patricia

This, IMO, is simply putting their money where their mouth is. Equal rights under the law, spelled out in our Constitution means exactly that. I feel very proud that my country has made this long overdue decision.

Clunky and Sidewinder, thank you. As far as I know, I don't have a mono option on my sound system, but the sound is very nice and the surface noise is minimal. Actually, the mono records sound surprisingly rich. Hmmm.

what's why I'm glad to have a Mono button on my amp. ← At the risk of admitting that I know very little about turntable technology, could you explain what a separate mono does?? I have looked and I don't have such a setting. I wonder how having one would enhance my listening pleasure. Right now I'm listening to a mono 2 record set of Tommy Dorsey's hits from the mid-thirties through the mid-forties. The sound is coming through both amp sets and all the instruments are clearly audible. What would a mono setting do that my sound system [about thirty years old] doesn't already do??

Jazz In Transition - Transition label. Personel: Donald Byrd Art Blakey Horace Silver Doug Watkins Joe Gordon Dave Coleman Dick Wetmore Herb Pomeroy Paul Chambers Philly Joe Jones John Coltrane Pepper Adams Curtis Fuller Jay Migliori Tommy Ball Sun Ra Cecil Taylor

The album that falls into this catagory for me is "My Kind Of Music" which was put together by Garry Moore. Now, Garry Moore to me was a kind of bland, affible guy from the fifties and early sixties, who had a variety show on TV. We had two channels when I was a kid and his show was one my parents watched. He introduced Carol Burnett to the world. I found myself drawn to this album because the personnel looked promising. I talked about it on another thread, but I think it deserves another mention. The players are: Wild Bill Davison Ernie Caceres Mel Henke Randy Hall Sonny Terry George Barnes and Garry Moore [who joins in on the grand finale at the end]. This album is pure gold, even if you only listen to Wild Bill rip out his heart on Side 2, playing "Yesterdays" backed by a full string orchestra. WOW!!!!. The rest of the album is excellent, but that one track is worth the price of admission. When I mentioned the album to my very best friend in the whole world, he cut me a CD from both of the follow-up albums. So now I have the trilogy. Wondrous!! Moore says in his liner notes that Yesterdays was the reason he put together the album and I can see why. That was the session that gave birth to two albums for Davison, "With Strings Attached" and "Pretty Wild", which, like Yesterdays were arranged around Davison's raw, visceral cornet, backed by a string orchestra. Best accidental acquisition of an LP for me, to date. FINE!

If there's a male version, does HE also have a "mute" button?? Just because we women are nodding and smiling and not changing the subject doesn't mean we're listening. We just have mastered the art of ignoring, without making it obvious so that you will cry and run out of the room.

Those early 70s Vanguards can be really excellent. Whilst the rest of the industry was going to the dogs and issuing inferior pressings on thin vinyl, these guys kept their standards up. I have a couple of the 'Essential' double sets from this vintage (Jo Jones, Vic Dickinson) and they sound great. Picked up for about £5 each ! ← only snag with the Essential Jo Jones 2 LPis that it's in fake stereo, great music though ← I always get a kick out of the notes on the covers of the mono LPs from the sixties, when stereo was first coming in. There are quite often reassurances that the album may be played on stereo, without harm. Makes me smile.

Belefonte Returns To Carnegie Hall - Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The Belafonte Folk Singers. - 1960 RCA. Talking about Odetta reminded me of Miriam Makeba, which somehow reminded me of this 2 record set. Odetta also does a duet with Belafonte. She was at the beginning of her career, as was Makeba. I first heard Harry Belafonte at a friend's house, when she had received a little portable record-player for her twelveth birthday in the fifties. Belafonte had burst onto the music scene with his Calypso sound. Even on a tiny little record player, the sound was revolutionary to me at the time and I loved it. This album is Belafonte at the pinnacle of his popularity. Miriam Makeba made a comeback a couple of years ago, with an excellent collection, "Homeland", which includes a re-do of her monster hit, The Click Song, re-titled, "Pata Pata 2000". Her voice is as good as ever. On this album, Belafonte duets with Makeba on an interesting take on Makeba's hit.

I've only heard/seen albums of spirituals and/or blues, and I believe that was pretty much where she was at. Though for what it's worth, the cloth it's cut from certainly seems not far off the 'jazz' mark. I am often proven wrong on items of discographical concern, however, so maybe Mike F has a better idea. ← Thank you Clifford. It's just that whenever I hear Waters' voice and the other two women I mentioned's voices I think that it would have been a logical direction for them to go. The quality of their talent and the soul-stirring voices they all demonstrated is amazing and they would all have been able to interpret jazz so beautifully, I think.

Yeah, I really like what I've heard of hers, not coincidentally on the same label. I think she has several on Word. ← Do you know if Ethel Waters ever sang, or recorded anything in the jazz idium?? I've often wondered the same about Odetta and Mahalia Jackson. All three of these fine women had amazingly full, rich voices that I think would have been wonderful if they had done some jazz. I know that Odetta did a lot of blues, but I don't think Jackson did anything other than spirituals.

Ethel Waters - His Eye Is On The Sparrow This is on a label I've never heard of, WORD, which seems to be one that specializes in spirituals, based in Waco, Texas. Generally, I'm not into spirituals, except for Mahalia Jackson and Odetta, but this is very nice. What a voice!! Also picked up two 45s: Brook Benton - Soul Santa - different takes, one on each side - Cotillian label. and Al Hirt - side 1 - Mame side 2 - Seven Days To Tahiti RCA label

The Trombone Sound - Kai Winding - Columbia Personel: Winding on trombone Wayne Andre, Carl Fontana and Dick Lieb also on trombones Kenny O'Brian on bass Jack Franklin on drums Roy Frazee on piano The cover notes give a running total of how many bars and on which selection each trombone soloist has. Interesting. Each band member has also been given a short bio. Nice.

