MartyJazz

I'm afraid your distinction is completely lost on the ear, and not at all that differentiating when seen by the eye either. As for categorizing the stuff that's labeled "smooth jazz" (kind of oxymoronic IMO), it's instrumental pop, period. Nothing wrong with labeling it as such.

The last one - "Interpretations of Monk" - how could I forget to put that on my list? I was there. I came for the evening concert, Anthony Davis on piano the first set, Mal Waldron the 2nd. The music was so great, I was sorry that I hadn't attended the afternoon concert (Muhal Richard Abrams on piano the 1st set, Barry Harris the 2nd). A front line of Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, Don Cherry & Roswell Rudd, and Ben Riley alternating with Ed Blackwell. It was terrific! For many years, I listened to cassettes that I dubbed off WKCR when they broadcast tapes of the event a couple of days later. Finally about 10 years ago, DIW issued a four disc set of the event which I purchased at top dollar - well worth it. Thanks for reminding me - it is indeed a top notch live recording!

Just listening to his feature on "Invitation" today from a double CD of this album: Fine album!

February 26th. Recorded on this date: 1949, Charlie Parker 5 plus guests Lucky Thompson, Milt Jackson, Dave Lambert* at the 'Royal Roost', NYC (Savoy): "Half Nelson", "A Night in Tunisia", "Scrapple from the Apple", *"Deedle", "What's This". 1958, Jimmy Smith records 1st half of SOFTLY AS A SUMMER BREEZE (Blue Note): 1969, Archie Shepp 7 with Jimmy Owens, Grachan Moncur III, Charles Davis, Dave Burrell, Walter Booker & Beaver Harris record (Impulse): "New Africa", "Bakai" (appears on THE WAY AHEAD). 1986, Woody Shaw 4 with Geri Allen, Robert Hurst & Roy Brooks perform at 'Baker's Keyboard Lounge', Detroit - BEMSHA SWING (Blue Note): 1986, Jessica Williams Trio - NOTHIN' BUT THE TRUTH (Black Hawk or Bellaphon).

"Lush Life"???!!!!!!! Wow, Gotta hear that.

Nathan Davis: RULES OF FREEDOM Andrew Hill: ANDREW!!! George Russell: Complete Riverside Recordings Box Set Lucky Thompson with Milt Jackson - Complete Atlantic & Savoy Recordings Box Set

From what period(s) are these two releases from? The photos looks '50s-ish but that's no definite indication that the music is from that period. I have a strong bias when it comes to Sinatra, i.e., I favor the 1953-'67 period. Generally I don't like the pre-Nelson Riddle arrangements and I definitely cannot abide post-initial retirement Blue Eyes.

Massey Hall Concert (Bird, Diz, Bud, Mingus, Max) Mingus at Antibes with Dolphy, Ervin, Curson plus Bud on one track Blakey in Paris with Wayne, Lee, Wilen & Bud Powell Miles in Tokyo with Sam Rivers Rollins at the Museum of Modern Art (THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU - Impulse) Coltrane at the Village Vanguard Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Dizzy Gillespie at Carnegie Hall '61 (AN ELECTRIFYING EVENING) Dizzy Gillespie at the Village Vanguard '67 (with Pepper Adams, Chick Corea, etc.) Shepp LIVE IN TOKYO '78 (Denon) Hutcherson with Woody Shaw - LIVE AT MONTREUX Ornette - London Concert '65 Getz '87 - SERENITY & ANNIVERSARY That's off the top of my head. I'm certain there's lots more!

And thank you for mentioning Booker Little. I went back to the site and checked it out. Wow, what a smoking excerpt of "Love For Sale"!!!! Would love to see that entire clip some day on a DVD. I think when I have some free time (obviously when I'm not posting on this board ), I'll painstakingly click on each of the many trumpeters listed to check out whatever video exists. The site is indeed a "find"!

This reminds me of a line I came out with a couple of years ago that some may think is humorous or perhaps not. Anyway it was at a Tribute to Bird concert, Roy Haynes leading a group that included Kenny Garrett & Nicholas Payton in the fall of 2002 at a concert hall in Fort Lauderdale. At one point, Payton had a solo feature on "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", the audience applauding very appreciatively, I suspect because for the most part they finally recognized a tune. I said to my friend sitting alongside me, "Bird might have played this tune......" - I could see the wheels spinning as he tried to recall on what recording Bird did this tune - at which point, I ended my sentence, "if he hadn't died before My Fair Lady opened". In any event, my friend got a real chuckle out of that.

If this link/site has been posted before, forgive me. But while looking for a Conte Candoli jpg photo to put on a CD-R I'm making, I came across this site: http://www.trumpetstuff.com/ Click on any of the trumpeters listed on the left hand side and you'll get a page devoted to that particular trumpeter with various audio and possibly video links thrown in. Finally got to see the Clifford Brown solos on the Soupy Sales TV show at this site.

I'll agree with that assessment when it comes to SAN FRANCISCO, a date that I discarded on LP a long time ago and never felt the need to reacquire on CD. But TOTAL ECLIPSE and MEDINA (with SPIRAL included) are terrific dates. Great "blowing" by the front line and some terrific Corea or Cowell with a very propulsive Joe Chambers thrown in. Nothing at all laid back on these sessions IMO. Ah, I guess it's the proverbial "each to his own....".

