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I just received the Complete Monk at The It Club 4lp set a few days ago. I've only heard three sides so far but the music's great and the vinyl is free of defects and dead quiet. Even the occasional audience sounds are not disruptive. It adds a little of that "you are there" vibe to the music.

I was finally hipped to this magazine two years ago by a friend (the issue with Monk on the cover). Although I looked for it last year I missed it somehow but I picked up this year's issue last week. The music is really great imo. I really enjoy all the genres they put on the disc so having a cd full of rare/esoteric artists is a real plus. I think I only knew about three or four artists on the Southern Music disc. I went out to the website and ordered last years issue too. It was half price too so that was a no brainer.

I recently purchased a Taylor T3-B w/Honeyburst finish. It's an amazing guitar and it plays and sounds as good as it looks. My Tele's going to be in the closet for a while.

I'm a little over half way through the book and I don't want it to end. With all the details of the day to day life it really does an excellent job of making you feel like you're right there in the room with Monk. I really feel like I know so much more about Monk and his music. It's clearly one of the best bios on a musician I've ever read. I can't imagine anyone topping this one on Monk. If you even have a mild interest in his music and you enjoy reading, I urge you to consider purchasing this book.

I ordered a copy the other day too. I'm still reading the Gigi Gryce book so it'll be a while before I can start it.

I was very impressed with the way he left the planet. Those shows on David Letterman were very memorable and Dave's stock went way up in my mind after that. I was listening to a live recording of Jackson Brown and David Lindley recently from 1975 where Jackson performs a couple of Zevon's songs. This was before his eponymous album was released on Asylum. Before one of the songs he says to the audience "Warren Zevon, remember that name." He was right too. His personal life might have been a mess and it might have been difficult living with him but he sure wrote some great songs. I only saw him once, solo at a small club in Houston in 1983 and he was great. I was sitting in the front hoping he would do Lawyers, Guns and Money before the night was through and much to my surprise he came out on stage banging that song out on a twelve string guitar for his opening number.

Soul Mates - Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul (Riverside) OJC pressing Very quiet vinyl and really good sound too for an inexpensive reissue.

Does anyone have any experience with the new Taylor T3-B? I've only had a few minutes with one and it played and sounded pretty great to me. It's a little pricey.

Yes, I refer to that one a lot, together with Robert Gordon's Jazz West Coast, used copies of which are still available. Gordon's annotated discography confirms many of the recommendations made in this thread. This is the book I bought when I decided I wanted to learn more about WCJazz. It may not be perfect but it's well written and the discography and stories on the musicians makes it easy to decide if a particular artist is someone you'd like. I'll second that Paul Horn album as well. I found an original lp in recent months and I've played it a lot. I can also recomend some of Horn's other early albums before he went all new age/world music. The Sound of Paul Horn Impressions Cycle Profile of a Jazz Musician also Shorty Rogers - The Fourth Dimension in Sound These musicians below are more in the hardbop vein but they are West Coast. Curtis Counce Sonny Criss Hampton Hawes Elmo Hope

I've seen him several times with the Nels Cline Singers and w/ Scott Amendola's band. My favorite show was a sort of dress rehearsal he did for recording the Andrew Hill Tribute he released a few years ago. I really love his shows but I only own the Andrew Hill album (New Monastery). He's one of those guys I prefer live to listening at home. I have tried to "get" Wilco but I still don't. I've enjoyed Nel's little noise fests on their albums and it's cool to see him get some recognition from the fans. He's truly a remarkable guitarist who goes his own way. Talk about a perfect life (imo). He gets to play in a big rock band and probably make some decent $ but then has the ability to go off and play his jazz in smaller venues where he's free to do what he likes.

I have a Paul Desmond lp East of the Sun on the label which is a reissue of the "First Place Again" Warner Brothers lp. I bought it on line after owning the WB title not knowing it was the same album until it arrived. I decided to not return it so I play it from time to time. The record is dead quiet, the slab is thinner than the WB pressing and the cover attractive. If all their reissues are like this one I wouldn't hesitate to buy one if the original wasn't available or if it was too pricey.

That sounds like my next music book purchase. I've been buying/listening to his music a lot for the last three or four years partyly due to a book I read on West Coast Jazz.

A few weeks ago I found a copy of Rat Race Blues The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald. I read about the book here but unfortunately the thread was old and the book was oop at the publisher's. I dropped into Moe's Books on Telegraph in Berkeley after hitting Amoeba's (natch) with the slim hope that they might have a used copy. I was pleasantly surprised to find a new copy and it was $2.00 below the list price on the cover. Score! It's very good and the details through interviews and other print is amazing. It seems to be a true labor of love by the authors.

