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good list my friend, so now please tell uns a special performance of the named bass players each !! Well, not really ... I read the original post and would not have provided this list if there would have been interest ONLY in particular performances. But regarding Ware, those recordings with Griffin do rock my world. Watkins I first heard on "The Cats" and I still love that album - he's also terrific on those Savoy sides with Morgie and the Hankster (I seem to remember particularly one or two tracks on "Introducing Lee Morgan"). As for Harry Miller: whenever he played with Louis Moholo - those two rock my world, always! No matter if with a mid-sized Westbrook band, some ZA combination or Peter Brötzmann, I just love their free bounce, Miller makes me smile. Israel Crosby ... well, each and any track with Jamal and Fournier, I guess - not a single bass solo if memory serves me right, but he's always *there* and he always delivers - must be one of the most integrated combos of all music. Mingus - just one: "Haitian Fight Song"! Weber - live solo gig and other concerts - wonderful boomy sound, no show off, even though he can pull some tricks. Same for Barry Guy - live was always mighty impressive, wouldn't be able to pin down any particular track on CD (I don't have many of his anyway - there's too much good stuff around and too little time to keep up with it ... this is the kind of music I prefer hearing live, after all). Pops Foster w/Luis Russell to me is musical heaven indeed! As for LaFaro ... well, I'm indeed not that big on him. Same for Bill Evans in general, actually. I like the trio (but I always wonder how it would have sounded with a Motian further into his career ... on these early sides he's still green and not doing too much - he was to turn into such a fine, idiosyncratic musician ....). Anyway, I like listening to those recordings, actually I guess I can say I love them, the mix of all things makes them great, but still, La Faro is just not a top favourite bass player of mine.

oh, and Addison Farmer!

as for favourite bass players in general ... I guess these might do for me: Pops Foster Wellman Braud Walter Page Junior Raglin Jimmie Blanton Israel Crosby Oscar Pettiford Charles Mingus Percy Heath Doug Watkins Wilbur Ware Peter Trunk Charlie Haden Jimmy Garrison David Izenzon Richard Davis Gary Peacock Art Davis Malachi Favors Fred Hopkins Wilber Morris Barry Guy Johnny Dyani Harry Miller Henri Texier Jean-Jacques Avenel Christian Weber also Sam Jones, George Tucker, Arthur Harper, Al Stinson, Cecil McBee ...

seems you might be able to get it from George Robert's website: http://new.georgerobert.com/lonelyeyes.html

Are you serious about Earl May? Hard to think of an even less unimaginative choice for Coltrane's trio session (even if that might have been an accident only) ... I'm not all that big on Paul Chambers, but give me Doug Watkins any day please! Earl May, however, to me makes "Lush Life" a rather boring record, definitely not among the top 5 of Coltrane's Prestige recordings - the title track is the great one on that album, as for the trio date, best of it all is the longer take of the blues that ended up on "The Last Trane" - there, Earl May sounds pretty good indeed, but on the three titles of the original album ... not really.

Tried my luck for the Zinman and the Perahia ... not holding my breath though. And re-ordered the Tebaldi from amazon.it which has it 10€ cheaper than @ .de. Not that it matters much as the custom naz*s will strike anyway, but ....

Very sad indeed - saw the group live once, a few years back, and he was pretty fantastic!

Just ordered mine from amazon.de - a tiny bit cheaper and free shipping ... of course custom fees and some VAT will be added, but I need this one!

I know one when I see one

not sure if a link is okay, so I rather don't ... but many of you folks here know about Johnny Trunk and some of the fine (and weird) stuff he brings to light - his 50p Friday offer of today's is "Something New from Africa", an LP I've known since I was a kid, as my parents own it (not sure, I think it might have "moved" into my own record shelf by now ) Miriam Makeba, Lemmy Special, Jimmy Pratt (he was with Bud Shank's quartet!) and many others can be heard ... closer to jive than to jazz, but a very entertaining record!

Indeed! Has that one ever been on CD?

Happy Birthday!

some of the many I don't have yet Red Garland Revisited! and It`s A Blue World good choices, especially dig "It´s a Blue World" (btw has a really good cover art too !!).... I don't have too many of Red Garland's Prestiges yet ... half a dozen maximum, but it seems he churned them out almost monthly ... those two do look good (and I think according to CDJapan some of these japanese OJC reissues are already out of print).

which Red Garland`s did you order ?? some of the many I don't have yet Red Garland Revisited! and It`s A Blue World

I think I have some regular european pressing ... same for Hines/Byard.

The Barry Harris ("Vicissitudes", I think) is pretty good - found it on vinyl a while ago. Also the Byard/Hines!

Hm, that Roach surely looks interesting, with Steves Lacy and Kuhn in the band! What would "other work of the period" be? The Atlantic albums? It's Lacy that has me curious here!

Oh yes, that one's very good indeed!

I love them ... sure, there's some oddball stuff in those studio sets, but all in all, that's a pretty fine body of work! Though my favourites by Mangelsdorff remain his first two longplayers ("Now Jazz Ramwong" and "Tension").

hugely enjoyed revisiting the Vee Jay sets ... and frankly, I'd love to have a huge number of alternates on the albums that don't have any - "Kelly Great", the first Kelly trio w/Philly Joe and the Chambers with Lateef and Tommy Turrentine - that's one cool band right there!

No the ones I mean were later and added up to the complete Mangelsdorff on MPS. Universal's earlier series (that was intially all digipacks) included one: And then, they added the whole sheband - two double discs (live and solo) and two five disc sets (regular jewel cases with cardboard around them) with all the remaining studio albums - not duplicating "And His Friends"): The earlier ones you had in mind were these (Motor Music, same series as the Henderson I depicted, and the 2CD edition of the Sun Ra I mentioned):

Not sure if it's only a BE variant or just a general old-fashioned variant, but I've seen it before (prestoclassical.co.uk uses it as well when sending out their shipping - or despatch - confirmations)

I usually capture my cat and use one of her claws ...

Yup, that's of course what I've been reading about in the past days (got the big two part Whaley book on the way as well, not sure when I'll find the time for it, but what bits I read left a pretty good impression).

Happy Birthday, Allan!