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How many minutes of new music with Bird and Diz will be on the CD?

I wonder if anyone here has heard of Eugenia Leon. I don't think she's very well known outside of Mexico. This singer is fantastic. I listened to her CD Mar Adentro so many times. Now she has a new one, it is sounds great--Tatuajes. Here is a very interesting BBC interview of Eugenia Leon. http://www.theworld.org/globalhits/2004/11/15.shtml

Thanks for the information. I ordered nine.

Jazz at Massey Hall goes under Mingus, since he recorded it, played on it, and issued it on his own label.

I don't think Mike knew much beyond what he absorbed from the typical (for the time) college/Chicago scene. By this I mean he knew the names and basic styles but was not deeply into any of it. An interesting bit of the flavor of mid '60s musical Chicago (from a white kid perspective) can be gleaned from a series of pieces by Nick Gravenites (Nick the Greek) available HERE. Nick is a bit over the top but you get the idea. Also note, Lester Bowie is not on the recording of "Whole Lotta Soul" mentioned, but Roscoe, Julian Priester and Steve McCall are. I do have one of the surviving pressings. This was recorded before Lester moved to Chicago. I think Nick remembers Lester from the Summer '68 trip by the Art Ensemble when they crashed at his place. You're Killing My Love, from a Nick Gravenites LP, has one of my favorite Bloomfield solos.

I don't think the Mingus "My Favorite Quintet" LP ever made it to OJC CD. Did I miss it by any chance?

The difficulty I'm having with the OJC series is that I basically would like to hear all of them...

I also quite like his guest soloist appearance on Mingus and Friends In Concert--especially on Jump Monk and Mingus Blues.

I prefer his late recordings myself, not that the 1950s ones aren't also great.

Yeah, ovrshadowed by Bill's, perhaps, but Bill's was (and is) downright CREEPY. Don't get me started... But K-29 (all the prices ended in 29 cents, btw) had a loyal clientele of its own. They closed in 1993, I think. Landlord hassles of the mos "Dallas" variety. The ads aren't mine, btw. Rod e-mailed me a link to them on his personal site. Creepy was the word on that place. A couple of visits were enough for me. Collectors Records, on the other hand, was a nice, family-owned store, where I found many outstanding LPs.

Besides the weekly Observer ads, they depended mostly on word-of-mouth and plugs on Roger Boykin's show on KKDA-AM (still on, btw, 3-6 PM every Sunday, 730AM on your radio dial. Do NOT miss it, as Roger puts a lot of disperate jazzical strands into "social context", although that's not what he's trying to do ). That's how I discovered it, on Roger's show. I had no idea he was still on the radio; I used to listen to him a bit, but it's been a very long while.

I must not have ever come out of my cave during those years. I missed that store.

I have really enjoyed my ipod so far. Unfortunately, I have filled up the 20 gig model and am coveting a 60 gig ipod. My advice is to get the biggest one you can afford. I do have Calvin Massy's Father and Son on there now.

Laserdiscs were two-sided. If you didn't have a player that flipped the disc, you had to turn it over yourself, just like a record.

I recall his "review" of Ornette Coleman's last concert in New York--I believe he called him "Moronette." And he hadn't even been to the concert, he was just distorting the New York Times review in a negative way. So he deserves any insults he receives.

Holy FUCK, man...where did you go? Used CD Heaven? Just a nice used CD store in a jazz desert (Greenville and Lovers, Dallas). I wish the mini-LP was the standard CD format.

Now this thread has caused me to look for OJCs at my favorite used store. I found three, Nat Adderley's Little Big Horn, Here's Jaki (Byard) and Otis Spann The Blues Never Die. Of course, during this search I also find a nice copy of Lester Young's recent 2CD reissue the Complete Savoy Recordings, and then stumble across no less than six Japanese mini-LP CD reissues of EmArcy/Mercury LPs in perfect condition for $5 or $6--Introducing Joe Gordon, Bill Perkins Just Friends (with Art Pepper and Richie Kamuca), Jazz Abroad (which appears to be half a Roy Haynes date and half a Quincy Jones date). and three leaders I've never heard of--Bernard Pfeiffer Bernie's Tunes, Eddie Chamblee Chamblee Music, and the John Wiliams Trio.

He has the right to prefer accoustic music; I can respect that while being in strong disagreement, but it's the way he's insulting and disrespectful toward musicians who don't adhere to his view of what they should play, and smug and arrogant about the truth of his opinions, that makes me dislike him. I never said he didn't have the right to "prefer" acoustic music. I think his entire attitude is jive. I didn't mean to imply you did. Jazz is not busting out all over here in Dallas. Listening to some "finger poppin" Sonny Sharrock right now.

He has the right to prefer accoustic music; I can respect that while being in strong disagreement, but it's the way he's insulting and disrespectful toward musicians who don't adhere to his view of what they should play, and smug and arrogant about the truth of his opinions, that makes me dislike him.

This thread has made me realize I take OJCs for granted. So I bought seven last night: Harold Land--The Fox and In New York Pepper Adams--Encounter! The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon Nat Adderley--Work Song the Bobby Timmons Trio in Person Coleman Hawkins--Nighthawk I fear the floodgates have barely been opened...

It's actually easy to recommend Mingus because virtually all of his recordings are great.

Mingus Dynasty is the followup recording to Mingus Ah Um on Columbia. That same year, he also recorded Blues and Roots on Atlantic, another classic. Pithecanthropus Erectus, a 1956 recording, was followed by a string of outstanding recordings in 1957: on Atlantic, the Clown and half the tracks on Tonight at Noon, East Coasting and A Modern Jazz Symposium of Poetry and Music on Bethleham, and Tiajuana Moods on RCA. Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is the companion disc to the Black Saint on impulse, both recorded in 1963. I'm not sure which Town Hall disc you are referring to. There is a large group concert recording that was recorded shortly before the Black Saint and Mingus Mingus ... And there is a Town Hall Concert from 1964 with Eric Dolphy. If the latter, then you will want to get the newly reissued The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, which features the same group a few weeks later in Paris.

I don't have any of his records, but I did see him at Sweet Basil [six or seven] years back. He was at least 90 at the time (I believe he has since died). He was a nice, swinging alto player, with a style staight out of the 1920s-30s.

I have it on good authority that a UNT guitar instructor, a devout Methenyite (in the worst way, if you know what I mean, and if you don't you're either very blessed or one of them yourself ), was at that gig and was so, uh....unprepared for the music that he spent a good portion of the evening in the men's room throwing up. I kid you not. We need more music that makes irrationally happy people throw up. Now that I think about it, I do recall meeting a guy there on another occasion who said he was a UNT guitar instructer. I asked him who he thought was the best guitarist out there and he named Frank Gambale. I think I listed some of my favorites (blues and jazz) and he looked at me in a condescending and pitying way. That ended any further communication.

I have it on good authority that a UNT guitar instructor, a devout Methenyite (in the worst way, if you know what I mean, and if you don't you're either very blessed or one of them yourself ), was at that gig and was so, uh....unprepared for the music that he spent a good portion of the evening in the men's room throwing up. I kid you not. We need more music that makes irrationally happy people throw up. I was there also and thought it was great. I think I remember your friend--was he the guy with his head in the toilet? I assumed at the time it was excessive New Year's revelry.