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10-15... including the silent ones... (I am guilty as far as gnhrt's is concerned, too...)

Happy Birthday, Lon! And all the best to your wife as well!

That's nice! The Swiss paper I read daily (NZZ) sometimes carries articles by Simic (comments on political stuff in the US, mostly - very interesting read, each time!)

I'd put it this way (and I have about 10 of his discs, including the BN box, so I don't have as strong issues as others here): he's technically very, very accomplished, but not really going places all that often... just not an inspired/inspiring player, most of the time. Another one I have and quite like (make that 11, then) is the quartet he did with Steve Grossman, shortly before he died. (Grossman has a few very good ones on Dreyfus, including "Time to Smile" with Elvin and Tom Harrell and a trio one with Art Taylor called "Boucing with Mr. A.T."). I wonder, how's "Flamingo", the disc with Grappelli and Roy Haynes? (Who's on bass again, NHOP?)

In only have the Owl with Lee Konitz - good one! Are any of the others available? I only know of an "Owl Years" 2CD package that I didn't feel like buying...

What do you mean? I guess it's rather anotehr case of a license timing out way before the slated number of sets has been sold (same for Berigan, Bailey, Roach and any other I bought recently that was running low). Pretty sad that they seem to be unable to sell the actually planned number of sets in so many cases!

Interesting... The Talented Touch I loved back then but have only played it again two or three times... the Concord twofer is still standing exactly where I put it after a first listen (in the living room, next to some other "easy on the ears" stuff that I might put on when we have musically undemanding guests...) Still "Upon Reflection" would be my choice for one Hank Jones disc.

re. Budd Johnson: his soaring soprano on Randy Weston's great album "Tanjah"! hellyeah! I don't know much about Budd, but hold him in highest esteem if only for the few things I know he did late in his career - very impressive!

no need to argue, clem, I can hear where you're coming from, but maybe if you ever feel like trying some more Hank, get his "Upon Reflection", a fine trio set composed of Thad J. tunes (which makes them special, of course... lots more love and interest for/in Thad here than in Hank...) anyway, KB was sort of my favourite guitar player back when I got into jazz, but I find today I rarely listen to him any longer... I don't listen to that much guitar anyway, but if so, I'd rather go with Grant Green or René Thomas, to just name two.

Those look cool. Those ARE cool! yes indeed! I ordered some more OJCs (Ernie Henry & Sonny Criss)... ouch ouch ouch!

I think I know Dallas only from "Motion" but he's indeed pretty good there. r.i.p.

And where's Clarke/Boland's "The Golden Eight", please? Ah no, let us have another version of "Blue Trane" first, sure!

I don't have that Elvin album yet - it's on my huuuuuge OJC/Fantasy to get list... Probably he was (is? has the news been confirmed in any way by now?) just too strong a musical personality. I mean his walking lines, his timing, all of it is too personal for him to just fit in on any kind of jam session or loosely arranged studio date. With Roach though, he's very inspired and inspiring, I find - much more so than George Morrow, who just happens to play the bass in the band, most of the time, Davis is there, you can feel him at any given moment and he's actively shaping the music, not just accompanying - that's how it feels to me, at least...

The Blue Note box does not contain any sideman work, it's just a repacked version of Petrucciani's own albums. Some of them are pretty boring synth stuff - you'd be better off buying some of the acoustic sets, I guess - there's "Power of Three", "Promenade with Duke", the two albums that came out on BN CDs later, originally for another label, "At the Village Vanguard" and "100 Hearts"... there are more discs available, but I'm not a big fan (don't find him as bad as Christiern does, though). The BN box I got used for an ok prize and have kept it for the three or four ok albums it contains (Power and Promenade being the ones that come to mind, spontaneously - there's also one with Aberzombie on guitar).

And the discs aren't schmutzed up? I love this set, too--AND the sound. No, I was lucky. Got it a month or two ago used from a seller on UK amazon... all the discs look fine, I still put them in papersleeves which I squeeze in the foamy stuff... Sound is magnificient, and Christian kicks ass bigtime! I had the two old Columbia/Legacy discs before but didn't play them for years, letting anticipation for this box set grow for quite some time, and I'm very, very pleased, I have to say! Now I'll have to look for the JSP live set, eventually... discs two and three yesterday - wow! The session with Prez & Basie is heaven! I will though rearrange the music chronologically on CDRs, I think - the liners do mention how the music evolves etc, but the way it's arranged on the CDs, it's a pain to actually play it that way!

