JohnT

Just picked this one up myself. The sounds a little rough but what a great historical document!! And I like the look of the CD cover, etc. (loved the "new" Andrew Hill "Passing Ships" cover too) -- classic Blue Note!! Would have loved to be in the audience for this one (I wasn't even born yet!!). Listen to Tommy Potters bass on the first sessions -- great sound for 1951 -- smokin'!!

Three weeks ago, I walked into a local used CD store and found a used but mint copy of the Tyrone Washington TOCJ for $7.99 along with John Patton's Memphis to New York Spirit for $7.99 and McCoy Tyner's Assante (sealed) for $9.99. I think my hands were shaking as I walked to the cash register!!!! It was like xmas in September!!

Based on members recommendations, I picked up "Ghetto Music" on Cd and really like it a lot!! It's been in my player all week. I really love Andrew Hill's "Lift Every Voice" too and it's similar but different in it's own way. I've ordered "Black Rhythm Happening" and can't wait to hear it too. Thanks for the recommendations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in Clearwater and was really looking forward to seeing Organissimo on Saturday night (especially since I'm originally from the Detroit area (been in Florida 5 years) and it's nice to see a a band from my home State featured at the Jazz Holiday. The Jazz Holiday in Clearwater is a fantastic setting for jazz -- when the sun sets behind those palms next to the gulf and the music is going -- it's fabulous!!! But, alas, I also have a gig that night that starts at 7:00 (I'm an upright bass player in a Jazz Quintet) and I'm not sure if I can make it from Coachman Park and to my gig in time. I can't make Friday night either because of the gig but I plan on going on Sunday to catch Herbie Hancock and others!!

I have this on a Fresh Sound CD. It's been awhile since I listened to it but I remember it as a great session. I'll have to pull it out and give it a listen. I'm not sure it's worth THAT much though!!!!!!!! I think it may have been Jackie McLean's first session as a leader but I'm not sure.

Ron Carter has, IMHO, what all great jazz musicians aspire to: an individualized and unique "sound". You can usually tell its him in just a few notes. Just like any other instrument, it's that unique "sound" that sets the great bassists like Ray Brown, Oscar Pettiford, Mingus, Scott LaFaro, Eddie Gomez, Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and so many others apart. My biggest problem with some of the younger bassists today IMO, like for example Christain McBride, is that they all sound like Ray Brown and if I want to hear some Ray, well, I'll go right to the source... Then, of course, Christian McBride is young and still has time to "find' his own sound.

I'm a newbie to this forum but after seeing the discussion about the Gerald Wilson Mosaic set, I went and purchased it. What a great set!!! I have about ten mosaics and this has to be one of the best and a real surprise. I have a question, though, that maybe some of you who also have this set could answer. During about the middle of the trumpet solo in the song "Straight Up and Down", (on Disc 1) where the horn section comes back in, is that a bad edit or is it just my ears? It seems that the trumpet solo was edited to shorten the track (the sax gets much more solo space). I know that Dick Bock at Pacific Jazz was known for his "editing" but I'm just curious if anyone else hears it. It's still a great track though. Thanks. JohnT