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Randy Weston: Live at the Five Spot (UA/Toshiba EMI - Japan) It's always interesting to hear Coleman Hawkins playing younger a musician's repertoire. KD plays some good stuff on this, and I've always felt that Clifford Jarvis playing has been overlooked. And, for that matter, Roy Haynes, who also plays on this date, has never gotten his due. Brock Peters, on the other hand, is a whole other matter, but he's only on one track.

Michael Dirda's memoir of his early years - 'An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland'

Billy Bang: Outline No. 12 (Celluloid)

Miles: Bags' Groove (Analogue Productions 45 rpm)

Congrats! I hope that your students realize how lucky they are. Wish I were one of them. The best thing that can happen is that you'll learn from teaching the courses.

"A Mosaic box set is a unique, encompassing experience. It is long weekend afternoons of listening and reading and staring at old photographs in the large booklet that supports every full-scale Mosaic collection. It is picking the discs out of their cases one at a time and painstakingly cross-referencing the personnel for each session, sorting through the alternate takes, tracing a thread of history through details of discography. It is an immersion, not only of many hours of music, but also in that music's story. And it brings an artist back to life out of the mists of time." From Thomas Conrad's review of the 'Complete Verve Roy Eldridge Studio Sessions, Stereophile - September, 2004. I wanted to share this. It captures the way I like to experience a Mosaic box set. Unfortunately, I rarely have the time to allow this experience to occur. Any thoughts from others?

Thank you for some great piano playing, Mr. Johnson. Daniel Jacoubovitch, who ran Modern Blues Recordings, produced a St Louis piano album , 'Rockin' Eighty Eights', with four cuts each by Johnny Johnson, Clayton Love, and Jimmy Vaughn, which is worth seeking out. The Johnny Johnson cuts are pure blues/r&b, without special guest rockstar friends.

wolff - sent you a PM.

PM received. Thanks.

My favorite Charlie Rouse with Monk is Criss Cross. As for Rouse alone, Unsung Hero (Epic) and Takin' Care of Business (OJC) are two recordings that I find myself returning to.

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Stan Getz/Luiz Bonfa/Maria Toledo: Jazz Samba Encore! (Verve/Speakers Corner)

I guess one old timer had to log in. 1957 for me - I clearly remember being home sick with the flu in November, 1957. I saw Chuck Berry on tv doing "Rock and Roll Music" and then Jerry Lee doing "Great Balls of Fire", and I was hooked.

89 without exercising. I hope I try to take more care how I spend my last 30 years.

Scott - just sent a second pm.

Scott - just sent you a pm response. Thanks.

