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The Trio: Hal Gaylor bass, Walter Norris piano, and Billy Bean guitar, Riverside DG mono

The Chase is On - Charlie Rouse and Paul Quinichette on Bethlehem followed by Stasch - The Prestige Blues Swingers featuring Coleman Hawkins (mono/DG Swingville).

Art Farmer's Sing Me Softly of the Blues on Atlantic with Steve Swallow, Steve Kuhn and Pete La Roca. It's a great album imho and one that I didn't know of until I picked it up last week. It's on the blue/green label and in mint shape (still had the shrink wrap on the cover!

Otis Redding Live in Europe - original stereo Volt. What a great live set!

Do you have Tony Scott's Free Blown Jazz on Carlton? It's quite excellent. The lineup is amazing.

This morning I listened to Groovin' with Golson -New Jazz purple dg and Mingus' Tijuana Moods - Classic Records issue while drinking my coffee. What a way to start the day!

I can't listen to my records while I'm on the computer since they are at opposite ends of the house, so here's what I listened to last night. Manhattan Fever - Frank Foster - Blue Note Liberty pressing New York Improvisations - Lennnie Tristano Musician Jazz Masters Edition The Soul of Stanley Turrentine - Bluenote Sunset pressing

A BIG fan of Stones 72 and 73 here !! Which one ? Could it be the Brussels concert? That's a killer show from a board tape with really good sound.

My Phillips labels are black w/silver print too. I have several of these, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, and Chico Hamilton that came from a collection bought by a local used record shop. The lps are really quiet and the sound is excellent, so I'm very pleased. Like you, I'm curious as to how this happened. It seems as if the covers were shipped to Holland from the U.S. and the records and pressings seem to be from around the time period of the releases (circa 1963).

The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson with Booker Ervin on Prestige.

Nice to see this thread pop up after a few years of hiding (before I was on the board). I only have Introducing Paul Bley on Debut and Not Two, Not One on ECM, and the Montreal date with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. I think I should listen to the Debut lp and reacquaint myself, as it's been a while. I agree with the Jarrett comparison. I never thought about it before, but yeah, that's as close to someone else as he gets to my ears. Thanks to all the suggestions, I have a list to work from too.

I should have mentioned that the lps are from Holland. The sleeves are the original gatefolds from the U.S. One of the Impulse covers has a sticker on the inside that says Distributed by Phillips Phonographic Industries. The albums that are Prestige covers are not U.S. covers, but French with the turquoise blue RCA labels in French.

I recently purchased some used albums from my local that were obtained from someone who was in the military in Europe in the sixties. The records have original U.S. covers from Impulse ( John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Chico Hamilton) but Phillips labels. As best as I can determine, these are circa 1963 pressings and the sound is really excellent so I'm very happy. I'm curious about the story of how these came about. I'm sure it's some kind of distribution/ownership deal, but would like to know more if someone can help out. I also bought some albums from Prestige that have blue RCA labels (same source). Again, great sound but original U.S. covers and European records. The nice thing is that being original, they have the laminated covers. Another interesting note is that the little white dot (on the Impulse records) that has the album number on it says Stereo but has the A### on it and not AS###. All of my U.S. Impulse albums that are original pressings have AS### or if mono, have A### on it. These have the words Stereo on the sticker.

Great choice. I've been away for a week and now I've consumed a large bottle of Raven's Eye Stout from Eel River (9.5%), so I'll wait to post comments. Andrew Hill is one of my favorite jazz composers.

I've been away on vacation ( a short one ) and came back to this AOTW. I've owned it since its release and being a huge Jones Bros. fan loved it from the first listen. I'll give another shout for Tommy Flannagan's Let's. I don't have a lot of Thad's albums, but I love his songs. I haven't heard the album in a while so it's definitely time to give it another listen. I'll put it at the front of the line for early morninig listening tomorrow. I think it's the Flanagan and Hank album that really made me listen and understand Thad's compositions. I'm not the biggest fan of big band, which is one of the reasons I haven't jumped on Thad's dates with Mel Lewis. I recently picked up Thad's Detroit-New York Junction album and highly recomend it to people who are hungary for more of his music. I have the Elvin Jones album mentioned that has the brothers on it too and it is quite excellent. Someone mentioned George Mraz's bass playing and I whole heartedlly agree. He's an amazing player, one of my favorites. If you don't have any of his solo albums, you should check them out. They are outstanding. I'll try to comment more after my listening tomorrow morning. Great choice and once again, thanks to everyone here who makes me pull out albums I own that I haven't heard in a while. With so many choices, it's easy to let one slip for far too long.

