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upping this, couldn't find it last night. James, you're gonna get the info tonight! ubu

By the way, Mike, - off topic - speaking of players, saxophone players that is, who merged swing/thirties elements with bop and later influences, one musician who stands out in my book, and who, amazingly enough is still around and going very very strong, is Benny Golson. I am a huge fan of his playing, although I have only four or five of his records. Some solo, I think on the opening tune, on "Golson and the Philadelphians" (recently on BN CD, now OOP) always kills me again! ubu

But only the sound!!! Eddie's choice of notes is entirely different from Getz'!!! That quote is very very fitting! He uses that "cool" sound but the "hot" phrasing of the advanced hard bop school. There is no other cat who could have written Freedom Jazz Dance or Mean Greens! This is some phrasing even different from Rollins or Trane. I hear a parallel to Lucky Thompson, who managed to cross the rhapsodic attitude of Hawkins with the fluidity of Don Byas and the lightness of Lester Young. Very individual mixtures of influences! Yes, you're right, Mike, I forgot to specify sound when talking of the Getz influence. Moreover, it's like a Getz-sound on alto (but not too close to Desmond or Konitz), that Harris had. Of course his whole style is completely his own - and this is one reason more why it's so sad that so many jazz fans dismissed him! He was completely his own man, playing tenor in front of a classic rhythm section (those Walton/Carter/Higgins dates, MAN!, or the marvellous Echo of Harlem ), doing his electric thing (Silver Cycle is great, so are Electrifying E.H.), as a composer, too ("Freedom Jazz Dance", "Listen Here", "Sham Time", "Funkaroma"...), as well as a piano-player/singer (a true hyphenated!) and entertainer. An album I recently got and like a lot is this one: For Bird to Bags (AMG) I think it is OOP now, but it may still be around. Reissued by Koch. (links etc working as I am supposed to be working, and am not using my notebook) ubu

Ubu, the link is right there! Problem solved? Mike, problem not solved at all! I just copied the URL directly into the text field and it works. brownie: I think I saw that Ellington CD once. Thanks for your information. That Frankfurt disc sounds cool, gotta look for it. ubu

Thanks for the info on the Granz Jams, Chuck! Brad, there's a Cannonball CD from 1960, too: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/adderley_c_cat2.html (sorry, I can't add links at the moment) ubu

Mike, I read that quote somewhere, too. Getz would be the closest influence on sax, I think, yes. There's one EH CD I have from early nineties I think where he does some piano and singing, too. Very funny stuff! ubu

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Thanks, Mike! Never too late. I did not yet pick up any of the discs. How about Eddie's roots? Sure some Lester in there, no? What do you think? I mean, his sound is very very much his own, he's one of those musicians you recognise from the first one or two notes he plays, but he does come from some place. ubu

Good choice, EKE! Will love to revisit this one! ubu

One more CD from the 1960 JATP in Europe tour came out on Fantasy/Pablo recently. No jam affair, but rather Shelly Manne's quintet (Gordon, Kamuca, Freeman and Budwig). Rather nice, and previously unissued, but not what you are looking for, Milan. How about jam/regular groups - the 1957 US JATP tour (the 18th and last in the US, as I read in the booklet of the Hawkins/Eldridge at the Opera House CD) seemed to feature several more or less fix units: Hawk & Roy with Lewis and the MJQ's bassist and drummer, Heath & Kay; the MJQ, Oscar Peterson's trio with some drummer; Stan Getz & J.J. with OP trio & same drummer; Ella - these are the ones under whose names "At the Opera House" LPs were released (take this from the same CD booklet). Now the 1993 reissue of the Hawk/Little Jazz material adds an extended jam on "Stuffy" (with Roy, J.J., Getz, Hawk, Prez, Lewis, Heath, Kay), without giving information where this one was originally released. My question: were there always some all star concerts & jams included? Or just like everybody gathered at the end of the show to do one number together (as could have been the case with "Stuffy")? And: do you count all those recordings as JATP affairs? (even if it's , as with "Ella at the Opera House" or the Hawk/Eldridge disc, just a small unit that most probably performed in the same configuration every night of the tour) Or is the label JATP only used (as it most often is, at least in casual use) for all star jam recordings? And one more thing: there's some online discography of the Verve label (far from complete, I think, but I am not sure about it), which starts listing "Norman Granz Jam Sessions" beginning in the fifties - what's their relationship to JATP? Same thing, new name? ubu

