AndrewHill

Thelonious Monk's Blue Notes. Miles Davis's Blue Notes. Indeed. edit: hold the phone, I just checked my TOCJ copies and it says the 3/6/54 date was mastered by RVG. 4/20/53, 5/9/52 dates were remastered by RVG (it doesn't say who originally mastered them though.

I like this track! Would love to hear more.

Well you never know. He's remastered non-RVG dates in the past, in fact I thought he did a pretty good job with Davis' Birth of the Cool and Brown's Jazz Immortal. There may be others that I'm not thinking of.

Pizza tonight

Stan Getz-At Storyville Vols. I and II-Roulette...although I think I just learned that I have this material already in the Stan Getz Roost box Woody Shaw-Stepping Stones-Columbia/Legacy

Just took a gander at their website and it doesn't look like they got too far, does it. My guess is that putting out the same titles that have been out on CD two or three times already didn't work out too well sales-wise. Yeah, and no wonder...all they did was take a few reissues from what had already been reissued wonderfully by Avenue Jazz (I think they were part of rhino?) and put them out again. Avenue Jazz did a great job reissuing the Bethlehem catalog. I guess they went out of business though. There's some great music in the Bethlehem catalog, it's too bad it's not readily available anymore. Well said, and that's precisely my point. The Rhino/Avenue Jazz program was one of the few domestic reissue programs to properly handle and release the more obscure titles like the Stan Levy, Urbie Green, Oscar Pettiford and Red Mitchell discs to just list a few. And of course, they also released the titles by the heavy hitters like Mingus, Dex and so forth.

There! Fixed!

Uhhhhhhh, how do I fix the topic header?

OH DUH! I gotta fix that

Ouch! Talk about cruel & unusual punishment! Luckily, I hid it far enough in our christmas music stack that we never got to it!!!!!!

Wow! Nice pics!

see here http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....1077&page=2 for a partial list from king ubu Thanks! That helps a lot

Merry Christmas to you too! Looks like a nice haul there.

I have 'Strictly Powell" on RCA and the Complete Rec. of BP on Verve box set and I find these sessions to be just as enjoyable as his Blue Note work. There is alot of great music on the Verve box especially.

Seems appropriate to play his Christmas album on Telarc. RIP.

Been up since 4am too, and the kids tore that tree apart for about an hour straight. Started the turkey at 9am, ate at 2pm and my wife and I are enjoying a great bottle of wine and watching "A Christmas Story" with the kids. Overall, a great holiday!

I think those Vitous/Haynes tracks were on the expanded CD editions of "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs", no? So it would be "Early Circle", parts of "Circling In", plus possibly "Song of Singing"... I don't have the playing times of the music, but I guess the Circle material would fit onto two CDs, and with "Song of Singing" it might end up being three? Anyway, I did write them a mail suggesting this yesterday, will report if I get an answer! I got a reply from Michael a couple of days ago - he thinks it "is a good idea and with Song of Singing, it could be a full Select." (quoted from the mail he sent). Now there's hope! I'd love to get this music in fine sound an all packed and annotated nicely! (He also mentioned that rights on the CBS/Sony "Gathering" LP are unclear - hence it would rather be an EMI/BN set with "Song of Singin", if it happened...) That is great news! Hope it happens.

Well its been an RVG Christmas here. I got a lot of RVG's that I just never got around to getting or upgrading: Jackie McLean-New and Old Gospel Don Cherry-Symphony for Improvisers Kenny Dorham-Whistle Stop Andrew Hill-Smokestack (the Conn sounds terrible) Lee Morgan-Tom Cat Lee Morgan-The Gigolo Tina Brooks-True Blue

Speaking of jazz covers the the Watts sleeves never did it for me either.

Yeah, rolling skating was the rage when I was growing up (I grew up in 70's) and I wanted a pair of Classics roller skates that were jet black. Well Christmas rolls around and I see a box under the tree from "Santa" and when I opened it up, there was a pair of "generic" black skates, with no Classics label on it or nothing. Maybe that was the first time that I bacame really irritated with Santa's cheapness.

Actually, I noticed at my location that they have an entire cart of holiday cd's out right now. You should be able to land one for about $6 or so.

I hope everyone's holiday is safe and fun!

I'm hoping this will be the year where both of my daughters will beleive in Santa at the same time. My older one is on the verge of discovering that he's not real. For example, she requested this year to sleep on the couch on Christmas eve so she can catch him in the act and she also saved the tags off her presents from last year from Santa so that she can do a handwriting analysis with this year's tags (see, what she doesn't know is that I also kept a tag so I can duplicate the tags this year ). But she's also a heavy sleeper so I don't have to worry about her seeing us putting gifts under the tree. But nevertheless, its just a matter of time for her. My younger one doesn't have a clue. I think I found out that Santa wasn't real at 8. I stayed up all night and got a pocket mirror out and propped it under the crack of the door so I could see why the lights were still on at 3 in the mornng and saw that they were putting a bike together. I don't remember being that upset about, I mean I was getting a bike for Christmas!

I have the Brubeck, Peterson and Shearing Christmas albums all on Telarc. I got them all last year in Half Price's Christmas bargain bin. Out of the three, I like Peterson's the best and maybe the reason why is that his sounds the jazziest out of the three. The Shearing is a little stiff at times, but enjoyable enough. I reach for the Brubeck the least, I think because it just doesn't grab me the way the other two do, in a way that puts you in the holiday spirit. I mean, its played well, its just that it doesn't sound very Christmas-like, if that makes any sense.

Did not know that he was using a plunger! Maybe it's just his hand over the bell. But it sure sounds like a plunger effect was intended. And I can't think of any other examples. Anybody? Well whatever he's doing, it sounds good to me.