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Very interesting thought! I think I can agree, 'cause that's the music he plays with all his heart and spirit, and playing modern he is more the intellectual type. I find Freddie Hubbard somewhat overrated, playing superficial stuff at times and too self-indulgent. Randy Brecker. Very good studio man, but not very original as a soloist. I think Booker Little is not overrated - he was still very young when he passed, and who knows what wisdom would have made out of his great tone? Kenny Dorham - couldn't disagree more - probably not to everyone's taste, but one of the greatest. Agree on Sandoval - too much flash. Mike - glad you said that about Freddie Hubbard - I agree. I also agree wholeheartedly about Booker Little. The album of the same name, with Tommy Flanagan, is near the top of my desert island disks. He had a technique that was incredible and he used it to the full which is sometimes a path to pyrotechnics for their own sake but not in his case. He stuck to the straight and narrow on that album at least. Freddie Hubbard's playing in the 1980s, before he ruined his lip, is underrated. Having seen him live on numerous occasions in that era, he was in awesome form.

Hugh Masekela played an engagement at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth in 1989, with a band of mostly African musuicians, that was one of the great concerts I've seen in my life. I was fortunate to see four awesome sets. He's not a trumpeter at the level of Freddie Hubbard or Woody Shaw, but he's a great musician.

Out of the list above, Coltrane Live at Birdland and Crescent are the two most beloved in my case. Ole, Africa Brass, and Live at the Village Vanguard are also essential. While I enjoy all of Coltrane's periods, my personal preference is from about 1960 to 1965.

Thanks. Great interview and a great CD. I really like the Uptown approach to this type of material. I recently acquired the Allen Eager CD and have long had Charlie Parker in Canada. What other CDs reflecting this high degree of historical interest and care has Uptown issued?

I said this already, but the three Michael Musiallami CDs with Thomas Chapin (Archives, Mars Bars and Groove Teacher) are truly excellent. Here they are on sale. http://www.playscape-recordings.com/cdsets.html#1

Here is a link to a Tina Brooks discography. http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/tbsessions.html

True Blue and Back to the Tracks are classics. The other two sessions are okay, but not on the same level, in my opinion.

I was fortunate to see the Thomas Chapin Trio live twice, as well as a quartet with piano on another occasion, and that first time I saw him, in Vancouver in the early 1990s, was so great--one of the most thrilling performances by a saxophonist I've witnessed. My favorites with the trio are Night Bird Song and Sky Piece. I've also been trying to collect all his sideman appearances, and there are some great ones--I love the two Ned Rothenberg Double Band recordings on Moers, and the recordings with guitarist Michael Musillami on Playscape are also pretty special.

That was reissued on CD a few years back, as I have a copy.

I love Jaki in all his many guises, but his performance on the Great Concert of Charles Mingus (coupled with Eric Dolphy and Clifford Jordan) is astounding in so many ways...

Definitely, ever since I purchased the Mosaic LP set. You also need the session with Jackie McLean (Jackie's Bag) and the Jimmy Smith jam session (Cool Blues).

That's a great song that I saw Mr. Tyner play live (nice and loud) a number of times, with Gary Bartz/John Blake/John Lee/Wilbey Fletcher and with Avery Sharpe/Louis Hayes.

Many of the foregoing, I agree, but as for something that was performed loud and should be played loud, Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society (for example, When Colors Play, Texas, Barbeque Dog, What Spirit Say...)

I have the T Bone Walker set, and it's a great set. Fantastic guitar playing and wonderful blues singing.

This is one I really like, led by the ex-Sun Ra trumpeter. Artist: Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet Title: "Featuring Charles Moffett" Personnel: Ahmed Abdullah trumpet, fluegelhorn, voice David S. Ware tenor saxophone, stritch Masuhjaa el. guitar Fred Hopkins bass Charles Moffett drums Track Listing: 1. African Songbird (Abdullah) 7:03 2. Gypsy Lady (Moffet) 4:55 3. The Search (Abdullah) 6:48 4. Canto II (Abdullah) 4:54 5. Khaluma (Abdullah) 7:16 6. The Dance We Do (Abdullah) 7:28 7. Wishbone Suite (Moffet) 5:27 8. The Dance We Do (Take 1) (Abdullah) 8:39

The best sounding Bird recording is his last session on Verve, a session of Cole Porter songs.

Live Art Pepper, available from dustygroove.com. DVD -- 20th Century Jazz Masters -- Gerry Mulligan Plus Art Pepper & Art Farmer . . . DVD . . . $18.99 (Item: 78705) Idem (Spain), 1962/1964 Condition: New Copy View Cart A great collection of cool and modern jazz performances -- all originally broadcast on American TV! First up is a performance by Gerry Mulligan, playing both baritone and piano, in a quartet with Bob Brookmeyer -- first broadcast on July 18, 1962, and featuring 4 tracks that include "Four For Three", "Utter Chaos", and "Open Country". Next is a rare mid 60s performance from Art Pepper -- working in a searing tone, with a quartet that includes Frank Strazzeri on piano -- on three selections originally broadcast on May 8, 1964: "The Trip", "D Section", and "Untitled" -- all great Pepper originals! Last is the classic pairing of Art Farmer and Jim Hall, with Steve Swallow on bass and Walter Perkins -- magically drifting through 5 tracks that include "Change Partners", "Some Time Ago", and "Bag's Groove" -- in a performance first broadcast on January 10, 1964. 90 minutes of music! (Region 0 -- double-sided disc, plays in both PAL & NTSC!)

R. L. Burnside, Burnside on Burnside is a good one. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=music&n=507846

that might be the only one I'd pay this much for! ubu Maybe a Mint original Candid copy of Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and of Mingus, as I've always wondered if earlier releases of these great records were afflicted by the print-through echo that is on all of the versions I've acquired over the years.

An original copy of the Mingus issue of Music Written for Monterey, Not Heard.

I saw this fellow play with Roy Hargrove at the Jazz Gallery last fall, and he sounded like a good young player, but nowhere near as good as Roy.

I also like his recordings with Ekaya the best, the recording I have listened to the most being Mindiff. I prefer his composition/leader skills to his solo skills. I've only seen him live in a trio, and while it was good, it wasn't nearly as compelling as his leadership of a larger ensemble.

I wish Charles Mingus had been recorded with the same frequency and had the same major label support as Miles Davis.

All of his High Notes are good ones. Unfortunately, it's been three or four years since I've seen him live (a fantastic concert paired with Marchel Ivory at Fair Park in Dallas). A favorite from his Atlantic years is Newmanism, which has the slight gloss of then comtemporary commerciality, but actually has some of his best playing on record (Foxey Brown and Violet Don't Get Blue, especially). http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00...7449908-6136144