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Yeah, but this one's on Prestige, too: It's this one I feel ambiguous about.

Just make sure you don't end up spending the rest of your days without it, it's too good to miss! Nothing else I can add... don't have much Bags yet, myself. brownie: the two Prestiges, the first is the Milt Jackson Quartet, I assume (I have it and find it... subdued on good days, boring on bad... it's a late night disc, to me, very quiet and all), but what's the second one? (And then I assume all the other OJCs were done for Riverside and later Pablo?)

I guess they would be the same - it wouldn't make sense to produce the same discs in several locations in Europe... I'll have to look for the Rouse at least - I always remembered seing the old US CD reissue being announced in other Columbia discs... time to check it out, eventually!

Happy Birthday!

You think German trains are expensive? Take out a 2nd mortgage or sell a few Mosaics before you use one here.. I can't swim... but there's Easyjet to Luton... but you wouldn't want to go to Luton either.... No, but there's a train directly into London from there... no need to stay in Luton. And if you book the train like 5 years ahead, paired with your cheapo last minute flight, it costs only something like 5 pound or so... he he. No car lover here... in fact unable to drive, but now let's get back to Monk!

Michael Moore - one of my big favourites, great clarinet player as well!

Add Stefano di Battista!

Thanks again everybody! Is there more like that one track recorded by Bud Powell? Not bands/musicians specialising in Bach or doing a whole album of such music, but rather just one tune on an album? I assume there has to be more, but I don't know, myself...

just finished disc 1, continuing with discs 2 and 3 now, probably 4 won't fit today... like this one a lot!

You think German trains are expensive? Take out a 2nd mortgage or sell a few Mosaics before you use one here.. I can't swim... but there's Easyjet to Luton...

Can you and Jim recommend something specific by these two groups? I only have the double six as vocal group on other albums (in fact only one, I think by the MJQ), and nothing at all by the Swingle Singers, so I have no idea what there is!

I placed an order with UK Amazon (not the Monk set) on Tuesday 9th; it was delivered yesterday. I orderded on 9th, too, but haven't even gotten a shipping notification... As for my Stralsund trip, that needs to wait for a while, german trains are so effing expensive, and I wouldn't want to travel via Poland, if not necessary...

If this is really piracy, and I've got to admit, it rather looks like it, then the major companies could put a stop to it by issuing the same material with tiny profit margins at prices that would drive the pirates out of business. Since they don't, they're like someone who allows squatters on their land for seven years and lose it. Tough. No sympathy. MG Well, I guess it depends on your definition of "piracy" - it would be way out to think anyone lets Lonehill/Gamit/etc. even close to their vaults, hence they have to take the music from other releases, be it CDs, LPs, whatever (Classics does it that way, too, as far as I understand, mostly relying on some people's astonishing 78 collections). But since copyrights end after 50 years in Europe, the release of this material isn't piracy by law... so they're ripping off others work (I guess they use Japanese CDs, too) but what they're doing is still legal.

I don't know, but I guess they'd be acceptable, as the timeframe starts early enough to include ragtime and similar stuff, too, so why not the Swingle Singers...

A friend of mine has chosen to write his diploma/thesis at University on Bach material used by jazz musicians, hence its title, "Swinging Bach". The scope is 1890 to today, he wants to analyze various musicians and their way of dealing with Bach's compositions. He's aware of the Modern Jazz Quartet and John Lewis, of the Classical Jazz Quartet (with Kenny Barron), and of course of Jacques Louissier's "Play Bach" material. I also pointed out the little thing of Bud Powell's, "Bud on Bach", but haven't had a lot of time so far to delve deeper into this. The only thing I haven't told him about yet and I have, are these two fun compilations done by the French Sagajazz label: They proceed chronologically, thus the Bach tracks are the opening ones on volume 1. I don't have the discs at hand but it seems there are only two Bach tracks here: 01 Interprétation Swing du 1er mouvement du Concerto en ré mineur Eddie South 02 Bach Goes to Town Benny Goodman Any help appreciated! Just point out recordings and musicians, please!

