paul secor

Welcome aboard. Looking forward to your posts. This is a great place!

A recording to add to the listings: Coleman Hawkins at the Golden Circle 1963 (Dragon 265). Some very fine recordings recorded at the Golden Circle on 2 nights. Hawk is in rare form. He sounds relaxed, and at peace with himself and the world. (I know, I'm probably reading things into his playing, but he does sound very relaxed to me, and I hear a certain vulnerability and willingness to show feelings that perhaps he often held back. Jim Sangry wrote quite eloquently about the fact that this vulnerability can, at times, seem to be lacking in Hawkins' playing, but it doesn't seem so here, at least to my ears.) Six cuts, over fifty minutes of music, and some of my favorite Hawk. A highlight: an almost three minute unaccompanied solo intro to "If I Had You." The four tunes from the second night grab me more, but it's all good. The CD is rounded out with three concert tracks from 1950 and 1954, including two versions of "Body and Soul" - good stuff, but the Golden Circle recordings are the music to get this for.

Some alternate takes that I found fascinating to listen to (don't know if I can say that they're "better" than the released takes - but I found them, as I say, fascinating listening): The Complete Cecil Taylor/Buell Neidlinger Candid Recordings (Mosaic) The unechoed Miles recordings for Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud The alternate takes on the 3 CD Lee Konitz Motion set The 2 volumes of Ornette's Golden Circle recordings - RVG CDs Wilbur Harden/John Coltrane: The Complete Savoy Sessions

I believe the original request was just for saxophone/drums recommendations. Anyway: Max Roach/Archie Shepp: Force (Uniteledis) - France and (JVC) - Japan Frank Lowe/Phillip Wilson: Out of Nowhere (Ecstatic Peace) - one sided 12" EP And, I've just listened to two duets by Ed Blackwell and Charles Brackeen on Live from Soundscape - Hell's Kitchen (DIW) All three recommended. I guess that's probably taken for granted. I can't imagine that someone would list something they didn't like.

The two strangest jazz 45's I have are an Impulse 45 with an excerpt from Coltrane's Ascension album, and an ESP 45 with Ornette's "Sadness" on one side, and an Albert Ayler recording (I believe "Angels", but I dont have the record handy). I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess what jukeboxes these records were intended for.

I don't have a lot of Brew Moore in my collection, but one that I listen to probably twice a year or so, and enjoy each time, is No More Brew (Storyville 8275) - two early 1971 live sessions with Brew in good form, at least to these ears. It includes one of my favorite all-time versions of "Blue Monk".

The only Joe Kennedy I have in my collection is his participation on a Benny Carter LP, Jazz All Star Orchestra Live in Japan '79. He plays a fine solo on "This Is Always", part of a ballad medley. He's billed on that record as just Joe Kennedy, but I assume it's the same person as Jr. From just that one solo, I'd like to hear more.

Rhino Handmade recently released a 2 CD Doug Sahm set compiled from the Doug Sahm and Band and Texas Tornado sessions, including a lot of interesting unissued recordings and good liner notes. Recommended to all Doug Sahm fans.

I've been reading through all of this for a while. I think I'll let you professors continue your discussion, and I'll just listen to some music.

I have more LPs than CDs. If I include those, it's probably Duke, then Cecil, with Bird, Trane, Monk, and Mingus following them.

Cecil Taylor Quartet: Nailed Phil Woods/Tommy Flanagan/Red Mitchell: Three for All (Enja LP) Johnny Griffin Quartet: Way Out Various Artists: California Blues (P-Vine) Dave McKenna: By Myself (Shiah LP)

Exile got my vote. One of the few Stones records I still listen to. They come off like a Southern roadhouse band on this one.

Same here, except one more step. I organize the artists chronologically (and various artists collections also, as much as possible). I guess this sounds pretty anal retentive, but I find that I can find things easily this way. I have a musician friend who has his collection organized strictly alphabetically by artist, regardless of genre. He says that he likes seeing Eric Dolphy next to Fats Domino, etc. I've never tried that, but thinking about it now, it might make for some interesting listening connections. The next time I speak with him, I'll have to ask about it.

