MartyJazz

Well, I have the Mosaic Cecil Taylor on Candid. The cut titled "E.B." is an old favorite of mine having first heard it on one of two Barnaby LP reissues of the Candid material and your track #10 has the same theme, so why your cut has a composer other than Cecil and a different title as well, is anyone's guess. Since you have the Candids, check it out for yourself.

Living in southeast Florida, there is ample opportunity to check out spring training games. The Orioles train nearby in Ft. Lauderdale, while the St. Louis Cards and the Florida Marlins share Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, 30 miles north of me. If I wish to travel 60 miles to Port St. Lucie, I can check out the Mets. To wit, a good friend who has a 2nd home down here and is a Met fan (I'm a Yankee fan, hold the boos), wanted to see Pedro, Carlos B, etc., so we attended this Friday's game between the Cards and the visiting Mets. Lots of fun and since we left early, I was able to get a foul ball that quite audibly hit the roof and bounced right in front of me as we exited the stadium.

I think it's a combination of things that lead to seller satisfaction on e-Bay. One, if your reserve is met, then you're most probably going to be receiving a higher price once bidding has ended then if you were to sell the equipment to a dealer who then must sell it to a customer; 2) you are selling the item to someone who genuinely wants it and is willing to pay your price (this goes for anyone who puts a reserve amount down, otherwise the point does not hold). It's a win-win for everybody.

You guys have been great. And a special note of thanks to Big Wheel who introduced yet another term that requires more clarification in this mix, "typhoon". B-)

Normally, I'm reluctant to purchase CDs that have a retro content although to be sure, I've violated that self-imposed rule many times. However, looking over Alan Lankin's latest list of new releases, I spotted this one and am curious chiefly because I got to see Grant Stewart at 'Small's' on a visit to NYC a couple of years ago. If you like Newk's sound from the early '60s, that's mainly where he's coming from. So for me, that meant for a highly enjoyable night of music. And we know there are quite a few Eric A adherents in this forum. Right now the CD is backordered at CD Universe so I'm wondering if anybody's heard it yet and can shed some light on it.

My mother will kill me if I ever leave my wife. Come to think of it, nobody in my family would talk to me again. I guess I got a good thing going - check that, I KNOW I got a good thing going.

So I'm reading an article today about a severe cyclone (is there any other kind?) approaching northeastern Australia (see here) and I'm wondering what are the differences among all these meteorological events especially as the Webster's New World Dictionary below cites Australia as a spot for tornado, as opposed to cyclone, activity. You'll notice that each of the definitions seem to cite the others as synonyms. Any practicing or amateur meteorologists out there who can enlighten me? According to Webster's: cyclone: 1) loosely, a windstorm with a violent, whirling movement; tornado or hurricane; 2) Meteorol. a system of rotating winds over a vast area, spinning inward to a low pressure center (counterclockwise in the N Hemisphere) and generally causing stormy weather: commonly called a low, since it coexists with low barometric pressure tornado: 1) a violently whirling column of air, with wind speeds of c. 160 to 480 km/hr. (c. 100 to 300 mi./hr.), extending downward from a cumulonimbus cloud, esp. in Australia and the central U.S.: almost always seen as a rapidly rotating, slender, funnel-shaped cloud that usually destroys everything along its narrow path 2) in W Africa and the adjacent Atlantic, a severe thundersquall 3) any whirlwind or hurricane hurricane: 1) a violent tropical cyclone with winds moving at 73 or more miles per hour, often accompanied by torrential rains, and originating usually in the West Indian region

March 8th. Recorded on this date: 1950, Billie Holiday (Decca): "God Bless the Child", "This is Heaven to Me". 1951, Lester Young 4 with John Lewis, Gene Ramey & Jo Jones: "A Foggy Day", "In a Little Spanish Town", "Let's Fall in Love", "Down 'n Adam", "Lester Swings", "Slow Motion Blues". (available on THE COMPLETE LESTER YOUNG STUDIO SESSIONS - Verve) 1957, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers featuring Jackie McLean & Bill Hardman - MIRAGE (Savoy): 1957, Hank Mobley 5 with Art Farmer, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins & Art Blakey who evidently had a very busy recording day - HANK MOBLEY QUINTET (Blue Note) (available on THE COMPLETE HANK MOBLEY '50S STUDIO SESSIONS - Mosaic) 1963, Lucky Thompson - PLAYS THE MUSIC OF JEROME KERN (Prestige), available on HAPPY DAYS CD as one of two unique sessions: 1976, Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis 4 - SWINGIN' TILL THE GIRLS COME HOME (Steeplechase): 1989, Buster Williams 5 featuring Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock - SOMETHING MORE (In & Out): 1995, Don Pullen & the African-Brazilian Connection, his final recording - SACRED COMMON GROUND (BLue Note):

I'm kind of new to this and I'm not sure about all the etiquette and rules of vine-ing, if that's a word. In any event, I recently received a CD-R of Miles at Newport in 1955 with Zoot, Mulligan & Monk, and his regular quintet at Newport in '66 & '67. This was through the JazzVines group at Yahoo. I just "re-vined" and am sending the disc off tomorrow to some lucky guy in Michigan. So there's definitely some Miles activity in that forum.

Man, you got that right. The few times I went there (I'm ashamed to say) with the wife and kid, I always bitched about the salt content. Yet my 84 year old father with high blood pressure loves the place. Go figure. Meanwhile, here in southeast Florida, I haven't noticed their disappearance. But then again I'm usually oblivious about stuff I try to avoid. Will check it out tomorrow. There are (or were) two BMs (hey, ain't that the truth?), within a couple of miles in opposite directions from me.

Really?

Wonderful. I know quite a few Trane lovers that will dig that.

