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Have you heard Giacomo Gates?

From Mosaic: "Literally years in the making, this set introduces 23 previously unreleased gems approved by the artist himself. It was delayed by a fire on the Universal Studios lot in California which took much of the original Jamal trio LP masters with it and our search to reconstruct the music on the set from a variety on analog and digital sources sitting in vaults around the world. It's been a hell of a long time coming and we hope you enjoy The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions." This makes me sad. I'm glad Mosaic is putting this out though. The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival recording of this trio seems pretty awesome. It's almost tempted me into purchasing my first digital download ever! You can listen to a sample track from it here. Does anyone already have it? I just noticed is says "But Not for Me (Feat. Chet Baker).

Now the Ellington CD $4.99 shipped from deepdiscount.com (tax for Illinois residents). I found some others from the Soundies label for cheap. Ray Noble - Complete Standard Transcriptions $3 Jimmy Dorsey - Complete Standard Transcriptions $3 Mel Torme - Complete World Transcriptions $4.17 Charlie Shavers - Shavers Shivers $3 Eddie Condon - Eddie Condon & Friends $3.99 Various Artists (Stuff Smith, Ben Webster, etc.) - Masters of Classic Jazz: Swing Greats $4.99 If you're really cheap you can go through Bing Cashback for an extra 4% off, woo! Glad I held out while all you other suckers paid $5.96...

I agree that his arco sound isn't the most beautiful in the world, (his rhythm is always right on the money though) but you have to remember that he played gut strings. I think they were Golden Spiral brand (nylon wrapped gut) which I've heard were very difficult to bow! Most bass players today use metal strings which are far easier to bow (many jazz players use gut or synthetic gut strings still today). I always liked PC's arco solo on his tune, "Tale of the Fingers."

Listen here http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

Is this actually a podcast? ie. Can you download it to iTunes? Or do you haves to stream it? And I hate to admit it, but I'm not sure what an RSS feed is.) You're right, you have to stream it. I used the wrong word.

Jazz Loft Project radio series from WNYC http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/jazz-loft/

I'm glad to see the radio series is being podcast. Listen here! http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/jazz-loft/

I'm bumping this because they've redesigned their website. http://www.jazzloftproject.org In the upper left corner you can click on the "sounds" page and listen to some recordings made in the loft. Also, the radio series on WNYC is starting on Monday. I hope they make it available as a podcast as it broadcasts at different times during the day and it may be hard to catch it all. Radio series info. You can also sign up for their email newsletter http://www.jazzloftproject.org/index.php?s=newsletter or be a facebook fan here http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jazz-Lof...ect/49444658282

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Here's all but the 4 bonus tracks from http://ubu-space.blogspot.com http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Lenox/lenhome.htm <----Mike Fitzgerald's site with info on The Lennox School I also remember there was a documentary made about the Lennox School that I never got to see. I don't think it's out on dvd. It should be, this is important stuff! http://www.musicinnfilm.com/film/index.html EDIT: I like this trailer better http://www.projectilearts.org/vlog/archive...2_musicinn.html THE THIRD ANNUAL BENEFIT CONCERT August 29, 1959 BERKSHIRE MUSIC BARN, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) Max Roach, John Lewis Ensemble: Don Cherry-tpt; Ornette Coleman-asx; Kent McGarity-tbn, btpt; Steve Kuhn, Ron Brown-p; Larry Ridley-b; Barry Greenspan-d 1. THE SPHINX (Ornette Coleman) 2. INN TUNE (Margo Guryan) Kenny Dorham Ensemble: Peter Farmer, Kenny Dorham-tpt; Sture Swenson-bsx, tsx; Paul Dunyhower-tbn; David Lahm, Ran Blake-p; Walter Bernard-b; John Bergamo-d 3. D. C. SPECIAL (Kenny Dorham) Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Connie Kay Ensemble: Al Kiger-tpt; Ted Casher-tsx; Dick Wright-tbn; Gary McFarland-vbs; Attilla Zoller-g; Dizzy Sal-p; Doug McLaughlin-b; Bill Sharfman-d 4. MONK'S SPHERE (Gary McFarland) 5. JINGLES (Wes Montgomery, arr. Al Kiger) Jimmy Giuffre F. & M. Schaefer Scholarship Ensemble: Tony Greenwald-tpt; Jimmy Giuffre-ww; Ian Underwood-f; Lenny Popkin-asx; Herb Gardner-tbn; David Mackay-p; John Keyser-b; Paul Cohen-d 6. STRATUSPHUNK (George Russell) 7. RAY'S TIME (Jimmy Giuffre) Gunther Schuller Ensemble: Perry Robinson-cl; John Eckert-tpt; Don Stewart-tsx; David Baker-btbn; Gunther Schuller-fr hn; Sandy Schmidt, Nico Bunink-p; Mona Neves-b; Bob Fuhlrodt-d 8. LONE RANGER AND THE GREAT HORACE SILVER (David Baker) Herb Pomeroy Ensemble: Tony Greenwald, Al Kiger, 2 unknown-tpt; Ornette Coleman, Lenny Popkin-asx; Ian Underwood-f, asx; Ted Casher-tsx; Sture Swenson-bsx?; Herb Gardner, Paul Dunyhower?-tbn; David Baker-btbn; Gary McFarland-vibes; David Mackay-p; John Keyser-b; Paul Cohen-d; Herb Pomeroy-cond 9. TO THEE, O ASPHODEL (Bobby Freedman) 10. PAUL'S PAL (Sonny Rollins) 11. BLUE GRASS (Danny Kent)

I like Joe Henderson/Christian McBride on Joe's album "Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn" (Verve). I really like that whole album but "Isfahan" is the only sax bass duet track. I second whoever recommended the Don Byas/Slam Stewart tracks. "Indiana" and "I Got Rhythm" are on this CD. I found it on vinyl at the record store a while ago but I see Amazon has the CD still, search under "Giants of the Tenor Sax." I believe "I Got Rhythm" is on the "Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz" also. I read the interview with Don Byas in Art Taylor's book "Notes and Tones" and Byas says Art Tatum was a big influence on his playing.

Just came back on stage! edit: I guess they took the stream down on NPR you can still watch the second set here http://www.wbgo.org/blog/

watching this now check it out here... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=111774598 Link to NPR/WBGO Vanguard concert series