There's this great solo disc by pianist Stephan Oliva (I'm a fan of his - a specialist in brooding darkish solo performance, he also collaborated with François Raulin on a Tristano project and leads his own small groups or peforms in duos, for instance with Joey Baron - www.stephanoliva.com): The label is Illusions (www.illusionsmusic.fr), it came out in 2007 (recorded last december) and it's a limited edition of 2000, packed in the nice cardboard digipack style that the Sketch label was using (it looks like some kind of Sketch offshoot, with Philippe Ghielmetti producing and designing the cover, recording at Studio La Buissonne by Gérard de Haro, all very Sketch-like). I gave it a first spin yesterday and found it very good! Here's part of the liners (by Oliva I guess, but it doesn't say so): "I never try to play his music in totally faithful fashion, and am perfectly willing to make allowances for subjective alterations that may arise through tricks of memory, improvisation or the transposition of orchestral work over to piano; yet when I was recording this CD, I had a twofold feeling -- that of re-experiencing all those films and melodies* as they re-emerged at random inside me, according to the emotions evoed, plus the even stranger feeling of being in the actual process of creating the music for yet another film where the subject would gradually draw a life portrait of Bernard Hermann himself, with allt he complexity that implies. For me, he's a phantom figure, the ghost who'll haunt the spirit of these timeless films for evermore" (typos are mine, of course) *) music is from "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Obsession", "Vertigo", "Psycho", "Fahrenheit 451", "Citizen Kane", "Taxi Driver" and a couple of other films, from 1947 (Mrs. Muir) to 1976 (Obsession). If you enjoy piano music (I bet you do!), Oliva's disc from the 5CD box "Jazz n (e)motion" is fantastic! It's an all solo thing, too (the other pianists tackling film music are Martial Solal, Steve Kuhn, Alain Jean-Marie and Paul Bley, the box contains a short bonus disc but it may be easier to find some of the discs on their own, as it's all been OOP for a while). Seems the Hermann disc isn't even listed on the FNAC website and FNAC is the only store in Paris to carry it... if I had known, I'd have gotten a copy for you when I was there last week, but now I'm home again...

Oh well, there you go... the thieves are once again offering best value for money... this is sad, but eventually it will lead more and more people to buy their stuff, I'm afraid!

on a sidenote, why does Cannonball not turn up on the set with his rhythm section (on Vol. 2, Feldman/Jones/Hayes, with Dizzy, J.J. and Getz)? Kind of weird, no? Would he have asked for too much money to do more than just the two first numbers? Or was he at odds with Granz?

Playing this one: It's part of a Stockholm concert from November 21, 1960, originally a double LP (never on CD, I think, I have a vinyl rip) that contained mostly those parts centered around Dizzy's quintet (w/Leo Wright, Lalo Schifrin, Art Davis, Chuck Lampkin) and guests (two tracks with Cannonball Adderley, Benny Carter and J.J. Johnson, Wright out; one track with Roy Eldridge, Don Byas, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins and Jo Jones, Wright and Lampkin out; three tracks, including a smokin' "Kush" with J.J., Getz and Candido added to the quintet). There seem to have been other volumes with the more traditional/mainstream parts. Here's the info from jazzdisco.org: This once again makes me dream of a box or several boxes collecting all the 50s and early 60s JATP sessions in a thorough way!

Thanks for clearing that. I have the 1201 (or is it 2101? whaterver, it's that DA Music/Black Lion successor label) version of "Reaching Out", with all the bonus tracks, but I haven't got it with me... seems "Gettin' into Somethin'" I don't have. I have one more though, that's been released under several others' name, I think. Mine is under Flanagan's and on Prevue and OMITS the bonus track that were part of another reissue (I think on Black Lion under KD's name). Anyway, Frank Haynes is there, too, and doing great! Is "Gettin' into Somethin'" available? If not, Lonehill might be my way of choice - though maybe not, as I always enjoyed Sony/Legacy reissues a lot soundwise, and I'm sure these will sound good, too! (Koch even though they had that HD stuff going on, always kind of left me indifferent, but then I own only five or six Koch CDs.)

what does this one from Lonehill contain, in addition to the two Gutter albums? Disque : 1 1. Slop Jah 2. Little Old Mongoose 3. Evad Smurd 4. Blues for J.P. 5. One Foot in the Gutter 6. Well You Needn't 7. Sandu Disque : 2 1. Brownie Speaks 2. Comin' Home Baby 3. Two Feet in the Gutter 4. Shiny Stockings 5. Lady Iris B 6. Coffee Walk 7. Reaching Out [*] 8. Our Miss Brooks [*] 9. One for Elena [*]

Amazon.fr - Release date: October 29

some more: Can't find Vol. 2, sorry. Now back on topic, please

I found this one yesterday while looking for an Arnett Cobb cover: It's by far the largest scan I found.

Remember to include couw's booklet with it, that's worth more than the original anyway! And don't forget couw's piece of the €5000 cake, either I'll travel to Stralsund and pass over some couple of small change personally, but only if he accomodates me for free, of course