Jimmy Smith - The Boss - Verve Yessss!! Track list: Side 1 Some Of My Best Friends Are Blues The Boss This Guy's In Love With You Side 2 Fingers Tuxedo Junction Personel: Jimmy on organ [of course] George Benson on guitar Donald Baily on drums on "Fingers" Nathan Page is on guitar. This is a VERY nice album. And yes it's one of the ones I mentioned earlier. I've died and gone to heaven.

wow !! now I'm GREEN ← I still haven't come down. Usually I find one or two jazz titles in OK, but not pristine condition. These are in new condition and as I flipped through them on the shelf there was another one after another one, after another one. WOW. This source is a charity shop and their standard price for LPs is a dollar each. It doesn't matter what the record is. Everything from really crappy tripe to somebody's entire Jazz collection. I have been going there for a couple of years and have also picked up my shelves there for cheap. Don't ignore these places. Although they have everybody's cast-off stuff, among those cast-offs are records. With talk of records making a comeback there is a little more traffic around them, but I show up early in the morning and it quite often pays off. I have asked the manager to keep a lookout for JazzTones and she, sensing these are collectables, agreed to set any aside for me if I am willing to pay THREE DOLLARS per disc. I said OK.

Don't forget that "He's from Barcelona" was said apologetically, as if that explains whatever dumb thing he may be doing. Loved Faulty Towers, particularly poor, downtrodden Manuel.

I'm GREEN. WOW!!

Land of the Midnight Sun - Al Di Meola Interesting *new* stuff, featuring a moog and some very interesting percussion. BUT, the bigger story is that I picked up twenty-five albums today, MINT condition for a single dollar for each record. The titles range all the way from three Jimmy Smiths to Kai Winding, to Getz, Eddie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Rob McConnell, Jimmy Reed, Moe Kauffman, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Witherspoon, 1959 Monterey Jazz Festival...... I'm forgetting a couple or so, but ONE DOLLAR EACH. My heart was racing as I sped through the tons of records, just brought into a thrift shop, that sells everything from clothes to furniture, to whatever. This is where I have found five of my JazzTones. I'm stoked!!

Autumn Leaves - Benny Carter Fandango - ZZ Top

Very nice work, Noj. I've always found that putting my "babies" out there is the hardest part. Good for you.

Balanced the Dixieland with "The Blues featuring Ray Charles", a nice set of tunes on Hurrah Records, recorded in the fifties, judging by the couple of old rock 'n roll influenced tracks. But this is the Ray Charles I knew and loved, before he was HUGE. Nice stuff. HURRAH seems to have been one of those tiny labels that came and went in a flash. No cover notes. No track list, except on the record itself. No list of personel, on the cover, or on the record itself. This was when Charles was still jazz and blues. Nice. His voice was remarkebly like Nat King Cole on "Can Anyone Ask For More?" Interesting.

I am a HUGE Dylan listener right now. Sundazed realeased a great sounding reissues of his early records from mono original master tapes at good price, reccomended...and I won a sealed first pressing of 'Desire' on ebay at ten bucks some times ago. Mr. Zimmerman rules, he is one of these human beings like Miles or Trane, blessed by God, Allah or Buddah or whatever you call HIM ← I had all his albums on vinyl as a teenager. Years later I briefly went to CDs and got rid of my records and turntable. I actually dumped my whole record collection and my turntable for fifty dollars!!! DUH!!! I then had to start all over again, doing penance for making such a collossal error. Since then, having gone back to vinyl, I have mostly concentrated on jazz and the odd classical disc and hadn't even thought of Dylan. So, this was a departure, but I'm enjoying the set.

Dixieland Jazz Classics - Original Recordings From 1917 - 1928. HERWIN label. Features: Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five Original Dixieland "Jass" Band Original Memphis Five Bucktown Five Arcadian Serenaders Red Nichols and his Five Pennies The Wolverines Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra Doc Cook and his Dreamland Orchestra Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra and King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band This sounds like it's being played on one of those old phonographs with the big horn on it. Love it!!

Thank you Z Man. I hadn't even thought about Dylan since the sixties, but was reminded of him when he did some work on the Michael Douglas film, Wonder Boys and won an Oscar. His music certainly has legs. The songs you mention are some of my favourites from my salad days. Thank you again.

The Blues, featuring Ray Charles - This is really early stuff, from the fifties I think, on HURRAH records. Ray Charles - This is an interesting record. Three tracks, I Can See Clearly Now, Let It Be, How Long Has This Been Going On. What's interesting is that although this is a 12" record, it plays on 45RPM!!! At first I thought that it sounded kinda draggy. Then I realized it was the speed I was playing it on. NICE version of Let It Be, so it must have been recorded in the sixties. The label is Midsong International Records. Strange I thought.

Found the double album, "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol II" today. All his early stuff. NO cover notes. I have no idea when it was recorded but the picture of Dylan on the cover is an early one. Was a HUGE Dylan listener in the sixties. A wave of nostalgia hit me when I saw this. Both records are in surprisingly good shape. No scratches or dirt. Unusual for records from the sixties, with the exception of jazz and classical, I find.