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Just in case anyone else is interested, and as I already took the pains... here we go: ------------------ April 9, 2002 Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, 1975: The Duets (A&M) Oscar Peterson, Soul Espanol (Verve) Stan Getz & The Cool Sounds (Verve) Rosemary Clooney, Swing Around Rosie (Coral) Ella Fitzgerald, Whisper Not (Verve) April 23, 2002 Willie Bobo, A New Dimension (Verve) Sarah Vaughan, It’s A Man’s World (Mercury) Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (Verve) Astrud Gilberto, The Shadow Of Your Smile (Verve) Wes Montgomery, Willow Weep For Me (Verve) May 7, 2002 Dizzy Gillespie, Afro (Verve) Gerry Mulligan & CJB, At the Village Vanguard (Verve) Count Basie, King of Swing (Clef) Stan Kenton, The Formative Years (Decca) Woody Herman, Woody 1963 (Philipps) May 21, 2002 Carmen McRae, Birds of a Feather (Decca) Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66, Equinox (A&M) Anita O’Day, Incomparable (Verve) Mel Tormé Goes South of The Border with Billy May (Verve) Alice Coltrane, Universal Consiousness (Impulse!) August 6, 2002 Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Gospel Train (Mercury) Buddy De Franco, Mr. Clarinet (Verve) Ernestine Anderson, My Kinda Swing (Mercury) Cal Tjader, Soul Bird Whiffenproof (Verve) Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime (Mercury) August 20, 2002 The Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory & Cecil Taylor Quartet, At Newport (Verve) Sam Rivers, Crystals (Impulse!) Lalo Schifrin, Piano, Strings & Bossa Nova (MGM) Slim Gaillard Rides Again! (Dot) The Jazztet At Birdhouse (Argo) March 11, 2003 Pee Wee Russell, Ask Me Now! (Impulse!) Archie Shepp, Attica Blues (Impulse!) Albert Ayler, Music Is The Healing Force of The Universe (Impluse!) Earl Hines, Once Upon A Time (Impulse!) Steve Kuhn & Gary McFarland, The October Suite (Impulse!) March 25, 2003 Dorothy Ashby, Afro Harping (Cadet) Gabor Szabo, High Contrast (Blue Thumb?) Ray Brown, Jazz Cello (Verve) Jim Hall, Live (A&M) Buddy Emmons, Steel Guitar Jazz (Mercury) June 10, 2003 John Klemmer, Involvement (Cadet) Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (EmArcy) Lee Konitz, Motion (Verve) Sonny Stitt, New York Jazz (Verve) This Is Billy Mitchell (Smash) June 24, 2003 Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve) Phil Woods & His European Rhythm Machine At The Montreux Jazz Festival (MGM) Stan Getz, Reflections (Verve) Jimmy Giuffre, The Easy Way (Verve) September 9, 2003 Buddy Rich & Sweets Edison, Buddy & Sweets (Norgran) Hugh Masekela, Grrr (Mercury) J.J. Johnson, J.J.’s Broadway (Verve) Jack Teagarden, Mis’ry and the Blues (Verve) Al Grey, Snap Your Fingers (Argo) September 23, 2003 Frank D’Rone, After The Ball (Mercury) Blossom Dearie, My Gentleman Friend (Verve) Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs For Swigers (Verve) Brook Benton, Songs I Love To Sing (Mercury) Mel Tormé, Tormé (Verve) ----------- Please post mistakes if you find any, I will then edit. ubu

Holy cow! (no pun intended...) This would strike a real new chord at Blue Note records'... ubu

thanks couw, you beat me! It's not terribly ugly, I'd say. Sort of the typical Roques cover, if there is such a thing. ubu

Now you mention it, I remember having seen that one, too! Thanks ubu

this gonna be the cover? ubu

you see, Tony, at least we speak loud! now thanks, anyway. Seems to be a very interesting batch! The Hill is the greatest news, of course. Then I never heard the Mobley, Morgan and Rouse, neither the Larry Young one - hell, was born too late to grab that Mosaic. But I got the Rivers Mosaic, so probably no need to get a McMaster of that one. ubu

passing something, some boom, some swinging songs or something... forgot the rest, too lazy to use my brain... try again day after tomorrow... ubu

My personal favorites would probably be Soultrane, Settin' the Pace and Traneing In (all by the quartet of Trane, Garland, PC, Art Taylor). But then all the stuff with Wilbur Harden is very good, too! There is a nice 2CD set on Savoy collecting the three sessions which were originally issued as three Wilbur Harden LPs. Lush Life then is another good one, and to sum those sessions up, you also should get The Last Trane (a comp of left-overs, but what goodies!), The Believer, and, also Trane's leader-debut, Coltrane (with the obscure Johnny Splawn on trumpet). Then I like some of the blowing sessions, as the before mentioned Wheelin' and Dealin'. But my favorite among these tenor-battle affairs is the Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette. I really love that date! Waldron and co. create a very nice mood, and Trane and Vice-Pres have their fun, and are a very nice fit. ubu

I'm with you... and we got to save for the Lyons box anyway... (and at least, I got the Basie live, but if anyone had a *cheap* spare copy of the studio set...) ubu

