medjuck

Back from tour everybody. Thanks to all the board members for coming out. medjuck, how did a guy like you end up marrying such a beautiful woman? You must be rich. It certainly couldn't be your looks or sense of humor. Well when we met I was a lowly college teacher, who was already bald. As she said in a film she made for our 25th anniversary, she thought I was smart and funny. She also once told our kids that she could tell I liked women and many men don't really.

Hel-LO.... OK I admit it: I've never heard of Onzy Matthews but I guess I have to get this to complete my Dupree Bolton collection (i.e. adding to the 2 cds I have ). Also Like to get as much Ray Crawford as I can.

I think the SF response was fitting. My wife compared it to a Sun Ra concert I'd dragged her to 30 years ago. (It was at a Country and Western bar in Toronto). She didn't get it then but loved Reptet

Seeing Reptet tonight!

I didn't get that e-mail till yesterday but the box arrived today!

Probably correct. The first tape form LA in the ARchive includes Spanier but it seems to be with the qunitet including Ornette. Funny I heard Spanier in Montreal in the early sixties and my memory is that he was not very avant garde.

Think some stuff with Herbie is in the archive.

That was probably Herbie Spanier(sp?) a fellow Canadian. When saw Imagine the Sound a cojuple of weeks ago I was struck by how much I liked Bley's playing in it. (And that was after some spectacular Cecil Taylor.) BTW Is there a cd available of his group with Ornette?

David Sanburn. I wonder if that was the same night he played with Leonard Cohen on that show. I think it was on instead of SNL one summer.

Hey they're way better than Sony. Remember how often the Miles boxes were delayed.

It was Mike Bernard. (You used his example for-- what I thought-- was a gratuitous attack on poor old Oscar Peterson.) BTW I thought on the very first disc there was a one great unknown (to me at least) cut that deserves to be considered a classic: May Irwin singing: "When You Ain't Got No Money You Needn't Come Around" from 1907! I can see that song being revived by some savvy contemporary singer.

The Complete Freddie Webster (though Ghost has made me an awfully good collection).

I just downloaded these. Anyone have any more discographical information?

Great. My first question is: Do you collect '78s? Where did you find all that early material and how much did you reject because it wasn't good music? (You spend a lot of space putting down one ragtime player-- sorry I don't have the notes here and can't remember his name-- but don't include an example of his work, presumably because you wan't to maintian the quality of the cds.)

I have a vague memory of a Lee Wiley album with notes by George Frazier (sp?) that were very personal and pretty good writing.(I realize thatt a vague memory contradicts the "memorable" part of the topic but thaqt's my fault not the notes'.)

I got an e-mail from CDUniverse announcing this up=coming cd. It's apparently Pee Wee with a big band. Anyone hear this in earlier incarnations? And if so, how is it?

Allen: I see you've posted in the last couple of days so I thought I'd up this.

Ira Nepus on trombone and Steve Moore on guitar accompanied by (amongst others) Jeff Hamilton and the Clayton brothers. Ira was a close friend of Benny and this mellow but swinging cd is a fitting tribute. 13 songs by Carter many of which are not that well known-- though it does contain favorites like When Lights are Low and I'm in the Mood for Swing. It's on Jazzed Media and I don't know how easy it is to find but there's a JazzedMedia.com website from which it can be ordered. (I see there's a few Phil Woods cds available there too as well as a Bill Holman Big Band.)

All these and an expanded "Ellington Indigoes." I'd add the Mosaic Ellington big band set of the stuff owned by Sony but that seems to be on the horizon. (Though the horizon for cd releases often reflects the real horizon: you can never reach it. )

I've finished listening to all 36 cds in these excellent box sets. Allan Lowe (and anyone else), you up for discussing/answering questions about the project?

I had a gareat time in Austin though I never did hear any live music. But I did have 2 nice jazz experiences: 1) Walknig through the Hilton lobby I realised that the Muzak being played was Mingus performing Fables of Faubus! Then I noticed that the Muzak alwasy seemed to be jazz of some sort though often so muted I couldn't make it out. 2) Saw the restored Imagine the Sound now in stereo (the DVD will be 5.1 surround). The performances by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Paul Bley and Archie Shepp are even better than I remembered. Interesting response from the audience: several people said they'd never heard music like that before and really liked it, or that they'd never paid much attention to jazz but this turned them on to it.

I have 2 Ellingtons from Dreyfus. The sound is great.

There's also a DVD of the Liberation Jazz Orchestra in Monreal. I don't have it near me but I presume it's from the same year.

I'm going there for a film festival tomorrow. I know there's amusic scene but any jazz? Any recomendations for clubs or record stores I should visit?

I just picked up a cd on Savoy called "Confessin': the Astounding Coleman Hawkins". It consists of 3 cuts from the "Big Sax Section" sessions and ten cuts from the 1954 organ quartet session.