A selection of LPs for sale. All are in m- condition: $16 XXXXArt Pepper: Art Is the Art Vols. 1&2 (Omegatape recordings) - Trio (Japan) PA 3140/3141 (2 LPs, both w. obi) - ON HOLD $12 XXXXStan Getz: Sweet Rain - Verve (Japan) 23MJ 3027 (w. obi) - ON HOLD $9 Django Reinhardt: Volume 1-3 (Rome 1949-50) - RCA (France) FXM3 7055 (3 LP box) $7 Mal Waldron Trio: Ursala - Musica 3012 Art Tatum: Pure Genius - Affinity 118 - 2 LPs $6 Lionel Hampton Presents the Music of Charles Mingus (w. Mingus, W. Shaw, Mulligan, R. Ford, Hamp) - Legends of Music (Japan) RJL-2642 Willie "The Lion" Smith: The Original 12 Plus Two - 1938-1939 - Commodore (W. Germany) 6.25491 Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son Quartette - Dawn/Fresh Sounds 1113 Air: Air Lore - Arista Novus 3014 Curtis Fuller: All Star Sextets - Arista/Savoy 2239 - 2 LPs Johnny Dyani Quartet: Angolian Cry - Steeplechase 1209 Hamiet Bluiett: Resolution - Black Saint 0014 Charles Bobo Shaw Human Arts Ensemble: Junk Trap - Black Saint 0021 Kahil El'Zabar's The Ritual: Another Kind of Groove - Sound Aspects 016 - some creasing at 2 jacket corners Cootie Williams: Cootie and his Rug Cutters 1937/40 - Tax 8011 $5 Jimmy Rushing: I Want a Little Girl - Official 3020 (Excelsior, King, Okeh sides) Stan Getz: Plays - Verve (Fr.) 2304 387 Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Barry Altschul: Japan Suite - Improvising Artists 37.38.49 Milt Jackson: Opus de Funk - Prestige/Musidisc 24048 Gene Ammons: Early Visions - Chess (Italy) GCH 2-6031 (2 LPs) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert - Columbia 31614 (2 LPs) World Saxophone Quartet: Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music - Black Saint 0096 World Saxophone Quartet: Rhythm and Blues - Elektra Musician 60864 Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Historic Recordings (1st JATP Concert - 1944 + Billie Holiday JATP Concert) - Verve 2-2504 (2 LPs) Paul Bley/Barry Altschul/Gary Peacock: Virtuosi - Improvising Artists 373844 Ornette Coleman: Ornette on Tenor - Atlantic 1394 (red/white/green label) Roy Eldridge: Dale's Wail - Verve 2-2531 - 2 LPs $4 Victor Feldman in London: Vol. 1 - "The Quartet" (w. Dizzy Reece on 2 cuts) - Jasmine 2023 - drill hole in cover John Dennis: New Piano Expressions - Debut (Italy) 121 Miles Davis: Miles in St. Louis - VGM 0003 George Wallington Quintet: Prestige/OJC 1704 Nat Cole Trio: Trio Days - Affinity 1001 Shipping is extra. Please pm or e-mail me. Checks, mo's ok. Thanks for looking at this - Hope that you see something you want.

Ben Webster - r&b soloist? Yep. Check out his playing on Little Esther's "Aged and Mellow Blues" and on Johnny Otis' "One Nighter Blues". It's Ben doing his thing (playing in the Johnny Otis band on both records), but in an r&b context. Ben Webster fans shouldn't miss either one. I have a good memory of hearing "One Nighter Blues" playing on a jukebox in an episode of Frank's Place, a great, but unfortunately shortlived, sitcom. By the way, "One Nighter Blues" also features a fine bluesy guitar solo by Pete "Guitar" Lewis. R&B and/or blues guitarists would make another good thread, somewhere down the line.

Tom - I have Groove Station - Saxblasters Vol. 1 and second your recommendation. Delmark has a classic Jimmy Forrest CD - Night train (Delmark 435) - which includes the classic title tune and "Bolo Blues", which should be just as well known as "Night Train".

Thanks for posting Creeley's words on Douglas Woolf. A story: Though I was a student in Buffalo for a couple of years while Robert Creeley taught there, I never met him nor, so far as I know, saw him. I did meet him many years later in New York City at a memorial service for Douglas Woolf. I had spoken to Mr. Woolf several months before his death and he said that he felt that Robert Creeley was a true friend, someone who had remained supportive throughout the years. I'm not a person who feels comfortable approaching and speaking with people I regard as "heroes" (for want of a better word), and I regarded Robert Creeley as one of those people. However, I felt that it was important for him to hear Doug Woolf's words, so I went with my feelings and told him what Woolf had said. Creeley's response was simply, "I loved him." Clem, thanks for recommending "Life and Death". I read several of Robert Creeley's early poems this evening and I'll go to a good friend's bookstore tomorrow and order that one. Never thought about it until now, but in a way Robert Creeley is with me every day. In our bedroom there's a photograph (taken by Jonathan Williams, probably in Mallorca) of Robert Creeley (staring directly and intently at the camera) and his first wife (I believe), standing in a doorway, with a black cat off to one side of them. It's hard to know exactly what to say when someone who's given so much passes on. Thank you for turning words into poems, Mr. Creeley.

Herb and Lorraine Geller: The Gellers (Mercury/Japan)

Here's a small but beautiful addition to the Hilton Jefferson recordings already mentioned: "Darkness on the Delta" under Panama Francis' leadership is a feature for Hilton Jefferson's alto. It can be found on Delmark 452 - Honkers & Bar Walkers Vol. 2 (even though Mr. Jefferson was anything but). It's worth picking up strictly for one Hilton Jefferson cut (because there's too little available), but there's plenty of good r&b tenor sax to be found there as well.

