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That's a good chice for sure! A very interesting and open-minded musician. Thanks for sharing, brownie. ubu

Love Nat! Check out the recordings he made with J.J. Johnson (included in the JJ Columbia mosaic). Those with cornet/trombone only frontline are my favorites among them. Then yes, "Work Song"! A gem. With the different line ups things get very interesting. Good solos from everybody, too. The VME of Nat's (can't remember the title - it has Cannon, Silver, Chambers and Roy Haynes) is great, too. Anyone in for recommendations of leader dates Nat made? I know much of the stuff he made with Cannonball, and I'd like to have some more of Nat (without Cannon), too. Good thread! ubu

Yeah, Woddy! He deserves having his own thread! I grabbed all the 32 releases some thime ago, after the label had gone - Little Red's Fantasy & Moontrane are fantastic, Iron Man (is this the most out album he made as leader?) and the Berlin as well as his demo-session (the one with Joe Henderson, Larry Young, Herbie Hancock etc) are personal favorites, as is the Mosaic. Muse/32 had some nice dates with Woody as sideman: - Louis Hayes: The Real Thing (with René McLean, Ronnie Mathews, Stafford James & Slide Hampton) - Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (with George Coleman & Hugh Lawson) Then a nice and probably not too well known CD: Louis Hayes - Woody Shaw Quintet / Lausanne 1977 Woody Shaw - t/flh René McLean - ts/ss/fl Ronnie Mathews - p Stafford Hames - b Louis Hayes - d In Case You Haven't Heard (Shaw) 15:25 Moontrane (Shaw) 15:39 Contemplation (Shorter-arr. Mathews) 8:08 (omit horns) Jean-Marie (Mathews) 13:35 Bilad As Sudan (McLean) 19:16 Recorded live at Salle d'Epalinges, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 4, 1977. ubu

no need to try, as I'm very much into some local beers (a tradition, which, hélas!, has been slowly but surely decaying over the last years in switzerland), and some other european ones. How about a nice ol' Leffe? Or some Jever? Then, of course, there are some moments in life, where nothing but a Guiness is right... ubu

amazon - Monk, London this is the closest you can get to the Monk these days. However, as lousy as 1201music's 24-bit reissues are (and they're even more pricey), I still recommend you wait until they bring Vol. 2. I have Vols. 1 and 23 in their Black Lion releases, and they sound alright to my (not very audiophile) ears. Anyone found a good place on the www to get those 1201 discs a little cheaper? ubu

The Bright One: De Franco (cl), Clark (p), Wright (B), White (d): April 7, 1954: Cable Car Yesterdays Lover Man Jack the Fielstalker Deep Purple If I Should Lose You August 9, 1954: Titoro Mine Now's The Time Gerry's Tune August 10, 1954: Laura I'll Remember April The Bright One September 1, 1954: A Foggy Day What Can I Say Dear --- The title track is not in its chronological place, but at the end of the CD. brownie: Past Perfect also has some licensed stuff (several Candid albums, I bought some of these lately). So they're not purely a rip-off, it seems. Not that they produce too nice CDs, but at least you can get some good music at a nice price... (I got the Russell/Hawk, Don Ellis & Clark Terry Candid albums in their Past Perfect reincarnations) ubu

I just found a cheap Past Perfect disc called "The Bright One" (some 7$). It does include tracks from the 54 sessions, total time is 76 minutes, complete discographical information included. This might be an option for those among us not wealthy enough to go the ebay-way... ubu

EKE: hope my friend has a large enough CD allowance... Have to find that Green/Byrd date. Think it's still around. ubu

How does this compare to "Soul Song"? I found that one quite a bore... and the line up is similar, so... ubu

What are these two tracks? The Ballads comp. also had 4 tracks from the 45 sessions, but all from the Mosaic, no? How about a Complete Blue Note 45" Recordings? Now that would be a nice one! ubu

thanks, Use! Still (of course, what else could we expect...) doing a great job! The favorite BB around! ubu

Herbie time again... first, here is the link where you can find our first broadcast. Thanks for your interest. It was, as a whole (and being our first time live on air) quite successful, I'd say. I'm by the way not the guy announcing Watermelon Man (which we had played already) instead of Maiden Voyage... Click the loudspeaker-symbol to access the programme. *********************** Then, here comes part two: next sunday, we'll present the Sextet. The albums from which we'll include music are: - The Prisoner (Blue Note, 1969. Johnny Coles, Garnett Brown, Joe Henderson, Buster Williams, Al Heath, woodwinds) - Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner, 1969. same, funk band on two tracks) - Mwandishi (Warner, 1970. Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Buster Williams, Billy Hart; guitar & perc. added) - Crossings (Warner, 1971. same, voices, perc and synths added) - Sextant (Columbia, 1972. same, synths & perc added) In my opinion, these are all killer albums. Maybe The Prisoner is the one I like most - the sound of that band is such a beautiful one, Coles, Brown and Hernderson play one great solo after the other... Sextant, then, to me, seems the most forward-looking album of these, incredible textures and sounds! What are your opinions? Let's not stick to "what should I play in my show" only - rather I'd like to start a general discussion of these albums. Is there any comparable music around, by the way? ubu

