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There are a few extra tunes, and lots of takes, for Grant green at the Club Mozambique; but I'm not sure it survives - I think all they have is a mono reference tape of what was considered for release at the time. Similar to Stan & Grant at Mintons, lots more was recorded but it has yet to be found and may never be.

Timmons Silver 2nd Quintet Smiles + Nefertiti Dunlop Roscoe Stones or Yardbirds? (all good, some better)

(2) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane - Why Was I Born? - YouTube Coltrane & Burrell, Why Was I Born? Concise, spare, beautiful.

Ray, and I love Gato and Ray could be frustratingly uneven, but still Ray all day. Ray, and I love Gato and Ray could be frustratingly uneven, but still Ray all day. Jr. Wells or Magic Sam?

I was a huge Stones fan back in the day, my late brother and I spent many pleasant hours listening to them (on record) in SK and the guys they listened to (Chuck Berry, Muddy, Wolf, etc.). We particularly enjoyed Charlie's work on the Howlin' Wolf London Sessions. RIP. I think it was Charlie's idea to get Sonny Rollins on Tattoo You, love that too.

I should get this one to go with the others of hers that I have, such a freaking loss.

Are these supposed to be funny?

I'm foregoing that mere point to gain the many plains of existence. Cootie with Goodman and Charlie Christian And with his own band with bud Powell.

False dichotomy, on at least two levels. first, it's like asking 'blue or square?' and second 'It's not what cha do, it's how ya due it.' And you can have both, either alternatively or all at once. Or neither.

He made a nice album with Stan Getz in the '80s called Poetry. (2) Stan Getz & Albert Dailey - Poetry (full album) - YouTube

Count Five.

"Cuber libre!" Yes, Ronnie does enliven everything I've ever heard him on.

Move Your Hand v. GG Alive! (at the Cliché Lounge) is hard, both for their virtues and their faults, I'll take the recordings from the Club Mozambique in Detroit by either over either of those though, if that makes any sense. Better jazz and better funk. All lovely records that I enjoy. But things go to heck for me pretty soon after.

Can't find this earlier post of mine, but I don't know if Mustang! has made it to CD or not. Pretty nice LP as I recall.

Uhm, no matter if you go with Eager or Moore, the answer is still Lester.

On two part singles, I most often prefer part two. I'll take Ira Sullivan over the great Red Rodney on purely musical terms, but Red has a more interesting life story than damned near anyone and I once saw him play the 'I played with Bird card' without actually playing it, if you know what I mean. Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young?

I very much dig this collection of odds 'n sods, and reading this thread makes me wish that BN would do an expanded version of it on vinyl, especially the rest of the Dexter & Stitt session. But then I'd like to hear the rest of the other supposedly failed sessions too. It's a different world now, as Jim said above. I don't have Stitt's competitive thing myself, not at all, but it doesn't bug me that he did. He was who he was. But I prefer Dexter. Some of that is sound. Some of that is that I like behind the beat playing. But most of it is personality, Sonny certainly has one, but I prefer Dexter's. Pity Dex and Rollins never recorded together. And of the two Stitt sessions with Pepper, the second is definitely the better, after they'd tested each other.

OK, feeling a little less cranky this morning. Sure P&B is problematic, certainly the GAS as it's generally (not) understood is more so. The HYPE that puts these on a pedestal so their 'greatness' is taken as a given sucks the life out of them. Gershwin and Elvis are examples of a bigger thing. Fixating on the hype surrounding them obscures the bigger thing. Maybe the BIG LIE is our cultural heritage. Our true manifest destiny. And yet, 'mericans have done many wonderful things on this stolen land, and not just in music. Dismissing Gershwin and/or Elvis as just hype does nothing to solve that conundrum. It's a big country in a bigger world and our cultural heritage, fully understood, is far too big and messy a thing for most folk to grapple with. It will no doubt continue to play out in ways none of us could predict. Think I'll go listen to Mr. Bechet make an even better thing of "Summertime".

People often edit Shakespeare when they perform the plays FFS, would you make the same comments (I can't call them arguments, 'cause they ain't) there? Sure there's hype surrounding GERSHWIN, the brand; there's hype surrounding all product in a market economy. Doesn't make the music George and Ira wrote together any more just hype than it does the GAS as a whole, the BEATLES. MILES DAVIS, or ELVIS (sorry 'bout the CAPS, just using them to indicate the brand rather than the real thing inside it). If you want to give actual reasons why you prefer Harold Arlen or Richard Rogers, I'd love to hear them. But you haven't. What you've done here is just a petty screed.

There's some fine music here, to be sure.

There are 2 other titles of unknown length... I'd love to see this issued by itself, the whole thing.

And his Tryin' to Get Home. It was a BN thing for awhile. Journeyman - YouTube Freddie Roach, All That's Good

Bobby Hutcherson – Head On Extended Album (1971) - YouTube Listened to this yesterday while mopping the floor, and again right now. Lovely and would be a great choice to reissue in full on vinyl, IMHO.

I didn't make out quite so well, but I did ok and I'm glad I took the offer. My condolences to felser, it's nice to have a choice in such a big life decision.

Bought when I really couldn't afford it. Never regretted.