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  3. CHEWY FOUND SUNSET EYES

    in Artists

    Posted

    Great! That fleeting shot of the drummer at the end looked like the reat Ron Jefferson; anyone know?

    MG

    Certainly not! Ron Jefferson was nowhere near great!

    He was a heavyhanded drummer relying on simple formulas.

    Had the misfortune of running into him on several occasions when he was in Paris in the mid-sixties. Not only was he a lousy drummer, he was also an obnoxious person!

    A musician to avoid!

    Yeah, I heard he was a jerk too.

  5. New 'Jazz In Paris' series?

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by funkogre

    I recently came across a 2-cd set by Bill Coleman, titled 'The complete Philips recordings'.

    It's by the same people who did the renowned Gitanes 'Jazz In Paris' series. It is listed as being 'hors-series 02'.

    Is this a one-off two-fer, or is it part of a bigger series? If so, does anyone know what the other titles are?

    I did a search and came up with this post from king ubu (see the bottom).

  7. Jazz Icons Second Series

    in New Releases

    Posted

    New info from the jazz icons website:

    "April 25, 2007- more tidbits :

    * The newest artist that we have cleared is: Sarah Vaughan - Live In ’58, ’59 & ’63 (3 shows, 65 minutes).

    * We found another incredible, unseen Wes Montgomery show from England which we'll be adding to that DVD, bringing that up to 3 shows at 85 minutes.

    * Four titles from the 1st Jazz Icons series were selected by the prestigious French awards foundation The Victoires de la Musique for

    best jazz DVD releases in 2006:

    Ella Fitzgerald- Live in '57 & '63

    Thelonious Monk- Live in '66

    Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers- Live in '58

    Quincy Jones- Live in '60"

  8. andrew hill tribute on wkcr

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted · Edited by funkogre

    mingus tribute all day saturday.

    Looks like the Mingus tribute is all day Sunday, April 22nd (his birthday).

    from mingusmingusmingus.com: "WKCR (88.9FM) in New York: 24 hours of Mingus music, part of the station's Birthday Broadcast tradition. 12AM through 12PM. Primarily hosted by Phil Schaap."

    Duke Ellington's birthday broadcast will be on the 29th.

    Andrew Hill is on Monday.

  9. Jazz Icons Second Series

    in New Releases

    Posted

    He says the sound is screwed up on the second concert (the pitch is off) and it does not seem to be the way it was recorded, but something in the remastering.

    I have the Quincy and I don't think the second show being of lesser quality than the first had anything to do with the remastering job. Seemed like the tape just aged poorly to me. I think they mentioned something in the notes about that also. I'd check but I don't have it in front of me.

  11. Henry Red Allen

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    I just heard Rosetta and Body and Soul on the radio this morning and I couldn't tell who was playing it. We have a local radio station run by a museum that plays all kinds of obscure old music but never tells who's playing! It sounded like Armstrong to me but I knew it wasn't him by the singing. So I looked through allmusic.com and figured out it was Henry Red Allen! I really enjoyed those two cuts and the sax player who I think was Chu Berry? I'm going to have to pick up some of his records.

    are they on the web?------my kind of music!

    Yep, here's the link.

  12. Henry Red Allen

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    I just heard Rosetta and Body and Soul on the radio this morning and I couldn't tell who was playing it. We have a local radio station run by a museum that plays all kinds of obscure old music but never tells who's playing! It sounded like Armstrong to me but I knew it wasn't him by the singing. So I looked through allmusic.com and figured out it was Henry Red Allen! I really enjoyed those two cuts and the sax player who I think was Chu Berry? I'm going to have to pick up some of his records.

  14. Louis Armstrong, Hot Fives and Hot Sevens box

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    I am planning to pick up a box of this material and was wondering which one to pick up. I've heard really good stuff about the JSP set and am guessing that the Sony box is overpriced. Is the Sony box available on yourmusic?

    Guy

    I was in your same situation a couple months back and ended up choosing the Sony over the JSP set. I don't know if you care about the material being at the original pitch but I noticed some the JSP sample tracks on websites were out of tune but all of the sony material has been adjusted to the intended pitch. Also, the packaging is really beautiful on the sony set.

    Sony reissued this set in August (see this thread) and changed the packaging a bit I believe. I purchased the newer set and have no complaints with it but I remember reading some amazon reviews of the older set that people were having problems with the glue getting on the discs or something. If you sign up for google checkout (google's answer to paypal) before Feb. 15th you can get $10 off your purchase at CD universe so it would be about $25 plus shipping. Here's the link for google checkout. The google thing also works at buy.com. Anyway, I think that price is about as cheap as the JSP.

  22. Miles Davis - The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    ...I just feel that from a packaging perspective I am getting SO much more than I get from Mosaic and their Selects. They are about the same $$$ per disc and the crappy outer box on the Selects really cheapens the look of the product, IMO. I have to wonder how much the cost of leasing the music figures into the ability to package something attractively.

    ...Just wish Mosaic had packaged the Selects differently.

    Glad to hear the packaging is nice on this set as I'm still waiting for mine. I have to agree about the Mosaic Select sets. I just got my first a few days ago (Randy Weston is great!), and the outer box is flimsy and thin. I find this strange seeing as Mosaic Select sets are numbered and supposed to be collectable...I wonder what mine will look like in 20 years...

    Mosaic would be smart to look at what Proper Records is doing with their sets (they have sturdier outer boxes). Of course, I doubt Proper is paying anything to lease the music on their sets...

    I'm also disappointed that some of the music (the last session) on the Randy Weston set is a quarter tone off or so. I guess Mosaic doesn't realize that some of us musicians actually learn tunes off records and it would be nice to have the music at the pitch the musicians intended. Proper has some tunning issues also but I wouldn't have expected this from a major jazz reissue company like Mosaic.

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