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Yes. Both the Bakers in the series are excellent. The Roach isn't my favorite from that band, but for the price is a bargain!

Yes, this is the stuff. . . I love to hear these cds. .. !

Some gin and wine should be breathed genly into jazz horns every day. . . .

Way COOL. Two wonderful people. . . a nice pairing.

Oh no! Computer screen splatter again!

Guy, thanks for posting that!

Okay. . . .Wow, sort of sounds like recording in Van Gelder's living room with his home-made equipment, doesn't it? I don't buy his cds. I'm not crazy about their sound and the music is rarely that compelling. I've already bought all the isolation components I need from. They really WORK. I'm very happy about them. Don't buy any Savoy or Roulette or anything that Reig or Cadena were involved in, or. . . ? Their recording methods were awful and they were crooks.

Wow, well let's get busy boycotting about every jazz label then! The products are fantastic. I don't know anything about the guy, and I sure don't believe everything I read at Jazz Corner. . . but the products are wonderful, and I'm glad I have them.

Okay, I guess I read your post wrong. The earlier material is just more and more my meat these days. . . .

I ordered these. I have the Jaspar on an earlier Emarcy cd, and wanted to hear the JIP. I think that after these I have all the titles except maybe the fourth Cinema one and the Grapellis and Oscar Petersons. . . which I don't feel driven to pick up. . . . ID________Name/Title____________________Format___Price____Quantity___Total 62752j Dizzy Gillespie __________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Dizzy Gillespie & His Operatic Strings Orchestra 62756j Bobby Jaspar _____________________ CD 4.99 1 4.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Jeux De Quartes 62754j Various __________________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Harlem Piano In Montmartre 62757j Various __________________________ CD 4.99 1 4.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Jazz Et Cinema Vol 4 62763vo Sarah Vaughan ____________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Vaughan & Violins ____________________________________________________

The way I see the download album Verve situation: we're unlikely to see these sessions AS cds, so I'm glad they found a way to make them available. I don't have a lot of time either, but I make time for things like this if I want the material. . . . I'll probably be working on these when I have the right equipment next year. And personally I like making covers etc, it's a fun creative diversion. For instance I made several hundred sets of artwork last year for over 100 Hendrix titles that I received without art and almost more than that even cdrs of live broadcast material. I developed a sort of house style for both projects and had fun!

Yeah Laton, it was out from Japan. It's an interesting---humorously intended to my ears, not really essential---Teefski session.

Okay Brownie it was a typo!

I have all the psychics I know working on it!

Brad, I'm not sure I understand this. . . . Blue Note was founded in 1939 with boogie piano recordings, and blues/New Orleans style recordings, and small swing groups and grew to champion some modern jazz proponents who became icons such as Monk and Bud. Bu wasn't a force til much later. . . . I'm not discounting Blakey's importance or even his consistency. . . . But he wasn't the wellspring your statement seems to make him.

Kevin, about the only thing that drives me nuts is people who say things like "bits are bits" and the Consumer Report type of thinking about audio components!

beatscience: WELCOME! Fantastic news! Please keep us posted.

I've never heard the early cd. I do indeed think that the new RVG has excellent sound.

I would be very surprised if they did a compilation. Most likely they would choose like five or six lps to put on three cds. . . . I would guess that they choose: cirrus knucklebeans inner glow head on waiting the view from the inside

This is a very good series . . . I like an awful lot of these titles very much. The Stan Getz is wonderful. The Bernard Pfeiffers were a revelation to me. The Earl Hines and Mary Lou Williams and Wille the Lion are great.

Good calls here, all these are great that I have heard. Also. . . I've learned to dig the Yerba Buena stuff I've heard on this and other labels. Haven't heard those George Lewis sides. . . but I will.

I've often fantasized about the ability in the near future to go out into space and harvest these signals somehow of those early thirties nightclub broadcasts by Ellington et al. . . . Some research I've made seems to indicate that could happen; some seems to indicate it couldn't. Either way a better expenditure of money than other "star wars" type space travel schemes.

The Herbie Nichols box set is still available from Blue Note; it's a nice sounding release. I sold my copy a while back and kept the Mosaic instead, which has a different, longer booklet (though the booklet in the Blue Note version is quite good, with photos I've never seen elsewhere) and a slightly different sound (I think the piano sounds better on the Mosaic, the bass sounds better on the Blue Note, just a little bit though in both cases; done by different remastering engineers). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. And as I say I think it's consistently brilliant work. I like the first 20 years of Blue Note the best really. I think Monk's and Hodes' and Bechet's work for the label come close to being that consistent, but not quite as pervasively as the Nichols. (That's how I've been feeling the last few years).

