Dan Gould

I thought that was you, Marcus. I guess there's no chance you'd sell it back to me, huh?

You might want to consult This Site before casting your ballot.

Interesting. Has he told you how Blakey responded to be turned down not once but twice?

Couldn't find a thread, and this seemed as appropriate a forum as any, so, without any further ado, my latest: I had to go halfway around the world but I found a nice copy of Johnny Griffith Trio, Jazz, on the Workshop Jazz label. Griffith was the pianist in the Motown house band who died just before the Standing in the Shadows of Motown doc premiered, but he always considered himself a jazz man. So, I went searching and just got it yesterday from a Japanese dealer. Its pretty nice, with a cover of "Moment's Notice", a couple of standards, some bluesy originals, plus "Willow Weap for Me" and "Summertime".

I have a Japanese LP of New York Jazz, a nice one for sure. The Billy Mitchell is definitely recommended and I hadn't realized til I read it here that the Cannonball hasn't been reissued before, so that's a must-get for me. From what I've learned about Klemmer's career, it sounds like this first release has the best chance to click with me, but its definitely falling behind the others on the totem poll. I need to check the CDRs and LPs I have and make a decision whether a clean and newly digitalized copy is necessary on the Stitt and Mitchell.

Another interesting one would have been Tough Young Tenors which featured Blanding, Herb Harris, Todd Williams, James Carter joining a Marcus Roberts-led rhythm section. I think everyone had a solo feature and was paired off with someone else on a second tune and then there was a round-robin jam at the end. Kind of a mixed bag-probably some here would find it too Wynton-dominated (even though he's nowhere in sight, almost all of the players were "Wyntonites" at the time) but its got some good tunes and nice blowing. Carter does a nice job on Chelsea Bridge.

An impossible choice but I went with KD (that is until I foolishly clicked on the "null vote" button instead of the "vote" button

Thanks Leanne. I wonder if Pine was the first ...

Kazaa is one of the successors to Napster. Welcome aboard, Evan!

We all know that an extraordinary number of people went through the "University of Blakey" and on to significant careers as leaders. Surely, being asked to join the Messengers was an important, if not critical moment in a lot of people's careers. My question: is anyone known to have turned Blakey's invite down?

B-3er, I hate to admit it but I had this CD and let it go earlier this year in a CD purge. So I would have participated in this one otherwise. The ironic thing is, I can't say that I hated it, it was one of those times where I was listening more with a "do I want to get rid of this?" attitude than a "is it good or not?" attitude.

and salutations.

Well since Moose hasn't nominated my avatar then I certainly will! Stare at the bouncing boobs ... I understand they're a great stress reducer.

Well, you can add me to the list of people motivated to go out and get this one due to the comments made here. Not to say that this was something totally new to me. Far from it, in fact. When I first started dipping my toe (OK, jumping headfirst) into jazz, the Ella and Louis albums were the first ones I heard, essentially. And so among the earliest purchases I made were cassette copies of the Columbia Jazz Masterpiece reissues of Plays WC Handy and Satch Plays Fats. Even though I had seen used copies of the latest reissue, it was this thread that motivated me to finally pick it up and of course I am very happy that I did, and not only to reacquaint myself with such excellent music but also to hear it in such excellent sound. Not much I can say to add to the comments above except to say that this album belongs in all jazz collections, and also to thank Lon for a very fine story and description of this album's significance to him.

I can't deal with Braith. However, I cannot understand how anyone could get rid of Star Brite which has excellent compositions and superlative Mobley and Wynton Kelly.

Yes! And I have seen reissues of Cos' best LPs at some used CD stores, $8 doesn't often bring that much laughter! I'd have to transcribe it but anyone who has Robin Williams two-disc set from last year heard a flat out hysterical description of how a drunken Scottsman invented golf.

I have no advice, but thanks for posting this anyway. My wife loves Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and horror movies in general. Looked this up on the All Movies site and it looks straight up her alley. I'll definitely keep an eye out for this on ebay and either stash it away or give it to her when I find it.

This poll shall run until 6 pm, Eastern Time, Thursday, June 5 at which point a final winner will be determined. Please remember that interested parties are asked to contact me via PM regarding this Album of the Week. ********************************* Well folks, there you have it. The winner and the Album of the Week for June 15-21st is Lou Donaldson, Signifyin'. I'll start a new thread closer to the start of the AOTW. Thanks to everyone and all are invited to contact me via PM about this AOTW.

Well, one can say that in this age of Britney, *all* jazz artists are "Talents Deserving Wider Recognition." But the fact is that Horace Silver certainly he made his reputation in the fifteen years following his 1954 DB New Star award. Many of his albums have been reissued in the CD age and as you say, he had just finished a series of 5 albums for a major label. Being touted as "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" in 1999 was asinine. *************************** Well, I did some digging and while I haven't found the first DB letter, I did find this, published by Jazztimes in June 1999 (guess I was writing a lot back then!) Always thought I turned some nice phrases in that letter myself, if I do say so

Yup, that be me! I can't believe you found that and figured out it was me! (Nice to know I have a recognizable writing style though It would take some digging, but if I can find them I'll post them, I did have another Downbeat letter published, this time criticizing them for some non-jazz artist they put on the cover. I also had one published in Jazztimes, not a critique but rather a response to an article about Scott Hamilton and his troubles with reeds. I had seen Scott right around that time and shared a story about it.

I was going to post a link to the AOTW poll but then I noticed your request was for "obscure, in print" items. One that comes to mind is a very fine piano trio LP of Wayne Shorter tunes, Footprints by the Michael Cochrane Trio. Its on Steeplechase.

VERY bad, IMO. The old site "fit" with everything else they did to promote an image; it was clean and classy. This is busy and ugly, and it does look like it was taken from a lame webshop template. Ugh.

Miles Davis came from across the river in East St Louis.

OK, folks, since there have been no additional votes on either poll, here's how its going to go down: Voting shall continue in the original poll until 6 pm Eastern time tomorrow (Wednesday). At that point, the top two vote getters will move on to the final round of balloting which will begin at 6 pm Wednesday and conclude at 6 pm Thursday night, when a final winner shall be named. Please note that while the Organissimo server's location may be in Michigan (though it may not) the sole election monitor, namely, me is located in the state of Florida. The determination of what constitutes a vote and how those votes are counted are at the sole determination and discretion of yours truly. Chads of the hanging, swinging or Everett variety shall not count.

OK, maybe its just me, but isn't "A La Modal" lifted from another tune? I can''t put my finger on it, but I swear it sounds sooooo familiar ...