Harold_Z

I think the studio Griffith Park made it to cd. I'm sure I've seen it in a store. The 2nd lp was live? They did "I Got Rhythm" on it? Am I thinking of the right record? What is the meaning of life?

I always thought that the OJC vinyl and the cds were made from the same digital source. IOW a digital master from which a vinyl master is made . Thus the end result was subject to the same noise reduction, etc as the cd. I don't necessarily think this is bad. It depends on the finished product..and for me in most cases the finished product was fine.

Yeah..there's going to be "one more" season. It's supposed to be the last but I guess if HBO throws enough loot at David Chase there might be more. Originally it was supposed to be three and out. Maybe a spinoff Paulie comedy series.

Yeah...but there's at least one more season, so that won't happen this time around.

I agree....The Sopranos still interests me more than anything else on the tube. I think it'll be a good season. I wonder if Tony will come out of this season as semi-sympathetic as he has so far? This story could go in a lot of diferrent ways. I have a feeling Paulie's through by the end of this season.

This is your brain on fried eggs.

Great! Glad to hear the gig is a Happenin' one. I'm going to make a point to catch Vic sometime soon in The New Jersey/New York area.

Hard to believe a year has come and gone! Thanks to all that make this place what it is. Definitely my BOARD OF CHOICE.

I like the CD too. Killer Latin rhythm section and good ensemble and solo playing.

B3-er has it right. Jimmy is gigging 'cause he has to. The percentage of musicians that wind up with a comfortable retirement is so small that it is frightening....and then you find out that some of the guys you thought had bread have nothing! AND there's less and less gigs and venues each year. THE MUSIC BUSINESS SUCKS !

Chris really said it all concerning Pops, and the recordings Chris produced in the CHICAGO LIVING LEGENDS series are top notch. One thing to add - Pops wrote an autobiography and I recently found a copy on ebay on the cheap. It was highly enjoyable reading. Check out Pops on Louis Armstrong's Decca recordings from the 30s. Very strong. High action + gut strings = a great sound for that stuff.

My first Chick album was NOW HE SINGS...NOW HE SOBS and that's usually the first thing I associate with him and (for me) it's still one of the best....and also a great showcase for Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes. The LIGHT AS A FEATHER looms large also and I first saw that group live in that configuration. With Joe Farrell, Airto, Flora, Lenny White and Stanley playing mostly acoustic but with a red Gibson hollowbody electric for some tunes. As RTF evolved I tended to be less interested and I was somewhat turned off by Chick's "communicating" with the audience by playing too obvious call and response things with the other band members. I've since moderated that attitude somewhat, but I have a strong tendency to prefer the non electric things...but I still make an occasional effort to get into the things that I passed over....I mean when all is said and done - he IS a phenomenal player.

I thought it was high too. Oh well.

Several years ago I did some gigs with a tenor player who had just come off the road with Jimmy Smith. He referred to the gig as "a circus".

I never met a Basie record I didn't like.....

Weird Beard

There was a third - "The Sound Of New Orleans". I don't remember what order they were released in. Offhand I'd say New Orleans - Chi Town - NY. These were GREAT ! Espescially at the time. They presented a lot of VERY rare stuff that hadn't been around for years and in good sound for the time. Columbia and RCA were tops for sound through the 60s. Now probably everything on these boxes is available on Classics, but a straight reissue of these with the great sound that Sony has been getting lately would really be a treat for me.

Back in the lp era, Riverside used to edit the announcements out and released several lps of material culled from these performances. There were lps by Bechet and Wild Bill Davison. Jazzology added a Muggsy Spanier lp sometime in the 60s. Jazzology still has a few Wild Bill and Sidney Bechet cds that are comprised of this material sans announcements and they make great listening. They came out before the current unedited series came out, but they are still available. When this series came out I immediately started obtaining them as they were released. Rudy Blesh comes off as a cornball and sometimes makes me cringe, but he should be remembered and commended for getting this stuff onto record. There's some VERY strong playing here consistently. These guys were all in their prime when this stuff was done. Also the sound on the Jazzology issues is better than any previous issues I've heard. An English label named Rhapsody released the first four shows on lp and they sounded pretty good, but the Jazzologies are the best issues I've heard.

I did many gigs with Kenny in the late 70s and early 80s. He's GREAT - absolutely GREAT. One of the best pianists I've ever heard or gigged with. He's got it all -chops, taste, knowledge - and in any bag. A great ear, He can hear it and play it. Funny thing tonight. Two of my old cohorts showing up on separate threads - the other being Vic Juris.

Vic is a great guitarist - he's played with Freddie Hubbard , Phil Woods. Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson, Groove Holmes and more. Solid time, solid changes, solid sound. All in all one of the best. PLUS...he's got a great sense of humor. Please tell him hello. He'll know me from my first name and initial. Recordings...he's got a few out under his own name and I know he's recorded as a sideman with the above mentioned. I just picked up a Groove Holmes "32 Jazz" that he's on, but that's probably a couple of years old. Solid musician and jazz player and he knows how to play with an organ group too.

Two things - these make great comparitive listening with the Condon Commodore recordings. They do a lot of the same tunes with similar personnel. The other is there's a LOT of Peewee Russell throughout the series, and it is some of the BEST Peewee you can find.

Not enough Barbara Lea. I did see her sit in with Marty Grosz one night about 15 years ago and enjoyed her and DID dig the Lee influence. I should probably seek out some recordings by her. I do have a very little bit on record.

Count me in too. Big eyes for Lee - great stuff. The big gap in my holdings in regards to Lee are the RCA stuff from the 50s. Think she was into Ethel Waters?

My 2 cents: Miles - great musician, great soloist, great player, great choice of sidemen. I can go on with a few more "greats". Too many "greats" for it to be an accident. The man had the mojo. The negative is that sometimes, for whatever reasons, he layed off the ax for protracted periods, and when he came back and was first getting into it again ( i.e. Plugged Nickel for one example) it showed. To me it didn't matter, the music and the ideas were there. All the stuff about mutes, etc...I can't buy that. It's about music and ideas. Harry Edison (for one) someetimes used a Harmon mute and at the other end of that scene so did Clyde McCoy. It's about the message.

I posted this on the thread about the Euro BNBB, but it's relevant here as well. With all due respect to all the previous goings on, I truly suspect the reason for that thread being dumped AT THIS POINT had more to do with the promotion of non Blue Note products on it than anything else.