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Happy birthday, Bud!

Thanks for your recs, guys! I´m afraid that (again and again) each thread costs me lots of money!

Anybody read this Basie autobiography (as told to Albert Murray) published by Da Capo Press? Just bought it, and I´m beginning it.... it looks very, very interesting!

Yes ubu, I´m a big fan of some Grant Green´s Blue Notes (Standards, The complete quartets with Sonny Clark, Idle moments, Matador...). Maybe I should pick one of those Young-Green dates.... even if there´s no horn there!

I must recognize I´m a newbie to Larry Young. Recently picked UNITY and, to my ears, it sounded wonderful. Besides searching where to go after UNITY at AMG, I´d like to know your recommendations. I´d like those recommendations - to be comprised of two or three CDs at the most. - to be similar to UNITY, I mean similar ensemble (including at least one horn - no organ trios - ) and kind of compositions. And furthermore, as I´m a newbie, I´d kindly ask you to avoid "completist" items such as Mosaic.... Thanks in advance!

More compositions by Tizol: -Perdido (Tizol-Drake-Lengsfelder) -Bakiff (Tizol-Galley-Schwartz) -Conga Brava (Tizol-Ellington) -Have a heart (TIzol-Mills) -Jubilesta (Tizol-Ellington-Mills) -Lost in meditation (Tizol-Ellington-Mills or Singer) -Moon over Cuba (Tizol-Ellington) -Moonlight fiesta (Tizol-Mills) BTW: I dig his playing as well!

In the liner notes of "Jelena Ana Milcetic aka Helen Merrill" is included an interesting description of Helen´s singing, by Marian McPartland: "Helen Merrill is one of the truly jazz singers. She has a totally unique way of approaching a song: sensitive, yet strong, melodic yet on the edge of dissonance. No matter what her accompaniment may be, she can unerringly pick out any notes from the most complex chords, and sing with complete confidence and daring. It is this total musicality and understanding of a song that makes Helen a complete artist in the realm of jazz singers"

I have the Flannagan and I really dig it!

OK: I said "sides"... Overtime and Victory Ball... side A and B I´ll check my Tristano "Supersonic" CD to confirm. And I ask for your knowledgeable (and persuasive) opinion on Charlie PS: this is what being simultaneously in two BB brings, PD B)

It´s an interesting site, Jim. Lots of pictures and covers! (that´s where I found the above placed pictures)

This BB will bankrupt me! Inspired by your posts, and at lunch time, I´ve bought my 9th and 10th Mrs. Merrill cds: "Casa Forte" and "You and the night and the music". This will be my listening tonight!

Sure! "Sensuous" is a good word to describe her voice! I must recognize that I´m too bad describing music or whatever with adjectives... and then there´s my poor English problem!

Guess there´d been some comments on him in different threads, but I would like to know AGAIN your opinion about this controversial tenorist. I must recognize my only Ventura is on JATP set (where his playing sometimes can be called "for the gallery" or "for the masses" with all its tricks and tics, but includes very good solos) and in some Gene Krupa with Anita O´Day recordings... ah, and in some Lennie Tristano sides, too! Any comments??? Favorite recordings??? PS: BOP FOR THE PEOPLE!!!

Sure get´em all!!! If you need to start with just one.... I would pick two: "It´s Monk time" or "Monk´s dream"

I could go on and on and on...

Yes, how could you???

How could you avoid falling on love with her....?

I really dig her! She may not have the most powerful soprano/contralto voice, but hers is a warm, charming, velvet-like voice. I enjoy when she whispers more than sings... Favorite recordings? Mine are, first of all, the Clifford Brown date (her voice melts perfectly with Clifford´s trumpet tone and Jimmy Jones or Hank Jones piano) and the Gil Evans date. I have these two in a single cd included in a Verve collection released in Spain a few years ago. Hearing her singing "Falling in love with love" or "Don´t explain" makes me shiver! And then there are discs such as "The feeling is mutual" (Milestone, 1967), "Chasin´ the bird" (Inner city, 1979) or "A Shade of difference" (Milestone, 1968) that I got in some cheap Gitanes releases. I like her even in such unusual recording as "Carrousel" (Finlandia Recordings, 1996) with Finish musicians and arrangements and some compositions by conductor Torrie Zito; or "Jelena Milcetic a.k.a. Helen Merrill" (Gitanes, 1999), a really strange disc indeed!

And "fussion banjo" too! Béla Fleck

No, I don´t have the Bix, Tram and Tea Mosaic. It was in my wish-list, but when I picked those Sunbeam sets, I forgot about it... ...as far as I remember (Mosaic website is down right now) they included some sides without Bix that I don´t have (my Trumbauer without Bix is very, very, very short) ...if it´s so, I´ll put it there again!

TWO here! ...but still I don´t understand what metrosexual means!

Lon: Your knowledgeable posts are always wellcome, wherever you put them! B) What´s the Sunbeam upcoming release you mention? And regarding Bix influence... I gues we will hear PDEE again discussing it! And PDEE can be so persuasive!

Thanks for the info, FrancoisD Somewhere (think it was Alyn Shipton´s "A new history of jazz") I read something about his influence on the early "proto-bop" piano playing, as you mention. That´s why I was surprised when I look for him in my jazz collection and found he was always in a "mainstream" context. He´s featured a lot in the JATP set (with Bird, Hawk, Prez, Jacquet, Flip Phillips...). And at least in three sets he´s leading a piano trio: -With Al McKibbon and JC Heard "Boogie woogie call rag" -With Slam Stewart (well, who´s the leader here?) "My blue heaven" and "Play fiddle play" -With Benny Fonville and Buddy Rich "Boogie woogie call rag" again and "Sweet Lorraine"

Kenny Kersey, Café Society (Downtown), New York, June 1947]

Photograph of the Rhythm Jugglers taken on January 26, 1925 in the Gennett Recording Studios in Richmond, Indiana. From left to right: Howdy Quicksell, Tommy Gargano, Paul Mertz, Don Murray, Bix Beiderbecke, Tommy Dorsey.