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Two more albums to check out: "Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert", March 1965, Limelight label. The first two tracks are by Dizzy's quintet (a fine lineup at the time, too!) and he plays with a lot of energy. There are moments when he makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up - some high register passages that others could only imply. A lot of trumpeters can screech up high, but Diz (and Pops) could do it with a good tone. [There is a Japanese CD of this, with two extra tracks by the quintet, but the LP has the prime stuff.] "Jambo Caribe", also Limelight (and there's a U.S. CD), from about the same time, with the same quintet. There is enough serious stuff on this to satisfy, and it is also a great sampler of Diz the entertainer.

I just saw the movie about Ray Charles a few days ago, and the guy playing Ahmet did a fine job, I thought. He was onscreen quite a lot. As an ex mathematician, I don't get the crack about the logarithms, by the way.

Thanks for the 1965 item, Jim. That alone shows just what a giant Bean was! I have liked "Wrapped Tight" since I got the LP in the late 60s. I had a sax mentor (an older friend who had played in a swing big band) whom I used to drag around to my place just about every time I got a new LP. He was mainly into swing era stuff, and he just flipped when he heard "Intermezzo" from "Wrapped Tight". He made a tape dubbing and just about wore it out. No-one could have played that better than Bean. [Collectors of trivia may be interested to know that the pianist in my friend's big band was Harry Corbett, who later became very famous on TV with his glove puppet "Sooty", which was on the Disney show at one time. There is also am amusing story about the band's baritone player being hired because he could get Brylcreem during WW II, when it was hard to get.]

For the sake of all who don't yet have copies of Fats's recordings, I'm glad that they are being released again. This stuff is too important to be stuck in the vaults. I have all of this material, and don't plan to buy it all again, though. It's over 20 CDs. I think the RCA box sets from the mid 90s sound fine.

Well, there are too many laws. It's just about illegal to get out of bed in the morning. When the Lord comes back to rule the world (and that is the only way it can be ruled properly), there won't be any new laws. He spoke out against all the ridiculous laws and said "Woe unto to you, lawyers, for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne."

Philips most certainly did have an agreement with Columbia. On the LP cover of "Time Further Out", there is a picture of Dave in New Zealand with a guy identified as Philips' N.Z. manager. (The relevance of the picture is that one of the tracks is "Maori Blues".)

It would be relevant to add this here http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/searc...2_coltrane-getz as it's from the same tour. Trane is really on fire! [How ludicrous to have Oscar on piano with Trane when Wynton Kelly was present - he's seen at the start of the clip.]

Those BN albums with Jackie and Lee sure are hard to beat! One treasured moment is where Jackie plays Lee's favorite quote of "And The Angels Sing" - you can hear it coming up (with no way of stopping it), and it's just fantastic. [it's on the "Jacknife" album, if you haven't heard it.]

Thanks guys! It was also nice to hear Blue and Boogie again (on the Myspace page)!

I don't think this is on CD, Matthew. The Verve box set deliberately didn't include it, as it is not considered to be a very good album. But I've never heard it, so I don't know what it's like. [i heard that Gary McFarland's "Soft Samba" was no good, but I got a CD of it and I like it. Ditto, the 1964 album of Stan Getz and Bill Evans.]

Late, this is a fantastic recording of a concerto usually considered hard to play: Artur Rubinstein playing the Brahms piano concerto #1, with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, from 1954. It's on RCA and is actually in stereo! I have the LP, but it is on CD. The stereo version was not released until the 70s, as Artur made a later recording of this piece, in the 60s. But go for the 1954 version. Then, if you can find them, try the David Oistrakh versions of the Beethoven and Brahms violin concertos. (On EMI.) They will make your hair stand on end. Oistrakh was the man on the fiddle! We were playing one of these once, and my very young son and his friend were in the room playing. The recording just hypnotized the room and the kids were really drawn in by it. If music is good, it will get to people!

My favorite soprano is Trane!

I recently checked into what a vegan (as opposed to a vegetarian) can eat, and, man, there's hardly anything! I support their right to eat (and not eat) whatever they like, and I treat vegans with courtesy, but it seems to me like a form of bondage, even a religion. One reason given for being a vegan is that heart disease is more likely to occur if you eat meat, but look, you're going to die one day, anyway. Here's what God has to say about it: "Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ... commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving ... for every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving." (I Timothy 4:1-4.) So there you have it. You can eat meat, eggs, fish, dairy products etc. [i'm not making a comment about the court case, as I don't know anything about it.]

Got to see him in Toronto, Canada, in 1977. Sad to see another great go.

