paul secor

Thanks for posting this, brownie. I usually read the Times later in the day, but it was good to read this article here. The Roy Haynes Listening With is the most interesting in the series so far - IMO.

Thanks for posting this. Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe is a unique "at home" look at a great musician - recommended to anyone who loves Ben Webster's music.

Bo Carter: Twist It Babe - 1931-1940 (Yazoo)

The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (Delmark)

44 or 45 - either one is much too young.

Daphne Hellman was also the mother of guitarist (among other string instruments) Sandy Bull.

Happy birthday to the Organissimo Board! Thanks to Jim A. and the O Boys! I guess that this is a birthday all of us here share.

I enjoyed watching him play, and was always amazed that he could do what he did while carrying all that weight. But he looked to me like a walking time bomb for something cardiac related, even in his playing days.

Ben on tenor (up to his usual standard) and playing some stride piano - no threat to Fats or James P., but interesting to hear.

My copy looks like the one brownie posted, signed by Mingus on the front cover (slightly smudged with the years), and numbered 407 on the LPs. I still have the brochure also. Like I said - collectors are weird.

I'll have to do a lot more listening before I'll have anything useful to say in that kind off discussion, but I'll try and start. In the meantime, I'll add one solo Hines from my collection: Spontaneous Explorations - originally on Contact, and later reissued on a Red Baron CD, along with Here Comes, a trio side with Richard Davis and Elvin Jones.

The Lotte Lenya Album - The Berlin and American Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill (Columbia) - A wonderful singer and wonderful songs - so real!

Reading this just reminded me that I still have the packing box that my copy of The Chan Parker/Francis Paudras book, To Bird With Love, came in - that, in addition to the other box that the book is enclosed in. Don't ask me why. Collectors are weird.

The Kelleys, Red Belcher and the Kentucky Ridgerunners, The Lilly Brothers, Phebel Wright, etc.: The Early Days of Bluegrass Volume One (Rounder)

Absolutely right, 'The Flam' is a real spine tingler. The essential Frank Lowe recording. And great Alex Blake. As a sidenote, the current (March) issue of Cadence contains a short, but interesting, interview with Alex Blake.

Thanks for all the (quick) responses. If I acquire and listen to everything I don't already have, I'll be busy listening (happily), and my wallet will be thinner (not such a happy thing - but the first outweighs the second). Does anyone have a take on At Home (Delmark)? Perhaps it would have come up, but I figured I'd ask just in case it didn't.

I have several Earl Hines solo recordings in my collection, and love listening to them. He, Monk, and Cecil are probably my favorite solo pianists, and Earl Hines is definitely the most unpredictable - I might even use the term "free". Anyway, I'd like to hear more, and I know that you guys will steer me right. So what are your favorites? Thanks in advance. I hope that others will find this interesting and informative.

Paul Secor owns a few and from what I remember he likes 'em. Maybe he'll chime in. I do have 4 or 5 of those, they do have very fine sound, and I do like them. That said, I have to admit that I bought them in obsessive moments, and those may be the last that I purchase.

Name Three People Grateful Dead thread - They became part of my past in about 1970 or so. Political threads (almost any) - I have enough anger and frustration. I don't need to get any more stirred up by reading about W. and his gang. I have actually started reading the Funny Rat thread from the beginning. I'm up to 40 pages now - some interesting posts, in addition to some which mean little or nothing to me. I do have to say that I don't understand why people would want to isolate certain types of music from the rest of the Board. It's all music.

It couldn't have been Prestige, since he made several records for them. Could it have been Blue Note? Naw... Ornette recorded some cuts during the Blue Note heyday--and he was/is pretty clean, right? I doubt cats like Sam Rivers would still be appreciative of their BN legacies if the label were up to such unsavory dealings. I assumed that he was talking about Blue Note, since he'd mentioned Lee and Hank previously. I could be wrong in my assumption.

Charles Gayle: Homeless (Silkheart)

Wonderful interview with a thoughtful, intelligent, interesting man. Thanks to Dmitry for doing it, to Chas and couw for posting it, and especially to Walt Dickerson.

A few more for consideration: Charles Brackeen: Rhythm X Jaki Byard Quartet: Live Carmel Jones: Jay Hawk Talk J.R. Monterose Is Alive in Amsterdam (Paradiso) The New York Art Quartet: Mohawk The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan Bill Strayhorn: Lush Life - Recorded (mostly in 1965) tho I don't think it was released until much later. Ben Webster: Almosphere for Lovers and Thieves - Ben is not overlooked, perhaps, but this recording - one of the best from his later years - is. 1969 All -Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington - not released until 2002

George Wallington and his Band/Hank Mobley Quartet (BN/King - Japan)

Just listened to the Wallington septet - nice session, but not something I'd want to go crazy searching for.