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Any comments on Sidney Bechet 4CD Proper set? I´ve just ordered it Thanks in advance

D or V? Being a spaniard, I don´t know what I have to take! If D, Don Redman If V, Vyacheslav Ganelin

Wellman Braud

Miff Mole

Randy Weston

Pops Foster or Pops/Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) ? -Tete -Toshiko -Chu -Cab -Big Sid -Lockjaw -Jelly Roll -Bix -Tootie -The lion -Lux -Mezz -Tricky Sam -Cootie -Bubber -Fathead -Hot lips -Ma

Adam´s apple: a total masterpiece, because both the playing and the compositions

Though I tend to prefer Mingus´ smaller ensembles work, and though this recording is sort of "greatest hits revisited" (only one real new composition, "Celia"), this band sounds with total perfection and arrangements and new vissions of earlier Mingus´ themes are superb!!! I like Mingus´ bass sound, which you can hear in the front-line like never before! It´s in my top-ten Mingus recordings (don´t know now if in my top-five) This album of the week thread is a very good idea!

If we allow singers.....here they come Ella and Sarah A few more: -Marilyn Crispell -Jane Ira Bloom -Alice Coltrane -Toshiko Akiyoshi

Listening for today: -Kenny Dorham and the Jazz Prophets, vol.1 -Coleman Hawkins: Sirius -Anita Oday swings Cole Porter with Billy May

Does "Tenor madness" fit in this category? It´s in my top-20 from all times!

My favourite recordings as a leader: -The eminent, vol.1 and 2 (Blue Note) -Pinnacles (Milestone/OJC) -all his dates with Kai Winding -At the Opera House (with Stan Getz) (Verve) Outstanding discs as a sideman coming to my mind now: -Birth of the cool & Blue note vol1&2 (Miles Davis) -Hawk flies high (Coleman Hawkins) -Alfie (Sonny Rollins) -The Cape Verdean blues (Horace Silver) ...

Must recognize I haven´t heard some of those pearls: I promise I won´t "procrastinate" picking them... so I vote for "Procrastinator"

Wonderful recording! From his work with Dolphy, I´d add the two Prestige volumes "At the Five Spot" (1961) and "Memorial album" (1961). He was included in Coltrane´s Africa/Brass sessions too!

For an intricate ride on CT´s music, try "It´s in the brewing luminous" (Hatology, 1980). It will take more than one listening...

Some mid-to-late 50´s and early 60´s superb recordings with Jo Jones: -Ben Webster with strings (Webster, Ben) Verve 1954 (54-55) -Pres and Teddy (Young, Lester & Wilson, Teddy) Verve 1956 -At Newport (Count BasieOrchestra) Verve 1957 -Gil Evans & Ten (Evans, Gil) Prestige/OJC 1957 -Plays (Sonny Rollins Quintet) Fresh Sound Records 1957 -Songs for hip lovers (Woody Herman Orchestra) Verve 1957 -The hawk flies high (Hawkins, Coleman) Riverside 1957 -Mai 57 to Mars 63 (Peterson, Oscar) Jazz Magazine 1957 (57-63) -Side by side (Ellington, Duke & Hodges, Johnny) Verve 1958 (58-59) -Back to back (Ellington, Duke & Hodges, Johnny) Verve 1959 -Ben Webster and associates (Webster, Ben) Verve 1959 -Further definitions (Carter, Benny) Impulse 1961 -Ella & Duke at the Côte D´Azur Verve 1966

April 7 2003 Coleman Hawkins - At ease with CH (Moodsville, 1960) Coleman Hawkins All Stars (featuring Joe Thomas and Vic Dickenson) (Swingville, 1960) Lockjaw Davis (with Hawk, Arnette Cobb and Buddy Tate) (Prestige, 1959)

Great playing in those concerts! Town Hall is a great one! Another "curious" and IMO good CD is Carmen McRae´s "Carmen sings Monk" (Bluebird, 1988). Jordan playing both tenor and soprano. Also featured Charlie Rouse. Most of the lyrics added to Monk tunes were composed by Jon Hendricks

I enjoyed his playing in some Chet Baker sides! And the Bobby Jaspar JIP I have (Modern Jazz au Club St Germain) sounds great, too.

Another name for you....if you are open-minded: Chano Domínguez Monkish spanish flamenco-jazz and more Believe me: great stuff!!

It´s not a battle of tenor saxes, but well, it´s HAWK and Lockjaw Davis together: Nighthawk (Prestige, 1960)

Brownian Motion: You can find "Accent on tenor sax" at planetmusic.es with a very good price (9€) Well, sometimes they don´t update their catalogue on-line. You order, say, 15 items, and you receive 5, without any explanation by e-mail!!!

-Keith Jarrett -Cecil Taylor -McCoy Tyner -Andrew Hill -Hank Jones