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Your collection is larger than mine, in that case... I'm just only getting into it!

Ah, yes - if it had been tuned to a minor scale, I probably wouldn't have recognised that. MG

the poppa Lou phonecall saga would have to be part of that as well

That bit of info also confirms your perception of the balafon traditionally being tuned more or less like a normal Major scale, I assume (although I just read it how I posted it, if memory serves me right).

Avoid the earlier single disc issue. It plays at the wrong speed. Chuck, just to be sure, you mean that the 1990 Cuscuna-produced Capitol-EMI CD plays at the wrong speed? And the version in the 4CD box plays at correct speed? Sorry -- I asked Chuck this question off-list, too. The answer is that the 1990 CD plays at the wrong speed and that this was corrected on the 4CD box. Oh, thanks for clearing this up, Larry, I appreciate this!

Now isn't that interesting! When I was in West Africa once, I was taken, by a kora player, to the workshop of a bala maker. I was astounded when I ran a mallet up the keyboard that it played a western scale. Or at least, what sounded to me like that - I definitely DON'T have perfect pitch! I assumed they were all like that, but obviously, that ain't so. MG I just recently read in Songlines (thank you very, very much to those who recommended that to me, back in October or so!) that by now some balafon players were starting to use two balafons, one representing the white keys of the piano, one the black keys, so they can play chromatically, too, and do different scales.

Very sad news - I'm not nearly as familiar with her own music as I should be, alas.

very sad news

I picked this one up at the Tower liquidation sale--it's very nice. What a beautiful fusion of jazz and the music of Mali. Good to hear that! If you want to continue on the journey in Malian music, check out Ali Farka Toure's last album, it's magnificient - no jazz content (although Pee Wee Ellis plays a bit of sax backings on some songs), but if you like blues, you shall enjoy it!

Avoid the earlier single disc issue. It plays at the wrong speed. Chuck, just to be sure, you mean that the 1990 Cuscuna-produced Capitol-EMI CD plays at the wrong speed? And the version in the 4CD box plays at correct speed?

Sorry for being late, congratulations, Andy!

And here I thought Quebec was part of yurp (But I know they're indeed part of the EBU!)

Nat Adderley - Branching Out Urbie Green - East Coast Jazz/6 Stan Levey - This Time the Drum's on Me Mel Torme - Lulu's Back in Town Chris Connor (the self-titled Atlantic) Jack Teagarden - Think Well of Me (I hardly know his recordings, but this one I love so much, it will be hard to top!) Charlie Persip - & the Jazz Statesmen Eddie Bert - the session with JR Monterose (on Encore & another Bethlehem album, both now on a Freshsound 2CD set) Stanley Turrentine - Live at Minton's

That's about as simple a pick as: Don Sleet - All Members I never meshed with this thread, but I'm at work and bored right now, so I'll think of some favourites - main problem is I feel actually to make such a statement you ought to be familiar with more or less the complete recorded output of these musicians, which in many cases I'm not, so I'll try and stick to musicians whose oeuvre I'm quite familiar with or add some kind of disclaimer... Charles Mingus - Black Saint & the Sinner Lady Cannonball Adderley - Something Else Grant Green - Idle Moments Kenny Dorham - Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus or Village Vanguard René Thomas - Guitar Groove (not familiar with too much of his stuff, though) Sonny Clark - Trio Hank Mobley - Soul Station Art Blakey - the 1953 Birdland, the 1954 Bohemia or Free for All - I really can't decide! Clifford Brown - Study in Brown (actually Brown/Roach) Max Roach - Freedom Now Suite Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch or the Five Spot live date Ornette Coleman - At the Golden Circle Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris Herbie Hancock - probably Inventions & Dimensions, but I'm not quite sure Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator Jimmy Smith - Groovin' at Smalls Paradise (the full glorious 2CD RVG!) Abdullah Ibrahim - African Marketplace (with Yarona a close second) Randy Weston - Monterey '66 or Volcano Blues Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (the Revenant 2CD set) Archie Shepp - Live in San Francisco Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (don't know more than a third or half his albums, though) Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie Ben Webster - Meets Oscar Peterson Bud Powell - the trio date w/Un Poco Loco & the quintet w/Navarro & Rollins Thelonious Monk - the collected Genius of Modern Music (including the session on Bags' "Wizard of Vibes") Stan Getz - the early Roost quartets (disc 1 of the Blue Note 3CD set) Herbie Mann - At the Village Gate (I barely know his work, though) Yusef Lateef - Live at Pep's (Volume 1 - Volume 2 never struck me as much as Volume 1 did) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Johnny Coles - The Warm Sound Art Pepper - Intensity (tough one to choose... all his late 50s Contemporary albums are da shit!) Art Ensemble - the Nessa box Horace Silver - & the Jazz Messengers Marion Brown - Quartet (I don't know that much of his stuff, but hey, this one's so feghing great!) Lee Konitz - Motion Lennie Tristano - Tristano Booker Little - Out Front Hal Russell - The Hal Russell Story (still need to look beyond his 3 ECMs and the UMS one I have, though) Jazztet - With John Lewis Benny Golson - Free Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic Booker Ervin - The Freedom and Space Sessions (cheating... that's the title of a 2LP set with you guess which two books) Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth Alan Shorter - Orgasm (easy pick!) Miles Davis - tough call, but I think I go with PLM and pick the Plugged Nickel box Gianni Gebbia - Arcana Major Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall George Russell - Ezz-thetic Joe Harriott - Free Form (though I know just his Redial reissues and the Koch indo-jazz one) Jackie McLean - another tough call... Destination Out, probably... Gil Evans - Out of the Cool Stephan Oliva - Cinema (part of the jazz & (e)motion box) Sonny Stitt - Endgame Brilliance (cheating again, but the two albums make a wonderful compilation!) Bennie Wallace - Big Jim's Tango (or the Gershwin album?) Tommy Flanagan - Giant Steps (or Overseas Revisited?) Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge Lester Young - much of his best stuff has not been on "albums"... love all of it, for a pick: the Savoy date with Basie where he does "Blue Lester" Count Basie - difficult again... maybe the Famous Door broadcast on disc 4 of the Columbia boxette) Duke Ellington - another tough one, but I go with those who chose Fargo, too! Albert Mangelsdorff - Now Jazz Ramwong Ianci Körössy - Identification Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up Larry Young - Unity Bennie Green - Soul Stirrin¨ Dizzy Reece - Star Bright Steve Lacy - tough one again... School Days, Work, or Morning Joy Charlie Parker - the Dial & Savoy sessions - all of them! Lucky Thompson - Tricotism (the trio dates!) Julius Watkins - the BN 10" albums Tadd Dameron - the Café Bohemia live stuff with Navarro, Eager and Rudy Williams! Someone ought to collect all of it and do set!) John Lewis - Private Concert Sacha Distel (w/John Lewis) - Afternoon in Paris Barney Wilen - Moshi (not quite sure, though) Shelly Manne - At the Black Hawk (all volumes)