On the Riverside box they are split across CDs, whereas on the new box each disc has complete sets For the Riverside LP box it's split over 5.5 sides! At least it's not a 45 RPM.

George Russell's albums had such a consistency in quality to me regardless of who played on them. Since the players weren't always "name" players I wondered if it was more about Russell's choices for musicians, his incredible writing or both. David Baker didn't mean anything to me until I heard him play with GR. One of the best things on tape that Jan Garbarek has ever done was with GR (Trip to Prillarguri) and the trumpet player on the date (Stanton Davis) was pretty great too and another person I had never heard of. Good call on Bill Evans' playing with Russell. Jazz in the Space Age is one of my favorite albums from Russell's dicography.

The George Russell Septet - The Stratus Seekers (Riverside) OJC pressing

A lot of good comments here about a very unique composer/musician in jazz. I discovered him about ten years ago when someone played me The Outer View at a blindfold party. I've been seeking his music ever since. I think my favorite album is Jazz in the Space Age. I played it yesterday along with another one that I think is really special and that's Trip to Prillarguri on Soul Note. Like all of his music it bristle's with energy and it has a great band with some really excellent playing by Jan Garbarek and a trumpet player I wasn't familiar with, Stanton Davis. Thankfully Mr. Russell left us a lot of music to enjoy. He'll live on through his albums.

I think that's one of the reasons I like that album so much. Less clutter It's much easier to hear Grant's contributions. ?? Grant is not on "Another Workout". Oops! My bad. I must be confusing it with "another" album. :blush2: I could have sworn he was on that one but I wasn't at home to confirm it. What I remember about the French DMM that I owned for about 48hrs is that it was too bright/harsh sounding.

Archive.org is great for those recordings. I found THREE different versions of the show I was at! There is nice show from the Wanee festival that has Trucks opening the set with Indian guitarist V.M. Bhatt. What struck me at the concert I went to was the fact that his most awe-inspiring playing of the night was when he played conventionally [without the slide]. He played that way on the clip I posted and on My Favorite Things. Thanks for that note about him playing with V. M. Bhatt. I need to check that out.

I think that's one of the reasons I like that album so much. Less clutter It's much easier to hear Grant's contributions.

I saw the current tour about a month ago and really liked it. Derek has become quite the monster slide player and he's not even 30 years old yet (close but still....). His version of My Favorite Things was OOT in a good way. He's got a very tight band that seems to be able to follow his muse where ever it takes him. His speed and intonation on the slide is a thing of beauty. There's a website called International Archives that posts live shows approved by the musicians and he's got several shows including the one I saw posted for listening and downloading. Derek's shows are all audience recordings and not soundboards but some are quite good for the limitations they have.

Nice post. Yes, it's not always easy but that's a nice perspective to have on a day like that. I had an 11.5hr work day last Monday and I was pretty fried by the time I got home and I didn't even go to a store on the way. Re: Another Workout, it's one of my favorite Mobley albums. I bought a vinyl copy through the mail several years ago but it was a DM pressing which wasn't mentioned when I bought it. It was too bright if I remember correctly and it went straight back to the store. I eventually got a cd version which I do like a lot. Does anyone have a non DM vinyl pressing of this album and if so, is it worth chasing down and spending the money on? I think it's slated for one of those 45 RPM pressings in the future.

The thread that refuses to die. I sent an email to True Blue about this cd and though I didn't buy it from them I asked them to forward the email to someone at Bluenote because I wanted a replacement disc. I got an email from Michael Cuscuna a few days later and he asked me for my address and said he would forward it to the necesarry people and they would mail me a replacement. I couldn't find a email addresss on the Bluenote website that would have done the same which is why I decided to try the back door. It worked!

It is officially my least favorite Andrew Hill album but as the other poster said, it's not a trainwreck and I wouldn't say it wasn't worth Lee Morgan's time. He might have disagreed with you on that point. Who knows? Someday you and I may come to like it a lot more than we do now. Stranger things have happened to my musical taste. For instance, I can listen to AC/DC now but in their prime I thought they were terrible. Of course I have to be drunk in order to play them but I think that's what they are for anyway.

If I don't have them all, I'm only missing one or two at the most. Hank has been a favorite of mine for years so I picked these up on the first go around.