I have been playing the Roach Mosaic set with additional other discs in between and have just entered the tuba band months... Davis was a monster player! His playing on the Newport live set (with broken arm or fingers or something!) is terrific! He always struck me as a terrific musician when playing with Roach - and as "just" a very good bass player in most of the other contexts I've heard him in. Magic at work when he and Roach got together!

I thought it was a tetralogy - "L'avventura", "La notte", "L'eclisse" and "Il deserto rosso". No use seing these on DVD, in my opinion (I haven't been able to see the last one yet, but it's always sad when nothing remains so I won't force it...). In my opinion, the first two of the mentioned ones are among the most beautiful films ever made. They may be boring to some, but they're among the most moving films to me, for sure. Lots better than "Blow Up" (cool, definitely, but not great) and "Zabriskie Point" (less cool, and less great, too, I find). Other than these five (fifth being "L'eclisse"), I haven't yet seen anything, but I can wait for the early ones and the rarer laters ones to appear in a theatre - wouldn't be nearly the same experience on TV, for sure. By the way, the soundtrack to "La notte" was done by pianist/composer Giorgio Gaslini. He and his quartet also appear in the film, shortly. He's not exclusively a jazz musician, but he did a bunch of good sessions/albums, mostly released on Soulnote. The soundtrack to "L'avventura" is one of the most fascinating ones I know - "L'eclisse" is similar, the opening sequence especially good - when the stoopid sixties twist song ends, there's sort of a hum you can't identify as part of the soundtrack really, but after a while, you see there's a fan in the room... In "L'avventura" the best part is on the small island - there's that double 180° camera turn - a defining moment (for me, at least), and there's a most fascinating abstract/concrèt soundtrack. Of course the images are plain beauty - you could put each frame on your wall (blown up, of course...) and it would look great! In "L'eclisse", Vitti is as great as she's in "L'avventura", but Delon is just too weak a baby-face... somehow he fits the part, since he is indeed incorporating a weak character... anyway, the main thing in "L'eclisse" may be how Antonioni uses architecture as almost a personified actor - the scene in the stock market is terrific!

I'll take a pass... spent too much anyway, of late.

Thanks for the info - sounds interesting to me, then!

Please send me download links, too! I still haven't participated in #49 yet, but I hope I will and I hope I can contribute to your BFT, too!

I don't know whether this is the right thread to ask this question (there doesn't seem to be a general thread about the Dutton Vocalion reissues so I did a search and this seems one of the more likely places): What's this one here? A compilation of stuff from other discs available, or a compilation that came out as such, back in the day?

Yes, in the Verve LPR series. A nice one, but the Verve Elite reissue of "Bass Hit!" is a much better album! Chuck, that's interesting - Kotick has a pretty low profile nowaways... of course he pops up on quite a few albums, but I wouldn't have thought him to create lot of stir. How about Wendell Marshall or others like George Duvivier, Joe Benjamin?

They could probably sqeeze them onto 10 CD's, which would be no worse than the Mildred Bailey set. ( ) a squeeze box? a squealing one maybe? I actually like the Bailey box *a lot* - but I'd still be in for a big, fat Clarke-Boland box! And if not that, than a smaller one... anything with rare music by this great band would be a treat!

yeah, he quite looked like an old-fashioned auntie there... come to think of it, in most of his flicks...

And the discs aren't schmutzed up? I love this set, too--AND the sound. No, I was lucky. Got it a month or two ago used from a seller on UK amazon... all the discs look fine, I still put them in papersleeves which I squeeze in the foamy stuff... Sound is magnificient, and Christian kicks ass bigtime! I had the two old Columbia/Legacy discs before but didn't play them for years, letting anticipation for this box set grow for quite some time, and I'm very, very pleased, I have to say! Now I'll have to look for the JSP live set, eventually...