Rooster_Ties

Priceless.

I'll look for more later. I think that's everything there is to find currently on eBay. An anybody fill in the rest??

"Live and Swinging"...

Here's "Feelin' Kinda Blues"...

"Portraits", the only one I had ever seen before today.

Here's a good "Everywhere"...

Here's a so-so pic of "California Soul"...

Here's a not-so-good pic of "Moment of Truth". (I'll delete this post as soon as we find a better one.) Here's a better one, but still not such a great image, quality-wise.

OK, here's a good "Eternal Equinox", from a current eBay auction...

Somebody just listed a couple Gerald Wilson CD's for sale in another thread (look for undergroundagent's recent thread under "offering/looking-for"), and it occured to me that although I own the Gerald Wilson Mosaic, I don't think I've ever seen any of the original album covers (except "Portraits"), for any of the other dates from the GW Mosaic (his complete Pacific Jazz years). Anybody have any to share?? Can we find images for all of them, and post them in this thread?? Thanks!!!! -- Rooster And PS: Which of these (if any) have seen individual CD release??? Either in the U.S. or Japan (or perhaps Europe??). Before today, the only one I knew of was "Portraits" (which I very briefly owned, before getting the Mosaic), but Allan has both "Portraits" and "Moment Of Truth" for sale as individual CD's.

Poking around on the other board (AAJ), I haven't been able to find anything (yet, at least). But for what it's worth, as I'm doing general searches on Google, the name appears to be spelled "Johnnie Splawn" just as often as "Johnny Splawn", at least in on-line citations. Haven't found anything interesting yet, although there's an interview with McCoy Tyner on AAJ where Splawn is mentioned. Doesn't say much though...

Link: LOOK HERE...

I've only had "A Beautiful Day" for a couple months, and I've only listened to it about half-a-dozen times. But I would generally give it a thumbs up. (I'm a bit of an Andrew Hill nut, but stepping back a bit -- I would probably give "A Beautiful Day" a solid letter-grade of a "B".) I probably like "Dusk" a bit more (let's call Dusk a "B+" in my book), in part because there's less of Hill's piano-playing on "A Beautiful Day", than there is on "Dusk". But if you don't yet have Andrew's "Black Fire" - this was just recently released as an RVG. It is really one of Hill's all-time finest albums ("A++"), and one of Joe Henderson's best and most interesting side-man appearances too. Run, don't walk, and get "Black Fire" just as soon as you can. (Go ahead and get it now, we'll wait right here for you. ) Another really great Hill disc is called "Passing Ships", and is a recently released recording (released for the very first time, anywhere), from 1969. It is a studio date that was thought to be lost forever, but good-sounding tapes were only just recently discovered. It features Woody Shaw and Joe Farrell, in a slightly larger group than Hill had ever recorded with before (up until that point, anyway), and it serves as a sort of precursor to his later Big Band recordings. The universal opinion of most of the people on this board is that "Passing Ships" is an oustanding album (probably a solid "A", or an "A-" at worst), that can be enjoyed by both fans of Hill's more "out there" work, as well as his somewhat more "inside" style from the period of 1967-1970. So, to recap, "A Beautiful Day" is certainly an interesting and very enjoyable recording. But above and beyond that, you really need "Black Fire", and you'd probably love "Passing Ships". Get on it!! B-)

To elaborate a bit further. As much as I like Andrew Hill's music (the actually music itself), what I love is the process of listening and getting into Andrew Hill's music. His records always reveal themselves to me over time - and sometimes a long period of time. And if I haven't heard them for two or three months -- it's halfway like a brand new experience putting them on. (Or at least this is true to a much greater degree then almost any artist I can think of.) I'm not sure if Andrew Hill music is "all that, and a bag of chips" --- but my experience trying to get into it certainly is.

Me too!! And come to think of it, "perfection" isn't all it's cracked up to be either.

I'll pick up the Hill on Day #1, for sure, cuz you all know what a nut I am about his music. And I've never heard the Jack Wilson, so that's a serious must-buy on Day #1 for me too (especially since Lee Morgan's on there!!) The others are a combination of 1) dates I already have on CD on Mosaics (the Sam Rivers and Larry Young), both of which I'll probably get eventually - but I'm in no rush. And 2) dates I need to hear first, before I'll pull the trigger (the Hutcherson, and especially the Horace Silvers). I'm a little curious about "Now!", but a buddy of mine has this on LP - and played a couple tracks for me once -- and it was certainly something that I had a mixed reaction to (to put it mildly). And the on-line samples I've heard of a few cuts from the Horace Silvers makes me very skittish about ever buying over two hours of that material, which I doubt I would listen to all that often.

Who's on the cover of this particular Down Beat?? (The one with the Bley BFT??) I need to take a look for this, before it goes off the shelves at the bookstores. Thanks!!

Sold!!! If it's still available, I'll take it. About to send you a PM. Thanks!! -- Tom

My wallet wishes they were RVG's, but I am totally understanding of Blue Note needing to charge more to release these kinds of sessions, since they are much more obscure, and of less "general" interest to the jazz-loving public. Wouldn't we all pay Import (Japanese) prices to get some of these on CD?? If so, then we should be willing to pay a few dollars more to get them as domestic issues. They're worth that much to me. And those specific titles that aren't, I simply won't buy. But in most cases (with only a few exceptions), the Conns are the titles I'm most excited about getting.

Looking again at the sessionography (up in the very first post of this thread), I think there are basically five albums' worth of material there --- with two of those "albums" probably clocking in with around 50 to 60 minutes of material each. (I'm counting the two sessions with Tolliver as being one long-ish "album" --- and then the two sessions with String Quartet as also being one long-ish "album".) If the remaining three sessions (meaning the first three sessions) are about 40 minutes each (average), then that's... 60 + 60 = 2 hours 40 + 40 + 40 = 2 hours ...4 hours total. Not knowing anything about the lengths of each session, there could possibly be up to "four-and-one-half" hours of music here. But my guess is that there's closer to four hours, and possibly just shy of four hours (which would maybe fit perfectly on 3 CD's). Also, nothing to say that they couldn't make an exception with this particular Select, and have it be 4 CD's long.

Bertrand, I answered your question over in the Andrew Hill Select thread. Link: RIGHT HERE...

Just answering Bertrand's question, from the other Conn thread... I have not confirmed anything specific, track-wise, with Michael. The set was so far off in the future, it seemed a bit too early to get into specifics. He did say that it would (supposedly), be everything thus far not yet released on CD, including all the unreleased sessions. Whether that's every track from every session, I couldn't say for sure. Looking at the sessions (see the first post in this thread), I do believe that everything could possibly fit on 3 CD's. I haven't look in a while, but I remember glancing at everything, and thinking it was plausable that it would all fit. Remember, there's up to 79 minutes per CD, which is a total of about four hours of music. Looking at the sessions, and the number of tunes at each session -- I think four hours would probably cover all of it. Anyone else think otherwise??

"Dance With Death" will NOT be included in the upcoming Andrew Hill Mosaic Select. Link: For the specific contents of the Andrew Hill Select (and related discussion), PLEASE GO TO THIS THREAD!!! <--- The complete discography for the Hill Select is now included at the very beginning of the thread found at this link, in the first post). Happy, Happy Day!!!!

From CNN.com/HEALTH. (But given the headline, I don't suggest opening this link while you're at work.)

And Jim, where did/do you file 's recordings?? Still waiting on the Sonny Blount question too.