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Ok, embarassingly off on #7, but otherwise... I've never heard that album Hawk did with Thad, didn't even know it existed... but I'll have to look for that, even more so as I like Eddie Costa a lot as well! I hope I didn't make too much of a fool of myself...

ok, here we go - the usual disclaimers apply - played once, not checked with my collection, not googled around to spoil the fun, just typed as I listened... great compilation, very, very enjoyable! #1 - Hm, sounds familiar... Hawk w/Roy? Some Granz thing from the late 50s or the 60s, I assume? Terrific groove going on! Or is this from the Opera House Verve disc? Got to dig that up again... very nice! Would make sense, as the pianist isn't likely Oscar Peterson, and on that Opera House date they have John Lewis, I think? Could well be him. #2 - Nice! Love it when there's that soaring soprano over a band (like, for instance, Jerome Richardson flying on top of the Jones/Lewis band - but that's not them?). Hm, tenor is nice and meaty... very good one! Baritone is too soft for it being Pepper Adams, no? No clue here, but I love it! Soprano is the best of this! #3 - Great Song! I *love* Cole Porter! No clue who's singing here, but that bass line/arrangement thing is stolen from someone else's arrangement, I think!? Pretty nice! No clue who the singer is, but I like both the singing and the arrangement here. #4 - Good alto sax intro, vocal quality - I like that! Eddie Vinson? Bit of a thin sound (I like my alto heavier, usually), but very flexible and not too straight (I'm sometimes rather quickly bored by straight, always in-tune altos...). This more an R&B track (yeah, rhymes and beats, or what do my contemporaries think R&B is?) - might be a recent one, though... BB King's great Louis Jordan tribute album comes to mind (it's not from that of course), where Hank Crawford, Fathead and Marcus Belgrave did a marvellous job doing the horn parts. Yeah! Some might find this awkward and quaking, but hey, it's honest, that's what counts! Great! #5 - Under the influence of Prez... "Falling in Love with Love" done straight... wonderful song! No clue who this is, but I like it a lot! The drumming produces an upbeat forward-driving momentum. Ah, nice 'bone! Soft and vocal, great! Nice how the drummer almost goes into marching band stuff during the fours... I have a feeling I should know both the tenor and the trombone, but I don't dare guessing here... trombone at some spots reminded me almost of Teagarden, in its smoothness, probably one of the old swing/big band guys (Al Grey? I guess not, though...). No clue about the drummer or the pianist. Good one! #6 - Yowzah! I prefer the second tenor, that swagger thing just gets me... it's not Griff this time, though, is it? No clue about this one, but again I feel I should be able to give names to both tenors... #7 - Creamy stuff... the arranging style sounds very familiar, John Lewis? Hmm... shit, what's that tune again? Not Lewis, I think. Very nice how it builds up and the sort of starts racing! Great ensemble performance, and very well recorded, too, with all the voices/lines audible! Hm, the basss sound during the tenor solo gives this away as a recent recording (sound quality too) - I guess this is a Dameron thing done by Lovano's Nonet? The slightly dispatched tenor could well be him - I'm not a big fan, but yes, I like him some, he does some good stuff and he's an impressive player (even though clem likes to pee on him), despite not being the most original or individual player. #8 - Oy, this one I know, what is it again? Very nice one! Ah, it's from Sonny Clark's "Leapin' and Lopin'", isn't it? Long time since I played that disc... I love this one! That groove is so smooth, add the rocking, bitchy theme on top, with Rouse's big rough sound... great one! ("Voodoo", isn't it? There's a great cover version on the Zorn Clark Memorial album on Soul Note! They almost overdo the groove there... and Zorn gets into a wild, freaky solo). Lovely stuff! Rouse is great, and I always cherish the ability to hear any Tommy Turrentine - now there's a truly underrated musician, in my opinion! Poison, that trumpet solo! The sound is so good! And the spareseness of the arrangement and Clark's comping makes it all the better - yeah, there goes that upward slide - great stuff! And plink plink plink goes Clark, building up those long sinewy lines only to end up doing some more of his riffing stuff (almost Mal Waldron post-stroke!) - this is truly great, an absolute classic! #9 - Another great song... though it's an original this time, and it's by one of the greatest of them all, Tadd Dameron - "If You Could See Me Now", right? Trumpet is brassy, open, good sound. Good one, but I have no guesses at all here... #10 - Hm, at first I didn't like this, but after the opening it gets better... or rather my ears started to adapt to it... nice how this combines the "plastic" and thin electro sound with the breathing big, natural sound from the horns. No clue what it is or who the soloist are, but the trumpet pulls out his Dizzy stuff, yet only at half of Dizzy's speed (so that's why it can't be Faddis ) The rhythm is a bit too monotone/dense for my liking #11 - Oh Yeah! Preaching... reminds me of Mingus (Ervin's break on Better Git it... on the "Ah Um" album). Is this some boot/audience recording? Whatever it is, the sound can't put any damage to the groove, which is totally infectuous! I assume this is another tenor I should know... some of the sliding quick-fingered runs sound like they could be done after Benny Golson, but I assume this is either a younger musician, or then one of those old dinosaurs from Chicago? Hm, I can't understand a word of the announcement, alas... great performance! And out we go with another tenor solo cadenza, lovely! And impressive! That must have been a smokin' set! #12 - Ooops, back a few decades in style (not in date of recording, though...), into Satchmo territory - Braff? More smooth trombone... very good! Not stuff I play all that often, but simply because it's an area rather new to me (I used to shrug off all of that mainstream/retro stuff for quite some time, but I got to hear some good things by now and realized there were many very good musicians honestly playing such music... took me a while to appreciate, though...) #13 - More rhymes and beats, then so be it... very nice, though I haven't got the slightest cue... rocking tenor obbligato, and solid solo, too... doing some honking, but never overdoing it (oh hell, and what if, it's fun!) - I'd love to hear more of this (in fact I'd love to hear more of almost all the stuff included so far!) #14 - Hm, what's that tune again? Wow! This is fast, and yet it sounds so easily pulled off, laid-back... nice thing the drummer pulls off during the opening theme! Now this alto *almost* falls into the "too straight to do much for me" category (impersonated, I guess, by Phil Woods... though he, too, did some good stuff!). No clue here... an ok performance, but one of my lesser favourites. But still it sucks that I can't identify the tune... somehow I repeatly thought of "Mack the Knife", but of course it's not that. #15 - The lady returned from shopping groceries right when I started playing this an hour ago... so again, playing it now... the tune sounds familiar again and I have a hunch that the answer won't be a big surprise... but I can't figure it out. It's a bit too flowery and too embellished, but it's not bad at all. Is this the grunting guy? Could well be him... Hm, I never quite understood the bashing, as he did many things I like (although I'd never think he's such a wonder as the press would make one believe he is...)

