GA Russell

I have four of his records, and they're unique. I enjoy them.

There is an article about this in this morning's USA Today. We're ahead of the major news media here!

From yesterday: If If2 If3 If4 If was British saxophonist Dick Morrissey's jazz rock band of 1969-72. One of my favorites of the genre. Morrissey later led two rock bands of the same name, but they shouldn't be confused with this band. Organist John Meeling later played with Klaud Doldinger's Passport. Stan Kenton's Greatest Hits. From the 40s. Deemed worthy of a Mosaic box. Miles Davis - Blue Haze. Sidewinder, you must be reading my mind! This is collected from '53 and '54 sessions, with John Lewis or Horace Silver on piano. Miles Davis Quintet - Workin'. From the May, '56, session. Don Ellis - Shock Treatment. Not one of my favorites of his, but it's OK. Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane. Recorded in '58, I don't believe that it was released until '64. With Tommy Flanagan on piano.

The game I went to, the A's had Roger Maris in right field, and Ralph Terry starting. edit for typo

Berrigan, the first game my dad took me to was between the Washington Senators and the Kansas City Athletics. Those were the days of eight team leagues!

I went to grammar school with a kid named Paul Baron.

I remember Osteen when he was coming up with the Redlegs.

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A few more, from last night: The New Miles Davis Quintet. Recorded for Prestige in November of 1955, almost fifty years ago, just a few weeks after work started on the first Columbia album, Round About Midnight. The John Graas Nonet - Jazzmantics. Great West Coast jazz on the Decca label. This reminds me a great deal of Shorty Rogers' Short Stops album, with many of the same personnel. Arrangements by Graas. Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond, on Fantasy. This configuration is not available on CD. Side A is a Desmond date with Barney Kessel and voices. Side B is the first session by the original Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker, featuring the hit version of My Funny Valentine. Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope of Rainbows. This one is popular among the British posters over at AAJ. Most of the personnel are from Ian Carr's band Nucleus.

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 recorded songs by Milton Nascimento and Edu Lobo before those Brazilians were known in the US.

Congrats and best wishes!

A fwe more: Four Freshmen and Five Trombones. I understand this to have been their best selling album. It's a good one! Larry Coryell - Barefoot Boy. From 1971, with Steve Marcus and the Foreplay band. Would that Side 1 were as good as Side 2. Miles Davis - Oleo. This was a 1971 Prestige issue of Miles' sessions with Sonny Rollins from 1954 (Oleo, Doxy, Airegin) and 1956 (In Your Own Sweet Way, Vierd Blues).

I've broken out some LPs I haven't listened to in over a year. Blue Note's Three Decades of Jazz, 1959-1969, Volume 1. A 2-LP compilation ranging from Lou Donaldson to Ornette Coleman. Cal Tjader - Return Engagement. A 2-LP compilation of his Verve recordings, issued in 1974. Dreams. The first album by the jazz rock group that included Randy and Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham and John Abercrombie. From 1971, as I recall. The Essential Larry Coryell. A 2-LP compilation from Vanguard, featuring the bands Foreplay and Eleventh House.

I've purchased very little new music this year, so I thought I would remedy that by putting some of the newly available ECMs at the top of my queue. First up: Charles Lloyd - Jumping the Creek.

Thanks Brownie!

Nothing besides Paul Bley on November 5?

Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer

Some interesting items on Clearance for $1.99: Bob Belden - Tapestry Tom Harrell - The Art of Rhythm Russell Malone - Sweet Georgia Peach Eric Reed - Manhattan Melodies

Thanks guys. Very interesting!

In 1975, Arista released a 2-LP set by Paul Bley entitled Copenhagen and Haarlem. It consisted of two live dates. Copenhagen was recorded November 5, 1965, with Kent Carter on bass and Barry Altschul on drums. Haarlem was recorded November 4, 1966, with Mark Levenson on bass and Altschul again on drums.

My favorite song of his is Just Like a Natural Man! Remember that one? I had to be told that he sang the duet with Sam Cooke on Bring It On Home To Me. It's obvious once you know it's him.

For the "jazz curious": http://www.fantasyjazz.com/

Works fine for me: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/

I love GW. I'm holding my breath for Your Music to carry his recently released Artist Selects PJ compilation.

On the Before It's Too Late thread, Ghost of Miles requested A Child Is Born on an Organissimo Christmas album. I have Kenny Burrell doing that on a Mack Avenue Christmas album, and I have come to consider the song a jazz standard. The earliest recording of it I am aware of is the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis rendition on their album Consummation, which was recorded May 25, 1970. Did Jones or anyone else record it before then? Was the song considered a jazz standard before then? If not, I would suggest that the song is one of the most recently written jazz standards.