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no really great finds, but hey... one might be (finally) the definitive way to play Pres' Savoy sides, and the other five have great covers and all six were cheap: The Essential Coleman Hawkins (Verve Germany, 2304 537) Lester Young - Pres / The Complete Savoy Recordings The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 1 - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 2 - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 3 - Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 4 - Louis Armstrong Favorites The Pres contains one of the tracks from the Playboy festival (which I don't need any longer as I've got that Spotlight LP with the mean cover) and some selections from Verve, plus one early side with J.J. and Bennie Green, plus the also early (but Verve) "Picasso"... I got it for it's lovely foldout cover with a great picture of Hawkins on front: The Satchmos... well, no need for them really, but they just look and feel wonderful and the covers are all in very good shape, too! They're not originals, I guess, they have x "LP" 4964 and following numbers printed onto the labels), but they were cheap and look and feel wonderful!

Indeed! And most fascinating, too! I wasn't aware that any more than the great Verve 2CD set might even be around from there! Would make a nice JLH-produced Mosaic Select, I guess! (That is not to state anything against a Phonographic release, of course... the Verve-involvement made me think of Mosaic - but then if the tapes don't belong to them, it might be all different again!)

and now disc 2 (1975): Twet discs 3-5: Music 81 Lady Go Tomasz Stanko Freelectronic Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987

spring? seems it came and went... next days it's getting cold again, but I've seen several deer right in our lawn last weekend... in the midst of town! and I've loved the warm weather for the last ten days or so (right after we'd been having 10-15 degree minus for long enough that some lakes froze... to the pleasure of the ice-skater and the sausage stands).

George Coleman is the tenor player on that album, not Joe Farrell. Yeah, I noticed today.... sorry about that! It always comes to mind quickly as a very good supplement to the Mosaic/Blue Notes, and I also had it several years before buying the Mosaic, so it kind of grew on me for some time... but that still doesn't make it Farrell ;-)

That's very interesting. There's some moody, dense thematic music in that one which always sounded Gerald Wilson-ish to me and I'd always thought it was Gerald's orchestra. You have just cleared up one of my big mysteries because I could never find music by Gerald on record which mathched it. Cheers ! Googling around some more, I found he also wrote the soundtrack for "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot", which I saw last year (w/Eastwood and Jeff Bridges).

Those are the Pres volumes (and more about them can be foudn in the Pres corner). The ones I was talking about are the Basie volumes (eleven of them up to mid 1939). A quick search didn't turn up much on them, though I do rememeber they have been discussed somewhere here, several years ago.

just a little footnote for Mssrs. Sangrey and Mommentine: saw Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter" in the movies a few days ago - score by Dee Barton. And a pretty effective one, too. Seems he also wrote the music for Clint's debut as a director, "Play Misty for Me" (which is referenced early in "Dirty Harry" on the marquee of a movie theater in the background), but I missed that one, alas.

Look through the Basie and Pres corners if you want to know which volumes contain lots of live material... I've got Vols. 4, 5, 6, 8 and 11... guess those fit the bill. The Famous Door material from July 15, 1939 is on the second half of Vol. 11 - I think that was how far they got with Basie, but I'm not sure there (it came out in 1999). There's one overpriced offer here: http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Edition-Vol-11-Masters-Jazz/dp/B00000K2L7/

MoJ discs are difficult to find nowadays and may cost a lot. They went under around in the early noughties, not sure when exactly, 2001/2, I think..

just took out some hatOLOGY discs last night... including the two Lieb solo discs - but right now I'm spinning his duo 2CD set with Marc Copland, "Bookends", and on disc 1, there's a wonderful tenor sax solo performance o" Lester Leaps In"! Also, have the Shepp solos from "The Long March" been mentioned?

Yeah, it was a tough call between her and Helen Merrill, really - but in the end I reach for Merrill more often.

Mike, I did get the orange and blue LP boxes... other than that, yes there's the "America's Band #1" box, which has all the octet studio material, some other small group (most of that in fact) and some selected big band sides (not enough of them, not nearly so!)... but the main point is the glorious live material on disc 4. Most or all of it had been out on Masters of Jazz before, but not in as great sound. Pres is amazing there! Some of the best I've heard!

Billie Holiday Anita O'Day Helen Merrill and plenty of others, too... Ella, Lee Wiley, Sheila Jordan, Shirley Horn, June Christy, Chris Connor, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Beverly Kenney, Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Betty Roché... Male would be more difficult... Jack Teagarden, Hoagy... Andy Bey, sure, Jimmy Scott, on some days Johnny Hartman (or some of his recordings), Mose Allison... Guess I still forgot plenty.

That's very good news, Jonathan! A few hours ago I took out "Ne Plus Ultra" (the hatOLOGY CD reissue) to play again... great persprectives that I may be able to hear more of the kind in the not-too-far future!

A not-to-be-named member of this forum sent me an empty (darn!) bottle of Ubu Ale along with some music I still have it on display here!

What Jim says... there have been some "fixing" attempts, but even the best version I've heard is virtually unlistenable... guess these sexophones could actually have been impersonated by a muddy early rhodes or some such. Quality is really, really bad, and if it weren't for Trane and the other luminaries involved, I'd certainly not have played this through several times.

Happy Birthday, Al!

lady Jim's no repeater's pencil!

hey, who took my nuts?

But no matter how much we try, we won't be able to reproduce terminology of a by-gone era nowadays... I mean I would have issues if quotes got mis-treated by fitting them into current terminology or if old books would be adapted. But I really do think Pullman is entitled to use the terminology he wants to for his own narration.

Interesting... I just got a mail from amazon.fr moving back the expected release/delivery to March 31! Lame, will compare prices with other sources, I guess. Oh well, just did... and I'll just wait and pay some euros less.

Yeah, he's great on those Lennie's discs! Plenty of music on the two CDs!

There's one he made with Art Pepper, too... haven't heard it for quite some time though.