well, actually i had intended to buy albums until 2050 or 2070... same here... but even if CDs disappear, we can switch to vinyl in 2040 or so!

Maybe they're overreacting a bit because they slept on the whole www thing much too long? On the other hand, it might in fact be them who have the power to actually fulfill their prophecy, too...

Happy Birthday, David!

If you have that 'Le Jardin aux Sentiers Qui Bifurquent' CD, hang on to it! There won't be any more in that series. The Wilen 'Estate' forbade the release of the other albums I got that one just when it came out, by email, directly from that guy who has been liquidating his business for a while now... sad times. Why did they forbid?

That's great news! Did you ever hear anything about a second release on that other label that did the bifurquing disc?

You're 24 addicts, too? I couldn't watch it on TV, would be too hard to wait a week... waiting for Season 5 on DVD now!

hammond = cheese = TRUTH! (...but only out of context, of course, as if that was necessary to add... )

Happy Birthday!

Herzliche Glückwünsche & alles Gute! I'll play some Guaraldi later to celebrate (I have your MP3 compilation on my iPod now, but I also got Black Orpheus and the Charlie Brown soundtrack, as well as a bunch of Tjaders, some with him... and of course the Tjader/Getz! Thanks for helping me getting hooked - Tjader-wise, mikeweil was a big help, too...)

You know, I too remember seeing mainly MoJs at one store here in Zurich, but that was before I got interested in anything pre-Bird/Dizzy/Bud, alas, and once I became aware of the great series, it was too late and they were all gone! The Classics have never had good distribution here. And the duplication thing is bothersome, BUT, in my opinion: for a MoJ disc, which has thorough annotation, good sound, and complete sessions (there are not as many alternates with everyone as with Bird, be honest, usually it's not such a big annoyance to have a second take with different solos, no?), even if half of it is just duplicates of tracks I already have. But a Classics disc I would not buy in such a case, since possibly masterings are bad or at least spotty, sessions are not containing alternates, playing time is only ca. 60 minutes (if it's an archival project, why not include a date more per disc?)... I am willing to buy a quality product if I have half of its contents on lesser editions, but I'm not willing to get another lesser edition... (I know, Classics does a great job in documenting the music, but they're definitely not as good, quality-wise, as MoJ or Hep or some other labels). The blues reissue policy sounds like a great idea and would indeed make sense with jazz reissues, too! Sad it isn't so! I guess each company is just milking their Miles and Trane and Brubeck etc. and not looking any further. Power to the small companies! If Freshsound continues in the direction they're taking now, I hope for many good reissues from them, for instance! Fegh Sony if only because of Duke & Basie, fegh em! At least they do Miles near-perfect, but that's probably because they sell it better...

Was this one ever on CD in recent years? I could have picked up an original LP of it (don't remember if mono or stereo) but it was too expensive... I didn't even play it to make sure I wouldn't buy it (35$ or so).