jazzbo

Probably the Columbia Jazz set. . . in due time.

I'm still reading Armesto's "Civilizations" (with bits and pieces of other books in between). . . . I'm sort of stretching it out, not wanting it to end. Earlier I was studying this label as the second cup was dripping slowly. . . . This is the beverage I most enjoy in this life.

It's the marketing sure, that helped. I came in to jazz itself through Filles De Kilamanjaro and Miles Davis At Fillmore, two releases ripe for the plucking by a sixteen year old freshly back in the states jonesing after hearing African music and British blues and blues rock bands on the radio in Swaziland. After digesting electric Miles reading what Miles said and browsing his records from the fifties and sixties led me to both check out Duke and Pops and Bird (from what Miles said about them) to Coltrane and Cannon and Wynton Kelly and so many others (from their sideman status with Miles). Yeah, and I'm one of the dickheads who keeps buying Miles over and over, at first because I kept wearing out tapes and lps, and then because my stereos got better and I wanted to maximize the sound of some of my most favorite recordings (and use them as a gauge to my stereo reproduction because I knew them so well). And also because the packaging often included extra material not released before that I wanted to hear badly. I think it's definitely the hype and the promotion that accounts for a lot of initial sales. It's also the scope and the depth of the music and his artistry that accounts for a lot of other sales.

Hmmm. . . my trained eye just saw "High Maintenance."

I think his or her name is Complete.

Just referred someone to you Chuck! Told him to ask about the Mingus too because it's so essential.

"Live" IS killer indeed! Hope someone reissues that soon!

Well, I've listened to both these new releases a few times. Have to say. . . and it will upset a few probably. . .I become less and less an Oliver Nelson fan as time goes by. . . I just don't want to relisten to a lot of the material he has arranged and conducted. But I've always liked Domination because of Cannon and the energy and verve he brings, charged by all that sound around him. And Experience in E. . . why did they have to mess with the tapes and remove parts? I haven't heard the original with the synth parts, but I sure would have liked to be able to! It's still a great piece that I enjoy a lot . . . . Money in the Pocket is a real gem. Herbie Lewis! Working band doing what they do best! This one I'm going to play and play.

I don't think that Cab minded a double-entendred alternate idea for the title that an American audience might come up with. . . .

What a title!

Me too. Which would yield cheaper results. I'm hopin' cdu comes through at their price.

tatifan, you DO get a beautiul front cover image with the download to iTunes. . . though you don't get any more notes etc. than you see before downloading. I would rather pay less, but I have bought some of these because basically they were clones of Japanese cds that cost a lot more, and I felt they were a good deal in that sense. And I bought some Betty Carters because I hadn't been able to find cheaper used discs. . . .

Well, I really like Cannon from the Savoy sides through the Fantasy sides, and I just revel in the excitement and joy that comes from listening to his playing. Got these two new ones in the mail tonight and know i'm going to really enjoy them when I have time to spin them a few times (likely this weekend). I've also been enjoying a couple of live shows from 1972 lately that are great. Those solos! I've never been unhappy with Nat's work. I like it a bit better earlier than later, though some of those long low notes on the late sessions are quite fun to hear!

Dan, I haven't run across one of the downloads yet that are from vinyl; all I've heard are from Japanese Verve POCJ cds. . . and sound fantastic. And from out of print US cds.

When it WAS on the Sony site, it was selling for like 47 dollars. . . on sale . . . I don't think the cdu price is really "incorrect."

Dang! Still haven't gotten mine! But good things are worth waiting for!

Yes, his work with Garcia really is laudable. I admit it's hard to listen to his work outside of Garcia. . . .

You are very right about this release; the sound is excellent and Jerry and John are really having fun, and I like Keith in the JGB, he knows how to sort of just do his thing and loosely compliment everyone. This is one of the very best Jerry Garcia Band releases I have ever heard.

Smoooooth moov! Great discs!

Maybe my copies of these two Cannons and the new Jerry Garcia will be waiting for me at home! (I used that hope to get me through a whole day of awfully-presented database training!)

Well, I didn't mean the "more of the same" as derogatorily as it may seem I did (though I'm less excited about the new Hartman/Coltrane material as I really have never been crazy about that session). More of the same, at this caliber overall, is great news! I'd LOVE to hear this stuff, all of it, but I'm not allowing myself to begin foaming at the mouth for it. . . because I think it will take a long time to appear. I hope I'm wrong! I'll get excited as soon as I see release dates!

Hmmm. . .what I have heard does not sound that bad. . . Raoul, this material is not officially commercially available and has only been circulated among collectors for the most part (though some of it seems to be from vinyl sources (?). . . . To follow rules of the board, one would have to use Private Messaging or email to work out obtaining copies.

There is in circulation among collectors about two and a half hours of quartet recordings from Denmark, 1968 with Kenny Drew and Tootie Heath in the quartet. There's also a German broadcast tape going around of about thirty mintutes duration of a quintet with Johnny Griffin. I think that's all I know of.

I've no real complaints about Phil, especially compared to some here. I was thinking more along the lines of the likely custodian of these tapes, Michael Cuscuna.

My own enthusiasm is a bit dampened by the fact that I sincerely believe we'll have to wait quite some time for this material to become cds ready to distribute. And I have a nagging bit of fear that if this lands in the hands of a particular reissue producer he'd deem about one third or more "unfit for release" and I'd be one frustrated dude. So. . . I'm holding back my excitement. The music itself is not earthshatteringly different--it's going to be great to hear and study, but it's in some sense "more of the same" for the most part. . . . I'm most excited I think aobut the ALS material.