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Ain't that the truth! Wish BMG/RCA would release that period of his work. Otherwise we'll have no choice but to buy this... http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A46n20r5ai489 (And no, I don't own that box, but I've been sorely tempted.) I´m guilty. BTW: we have to do something... and we´re doin´. Just look at this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9957 15 of us are currently working on this.

I had the great sounding Japanese 24-bit K2 remastered Kelly / Chambers reissues, but sold them once I'd heard the Mosaic... Hans: do you want my heart to be broken when that one finally goes OOP?

You're very right, Brad, about me digging that artist, but "Open the Door, Richard" is not one of his tracks. There are many versions of that tune/comedy routine, but the one on the BFT comes from another band with more genuine jazz creds... Then I'd say it's this or this musician's band ... Mike, I will quote my previous post. Pretty sure! Who has his centenary this year? His piano punctuations are highly recognizable. Sweets Edison has a pretty incisive voice, man! The other "talker" is Bill Johnson. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! B)

Just placed my order: the Morgan/Shorter plus the HRS sessions. I have more than half of the Kelly/Chambers material, that´s why I didn´t include it.

I voted for BLUES, but there have been times when I did listen to tons of classical music, including opera.

Sam Rivers disc 2

Just saw this: NEW Duke Ellington - Rugged Jungle (Lost Secret) June 15 (amazon lists May 25) — previously unreleased live recordings recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on July 8th, 1972 and Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Canada on May 25th, 1973; the CD features Cootie Williams, Mercer Ellington, Johnny Coles, Money Johnson, Eddie Preston, Tyree Glenn, Norris Turney, Harry Carney and others. Label: Lost Secret Track Listing 1. Take The "A" Train 2. Happy Reunion 3. Ac-Ac 4. Satin Doll 5. A Tone Parallel To Harlem (Harlem Suite) 6. Hello Dolly 7. La Plus Belle Africaine 8. Rose Room 9. C-Jam Blues 10. Creole Love Call 11. Perdido 12. Caravan / How High The Moon 13. Chinoiserie

Resuming again (and again from Jazzmatazz): Tal Farlow - The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions - 7 CDs (Mosaic) June 30 — 1954-59; first time on CD for much of the material — mainly trio and quartet dates, but there are also quintets, sextets and septet dates — includes three previously unissued alternate takes, as well as breakdowns and alternates on seven tunes — liner notes by guitarist Howard Alden — sidemen include bassists Red Mitchell, Oscar Pettiford, Milt Hinton, and Ray Brown; pianists Gerald Wiggins, Claude Williamson, and Eddie Costa; and drummers Joe Morello, Chico Hamilton, and Stan Levey Woody Herman - The Complete Columbia Recordings of WH and His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947) - 7 CDs (Mosaic) June/July — includes alternate takes and some previously unreleased material Art Farmer/Benny Golson - The Complete Argo/Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet Sessions - 7 CDs (Mosaic) Aug — will include 12 LPs recorded from 1960-62: — The Jazztet: "Meet the Jazztet", "Big City Sounds", "And John Lewis", "At Birdhouse", "Here and Now", "Another Git Together" — Art Farmer: "Art", "Perception", "List to Art Farmer and the Orchestra" — Benny Golson: "Turning Point", "Free", "Take a Number From 1 To 10" NEW Johnny Richards - Mosaic Select - 3 CDs (Mosaic) Fall Freddie Slack - Mosaic Select - 3 CDs (Mosaic) Fall Gerry Mulligan - Songbooks - 4 CDs (Mosaic Select) 2003? — remastered from rediscovered stereo tapes — includes unissued "Stringtime" tracks Benny Goodman - Columbia Records - nn CDs (Mosaic) — time period TBD McCoy Tyner - Blue Note Sessions (Mosaic) 2004 Dexter Gordon - Mosaic Select: Nights At the Keystone (Mosaic) late 2004 Don Pullen-George Adams - Mosaic Select (Mosaic) late 2004? — the two Pullen/Adams Blue Note albums plus the two Pullen trio albums Andrew Hill - Mosaic Select (Mosaic) 2005 — previously unreleased 1967-1970 Blue Note sessions Various Artists - Capitol Big Band Sessions (Mosaic) (doubtful) Erroll Garner - Columbia Sessions (Mosaic) (in doubt, due to licensing) Various Artists - The Complete Keynote Recordings (Mosaic) (in doubt, due to licensing)

Ditto. When I look at my collection, hardly a bunch of discs with electric bass are among my favorites. But it´s just me. Nothing against the instrument or the players. No accoustic instruments zealot here (aka Wynton-ite)

And we all have forgotten another obvious one: GEORGE MRAZ BIOGRAPHY (from Fantasy website) CATALOG ON FANTASY AMG ENTRY I have no leader dates for him. But he´s profusedly featured as a sidemen in my collection: Mingus, Hampton, Flanagan, Merrill, McRae, Montoliú, Elvin & Hank Jones, McCoy Tyner...

