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Once you've heard the Barbara Streisand version, it is indelibly carved in your memory, though I'm hoping that the aging process will have at least one collateral benefit.

Is there now a fourth Frank Hewitt release?

In other Mingus news, there are going to be four more performances of Epitaph. 2007 Mingus Epitaph Performances Wed, Apr. 25 2007 Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York CenterCharge 212-721-6500 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri, Apr. 27 2007 Tri-C Jazz Festival Cleveland, OH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed, May. 16 2007 Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles CA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri, May. 18 2007 Symphony Center Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The first is a good record. It's available on CD from Collectibles as Donald Byrd & Booker Little, The Third World.

Great news! Now, if someone would release the recordings Columbia made at Ronnie Scott's...

If you happen to be in Philadelphia on April 20... 4.20 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art Greg Osby/Trudy Pitts Duo

I mailed a small contribution, and I shall do so again in the near future.

Thanks, I'm been wishing I had something like this.

Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet--Prestige mono, deep groove with a gold label and no address on the label, jacket is Bergenfield address): too much surface noise on this copy but the sound of the music is so beautiful.

dustygroove has the best price for these jazz impro releases ($13.99), but they seem to only get a few in at a time. jazzloft has a much better selection, but is more expensive ($18.99).

I think there are more fans of Brazilian and other South American music over at allaboutjazz.com, where you might have better luck.

The Impro Jazz label has released two DVDs which feature performances by Charles Mingus. Perhaps hoping to escape the ire of Sue Mingus (or is Eric Dolphy now more marketable than Mingus?), these DVDs have been released under the name of Eric Dolphy. One has been out awhile--Eric Dolphy in Europe, 1961-64. Half of this disc (about 50 minutes) is the Mingus Sextet performing in Oslo, Norway on April 12, 1964. This performance was available in the U.S. previously on VHS, but I don't think it was out on DVD. The recent release is Eric Dolphy, Stockholm 1964, Antibes 1960. The Stockholm performance is a 30 minute rehearsal session that appears to have been filmed for a TV special. No audience is present. This one starts with the 78 version of So Long Eric--about 2 and a half minutes long (it isn't incomplete, just accelerated). Then a wonderful 17 minute version of Meditations is performed. The show closes with another version of So Long Eric, for about 8 minutes or so. This is a very excellent performance (I don't think I've heard this before), and the video, if not Jazz Icons quality, is at least decent. Next, and even more surprisingly, the DVD features a single song from the great Mingus at Antibes performance--I'll Remember April, the track where Bud Powell sits in. Again, the video is decent--in addition to Powell, this performance features a remarkable sequence of trading fours by Dolphy and Booker Ervin. I've never seen Booker on film before, but he looks so nonchalant as he breathes fire.

I bought this at the Tower liquidation sale but haven't had the chance to listen yet. Maybe this weekend. I'm only previously familiar with the jam session with Charlie Parker--a classic session.

Gerry Mulligan with Dave Brubeck is also an excellent pairing. They recorded together after Paul Desmond left Brubeck.

An easy choice--Johnny Hodges over Gerald Wilson.

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The Complete Blue Note Elvin Jones Sessions. No one could replace Coltrane, but Joe Farrell is rather impressive as one listens through this set.

I enjoyed the set. Elsewhere, I've read that the set is the end of Yazoo's early blues reissue program.

Funny you should mention the muted trumpet; the liner notes for this CD mention Shaw's reluctance to buy a Harmon mute (at Mingus' request), fearing that it would make him sound like Miles Davis. But Shaw plays quite nicely on this record, as well as on Tijuana Moods. Mingus' liner notes for both records speak highly of his playing; he also said that if Tijuana Moods would have been released in 1957 (instead of 1962), that it would have made a "star" out of Shaw. Mingus also said this about Shaw in the liner notes for East Coasting: "He has more than just originality; he has that good originality in that he's not original just to be original." He certainly has a very personal voice throughout this recording. Does anyone know why he didn't leave a bigger mark than he did? Early death, perhaps? Also of note is the fact that Danny Richmond had only one year prior to recording East Coasting abandoned his role as an R&B tenor saxophonist, in favor of his more familiar role as jazz drummer. As Gene Shaw, he made three LPs for Argo in Chicago in the early to mid-1960s. I recommend tracking them down. He's on another session included in the Mingus Debut box. Along with the three 1957 Mingus dates, that's apparently all he recorded.

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This statement is not correct. The group with George Adams and Don Pullen is as good as any Mingus group. This is a question of taste. I can easily agree with you that the group with Pullen and Adams was the best group Mingus led between 1964 and his untimely death in 1979, but IMHO his recordings for Atlantic for example or Candid are much better than his recordings with Pullen & Adams. There is only one exception: Mingus recorded Let My Children Hear Music in 1971 and this album is in the same league as his early recordings. This is a good idea for the next AOTW…. I quite disagree with your diminution of his 70s work, but that's not the subject of this thread. East Coasting is a classic, I agree. Amazingly, Mingus recorded multiple classics in 1957--with the Clown, half of Tonight at Noon, Tijuana Moods, A Modern Jazz Symposium of Poetry and Music, and Revelations all done that year. (Also, the trio with Hampton Hawes, maybe not a classic but a good one).

Bird and Dizzy Trane and Elvin Ornette and Don Cherry Mingus and Dolphy Sun Ra and John Gilmore

Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Buddy Tate, Very Saxy (Prestige, late 60s reissue) The Best of Don Patterson (Prestige).

This statement is not correct. The group with George Adams and Don Pullen is as good as any Mingus group.

Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle--The middle section of Saxophone Concerto, One Breath Beyond--it is so amazing.