Jon King

Chuck Nessa, your efforts are most appreciated. I’m learning more about Coleman Hawkins from this exchange with everyone who has responded. It’s beginning to point to my memory and a 74-year-old owner as having a Let’s Get Lost moment or two. Thanks for your help. JK

US and my mall shopping has always been less than robust. I prefer online nowadays for such record-buying. Thanks for the suggestion of repackaging and or imported items.

Interesting album. I think I may have to keep trying. The band had some Dixieland players in the ranks as I recall. Thanks for your input. I’m becoming a much keener Coleman Hawkins fan with everyone’s responses. I wasn’t aware that another recording stretch included Red Allen. I’ll give that a listen too. Thanks for the advisory.

Interesting album. I think I may have to keep trying. The band had some Dixieland players in the ranks as I recall. Thanks for your input.

Re: JSngry’s cross- references I didn’t realize that WRAPPED TIGHT had Urbie. I will plan to check it out. The mystery is still ongoing. Thanks for your insights. PS. The memory I have is of an unusual group along the Concert Jazz Band or Monk Orchestra examples in size. Also, similar to the Bob Haggart multi-disc birthday party set in track selection and personnel choices. Hmmm. I also remember that the players included some players in the Dixieland field. And I was impressed with the unusual playing by this unlikely group.

At Riverside is not it. But I have it already. I think the mystery album was recorded much more recently. Thanks

No, it had like a modern colorful cover w/ a large cohort of musicians as in parade mode. Thanks for your response.

Some time in the last ten years, as I try to splice together this nagging gap in my peace of mind, I was biding my time in a mall store that featured those bin-mounted headphones to preview the recordings for sale. I frequently did this in any location my traveling guide would enable. She had her dept stores to occupy her attention after all. Okay, I opened this chasm of distress that day when I previewed what has come to be a source of anguish. Help me if you can, I’m in angst. Subject: A festive covered CD or LP by a who’s who of mainstream players fronted by Coleman Hawkins and titled to include a reference such as ‘and Friends’ or some other phrase. I believe my interest heightened when I saw Urbie Green and several other younger stars amongst the war horses. Well, my jaded attitude that day led me to listen skeptically while uncomfortably shifting my weight from mall shopping inhumanity. I put the recording back in the bin and left. A short while later my traveling guide asked if I had ‘found anything.’ And I admitted to finding this mystery item. She urged me to go back and buy it. So, I tried and alas, it was gone. Please refer me to the correct possible album, if you can. Thanks more than I can ever imagine.

My suggestions (Santana, Antonio Sanchez, and checking “One-eyed Jacks”) plus yours are a great way to celebrate I’m sure. Thanks I want it!! White elephant worthy. Funny

My suggestions (Santana, Antonio Sanchez, and checking “One-eyed Jacks”) plus yours are a great way to celebrate I’m sure. Thanks

Suggested listening and viewing to celebrate Cinco…. Other?

Fired up my CD plyr and revisited Kai Winding/Curtis Fuller BONE APPETIT w Hank Jones, John Clayton and Jimmy Cobb, 1980. Jimmy Cobb is so good, I can't get over his taste and groove.

WHY NOT Buddy Rich Big Band, complete World Pacific, RCA, and European label catalogs from 60s to present?

Oh, I remember attending a Kenton concert, the only one his band did in my young midwestern orbit. The mellophonium section was the big “hook” in that show. The overall concert was the loudest event I had personally experienced until going through jet travel at airports! The building, an old college fieldhouse, was echoing at deafening range that night in the early Sixties. Acoustic heavy metal?

I never objected to my hs and military big band configurations. Might be due to the material that I refer to as the Mother Lode - Jazz. I had to get older, before I developed my current set of preferences.

Without hesitation, I confess that OTHER ISSUES as a player were more bothersome than trumpet section placement. My early experience in a youth symphony established a fondness for sitting directly behind the trumpet section. It seemed to musicalize the trombone parts better than in concert band in high school where trumpets were separated by baritones and low brass all on top row of risers. This always had a battle of the bands effect to my ear. My preference for big band listening and playing is to stack the band w/ saxes on ground level, trombones on middle platform (seated) and trumpets standing on top riser. Maybe should be adapted in more settings? I always liked Buddy Rich Big Band (60s era) and the Mingus Big Band was a musical feast in more recent appearances. My hearing may have suffered to some extent due to some of this history, but I lasted this long w/o intervention most of the time. I at all costs deplore too much bass in live (Bob Dylan last tour) or many electric shows (BB King in Las Vegas early 2000s) and in many digital recordings — what a sad way to balance otherwise musical material. Bring back my all-AR system. I love treble and highs, trumpets and ride cymbals especially.

Ideas that I enjoy reading about: "jazz genealogy" - "digital age jazz by generation (1984 to present)" - "obscure TDWR bandmates/sidemen." My particular biases and tastes have been shaped by advantages of reading, listening, discussing what I call "The Mother Lode" from Dixieland to Rock to Retro and beyond. Suggested reading is most appreciated.

Hard to find vinyl, 2019 want to buy

And thanks for your post. JK

RE: Serfs album, title Early Bird Cafe, circa 1970 release Thanks, Eric

I appreciate your response (my first as a new member). Good luck finding these LPs, and hope you enjoy them as well. I'd like to know what you think.

Relevant? Authentic? Impressions? These albums rank highly with this old fan. I love the musicianship that the tunes, such as Early Bird Cafe, feature - and which shines on both groups' LPs throughout. I could trade many a CD or reissued mainstream jazz groups' efforts for more output from the likes of Mike Finnigan, Jerry Hahn, Lane Tietgen and their associates on these two recordings. ESSENTIAL

I submit only two jokes of my day (i love jokes only know a pitiful few). set-up: told earlier today at my grandson's high school jazz ensemble concert by his adult leader. " What do you get if you eat Eggos at the beach/" San Diego also : The definition of an optimist is an accordion player with a union card. J Carson or Steve Allen? I always liked those state jokes, eg, 'HOW DO YOU GET 50 SOUTH DAKOTANS IN A VOLKSWAGEN? TELL them there's work in Wyoming.