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Finished up the Freddie Hubbard "Columbia" titles - Liquid Love, Bundle of Joy, & Love Connection. This could be painful.

When I first began buying albums in the early '60's there were big holes in all the jazz labels catalogs - Blue Note, Prestige, Contemporary, Riverside, Pacific Jazz, Atlantic - it wasn't 'til the CD era that many titles resurfaced. (Try buying Lennie Niehaus' "Zounds!" in 1962.)

G-Man, rght, that's a good one. And has anyone mentioned East Broadway Rundown? Another good one that doesn't get much notice.

And speaking of Concord, it looks like that third Coltrane box is actually coming out!

All the above, plus "Next Album."

Both of the new issues are brighter, the piano on the Monk is more alive (a good thing!) - I'm comparing these to the old Monk OJC and the Rollins version in the Prestige box set. Glad I upgraded, but, truthfully, the old ones were fine.

Let me see if I have this straight. You have the mono versions, several of which also include a stereo version from 1965, then you have stereo versions based on an '80's mix, and all these versions have slight vocal and instrumental variations... Is Phil Schaap involved in this??

Got them both today, I'll report back.

I can almost believe Sinatra hanging out with Lester Young, but Bud Powell? (This from the notes to the "Paris Sessions.") Now, don't tell me he was at the Five Spot with Monk and Trane...

White album - it seemed like the best deal of the bunch.

TV Action Jazz!

And still sounds great!

Jimmie Lunceford, "Lunceford Special;" and, arriving from the big oldies.com "Fantasy sale, Bud Powell, "Paris Sessions" (based on the high praise somewhere in this forum), "The Birdlanders, Vol. 2," and Lenny Niehaus, "Zounds!" (and I hope this is as good as its cover).

My memory of the song's title is most likely wrong, it's been more than 30 years. I'd know it if I heard it. (The opening phrase is F, G flat, A flat, B flat, F.) Thanks for the info!

West Side Highway, that's what it was. http://www.discogs.com/Stanley-Turrentine-...release/1411952 T blows just dandily on this one. The settings are not great, but far from awful. Not "recommended" necessarily, but definitely "suggested" for those so inclined, or who think they might be. There's one of my favorite Turrentine songs on there - "Stan's Thing" - I like it so much I paid way too much for a Japanese CD of the album. (Had to edit this - the keys are sticking - I have to begin enforcing the "no juiceboxes around the computer" rule.")

Forgot about the "... 'N' Percussion" album, now I'm not sure. That album had a song called "Great American Indian Uprising" (or something like that), which doesn't sound too melancholy... My recollection is that it was on "Voices, I'll have to look into this. And wasn't there a "Strings" album? Anyways, I wonderful melody, and as you have all mentioned, another forgotten one from one of Silver's most fertile periods.

I caught the Harrell/Schneider edition at the Village Vanguard - they were burning! It was amost too much!! I'd never hard a Silver group play with so much fire. Then they ended the set with a number from "Voices" (and album I had, but rarely listened to) - think the title was something about Indians (??) - it was very melancholy, just a haunting performance - the crowd was silent for a couple of seconds at the end, then erupted into the most enthusiastic applause of the evening - the group couldn't leave the stand. A memorable performance in my lifetime of hearing memorable performances. Still don't care for the album, though.

Your fear is good. Just listened to it - sorry I bothered.

Miles Davis, "Decoy." This could be the only Miles album I've never heard, almost afraid to unwrap it.

Steve Allen was probably as good a friend of jazz as anyone ever on national television. While other shows had the occasional group, Allen regularly featured musicians - I caught Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, Les McCann and many more. (It might be interesting to discuss jazz on "local" talk programs - after all, they were responsible for the rare footage we have of Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown. But that's another topic.)

Marion McPartland has a nice, but fairly conventional, "Ramblin'." (And so does David Sanborn, now that I think about it.)

The Sharrock solos on Mann's albums, as wild as they are, are turned way down - in person, people would be heading for the exits.

Mastersounds, "Kismet & The King And I."

Albert Ayler, "New Grass."

Dusty Groove lists Grant Green's "Visions" for mid-September, but, of course, that could be coming from any number of sources. (And the Verve site, the label that brought you Ella and Billie, is bringing us Katharine McPhee!) (god bless the child!!)