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Imagine, $995 for some Bill Evans recordings!!

Do we really need Ipods? My Sony Ericsson W phone has a 4 GB memory card and the music sounds great. Napster and Itunes downloads are HIV positive and you can't use them universally. But I did get some software called Tunebite that removes the HIV and converts to good ole mp3 (320 even!).

Shortly after CDrs started, there were several panic posts about them rotting away, almost making you want to jump off the Empire Hancock Building (who remembers that? lol). I've never had one go bad on me. For years now, I've just been getting the cheap ones at the computer stores, usually in a 100 spindle pack with no covers.

Just read the excerpts (in a post above) from an interview with Freddie. It's interesting to hear that "Ready For Freddie" was a favorite session of his, cos I've always felt that it was just about his best. He says "Louis Armstrong: He had that funny sound. I didn't dig it when I first heard it, that Dixieland. But if you listen to him for a while he had that feeling. He didn't have that execution like Dizzy Gillespie." Funny sound? Didn't have the execution? What utter bullshit. Amazing, coming from a top trumpeter.

Just remembered, you can also hear Trane speaking on some of the Atlantic out-takes. The session with Cedar Walton comes to mind.

For you Lucky Thompson fans there are two Lucky Strikes albums- the first was issued on Transition LP (TRLP-21) in 1956. This has been reissued on CD by Xanadu (204)/Prevue (CD-PR-10) with the title of "Brown Rose". This session was recorded in Paris, France with several French musicians. This recording is very rare and hard to find because of the title change and the confusion with the other Lucky Strikes album. The LP or the CD is occasionally available on eBay- the LP usually sells for several hundred dollars. It is interesting to note that the Transition title is actually "Lucky Strikes!" with an exclamation point, where the following Prestige album does not have the exclamation point in the title................. The second Lucky Strikes album was issued in 1964 on Prestige LP 7365 and reissued on CD as OJC-194. This is probably the album referred to in the quote. This CD is readily available at Amazon and other sources. I certainly was referring to the Prestige album. I have never heard of the 1956 one.

Was he French Belgian (Walloon), or Flemish? If the latter, it would be "Yaspar". In any case, if you're American, just pronounce it in the U.S. way. I bet Joe Zawinul's name was not given an Austrian pronunciation when he was in the States. And then there's George Mraz, originally Jiri.

Dan, I have always pronounced it Philly-ass. Surely that will do. If that is wrong, who is there to complain? All the best with the work.

Absolutely, Jim. At the risk of seeming sycophantic (there is a less polite term for it, lol), I'd sure vote for that.

What a terrible loss. My first Hubbard album was a mono LP of "Ready For Freddie", complete with the nose and toes in the dead wax (actually we never looked for that back then). The LP sound was fantastic - just about jumped off the disk. It's still my favorite by him, but he made so many awesome albums.

There is actually a recording of Wes with Trane? Much as I like them all, I can't really imagine Wes with Trane and Eric Dolphy. What a ridiculous mismatch.

Trane and Pharoah Sanders doing "Manifestation", lol.

Wonderful to have Max still around.

I love Nat, but could never face the idea of 18 CDs of the trio. I guess you have to space your listening out.

Go to DailyMotion dot com and check out Milt with Oscar Peterson doing "For All We Know". Superb backing by NHOP and Martin Drew.

Full bodied, lol.

I agree, Hans. How muddy they sound - as if they were recorded inside a cardboard box. What a shame that those fantastic recordings in 1960 with McCoy and Elvin were done for Atlantic and not Impulse. Elvin's drums are badly muffled and Rudy recorded him so well.

I finally got the LP off of eBay a couple of years ago. It was very hard to track down a copy. And yes, it hasn't been out on CD apart from that Japanese version, which is also a swine to find. I like it and the other Impulse album (for which I did find the Jap version, which is one of those delightful LP facsimile jobs). But Curtis's Savoy and BN sessions (and his appearances with Blakey) are far superior.

I don't like the Artois version, lol. Tastes like weewee. Jim, concert G is a piece of cake on the alto - E, of course. I started on alto and my buddy at the time played pop guitar. All pop and rock guitar players play in concert E. It's the only key they know. That's C# on the alto, which I had to learn in a hurry - and isn't all that difficult.

Arrangements on the CP album are square, old man arrangements, not even coming close to Comstock. It's ironic that most (not all) of the "jazz guy plus strings" albums had arrangements infinitely more square than you hear on so-called "easy listening" records from this period. Right! All the Bird with Strings tracks suck.

Frank Whostock??

Don't forget Lucky's recordings with Bird and Diz on Dial (1946). He had a heavier sound then, more Bean influenced. I, also, love the "Lucky Strikes" album. Like Zoot and Gerry Mulligan, he sounds like himself, but higher, on the soprano, with no trace of Trane influence.

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Trane had a very nice speaking voice. As well as on these interviews. you can hear him on the Miles 56 quintet sessions (even the LPs had them) and on some Impulse out-takes. Must add this, lol: "Block chords, Red!"

Viagra is great for font problems. I hear.