allblues

I agree with mikeweil about Honeysuckle Rose and "The Columbia Years." Chris Sheridan's "Brilliant Corners" was published before the release of this compilation and couldn't include it. Tom Lord's online discography also fails to take it into account. Trying to determine a recording date for the recording of Shuffle Boil on "Always Know" raises questions about how many takes were eventually released. There seem to be 3. According to Sheridan, a rejected take was attempted on 1-29-64 as matrix CO 81233, and as far as we know, was never released. However, Jazzdisco.org once listed this date as the source for "It's Monk's Time" (Columbia CL 2184/CS 8984) although the date has since been corrected. Another take (5:26) was recorded on 1-30-64 following Stuffy Turkey, which Sheridan lists as released on Columbia JG 35720 ("Always Know"). I don't have my copy of the LP at hand, but my notes list 1-30-64. Lord currently assigns this take to 3-9-64. The defunct Thelonious Monk Website (www.howardm.net/tsmonk/) also listed the date as 3-9-64. Jazzdisco.org agrees with Sheridan and attributes the "Always Know" take to 1-30-64. The take on CL 2184 is the longest recording, listed as 7:07 on the Legacy CK 63532 issue, where it is identified as "Retake," possibly in reference to the recordings at the January sessions. 81233-5 is the shortest released take and listed on 63352 as 4:51. If this is in fact take 5, there seems to be at least one take not accounted for and not released.

I saw the Ornette film at a Fort Worth theater when it was first released. My wife and I were the only people in the audience.

Both Scofield and John Abercrombie are listed as playing on Rudy Linka's "Lucky Southern" album. Does Sco play on the entire album? TJD Online doesn't specify.

As far as I know, it's out of print and hard to find. Unfortunately, this material is split across two of the Fremeauxs, volumes 12 and 13, although those add a number of additional recordings not included on Classics 945. The 2 Swing sessions from 1946 with Grappelli are also part of the Mosaic box and JSP 904.

The web site (http://www.inrainbows.com/) seems to be down, probably due to demand. Apparently, the files are MP3s encoded with LAME at CBR 160. Not exactly audiophile quality.

Agreed! Here's a quick and dirty list of the twofers containing the Prestige, Riverside, and New Jazz sessions under his name from 1959-1969: Black Coffee (Milestone MCD 47072): November 8, 1962 - Black Coffee (Riverside RLP 442) 1963 - Mr. Wonderful (Riverside RLP 466) Good 'Nuff (Prestige PRCD 24282-2): June 12, 1962 - Johnny Hammond Cooks With Gator Tail (Prestige PRLP 7239) May 7, 1965 - The Stinger (Prestige PR 7408) Legends Of Acid Jazz (Prestige PRCD 24177-2): May 19, 1969 - Soul Talk (Prestige PR 7681) December 22, 1969 - Black Feeling! (Prestige PR 7736) Legends Of Acid Jazz: Soul Flowers (Prestige PRCD 24235-2): September 27, 1967 - Soul Flowers (Prestige PR 7549) January 31, 1968 - Dirty Grape (Prestige PR 7564) Open House (Milestone MCD 47089): 1963 - Open House! (Riverside RLP 482) 1963 - A Little Taste (Riverside RLP 496) Opus De Funk (Prestige PRCD 24291-2): February 14, 1961 - Stimulation (Prestige PRLP 7203), Opus De Funk (Prestige PR 7420) May 12, 1961 - Stimulation (Prestige PRLP 7203), Opus De Funk (Prestige PR 7420) The Soulful Blues (Prestige PRCD 24244-2): March 3, 1967 - Gettin' Up (Prestige PR 7494) June 18, 1968 - Nasty! (Prestige PR 7588) Talk That Talk (Prestige PRCD 24151-2): April 22, 1960 - Talk That Talk (New Jazz NJLP 8241) October 14, 1960 - Gettin' The Message (Prestige PRLP 7217) That Good Feelin' (Prestige PRCD 24164-2): September 11, 1959 - All Soul (New Jazz NJLP 8221) November 4, 1959 - That Good Feelin' (New Jazz NJLP 8229)

The US site has many, though not all, of their releases. Roland Kirk's Third Dimension and Beyond isn't available, for one.

eMusic added some new Gambit titles this week, including several by Bill Evans. I don't know for certain, but Monk's Complete Live at the Five Spot 1958 appears to be Blue Note's Live at the Five Spot with Nutty and Ruby My Dear added from TM with John Coltrane.

Tom Lord's discography is now online for an annual subscription fee. Has anyone tried it out or have any thoughts about it?

Thanks for the info, couw! The copy I received was split into 5 long tracks. I retracked it according to your tracklist, converted to mp3, created 3 zip files and uploaded them to Mediafire. I'll post the links here if that's permissible. If not, pm me for details.

I received a copy of Rahsaan's WBCN broadcast from Boston's Jazz Workshop on October 31, 1972. Does anyone have a track list? Apparently, "Epistrophy" and "Blacknuss" were two of the titles. I think "I Say a Little Prayer" was on Dog Years in the Fourth Ring, but that leaves two tracks unaccounted for.

Overstock.com has it for $98.95 plus 2.95 shipping.

With this band, you need the alternates. Everything they played is wonderful and timeless.

I found this Pete Cosey radio interview from last year for download.

I'd go for the first JSP set first. It has some excellent music not on the Mosaic set. I bought some of the Fremeauxs to fill in some gaps, especially the radio broadcasts. I've compared the Mosaic and JSP releases on headphones and it seemed that the JSPs have more surface noise. The Mosaics may be taken from cleaner sources or simply had more noise reduction applied. If it is the noise reduction, I don't think it's overdone. In fact, when I used Audition to reduce the surface noise on the JSPs to compare to the Mosaics, the Mosaics still sounded better to me. But, whichever you prefer, both are well worth the money.