EKE BBB

Not American, not coloured, but... TETE MONTOLIÚ

Clifford is the man!

re Donald Byrd: yes, it is that one paired with Grant Green´s Hope your friend will find many RVG at 9€ in Madrid Rock

Spanish saxophonist and flutist JORGE PARDO

Wasn´t Lester Young who said "to play a song you should know the lyrics"? BTW: I like vocalese

Every recording by Sonny Rollins pianoless trio

If I had to pick just one.... BODY AND SOUL (1939) - COLEMAN HAWKINS

A few weeks ago I picked a CD called "Music for Ebbe" (dedicated to Ebbe Traberg and released by Producciones El Delirio), recorded live at San Sebastián Jazz Festival 1997, featuring Spanish saxophonist and flutist Jorge Pardo, altoist Gary Bartz, Jeanne Lee and the Repertory Quartet. It´s a great one, with Lee making wonderful renditions of Swing low sweet chariot and Blue Monk.

Hard to choose! I voted for "Good bait", but could have voted for any other... or "Dameronia" or "Flossie blue" or "Jahbero" or "The squirrel" or "The chase" or...

A bunch of Herbie´s 60s recording as a sideman (apart from Miles´) where you can pick many, many good themes: -Hub-tones (Hubbard, Freddie) Blue note 1962 -No room for squares (Mobley, Hank) Blue Note 1963 -The Illinois concert (Dolphy, Eric) Blue Note 1963 -Some other stuff (Moncur III, Gracham) Blue Note 1964 -Speak no evil (Shorter, Wayne) Blue note 1964 -Up with Donald Byrd (Byrd, Donald) Verve 1964 -The complete Blue Note sessions vol.1 (Rivers, Sam) Blue Note 1964 (64-67) -Adam´s apple (Shorter, Wayne) Blue note 1966

Another "thumbs up" to this record. My favorite Lovano disc (alongside "From the soul") maybe because I´m a big fan of Dameron´s compositions as well.

DUKE Could it be a statistical matter? He´s the musician with the greatest deal of CDs in my shelves (about 70), and sometimes mine is a random listening! (hey, ELLINGTON, not PEARSON or JORDAN)

Sorry, one day late! FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS, LON! You´ve made my wallet grow veeeeeeeeeeery thin with all your knowledge. Thanks for it!

I remember Clifford!

Another vote for "After hours" with Mal Waldron. Wonderful! ... and everything she did with Ran Blake!

Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue train!

HAWK. And very close to him, PREZ and TRANE.

Thanks for your recommendations! I´ll put three or four of them in my must-have list!

Wonderful music! I don´t know (as I´m not an expert in oriental music) if this suite only takes this kind of music in a "tourist point of view" (paraphrasing the first title in this record), but I enjoy every spin I give to it. Nowadays I have it on my car stereo, so it´s my first listening of the day when I get to work! It´s one of my favorite late suites from DUKE (alongside Latin American suite and others). Tunes are excellent, the exotic sounds of the orchestra, marvellous solos from Hodges and Gonsalves, and then there´s the trombones section and...Harry Carney (I love his powerful sound) Favorite themes? All of them!

Any fans of him out there? Could you recommend me where to start? Thanks in advance

I´m a big fan of hers. She uses her voice as an instrument, scatting inventively. No wide register, but she holds every note as if it was the last moment in her life. Her new release (HighNote 7096-2), again with the Steve Kuhn trio, features Tom Harrell on four of the thirteen selections. Anybody has listened to it?

Chuck: Are you sure Disconforme (Jazz Factory & Definitive Records) is the same thing that Fresh Sound? And Ocium? I know this was discussed in another thread, but I can´t find it! (and I don´t know if we all reached an agreement)

For a bit more cash, you can pick the two box-sets "The complete LY small group recordings 1936-1951" (Blue Moon), 4 cd and about 25€ each. They include all the small group studio recordings (with alternates) except those with Billie Holiday. It´s cheap, the booklet is slender but useful and the sound is passable. With volume 1 you get all the master takes from 1936 to 1949.

He´s in my top 20. I like some of his recordings ("Point of departure" is in my top 20 "post-bop recordings") but -like soul stream- don´t understand all his music and his harmonic developments.