paul secor

Those Lionel Hampton sessions were released by French RCA in two separate boxes of three LP each, vol. 1 and 2 'Historical recording sessions 1939-1941'. Those were not part of the Jazz Tribune series but they are the best complete boxes of those sessions I found. Worthy of a Mosaic job! Amazingly, U.S. RCA released a six LP box of the Hampton recordings in 1976. I don't imagine we'll see this kind of thing happen these days, with all of the European issues of vintage recordings.

Bo Carter's Greatest Hits (Yazoo)

Thanks for the info on the Givens/Mingus, brownie. Just listened to: Various artists: Lonesome Road Blues - 15 years in the Mississippi Delta 1926-1941 (Yazoo)

I'll be happy if the price is a hundred bucks. I'll also pay more if I have to. (Just don't let Dean Blackwood know that I said that. )

Spalding Givens and Charlie Mingus: Strings and Keys (Debut - an Italian bootleg that was issued in the '80s. Black Saint's logo is on the cover, though there's no other information.) Does anyone else know something about this?

A bit off the subject of Roy Eldridge, but on the subject of time - I guess that this might explain why you don't hear any Jimmy Reed imitators/followers in the blues world these days. Jimmy Reed was a man who was never in a hurry, but he always got to where he was going.

Another for Untitled Gift. And like most everyone else, I've never heard Sweet Space. I have enjoyed most every Billy Bang recording I've heard. Thanks for the info about the reissue.

I have a number of the LPs that brownie has listed, and I still listen to them. Don't have any of the CDs, so I can't help there.

Any impressions you'd care to share? I saw the film about the search for the author - an entertaining watch. I felt that the filmmaker could have found Dow Mossman without going to all of the trouble he went to - but then he wouldn't have had a film. For all of the publicity the book has gotten, I can't recall seeing a review.

Damn. I was in Ct., near the R.I. border last week. A record collector/musician friend and myself would have made the trip. I would have enjoyed meeting you, Tom.

Not yet....

Welcome back, David. Where ya been?

Pat Jordan: A Nice Tuesday

On a total vinyl kick today: Rev. Robert Wilkins (Piedmont) - Perhaps the finest of all the 1960's blues rediscovery recordings (though by this time Rev. Wilkins was performing only religious music).

Air: Montreux Suisse Air (Arista Novus)

Jackie McLean/John Jenkins: Alto Madness (Prestige - 1981 complete edition)

Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (Impulse/Jasmine) It was a pleasure to listen to this again, and a special pleasure to listen to Harry Carney's extended (for him, anyway) solo on "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart".

I have fond memories of 1970's Down Beat articles by John Litweiler on Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor, and of his liner notes for Hank Mobley's A Slice of the Top and Third Season. (Actually, the latter two aren't just memories, since they're on my shelves.) I hope that he'll post when the time is right. Until then - welcome, Mr. Litweiler.

Rebecca Rischin: For the End of Time - The Story of the Messiaen Quartet

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Originally (Columbia)

Me too - Five.

My wife and I are going to the Connecticut shore for a mini vacation in the next couple of weeks, and I've been setting aside music I might want to listen to. I always end up taking more than I'll have time to listen to, but I like to have a lot of choices. So far it's: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Four (Revenant) Charlie Feathers: Get with It (Revenant) Hastings Street Blues Opera (P-Vine) The Erroll Garner Collection Vols 4&5 - Solo Time (Emarcy) Nico: 1968/1973 (Sonodisc) The Best of King Gospel (Ace) Bill Doggett: Leaps and Bounds (Charly) Charles "Baron" Mingus: 1945-49 (Uptown) Ornette Coleman Trio at the Golden Circle - Vol. 1 (BN) Doug Sahm: The Last Real Texas Blues Band (Antone's) Andrew Cyrille: X Man (Soul Note) 'Etoile de Dakar: Xalis (Pam) Kenny Baker & Josh Graves: The Puritan Sessions (Rebel) Guillermo Portabales: 16 Exitos (UR) Joe Harriott Quintet: Abstract ( Redial) The Delmore Brothers: Sand Mountain Blues (County) Serge Chaloff: Boston 1950 (Uptown) Guitars of the Columbian Andes (Musique du Monde and Frank Hewitt (Smalls) Arthur Rhames/Rashied Ali (Ayler) - if they arrive in time I'm interested in what other folks listen to when they're away from home, and I just thought I'd share what I'll be listening to when I'm away.

Amazingly, no. Every time I thought about buying something, I'd ask myself, "how many other recordings do I have by this artist?" and "when was the last time I listened to any of those recordings?", and I realized I didn't need to buy another one.

I actually hadn't bought any music for four months (I'd sent a check to Chuck Nessa for his Warne Marsh CD in February) - the longest period I'd gone without purchasing any records or CDs during my adult life - and it felt good. I was able to listen to parts of my collection that I hadn't listened to in years, and I came to feel that I had broken an addiction. That said, I just ordered the Arthur Rhames/Rashied Ali CD on Ayler and the Frank Hewitt CD on Smalls. I like Arthur Rhames' playing on his DIW issue, and I'm eager to hear Frank Hewitt after reading Jim Sangry's comments on this Board and a positive review in Cadence. I'm happy to say that I don't feel a need to order or buy anything else right now, and it's great to be free of that need.

Since Clem has brought the Jargon Society and Jonathan Williams into the mix, I'd like to bring two books of Williams' essays to your attention: The Magpie's Bagpipe and Blackbird Dust. Fascinating, interesting, entertaining stuff. Blackbird Dust also includes some of Williams' photographs - that's a whole other story. Someone should publish another collection of those - one was done years ago, but I think that it's long out of print.