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It's actually quite a bit newer. The Best Of came out in 1989, and Chet Baker Sings in 1998. Thus I suppose the latter has better remastering. Hm, was there an older CD of that, too? Not that it matters much, but I thought I'd seen older CDs or CDs from roughly the same time of "Chet Baker Sings" And to answer this older question: Not that I know of. I checked AMG and Amazon and they indicate no earlier Western release either. It may have been out much earlier on Japanese CDs though.

That's the track listing for the EMI CD Playboys. However, from what I can gather, the Jazz Track edition has as a bonus the 5 tracks from The Route that had both Baker and Pepper. Both jazzmessengers.com and worldsrecords.com say so. (quoted from Amazon, but looks like Fresh Sound's own blurb) Here we have the same 12 tracks as on the Jazz Track CD above. The only difference is the track order. The Jazz Track version begins with the original Playboys album and adds the tracks from The Route at the end. The Fresh Sound CD has the Playboys album as tracks 6-12 and starts with the The Route tracks as 1-5. One thing I noticed about the track timings is however that For Minors Only is almost two minutes longer than on the EMI CD. Dick Bock frequently edited tracks, and perhaps the Andorrans have found a longer version somewhere. What the Andorrans have done on the two CDs above is to take the entire Playboys (possibly with a missing part of For Minors Only restored), and added the 5 Baker/Pepper tracks from The Route. The remaining 6 tracks from The Route which lack either Baker or Pepper or both have not been included. OK, but the tracks you are listing are for Chet Baker & Crew, not The Route. Chet Baker & Crew is different material and does not have any Pepper on it. All those 21 tracks on the Fresh Sound double CD are on either Chet Baker & Crew (not The Route) or Young Chet. The two EMI CDs do however have 26 tracks in total, since Young Chet has 5 additional tracks from 15 February 1954. Those 5 tracks are the same takes as on Chet Baker Sings but with Bill Perkins or Jimmy Giuffre overdubbed instead of Baker's vocals. Those instrumental versions first appeared on a World Pacific album called Pretty/Groovy. So to conclude, all of the music discussed is on the EMI CDs Playboys (later reissued as Picture Of Heath), The Route, Young Chet and Chet Baker & Crew, with the possible exception of For Minors Only which may be in a restored longer version on the Andorran labels. To add to the confusion there is actually yet another Andorran release, on Lone Hill Jazz this time, called Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Complete Recordings: It is a double CD and has the complete The Route (including the tracks without Baker or/and Pepper) on CD 1, and Playboys on CD 2. Additionally it has a Chet Baker Big Band session with Pepper in the sax section as bonus on CD 1, and a 1957 Jack Sheldon session, which has both Baker and Pepper, as bonus on CD 2. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask again if something isn't clear.

Nakamura has now for the first time passed the magical 2700, and is at 29th place with 2703.

Amazingly Morozevich is now after the 7th round in the Bosna tournament #2 in the world! Aronian has dropped to 12th place after finishing last in the Sofia tournament. Carlsen was for a while #4 after the FIDE Grand Prix in Baku, but both Ivanchuk and Topalov have since then passed him after their results in the Sofia tournament. There is now a clear gap between the top 6 and the rest. 1 Anand 2798 2 Morozevich 2790 3 Kramnik 2788 4 Ivanchuk 2780 5 Topalov 2777 6 Carlsen 2775 7 Radjabov 2744 8 Mamedyarov 2742 9 Shirov 2741 10 Leko 2741 11 Svidler 2738 12 Aronian 2737

Tina Brooks

Same old, same old. Yawn.

That would be the Pristine Audio version. Here's the link to the thread: thread about Miles In Paris on Pristine Audio And here's the Pristine Audo website link where you can listen to the entire Good Bait. Sounds good! PAJZ004 - Miles In Paris - Miles Davis & Tadd Dameron Quintet

That they are jazz musicians?

And Rhoda Scott has a fairly recent album for that label (Doodlin) as well!

Do Gloria Coleman and Trudy Pitts count? Both have new albums out (for the same label).

Mel Rhyne. Freddie Roach? Sonny Phillips? I suppose Ronnie Foster is too young to be included in the old guard.

B. Bopstein too!

Giuffre and Dickerson were Scots organists?

Well, 6-year-old Connie Talbot went to the final in Britain's Got Talent (Simon Cowell is one of the judges there too), only losing to Paul Potts. She has since released her debut album which has sold over 100,000 copies.

I'll look into it as soon as I have the time (unless someone else does). I'm just too darn busy right now!

I like harpsichord in jazz. It suits the music just fine IMO. However, Ray Draper on tuba is something I'll never understand. How on earth did he get to record as much as he did for a while?

So, is this from the New Orleans Suite sessions? Didn't Hodges die in his dentist's chair during those sessions? So might this be a piece considered, but not used for, that suite? Yes, Rext is from the first NOS session (27 April 1970) and was recorded right after Blues For New Orleans. The second session was scheduled for 13 May 1970, but Hodges died just two days before. Ellington had intended to try to persuade Hodges to pick up the soprano sax again for Portrait Of Sidney Bechet, but we'll never know if he would have agreed. Hodges had stopped playing it in 1940 since he didn't think he was paid enough for playing more than one instrument. At the session the solo role was given to Gonsalves instead. I don't think that Rext necessarily was intended as part of New Orleans Suite (perhaps the liner notes will throw some light on this). It and another tune, Stud, were recorded at the end of the session, perhaps simply because there was time left. Stud has been released, but in a later recording from June, on one of the Private Collection volumes, where the title was given as the slightly longer The Neo-Hip-Hot Kiddies Communities.

#1 will always be the RCA Victor studio recordings, but for half the price you can't really go wrong with this set. The main complaint for Ellington collectors was not the material itself, which is mostly well-recorded, includes many tracks not commercially recorded and allows the band to stretch out for longer than on the studio recordings, but rather that it duplicates what many already have bought on individual releases. If you don't have anything of it, that's obviously not a problem in your case.

We have wondered for a while in Europe what would be the next thing from America after rap. Now we know.

Let me just say this: I'm very glad to see that they finally continue releasing Ellington's stockpile (and DETS) recordings. We were worried for a while about what would happen to Storyville. 13 new compositions! Wow! Here we are in 2008 and still new Ellington studio albums are coming out. It's pretty amazing when you think about it. Rext is from Hodges's last recording session. If (and that's a big if) he takes a solo, that would now become his last solo instead of Blues For New Orleans. I'm very fond of the last five years of Ellington's career. Many see it as a phase of decline as the old stalwarts were either dying or leaving the band, but I find the influx of new solo voices, new instruments (flute & organ), and Ellington's increased reliance on his own creative abilities after Strayhorn's death, refreshing and stimulating. Nothing wrong with the stalwarts, but there's a newness to the Ellington sound in the last years that I like, and I'm delighted to see more material from that era.

or Kim Kim Keree (Kim Kim Carrie?)

And Denzil Best the Pete Best?

As far as I remember, it wasn't released until the 70s. Its catalogue number is a lot later than other sessions recorded at the same time. Edit: Stereojack beat me to it!

But Pete was Best.