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Happy Birthday Chuck now how about releasing that extra Snurdy McGurdy material?

I am not sure about the sound quality, but love Ernie Krivda on those CIMP recordings!!!

I guess the streak is over, but our boys are looking pretty good lately!! And let's not forget Asdrubal Cabrera's unassisted triple play.

Thanks everyone for your comments regarding Head On.

any comments on Head On? The sound clips I heard did not thrill me nor was I liking the fact that Bobby Hutcherson, a great composer, wrote very few of the tunes on that album. But I would like to hear what those who have it say.

My condolences Jim

One the greatest American artists! Here's to you Willie!

Belated best wishes and hope all are doing well!!

I confess that I have not heard the HEP cds. It sounds really good if you ask me, and what I like about it is that all the sessions share a common sound, and I think I would have to listen to eight cds that sound different from each other to listen to this material outside this set. In comparison to the Columbia box set "America's #1 Band" I'd say this sounds a bit darker, mellower. Thanks Lon, By the way, the HEP cds were mastered by J.R.T. Davies

So is sound quality a reason to buy this set? How does it compare with sound on the HEP cds or the sound on America's #1 Band?

I watched it too and to quote a famous Yankee - It was deja vu all over again and Groundhog Day too!! Former Indian and now Indian nemesis Manny Ramirez sure earned his paycheck last night!!!

Picked this one up too. Compared to the domestic K2 I notice that this edition gets rid of that annoying ringing noise on a couple of the quieter tunes, but like the Monk Brilliant Corners the K2 is more "lush" and more bass heavy with LaFaro coming through more clearly on the K2 than Keepnews. What a dilemma.

thanks guys for all your input. I bought the Keepnews edition and note that the sound is a bit more focused than the domestic K2 but perhaps drier - so can't decide, but probably prefer the K2. So Lon... you are not alone in the sicko department. Yes the only bonus track is Pannonica incomplete.

Inquiring minds want to know...

click on options in the upper right corner of the fist post in some thread; change display mode from outline to normal; this happens often when you have entered organissimo via google... thanks Niko

I guess I am out of the loop, but why is it now that all replies are shown in a way that you have to click on them to read. Is there a way to get it back to just scrolling down to read all the replies to a topic?

sorry but I just got one and it's the same old (bad) cover.

At the Cuny Graduate center in Manhattan. Very interesting, and done as sort of a historical overview of his career with a focus on records and a few musical examples played including a stunning unreleased solo performance from the late 80s. Interestingly when Giddins played a couple of minutes of his solo on the studio recording"there's no business like show business" - the audience applauded but Rollins was looking unccomfortable and was sweating, mopping his brow. Rollins said he was glad the audience liked it, but he found it "excruciating" - was the term I believe he used. Giddins asked why and Rollins replied more or less "because I think I could have done so much better" a persistent theme in the discussion. The discussion was good at times pegged way below what most Rollins fans would expect and at times above what the novice would really understand. No signs of Chris A. or Clem (a big Giddins fan! ) not that I would recognize him. Interestingly enough, most of the people sitting around me seemed relatively ignorant about Rollins - so much for sophisticated New Yorkers.

Welcome to ny - the land where enforcement does not exist.

Happy Birthday :party: :party:

I would love to see those Inner City releases out on cd. But, and I am a big fan, my all time favorite Krivda are two live Cadence albums still not released on cd from the early 80s. These are: "Tough Tenor - Red Hot" and "Well You Needn't" great playing, the tunes seem to me to be more slightly more inventive than his current crop amd I think this was his best band ever.

Thanks for bringing this up Big Al. Given the huge number of posts that were generated before this set came out, I am, as usual, surprised by how little discussion has occurred since its release. Like you, I am underwhelmed. It has some great moments, but overall I was not crazy about it. But I would love to hear what others think.

Have a great one

Probably a good guess - thanks FFA.

I was listening to one of my favorite Joe Henderson cds "The State of the Tenor" vol 2 and was reading Michael Cuscuna's liner notes in which he says "...Don Sickler began transcribing the tunes and adapting them to this spartan instrumentation." I find this statement curious. For the record, the tunes on this cd (Vol.2) are either Joe's own ("Y Yo La Quiero" "The Bead Game") or else classics by Monk (Boo Boo's Birthday) Bird (Cheryl) Horace Silver ("Soulville") Mingus ("Portrait") Kern ("All the Things you are") Wouldn't Henderson and Ron Carter have likely to have been very familiar with these tunes? And the versions here of the "heads" don't sound different from countless other versions of these tunes. I had just assumed the guys knew the tunes already, played the head at the beginning and end, and in the middle do their improvisations. So I am not trying to knock Don Sickler here, but I really am curious as to what his "transcribing" was supposedly doing? PS. I should point out that I do understand what is meant by transcribing tunes off of records - that you are listening and then writing down the notes, but again I would be surprised if these guys needed this to be done for these tunes.