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No problem, Jim - it is how it is... if one day I'll connect better with Roach's playing here, I'll gladly report it! Interesting about that bass... I never liked these kind of in-between basses a lot, however... not that it's all bad, necessarily, but I've heard them played in live concerts, too, and it's just sort of a lame excuse, more often than not... (but then there are still nowadays sound men - or bassits who ask them to do so? - who mix the bass like say Buster Williams sounded in the late 70s and early 80s, with that metallic slid-ey twang... doesn't get uglier even on such an in-between thing, so it's not necessarily about the instrument.

retarted? but you're merrily posting away, which makes your face look gay I'm quite sure!

by stalking poor polish kings around stoopid korners? I hope that makes you gay!

and why twiddle and fiddle diddle? and why does sevenfour always post just where I post? am I being followed? is the sevenfouri actually the fbeye?

an i for an i?

and why keep I saying I? did I catch keepnews-I-tis? (that would not be funny, I guess, would it?)

If I had "Forrest Fire" blasting out here, I'd not be bored... and why the hell does it keep raining?

Anyhow there were quite a few Ellingtonians: Clark Terry, Jimmy Hamilton, Al Sears, Taft Jordan, Shorty Baker, Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard, Britt Woodman, Wendell Marshall come to mind. That Taft Jordan twofer is great! Forgot to mention I have that one as well! Here's the cover - one to grab quick!

Probably these Ellingtonians where still in a position do do a record date on their own, now and then, opposed to guys like Claude Hopkins, Buddy Tate or sidemen like Hilton Jefferson (on one of the great Hopkins albums on the "Swing Time" twofer - btw. for a short while, Jefferson was an Ellingtonian, too - Capitol years, replacing Hodges... an underrated period, I'm glad I have the Mosaic!)

why do I find this funny right now? what state of mind must I be in to do so?

why again does the struggle continue? (or why not?)

why do I need money to live? (do others, too?)

why do I have to work?

why am I at work?

why am I so bored?

why do I bring this up again?

why?

Here's Losin's list, just because... Swingville series (12" LPs) 2001: Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio (Coleman Hawkins) [8/12/59] 2002: Tiny in Swingville (Tiny Grimes) [8/13/59] 2003: Tate's Date (Buddy Tate) [12/18/59] 2004: Callin' the Blues (Tiny Grimes) [reissue of 7144] 2005: Coleman Hawkins All-Stars (Coleman Hawkins) [1/8/60] 2006: The Happy Jazz of Rex Stewart (Rex Stewart) [see 7728] 2007: Buck Jumpin' (Al Casey) [3/7/60] 2008: Swingin' with Pee Wee (Pee Wee Russell) [see 7672] 2009: Yes Indeed! (Claude Hopkins) [3/25/60] 2010: Rockin' in Rhythm (Swingville All-Stars] [3/31/60] 2011: Jive at Five (Joe Newman) [5/4/60] 2012: The Bud Freeman All-Stars Featuring Shorty Baker (Bud Freeman, Shorty Baker) [5/13/60] 2013: Stasch (Prestige Blues Swingers) [2/5/59] 2014: Tate-A-Tate (Buddy Tate, Clark Terry) [10/18/60] 2015: Let's Swing (Budd Johnson) [12/2/60] 2016: Night Hawk (Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Lockjaw Davis) [12/30/60] 2017: Buck and Buddy (Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate) [12/20/60] 2018: Swing's the Thing (Al Sears) [11/29/60] 2019: Good 'n' Groovy (Joe Newman, Frank Foster) [3/17/61] 2020: Let's Jam (Claude Hopkins a.o.) [2/21/61] 2021: Shorty & Doc (Shorty Baker, Doc Cheatham) [1/17/61] 2022: It's About Time (Jimmy Hamilton) [3/21/61] 2023: Blue Stompin' (Hal Singer a.o.) [reissue of 7153] 2024: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Coleman Hawkins a.o.) [4/14/61, 5/19/61] 2025: Years Ago (Coleman Hawkins a.o.) [4/14/61, 5/19/61] 2026: Uptown and Lowdown (Cliff Jackson's Washboard Wanderers, Dick Wellstood's Wallerites) [7/20/60, 7/27/61] 2027: Joe's Hap'nin's (Joe Newman) [5/9/61] 2028: Can't Help Swingin' (Jimmy Hamilton) [4/4/61] 2029: Groovin' with Buddy Tate (Buddy Tate) [2/17/61] 2030: Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues (Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate) [9/15/61] 2031: At the Jazz Band Ball (Leonard Gaskin a.o.) [11/30/61] 2032: B.B.B. & Co. (Benny Carter a.o.) [4/2/62] 2033: Darktown Strutter's Ball (Leonard Gaskin a.o.) [8/23/62] 2034: Mr. Allen (Henry Red Allen) [see 7755] 2035: Blues Groove (Coleman Hawkins) [reissue of 7138] 2036: For Basie (Paul Quinichette a.o.) [reissue of 7127] 2037: Basie Reunion (Buck Clayton a.o.) [reissue of 7147] 2038: Soul (Coleman Hawkins) [reissue of 7149] 2039: Hawk Eyes (Coleman Hawkins) [reissue of 7156] 2040: Dixieland Hits (Leonard Gaskin a.o.) [8/28/62] 2041: Swing Time! (Claude Hopkins, Budd Johnson, Vic Dickinson) [5/22/63] 4001: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Swingville All-Stars) [2 LP set including 2024, 2025] I don't have many of them, but the ones I have I enjoy a lot! What I have are some of the Hawkins ones (w/Garland, Night Hawk, Soul, Hawk Eyes, the all stars on the twofer with Pee Wee Russell), the QUinichette, the Hal Singer, the two Claude Hopkins twofers (four albums all in all), the Bud Freeman, and Shorty & Doc.

