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I've finally capitulated. Looking forward to it - it's been like Chinese water torture reading the posts above this. Can't be too many of this set left in Stamford now..

I'm very partial to the 60s material. 'Don't Look Away Now' on Prestige and 'James Moody and The Brass Figures' on Milestone. Both under-rated, thoughtful sessions. The early Blue Note material put out on 10" and that Liberty 'The Beginning and End Of Bop' LP (side 1 is Moody's Modernists) is also an absolute killer. The 50s Prestige matrial with Dave Burns is also very nice. Very effective jazz/R&B hybrid - must have been great to see this band live. Certainly one of my candidates for most consistent player in jazz and - as you say - great arranger too. Particular recommendations with Gillespie - 'Something Old, Something New' and the 'Reunion Big Band' session from 1968 (I think) put out on MPS/Pausa.

Currently on-deck in the Sunday afternoon big-band slot is a Vogue 2LP set with Herb Pomeroy Orchestra on LP 1 and Maynard F. on LP 2. Roulette sessions from the late 1950s, early 1960s. Intriguing to hear Jaki Byard on tenor sax on the first LP. Nice Pomeroy session..

A teutonic beauty? Nah - no 'vorsprung' on this one ! This one is a US Liberty, must be a first pressing. Easily the best sounding version of the session I have ever heard, suprisingly sounds better than the superb Toshiba LP I bought from Hiroshi . No contest of course the domestic CD B-) . Only negative - slight cutout on the sleeve. I've always liked this session for Woody Shaw but some of Mobley's subtleties/inflexions come out much clearer and George Benson's guitar sounds very full-bodied and full of gusto. My opinion of the date has gone up as an output of the listening pleasure received...

Hank Mobley 'Reach Out' BN Liberty pressing.

I'm inclined to believe it. I was in an HMV shop the other week and there was a remix version of 'Song of Will' playing (might have been Madlib or something of that ilk). Certainly got my attention, although it added diddly-squat to the Gale original. Maybe Gale's albums have been latched on in similar fashion by the pop bimbo brigade...

A set that sounds just great on the vinyl (goes without saying ) and that price is not bad at all !

Incidentally the original King LP was release was GXF 3061 from 1979. Cover art by K. Abe. The guy that did 'Pisces', 'Tippin' the Scales' etc. I don't think they lasted long in the UK shops...whatever few random import copies managed to breach this citadel that is.

Yes, a huge oversight. I wonder if this session might have been adversely impacted by the Liberty take-over and Alfred Lion's retirement? Incredible that it was just forgotten about. I'd probably give it the slight edge on 'Happenings' as well, and 'Happenings' is one of my desert island disks !

Just had the Rod Levitt Orchestra 'The Dynamic Sound Patterns of the' playing. Riverside Bill Grauer productions original. Really nice session, clear influences of Msrs Evans G. and Russell G.

That box is an absolute killer - gets lots of spins from me. Great to hear the Freddie Roach and Duke P material in there too. Over the years its been the catalyst which has got me seeking out a whole host of LPs for which Henderson is a key sideman. I think at one time the BMG club were offering it for around $15-20 dollars too..

Did exactly the same when it first came out, then searched high and low for several years. My local store at the time (an A&B Sound in Canada) had the (then hot off the press) Collectors Choice issues in the rack and first time round I had to double-check that it was indeed 'Oblique'. Didn't hang around that time, just wish I'd bought 10 !

I've always been bemused by the fact that a session as great as this one was held in the can by Alfred Lion all those years until those enlightened guys at King put it out on vinyl around 15 years after it was recorded. I guess there was just too much Bobby Hutcherson material in the release pipeline at the time.

In my case that resolution was broken circa Jan 3rd.. :rsmile:

Just listening to the Deutches Moogie 'BN Liberty voorsprung durch technik Live at the Lighthouse' 2LP set. 'Beehive' is threatening to take the walls down...

I'm glad you mentioned Wyands. I just listened to him on my "Oliver Nelson "Screamin' the Blues" LP and another LP I played recently (darn, but I can't recll it at the moment ) where his playing really caught my attention. Perhaps one of those "talents deserving of wider recognition"? Absolutely ! Fits extremely well into the soulfull groove on this session, indeed holds it all together. He's also on that Richard Williams 'New Horn In Town' I seem to recall. 'Screamin' The Blues' is a nice Nelson session, must track down a vinyl of that one. I have it on the Dolphy Prestige CD set though.

Great !

I think the first great jazz stuff I heard was a bundle of LPs lent by an uncle with a great jazz collection back in the early 70s. There was the 'Wardell Gray Memorial Album Vols 1 and 2, the Miles Davis 3LP French CBS 'Essential Miles Davis' box, a Charlie Parker Verve ('Pick of Parker') and then for Xmas I got the Sonny Rollins twofer on Prestige. It was downhill from there... :rsly:

Hi Tooter - table lists it as a Duke Jordan composition but published under one of Gryce's publishing companies. Maybe Mike can elaborate? (from the book it is clear that many musicians of the time got their tunes published by Gryce, who was something of a pioneer in this field). Great book by the way..

Just noticed from the appendix to Mike and Noal Cohen's 'Rat Race Blues' book that 'Sheila (Pannonica)' is listed as one of the Melotone Music, Inc. publishing holdings administered at the time by Gigi Gryce.

Noticing that Bobby H had not featured to date in 'AOTW' and of the opinion that this is a very under-rated Hutcherson session that should be in permanent print, here it is.... I think the last time this one was put out by Blue Note was as a 'Collectors Choice' issue back in the mid 1990s, since then it's quite hard to find and has yet to be put out as a Conn or RVG. Absolutely wonderful quartet with Herbie Hancock, Albert Stinson and Joe Chambers that is stylistically quite similar to the equally fine 'Happenings'. When I first heard this one, apart from the stunning empathy between Hutch and Hancock, the rock solid and inventive bass playing from the late Albert Stinson really stood out. Joe Chambers is his usual majesterial self (both on drums and as composer ). PS - If anyone has got a good vinyl copy of the King LP for this one for sale let me know.. Also realising that 'Oblique' is currently OOP I suggest that comments relating to other Hutcherson albums of this vintage ('Components, Happenings', 'Dialogue') are also very much welcome.

Just spinning a Liberty of Frank Foster 'Manhattan Fever'. Nice late 60s session this one, some good Richard Wyands on piano. Possible future Conn (or Rare Groove)candidate?

Good to hear he's back in action ! Fond memoris of his solo recital in Bath (1988 I think) in the Georgian splendour of the Guildhall. About the most civilised jazz performance I have ever witnessed and Solal was awesome.

When I saw him in 1999 at a round-table discussion on LA jazz he was wheel-chair bound. Full of great stories and very engaging - If he's playing again that would be wonderful.

I have to agree with you on that. For example, I was checking out the Hoffman forum for a while (no longer) and it seemed as if everyone was obsessed with DSOM. Almost like a religious thing. It's weird. It's still a huge seller I believe. At a recent vinyl sale there was a guy there selling a whole incredible collection of Floyd vinyl, with pressings of every album in every country released (Argentinian first pressing DSOM anyone?). Incredible - I bought a German Columbia-EMI original of 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' plus a couple of other early ones. Apparently he was selling because his Mrs thought they were cluttering up the house..