nessa was an important force in documenting many of the early AACM sessions. He started the Nessa label in 1967 and soon recorded Roscoe Mitchell and Lester Bowie about the time that the Art Ensemble of Chicago was being formed. In addition, Nessa was involved as a producer in most of Delmark's more important free jazz dates of the era. Although the Nessa label was primarily avant-garde-oriented, with sets by Bobby Bradford, Hal Smith, Charles Tyler and Fred Anderson, among others, it also included sessions by such tenor saxophonists as Ben Webster, Warne Marsh, Lucky Thompson and Von Freeman. The Nessa label has been mostly inactive since the late '70s, but Chuck Nessa was involved in a 1993 Art Ensemble of Chicago box set.

Did I do something wrong? Or do all newbies get LOL'ed at? I'm confused and embarrassed. That's just Chuck- don't worry Chuck mellows out a bit after he gives you the initial rip. I went through the same thing with him when I first started in. And in the future, you can tell your grandchildren about the time that you got trashed by a legendary jazz producer!

I saw him at a show with Shirley Scott on a Sunday afternoon back in the late 80's/very early 90's at the Ethical Society in Philly. The show was a disappointment (Scott, on piano that show, was uninspired, and some very poor horn players sat in the second set), but I got to talk to Mickey between sets, and he was delightful.

PM sent on many titles.

PM sent on Mulligan.

PM sent on Chris Connor: Chris. Bethlehem. $4.

Yes! Same in Hudson Valley, NY Barnes and Noble in Poughkeepsie, Kingston and Albany NY - NOTHING Borders in Poughkeepsie - NOTHING; Albany and Danbury had one copy of each new RVG each, I think Tower in Nanuet, NY - NOTHING (which sucks, because BN titles are 20% off right now) FYE in Poughkeepsie and Kingston - NOTHING Best Buy in Kingston and Poughkeepsie (who used to carry new RVGs up until about a year ago) - NOTHING Man, I miss my New England days. I haven't been to Newbury Comics in TOO long. They were somewhat reliable for new BN reissues and new releases. I live within two miles of Tower and Borders, never bother with them or any other brick and mortar stores. I do everything online. CD Universe has it at your door the day after it's released, and much less expensive than the brick and mortars. Or, if you can be patient, you can usually get them a few months later from yourmusic.com for $5.99 + free shipping.

I think we must have very different ideas of what constitutes an emergency......

The hard drive on my CD crashed and had to be replaced. If we converse by email, I have lost your email address from my address book. Please send to john.felser@verizon.net. Thanks!

I'll put in a good word for Chewy. I sold him the Grant Green CD he was looking for, and the exchange was flawless and pleasant.

Hank with Monk? Can that be right? Or did they throw in some Hank radio broadcast from somewhere else? Breaking down the syntax in their listing, it sounds like some broadcast of Monk from Philly, 1960, plus other miscellaneous broadcasts, apparently from other miscellaneous artists. Gives credence to the sessions stated by those much more knowledgeable than me about these sorts of things.

Amazing stuff, of course. I have more CD's by Blakey than by anyone else - might be over 100. This was his first classic. And anything by Clifford Brown needs to be treasured.

the McLean, Handy, Washington, Young, Smith all sound great to me. Also, the Art Blakey Roulettes, especially 'Gypsy Folk Tales', which introduced the mind-blowing Bobby Watson to the world (at least my world). Also, the missing McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson 70's Blue Note material if the Mosaic Selects aren't going to happen (they keep getting bumped).

According to my old Prestige disco Stitt didn't play on them and they were released under Ammons' name. I have the LP version of the Ammons 78 era and the credits there confirm this. Interesting, as the credits on the All-Star Sessions CD name Stitt as the tenor.

Best to get them on the other CD's mentioned.

Fabulous recording. The whole thing makes up the last two CD's of the Elvin Jones Mosaic set. Mainly tenor, yes. Exclusively, I can't recall, and don't have the set here in front of me. Liebman is superb, too. A great example of two tenors utilizing the lessons and vocabulary of 'Trane in a very positive way, five years after his death, and after the dust had settled down, so to speak. There's some soprano on 'Fancy Free', but I can't remember if it's just Liebman. The entire set is almost all double tenors, which Elvin did better than anyone. Farrell, Coleman, Liebman, Grossman.... The Mosaic is spectacular, and somehow still in print many years later, I think.

But I think it's a big improvement over the original CD, isn't it? I picked up the Aretha, very happy with it.

For the 99% of us who don't have unlimited funds, if you can buy the 7 individual Hill CD's for $70 and sell the Mosaic for $200, that's $130 that can be used for groceries, mortgage, gasoline, etc.

Sure. I'm sure most people here understand what I'm saying on this.

I wasn't able to find it using the site search engine. If someone could post a link to it, I'd appreciate it.

Found a website named itsaboutmusic.com which is offering digital downloads and CD's of some artists I have been seeking obscure work by (It's A Beautiful Day, Ten Wheel Drive & Genya Raven). They also have jazz available by several artists, including Philly mainstays John Blake, Sumi Tonooka, and Byard Lancaster. Has anyone acquired CD's from this site? Are they legit? I thought the It's A Beautiful Day titles were tied up in litigation with Matthew Katz, and the the Ten Wheel Drive titles were just flat-out never released on CD. Thanks for any info you can give me on this.

Good clue there of course. Looks like Jimmy Smith had like 13 albums released on Blue Note in 1957.