BeBop

Not sure about Los Angeles. Hard times for the physical media industry?

Yes! I just became aware of this one: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000VM0AJI%3F...1521296-2975213 Henry Jerome, Orchestra 1944-45 (The First Big Band To Ever Play Bebop) Featuring World Famous Personalities and Musicians The Honorable Alan Greenspan, Len Garment, Al Cohn, Johnny Mandel, and Tiny Kahn. Live Radio Air Checks. (It's Jazz History) First band to ever play bebop...in 1944-45? Does this make Greenspan the inventor of bebop? (Reference to Al Gore as inventor of the internet - )

25% off one item thru 17 February http://www.barnesandnoble.com/email/nav.as...F&PID=21448

Those cdbaby samples sound nice. How much of this man's work is still out there, to be issued? http://cdbaby.com/cd/frankhewitt5

I love this site, but perhaps my judgment has been impaired by too many trips to West Africa: http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm

First, thanks Aggie for link to earlier discussion; I VanWinkled that one. A couple of compilations in my collection that I enjoy: Central Avenue Sounds and the Jubilee Broadcast box. Tracking down originals/separates of these would be a suicide mission. And yes, I've got Jazz Omnibus, I Like Jazz and several down others on vinyl, from my callow youth.

One of you guys peeking through my window? I'm in the midst of an all-day Basie orgy. I was in need of a pick-me-up, and nothing does it like Basie. Even if the man had never laid a pinky on the piano, I would assign him a start in the jazz constellations simply because of his ability to pick (and pair) tenor players, trumpet players, trombone players and rhythm sections. How he did it... Add in some fine arrangers (when he wasn't employing brilliant "head"s) and it's a winner.

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Enjoy!

Yeah, that's why I buried this 'news', rather than create a new thread.

Sounds like a little michunderstanding. Welcome dom! I'm sure you'll get some good answers. Ignore all the Michigan talk.

For me, it's almost always a 'no like', at least now that I've become a more sophisticated listener (as opposed to when I started buying records at age 6, and had ill-developed taste and knowledge). Sure, there can be some interesting items among the offerings, but I find that I prefer my music to be presented in something like a cohesive fashion, rather than shuffle play from the factory. Not every artist / producer has an overall presentation in mind, but many seem to. In favor of the Sampler is the fact that it's often cheap and does offer some variety, say within the context of one label. But they can also be a crapshoot - especially if it's a wide-ranging label, like present-day Blue Note. (On the flipside, a sampler from a small, focused label like Smalls* - or even the old Mosaic samplers - can be a great opportunity for discovery.) Still, if I see an interesting item or two, I'm more likely to pick up the 'source' (artist) album instead. And you? * I seem to remember a Smalls Records sampler, but I could be nuts. You get the idea.

Minor sale: 15$ off selected titles. For the most part, they aren't titles I'D select http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/promos/valentine/

Is this all resissue material? Anything new? Thanks.