It´s on PRAGUE JAZZ (CUBE METIER) Do you have it or did you just google? I will compare the tracklist and look if it's the same stuff I have. It was recorded at "Oltener Jazztage", just in case someone's interested. There are a couple of trio tracks on my MD, I remember. ubu No, I don´t own it. My only Vickliky disc is "Bohemia after dark".

I like this one, purchased in a HatHut binge I gave me a few months ago.... Lee Konitz - Don Friedman - Attila Zoller: "Thingin"

It´s on PRAGUE JAZZ (CUBE METIER)

And you could get the other one, in case you´re interested in it... B)

THE FATHER AND THE SON. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES FROM ARTA WEBSITE: Karel Ruzicka Born in 1940 (Prague), rank not only among the leading pianist of the Czech jazz scene but he is by far its most versatile composer personality as well. Though he was studying percussion instruments at the State Conservatory, he concentrated after graduating exclusively on keybards - at first as a pianist of the Semafor Theatre Orchestra, then in Prague Radio Big Band, with Laco Deczi's Jazz Cellula septet, at thehead of several own combos, in the Czech analogue of Keyboard Conclave, as a soloist, composer, arranger and even conductor on many other renowned big bands (including the Czech-Polish one and the Veleband All-Stars) outfits and in duet the guitarist Rudolf Dasek. His creative activity comprises a really wide scale. We can find there not only big band compositions and scores of chamber pieces of non-typical instrumentation with pure jazz elements but also movie soundtracks, his "Celebration Jazz Mass" for soprano voice, chorus and orchestra, contemporary music and piano solo works. However the most essential part of his scoring are Ruzicka's solo projects which were inspired by his winning the International Competitions of Jazz Themes organized by the Academy of Music in Monaco (Interlude - 1977, Echoes - 1978, Triste - 1979). Since that time he has been taking part at the competition just as a member of the international jury, teaching there also on many orchestration clinics. Ruzicka, who has been playing with a lot of international stars (Finnish trumpet player Jarmo Sermila, French pianist Martial Solal, Uruguay saxophonist Wilson de Oliveira or his Polish colleague Tomasz Szukalski), toured almost all European countries, recorded at least 10 albums under his own name, and nowadays devotes himself to a systematic pedagogical activity. Karel Ruzicka Jr. Saxophone player / composer was born in Prague (1973), Czechoslovakia. From early age he was exposed to music of all kinds and since his father is a jazz pianist / composer, among his first influences was the music of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans and many others. When he was about ten he studied trumpet. Eventually he switched to trombone, which he studied on Prague Conservatory. At the same time he picked up alto saxophone his uncle gave him. He instantly fell in love with that instrument. Eventually he decided to quit trombone studies and just practice on tenor and write his music. He studied saxophone on Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory and won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since he was sixteen years old he co-led "The Four" with pianist Stanislav Macha, which won several prizes on jazz festivals in country. In 1992 he received the "New artist of the year" award by Czech Jazz Society. He worked with fusion group Hot Line. He appears on several Arta releases including his debut record as a leader "You know what I mean" (ARTA 1997), which was jazz album of 1997 and was nominated for Czech Grammy. Beside this he workes with various groups other than jazz. Until he moved to New York in 1997 he worked with critically acclaimed Czech funk & rap group J.A.R. He's frequently touring Italy with pianist Antonio Ciacca. In 1996 he joined Roy Hargrove for a Teachers Jazz Festival concert in Prague organized by AghaRTA Jazz Centrum. This contributed to Karel's decision to move to New York. Now he has found hisown group, which is performing in New York's jazz venues, such as Savoy Lounge, Cornelia Street Cafe, Cleopatra's Needle. He regurarly works with pianist Charles Blenzig at the Blue Note. Also, he is playing in various bigbands in town,which as he says is "one of the most uplifting experiences is to be a part of the unity, where section by section everybody is closely listening to each other and together recreating composer's intentions and still is able to enhance the whole thing with one's spirit."

