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Happy Birthday, John! :party:

Happy Birthday, Hans, and all the best! :party:

Yes - both is "good" - the film and the music - neither outstanding, I'd say. But both together is definitely outstanding! It just works perfectly well - one of the most naturally integrated of all jazz soundtracks!

The three tracks on the Roost set are a fun coda to an essential set of music! The Birdland Stars on Tour stuff can be found on the double Jazz Classics CD set Count Basie, Lester Young And The Stars Of Birdland On Tour!. "Little Pony" starts off disc two - I don't have it here to check, not sure Getz is actually on it, will see if I can find it. EDIT: just found it - "Little Pony" is indeed with Getz: CD1 #1-3: Count Basie Orchestra #4-6: Lester Young & Count Basie Orchestra #7-9: Joe Williams & Count Basie Orchestra #10-16: George Shearing Quintet CD2: #1-4: Stan Getz & Count Basie Orchestra #5-9: Erroll Garner Trio #10-17: Sarah Vaughan & Count Basie Orchestra #18-19 (encores): Joe Williams & Count Basie Orchestra

Nope! Probably someone you never heard of ... and he wrote the tune, too.

Was this - very ugly - cover the original one? When did this come out? Who was in charge of covers then? (I've got a spanish CD of this one, using the above pictured cover.)

Saw some of these a while ago but didn't realize they were new remasters... and neither did I know they contained additional music. Would have bought both the Montgomery and the Guaraldi. Will be waiting for them to turn up in the bins again!

John Cameron - Off Centre Al Green - I Can't Stop Compay Segundo - Calle Salud George Shearing - Jazz Moments

Hey Jim! Great to have you in! And of course no, never too late! Very interesting comments of yours, and my pleasure to have exposed you to some unfamiliar music! I'll put my comments in below in the usual colour... TRACK ONE - "Black & Tan Fantasy", not sure by who...very definite & sure-footed time & tone...a few embrocure wobbles here and there, sometimes sounds intentional, sometimes not...all things considered, I think they accomplished what they set out to do. Of course you know now who is playing here... interesting remarks about the embouchure - I thought so rather often while playing Marion Brown... but I still love his soft sound! TRACK TWO - Wow,,,this is kind of...OUT! Somewhere between, 1944-46, I'd imagine. somebody who had been hearing the early bebop, Dizzy especially...guitarist sounds the most fluent and independent...pianst had surely been exposed to at least a little Monk...no idea who this might be, or how it came to be recorded...no drummer, really casual playing, it's almost like a private recording...interesting... As I said before, the guitar player is unknown to me (except that I do know his name)... will be interested to learn about him after the results are out. You're spot on with the Dizzy and Monk influences... but these are contemporaries (as you'll know since you dated it almost correctly). TRACK THREE - No drummer her,,,will this become a theme? Nice, lyrical playing, but I'd have preferred a little bit more, uh...injection of life. Good idea, and I'm all for "cool" & "melloe" ad all that, but this sounds either high, drunk, tired, or somehow otherwise not fully engaged, and not it a particularly good way. Just my opinion. I can relate to the "high, drunk, tired, or somehow otherwise not fully engaged" description - but to me, this has endless charms! TRACK FOUR - Drums! "Street of Dreams"! And Lee Willey. I've never been able to fully engage with her, but by the same token, I've never been able to walk away either. She's got something, I just can't put my finger on it. I've heard somewhere that this song was writtien in the context of being about an opium den, but have never bothered to confirm that. The thing about Lee Wiley had such nice phrasing...the timbre of her voice - and the vibrato that results - kinda creeps me out sometimes, but the phrasing fights back with some mighty power. Very interesting remarks! Took me a while to really dig her... but I've been doing so now for several years. TRACK FIVE - Teagarden. His horn phrasing was so fluid, his vocal phrasing often not so much..of course he was older here, but still...this is good for what it is, I'm just not sure why it gelt the need to be that. Yeah! Maybe he forgot to put out his denture here? Seriously, I just love how down and out he sounds here (as well as on his other late Verve album). TRACK SIX - "I Cover The Waterfront", an audience recording. First impression is Moody, let's see how it develops...yeah, that's largely Moody tonally, but chops-wise....not sure... he might have been really old and tired on this one. Or else it might not be him at all! Not Moody, no... the guy was rather young back then (at least to my knowledge) and left far too soon, too. Moody makes more sense to me as a point of reference than Dexter though, that's for sure! TRACK SEVEN - Oliver Lake? I like it. Sounds like his out-of-Dolphy curlicued phraseology on more than one occasion. He gains momentum as he goes along, even if the tempo slows down, that;s kinda weird. The bass solo keeps sounding like it's going to turn into "Bitches Brew" at any moment...Probably not the best that any of these guys have played, but everybody sounds really solid, the real deal, especially the bass player, and oh by the way...that head sounds REALLY familiar...is it a Dolphy tune? Not Lake, not a Dolphy tune... the real deal indeed - and also not the best tune from the set I took it from, but I had to watch the clock, too... I find the alto playing highly engaging and love the bass player (who btw is the most familiar musician of the three). TRACK EIGHT - Nice ballad, nice tune, nicely played, nicely paced. Yup, nice. He did some more engaging, more out stuff, too - but I love him for his lyricism and this was the best example I could find (though his lyricism often also pushed through the turmoil of larger and freer ensembles). TRACK NINE - Oh MY! I was NOT ready for this one! In a good way! That altoist plays like a tenor player! Lester Bowie? Probablyt not, but no Lester, no this... and the chart is SO straight...BIG fun here! Not Lester, but he *might* (not that I knew) have been an influence? Isn't it great how the alto (heavy sound! that's how I love alto!) bounces off the straight ensemble in his own way? He did more outish stuff, too, but I think I prefer him in such inside/outside settings, after all. TRACK TEN - Tape Hiss! Geez, I had forgotten what it sounded like! Clealy deliniated idea, nice use of space, good back and forth between the players. A very centered piece of music. I like it. Yeah, this is from a tape indeed TRACK ELEVEN - More alto! No faulting that bass/drunms tandem, but the altoist sounds a little...limited on this one. Very Ornette-ish tone and phrasing in spots. Maybe this ain't his bag. He's trying, though, and he can definitely play. Just sounds like he's not particularly motivated/able to get into the material too deeply. I hear lots of devices, not a lot of ideas being developed. Or maybe he's a total badass & I'm just not hearing him. It happens. I don't know much about this alto player, but that is his bag to my best of knowledge. This is one of the tracks I might have to reassess after the various feedback here and on the other forum (German-language - can give link if anyone wants to read more) I posted this BFT. TRACK TWELVE - Skills! Yeah! Gee Doctor, that's good 'nuff! TRACK THIRTEEN - Interesting intonation choices...you know how some people live out from the rest of the town & they get some of the news but not all of it and then form their own story with some really "local" stuff in it that sounds pretty weird to everybody else but not to them because, hey, they've never hear otherwise? But they come into town and tell it as they know it and people just kinda look and say"o.....k....". That's what this sounds like to me. Your comment here is by far the most engaging I got on this cut... not too many seem to like it at all, and yes, it's definitely weird, and "local" is probably spot-on (I know where these guys come from, but not when they recorded this). TRACK FOURTEEN - "Tennessee Waltz". Have you heard Sonny Rollins' version? It's a good tune to blow on, actually.It appears that his version can be found here: http://www.allmusic.com/album/keepin-out-of-mischief-now-r223931 Bingo! I think I have Rollins' version (the one on "Falling in Love with Jazz", right?), but don't have it in my mind... will dig out the CD. I fell in love deeply with Sam Moore's version and wanted a cool one for the end of the disc and thought this would fit (and no one so far got it, I think). It's anachronistic on so many levels, I just love it! TRACK FIFTEEN - No idea, but I'll drive home wide awake now! Yowzah! Hope you're getting home well! Thanks for these very interesting comments!