I have this one as well. It's an excellent collection of his music. Fantastic drummer! Too bad about the missing tracks, although I'm glad it didn't leave out the Dolphy.

I changed my mind about this record after listening to it today -- it's excellent! Fans of Sonny Rollins should definitely check it out. Guy I was just going to recomend this one. Glad I looked at the entire thread. Another good trio album of Odean Pope's is Ninety-Six on Enja. You're right about the Sonny Rollins connection. If you like Sonny, you'll like Odean.

Absolutely! Both of these, like Randy Weston's In the Cool of the Evening are always close to my cd player. They are some of my favorite albums to listen to in the morning. Probably related in time to Grand Encounter is another one called 2 degrees East, 3 degrees West on Pacific Jazz with Percy Heath, Chico Hamilton, Bill Perkins and Jim Hall. It's one of my favorites. I have been curious about some John Lewis classical recordings. I think there are three or maybe four volumes of solo Bach piano music. I started a thread here a while back and go zero responses. So, no one has heard these?

No! That one was recorded in 1965 IIRC for Duke Ellington's label, but not released at the time. I like it a lot, very nice relaxed trio pieces, including Randy doing some Duke, which equals Monk doing Duke in quality, though not in style. And you must have heard Randy doing "Three Blind Mice"! I've got this one on vinyl and agree with your observations. The recording quality is quite good too.

I too have been pretty impressed by anything the members of the Jazz Collective has put out. I have several of Allison'salbums as well as the first two HNP albums and a Frank Kimbrough album on Mapleshade. They are all good! I was lucky enough to catch The Herbie Nichols Project in San Francsico a couple of years ago during the SF Jazz Festival. They were really excellent and I wish that they could come out west more often, as a group or any of the individual members. They are all high caliber musicians. I don't have the Ride the Nuclear Tiger, but it got great reviews when it was released. The only reason I didn't run out and buy it s that I had purchased a few of Allison's albums shortly before that and was trying to spread my money around to other artists. I'll get a copy one of these days.

I'm missing the Rubalcaba, Liberation Orchestra and Gismonti discs from the set, but they were the ones I was less interested in overall. The Joe Henderson and Don Cherry sets are faantastic imho. They are all good, but those two are my favorites. Joe Henderson is really on for that date. Side note, I just purchased Nightfall, the duo album of Haden and John Taylor on NAIM. It's very good but I prefer Haden's other piano albums of late, i.e. Chris Anderson, Kenny Barron. A solid date and one that I will listen to frequently in the early hours of the day with my cup of joe, but ultimately not as satisfying as the other two. Maybe some repeated listening will change my mind.

How is the Dexter Rides Again album? I saw it the other day, but I had so much I wanted already that I had to pass. Should I go back and get it?

This is one of the most beautiful piano solo recordings I have ever heard! IMO, Weston's best solo disc, and beautifully captured with minimalistic technical means - a true audiophile recording! Agreed. This is one of my favorite cds. I keep it close at hand and listen to it often in the morning while having my ritual cup of java.

Randy Weston plays on his own Hi Fly on Talib Kibwe's album Introducing Talib Kibwe. I have that Cora album Rhythm and Sounds too. I also have the album on PAUSA but it's just called Randy Weston from 1977. Actually the cover says 1976, the label states 1977.The cover has a picture of Randy sitting at the piano in black and white and a vine to his right at a window that flows over onto the piano. I can see from the other thread that the songs are identical, so I'm just curious if the covers are the same. Blue Moses isn't my favorite Weston album, but like the other person who mentioned it, I'm not a big fan of that label either. I think I only own three or four CTI albums. re: the Dawn recordings, Biograph released these on cd under the title How High the Moon. Due to this thread I listened to a couple of his lps this afternoon. The PAUSA lp mentioned above, which really sounded great sonically and musically and Berkshire Blues on Arista/Freedom. I hadn't played either in quite a while so thanks to the person who started this thread. On a side note, I was looking at the inner sleeve of the Arista/Freedom record and noticed a lot of cool looking albums advertised. I've seen that Weston Carnival album before but didn't pick it up. Now I wish I had.

After one listen, I'm not sure it's my cup of darjeling, but I'll give it another spin in the next few days and see what happens.