jazzbo

Definitely my very least favorite Mingus album.

I've had this on preorder for three months via Worlds! Good to see a release date.

I like Om. My vinyl copy was in bad shape. I bought a K2 Japanese Impulse about thee years ago that sounds really good. Short, weird, sweet.

Cannon produced these, and I think they're all in the series GORDON DEXTER The Resurgence of Dexter Oct 13,1960 Jazzland 929 JFK Quintet New Jazz Frontiers from Washington July 17 1961 Riverside 396 JOHNSON BUD The Four Brass Giants Aug 22 ,1960 Riverside 343 JONES SAM Down Home Aug 15,1962 Riverside 432 MORGAN DICK At the Showboat May 04,1960 Riverside 1183 McBROWN LENNIE Eastern Lights Oct 13 ,1960 Riverside 346 SERRANO PAUL Blues Holiday Nov 8 ,1960 Riverside 359

Add Wardell Roosevelt Trio (I think?)

I've got the Kenny Dorham Cafe Bohemia and Sonny Clark Trios in this two cd format. There was also the Miles Davis material. Not sure that the JJ made it to this format.

Welcome Chris!

With the right Classics I think you can have almost all this, don't remember how many alternates there are. Also, the Danish label Collector's Classics put out some excellent volumes of the best of the Wingy sides with excellent sound. So sad those discs aren't easy to find at all; there are a few that I missed and I would recommend the Henry Red Allen dics to many peoople if I felt they could find them.

There is one other advantage at least with the Belin dock station that I am using: you can recharge your iPod more quickly (I believe, I haven't timed it) and you can recharge without updating your iPod, so that your iTunes (if that's what you're using) and your iPod may contain differing material for a while if you want it that way. I enjoy that now and then.

Mention must be made of the beautiful soprano sound of Barney Wilen. Just as with his tenor, a beautiful full sound was important to his art and he brought it.

I'm a big fan of Wingy from start to finish, but these earlier Wingy sides are HOT! And there's really not enough Pee Wee on this set, but what is there is really good!

what are you talking about? It's a joke Evan. DEEP posted here on this board as WINGY. . . and Bertrand is referring to DEEP (Danny D'Imperio)'s behavior.

To each their own! I didn't necessarily like either the Paris or the Wilson cds at first but have come to over time. They wear well. I got them cheap and gave them a chance. Really like Smile. I think I have them all now and they grew on me.

I don't know whether it's the quality of his output, or the Columbia machine behind him (or both and additional factors), but I bet that Miles introduced a lot of persons of a certain age to serious jazz appreciation, or served as a "link."

Filles de Kilamanjaro started it all for me in late 1971. Found it as a ringer in a dull library collection, bought the lp, then soon bought Bitches Brew. I had "jazz" under my belt thanks to my mom and dad's Brubeck, Ellington, Miller and a few other lps. I didn't connect this Miles material to jazz at all for a spell. It had that electric blues feel that I had learned to love in Africa, and it had some aspects of African music to it as well. It was the first new music that I really responded to after returning to the States, and I dove into those releases and the ones to follow (and the offshoot bands such as WR, Headhunters, Return to Forever) with a passion.

Some good material, raising my esteem of Blue Note a bit more. I guess I like the albums Terrason has put out a bit more than Flurin, I think they're good straight ahead jazz and I like the "rapturousness" of some of his playing. The solo album should be interesting.

Are you familiar with Bix, Tram and Tea? If you're a fan of this style of music, you may have a lot of the material elsewhere . . . and though it sounds great here and there's a great booklet you may not feel justified buying it again. (I did, and I'm sort of glad I have, but I haven't spent a lot of time with the box set, I've mostly played the individual cds I had for some time instead). If you don't have this material, and can "handle" the sonic aspects of early jazz and what some perceive as "not as sophisticated as modern jazz" swing and vocal styles (some people can really put down the early recodings and just not get in to them) then this is a really interesting box. A great group of recordings, well presented.

The McLean would be my first grab of these.

Hey, I've had these in Houston since May. . . . Bose Companion 2 powered speakers. These are good for traveling tunes. Doesn't weigh too muchl Doesn't have an alarm clock function so if you need that. . . the iHome is okay I think, heard it in the Apple Store, but its no Companion 2 soundwise. I really like the sound of these things with my iBook and iPod. Really!

Hhm mm mm . . . .I guess I like women skinny!

Much as I often agree with jazzbo's assessment, I've got to disagree with him on this one. I read "A Love Supreme" on my summer vacation and could hardly put it down. I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it is. I really enjoyed the section about van Gelder and his famous studio. Looking forward now to the new book. Well, maybe it's just me. It's just that in those two previous books there was little that I actually learned that I had not read elsewhere. . . . Admittedly I read obsessively about jazz for a few decades and just stopped finally recently, but . . . there wasn't much new there, and he never seemed to go to another level with the material for me. I'll probably pick this one up at some point this year or next and maybe I'll enjoy it more.

Last year's (or the year before's?) domestic reissue was remastered by Ron McMaster. There are some improvements over the early remastered by Malcomlm Addey, and some areas where the earlier cd is better. I think I hear a bit of distortion on the new one.

Easy mistake to make!

Bird Call made it to cd in Japan in a really limited fashion (pressed as a Blue Note Club selection or some such by TOCJ).