then, I might have to add that I am a fan of at least some of the late Miles - Tutu, Amandla and also Siesta (besides the pre-Miller stuff, or the albums Miller was on as a sideman, as opposed to arranger/composer/mastermind). The track "Portia" from Tutu is, in my opinion, one of the highlights of Miles' comeback years. ubu

uhm, that's her, by the way... not really a new babe thread... so, here's her album: ECM, April ubu

Anyone in for Lambert Hendricks & Bavan at Newport '63? Of course also "Sing a Song of Basie" - a classic. Re. writing lyrics for songs (not vocalese): anyone heard Susanne Abbuehl? For her ECM debut "April" she wrote lyrics to some Carla Bley compositions (and music to some e.e.cummings poems). A very beautiful, very slow and moody album. I also saw her life once. She started out solo, in a quite big hall. She's got a presence that really grabs you. Somehow she succeeds in keeping up suspense without doing anything fast. And her band (clarinet/bass clarinet, piano/harmonium, drums/percussion) does the soloing in pretty the same fashion - not minimalistic at all, but much textures and colours. Beautiful stuff, highly recommended! ubu

Chiming in a little late... I like Aura, and I think the comparison with the Music for Brass recordings are useful. The writing of Mikkelborg is quite special (I don't have anything else by him, cannot compare), and the soloing is fine, too. The whole album, in my opinion, stands as one of the high points of late Miles. Then, to add a little more spice to the discussion: the Evans link was not revived by Aura, but rather by Tutu. With this, I mean to say that Miller, with all his electronics and programming was somehow able to provide very similar backgrounds for Miles' still beautiful sound and improvations - of course these backgrounds (as was always Miles' want) were of a contemporary form (the Quincy Jones Evans re-creation is a rather drab affair, if you ask me - not the kind of nostalgia to fit Miles' image), and the musical connection was achieved by totally different means. But Miller somehow read Miles' mind - as in the late fifties did Gil Evans. Does this make sense to anyone else, here? ubu

I think I've saved that other discography in my home computer. Anyone interested drop me a PM, don't forget your emai-address, then I'll mail it (it's a huge word-file) ubu this should be the link: www.achilles.net/~howardm/tsmonk/tsmonk2.php - maybe it comes back...

cool, brownie! pretty fast, us darn old europeans! there is (or was) a better one, but I cannot access it right now. ubu

this one most probably does not include all the new stuff from the new Legacy CD reissues: http://www.jazzdisco.org/monk-dis/c/ Pretty good nevertheless. ubu

No hurry, brownie! Take your time. Thanks again! ubu

O.K. but swallow that tongue or more correctly No problem, if you take that one: ubu

Frank Sinatra made one, too: Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, AMG ubu

many more good suggestions! gotta stop now, coz otherwise it will need like 15 or 20 shows... Also thought about Moncur's Some Other Stuff yesterday. Truly outstanding album, in my opinion. Search for the New Land - hellyeah! I love that album. Maybe it's my favorite Lee Morgan date, but how to fit those 20 minutes in a 60 minute show (which has time for 45-50 minutes of music) ? EKE: thanks for your suggestions. Yesterday I listened to quite some of those on your list. All good or great of course. don't have the Bird Verve album - was that the one attached to the Grant Green Majesty King Funk CD? Will have to look for that. (I emailed my friend in Madrid, by the way!) mikeweil: duly taken note -_- . Don't have any CTI album with/by Herbie - are they available in nice Legacy reissues? Will have to look. About Rivers I forgot completely. But as I have made some choices, it won't fit in anymore. Because what I'll want to spin to give an idea of the adventurous music Herbie was playing, is some track from Tony Williams' Life Time (the trio track with Hutch-Herbie-Tony). Then I'll give them Watermelon (alt - coz I love that Dexter solo on that one!), something from Inventions & Dimensions (which I absolutely love!), then the Happenings take on Maiden Voyage, and some more... Can't tell everything, otherwise our german friends won't listen B) thanks again everybody, ubu

C'mon, now bring us that "Complete Argo Jazz Sessions" Mosaic! We could then just take that out of the shelf and spin, say, disc 23 holding that Bailey session, and could stop caring for Japanese, original vinyl, vinyl reissues or some few strange Keepnews CDs... ubu

I love how he (and the whole band) is recorded on Joey Baron's "Down Home". ubu