I just read on another forum of his passing on March 16. Some of our organ enthusiasts should have a lot more to write about Hank Marr and his music than I can. He recorded some fine funky r&b sides for King Records, some of which are on a Charly reissue that I'm listening to as I write this. I believe that he may have been signed by King as an organist replacement for Bill Doggett when Doggett went to Warner Bros. Rest in peace, Hank Marr, and thanks for the music.

Happy Birthday - on time. Hope you're enjoying YOUR day!

The 5 Royales were indeed great. An interesting sidelight - They left King Records in 1960, right about the time that James Brown covered their "Think" and had a big hit with it. They signed with Home of the Blues, a small Memphis label, and their first release was a cover of Brown's first hit, "Please, Please, Please". Shortly thereafter, they cut "Much In Need", which is probably the best James Brown soundalike record I've ever heard. In fact, the first time I heard it, I had to check to see if James had actually recorded with them. "Much In Need" has been reissued a few times. If anyone's interested, it's probably most easily available on an Eagle bootleg CD. And, as long as I'm witing about the 5 Royales, I have to mention "The Slummer the Slum", a great, wailing record.

On an r&b kick: The Persuasions: We Came To Play (Capitol) Ray Charles (Atlantic) Elmore James: Come Go with Me (Charly) Don Covay and the Goodtimers: Mercy! (Atlantic)

Here are a few more to add to the growing list: Dizzy and Jon Faddis team up on Dizzy Gillespie Jam - Montreux '77 - just the 2 trumpets, Bags, and rhythm (Pablo). KD and Rolf Ericson (trumpet and fluegelhorn) on Scandia Skies (Steeplechase). KD and Allan Botschinsky (fluegelhorn) on Short Story (Steeplechase). Buck Clayton and Ruby Braff: Buck Meets Ruby (Vanguard). What We Live: Quartet for a Day (New World) adds Dave Douglas and Wadada Leo Smith to the trio. The Alternate Blues (Pablo) features additional tracks from the Trumpet Summit (Clark Terry/Dizzy/Freddie Hubbard) album mentioned previously. Also, the Buck Clayton Columbia Jam Sessions feature 2 or 3 trumpets on each date (Buck, Joe Newman, Joe Thomas, Ruby Braff, Billy Butterfield). Even though the groups are large, the sessions are blowing sessions, not big band sessions, so I guess they qualify.

Snub Mosley, though primarily a trombonist, played an instrument he called slide saxophone. In photographs, it appears to be a combination of both saxophone and trombone, with mouthpieces for both instruments.

I have to admit that I'm completely unfamiliar with Parker's music. Can anyone suggest a good place to begin listening? I began listening to Albert Ayler's music almost 40 years ago (that scares me a little when I think about it - the fact that I'm that old, that is). The fact that I still listen to it today says more than anything I can write about it. When I read the title of this thread, I thought that it was about Charlie and Albert.

Congratulations on getting them. Play them and enjoy the music - that's what they're for. Hope that you have a good time listening.

I've always assumed that the early OJC LPs (up to about 275 or so) were done from analogue masters. After that, they say remastered by ... in .... I find that, in general, the early LPs sound better than the corresponding CDs.

I've always liked Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and along with it, the collection of outtakes that Sundazed released on an LP, Sanctuary IV (I imagine that the outtakes are also on CD). About Crosby - those who like him, like him. I've always found him to be more than a little pretentious (though my wife says that same thing about me, now and again.) Since this thread started with Younger Than Yesterday, does anyone find Crosby's "Mind Garden" (think that's the title - don't have the record handy) even close to being listenable? P.S. - Whenever I see the name Byrds, I hear it the way Doug Sahm pronounced it on a tape I have, the Buhrds

John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Hank Mobley: Third Season Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau Tadd Dameron: Mating Call The Clovers: Their Greatest Recordings - Atco LP

I don't think that anyone's mentioned the Jim Hall/Red Mitchell duo LP on Artists House - some very fine listening.