Jim, I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly, but I try to answer nevertheless. To play the music that's on the HD, I need to hook, the HD up with my computer - there would be devices (interfaces? something like that anyway, but I'm no tech wise-guy) that would allow to play the music from computer HDs (internal or external, I assume) on your hifi set, but then I have no idea how that really works. As for saving data from broken HDs, I assume it could in most cases be done easily, but as no one does it, they want a sh*tload of money, and that's not worth it, usually. Hence having two HDs with synchronized contents is the smartest way to go (and if one goes down, quickly get another and copy all that's on the still working one to the new one...).

I was wondering... but then I thought I didn't say anything that interesting, so I guess you just skipped that Once again, it ain't Sweets, but I agree with your sentiment! well, Little Jazz would be Roy... but then I didn't play it again, so I don't know more than I did when posting this... HA! Fooled someone else with the sax player! Yeah, I saw that... so it's the Vice Pres? Or did Smith do other sessions with sax players? I don't have anything but the Getz tracks on Getz' Roost set and the one Verve Elite disc, still need the Mosaic some day... ah, yes, I have one of the Roost albums with backing guitar, bass and drums, too (part of the Mosaic, but it cost almost nothing...) Not from that album, but from the same session. Good call! Ah, glad to hear that, so it's from "Side by Side"... I have that one, too, but "Back to Back" is a long-owned, much-loved one, and I was somehow wondering if really I couldn't remember this one...

And just for the record: I quite like the Getz/Mulligan album!

Ok, I don't know Ventura that well yet, really... from the sessions on the Mosaic I got the impression he was a natural doubler (tripler, quadrupler, whatever). Another one: Harry Carney on alto sax

Well, it's not that this *has* to happen, of course... I have dozens of back-up DVDs, and it got to the point where it got so time-consuming, and when then I also discovered some reading issues, I just decided to cut that madness and burn audio-CDRs (I did back-ups of live shows, my own recordings and torrents of live material, too) and if something just got lost or EAC couldn't extract it any more... well, so be it, I still have several other thousand discs to listen to...

