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Sorry, I'm not much good with techie stuff, but here's the address: http://theband.hoif.no/hallmark_sessions.html. It's a great site if you're at all interested in the band.

A fan site for the Band (Music From Big Pink, etc.) has an item regarding a Lenny Breux (sp?) album recorded in Toronto in 1961 with Levon Helm and Rick Danko, then with Ronnie Hawkins. It also has some solo stuff. Apparently his (Lenny's) former manager had been sitting on the tapes for 40+ years.

You're welcome, I actually think I'm going to pass (unless I see a used one at a totally stupid price) since I already have all but 3-4 tracks on one thing and another...

I just found out yesterday that there will be a deluxe 2CD edition of Mayall's Hard Road album out later this month. At thirty-some tracks it will have virtually(?) all of PA Green's work with Mayall. I think CD Universe (that's what Jazzmatazz links to, right?) has the details.

There's also an Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup vol. This is indeed an excellent series; the only reason I haven't bought a bunch is 'cause I have most of the material in their early '90s(?) CD incarnations, what was that series called? I have heard the first 4 various artists vol's, courtesy of the library where I work and thought they were fine.

The LP, of course, only has the 4 side-long tracks and not the bonus tracks of the current 2CD set, but those are on the BB box which I have. The mix should be more or less the same but the mastering would be different, so the sound should be only subtley different...but the reason I'm going to look for used vynil is that it should be the cheapest way to pick up the 2 tracks I'm now lacking ("Go Ahead John" final mix and "Ife"). Could this be any more confusing? Yes, I suppose it could be, and probably will be when some new format causes a wholesale reorganization somewhere down the line...

The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions box does have the as originally issued mixes of the two tunes from the Soundtrack to Jack Johnson LP, i.e. "Right Off" & "Yesternow", at the end of the last disc but does not contain the final mix of "Go Ahead John" as origianlly issued on Big Fun. At least that's what the track listings I've seen indicate, with a toddler in the house I haven't had time to go lokking for a promo copy. So, at this point it seems like the way to go for semi-completist might be to buy the boxes up through In a Silent Way, then get the 2CD revisions with some bonus cuts versions of Bitches Brew and Big Fun, then back to the box for Jack Johnson. But since I already have the BB box I guess I'll have to find a used vynil copy of BF to replace the one I sold on the erroneous assumption that the JJ box would include the final mix of "Go Ahead John" (which I quite like, period production and all).

My personal dream set from Mosaic would have everything by the Muscle Shoals/Memphis hybrid band Atlantic assembled for a few choice sessions in '66-68. Most famously for aretha's first few for the label but also for an album and a half for Wilson Pickett, King Curtis Plays Great Memphis Hits, and one from Solomon Burke. (I don't have the albums or a discography in front of me but the defining aspect would be the exquisite and unusual combination of drummer Roger Hawkins from Muscle Shoals and bassist/guitarist tommy Cogbill from the dusty in Memphis band.) Make a nice Mosaic select.

As I understand it the Jack Johnso box will have only the "as played" bits and pieces of "Go Ahead John" but NOT the "as originally released" final mix that Teo assembled from them. For that you still need Big Fun which overlapps with the Bitches Brew box and has one tune from the On the Corner sessions not available elsewhere ("Ife"?). And here I thought I could get everything just once by going the boxed set route, silly me. That not so minor annoyance aside, I'm still looking forward to this as much as anything recently--lots of stuff I haven't heard and I've heard all the officially released Miles. Will there be a collection of Miles studio stuff from On the Corner thru Get Up With It?

Weren't most soundtrack LP's back in the day rerecordings dun specifically to make an album out of it rather than just a cinema verite release of the music actually used in the film? Otherwise they'd have all been full of little 30 second snippets, with lots of repeats...the current version of the Last Tango In Paris soundtrack has both the album as originally released and the "cues" (as they call them) actually used in the film. I'll never think of butter the same way again...

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He's also on Jimmy Smith's Open House/Plain Talk session (one session, two LPs on one CD) with Jackie McLean (an alto alto) and Ike Q (a tenor tenor). In my opion Blue had the best trumpet sound for organ dates even if he never used them on his own records...

I think he's on some recent Sonny Rollins, but I'd have to check later, or perhaps someone else here can confirm...

Or...how about the complete Ike Quebec singles, i.e. both 78 & 45 rpm, since this is a packaging that hasn't been done before and I think it would fit on 3 CDs(?)

I don't think the band 'gells' quite as well on Standards; and while the playing is certainly v. good on a moment to moment basis, it doesn't quite add up to a great album for me. Well worth getting but best approached without unrealistic expectations...

Anyone named Ian McDonald would presumably be Scots, not English.

I voted for "I Remeber Clifford" but my real fav is "Are You Real" which is not on the list.

JSngry: Yeah, you right 'bout that Chess New Orleans package, it's chock ful of the surreality that makes the Big Easy greasy. Check out Reggie Hall's "Joke" fer instance. But anyplace where you got to look up to see the ships go by is bound to be strange.

JSngry, I completely agree 'bout that tenor solo on the Chords "Sh-Boom"--I think the correct period lingo would be "it's gone!" How much would a person hafta pay you to get a transcription (in concert pitch please)? Your humble servant, Dana

I adore doo wop, maybe 'cause I don't sing much myself, but to me it's what love sounds like. I especially like soo wop renditions of standards, like the above mentioned Flamingos rendition of "I Only Have Eyes For You" and the (not yet mentioned) Belmonts version of "Where or When".

OK, I'll bite. Two albums come to mind: 1) Jerry Granelli(sp?) A Song I Thought I Heard Bolddy Bolden Sing(?) with Kenny Garett, Bill Frissell and others I'm ussually fine with also includes Robin Ford whose playing I usually find rather antoseptic, but here I dig him just fine; Time Berne's Julius Hemphill tribute (the name of which I'm forgetting) includes David Sanborn whose airbrushed playing doesn't normally do much for me either but he's just dandy in this context. I'm sure there's others too.

I was out of town when this was AOW but I just wanted to add my vote to the HELL YEAH! column. It doesn't sound at all rote to me, but that may be in part due to its being one of, if not the first, Hank albums I owned (25+ years ago). I wish I'd kept that copy, a mono promo pressing! I do agree that Billy Higgins is/was especially "on" that day; there's a reason that Hank and Lee both used him for so many of their own albums! I also don't agree that boogaloo/funk/blues/whatever numbers are necessarily lesser efforts: if it was that easy everyone would do them and well. And, well, they don't... In the final (for now) analysis I'd have to say it's maybe not quite as nice as Soul station or Slice of the Top or Thinking of Home (wich I dig v. much), but it's probably my fav reg quintet Mobley and I definitely like it more than Dippin' (but may be I just need to listen to that one more).

There are so many: Lester, Ammons, Art Pepper, etc. were all masters. But my vote goes to an unlikely choice, King Curtis' "All the Way" from one of those otherwise rote soul jazz things on Prestige. No really, check it out...

Congratulations! Prepare to be tired, v. itred but happy!