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I'm all for the understatement school... Bill Evans, certainly (those lingering, melancholic notes on ballads). Art Farmer always shows tasteful restraint. Jim Hall on guitar. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden ?

early Billie Mose Allison Jack T. Special mention: Jimmie Lunceford's guys.

An excellent one-disc selection of her best - and most swinging - Columbia sides : "Getting Some Fun Out of Life"...

Does anyone know by any chance what kind of trumpet and/or mouthpiece Fruscella played ?

Thanks for the "warning", Dan

re: "Locomotive" I think nobody mentioned the first, excellent version of this tune on Monk's MONK (Prestige, 1953) with Ray Copeland and Frank Foster. I wish that quintet would've recorded a lot more. Foster sounds great (and Copeland has a most remarkable solo). Regarding Rouse, I love his sound and directness, and I like Monk's Columbias, but for me the tunes tend to run too long for both Rouse's and Monk's good.

Yes - especially re: Don Joseph. I wrote to Uptown Records: they said that Don Joseph's "One of a Kind" has been remastered by RVG and that, "hopefully", it will be issued next year.

Hello ! What album (leader or sideman) would you recommend to hear Brew Moore at his best ? I really enjoy his playing here. re: Don Joseph - It would be great if Uptown reissues "One of a Kind": a chance to hear Bill Triglia as well (really like his subtly incisive, intelligent contributions, on this and on Fruscella's self-titled album).

A short but sound review by Doug Ramsey here: http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/10/recent-listening-fruscella-moore.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rifftides+%28Rifftides%29