Wow, I just checked out the Sinatra Forum per your link. Those people there are wild! You're unlikely to find a greater bunch of Sinatra devotees anywhere. Really into his output from start to finish.

February 25th. Recorded on this date: 1954, Stan Kenton & Orchestra appear at the Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR with special guests Charlie Parker & Lee Konitz 1958, Jimmy Smith 6 featuring Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks, records "Lover Man", "Confirmation", "Au Privave", "The Sermon", "Flamingo" for THE SERMON (Blue Note): 1963, Roland Kirk records REEDS & DEEDS (Mercury): 1964, Eric Dolphy 5 with Freddie Hubbard - OUT TO LUNCH (Blue Note): 1982, John Carter Octet featuring Bobby Bradford & James Newton - DAUWHE (ends on 3/8, Black Saint): 1991, Abbey Lincoln with Stan Getz - YOU GOTTA PAY THE BAND (Verve):

What's wrong with "Oska T"? Any Monk tune that can immediately pop into my head as this one did upon reading your post can't be all bad.

That was fun! But WTF is that about?

February 24th. Recorded on this date: 1967, Hank Mobley Septet with Lee Morgan, James Spaulding, Sonny Greenwich, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker & Billy Higgins - THIRD SEASON (Blue Note): 1992, Abbey Lincoln - DEVIL'S GOT YOUR TONGUE (completed 2/25, Verve):

How I'd feel without my jazz recordings:

Jet fan here. I'd love to see them sign Joe Nedney especially after the choke playoff performance by Jim Brien. In all fairness however, when your coach, i.e., Herm Edwards, plays for a 43 yard FG when there's a minute and a half to go and you have two timeouts, i.e., plenty of time to get closer for a chip shot, well then the loss is fully deserved IMO. Herm has to go to clock management/strategy school this off season or we're doomed as long as he's HC. Hey, that's what being a Jet fan is all about anyway, right? Derrick Mason may not be a bad pickup also. Justin McCareins, another ex-Titan receiver did ok for the Jets this past season.

I had the Moncur briefly (inherited so to speak) but decided to sell it since I had all the material on 4 individual Blue Note CDs, i.e., Jackie's ONE STEP BEYOND and DESTINATION OUT plus Moncur's own EVOLUTION and SOME OTHER STUFF. I'd rather have 4 individual releases with all the original art work than see all the music crammed, as Mosaic tends to do, onto as few discs as possible, in this case three. However, if there's no choice, it's a nice, inexpensive way to go.

That photo is NASTY!! Envy, envy.

Well, I'd like to get it too but $45 (!!), whew. Gloria Steinem, who knew? Wonder what other revelations there are. In any event, Desmond himself spoke of writing an autobiography (working title: "How Many of You Are There in the Quartet?") so this is most welcome. Interestingly, he is hardly ever mentioned as one of the great alto sax players, but I'm sure for many of us here, he gets quite a bit of play whether on the turntable or on the CD changer. Another point of interest is that Desmond once conducted an interview of Charlie Parker, somthing I've got to fish out one day from my tape archives.

Damn you! I just ordered a couple of items. Between them and a few e-bay auctions I've won, I better start cooling it soon. But let me highly recommend that on the last page of the above link (p7), the 3 CD box set of Artie Shaw's 1944-45 output for both RCA Victor and Musicraft is available for $33 in change, better than the $45 I originally paid for it. I love this particular Shaw band - very forward looking with Roy Eldridge, Dodo Marmarosa, Herbie Steward, Barney Kessel et al in the band and wonderful charts by Buster Harding, George Siravo, Ray Conniff, Eddie Sauter and others. Really wonderful stuff. And you have Shaw's clarinet work, the greatest ever IMO.

I only have "best of " compilation discs for the few artists I don't wish to collect and even then I'll hesitate before purchasing such a disc. In other words, it has to be a really good deal monitarily. Accordingly, the only best of compilations I own are: "Best of Chet Baker Sings" (Pacific Jazz) "Best of Sidney Bechet (Blue Note) "Best of Julie London" (Rhino) Oh, I did make a CD-R of "The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio" (Capitol) off a library CD but I justified that as I have all and more of this material on a few Cole LPs. BTW, I find that since I own a lot of jazz CDs I can invariably make a better compilation, even given the limitation of using the output of an artist from one label only. To give an example, I once saw a Best of Sonny Rollins Blue Note compilation and I was appalled to see that the tracks chosen from his VOLUME 2 session were "Why Don't I" and "Poor Butterfly" when the remaining four tracks from that album are all superior to the selections chosen. In fact, whoever put that compilation together did not do his homework very well for if you listen to "Poor Butterfly", you hear Rollins state the opening melody only, thereafter it becomes a feature for J.J. Johnson. Great track but definitely not appropriate for a "best of Rollins" compilation. Oh well, enough rambling.

Appreciate your clarification of this date. Wish I could add more. I too don't understand what "mof" means, for example. In any event I've owned the Japanese BYG double LP of this live date for many years and I hadn't been aware that additional tunes were performed until I saw your post. Wes' s version of "Impressions" is one I always put on the turntable whenever I have a guitar enthusiast in my home who wants to listen to "some good jazz guitar". It really cooks!