I'd like to see the output of a not too well known, yet excellent pianist issued on CD. To date, I only have him represented on LP - Charles Bell. One on Atlantic, the other on Columbia (he may have done more, but that's all I have). Additionally, he did a fabulous live version of "Whisper Not" on an RCA Victor piano anthology that also contains performances by Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Willie 'the Lion", etc., all recorded at the Newport JF.

Whew, lots of mystery here. I'm afraid I can identify more tune titles than artists and that's not a good sign for me. 1) "Old Folks", gotta be Ben. I mean Harold Ashby tried mightily for that sound but Ben's the real deal and he kind of liked this tune alot. 2) Very short excerpt, sounds a little like "Indiana", but no idea of who or when 3) no idea 4) "I'm in the Mood for Love", but not Hawk's '44 version although the tenor certainly is influenced by him. 5) "Mop Mop", can't say much else. Not one of those tunes that does anything for me. 6) pleasant enough, that's about it. 7) Helen Merrill, could not possibly be anyone else. She's hit or miss with most people. Hey, Will Friedwald in his various books on singers won't even go near her. On the whole, I've always liked her. 8) Benny Golson's "Whisper Not", my favorite track on this disc. Only jazz accordionist I know is Mat Matthews of whom I have an old Brunswick LP, but don't know if he ever recorded this tune. 9) I really should know this tune but can't place it. Also no idea of the tenor or trumpet. 10) The "tune", i.e, "E.B.", is one of my favorite early Cecil pieces on Candid and this pianist is certainly coming from him, but somehow I don't think it's Cecil. I've got more work to do, obviously.

I made a conscious decision sometime in the first week November of this past year (let's see now, what could have happened back then?) not to contribute further to the political forum. Don't miss it, but nevertheless the option to go there should still exist IMO. As for lurkers going there strictly to stir up feelings, I'm not sure how many I've seen. But I do know that one individual with an enviable wealth of experience in and knowledge of jazz posts 3 out of every 5 messages in that forum (Christiern). I would not like risking the possibility of losing the minority of jazz messages he posts because he might feel that he has to vent elsewhere.

I cut my LP of BREAKTHROUGH many years ago within a couple of years of its issue as I too heard a favorite artist playing well below form. However this discussion makes me wish I could spin it on the turntable once more. Oh well, I try to live with my "cut 'em loose" decisions, but this has been one of those stimulating discussions that tempts me to rethink this particular one.

Correction: Mobley's THE TURNAROUND is a February, 1965 session. 1963, On this date Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren & Philly Joe Jones recorded for Blue Note: "The Feelin's Good", "Yes Indeed" (released as one of three unique sessions on STRAIGHT, NO FILTER). I was just partly wrong Two tunes recorded March 7, 1963 ('East of the Village' and 'The Good Life') are on the original LP configuration of 'The Turnaround'). BN mixed a number of dates from various sessions on their Mobley vinyls releases in the mid sixties! Yeah, I no longer have the LP, just the CD which I was referring to. The recent releases of the Blue Note CDs have been increasingly more uniform in terms of content. A good thing as it makes for a more consistent listening experience.

March 7th. Also recorded on this date: 1955, Gigi Gryce, Duke Jordan, Oscar Pettiford & Kenny Clarke record (Signal, re-released on Savoy): "Sometimes I'm Happy", "Embraceable You", "Jordu", "Oh Yeah!". 1961, Miles Davis 5 with Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones record (Columbia): "Old Folks", "Pfrancing", "Drad Dog", "I Thought About You". 1992, Shirley Horn performs live in Paris - I LOVE YOU, PARIS (Verve).

Correction: Mobley's THE TURNAROUND is a February, 1965 session. 1963, On this date Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren & Philly Joe Jones recorded for Blue Note: "The Feelin's Good", "Yes Indeed" (released as one of three unique sessions on STRAIGHT, NO FILTER).

I'd like to know what your doubts are based on, not that I agree or disagree. I once mistakenly attributed the composition to Bird while speaking with Archie Shepp and he corrected me quite emphatically (albeit nicely) that it was composed by Miles.

Well, if you liked that, you'll probably also dig the companion CD to that, ANOTHER SHADE OF BLUE, which was recorded on the same two days as ALONE TOGETHER with the same personnel. Konitz has left such a rich recording legacy, one can recommend many. I've always dug the various collaborations with Warne Marsh, as well as all the mid '50s recordings currently available on three Black Lion CDs. One of the later ones I've listened to recently that I like alot is a live date done around '79 if memory serves me correctly, JAZZ A JUAN (Steeplechase), which also features some wonderful Martial Solal.

No doubt. I have also dealt with Leon, although only by phone and mail. There was a mutual trust established and, as you state, he was quite fair and a pleasure to deal with.

Leon and Jack Brown who resides in your area, I'm sure. JB is very fair and nice to deal with. No complaints.

Because I have the complete broadcast material with announcements, etc., I never bothered to purchase the bootleg LPs of this material. Therefore I can't answer that. Another reason I purchased very few of the Ozone, Session, Alto, etc., LPs is that the "quality control" for these records was nonexistent as one might expect. Not wanting to listen to the inevitable pops and abrupt beginnings & endings as a result of the editing out of spoken material, I took a pass. However, since I do have some of these LPs for other artists, I would guess that the fidelity of the original acetates was superior as judged by the tape copies I made. Having heard at the time that acetate discs wear faster than vinyl LPs, I only played these discs twice in order to make 2 sets of taped dubs and that was over 30 years ago!

Don't really like posting this in a Donald Harrison thread but just want to respond that Joe Locke is a very good vibes player. Two albums I recommend, one as a leader, the other as a sideman: