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  1. My dealings with Terri Hinte were always very pleasant and efficient. She was a very nice lady to deal with, and good at her job too.
  2. Gary Burton on his Sirius radio show today repeated this good news, that Michael is much better, and plans to record are in the works.
  3. Guy has suggested that we make this the AOTW for next week, July 2-8, so that's what we'll do.
  4. When I was in college, I mail-ordered a Miles Davis-Lee Konitz Prestige/New Jazz album called Ezz-Thetic. In those days, the catalogue listed only the title and price, so I didn't know what I was getting. It turned out to be four songs by the prinicpals including the title track; and two by guitarist Billy Bauer, who as I recall was on the other four. Side 2 was a Teddy Charles quartet date from about 1953. The LP is packed away, and I'm unable to dig it out to see who else was in on that session, but it was great! edit: Now that I see the discography (and thanks for that!), I can see that this is what it was: Date: December 23, 1952 Location: NY Teddy Charles (ldr), Teddy Charles (vib), Jimmy Raney (g), Dick Nivison (b), Ed Shaughnessy (d) a. 407 Edging Out - 04:10 (Teddy Charles) Esquire (Eng.) EP: EP 72 Prestige EP: EP 1350 - Teddy Charles New Directions With Jimmy Raney b. 408 Nocturne - 02:48 (Teddy Charles) c. 409 Composition For Four Pieces - 01:33 (Jimmy Raney) d. 410 A Night In Tunisia - 06:43 (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) Esquire (Eng.) EP: EP 72 Prestige EP: EP 1350 - Teddy Charles New Directions With Jimmy Raney All titles on: - Prestige CD: OJCCD-122-2 - Collaboration West - Prestige CD: OJCCD-1927-2 - New Directions - New Jazz LP 12": NJLP 8295 - Ezz-thetic - Prestige LP 10": PRLP 143 - New Directions (Vol. 1): Teddy Charles Quartet
  5. Oops! I see too late that this is going to be the AOTW. Sorry about that, Chief! Well, I expect there to be room for both the Monk and this, so I'll leave the Monk up unless you object.
  6. This set goes on sale Tuesday. Since so many of us already have Monk's Music and With John Coltrane, let's make them both this week's Albums of the Week. One comment about With John Coltrane: You will recall that this was recorded at the beginning of Coltrane's time with Monk, and Carnegie Hall was recorded at the end. I got the impression reading between the lines of the Carnegie Hall thread that some here think that With John Coltrane isn't very good. I'll grant that Carnegie Hall is even better, but I think that With John Coltrane is an excellent album in its own right.
  7. Widespread opinions! I like Sail Away very much, but I voted for Art of Rhythm.
  8. I find this odd, if I understand the situation correctly. Guillen is not being held to account by Management for suggesting that a sportswriter is a homosexual. He is being reprimanded for offending homosexuals by using the word "fag". Do I have that right?
  9. Not to complain, but I'm not a fan of the new system either. I used to enter a key word from the thread title, and that would lead me to a short list of threads. I wish I could still do that.
  10. Yes. I think it is just as good as the RCA sides, although I prefer the sambas recorded later among them all.
  11. I signed up with Sirius on Friday, just in time for the Canadian Football League season. I listen to it at home on a boombox. I have been listening mostly to Ch. 72 Pure Jazz, and I've enjoyed it. I have heard a few things which I own, but mostly players both old and new that I should know more about and listen to more often. I suppose those of you in New York and other areas with good jazz radio are accustomed to hearing a wide variety of musicians, but my listening over the years has been limited to what I own, and this has been educational for me.
  12. I think it was in '89 when Ron Carter and Jim Hall came to Atlanta and I saw them. Great! In the paper that day was an interview with Hall, and it mentioned in its introduction of him that he with Paul Desmond was the subject of a Mosaic box, as if that was proof of his greatness.
  13. Whenever I go to Toronto, during the season of course, I always take in an Argo football game. I've had a great time every time. The games are exciting and the tickets and beer are cheap!
  14. This year's JJA Awards were announced Monday. Here's the link: http://www.jazzhouse.org/winners06.html Concord/Fantasy was named Label of the Year. Monk with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall was Album of the Year. The Cellar Door Sessions was Box Set of the Year.
  15. Years ago I read a book by Red Auerbach, and he said that when an owner complains about the referees, it's like the owner of a restaurant standing outside the front door shouting, "My chef stinks!"
  16. Marcos Amorim is an acoustic guitarist with a new album called Seven Chapels. The guitar is backed by bass, drums and sometimes flute. Of all of the albums in this thread, I would say that Seven Chapels is the prettiest and the least interesting. Amorim wrote all ten of the songs, totalling 50 minutes. He is an excellent guitarist, but I'm not impressed with his melodies. It's a very quiet album. I expect to play this on Sundays and late at night when I'm winding down. It's very romantic, and would be appreciated by a woman who doesn't have a passion for jazz. Very good background music, but doesn't fit the bill when you want to sit down and listen to something.
  17. Hap[py Birthday CJ, Quincy and Adam! I remember being a little depressed when I turned 25, because Fred Lynn had just been named the American League's MVP and he was younger than me, and there I was with nothing to show for my life! Moral: Don't allow others' achievements to enter into your thinking of yourself as your reach a milestone.
  18. I'm going to top this thread, just to make tranemonk feel better.
  19. Go Canes! The first game my dad ever took me to was a Seattle Totems-Vancouver Canucks game in the Western Hockey League in November of 1960. We sat in the front row. In those days there was no plexiglass or chicken wire to protect the fans. It was about that time that Stan Mikita of Chicago was inventing the curved stick, which gave lift to the shots. So I suppose there was no need to protect the fans because the puck didn't go up over the boards. The goaltenders didn't wear masks either. I don't know when that league folded. It was an old man's league. The players were not for the most part on their way to the NHL, but many made more money than the younger NHL guys did. The next year my dad took me to see the Totems play the Portland Buckaroos, whose goaltender was the best in the league, Bruce Gamble. About 1969, the Totems coach Keith Allen became an executive with the Philadelphia Flyers, and one of the first things he did was obtain Gamble from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Sad story: Gamble had to retire when he had a heart attack during a game. But he didn't give up the game, and played in a recreational league. He had another heart attack during a game, and died. My college graduation present was season tickets to the new WHA team the New England Whalers in Boston. They won the Avco Cup that year. I saw them play the Alberta Oilers, though I don't remember who played for the Oilers then. So now the Whalers have moved to Raleigh, and here I am too. Honestly, I haven't been paying attention throughout the year, except to check the standings and see the Hurricanes on top throughout the season. But I've been listening to each of the Stanley Cup finals games on the radio. The Hurricanes' TV games this year were on a cable channel that is not listed in the newspaper! I think it is Fox Sports South, but I'm not sure. I don't get cable anyway. You would think that for the only pro team in town a Raleigh broadcast TV station would carry some of the games. edit for typos
  20. The Desmond is my favorite Mosaic box. I have never bothered to learn which songs go with which album, except to note that the sambas are on Bossa Antigua. I play all four of the discs regularly, even though I have owned them since 1989. Never get tired of them.
  21. I would have preferred it to be all OJCs. I like samplers and compilations, but as a matter of priniciple I won't spend more than ten bucks for one. I think full retail price should be reserved for the "real" albums, not the samplers. But I'm not at all sure that the Starbucks customer is of the same mindset. Those people spend four dollars for a cup of coffee. If they like the music, maybe they don't care what the price is. Regarding developing new customers, it appears that the execs at Concord are committed to samplers and compilations as a business model. That has been most of the jazz they have put out in the past year. So long as they keep the OJCs in print, it's OK with me, although like everyone else here I would like to see more new OJCs issued. I agree, Ray. I'm delighted by the prospect that customers of Starbucks will be listening to OJC music while enjoying their coffee. I read an article in the paper about Starbucks just the other day. As I recall, it said that there are 2500 Starbucks in the US alone. That's a lot of people listening to OJCs. I wasn't thinking about ballads, Dave, but I sure expected music more relaxed than Coltrane's Russian Lullaby. I'm not sure that most people are going to want to listen to that as they converse over coffee. I don't know what you're talking about Chuck. I sure as heck don't consider an hour of OJCs to be crap.
  22. On Monday all the tobacco plants bloomed. Yesterday it rained all day thanks to Alberto. No problem here, but some flooding in Raleigh.
  23. I received this press release today. Starbucks will sell a Concord/Fantasy sampler. I assume that means that they will be playing the CD in all of their coffee shops. XM Satellite Radio is in on the action, promoting their jazz channels. No word on the price. Due out June 27. Maybe it will introduce a few people to some OJCs! Beverly Hills, Ca. and Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006 – XM Satellite Radio, the nation’s leading satellite radio service with more than 6.5 million subscribers, and Concord Music Group, one of the world’s largest independent record labels, today announced the release of Blistering Licks – Red Hot Riffs From the Giants of Jazz. The CD is the first in a series of co-branded compilations created with the best music from Concord’s historically rich catalog and designed to reflect specific XM channels and original XM music shows. The record will be available at Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada beginning June 27th, 2006. Blistering Licks – Red Hot Riffs From the Giants of Jazz features the true masters of instrumental jazz from the past 50 years, playing exhilarating, accelerating pieces. All the tracks, carefully selected for their sheer energy and virtuosity from classic Milestone, Prestige, Riverside and Contemporary sessions, as well as from more recent outings on the Concord Jazz, Pablo and Heads Up labels, can be heard on XM’s flagship Jazz channel, Real Jazz (XM 70) or the popular Beyond Jazz (XM 72), two of the five commercial-free jazz and blues channels offered by XM. “You don’t have to be a jazz fan to be amazed by the incredible, jaw-dropping virtuosity of these jazz greats,”said compilation producer and Concord VP of Jazz and Catalog A&R, Nick Phillips. “These guys burn from the first note to the last.” The intensity of the CD is palpable, with pieces by extroverted jammers Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis alongside masterful pianists Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum, who display their stunning skills in strictly up-tempo mode. Tenor titans Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane provide plenty of sparks, as do jazz guitar immortal Wes Montgomery and trumpet idol Miles Davis. The late tenor saxophonist Bob Berg, trumpeter Randy Brecker, Hammond B-3 killer Joey DeFrancesco, drummer Dennis Chambers, and Django-inspired guitar marvel Frank Vignola also add scintillating solos to this audacious mix. Along with some of the notable bandleaders in jazz history, Blistering Licks features a supporting cast that is bar none, including solos by Red Garland, Max Roach, Tommy Flanagan, Barney Kessel, and Shelly Manne. “This new compilation reflects the XM music experience, which is all about discovery and exploration of different genres,” said Lee Abrams, XM’s Chief Creative Officer of Programming. “The quality, intensity and musicianship of the performances in this collection is overwhelming and represents just a small sampling of what both the Jazz universe and the XM musical landscape have to offer.” The track listing for Blistering Licks – Red-Hot Riffs from the Giants of Jazz follows: 1. Sonny Rollins—It’s All Right with Me (From Worktime on Prestige) 2. Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry— Shaw ’Nuff (From Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry on Pablo) 3. Wes Montgomery—Airegin (From The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery on Riverside) 4. Johnny Griffin/Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis—Tickle Toe (From Tough Tenors on Jazzland) 5. Miles Davis Quintet—Salt Peanuts (From Steamin’ on Prestige) 6. Hampton Hawes—Up Blues (From the album Four! on Contemporary) 7. Bob Berg/Randy Brecker/Joey DeFrancesco/Dennis Chambers—Oleo (From JazzTimes Superband on Concord Jazz) 8. Jaco Pastorius Big Band—Kuru/Speak Like A Child (From The Word Is Out on Heads Up) 9. John Coltrane—Russian Lullaby (From Soultrane on Prestige) 10. Bill Evans—Woody’n You (From On Green Dolphin Street on Milestone) 11. Art Tatum with Roy Eldridge—This Can’t Be Love (From The Tatum Group Masterpieces, vol. 2 on Pablo) 12. Frank Vignola—Appel Direct (From Appel Direct on Concord)
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