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Still deeply into Hill... have played several times the "Judgment" and "Point of Departure" sessions today, now going through the "Andrew" and "Pax" (or whatever again they called the first of the dates with Hubbard). Gilmore is deeply fascinating, darker than Henderson ever got and hence a more fitting companion for Hill, methinks... though Henderson on "Point..." is fascinating, too... lots of Trane in his playing there, as I hear it. And KD is a perfect match with his slightly bitter lyricism - complementing Dolphy's outward antics and Henderson's more restrained lyricism.

Hope to hear it from that site we shan't mention here... what a great gig to have been on!

Thanks a lot!

Yes, I enjoy it a lot! It's limited and tentative indeed, but it's very moving music.

There's a disc I want to buy on amazon.com that only offers domestic shipping... is there anyone willing to help? I guess easiest would be that person would order it for me and then send it across the pond... and I'd pay back via paypal (from credit card). Please drop me a PM if you're willing to help me out and discuss the details!

I'll be ordering it around 2015 After the Braxton, Threeadgill, MJQ, Herman, Rich etc etc etc Yeah, same here... except I have the Braxton already. Guess the Ellington will be one to get rather soon though, as I just want to hear all of that music! You won't regret the Ellington set lot's to explore in that set, I am on the fence about Braxton. Is it plain enjoyable, or more academic? I don't have very much of this type of music. Opinions? Try a search, there must be some discussion about it. I've not yet played much of it, but enjoyed the earliest stuff (and have some other Braxton from later periods, too). Now playing:

Wow! Just about to finish my first spin of "The Complete Yusef Lateef", a 1968 Atlantic album (reissued on CD by Collectables). Recorded in 1967 with Hugh Lawson, Cecil McBee and Roy Brooks and 'teef doing some overdubbing on a few tracks, this one's a really smoking disc! I still have some reservations about the piecemeal albums (Blue, Detroit, Diverse, even more so Part of the Search), but I'm very happy about having "The Complete" now! The Atlantic period may be a sketchy one, but this one's definitely worth hearing!

I'll be ordering it around 2015 After the Braxton, Threeadgill, MJQ, Herman, Rich etc etc etc Yeah, same here... except I have the Braxton already. Guess the Ellington will be one to get rather soon though, as I just want to hear all of that music!

Never warmed to that one... a high school friend had it on CD (must have been around 1992/93 or so). The cold production sound turned me off big time... only later on I learned that Don Grolnick also did some "good" stuff (the Blue Note double disc set!)... guess I don't get a chance to re-evaluate, as these Grammavision discs have indeed turned pretty rare, it seems (Sco did a whole run for them).

- bump - will be sending out a pair of discs tomorrow... any more takers from ol' yurp who want a CDR?

yowzah! I recently scored a copy of that Goodman set! now playing: discs 1-3 (Sessions A-C) of the Andrew Hill big sucker... it's been a while - and the music is still all as glorious as ever!

No, I don't think zweitausendeins (or caiman) ever had a *great* deal on this one... but I heard there were some Euro sets sold when it was out anew. Anyway, other than the "Buddy & Sweets" album, I think it's all totally new to me, so I'm getting loads of new music for the $$$ - will likely send in my order in a few days (as soon as that paycheck arrives).

Gee, I want that Rich! Missed out on any euro-offers on this one... it's huge and costly, ouch...

Miles once did a Davidoff commercial... "Kind of ... Cool Water". (And Mingus did one for fish fingus.) There's also Lennie Tristano's "Descent into the Bathtub", a classic of that genre.

Annoying strategy indeed - I already bought that other Trane 4CD set to get the whole Village Gate 1965 set... But great news of course... though the turning up of the 1961 Newport set is even greater (will surely soon be bootlegged, but possibly in a wrong-speed version... because them bootleggers don't bother to check back in...)

Yeah, that happened to me with a Big John Patton one... and more recently with a Bobby Byrd disc. Both times I didn't realize what I was buying. I hate it that they're so deceitful to mark these as "Audio CDs" on top and you don't notice the CDR thing printed farther down the page if you don't check closely. The Patton had a nice copy of the artwok, but the Bobby Byrd had nothing but the outer covers (not sure if the regular CD has anything more, but I guess so). They should label these as "CDRs on demand" instead of as "Audio CDs", in my opinion.

Thanks Jeff! I definitely made a fool of myself with some guesses though... and mistaking tenor for alto twice is a bit embarrassing, too, as I have both of these at home (though currently I rarely ever play... and I just started to get my front teeth fixed today, so next change I get, hopefully, will be in the second half of this year, after all is done and finished).

Yeah, what did it smoke? Red Libanon?

maybe he's hiding in Lance's private jet?

