Brad

I skipped all these. Just nothing there that I want to sink some cash into. Slim maybe but I find him tiring after awhile in general. I might consider the Tjader but that would be it for this group.

I remember that cover from when I was a kid. I remember (as best as I can) it being pretty cool and Thelonious always stuck in the back of my mind although I couldn't tell you what for, at least not until I got interested in jazz.

Is Rein De Graaf Swedish? I've enjoyed the material he's done. He did a cd with J.R. Monterose called Body and Soul on Blue Moon and Now's the Time on Timeless with a bunch of different saxophonists like Dex that's pretty nifty.

People have already mentioned these but these are two of my favorites and I don't have enough of them: Arnold Ross and Claude Williamson Allen, any chance you can post some reminescences of Al Haig. I would love to hear some. Although you don't think of Bud as overlooked as a pianist, I think he's overlooked as a musician and not given enough credit for his contributions to bebop. I know that sounds like a ridiculous statement but I think it's true today. We think grandly of Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Klook and Max but not enough of Bud in my opinion.

What have you listened to of Grant's. Perhaps we can make some recommendations.

Take a look at this thread about Grant and Wes but don't overlook other guitarists either so you might want to check out this thread about Overlooked Guitarists also. I don't think you can consider him overlooked, esp. in view of the Mosaic treatment he received last year but give Tal Farlow a listen. His sound is quite magical.

Hardbopjazz, Happy Birthday. Hope you spin and get some good discs today

That would be bloody awful if Classics has reached the end of their run. They've brought out some music that we never would have had access to for the most part.

Well, if you've had a good life and shared your treasures with your buddies, thereby going to heaven, your sound will be in "hi" fi.

I assume this has not been reissued on cd. Pity.

Is there such a box to be or are you just kiddin' around?

Forget it! They're going to the triple reinforced vault w/me when I expire! Yeah, and with that attitude that might be sooner than later

So I'm opening up Sunday's NYT Book Review section (we get the Sunday sections on Saturday) and whose visage is looking back at me but Stanley. The review by Emily Eakin, a New Yorker staff writer, of his book of essays is not kind. I know I'm taking this out of context probably but here are some snippets: "Crouch encourages us to think of his essay as musical improvisations, writing as jazz. On paper, however, the effect is often cacophany. Unencumbered by conventions of logic and usage, he splatters the page with great gobs of vivid but impenetrable pose, awash in mixed metaphors and murky generalizations." "Equally damaging of an author of such fiercely humanist instincts is Crouch's penchant for scatological conceits." She concludes by saying that "Crouch is too smart and too original a thinker not to be held to the same high standards for which he has relentlessly agitated." It's safe that this is one review he won't be saving.

It would be great to see these.

Mark, Nice photos, as usual!

You should never respond to a thread without READING it. Why, that never stopped anyone before

C'mon give us those treasures you're hoarding. I know you've got 'em

According to AMG, there's a couple of other Musicraft cds but I haven't checked the discography of those.

There are 6 Musicraft Sextet and 9 Musicraft Orchestra tracks in the Savoy box. I assume they're some or all of the ones on the Musicraft CD you're talking about. I checked and everything that's on Musicraft is on Odyssey, which is a great 3 cd set.

The cd that Brownie is really excellent, one of the better pickups that I've made. There is also Dizzy Gillespie and his Sextets & Orchestra on Musicraft (MVSCD-53) but I think it's long out of print. I'm not that wild about the RCA set. What I much prefer in its place is Afro, released as part of the Verve LPR series. That one should be definitely around.

I'm over 50 and love Al Haig as do many of us here so we know what you're talking about

The new April list looks quite nice. On my list will be the Pepper, Adderley, Monk and Lateef. The rest I already own

Tal Farlow Verve sessions. Awesome!

I don't think the review is badly written but what disturbs me is that it's clearly written for a non-jazz audience and the insertion of that paragraph about what happened after 1959 is an attempt to prejudice an unenlightened reader. That is clearly pathetic and does a disservice to everybody, especially the would be jazz fan.

How about "I didn't know Wynton played piano also."