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Foxy Lady Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Lady Madonna

Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - 1926-1930 (Fabulous Records)

In my opinion, and except for the Mardi Gras disc (a very poor epitaph), every track in their albums WAS a potential hit. I've yet to find a rock group with six consecutive albums as consistent as CCR + Cosmos Factory + Bayou Country + Green River + Willy And The Poorboys + Pendulum (listed in random order). Just my two cents.

In my opinion, and except for the Mardi Gras disc (a very poor epitaph), every track in their albums WAS a potential hit.

Big fan of the CCR here! I was kind of CCR freak about 20 years ago and, after more than 10 years of just jazz listening (and a bit of blues and classical), I put one of those Chronicle compilations on the car stereo the other day, and in just a few seconds I found myself shouting again like mad that "... there's a bathroom on the right" chorus [CCR freaks hint]. This has lead me to listen to their seven studio albums in a row, once again. Geez, they still have that energy. Love them!

Jo Stafford - Autumn in New York/Starring to Stafford (Capitol) Hoagy Carmichael - Hoagy Sings Carmichael / The stardust road (Pacific) James Moody - Timeless Aura (Vanguard)

Scott Robinson - Plays C-Melody Saxophone - Melody From The Sky (Arbors) Randy Sandke - Unconventional wisdom (Arbors) The Best Of Fred Elizalde And His Anglo American Band 1928-1929 (Retrieval) Johnny Varro Swing 7 - Ring Dem Bells (Arbors) Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean - Inta somethin' (Pacific Jazz/Toshiba) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz at the Black Hawk (Fantasy) Brubeck and Desmond - Jazz at Storyville (Fantasy) Conte Candoli & others - Best from the West / Blindfold Test (Modern Sounds from the West) (Lonehill Jazz) Jimmy Witherspoon & Ben Webster - Jazz Casual (DVD) Jimmy Rushing -Jazz Casual (DVD)

68 new Leader Discographies have been uploaded as of December 11, 2008, for a total of 380. Among the new ones: Frank Rehak Paul Quinichette Marty Paich John Carisi Randy Sandke Frank Morgan Jimmy Knepper Ray Draper Blue Mitchell Carmell Jones Bob Gordon Bob Enevoldsen Besides these, the Hod O'Brien Complete Discography by Joop van der Leij has also been added.

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Sad news indeed! Thanks for the music, Freddie! RIP

Jon-Erik Kellso - Blue Roof Blues (Arbors)

Ruby Braff - Bravura eloquence (Concord)

Don Ewell - Meets Pamela & Llew Hird with the Sidney Stompers (GHB) Kenny Davern & Ralph Sutton - Revelations (Nif Nuf) Kenny Davern - The hot three (with Art Hodes) (Jazzology)

Omix is Ximo Tebar's label. Is he on that album? And, by the bye, how do you pronounce a double L at the beginning of a word in Spanish? Is it anything like the Welsh double L? MG Nope. No Tebar on that date. It's a trio disc, with Coloma on piano and Hammond XB-2, Josemi Moraleda on double bass and Ramón Díaz on drums. "Lluis" is a Catalan name, to be pronounced as in Spanish "lluvia". Remember: "la lluvia en Sevilla es una pura maravilla".

Last night: Lluis Coloma Trio at the Café Central (Madrid) Boogie-woogie and blues Catalonian player. Spirited and hyper-vitamin piano playing. Lifts the spirit in a col night! Best of: -his technically demanding version of Rimsky Korsakov's "Flight of the bumblebee", based on an arrangement from the 40s -his fully-equipped bag of boogie-woogie tricks (repeated notes and chords in the upper register; locked hands with fortissimo dynamics; sweeps up and down the keyboard with one, two... any number of fingers, with his fist...; wonderful and varied left-hand boogie patterns...) -a very wide and non-tyring repertoire Only flaw: his stride piano passages on a couple of tunes. Bassist was playing eight-to-the-bar, drummer was playing... I don´t know what he was playing!, and Coloma, though playing the oom-pah, oom-pah (octave-stride-chord), didn't get the right pulse, IMHO...

From ebay: -Earl Hines with Wallace Davenport - In New Orleans '75 (Giants of Jazz) -Engelbert Wröbel's Swing Society - Sophisticated Swing (Arbors) Directly from Lluis Coloma at his concert last night: -Lluis Coloma - Remember (Omix) -Lluis Coloma - Boogie portraits (Swing Alley) -Lluis Coloma - Lonely Avenue (Swing Alley) From a member of this board: -Dick Hyman - Plays Duke Ellington (Reference) -Count Basie & Oscar Peterson - Satch and Josh... Again (Pablo/OJC) -Les Brown - Best of the Capitol years (Capitol) -George Auld - Hommage (Xanadu) -Woody Herman/Buddy Rich - Battle of the bands (BMG)

PM sent re: Georgie Auld, Homage, Xanadu, $10 Count Basie, Satch And Josh … Again, Pablo, $8 Les Brown, Best Of The Capitol Years, Capitol, $9 Woody Herman/Buddy Rich, Battle Of The Bands, BMG, $6

Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington (Reference)

Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington (Reference)

Bob Wilber & Friends - What Swing Is All About (Nagel-Heyer)

On the other hand, Solal's latest album Longitude (CamJazz, 2008) is a very good one. In a trio album with the Moutin brothers, he deeply explores the possibilities of the piano trios. As Dan Morgenstern points out in the liner notes "“There are few greater pleasures in a jazz lover's life than listening to the music of Martial Solal. At 80, Solal seems to find as much joy in the creation of his unique artistry and transmit just as much of a sense of discovery to the listener as ever in his long and brilliant career." I couldn't agree more with Dan, as I own 40+ Solal discs and I have yet to find one that I don't consider, at least, as quite good. With my own parameters, of course...

Just won a copy of this CD in a contest at Rollins website. http://sonnyrollins.com/contest.php Really looking forward to listening to that one soon!

Martial Solal Trio - Longitude (CamJazz)

Tonight: Clean Feed Night: FOUR CORNERS Adam Lane (b); Ken Vandermark (ts, bs, cl, bcl); Magnus Broo (tp); Paal Nilssen-Love (d)

Agreed, Flurin!