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This biography and chronology of Johnny Guarnieri became unnoticed to me when it was published in 2019: Review in Syncopated Times: https://syncopatedtimes.com/superstride-a-biography-and-discography-of-johnny-guarnieri/

(yet another Jazz Detective production that I acquired recently... )

Good point, Mike! I am revisiting Max Harrison's 'A Jazz Retrospect', and the first article is 'Charlie Parker's Savoy Recordings', written as early as 1959. Interesting analysis on Bird's improvisations. Harrison concludes that, in most of the recording sessions, and contrary to the statement of Ross Russell and others that Bird usually developed his best solos in the first take, Parker managed to make his improvisations evolve take after take, including new ideas and assembling them more coherently.

I couldn't agree more...

Revisiting....

Lunchtime walk towards FNAC... and quasi-random hunt: -Duke Ellington - Copenhagen 1958 (Storyville) -Coleman Hawkins / Sweets Edison / Benny Carter - Session at Midnight plus Session at Riverside (Essential Jazz Classics) -Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa in the Brox. Live from the Blue Morocco (Resonance) -Albert Ayler Trio - Prophecy Live. First Visit (ezz-thetics) -Wes Montgomery / Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin' in Seattle. Live at the Penthouse (Resonance) -Charlie Parker - Live at Café Society (Bird's Nest) -Hot House. Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings (Craft) -Ben Webster - Live in Hilversum 1970 (Domino)

A perfect disc to listen to with a blank sheet approach is "Sonny Meets Hawk!". I have read somewhat opposed reviews as regards how Sonny Rollins challenged Hawk.

In his biography of Ben Webster, Frank Büchman-Møller is very dismissive of that disc, qualifying it as "(...)- with the exception of a couple of musical highlights- a disappointment, as neither soloist played up to par, and the rhythm section consisting of Tete Montoliu, Peter Trunk and Al Heath never merge as hoped". Then, Büchman-Møller states that the album demostrates how differently the two saxophonists had developed from the same background, with Coleman Hawkins as the primary reference. I cannot concur with the first statement, of course.

Some 25 years ago, I was very reluctant to deep dive in Keith Jarrett's discography, maybe constrained by his "persona". I see things very differently today. And this disc is a beauty.

Never have enough Rabbit!

I've been picking up the different individual discs over the years, and decided not to buy the Blue Note box. So, it would be nice to have (if not essential) to give those recordings the 'Mosaic treatment'.

Complete Tete Montoliu in Steeplechase, trio and solo recordings. Released discs are a complete mess, taken from different sessions, with some duplications, no chronological order (neither logical in some cases)... plus there are quite a few unreleased takes. Targeted market for this boxed set? Maybe four or five freaks here in Spain (☝️), and a few more elsewhere... 😁