The Connoisseurs are $14. Some of the 'running lows' and 'last chance's are interesting, whether purchased here or elsewhere. NEW RELEASES Louis Armstrong - A Satchel Full Of Satch (Sale price $12.98) Some rare Armstrong in a variety of small group settings over a period of almost 20 years. The first six tracks come from the famous 1938 WNEW broadcast on Martin Block's "Make Believe Ballroom" with Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden and Bud Freeman. The next seven tracks are highlights from the Nice Jazz Festival in 1948 with the All-Stars (Bigard, Teagarden, Hines). The CD concludes with never before released material from a 1956 evening at Basin Street East with Edmond Hall, Trummy Young and Billy Kyle. Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (Sale price $15.98) Upon entering the studio in August of 2006, the musicians were aware that Brecker had been suffering from a bone marrow disease that led to leukemia, which eventually took his life the following January. However, there is not a hint of sentimentalism or darkness here, from the opening bars of the angular "The Mean Time" to the incredible ballad "When Can I Kiss You Again" and the burning "Anagram". The final title track, the last performance Brecker ever recorded, is a spiritual hymn that perfectly reflects the overall optimistic vision of the project. This is Michael Brecker leaving us on a towering high note, having created one of the first truly great recordings of the 21st century. Featuring Jack DeJohnette, Gil Goldstein, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, and John Patitucci Ruby Braff - C'est Magnifique (Sale price $13.98) What proved to be some of Ruby's last recording, this Arbors release is a real joy from start to finish and a lasting tribute to this unique artist who is backed by Bucky Pizzarelli and his sons John and Martin. This one popped up on a lot year-end lists by critics who usually favor more modern jazz. Kid Ory & Red Allen - A Jazz Concert In Berlin, Set 1 (Sale price $12.98) Kid Ory & Red Allen - A Jazz Concert In Berlin, Set 2 (Sale price $12.98) A magnificent September 22, 1959 concert from the Sportspalast in Berlin. Never before released in any form this is a rare opportunity to hear two pioneers still at the top of their game. Clarinetist Bob McCracken and pianist Cedirc Heywood are also featured with Gersh Girsback on bass and Alton Redd on drums. Each of the two one-hour sets is available on its own CD. Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Avatar (Sale price $13.98) Rubalcaba is an astonishing pianist with unlimited breath and virtuosity. He has matured into a unique major figure on the jazz landscape. But nothing prepared us for the stunning power and beauty of this album with a new quintet: saxophonist Yosvanny Terry, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Marcus Gilmore. An important album. Available February 5. Sidney Bechet - Treat It Gentle (DVD) (Sale price $16.98) A 1997 BBC Television documentary with interviews from Bob Wilber, Humphrey Littleton, Woody Allen and Claude Luter as well as friends and family of the grand master of the soprano and clarinet. Also included are some rare live footage of Bechet. Color/B&W. 57 min. NTSC (Region 1) Cab Calloway - Hi-De-Ho (DVD) (Sale price $11.98) This 1947 low-budget film is rarely shown complete and, although it has a slight plot, is a fine example of the Calloway band (with Jonah Jones, Paul Webster, Milt Hinton, Sam Taylor, Panama Francis and Quentin Jackson). Numbers include "Dawn Time", "We The Cats Shall Hep Ya", "Hey Now", "St. James Infirmary" and seven other titles. The print is cleaner than most releases. 61 min. B&W. NTSC (Region 1) Duke Ellington - 1929-1943 (DVD) (Sale price $11.98) Although available in other DVD releases, here are gathered together six prime examples of early Ellington short subjects in the best quality to date. Featured are "Black And Tan" (Duke's first film - 1929); clips from the Amos 'n' Andy film "Check And Double Check" (1930); "Symphony In Black" (Billie Holiday's first film appearance) (1934); "Record Making With Duke Ellington" from a Paramount Pictorial (1937) is a rare look at how records were made; one tune ("I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter") from the a Republic Pictures movie "The Hit Parade of 1937"; and an RKO Jamboree short from 1943 entitled "Duke Ellington and his Orchestra". 55 min. B&W. NTSC (Region 1) Dizzy Gillespie - Jivin' In Be-bop (DVD) (Sale price $11.98) Rarely shown in its entirety, this low-budget feature is one of the few filmed documents of bop during the 1940s. Here the famed Dizzy Gillespie big band of 1947 is the centerpiece of a staged variety show with emcee Freddie Carter who delivers plenty of jive talk along with Dizzy. Thankfully the band delivers on "Salt Peanuts", "Oop Bop She Bam", "Shaw 'Nuff", "Things To Come", "A Night In Tunisia" and eleven other titles, including two vocals by Helen Humes and one by Kenny "Pancho" Hagood. There are six titles where the band is off-screen playing to a variety of dancers (including a great lindy dance on "Dizzy Atmosphere" which is introduced by its original title "Dynamo A") and three titles are performed by the Dan Burley (piano) and Johnny Taylor (organ) duo. The members of the Gillespie band include James Moody (who does not solo), John Lewis, Milt Jackson and Ray Brown and they play on great Gil Fuller charts. The print is of superb quality and is cleaner than what has come before. 55 min. B&W. NTSC (Region 1) Play Your Own Thing - A Story Of Jazz In Europe (DVD) (Sale price $20.98) A marvelous and revealing look at the impact American jazz had on Europe, both culturally and musically. Rare footage from the '40s on of Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Ben Webster and a wealth of European musicians. Smartly written and directed, it includes many interviews with Martial Solal, Jan Garbarek, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and others. Directed by Julian Benedikt. 