paul secor

Even BYG would be "later".

I don't think that I've ever ordered more than one at a time - that's all the listening I can handle in one period. So - I guess that makes my biggest order the Miles & Gil set - 11 LPs in one box.

Roy Eldridge & Claude Bolling: "Wild Man Blues" & "Fireworks" (Vogue)

The Popular Duke Ellington (RCA W. Germany)

Jelly Roll Morton: New Orleans Memories plus two (Commodore Germany)

Dickerson, Muhal, Air (2 records), Curson, Chico Freeman, all made good recordings for this label. I remember that Monty Waters also had one on whynot, but I never heard it. The Dickerson (w. Wilbur Ware and Andrew Cyrille) is my favorite, but the others are all worth getting.

Kenny Burrell: K B Blues (Blue Note/King Japan)

Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige/Analogue Productions 45 rpm)

How does it feel now that it's over, Chuck?

The Virtuoso Guitar of Scrapper Blackwell (Yazoo)

This morning: John Patton Select - The Way I Feel session

The J. Geils Band-1st self-titled Lp- Side 2 - tracks 1&2: Homework & First I Look At The Purse. Hell-yeah!

Grant Green: Oleo (Blue Note/King Japan)

Art Ensemble of Chicago: "Les Stances a Sophie" (Nessa) Has anyone seen the film that goes with this soundtrack?

Coincidences are sometimes too strange to be coincidental. I bought this CD about a year ago after brownie recommended it on the OJC thread, played it once, didn't have much of a reaction to the music, and put it on the shelf. This morning I put it on while I was preparing and eating a leisurely breakfast, and was in a place where I could hear what was there. Then I came across this thread and it seemed almost spooky that people were writing about this record right at the time when I was able to experience it for the first time. The word I would use to describe this record is charming. Charm can't give complete sustenance, but when I'm in the right mood it will be a record I look forward to listening to again. Incidentally, anyone interested in more Elmer Snowden might want to check out Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden Vols. 1 & 2 on Original Blues Classics. Elmer Snowden plays guitar on these recordings, which were also produced by Chris A.

Just listened to Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: "... and his mother called him Bill" on both original RCA Dynagroove and Speakers Corner reissue. (I bought the Speakers Corner about a year ago to get a better pressing. My RCA has a few small flaws. I wouldn't normally have done this, but I truly love this recording.) The RCA sounds as if it has some artificial reverb added, while the Speakers Corner has a flatter, somewhat less lively sound. This may get me thrown off the vinyl forum, but there are times when I prefer the RCA, even though it's probably not as "true" to what was recorded. I'm keeping both, anyway, and will listen to either as the mood strikes me. A couple of thoughts: The opening to U.M.M.G. - Ellington and Clark Terry before the full band enters - sounds almost to me like something Cecil Taylor might have done in the very early 60's. Of course, there are those who will say that Cecil Taylor being influenced by Ellington is paying lip service and nothing more, but I hear it clearly here. (I've heard it for many years, but it just came across on this record for the first time.) Whenever I play this, I always reread Duke Ellington's words about Billy Strayhorn: "He demanded freedom of expression and lived in what we consider the most important of moral freedoms: freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from all self-pity (even throughout all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might help another more than it might help himself; and freedom from the kind of pride that could make a man feel he was better than his brother or neighbor." I don't always live up to those words, but I feel it's important that I read them.

Forgot a few other fine records - Thanks to Brownie for posting the Swingville listing and reminding me: The Budd Freeman All Star Swing Sessions - Prestige 24286 (I only have the OJC LP, The Budd Freeman All Stars featuring Shorty Baker. The CD adds another session from 1962 and some sides from 1935. The Budd Freeman All Stars is a truly fine date.) Buddy Tate/Claude Hopkins: Buddy and Claude - Prestige 24231 (The Buddy Tate session, Tate a Tete, is by far my favorite of the two included.) Joe Newman Quintet with Frank Foster: Good 'n' Groovy - OJC 185 (Haven't listened to this one in a while, but I recall it as having a good feel to it.)

I can recommend the following records - originally on Swingville - without hesitation: Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck & Buddy - OJC 757 Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues Coleman Hawkins with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Night Hawk - OJC 420 Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell: Jam Session in Swingville -Prestige 24051 Taft Jordan: Mood Indigo - Prestige 24230 (1 record on the CD originally on Swingville, the other originally on Moodsville, but neither to be missed.) Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' with Pee Wee - Prestige 24213 (Swingin' with Pee Wee originally on Swingville - great Pee Wee and Buck Clayton. Portait of Pee Wee originally on Counterpoint - also a great record.) Shorty Baker & Doc Cheatham: Shorty & Doc - OJC 839 I'm sure that others will have more to add, but you can't go wrong with any of these.

Oxford American 2003 Music Issue - courtesy of a good friend; articles on and appreciations of artists ranging from Memphis Minnie to King Pleasure to The Collins Kids to Chris King, a young 78 record collector, to Swamp Dogg to Otis Blackwell to P.J. Proby and on and on.

Charlie Parker: Apartment Sessions (Spotlite)

I'm probably jumping the gun since you haven't done them yet, but do you think that there will there be any unreleased material on these reissues?

Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse/Speakers Corner)

Master Jazz Piano - the Claude Hopkins & Sonny White sessions

The Way-Out Voices of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross with The Ike Isaacs Trio (Columbia/Jazz Odyssey)

Earl Hines on the Master Jazz Piano set