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I found this 2 LP set back in the early '70s, interestingly with a white label disc one and a blue label disc two. Haven't listened to it in years so I can't tell you exactly what you can anticipate, but reading your post with its overflowing enthusiasm makes me want to give it a re-listen.

Thanks to one and all for chiming in on my birthday. As for the above "pretty bad deal" (King Ubu), yes, it's true. People are pretty partied out following Christmas and New Years to work up any enthusiasm for yet another celebration. But what was worse when I was growing up, was that the 3rd of January was often the first day back in school after the holidays and there seemed to be at least one or two tests waiting besides! Anyway, again many thanks to one and all and I hope all Organissimo subscribers have a wonderful 2010!

It is definitely one of my proverbial "desert island" discs. I play this session several times a year. "Street Runner with Child" is definitive '60s Newk, a fantastic track! And "Alfie's Theme Differently", the way Sonny takes it "out".......!

I too have an Oppo deck and would have heartily recommended it as well until I read the above post. What a shame, to discontinue such an excellent deck. I've been trading copies of DVD concerts all over the world and have never had to be concerned that any would not play on this all region deck. It also tracks better than all the other DVD players/decks I have in my home.

Leaving aside who was "better" - arguments have long raged about this with neither side conceding a thing - I do concede that while Shaw could be prickly (there's a good word that contains a more pejorative one) with wives, friends, the press, etc., musician anecdotes about the two men have led me to believe that Shaw's dealings with the various personnel in his bands caused far less friction and were warmer than those of Benny's. Stories about Benny's death "ray" toward personnel on the bandstand and his cheapness when it came to paying band members are legendary (e.g., Teddy Wilson). Shaw was regarded more favorably in his interpersonal dealings with the men who worked in his various bands.

I recommend the live version of "Funkallero" done by Evans' trio with Getz as guest artist performed at Laren in '74. The CD is titled BUT BEAUTIFUL (Milestone MCD-9249-2) released under Evans' name.

Although, I still own the original LP which I haven't listened to in years, I have no idea why one would need both the LP and the expanded CD. The expanded CD version is excellent to the point that I think the LP edited version was simply done not to eliminate mistakes or substandard solos, but so as to fit all the compositions onto a format which allowed for (roughly) 45 minutes of music. The expanded amount of music that a CD allows makes it the medium of choice when listening to the quality of music Mingus made for that session.

I have a CD-R of the '63 Newport JF set where Hawk joins Rollins' group on "All the Things You Are" and "The Way You Look Tonight". The resulting performance is superior to the RCA studio date recorded a couple of weeks later, IMO, (despite the wonderful version of "Just Friends" from that LP).

I can't attempt to do three, but I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned "The 70th Birthday Concert" which I have on a double Solid State LP. I trust that it's been reissued on CD.

I'll second this. Absolutely love the sextet tracks on this album! Of the countless sessions released under Tyner's name, this one and "The Real McCoy" (Blue Note) are two of the essential Tyner.

Well, the CD does give you a lot more music as I have the original Verve LP which only has 8 tracks. It's been many a year since I've listened to it but will do so and will compare this relatively late Meade Lux Lewis with his earlier work that is represented on a couple of boogie woogie LP anthologies I also have. Gives me a good excuse to get into an area of jazz I've completely lost touch with.