90 min. Color/B&W.NTSC (Region 1) TRUE BLUE MUSIC CONGRATULATES THE FOLLOWING GRAMMY JAZZ NOMINEES Terence Blanchard - A Tale Of God's Will (Sale price $14.98) In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans native son Terence Blanchard has created an impassioned song cycle, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina). This 13-track emotional tour-de-force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy, and beauty features Blanchard's quintet- pianist Aaron Parks, saxophonist Brice Winston, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Kendrick Scott- as well as a 40-member string orchestra. Some of the music originated from Spike Lee's documentary on this American disaster. And with this masterpiece, Blanchard's dual career as a major film composer and as a brilliant jazz musician come together. Bill Charlap - Live At The Village Vanguard (Sale price $13.98) The Village Vanguard is the New York home of Charlap's trio with Peter Washington and Kenny Washington. This live album includes beautiful interpretations of a number of standards plus Jim Hall's "All Across The City" and two tunes from the "Birth Of The Cool" sessions, Gerry Mulligan's "Rocker" and George Wallington's "Godchild." Joe Lovano & Hank Jones - Kids: Live At Dizzy's (Sale price $13.98) Recorded during a week at Jazz At Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, this album features 9 magnificent duets by Joe Lovano and Hank Jones as well as two Jones solo pieces. They perform classics by Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk (a dazzling "Four In One") as well as three Thad Jones gems. These two virtuosos connect on a high plane and the music always swings. Charles Tolliver - With Love (Sale price $15.00) More than 30 years after its two classic Strata-East albums, the Charles Tolliver Big Band has regrouped and become a fixture on the New York club scene. Fueled by Tolliver's intricate, original writing and driven by the rhythm team of Cecil McBee and Victor Lewis, the band's first new recording is the debut of the Mosaic/Blue Note label. Soloists on these 7 extraordinary charts include Billy Harper, Craig Handy, Howard Johnson, Stanley Cowell and Robert Glasper. ALL BLUE NOTE CONNOISSEUR SERIES SINGLE CDS ON SALE FOR $13.98 FOR ONE WEEK True Blue Music's Top Ten Connoisseur Favorites 1. Lou Blackburn - Complete Imperial Sessions In 1963, this great trombonist led an exceptional quintet he led with trumpeter Freddie Hill and pianist Horace Tapscott. The group recorded two albums for Imperial before disbanding. Both albums, plus one unissued track, are gathered on this 80-minute CD, newly remixed from the original three-track tapes. 2. Tina Brooks - Minor Move The first album by this brilliant, neglected tenor player, recorded shortly after his appearance on Jimmy Smith's "The Sermon", with Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. 3. Don Cherry - Where Is Brooklyn Cherry assembled a quartet with the often volcanic tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Ed Blackwell for his third and final Blue Note album. They dive into five of the trumpeter's delightful, quirky compositions 4. Sonny Clark - Sonny's Crib One of his best, this one features the front line of John Coltrane, Donald Byrd and Curtis Fuller and includes a classic reading of Kurt Weill's "Speak Low." Added to the original 1957 album are alternate takes of three selections. 5. Gil Evans - Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions. This CD contains both albums that Evans made for PJ in 1958-59, "New Bottle, Old Wine" and "Great Jazz Standards." The discovery of three-track masters for the latter album has enabled Blue Note to master with greatly improved sound. For these projects, Evans selected great jazz compositions from every era of the music and re-orchestrated them in his own style. Soloists include Johnny Coles, Curtis Fuller, Steve Lacy, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. 6. Grant Green - Solid A stunning. powerful 1964 session with Joe Henderson, James Spaulding, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw and Elvin Jones. The material includes George Russell's classic "Ezz-Thetic", Sonny Rollins' "Solid" and Henderson's "The Kicker." 7. Andrew Hill - Pax This February 1965 date with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis and Joe Chambers finds Hill during his first peak era, but the results did not surface until five tunes were issued on a 1975 double album entitled "One For One." Hill's music is difficult to master, but here he is among his creative peers - men who can bring his music to life with power and understanding. 8. Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker Hutcherson's previously unissued first session, recorded on December 29, 1963 with the same band that made Grant Green's "Idle Moments". This set features the first versions of Joe Henderson's "The Kicker" and "Step Lightly", Joe Chambers's "Mirrors" and Duke Pearson's "Bedouin". 9. Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator One of the Blue Note masterpieces that inexplicably sat in the vaults for 10 years before its first release, this session includes superb compositions by Lee and Wayne Shorter and features them along with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins 10. Larry Young - Into Somethin' Based on his astonishingly modern work for the label, Young was soon aptly dubbed the Coltrane of the organ. Added to the rhythm section of Grant Green, Young and Elvin Jones is another forward-thinking Blue Note signing, tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers. Added to the original album is an alternate version of "Ritha." RUNNING LOW AND LAST CHANCE CDs RUNNING LOW Tony Bennett - This Is Jazz Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come Miles Davis - In Europe Miles Davis - In Berlin Miles Davis - Sorcerer Duke Ellington - Private Collection Vol. 10 Don Ellis - Electric Barth Dexter Gordon - Sopisticated Giant Stephane Grappelli & Gary Burton - Paris Encounter Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Cow Fingers Lonnie Johnson - Steppin' On The Blues 3 Leadbelly - King Of The 12-String Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty Michel Petrucciani - 100 Hearts Pee Wee Russell - Jazz Original Frank Sinatra - September Of My Years Frank Sinatra - At The Sands Frank Sinatra - Francis A. & Edward K. Frank Sinatra - Live In Paris Frank Sinatra - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim The Original Sonny Boy Williamson- Blue Bird Blues DVDs RUNNING LOW Chet Baker - Sweden 1985 Duke Ellington - Berlin Concert 1969 Duke Ellington- London Concert 1964 Coleman Hawkins - London Concert 1964 Roland Kirk - In Europe 1962-67 Oscar Peterson- London Concert 1964 Frank Sinatra - A Man & His Music With Ella & Jobim Frank Sinatra - In Concert At Royal Festival Hall Frank Sinatra - Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Ben Webster - In Hannover 1973