I was too late for the Trane box at 2001... and "Fearless Leader" is a great set - definitely nicer than the small cube-box ZYX editions... and it's great that the original liners are all there, also cover reproductions in colour (if ZYX booklets had that, it was badly-copied b/w scans, about 1 x 1 millimeter or so... the Pepper Galaxy is one of the worst jobs in that respect, Evans Fantasy not much behind). Anyway, it's about the music, of course, and if I had the large box, I'd never have thought of getting "Fearless Leader", but now I want the new one, too... I guess you know how it goes!

I still have to play the McGregor solo albums... (and also still have to get the two recent BoB reissues...) But here's a fine album I found on sale last week: McCoy Mrubata is on saxophones, with him are other young south african musicians, including Paul Hanmer (piano), Zim Ngqawana (sticking to baritone sax), Moses Khumalo (alto sax), Marcus Wyatt & Prince Lengoasa (trumpet) Monkie Senkhana (trombone), and others, forming groups of varying size. Here's a short review that catches the moods: source: http://entertainment.iafrica.com/music/archives/197798.htm

what MikeWeill mentioned above, the sessions with Draper and Elmo Hope and that's all? would be a nice set, I should think...

The place for the 1971 tracks is Chateauvallon!

just in case, if the third box would happen, it would include: - parts of the Gene Ammons "Groove Blues" / "The Big Sound" session - the Tadd Dameron album - the loooooong session with Red Garland ("Soul Junction" etc. - four albums - are they all with Coltrane? or is he only on a few tracks on each?) - the date(s) with Mal Waldron what else?

some stuff on sale (bought in the past 2-3 weeks): - Oliver Nelson: second helping of Blues & Abstract Truth - Sonny Rollins: Alfie - Peggy Lee: Black Coffee (marvellous!) - Mariano/Hübner2/Beirach: Beauty (Intuition) - Art Blakey: Indestructible (RVG - finally found a non-CC version) - Jenny Scheinman: 12 Songs (Cryptogrammophone) - Matthias Kielholz: Sunny Strings (Brambus) - Teddy Edwards: Nothin' but the Truth (OJC/Prestige - from amazon marketplace) - Trotignon/El-Malek Quartet (naïve) - Joe Turner: 1907-1990 Giant of Stride Piano in Switzerland (Jazz Connoisseur) and a few more that I can't remember right now... - Tony Kofi: Future Passed (on a Proper sub) - McCoy Mrubata: Face the Music (Sheer)