I also saw Roland Kirk on the show - way back in the 60s. And I have the audio of Miles's quintet on the Steve Allen show in 1956.

This is the cover It was in that second link that you gave.

Thanks, Jim. This makes it even more impressive that you Hammond players are able to put out a walking bass line that an upright bassist would be proud of. I'm sure that I saw a Hammond with bass pedals pretty much all the way across from left to right. Must have been one of those 32 note jobs. When you see a pic of the famous players, you usually can't see the pedalboard.

Well, of all the groups, JS! I love the trio. Just about our first family LP when I was a kid was their Columbia album "Canciones del Corazón". We played it to death, just about. They are very musical (and isn't that what it's all about?) and the song selection on that album is excellent. Everything about it is just perfect. I don't think there's a CD of the album. A couple of years back, I got another copy of the LP off eBay for my Mom's birthday. The cover is very colorful, too. Reid Miles would have been proud of it.

Yeah a cat, or, seriously, and old-fashioned mouse trap. We had rats and mice in an outbuilding, and I tried poison, but it didn't get rid of them. So I got a rat trap (just a big mouse trap) and within an hour the rat was a memory! In the next few days, it killed another rat and six mice. Never had a problem again. Uggh, the rats were bigguns!

Awesome, Soul Stream! Thanks for this. Didn't most B3s have about three and a half octaves of bass pedals? I see that this one has only two. It's been awhile since I have been around one.

Y'all try that with a Cockney cabbie in London! [i did. First time I was in London, I got a cab and said "How much?", and I paid him the amount he said. "That's wivart the tip, Guv!", I was angrily told. Really, I had no idea that you had to tip a cab driver.] Getting back to the 600,000, well done, Jim! This website is a terrific achievement, and has also managed to avoid the problems of the old Blue Note one, which I have long since ceased to miss. Must be because you're such a superb B3 player!

They need to RVG the "Midnight Special"/"Back To The Chicken Shack" session. (I can't see it in the list.) That's still my favorite Jimmy Smith session, especially the "Chicken Shack" album. If you had to encapsulate Jimmy Smith and organ-tenor in one album, that would do it. This music deserves to be available with the best possible sound. I prefer it to "The Sermon" (now don't kill me!) because, though I love Jimmy's solo on that, and also Kenny's (who comes next), I think the horns go on too long. Trane could play a long solo, but Tina and Lou aren't interesting enough to blow so long. By the time that they play that Walkin' type riff at the end, the momentum has gone.

Bill did say that Philly Joe was his favorite drummer. (Boy would that have shocked my friends years ago as they drooled puristically over the Village Vanguard LPs and constantly panned Philly Joe! Don't get me wrong here: I love the VV material and Philly Joe. And I'd far rather have Philly Joe, or some other powerhouse drummer, behind me.)

Hey, Fer Urbina! Thanks a million for posting that link to the Daily Motion site! What a treasure trove of jazz videos! Each video links to tons of others. You could spend weeks there! (It's a YouTube type of site.) Everyone: get over there right now! (Before Viacom or Langley, VA, shuts the site down, ha, ha!) As well as the clip with Jo Jones and Bean, which is superb, I just saw such things as Trane with Getz, Bean with Bird, and others. Where has all this stuff been hidden all these years? We were told that the only footage of Bird was that old clip of "Hot House". Not so! And, finally, I got to see the entire "So What" on CBS, after just seeing parts of it every now and then. Got to make dinner, or I would still be there.

I couldn't begin to count how many hours of enjoyment I've had listening to Bill. A musical giant! John McLaughlin was asked what the world would be like without Miles, and he said "I cannot imagine". Same applies to Bill Evans and jazz, for me. Someone asked if Bill sounded different live. Well I saw him at Ronnie Scott's in London, England, in early 1972, and I then went over to Paris, France (mainly to get a soprano from Selmer's!), and guess who was playing there - so I heard him again, unexpectedly. That was the trio with Eddie Gomez and Marty Morrell. I thought he sounded the same as on records. ------------------------------------------------------------- [i've had a copy of "From Left To Right" since the LP first came out, and I love it, though it's not Bill's best album. As he said, those Fender-Rhodes pianos (as they were then known) had a poor action, so he could not use his sensitive touch to the full.* The Verve box set brought to light a mass of extra takes, and the long sequence of takes of "Why Did I Choose You" is beautiful. It adds a lot to the original album.] * For the same reason, Rudy was not the best engineer for Bill, and his kinda boxed-in piano sound, to which we are all so accustomed, and which is fine for most jazz pianists, does not do Bill full justice. Don't get me wrong, I love Rudy's piano sound - it's part of jazz history - but it isn't right for Bill imo.