Hey, I thought I had replied to your comment already... happy to hear you're finding it interesting and enjoyable! My intention was to run the whole gamut, from "Red" Allen right to... well, I won't reveal too much yet

Wow, intriguing stuff, George! That trio of Mosca, Ind and Ferrara certainly sounds tempting!

Great idea! What with Braxton, Threadgill and the hopefully upcoming Rivers! Why don't you drop them a mail about this?

can you put this one aside for me: Ada Moore with Tal Farlow, John LaPorta I gather it's NOT on the Mingus Debut set!

Cool Jazz at Sain-Germain-des-Prés (Jazz in Paris 10 inch)

Having heard CD's 1 & 3, I would answer "Yes" to that question, though the "Stan Getz Plays" material is arguably the best. I much prefer the Roost material with Raney though...

AND THE COMMODORES! Oh yes! How could I forget!?!

Yes, the Keynote and Aladdin recordings are absolutely essential!

Still plenty of time left for #83 - late-comers most welcome!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Sadly, for Hip-o boxes that Amazon.de price *is* unbelievably great. Twice that is the norm. I've gone for it anyway. It is a great deal, and on top of that Amazon Germany offer free shipping within Germany and to some of the neighbouring countries, including Austria, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands And to us switzers, too - if the order's total value is 20€ or more...

count me in for a download!

Happy Birthday, Victor! :party:

Thanks, c! Glad to hear that! #1 is the only one on this set that you won't find commercially... but I can help of course, once it's revealed. Oh, and haven't we all been wrong about tracks we had already? Happens to me with almost every BFT where I actively participate in, I'm afraid!

pre-ordering it from amazon.de then...

You're welcome - glad to hear you enjoy it all the way!