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Agree 100%. Rollins' RCA/Victor work is generally awesome in quality and still underrated. Just compare it with the later Impulse! productions, though...

Well, this tread suddenly wakes me up: this is speaking straight! Rollins is God; Rollins really was a greater one just when he used to have such players to match him and play with him. That was great music. And this in my humble experience stops happening after his RCA/Victor and Impulse! recordings. Later on his musicians were young, fresh, gifted but simple, rarely experienced and strong (exception: De Johnette), never much interesting and strong as in the past. Miles rised many young musicians later becoming leaders and major artists. Rollins had no one, no future Giant working with him, if Broom will ever be the first, eventually. Really, Rollins stopped listening his rhythms way in the back. It's a Saxophone Colossus soliloquy, and a great show anyway even if we keep on being much, much more thrilled by that old music of him.

I'd be not surprised too, since I remember in the last years of Davis' activity he was so often playing poppish music some musical critic wondered when and wether he will be the direct Jackson "king of pop" competitor as he was approaching to do with those boring '80s pop hits. I have seen him live twice in those years, though I started to appriciate his pre-1975 greatness as a whole only later on. As you said, one of the Davis worst 'career lowpoint', without depriving him of his greatness.

Such a sad new. I love his classic recordings, some of the most underrated jazz music ever, incredibly, almost magically mixing spontaneity and structure. I was lucky enough to see him performing twice in Italy, always great, great moments of music. Thank you for all your awesome music mr.Russell. Thank you for all the great time your music let me spend.

I absolutely adore and bless that Mosaic box. I started listening to her music here. I'd reccomend any new listener to give a look to her performance in Jazz On A SUmmer's Day. DVD apart you easily find those eight minutes on YouTube, splitted or together. She gives awesome and deep of feeling versions of Sweet Georgia Brown and Tea For Two. She plays fast as the wind, with magical understatement as much as she makes pauses speak a minute before... Generally I tried and tempt new listeners with her "Time For Two. Anita O'day With Cal Tjader" in the last Mosaic cd; sometimes paired in the same cd with Carmen McRae's equally latin-esqe and Tjaderized "Heat Wave". The pairing with The Master means a lot how much I consider O'Day, I believe. Waiting for her new DVD documentary. I already saw it at summer film festival and find it pretty good.

Speaking of jazz guitarists really, greatly able to play in a Monkish way, I'd reccomend a listen to Eric T.Johnson. His strong "Plays Herbie Nichols Vol.I" cd is sold on Amazon for a few $$. His previous "Boston Quartets" cd is nearly as great (the pianoless tracks!). He's a great underrated jazz player and has a steady rhythm section plus trumpet capable of subtle dynamics and interplay. P.S. - Please Mr. Johnson, if you read me, when will we have an "Herbie Nichols Vol.II"?

"She's over 18" ? If you refer to her age, that's a relief : Berlusconi will not be interested. Strong point, nowadays (the girl could earn enough money to self-produce a record backed by Jarrett & rhythm, though...).

Mine too, well, stickers on the door Or was I already into Stranglers and Joy Division?

It's beautiful to read a post like this Jeff, thank you I love that session. Great repertoire. Ellington's "The Mystery Song"! Yes, that obscure "Mistery Song". blessed by a very good sound, I personally always thought -and still think - of Evidence as the masterpiece within the great bunch of session Lacy recorded in those years (Prestiges and Candid).

I love all the classic recordings Roach did with Brownie and Rollins, but for me his more personal an beautiful statements are to be found in his Impulse! "Percussion Bittersweet" with Mal Waldron and Dolphy and the Atlantic "Drums Unlimited" with Hubbard and Jimmie Merritt. Unforgivable moments of original, virtuosistic, spontaneous jet magically organized music. Quintessential jazz

Very sad note. My mind goes to his sound in Johnny Mandel's "I Want To Live" soundtrack, in "A Bag Of Blues" (track #1 cd 1) and the whole cds 3 & 4 in Mosaic's "The Complete Pacific Jazz Studio Recordings of Bud Shank", still some of the very best West Coast Jazz I ever heard, full of surprises and swing. A great overlooked player.

I love the late Flanagan best. Just tonight I was driving to work, listening Jeff 'Tain' Watts' cd 'Megawatts'. The awesome performance of Kenny Kirkland here reminded me of the magnificient Flanagan's soloing on Giant Steps (Enja). That exciting sense of everlasting swing, relax/tension with endless ideas... Not frequent to be heard like that, in my limited knowledge. Flanagan was The Master. I love his late Enjas like Giant Steps, Thelonica and Let's; my jazz piano masterpieces.

Me too! I love his music in 'Stringjazz' and 'Buellgrass' groups, both with Krystyall. The Soul Note cd is great. Happy Birthday!

Truth is never simple. 'Complex' is a closer definition, speaking of an Artist as she was

When I hear his name I always think of that great jazz tune ("Nommo") he plays with Max Roach in Drums Unlimited. Great musician

Mr.Houn and his very difficult to find music -at last these three italian recordings- need to be more widely known in my opinion. A Select with his Soul Notes and hopefully many unpublished music should be a dream for me. He is heavy on some political issue maybe not anybody care about, but he's an awesome performer, arranger and composer (in the spirit of Mingus and Ellington). Sadly he's ill in these days. I strongly wish he will be better since he's a real artist. Best wishes mr.Houn. Keep on fighting.

Around 2001, can't remember exactly, I reccomended them for a Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Complete Recordings... I was very happy to see it realized and to pre-order. Wasn't for sure my advice to make it realized, it was so obiously a great Mosaic to be set up

.....Bill Evans?....

I think I had an extensive footage of this video on DVD from Dimeadozen, some years ago, along with an equally beautiful set of him with the european quartet (Gabarek, Danielsson, Christensen). I always loved this "early" music as I do Jarrett's Impulse and '70s ECMs, though I find boring his sparse soprano and percussion playing (given the screaming for granted).

I have the japanese cd version of Live At The Trident. It's a very good session with a wonderful rhytmic drive (Haden and Granelli smoke), clearly George Russell-influenced (some of my all-time favourite musician). Yes, he was an awesome performer at 25. How could he be also a decent psychiatrist and have time to reharse and grow technically as this always puzzles me

Good point. Those are awesome records, very peculiar performances to discover in those Steeplechase. I love Dyani's Angolian Cry too (with Billy Hart). Great combos

Agreed! For what is worth my opinion: yes, they're masterpieces. I had the first Roulette cd edition of Huhru Africa/Highlife and some other Weston cds and that's why I did not buy this Select (always too much cds in list, that's the point).

I emailed them the very question, thinking to buy Akiyoshi and Zeitlin's Mosaics. They did not even replied me... Like I was asking for some foods in a supermarket. I just buyed them the Braxton box and this carelessness was disappointing

Definitely an artist, a poet and a songwriter. To give an idea, known to be amazed by jazz music in his youth (particoulary by cool jazz sounds and Jim Hall guitar playing) he's close to french singer and songweiter George Brassens. He had a peculiar anarchyst and deeply philosophical bitter view of the world you can get from his songs.

Those lyrics sound great when Sheila Jordan sings them on their studio ECM album, "Playground." Seriously. She also does "The Zoo." That's a fantastic record. Agree. Sheila souds magnificient even reading a shopping list -or whatever, as Getz was told. A pure musician with an unique musical skill