Another Czech name is guitarist ROMAN POKORNY HIS WEBSITE A very incomplete DISCOGRAPHY A brief biography from ARTA´s website: "Roman Pokorny began his active career as a musician in Brno, Moravia, in 1991. He acquired professional experience in the bands of Mojmir Bartek, Jaromir Hnilicka and Gunter Koci - the soloists of the Gustav Brom Big Band. In 1992 he started his own first group, the Roman Pokorny Quartet, and the next year became a member of TUTU, a group from Ostrava. The same year he was nominated for the first time in the Jazzovy Kaja poll - Discovery of the Year. In 1995 he recorded the first album of his own compositions: Magic Holidays and the CD Sundance with the group TUTU. The following year he was on the recording UV Drive by pianist Emil Viklicky and Boris Urbanek. The year after that, his quartet broke up and he founded the Roman Pokorny Trio with bassist Petr Dvorsky and drummer Jiri Slavicek. This was when his long-term collaboration began with the singer Yvonne Sanchez. He recorded his next solo album, Jazz Perception, in 1998. For this recording, the trio was joined by Gabriel Jonas on the Hammond organ and a brass section comprised of leading jazz soloists, including saxophonist Stepan Markovic, trombonist Svatopluk Kosvanec and trumpeter Juraj Bartos. The recording was called Jazz Album of the Year, 1998. That same year Pokorny recorded an album with bassist Vincenc Kumr and singer Lada Kerndl, Tribute to Duke Ellington. As a guest performer with Veleband, Pokorny has performed several times in the USA and at a jazz festival in Beirut, Lebanon. The next album, this time as a trio, is called Blue Point (1999). In 2000 Pokorny started the group Analogic, whose music is a fusion of rock, soul and funk from the 1960s and '70s. The next year, at Pokorny's instigation, a new group emerged, called Blue Box Heroes, whose music has crystallized into a distinctive fusion of blues, hard rock and jazz. With singer Lada Kerndl, Pokorny recorded an album of original compositions, called I Suddenly Realised. In 2002 Pokorny's long-term dream came true, to record an album with a classic organ trio, together with Alberto Marsico and Pavel "Bady" Zboril. Here´s one I do own: ROMAN POKORNY QUARTET - Magic Holidays Roman Pokorny - g, Stanislav Macha - p, Petr Dvorsky - b, Marek Patrman - dr Magic Holidays, Something For M.P., Blue Stone, Between Two People, My Old Car, The Raincoat, My Secret Love, Song About You, Bell-Bottomed Shorts

Is this true? Oh my God, that´s a pretty expensive set.... my budget´s bleeding again!

& The Best of AghARTA Catalog No.: F10090-2 Label: Arta Records, 2000 Karel Ruzicka Jr., Lubos Andrst Acoustic Set, Jiri Stivin and Co, Emil Viklicky and Boris Urbanek, Roman Pokorny, Hot Line, Veleband, Laco Deczi, Tutu

- The Best of AghARTA II Catalog No.: F10065-2 Label: Arta Records, 1995 Karel Ruzicka and George Mraz, Lubos Andrst and Acoustic Set, Emil Viklicky Quartet, The Four, Tutu, Vlasta Pruchova and Swinging, Roman Pokorny Quartet, Jiri Stivin, Jazz Face, Hot Line, Naima, Montanaro

Three good compilations of Czech jazz label ARTA: -The Best of AghARTA Catalog No.: F10050-2 Label: Arta Records, 1993 George Mraz Trio, Vlasta Pruchova, Rudy Linka and John Abercrombie, Emil Viklicky Quartet, Jiri Stivin and Co., Karel Ruzicka and Friends, Naima, Jonas, Balzar, Jakabcic, Lubos Andrst, The Fensters, Jazz Face, George Mraz and Karel Ruzicka, Tutu, Rudy Linka Quartet, Hot Line, Veleband

A good one I have is "International Jazz Workshop, volume 1". He´s a fine (and eclectic) virtuoso who plays electric and accoustic bass (bowed and pizzicatto). Also waiting for John´s comments on that one. B)

Maybe this stuff, ubu? Emil Viklický Trio + STEVE HOUBEN WHAT'S NEW 1. You'd be so nice to come home to /Cole Porter music sample 2. Enfance /Steve Houben 3. I remember April /Raye-DePaul 4. Porthcawl /Emil Viklický 5. Cherokee /Ray Noble 6. What's New /Bob Haggart 7. CTA /Jimmy Heath 8. Goin' to Chicago /Jimmy Rushing music sample Steve Houben - saxes flute vocal Emil Viklický - piano František Uhlíř - bass Laco Tropp - drums Released September 2003 LIVE RECORDING SWISS RADIO DRS2 PETER BUERLI

This is my favorite Czech jazz recording, by far: KAREL RUZICKA JR. - Spring Rolls Quartet Karel Růžička jr. SAXOPHONES Gabriel Jonáš PIANO Robert Balzar BASS Pavel Zbořil DRUMS 1. Groovy Blues (Karel Ruzicka) 2. Till There Was You (Meredith Wilson) 3. Crazeology (Bud Powell) 4. Spring Rolls (Karel Ruzicka) 5. Wild Eggs (Gabriel Jonas) 6. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) 7. Love is here to Stay (George Gershwin) 8. Jsem tvůj (Alfons Jindra) 9. Chocolate Sun (Robert Balzar) RECORDED IN PRAGUE 23 & 24 APRIL 1998 I´m eagerly waiting for John´s opinion on this one. IMHO this young saxophonist (son of Karel Ruzicka, classical and jazz pianist) has got the chops and has many things to say.

AMG reviews: ELDAR (2001) HANDPRINTS (2003) BTW: do you know where´s available on-line (shipping to Europe)?

Another interesting Czech name is JIRI STIVIN who plays clarinet, all kind of flutes and recorders, saxes, roura, folk pipes and various instruments of his own construction. He has recorded a great deal of classical music, fussion, folk-jazz... A very eclectic guy, for sure. HIS WEBSITE HIS DISCOGRAPHY I can recommend Inspiration by folklore, recorded for ARTA records in 1991, with Jaroslav Sindler on guitar, Frantisek Uhlir on bass and Josef Vejvoda on drums. and Excursion II. Twenty years after with drummer Pierre Favre (P&J Music, 1998)