BFrank, if you enjoy the Dorham live, get the "Jazz Prophets Vol. 1" disc as soon as you can. That one was reissued as a "Chessmate" a few years ago (and is OOP if I remember right, for one or two years now). It has the same band except for Dick Katz in Timmons' place, and Burrell (who was a special recording-session-guest for the Blue Note date) is omitted. Very nice playing by all included, sort of a minor masterpiece. I love "Blues Eleganté"! ubu

Yeah, you sure did good! (Lon: the booklet is relatively sparse, but ok. Not one of those which document every aspect of the artist and the era included in the box) How 'bout getting the new 3CD set? Is that worth going for if one has the 10CD box? ubu

Truly a great record! That's the sort of record that's quite rare, I think. It has a huge openness, a great free flow. Sam Rivers is always a treat, in my opinion. Then the percussion trio track (with Hancock and Hutcherson) seems to be sort of a preview or predecessor to those "little-instrument" things that came in the late sixties and in the seventies (think of the AEoC, for instance). And the duet of Hancock and Carter is stunning, beautiful! Hell, Williams at 18 was also a very interesting composer! CJ, you might also want to check out Williams's second Blue Note record, Spring. It's available as an old domestic BN CD. It has Rivers, Shorter, Hancock, Peacock, and is a more organised affair, as I hear it, but quite good, too! And has a beautiful cover... ubu

Ditto again! AT really makes this something special. Nice booklet, too, with some cool photographs. I think this one has the edge over the Blakc Lion Montmartre recordings, at least as far as sudden impact is concerned. A really swinging club date. ubu

I have the Jazz Workshop double LP only, but: the strange sound on track 1 (the Medley) - if the distortion you're talking of is similar - is actually no distortion, but Mingus' slippers making some noise while he's stamping his foot. Cannot remember anything particular about "Meditations", but the recording quality is sure not the best! ubu

another for this one! always liked it. ubu

And AMG only lists the Jazz Epistles Vol. 1 - so I don't know if there actually were two volumes, or if the second maybe was only planned. ubu

Just saw that "The Mountain" is a compilation with tunes from "Ekaya" and "Water From an Ancient Well" (thanks, AMG.) So no need to jump for that one! ubu

Wow, I don't know how to thank you for all this work, just shows you everything is possible, now I just have to try to obtain some of these. Thanks a million No problem! Those CDs are annotated so scrappily, and now I can always go to my favorite BB and there everything is in one place There are two more Kaz CDs by Dollar Brand, one called "The Mountain", and one called "Blues for a Hip King" (though I fear that one was not composed for my dear king ubu...). I have never had or seen them. Anyone knows more about them? Then, my comment on Ibrahim's piano not being that important: I have to correct that. There's one p-solo track (on "African Sun" - the one wrongly annotated as a group track in the CD's booklet), and "Tintinyana" is mostly a trio affair (though that jam with Blue Mitchell, Buster Cooper and Harold Land is quite a lengthy thing). Then yesterday, I gave a spin to "Voice of Africa". First time since at least 3 years. Wonderful stuff! Kippie and Mannenberg (that is Basil Coetzee) are two real, I mean REAL good saxophone players. They have that cry, so much soul, and those "african horns" playin' together get such a nice (and non-western) sound! I love it! Then, I also never had the Jazz Epistles discs (yes, I remember there bein two of them). I will have to look for them, too. And a general comment about South Africa in the sixties and seventies - though I was born only at the close end of the later decade... as a historian (or rather: as someone working to become a historian), I have some sort of sensibility, which somehow denies ZA of the apartheid being called "a fantastic time" - I mean, jazzwise or jive-wise it may have been just that, but I'd try to be a little bit catious in chosing my words. ---end of rant! no harm to be taken, just my two cents. ubu

Seen some more, lately: "Key Largo" (great!), "Deadline USA" (good for an hour, then it became way too pathetic...), today, I'll go for Fellini's "I vitelloni" (which I've only seen the parts shown in the great Scorsese feature film) , tomorrow, it will be "Amore in città" (with episodes done by Fellini, Antonioni, Lattuada, Risi and others), and next week, Rossellini's "L'amore"... An almost complete retrospective of Fellini has just started here And as I 've passed my university exams for this summer, I'm going to catch as many as I can, including those I already know. ubu

HELL YEAH! A great western, and a great movie - a movie on the myth of the movies... ubu

And thanks agin, Jim! Will have to wait with ordering till my purse feels a little bit better again - it's feeling sick and empty right now Hell, I blame no one, but you folks always make me spend so much money on so much good music ubu

Thanks, Jim! That's an interesting site - never saw it. And they have all the Lars Gullin stuff on Dragon. Some of that Domnerus things sure would be nice to have, too! ubu

Thanks for sharing these memories, Shrdlu! Would love to konw a composition by Kippie Moeketsi! (I'm tryin' to play a little saxophone myself... ) ubu

Thanks, Jim, hope I can find it somewhere! ubu

Thanks, David. Know that site (of course), but forgot checking there -_- It gives Zurich as the place, and Swiss Radio as producer. Jim: thanks for your insights! I always appreciate very much what you have to say about Rollins! I heard neither more of the march 59 stuff nor anything of the later. Will sure keep my eyes open for ANYTHING live by Rollins! ubu