Yeah, that's what I mean. I overread your earlier post about that before, sorry. To me it's not an issue as I use the external drives simply for storage, not to play the music, at least not so far... if I'd ever consider doing that, I'd definitely go the route of having, say, to 500 GB drives which I'd regularly synchronize. But so far, I only quickly plug the external drives in to put stuff on them or get stuff from them onto the ipod or onto the computer to edit or whatever, never to play things.

Nope....that's still storage/playback in one. ? sorry, can't follow!

I completely stopped using DVD as back-up media - they suck. The same drive I used to burn them (and I burn slow, 2.4 or 4) won't read them half a year later, and crap like that. CD is still the best, I think, if you don't want to rely on your external drives (which is smart - having everything twice would be smartest, as those external drives sometimes fail, and they don't show any signs of failure, usually, they just die...)

Hm, my post is in reply to the first question raised by 7/4 in the post preceeding mine - just to omit any confusion. Generally on the topic, I am still also buying way too many CDs, and I don't see any point in selling them and keeping MP3 copies of the music. My main listening still is with my CD player, I only use the ipod while commuting, sometimes when at work, too, but never at home.

That's quite simple: get an external HD... I don't know how many GB of MP3s I have (most of it from CDs I ripped and still own, some of it, I confess, OOP vinyl stuff from some great blogs, some of it MP3s from blogs where I actually own the CD, too, but figured it was less work not to do the ripping myself...) Anyway, my "library" is much larger than the 30GB that fits onto my ipod, so I have it all on an external drive and can easily add and delete albms off the ipod - with WinAmp you can also back-up files you have only on your ipod to an external drive, very convenient (I used to purge stuff to get more space, and then was too lazy to rip again, so I asked around here and someone explained me how to do that with WinAmp).

Cannonball Adderley also played soprano late in his career. But maybe also too regularly to be just another one who switched horns a few times?

I'd consider Ventura not someone who switched, rather (like a few others mentioned) one who used various horns most of the time... he also does some bass sax stuff on the Clef dates included on the Mosaic set.

Bud Shank did a nice tenor album with his quartet (part of the Pacific Jazz Mosaic set - one I wouldn't want to miss!)

it was "stolen" from a series of shares I did over on dime... great music, and if you don't do the trading thing, I'd not hesitate picking it up if the prize is right!

Ouch, this is hard... I was actually starting to consider buying the Venuti/Lang if it was still around, but now it's only #3 of these again and hence must be skipped... the Hodges is a no-brainer, and also the Prima/Manone would interest me some... (just last night I played some of the first Classic of Manone's). Hm, I assume I'll only be able to afford the Hodges, in the end, and I have to wait a couple of weeks before I can order... hope it doesn't go *that* fast!

Nor's mine. Post has been really strange here lately. I'm still waiting for a CD from London that was posted on 4 Feb. MG yeah, but then you know, stuff like that's bound to happen in nations without a constitution

Ah, that's the one! I wasn't aware you were involved - great site!

yeah, got mine today, too - thanks!

Thanks for all the covers! Clifford, those Fontana covers are all rather cool (and some rather spooky I guess...) - there's a site dedicated to them, but I don't have the link at hand (it was posted here somewhere, that's how I found out about it).

i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...) nah, I should have looked up my stuff at home yesterday and shouldn't have started this thread, really... but after AMG was done newly, it repeatedly shut dome Opera for me, too... and the timing out is contstantly there, all of the time (rather unlikely if I'm not doing anything else, but I don't need all that bandwidth I have just to browse AMG... what a waste that would be... )

blocked at work, but I'll check them out tonight at home - thanks for posting them... I assume you found them in the interzone, Chas?

Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...)

Hm, the McRae was out in the US on Rhino/Avenue jazz's Bethlehem series some years ago. It included some alternates to beef up the disc to decent total time (the original was a 10" album). There are some issues there about the line-ups I think, but I don't have the disc at hand (a good Bethlehem disco would be very helpful anyway - though I do remember there being one good site, I think a Japanese one, the info on Jazzdisco is rotten).