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I was gonna guess the Zoot Simms bossa nova album for #8 (I've heard it but don't remember too well) BUT I don't think he did that tune... Jsangry: OK, at exactly what point in this attentuated analogy do you realize it's not the same old same old, somewhere between the "oo" and the "ah"?

I've got both the Timmons and Patterson Holiday Soul albums: I's say good but not great with a slight nod to the Patterson. I also like the KB Have Yourself a Soulful... and Emy Lou Harris' Light of the Stable, the various artist's Soul Christmas (includes Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa"), Phil Spector's Christmas Gift For You" (the most imitated?), the Ventures' _____(Xmas fare set to rock riffs, v. funny), and the Boston Camerata's series of obscure seasonal fare from the middle ages, rennasance, etc.

OK, I'm not familiar (sp?) with the Tjader but I do have a few other ...w/ strings dates I can reccomend: 1) Clifford Brown w/ Strings - the strings writting isn't much but it's Clifford playing ballads so the rest doesn't really matter; 2) Winter Moon by Art Pepper - good string writting for a relatively small section, great playing by Art but mixed bag material; 3) Focus by Stan Getz - great string writting, great Getz.

i've got a spare copy of the Mosaic if any one here is interested...

I pretty much agree with the comments above re Joni & Jaco, etc. so I've not much to add on the music itself but I do have a story y'all might find interesting. I happened to be in Saskatoon at the same time as Joni's big show of paintings and photo's at the Mendal Art Gallery there ('the Mental' to locals). I went and quite enjoyed it but the funny part was that nobody I knew in saskatoon even considered going even though they all knew about it--"It's just Joni, she can't really paint can she?" I still have the program, maybe I should put it on ebay...

Got my yesterday, will try to post reactions soon.

I believe that Don Pullen also plays organ on Maceo Parker's sublimey greasy Roots Revisited, along with Bill Stewert and Rodney Jones.

Sweet Home Chicago - as played by Robt. Johnson, Magic Sam and countless others. Running Back to saskatoon - by the pride(?) of Winnipeg, Manitoba (the Guess Who) 'cause it mentions all those canadian prairie (sp?) towns (I grew up in saskatoon).

"Utter Chaos #2", great for filling small gaps at the end of tapes, great title and just plain great!

OK, maybe this should go in the most disappointing thread instead, but here goew: Am I the only one who thinks that Lee with Hank AND Jackie doesn't work as well as Lee with Hank OR Jackie. Don't get me wrong, I love them both and thought they'd be great together in a sweet and sour contrasty kind of way but for me they just tend to cancell each other out. It's not that I'm generally opposed to sextets or other multi-horn lineups, I prefer the sextet editions of Miles and the Jazzz Messengers, but these too pull in opposite directions and leave me torn. OK, I'll quit with the bad metaphors but what do you think?

I agree, Monk's Big Band and Quartet is one of the best things of his on Columbia. Didn't Hal Overton also do new arrangements for a couple of Monk big band concerts in the late '60s/early '70s? (And were the recorded?) I'm also wuite fond of the octet tour of Europe, kinda the best of both worlds (big band and small, I think 'mid-sized' bands are generally v. overlooked/underated but that's a rant for another day...).

This should be out today, anyone actually seen it?

I got the 4 Men w/ Beards (what a stupid name for a label!) vinyl version of Black Rhythm Happening the other day. Nice heavy pressing, great sound and an interview updating you on what Eddie's been up to since he cut this. Paid about $13-14, listened to the first side and it's kind of a period piece but it's gots some good playing too. Glad I bought it but maybe not in such a big hurry to get Ghetto music...

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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