[What music did you buy today?]

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

[BN Original Release Question]

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.)

[Sonny Rollins Recommendations?]

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

[Upcoming re-issues from Concord]

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

[Sonny Rollins Recommendations?]

All the above, plus "Next Album."

[Upcoming re-issues from Concord]

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.

[Beatles Remasters coming! 09/09/09]

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??

[Upcoming re-issues from Concord]

Did anyone pick up MONK and Moving Out today? Curious if there's an improvement.

Got them both today, I'll report back.

[Frank Sinatra and Bud Powell]

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...

[What music did you buy today?]

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

[JAZZ ON RCA VICTOR- what do u think of it)]

TV Action Jazz!

[Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk is 50 Years Old!]

And still sounds great!

[What music did you buy today?]

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).

[Horace Silver in the 1970s]

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!

[Jeff Lorber, "Sun Ra"]

Lots of "production", "sweetening", etc. But there's a few things that aren't too bad, one of 'ems a date w/Ogermann, iirc, something like East Side Highway or something. I can look when I get home.

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.")

[Horace Silver in the 1970s]

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.

[Horace Silver in the 1970s]

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.

[What music did you buy today?]

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

Your fear is good.

Just listened to it - sorry I bothered.

[What music did you buy today?]

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

[Bill Evans]

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.)

[Favorite Ornette tunes (by others) WITH piano]

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

[Sonny Sharrock]

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.

[What music did you buy today?]

Mastersounds, "Kismet & The King And I."

[What music did you buy today?]

Albert Ayler, "New Grass."

[Blue Note]

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!!)