And as you said earlier, Mike, honkers' records should be taken in small doses. When I used to collect 45's, I loved Red Prysock records like "Hand Clappin'", "Zip", and "Shoe String". And I listened to them one side at a time, as they were meant to be heard. But listening to a full Red Prysock CD is like listening to Pharoah Sanders blow on "Preview" from the Jazz Composer's Orchestra a dozen times in a row. I don't recommend doing either.

I believe that Stereojack is correct. Rufus Gore is also listed as playing tenor on this date, but the soloist sounds like Red Prysock. Just adding a few tidbits about Bullmoose Jackson: He recorded with a wide variety of saxophonists. In addition to some of the usual suspects -Sam "The Man" Taylor, Big John Greer, and Red Prysock - Charlie Rouse, Frank Wess, Bennie Golson, and Herb Geller all recorded with Bull Moose Jackson. That's not totally unusual. Jazzmen routinely recorded on r&b sessions in the 50's, and Tadd Dameron, Johnny Coles, Joe Wilder, Sir Charles Thompson, Jymie Merritt, and Jo Jones are to be found in his discography. However, it's interesting to hear, for example, Herb Geller, solo on "Let Me Love You All Night Long" (I'm pretty sure it's he, though a second altoist - Snooky Hulbert - is listed on this date also) or to hear Charlie Rouse solo on "Hodge Podge".

From the mid 1940's to the mid 1950's the tenor sax was to r&b records what the guitar became later on to rock n roll records. Play an r&b record from that era and there's a good chance you'll find a tenor sax break or solo. It wasn't long before the tenor players stepped out to make records under their own name. Red Prysock, Sam "The Man" Taylor, Hal "Cornbread" Singer, Joe Houston, Willis Jackson, Jimmy Forrest and dozens more stepped into the limelight. King Curtis carried the tradition on through the 1960's. And then there were the alto players - Louis Jordan, Earl Bostic, Tab Smith - who set the stage for Junior Walker in the 60's. Anyway, I thought that it was time for the r&b tenor cats to have a thread of their own. If you have a favorite, or even just a solo that has always hit you as perfect, here's the place to let us know. I'll open up with a tenor player who perhaps wasn't as well known as some others, but who deserves attention - Julian Dash. Julian Dash is perhaps best known as the co-composer of "Tuxedo Junction", for his work with the Erskine Hawkins band, and for his recordings on Buck Clayton's Jam Session LPs. However, he also made a series of r&b records under his own name that are well worth seeking out and listening to. He was never a true r&b "honker" (though occasionally he would throw one in during a solo). His records tended to be a combination of medium to uptempo r&b, swing, blues, and ballads - along with a few Latin influenced tunes. Julian Dash never lost his Chu Berry (his acknowledged favorite) influenced sound, but when he made an r&b record, it was just that - not watered down jazz or uptempo pop. I find that his r&b recordings are easier to listen to in one sitting than many r&b tenorists' collections are. His records have such a variety to them (even though he usually recorded with small 5 to 7 piece groups) that I never have a sense of repetitious boredom when I listen to them. On the other hand, he never achieved the commercial success that other, perhaps more one sided, tenor stylists did. I realize that his records, along with other r&b tenor records, were meant to be listened to as singles, not as CDs, but it's to his credit that his recordings are listenable as a collection. Julian Dash's r&b recordings (originally on Mello-Roll, Sittin' In With, Mercury, and Vee-Jay) are most easily found on two Blue Moon releases - Julian Dash 1950-1953 (Blue Moon 1050) and Blue Moon 1052, which combines six Dash tracks with recordings by Eddie Chamblee and Joe Thomas. Vee-Jay also issued four cuts by Julian Dash (found on the second Blue Moon) on a now oop CD, Sax Appeal. I know that Blue Moon is a bootleg outfit, but no one seems to have been in any hurry to reissue Julian Dash's r&b work, so they're the only game in town, short of finding the original 78's.