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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!)

Digby Fairweather Monty Sunshine Valaida Snow

me no believe no french chemist!

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!

Very interesting, Mike! Sounds indeed like an 8CD set going up to 1965 and including some stereo/mono takes would be the best thing to do here!

Very interesting, thanks for sharing, Chris!

Recently heard the fine Mike LeDonne disc "'Bout Time" (thank you, brownie!) and just yesterday dug up Harrell's "Open Air" on Steeplechase from the local sales bins - very enjoyable! His tone is so beautiful!

Yeah, everything else, we'll hear some day, won't we?

Oh yes, that Roy Brooks is a hell of a cooker! Recently gave it a spin again after quite a while, and dug it even more than I remembered!

Done - good to have you aboard, Ronald! I'd wish for some more interest!

Good one! And soon you'll get some LHR, too - finally!

As so often, I'm slow catching up the news... but seeing some Flying Dutchman material (with most of which I'm totally unfamiliar) and even more so "Intents and Purposes" and "Dogon A.D." officially reissued would be great news! Can't give you my impressions of the Carter/Bradford Select, as I'm lagging behind Mosaic's releasche schedule... but I'll definitely get hold of it while it's still around!

That would have been extremely embarassing... but I do hope that their liner notes author (who likely wasn't involved in writing the blurb in the email and on the website) would not have repeated that mistake...

Who is Miss Pellings? Can I see her, too?

They've fixed the goof now...

Some of that music was on the Giuffre set... wasn't it just some kind of intimate rehearsal/performance space?

I still need to give #82 a spin myself... but first I want to finish this one. One final spin is still needed for final approval, after that the option for CDRs is up and running!

Ah yes - and their policy keeps them from releasing it again. No problem with me - although I had to piece the Getz/Raney set together with various CDs (but then the Roost 3CD set is as fine a unit, I guess, as was the Mosaic!)

This thread has vanished... but I finally am reading it while holding my VEE "Only the Blues" in my hands, and all of it is included there. The bonus tracks from "Only the Blues" were already on the 1991 US CD version of "Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio": http://www.amazon.com/Sits-Oscar-Peterson-Sonny-Stitt/dp/B0000047CM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1295392149&sr=1-2-spell

We all have the "Stan Getz Plays" CD anyway, don't we? It has been around for decades, making the sales bins at least twice a year in Zurich Got to check my mail (and actually read beyond the subject line )