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Just watching "The Hazy Osterwald Story"... pretty funny. And there's a great little "Man with the Golden Arm"/monkey joke while they're in London

btw, of three discs in my order with these silly magnetic digipacks, only one really works, the other two just will remain open... I've often wondered about this packaging when looking at Clean Feed disc in stores, but now I'm finally convinced it's really moronic.

He'd have been scandalously young, but this guy could have been Rava's dad... but the latter's complexion would be somewhat different then

Got my order today - two packages, which was nice - might have just about cost me some VAT and stuff if it had come in one! Happy easter listening ahead!

We certainly had the Gaurdian, didn't we? Seems Connors insisted, thinking he was actaully (huh?) right!

already guessed wrong w/ Harrell. is it bad form to guess twice in a BFT? i have one more guess... Sure, go ahead! Don't know of any bad forms around here... would be delighted to get second round comments or whatever goes through your head!

Oh, "Afro Jazz" would be great! And so would "Hum Dono", of course....

There's a duplified track (and hence another one missing) - not sure, but I think CD2#22 is one of the takes of "Sweet as Can Be" that's duplicated, while "Late in the Evening Blues" is missing.

weezie arse?

Same here! Fabulous band! Quintessential hardbop! The Lugano disc is well worth tracking down (officially, TCB is distributed by Amazon, but not all their releases show up there, and many cost half a kidney).

Stefan, thanks for your thoughts! Some thoughts of mine in response... Again, no names are correct - but you've guess that already #1: Rendell/Carr - interesting! That and the NDR remark on #4 is the closest you got! (Hm, there's also Harriott and ICP/Dorge... kind of circling in ) #12: the piano player is 9 years Jarrett's senior... he's involved in another piece here. I'm hoping for someone to pick out the trumpet player in #8! He might well be the biggest name of all featured here (he's not the leader though). #2: this is of course a different era than Wild Bill, but this guy does indeed sound rather old-fashioned compared to what JOS came up with. Took me a while to dig, but I enjoy him (got two of his albums and some sidemen-appearances, like the one here). #14: there's no tenor there... so not Shepp, for sure

Yep, that CD twofer is fine!

None of the names are correct, of course But Jarrett and Tyner... with those two as reference, it might be possible to identify that pianist, eventually! It's two basses on "Caravan", btw, one doing the bottom chores and the other having some fun on top. Interesting the guesses for Wheeler and Harrell... the guy heard there is a generation older than Harrell (and some years Wheeler's senior, too). More of an "inside" player (though Harrell is a bopper at heart, too... not so much Wheeler!)

Good stuff indeed... I just wished for some more care - the Coltrane disc was quite a letdown, as I was hoping to get the untinkered-with masters on a new "remastered" CD!

Thanks for sharing, EKE! Will surely keep pulling for Mr. Terry!

Ben Webster / Don Byas (the MPS album in a pressing from Jazz Magazine) - lovely stuff!

Happy Birthday, Allen! :party:

I could try and check if there are more single copies of that PM Sings PM around - mini-LP packaging, no notes, no nothing, but they sold plenty of these for roughly 3.50$ in a shop here... drop me a message if you're interested - but as I said, all but one tune are on the Raven compilation CD. The missing track, btw, is the closer, "This Time You Suffer Too". Soloists on the album are Eric Gale (g) and Seldon Powell (ts).

I think there were 3 LPs PM sings PM, which I've got and lurve Blues, & then some, which I used to have but it got fucked up and also lurved PM is a blues master, which I never heard but my friend said was great. Dan, is this available now? I'll get one if it is. MG It's available and very good! The first of the albums, PM sings PM, is also part of one of those big Sony essential something albums boxes and is excellent! All but one of its tracks are on the RCA years compilation, while the two other albums are present with about half their tracks. Too bad they didn't do a 2CD set and include all there is!

I know - there's the thread from back when: Didn't have a clue about Percy Mayfield back then... Has that issue about (possibly) wrong contents of the CD ever been resolved?

I've seen "My Jug" - but that's not even half of the music on the CD, and it's probably CD-dubbed anyway...

This seems to be *very much OOP*... would love to get it, if anyone here doesn't need his any longer. Just failed to score one on ebay (went for nearly 60$ which was too much for me). Maybe anyone here has a lead? It seems it left almost no traces on the web (though it can be streamed, but I'd love to get the real thing)!

It's not Wheeler, no - but it is definitely a first-tier guy The alto I like a lot, too! There's no full album of this, alas, but there are several other good tunes - but let's wait a while with the recommendations... I don't much about the flute player here, but it seems he's mainly a sax/clarinet player, flute may have just been a digression. I'm glad you enjoy this track - was frankly a bit unsure myself, but it was the only one feasible for BFT inclusion. Yes, you have to! All folks with ears ought to, really! I've never heard of this guy you mention, indeed... McCoy, yes. Got to relisten, wasn't aware of the Cantaloupe thing, interesting! These three are all heavyweights, the bassist is a dozen years Clarke's senior (and Clarke's best work is well up to par with nearly anyone, I think! With the original RTF, with Pharoah etc.) which makes him four years Cecil's junior. He played with a heavy expat guy many, many times. This one, again (like #7 and #10) comes from an entire album, so there IS more! Here's the oddity... I thought many would hate it, but just had to have it in Yeah, well, you will be surprised! The soprano guy is a late and beloved chap, kind of an outsider/guest here (as is the man who's not Kenny, of course, and the pianist in #12)... I love the album. It goes back much further than Kenton, really! Yeah, church of Ayler (thoroughly atheist, in this case, I guess... but I wouldn't really know). Well, there was nothing to peak at so far - glad you enjoyed it, thanks again for your great comments!

Great comments, Thom! Musicians' comments, too - which has me learn something about the music I picked, after all! You're on the very right track there, geographically... this whole thing was an experiment, I thought I'd pick this stuff and submit it to the well-feared org-scrutiny... the second tier thing may very well be true in many cases, and it's all the more interesting that you stop making those comments on the later cuts, as the guys on #7-12, roughly, are mostly very much up there on the level of anyone else, no matter where they come from! I just absolutely love this one, in fact I think the baritone is nothing short of sublime! I wouldn't be bothered by the band here, not at all... alas I know but three cuts and each is owned by one soloist (the bari guy's the leader though, and this is obviously his cut!) The poor alto guy... I absolutely love him, but I can hear where you're coming from. These were his beginnings, he went into freer musical territories later on, and I think he can swing like crazy! See, here the "second tier" comments stop, at least in regard to arrangement and horns - and rightly so! I love the twin basses and the overall feel of this! There's some other mighty good tracks on the album this was chosen from (which mikeweil will immediately recognize, I'm sure). (splitting up in two, more quotes than allowed, it seems)