Reading this thread, I recalled that I had first read about a mid '60s reunion of Trane with Monk in J.C. Thomas' 1975 bio of Coltrane, titled CHASIN' THE TRANE: THE MUSIC AND MYSTIQUE OF JOHN COLTRANE. Specifically on p206 of the hard cover edition is the following excerpt (note the date of Feb '66, not Jan '67): "George Wein, the producer of the Newport Jazz Festival, also puts on other concerts of a similar nature. He remembers one affair in particular where Coltrane and Monk shared the bill, their first appearance together in almost ten years. 'This was in February 1966, at Cobo Hall in Detroit.....we got hit with an all day snowstorm, but surprisingly enough we had a crowd of 11,000 out of 15,000 capacity. Monk and his band made it, but John's rhythm section was snowed in and only John and Alice were there. Monk went on first, but by the second half John's men still hadn't showed up and I was getting worried.' In order to alleviate such worries, Wein asked Coltrane if he would mind playing with Monk to close out the concert. Monk, hearing this, immediately danced his approval and gave his former sideman an affectionate hug, while the saxophonist nodded his assent. They played mostly Monk's music, in particular those tunes from their 1957 collaboration. For the last few numbers, Alice sat in on piano, joining her husband for some of his own songs. Afterward in the dressing room, Wein, who'd really enjoyed Monk and Coltrane together, thanked the saxophonist and said, 'I'm rather glad your rhythm section didn't make it tonight.' 'I thought you'd feel that way,' Coltrane replied. Then, he said, reflectively, 'You know, I often wonder whether what I'm doing now is the right way to play. Sometimes I feel this is the way I want to go, but other times I'd rather return to the way I used to play.' He paused, adding, 'But for now, I think I'll continue in the direction I'm going and see what happens.'" I've always wondered about how accurate the above story is, in particular whether Wein really had the nerve to say to Coltrane how "glad" he was that Trane's rhythm section of that time didn't make the gig.

Indeed, in my teenage years I first became aware of Hawk when I picked up a copy of the Moodsville LP, MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY, and was totally knocked out not only by his huge sound, but by very cooking renditions of some obscure tunes, e.g., "Cry Like the Wind", "Out of My Dreams", etc. Thankfully, that material along with other show tunes Hawk recorded that same year ('62) has been re-issued on the Prestige CD ON BROADWAY. Tommy Flanagan on piano throughout. Well worth picking up.

True, both are essential IMO. While the Commodores are "purer", how can one not love the versions of "Good Morning, Heartache", "Crazy, He Calls Me", etc. from the Decca period? But I do draw the line when it comes to listening to the background choir on the Decca version of "God Bless the Child", yuk!

it's my day! amazon has it as a download for $6.99. The arrangement of "Cherokee" on that date, with Manne playing in double time, is a killer!

You've got a good point. Also, perhaps I'll be corrected on this, but if this project were done solely with the 1987-1991 material, would it then constitute the most "recent" Mosaic box in terms of recording dates? If so, it might not be deemed commercial enough even for a discerning jazz customer base. Mosaic does a fantastic job simply concentrating on what I believe is jazz's "formative" period, i.e., the '20s through the '60s.

Regardless of the marketing, these sessions in total consist of my favorite Chet recordings. He plays well within a hard bop context and with George Coleman on the front line, the music is excellent.

A friend clued me to this clip of Bud backing one Trudy Peters. Bud sounds great! The singer, that's another story. Check it out: http://www.ina.fr/video/I09281959/trudy-pe...erfront.fr.html Anyone know of a source to cop this on DVD?

So, with all the Yankee WS victories there are, they haven't won one with a Republican president since 1958 when Ike was Prez. Since then, they've appeared in 16 World Series and are 9-2 with a Dem prez and 0-5 with a Repub in power. What the article doesn't point out is that in the last half century of WS history, the Yanks appeared in 11 of the 21 years (52% occurrence) there was a Dem prez and only 5 of the 29 years (17%) there was a Repub administration. Amazing statistics that in all probability mean nothing.

Well, of course most of the 30 black & white Jazz Icon DVDs that have been released in the last couple of years are terrific, especially the '60s material of Rollins, Coltrane, Blakey (2), Monk, Adderley, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans. More "recent" video recordings that are technically better in terms of color and production values, but most importantly also have quite excellent musical content are: Joe Lovano Nonet recorded at the "New Morning", Paris in 2001 (Inakustik). Well, well worth a viewing. Ahmad Jamal, "Live in Ballbeck", 2003 (Dreyfus) Stan Getz, "The Last Recording", Munich concert with Kenny Barron, 1990 (Geneon) Chick Corea "Akoustic Band", Munich concert, 1986 (Geneon). Hope you follow up on any of these recommendations.

