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I think that's the EXODUS side. EX-cellent stuff! I'm really fond of this one too: Check out the lineup: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=U...l=Aitf3zfj7eh5k Dexter's A DAY IN COPENHAGEN & Mobley's THE FLIP are both sideman dates that dhow him to good advantage. And as far as his writing goes, sometimes it gets a little heavy-handed for my tastes, but sometimes not. Dexter's SOPHISTICATED GIANT might be a good place to start, aside from his own dates. There's a Fresh Sounds issue that couples his Strand & Charlie Parker Records dates that is pretty good too. You get Booker Little, George Coleman, Freddie Hubbard, and others on there. Pretty decent stuff!

Conrad Herwig's got a "gimmick" going in terms of album concepts, but the music on those albums is inevitable above average. After all those years w/Palmieri, he's got that Latin thing going on in a more than superficial way, and he's always had a good sense for "advanced" post-bop playing. I'm not too much of a "concept" guy myself, but that might help explain why Conrad's making records and I'm making posts.

That Herwig side is actually pretty darn good!

Condolences on the loss of your friend, Vic. I confess to ignorance of Mr. Jaedig's work. What's a good representation/introduction?

I was too. Got me ready for life as a musician...

Did anybody else actually get to experience dodgeball (the game) in elementary school as conducted by sadistic coaches who woud get soccer balls, inflate them as hard as possible, and then look the other way while the class bullies held kids down so they could be hit at close range by a full-force throw in whatever area of the body appealed to the thrower at the time? Ah, the wonder years...

Must be the exclamation points! What sayest thou, Mr. Killowatt?

I have no problems with it!

Just clean up afterwards, ok?

Nothing - too distracting. GOTTA STAY IN THE MOMENT BAYBEE!!!!!

Thanks, Lon. I gotta do some math now... BTW - how's the sound on those New World cds? (I can't believe I'm asking that question , but hey, solo piano.... )

I'd have to be able to locate a copy before I could answer. Nearly impossible these days, it seems.

You think that's a joke? http://scolar.vsc.edu:8003/VSCCAT/ABX-3967

Too bad you don't have a singer, or else I'd recommend the most under-utilized wedding song of our time (in fact, I've never heard it utilized!) - "Why Did I Choose You?". Two versions of it on Marvin Gaye's VULNERABLE album, and AMG lists some other performances, jazz and otherwise (guess I need to get the Shirley Horn version!). Beautiful song, beaitiful lyrics, and very releveant to the occasion. Pity nobody seems to know it. Another great one that's severly underplayed is "The Folks Who Live On The Hill". Hard for me to not get misty eyed with that one, at least when it's sung. If you can find a band that knows it, "suggest" that they cop Nelson Riddle's changes from Peggy Lee's THE MAN I LOVE album. Hipper than any jazz version I've ever heard!

I'd REALLY like to see a Complete Staples Singers on VeeJay set from somebody. It's some close, but aside from Opal Nation's copy-protected bootles (sic!) on Pewburner, it's been no cigar. Mosiac needs to do some Gospel sets, just for the musical importance of the stuff. There IS a market, and so much of this stuff is getting ignored, especially the Peacock catalog, which is as ripe (and as ignored) as any jazz artist/label you can think of. Hey - they've done R&B sets, and the stuff I'm talking about is just as relevant to the overall American jazz experience as that stuff is, maybe even moreso. If "jazz" is the city, then Gospel is the town you pass through on one side of the city limits, and R&B is the town you pass through on the other side. Why should Mosaic not present the full journey?

Need a recommendation here, please. Is this set the same as the Master Jazz sides? It's a four LP set, so I'm assuming that it is. If not, we can stop here. Now - I know that the MJ stuff was all reissued on New World CD, but Volume 1 seems to be OOP for some reason, or at least has another title. All I can find in-pring is Volume 2. So - does the New World stuff issue anything not on the MJ sides, or is it a straight reissue of the material? Finally (in parts) - did the B-o-t-M set come with a book of any sorts? The set I saw had pasted on liner notes by Stanley Dance on the back of the box and nothing further inside. Did the MJ albums use the same notes? What about the annotation for the New World discs? Straight reprint? If so, of what? If new notes, then by whom? Yeah, I ask a lot of questions, I know. But I saw the B-o-t-M set recently for $25, in what seemed to be pretty good condition, but I want this music in as complete and well-annotated package as is available. I''ve put off getting it WAY too long. As always, thanks in advance!

Speaking of the RCA stuff, I almost forgot about the Lerner/Lowe side. THAT one is insane, w/Johnny Griffin the most insanest! I have it on a thing called SECOND EDITION. Worht getting by any means necessary!

THAT one could concievably make a Select.

Thanks. They're works-in-progress, to be sure, but aren't we all?

Complete Anthony Braxton on Arista. Oliiver Nelson on Flying Dutchman (all leader dates plus selected arranger dates), Arthur Blythe on Columbia. Eventually. And remastered - PLEASE. Don Ellis on Pacific Jazz and/or Columbia (kinda dicey on this one). Complete Chico Hamilton with Charles Lloyd. Complete Sonny Rollins RCA, with all the unreleased stuff, especially the live stuff. Maybe after Sonny dies (I'm in no hurry). Complete 1964 Mingus European tour. Maybe after Sue dies...

I got it as part of my kids' Fathers Day gifts, and I like it just fine. My favorite cut is #7, for many different resons. True, nithing new, not even a little, but those guys crack me up with their rhymes and overall attitude.

Great Father's Day hear, the best in recent memory. A publice "love ya'!" is called for, so here it is.

Probably not. Nothing personal, mind you.

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