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  1. Shearing does his Erroll Garner routine on "Shearing On Stage," from 1958 - and the college audience seems to get it (as well as the crack about Randy Weston and Thelonius Monk)! 1958 - truly another age. (Of course, with a Capitol "live" album, you never know...) Anyway, you can't get much classier than George Shearing.

  2. I'm a little surprised by the praise for what I think is a pretty innocuous Blakey album - okay, sure, a nice try in the then fashionable jazz versions of whatever show was currently playing vein, and the sound of the new CD (as mentioned above) is good. But of the 1000 Blakey albums out there, I can't go higher than 117, slightly above Buttercorn Lady. (Best non-BN of the period? That might be Ugetsu.) But I wish I was at the Weiss gig - bet it was a lot of fun.

  3. Not really understanding the technical descriptions above, I never really thought that Blue Note albums were anything special, audio-wise. My idea of a good sounding LP was something on Columbia (the Byrd/Gryce "Jazz Lab" album comes to mind) or maybe Capitol. And of the jazz labels, Contemporary. (With Argo being the worst.) But I'm talking late '50's-early '60,s, with a Heath Kit amp and a Garrard (sp?) table, I could be all wet on this.

  4. Vista is one of my favorites - sprung for the Japanese CD - and I've always thought it was maybe the most successful attempt by Impulse to put one of their "new thing" artists in a pop/soul/rock setting. Hardly typical of Brown, of course, he's almost on the sideline there.

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