Gee, I've been royally wrong about Lunceford, then, huh? Horace Henderson - nice one! Got to play my Chrono Classics again, not sure I've made it through them up to the Horace sides at all yet... But I did get Kenny Garrett, didn't I? -_-

Finally played it today... no reading here, no searching around the web, just my immediate impressions to the music. Due to a freak-up in itunes, I had all the tunes on my ipod twice and usually did just let it play like that, listening to each track twice in a row, before going to the next one (I did skip the repetition of #9 though). A very enjoyable compilation, Jeff - thanks a lot! #1 - Lovely opening! The organ came somewhat unexpected... I waited more like the guitar to go into "Between the Devil..." in the first seconds. Lovely, ringing and singing guitar tone! Reminds me a bit of Grant Green, but I most certainly haven't yet heard this one. #2 - Someone wants a coconut? New Awlins, of course... lovely tuba bit! Yowzah! This is really lovely! That mix of Afro-Cuban elements (including the sweet violins) and good time jazz is very cool! The ringing ride adds another nice touch... very colourful! I'm guessing this is some kind of mardi gras brew? Anyway, I love it - the punchy trumpets, the growling trombone, the banjo, the great tuba, the cheerfully grooving drums, the shining clarinet on top... #3 - More fun stuff... but again with a poingant, slightly plaintive note... #4 - Ok, now we're in modern territory, touches of Herbie/second quintet... the vibe of the music does sound familiar, but I'm pretty clueless who this could be. Good tenor solo and very nice interaction with the band. Good piano then, too... a nice, somewhat cool track. #5 - Unmistakenly Jimmie Lunceford, right? Love that strutting swing... there's the usual bunch of soloists, not sure about the trumpet player right now, but next up are Willie Smith and Joe Thomas, I assume? And Jimmy Crawford is showing them how to do it! #6 - Nice fat alto, lyrical trumpet, the bass/piano vamp gets somewhat tiresome though. Tenor then... lots of Coltrane in there, but a lovely sound of its own! Not Wayne Shorter by any chance? Then some trombone... and then Cedar Walton, possibly? ... some funky stuff at the end of the piano spot. No clue who this could be... maybe some later version of Blakey's Messengers (later meaning post 1964 or 1965 here). The alto sounds somewhat like Kenny Garrett though, doesn't it? #7 - Out we go into avantgarde territory... nice mix of sound, electric guitar and flute... with the guitar going down into the bottom range, almost sounding like an electric bass at some moments. A nice intermezzo to cool things down a bit. #8 - Oooh, nice! This one's got a whacky gospel quality to it. Love it! Is this one of those religious players that never got/gets into jazz circles? Anyway, great! Reminds me somewhat of Aylers spirituals album, though of course this here's an alto, but that wide vibrato, personal intonation and all... #9 - A recent track (90-ish?)... not bad but of that typical super-cool style (and production) that I don't enjoy too much. The angular theme isn't bad though and the drummer is grooving... fat alto sound like I enjoy it, and a nice guitar solo! Scofield certainly was the main influence on this guy here... nice touch with the alto then following on top of drums only... and drums doing some marching band stuff... really cool! Too bad it doesn't last a bit longer! #10 - This one's got a bit of a busy drummer... not bad, though. The tenor has got a nice sound! #11 - Tadd Dameron, unmistakenly! Love his music! And even them congas rarely trouble me, somehow he succeeded perfectly in creating a close-knit unit, whenever he recorded (or was captured by Boris Rose). I guess the soloists are Fats, then probably Ernie Henry on alto? Is this from a Blue Note date? Or is that Shihab from one of the live broadcasts? Allen Eager!? GO! GO! GO! And then Tadd with his lovely reduced piano... very cool! No, wait, is this a Big Ten unit? Then the soloists might be all different ones... hard to tell with this lacking sound quality, really... but the punch of the band, as well as it's huge sound (a Dameron landmark, for sure!) are amazing! On second play, it indeed doesn't sound much like Tadd... is this young Miles? Or that other guy who played with the Big Ten... what's his name again? Then Shihab on alto? Anyway, a really great tune! (And of course I have no idea about it's title.) #12 - Some free-wheelin' alto... got some of that upcoming soon, too! The piano sounds somewhat like a cross between Tristano and Taylor. #13 - Hum, sounds very familiar but I can't pin it down... Satchmo himself? Or rather Henry "Red" Allen with Luis Russell's great band? Builds great rhythmic momentum! #14 - More trumpet... lyrical sound, nice touch with just guitar in the rhythm section. Though it again has that cool-ish vibe like #9, but the instrumentation makes this somewhat less common. #15 - Yeah, what a way to take this out! Lovely! Reminds me somewhat of Sonny Rollins, but I've never heard him in such a sparse setting... great guitar solo, too! Oh, and what's the name of this standard again? For the heck of it I just can't seem to remember the title, one that only seasoned players would still remember, I guess... lovely closer - one of my favorites from this compilation! (Is this from some boot? Would love to hear more of it for sure!)

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But that's toward the east... wouldn't the good guys in Hollywood go west?

Ok... but I was also thinking of Stompy Jones' post above: - which sounds pretty reasonable to me!