Jim Duckworth

PM sent on BN Small Box Sets Horace Silver Blue Note Records Presents Retrospective 4CDs $24 Joe Henderson The Blue Note Years 4CDs $24

I've enjoyed this set for years, but a friend whose opinion I trust waved me off the last disc, citing bad pop covers as the reason. In investigating Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land, I had cause to open and listen to the final disc in the set, and yes on disc 4 is a cover of Sunshine of Your Love and disc 5 does feature Aquarius, but these are not dealbreakers for me. The version of Equinox on disc 5 kills.

"...as well as wartime recordings produced for American servicemen by the Armed Forces Radio Service." This is the part that got my attention. This would include that great AFRS Jubilee segment wherein Benny Carter, Willie Smith, and Charlie Parker each do a number with the Nat King Cole trio. There are also recordings with Lester Young and, I believe, Coleman Hawkins. It would be great to have these gathered together in a coherent package.

Buying the Miles at Montreux box at a local shop, I asked how could they sell it so cheaply. I was told by the clerk that it had "fallen off a truck."

Although I've been listening to this regularly for 40 plus years, it sounded absolutely fresh this morning.

This is my experience exactly. Shortly after I purchased this set a couple of horrendous events had dampened my enthusiasm for nearly everything-music included-but I found that this set helped "bring me back."

Oh, I'm really happy with it.

I added the 1934-1935 Decca recordings to compliment the Earl Hines Mosaic set and completed the Jimmie Lunceford set with the 1939-1940 Okehs.

I know Mr. Atkinson best from a record that made a huge impact on me early: Keno Duke/Contemporaries Crest of the Wave (an excellent record with George Coleman, Frank Strozier, and Harlod Mabern).

Classic Jazz On Line: http://www.jazz-on-line.com/pageinterrogation.php?keymatrix=&keylabel=&keyartist=fletcher+henderson&keyword=&keyyear=&keycatNumber=&B1=Submit Although i did not examine them, there are some 548 downloadable selections featuring Fletcher Henderson and it's free.

My friend Richard Graham always identified Mr. Cherry as his mentor and chief influence as a musician. Running into Mr. Cherry skating and high in the East Village, my friend welcomed the opportunity to introduce Don to his significant other who was decidedly unimpressed with the man he held in such high esteem. Until this thread, I always thought that story was apocryphal.

If memory serves there is a segment in Ken Burns' Jazz wherein Wynton sings some well-known march in the style of Buddy Bolden-it sounded so much more like Roy Eldridge to me.

Thank you for posting! Now I feel that I must have this.....

I really like the Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor partnership.

I am really glad to see Ms Day getting some love on this forum. I find some of her vocal performances to be of the highest quality.

Mr. Knepper was playing with Mingus when I caught them at Carnegie Hall in 1976; I've since come to reflect just how remarkable it was that the trombonist had rejoined Mingus given their past history.

PM on Sun Ra -- The Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1

Dud Bascomb is responsible for most of the trumpet soli on the Erskine Hawkins sides and is on some of the later forties Duke Ellington records. Paul Bascomb, his tenor playing brother on these same discs, went on to a modicum of fame playing a kind of r&b.

I spent some quality time with this very issue just recently. Your post has got me reaching for it again. Thanks.

PM sent on Don Pullen set.

I need to get this! Mr. Mitchell is a national treasure. Some years ago I had the opportunity to tell him that he had changed the way I heard music. As part of a Jazz festival a group of critics and musicians converged to discuss Jazz in Europe (participants included Amrii Baraka, Peter Brotzman, Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith and others in a lively, at times contentious conversation.) There was a bit of tension in the room and Mr. Mitchell (not a scheduled participant) felt a bit slighted and spoke up. Although he was a bit miffed, he was extremely cordial to me when I approached him.

I'm exploring the Duke Pearson arranged octets and nonets from the mid-sixties. This is taking me through quite a bit of Stanley Turrentine as well as sessions led by Blue Mitchell, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson and Mr. Pearson's The Right Touch.

Next up: King Oliver didn't teach Louis anything.

This set is a great place to hear Miles actively and successfully shaping what the Quintet did.