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Tete Montoliú: -Catalonian nights (vol. 1-3) 1980. Tete Montoliú trio with John Heard and Tootie Heath. -Boston concert (vol. 1-2) 1980. Tete Montoliú solo piano. These recordings are in my top-ten Tete. 1980 was a great year for recorded Tete!

Abbey Lincoln (November, 12) Fabulous concert! A short one: about 65 minutes plus 3 bises (yeah, we got three bises from her). The public was totally devoted to her. Only nine songs, opening with a superb rendition of Hoagy Carmichael´s "Skylark" and ending with a beautiful "The nearness of you". In the middle, some hits she got in the last twenty years such as "Love is made" (from her last CD, "It´s me"), "The world is falling down", "Down here below", "Throw it away", "Through the years"... And she attempted "Somos novios" in Spanish. People got mad about it... though her pronuntiation was not very academic. I can´t understand those who argue that Abbey doesn´t swing. She may be 73 years old. Her voice´s not at the highest point, obviously. And yes, she went out of tune a couple of times... ...but it was a wonderful, sincere, relaxing concert! I dig her special phrasing, her diction, her strange intonation. The way she ends verses, like if the note was disappearing... She offers a different treatment for each song. Looks like she´s singing for herself. Capable rhythm section: Marc Cary on piano; Michael Bowie on bass; Jaz Sawyer on drums. They had a lot of room for soloing. Worth paying that 18€!!!!!

For that price (90 $) I can stand it... -though the sound´s not the best available -though they miss a few tracks -though there´s a lot of duplication with my 31 CDs from that period! I pre-ordered it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The answer is no!

One of my favorite recordings of this song: Oscar Peterson Trio (with Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown) There are two sessions included in this 1996 Verve reissue, one from 1959 and one from 1962. Can´t remember where´s "Waltz for Debbie".

A "few" OJC releases I´d recommend: Adderley, Julian "Cannonball" Know what I mean? 1961 Riverside/OJC Allison, Mose Mose Allison sings the 7th son 1957 (57-59) Prestige/OJC Basie, Count / Sims, Zoot Basie & Zoot 1975 Pablo/OJC Byard, Jaki Here´s Jaki 1961 Prestige/OJC Coltrane, John Settin´ the pace 1958 Prestige/OJC Dolphy, Eric At the Five Spot Vol.2 1961 Prestige/OJC Dolphy, Eric Far cry 1960 New Jazz/OJC Dolphy, Eric Memorial album 1961 Prestige/OJC Dolphy, Eric Out there 1960 Prestige/OJC Dolphy, Eric (Quintet) Outward bound 1960 New jazz/OJC Dorham, Kenny Quiet Kenny 1959 New jazz/OJC Evans, Bill Interplay 1962 Riverside/OJC Evans, Bill (Trio) Explorations 1961 Riverside/OJC Evans, Bill (Trio) Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961 Riverside/OJC Evans, Bill (Trio) Waltz for Debby 1961 Riverside/OJC Evans, Gil Gil Evans & Ten 1957 Prestige/OJC Guaraldi, Vince (Trio) Jazz impressions of Black Orpheus Fantasy / OJC Hawkins, Coleman At ease with Coleman Hawkins 1960 Moodsville (Prestige) / OJC Hawkins, Coleman Coleman Hawkins All Stars featuring Vic Dickenson and Joe Thomas 1960 Swingville (Prestige) / OJC Hawkins, Coleman Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio 1959 Swingville / OJC Hawkins, Coleman Soul 1958 Prestige / OJC Hawkins, Coleman The hawk relaxes 1961 Prestige-Moodsville / OJC Johnson, J.J. Pinnacles 1979 Milestone/OJC Manne, Shelly Shelly Manne and his men at the Blackhawk Vol.1-5 1959 Contemporary/OJC McDuff, Jack The honeydripper 1961 Prestige / OJC McGhee, Howard Magee´s back in town 1961 Contemporary / OJC McLean, Jackie 4, 5 & 6 1956 Prestige/OJC Mingus, Charles Right now: Live at the Jazz Workshop 1964 Debut/OJC Monk, Thelonius Alone in San Francisco 1959 Riverside/OJC Montgomery, Wes The incredible guitar of Wes Montgomery 1960 Riverside/OJC Parker, Charlie The quintet. Jazz at Massey Hall 1953 Debut/OJC Pepper, Art Intensity 1960 Contemporary/OJC Pepper, Art The way it was! 1956 (56-60) Contemporary/OJC Pleasure, King King Pleasure sings 1952 (52-54) Prestige/OJC Rogers, Shorty / Shank, Bud Bud Shank & Shorty Rogers: California concert 1985 Contemporary / OJC Rollins, Sonny Worktime 1955 Prestige/OJC Rollins, Sonny (Quartet) Tenor madness 1956 Prestige/OJC Turner, Big Joe / Basie, Count The bosses (Count Basie & Joe Turner) 1973 Pablo / OJC Webster, Ben /Zawinul, Joe Soulmates 1963 Riverside/OJC

Same for some of mine. But there are many over 50 minutes! And at the 6-7 € range, I can afford them

or Francis Wolff:

or Julio Mitchel:

Now, to Jimmy Katz:

Paul J. Hoeffler´s well-known photo:

The Romans knew about Sonny! Just look at this coin:

More "late" Rollins

Sonny Rollins at Kongresshaus in Zürich in 1999, photographed by Gerardo Cañellas from Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

From the same session that Late´s first picture:

and vol. 5

... vol. 4

...vol. 3

... vol. 2

More "artistic" vol.1

This is a nice one!

Just to start...

Another remarkable one is René Urtreger joue Bud Powell. René Urtreger with Benoit Quersin ( b ) and Jean-Louis Viale ( d ). Recorded February 24, 1955 at the Pathé-Magelian studio, Paris. Six Powell covers and two originals. One of my favorite "Parisian thoroughfare" versions. The only regretable thing is the CD length: less than 25 minutes!

Abdullah Ibrahim solo It was an incredible concert, ubu! A hard one to listen, but incredible anyway. Two parts: the first one, 65 uninterrupted minutes of his music, fascinating music: repetitive melodic phrases, silences placed here and there to highlight this and that note, percussive left hand chords, waterfalls of notes with both hands... The second one consisted of 45 (as well uninterrumpted) minutes of the same thing but IMHO this one was a bit more monotonous. Maybe it was my ear, too tired because of this shocking experience!

Mosaic Box Sets are insanely expensive at some on-line retailers which usually sell at reasonable prices. A few examples with controtempojazz.com -Mildred Bailey (10CD) Mosaic site: 160 USD controtempojazz.com: 279 € -Bunny Berigan (7CD) Mosaic site: 119 USD controtempojazz.com: 195 € -Donal Byrd/Pepper Adams (4CD) Mosaic site: 64 USD controtempojazz.com: 111 € This means controtempojazz.com is charging almost 28€ per CD when Mosaic is selling them at 16/17 USD!!! And the Mosaic Selects are sold at controtempojazz.com for 62,47€ (21€ per CD), when Mosaic´s prices are 39USD (13€ per CD). This is not a taxes matter. We´re talkig about huge margins with this stuff!!!