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I like the ballad as well, MG! And Dan, I considered singling out "Moment's Notice"... but then "Lazy Bird" is great, too, and so is "Locomotion"...

I strongly disagree. Of course the title track is terrific, but for me, all four originals are classics!

Hm, definitely not a one-trick pony, but Johnny Griffin's "The Congregation" longtime had such an effect on me... his solo on the opening track has such drive, such momentum, so much joyful exuberance, in short, it may be the only Griffin solo I could almost sing along from beginning to end... after that, all that came on the album seemed rather lame and tame by comparison. As I said, not at all a one-trick pony in my current assessment, but back when I got it (on Conn vinyl originally, in the 90s) and had much less jazz experience, it seemed to be...

They're great with Martial Solal as well!

"to whomever" You're slipping, chewy. MG don't be so harsh, he attented a grammer school all summer for this!

Interesting observations by ms fong and mr thornton - my exposure to Mariano has so far largely been jazz-based discs (plus said duo with Sinesi - what's that, some kind of flameco-jazz?). In that area, he did quite a few marvellous albums, in my opinion. And I enjoy his early work - in the early/mid fifties he must have been one of the most individual alto voices around (next to Konitz I guess).

just finished playing a recent recording with Richie Beirach (p), Gregor Hübner (viol) and Veit Hübner (b), aptly titled "Beauty" (Intuition, rec. 2004):

About the redhead?

I only have the Fresh Sound live of those... should get the others I guess. But I'm debating a real buying stop so don't push me please

Yes, but I'm still not sure I won't pick it up on impulse some day... first I'd still be interested in hearing something about the... uhm extra-musical extras, mainly the book - anyone got this box by now, or is there indeed not one single board member who owns it?

Time to dig up those Mariano/Geller live shows I have on some dust-gathering pile... 185 years of great sax playing! Wow!

Happy Birthday, Charlie! A great, individual, yes unique voice on the alto sax! The duo album with Quique Sinesi and his Enja quartet album "Deep in a Dream" are marvellous!

This is all so lame... why don't they just put out the great Scheveningen 1960 concert as a bonus, instead of studio farts and the well-known (and much-loved in this house!) 1958 studio session? That was a big letdown about the Deluxe Edition of "Round About Midnight" already - why just the one tune and not incude the whole 1955 Newport session?

About time! That one was carried on from at least the first edition I own (4th I think).

You know, the confusing thing about those "jewel case originals" is that not only the few mentioned above were called like this, but a whole lot of other "regular" reissues over here were packed just the same, for instance: Benny Carter - Further Definitions (as opposed to the rule, that one was a straight reissue of the earlier digipack twofer in the Impulse Master Sessions or whatever that series was called) Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster Tony Scott - Music for Zen Meditation (those are just three I remember seing in a store today... not a full list by far, I guess there would be 20 more...) Some other discs were repacked as "Verve/Impulse/... Masters" (including "A Love Supreme", "Getz/Gilberto"). And finally, one more "Original" that I'm not sure where to put (but I'd guess it would be part of the actual series) is "1" by the Crusaders. And we'd agree that the Coltrane batches (also part of two boxes) were sort of like the Nina Simone Philips batch - same packaging, but not actually part of this series? (As if it would matter in the end... I'm getting nerdy, I'll sign off and have a beer now!)

I thought "Abaton" (ECM), a double CD set with a disc of compositions and one of improvisations in trio with Mark Feldman (her husband) and Erik Friedlander was pretty good. It's the only CD of hers I have so far. Caught her live in trio with Vincent Courtois and Ellery Eskelin - that was pretty good as well!

Hm, I have the Green Select and one of the three ballads on the Quebec "Ballads" compilation (which I got when the 45 Sessions weren't out again, so it contained a few titles I didn't have). That means all I miss are two more ballads/standards, right? Too bad... don't really feel like buying another CD for two titles only. On the other hand I have most of Quebec's output, so... waiting till the RVG's on sale, I guess

Welcome back, Matthew!

From a quick glance, the Monk looks like it's using the Sony/Legacy versions, too - those are very well-done CD, with restored tracks and some alternates, too.

very sad to hear this. this here's still my favourite photo of hers, taken by Jürgen Schadeberg in the fifties:

So sorry to hear of your loss!

I guess this belongs among those albums that aren't wide-spread (there's also an earlier one with McPherson coming to mind, "My Favourite Quintet" - never heard it), but indeed it's quite good!

yeah, you see - so he's indeed all over it!

sorry to hear this - Turner's definitely one of the interesting among the recent flood of young tenor players, here's hope he'll recover!

www.priceminister.com If it's not there it's because no one has it on offer at this time - but this is like Amazon Marketplace, things come and go, and often you find them for good prizes and shipping costs are fair as well.