That's a thought that occurred to me, too. Yet I will most probably need some assistance doing this - as I said, I don't know nothin' about them computers (I'm hardly smart enough to make them work the way I want...) ubu

I found those comments of Jim pretty witty and funny! No problem at all! ubu

Dan, kick yourself real hard for not getting the Pepper Galaxy from zweitausendeins (16CDs for some 30 Euros or some...) - sorry, that's mean of me! Regarding Thompson: may I suggest you start with the marvellous Impulse CD which holds those beautiful trio tracks with Oscar Pettiford, as well as some more with Jimmy Cleveland, it's titled "Tricotism". Then the Paris recordings are a beautiful lot! There's two discs in the recent jazz in Paris series (as well as a third with Sammy Price), and there are two "Complete Vogue Recordings" volumes (which might be relatively difficult to find, try amazon france). I have all of those and love them, too! The disc couw took his track from is from that Americans Swingin' in Paris series, which I have not yet started buying, but the Thompson sure sounds like another winner. If you are looking for further Thompson recommendations, I am not your man, as there are others much better informed and with much bigger Thompson collections around these corners. ubu

I have the Kirks in their 32jazz incarnations, and 32 is not exactly known for stellar sound, either, so nothing much to choose of! Enjoy the music! So many great things to be found on those Kirk dates! ubu

thanks again, Claude, but that's what I did try - and with no result! shit! ubu

And no pop-up window when I receive new PMs! (Although I checked my settings and that one is selected) ubu

Not a problem, Dan (here I would add a laughing smiley, if I could add smilies, which I can't, at the moment). I understand your reaction, and how it can "evolve" out of Geoff's post. As I get it, ALL discussions here ARE OPEN, never mind what those starting a topic imply. couw, I mentioned the AotW thread of "The Quest" (which is an absolutely fantastic album, and one of my favorite Dolphy, Ervin and Waldron albums), but I cannot add links/images/smilies etc. to my posts right now, got some problem (I started a topic about this in the forum discussion section (I would add a link, if I could ;-)... ubu

Dan, this is certainly not restricted to Geoff's own favorite underrated albums - while I am still awaiting your BFT disc, remembering your proposals for Album of the week (which did discuss "The Quest", by the way, Geoff! Make a search to find it), it seems you would have lots of underrated albums to talk about. Why not just go ahead? I would certainly enjoy and listen! ubu

Cheers! Sorry, deus! Was writing a PM simultaneously (to tjobbe, of course...) - one more reason not to do several things at the same time... edited above. ubu

I tried all that, couw! No use... ubu

After having been without my notebook for three or four weeks, I got it back yesterday. First thing was: got to this board, start some posting etc. Then I noticed I could not post links or images or quotes - none of the "buttons" seem to be working. What can I do against this? Anyone has an idea? I am using Internet Explorer (I would not know how to use another browser, I have no knowledge about computers...) thanks, ubu

It's a pleasure!! you won't be sorry. Please let me know what you think once you get them jazz1 I will! ubu

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=marty+ehrlich This is the url for another thread I started on "The Long View" (sorry, I cannot add links/images etc at the moment, no idea why!) - zero replies... I like that disc very very much, it's the only Ehrlich I have. I will look for his recent Palmetto disc (on which there's a thread in the New Releases section, too). Once I saw him live, with Bobby Previte's Bump the Renaissance. A very good player. ubu

Sorry to hear about that mistake, guys! Make sure you get the Byrd one! These two CDs are among my favorites! Another on you ought to get: Sacha Distel, Jazz guitarist, hors série 01 (which makes me hope there will be some more hors série releases!) A very fine 2CD set including stellar playing by Distel (nowadays known as a chansonnioner), Bobby Jaspar and several other musicians. You can find a more detailed discussion of it by doing search on "Sacha Distel" (sorry, I have some problem and cannot include links here in my posts anymore). The "Jazz guitarist" 2CD set is available at amazon.fr for 15 euros. ubu

Very cool covers, deus! ubu