I keep visiting the Mosaic site, looking for the first opportunity to pre-order.

Haze has a following - even one guy - in Southern Germany? A displaced Ameican, I assume? I'm in complete agreement about the recommended dosage.

http://www.myspace.com/hasiladkins C'mon, "Out to Hunch"? "Wild Man"? I'm coming to Adkins fairly late in life - mine, not his, which already concluded. But I'm glad for the ear-opening experience. "Night Life"? "What the Hell Was I Thinking"? Was all of it great? Hell no. You can't be that much of an eccentric and be consistent. http://www.hasiladkins.com/

Looks like another good one from Hewitt and Smalls Records. 1. Misty - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) 2. Girl From Ipanema, The - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) 3. This Isn't New - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) 4. Manteca - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) 5. Lover - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) 6. I Married An Angel - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) 7. Misty - (with Jimmy Lovelace/Ari Roland) Preorder: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7574219 Use the Organissimo link!

http://www.bordersmedia.com/coup/coupon30100130.htm 30% until February 3rd.

Me, uh, I like The Sweet Bands! Yes, the schmaltzier the better. Sorry. Nothing against 'em. Just making fun of my name. I tend to gravitate toward revolutions - the early 40s and late 50s/early 60s in particular. Individual players sometimes show marked style changes as they work to cope, adapt or resist. And groups benefit (or don't) from the differences in style or vision of their participants.

I'm living my dream right now. I'm 365 days a year in hotels, plus or minus a few nights on planes or buses, or stuck in airports. For the most part, they're good hotels, though 'good hotel' is something of a definitional stretch in, say Djibouti or Tajikistan. But I get to see the world, and never have to make my bed. In terms of place, if I HAD to settle in just one place: Oakland, CA.

I found a few of the Naxos jazz recordings to be good-or-better, but frankly can't think of a Naxos classical title in my collection. And for Naxos, $6 isn't a steep discount over typical market prices.

I think this is the reason Chris started the thread. I understand that only about 10% of Americans have passports. MG A while back, I bought a few copies of a book published by Lonely Planet (tourist books publisher) called 52 Reasons to Have a Passport. I figured I'd give them away to people on the verge of embarking on their first overseas travels, but needing a nudge. I consider travel an essential element of a well-lived life. So here's the deal, if you're a Organissimo board regular, you want a book, you can wait until I get back to the US to pick 'em up, and you're a US resident, I'll send you a book...until I run out. Sorry about the US resident thing; just makes it easier for me - I'm a lazy 'good samaritan'. The book is also pretty cheap to buy from the publisher. http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/Primary/Produ...D=1201697463673

Unitl Turkey joins the EU, eh?