Losing the 2001 Series hurt especially since Mariano helped cause the loss with poor fielding in the 9th inning of Game 7 before Gonzalez' blooper hit won it. But, I was more bugged losing the 2003 Series to the Marlins, partly because I now live in southeast Florida and had to put up with the media here after, including my wife, a transplanted Yankee fan who switched to the Marlins for the Series. But also because, as admittedly, somewhat of a purist (who, BTW, detests the A.L. DH, despite what Matsui did, and would rather return to original baseball rules regarding the pitcher having to hit), I hated that a wild card team, the Marlins, a team that could not win its division, beat the Yanks and thereby became world champs. I guess you being a purist you rooted against the Yanks in 07 when they were the wild card team. I could never root against them but I was decidedly much less enthusiastic about that team and it truly did not bother me when they were eliminated. I can't even remember which team knocked them out, i.e., the Indians, the Tigers, or was it the Angels? Look, I've been a Yankee fan since I was a little tyke back in '55 - the best thing my father ever did for me - so, I can't root against them but I've seen more than my share of WS victories. Not that a Series victory is old hat, but at this point in the "back 9" of my life, I'd rather see my football team (the Jets - please don't laugh) win a Super Bowl than see the Yanks win another WS championship.

Losing the 2001 Series hurt especially since Mariano helped cause the loss with poor fielding in the 9th inning of Game 7 before Gonzalez' blooper hit won it. But, I was more bugged losing the 2003 Series to the Marlins, partly because I now live in southeast Florida and had to put up with the media here after, including my wife, a transplanted Yankee fan who switched to the Marlins for the Series. But also because, as admittedly, somewhat of a purist (who, BTW, detests the A.L. DH, despite what Matsui did, and would rather return to original baseball rules regarding the pitcher having to hit), I hated that a wild card team, the Marlins, a team that could not win its division, beat the Yanks and thereby became world champs.

All the writers and announcers act like it's a foregone conclusion that the Yanks won't keep Damon and Matsui on next season's roster. I know that Xavier Nady is expected back, but why would anyone want to get rid of either of two proven money players?

Harold Reynolds on the MLB network made an interesting analysis after the game on why the Yanks, in his opinion, should go with a 4th starter (Gaudin?) Monday night. He reasons why go with your #2 starter (Burnett) on 3 days rest against the Phils #1 starter (Lee) who is fully rested when the Yank lineup will be especially depleted partially as a result of playing in the NL ballpark. That is, no DH, Molina (A.J.'s personal catcher) hitting with Posada forced to the bench, and a very iffy if not outright out of the lineup Melky due to his evident hammy injury this last game. So, Reynolds says you make it a bullpen game for game 5, and if you lose, the Yanks then have a fully rested Burnett ready to go at Yankee Stadium where Matsui re-enters the lineup. And, left unsaid, but if it goes 7, the Yanks have CC with a fully rested Petite to back him up if need be. Gotta admit, it makes sense except for the "mo" factor in my mind. Obviously, by practically conceding game 5 because it does not seem at all reasonable to beat Lee with a bullpen rotation, the average fan and possibly Girardi himself is concerned with the Phillies arriving with a head of steam back in NY. But then again, if Lee pitches in game 5 the way he pitched in the opener, there's no shot whatsoever for a Yank win no matter who goes against Lee.

Wow, you threw the towel in pretty early. But I have to confess after seeing Petite's lack of control during the first two innings - he couldn't throw a first pitch strike and was consistently behind the Phillie hitters - I was ready to pinch-hit for him in the 3rd down 3-0 and take my chances with Gaudin. Shows you what I know. But after A-Rod was awarded the HR (legitimately) and Petite settled down (altho Werth owned him pretty good), I had a good feeling about our chances of coming back. The only major disappointment last night for me was Phil Hughes' inability to close out the game. He really threw a meatball fast ball to Ruiz in the 9th.