Happy Holidays Vic old friend! Not many of us have money any longer! Here's the discographic information from the website, and note the large number of great albums! (A) MEET THE JAZZTET: Art Farmer (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Benny Golson (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Addison Farmer (b), Lex Humphries (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, February 6, 9 & 10, 1960 10017 Mox Nix 10018 Blues March 10019 Killer Joe 10020 I Remember Clifford 10021 Park Avenue Petite 10022 Avalon 10023 Easy Living 10024 It’s All Right With Me 10025 Serenata 10026 It Ain’t Necessarily So All titles issued on Argo LP 664 -1 spoken introduction by Benny Golson. _____________________________________________________ (B) THE JAZZTET – BIG CITY SOUNDS: Art Farmer (tp), Tom McIntosh (tb), Benny Golson (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, September 16, 19 & 20, 1960 10430 The Cool One 10431 My Funny Valentine 10432 Hi-Fly 10433 Con Alma 10434 Five Spot After Dark 10435 Blues On Down 10436 Wonder Why 10437 Bean Bag 10438 Lament All titles issued on Argo LP 672 _____________________________________ © THE ART FARMER QUARTET – ART: Art Farmer (tp), Tommy Flanagan (p), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, September 21,22 & 23, 1960 10439 I’m A Fool To Want You 10440 Out Of The Past 10441 That Old Devil Called Love 10442 The Best Thing For You Is Me 10443 So Beats My Heart For You 10444 Goodbye, Old Girl 10445 Younger Than Springtime 10446 Who Cares? All titles issued on Argo LP 678 ___________________________________________ (D) BENNY GOLSON – TAKE A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10: Benny Golson (ts). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, December 13, 1960 10575 You’re My Thrill add Tommy Williams (b): 10576 My Heart Belongs To Daddy add Albert “Tootie” Heath (d): 10577 The Best Thing For You Is Me add Cedar Walton (p): 10578 Impromptune Freddie Hubbard (tp), Benny Golson (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, December 14, 1960 10579 Little Karin add Curtis Fuller (tb): 10580 Swing It add Sahib Shihab (bari): 10581 I Fall In Love Too Easily Nick Travis (tp),Bill Elton (tb), Willie Ruff (Frh), Benny Golson, Hal McKusick (ts), Sol Schlinger (bari), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, April 11, 1961 10582 Out Of This World add Bernie Glow (tp): 10583 The Touch add Art Famer (tp): 10584 Time all titles issued on Argo LP 681. ___________________________________________ (E) THE JAZZTET & JOHN LEWIS: Art Farmer (tp), Tom McIntosh (tb), Benny Golson (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d), John Lewis (arr). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, December 20-21, 1960 & January 9, 1961 10626 Django 10627 Milano 10628 Bel 10629 Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West 10630 New York 19 10631 Odds Against Tomorrow All titles issued on Argo LP 684 __________________________________________ (F) THE JAZZTET AT BIRDHOUSE: Art Farmer (tp, flh), Tom McIntosh (tb), Benny Golson (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d). Live at Birdhouse, Chicago, May 15, 1961 11208 Junction 11209 Farmer’s Market 11210 Darn That Dream 11211 Shutterbug 11212 ‘Round Midnight 11213 A November Afternoon all titles issued on Argo LP 688 _________________________________________ (G) THE ART FARMER QUARTET - PERCEPTION: Art Farmer (flh), Harold Mabern (p), Tommy Williams (b), Roy McCurdy (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, October 25, 26 & 27, 1961 11423 Blue Room 11424 Tonk 11425 Change Partners 11426 Nobody’s Heart 11427 Punsu 11428 The Day After 11429 Lullaby Of The Leaves 11430 Kayin’ All titles issued on Argo LP 738 ________________________________________ (H) THE JAZZTET-HERE AND NOW: Art Farmer (tp,flh), Grachan Moncur III (tb), Benny Golson (ts), Harold Mabern (p), Herbie Lewis (b), Roy McCurdy (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, February 28, 1962 23789 (PB7405) Just In Time 23790 (PB7406) Rue Prevail 23791 (PB7407) Ruby My Dear 23792 (PB7408) In Love In Vain (omit tb) Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, March 2, 1962 23793 (PB7409) Sonny’s Back 23793 (6252-5) Sonny’s Back (45 take) Mercury 71942 23974 (PB7410) Whisper Not 23975 (PB7411) Richie’s Dilemma 23976 (PB7412) Tonk 23796 (6251-6) Tonk (45 take) Mercury 71942 Al titles except the 45 takes of Sonny’s Back and Tonk issued on Mercury SR 60698 ______________________________ (I) THE JAZZTET – ANOTHER GIT TOGETHER: Art Farmer (tp,flh), Grachan Moncur III (tb), Benny Golson (ts), Harold Mabern (p), Herbie Lewis (b), Roy McCurdy (d). Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, May 28, 1962 26806 (PB 8162) Reggie 25545 (PB 8213) Another Git Together (45 take) Mercury 72029 25547 (PB 8215) This Nearly Was Mine Nola Penthouse Studios, NYC, June 21,1962 25556 (PB 8223) Domino 25563 (PB 8224) Another Git Together 25564 (PB 8225) Space Station 25565 (PB 8226) Along Came Betty All titles except the 45 take of Another Git Together issued on Mercury SR 60737 NOTE: The 45 version of Space Station on Mercury 72029 was given the master numbers 26160 (PB 8251), but is edited from the master take. _______________________________________________________________ (J) LISTEN TO ART FARMER AND THE ORCHESTRA: Art Farmer (flh) with (collective personnel) Ray Copeland, Rolf Ericson, Bernie Glow, Ernie Royal, Paul Serrano, Clark Terry, Snooky Young (tp), Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Tommy Mitchell (tb), Paul Faulise, Tony Studd (b tb), Ray Alonge, Jimmy Buffington. Bob Northern (Frh), Danny Bank, Ray Beckenstein, Phil Bodner, Walt Levinsky, Romeo Penque, Stan Webb, Phil Woods (reeds), Tommy Flanagan (p), Barry Galbraith, Jim Hall (g), George Duvivier (b), Charlie Persip (d), Ray Barretto, Willie Rodriguez (perc), Oliver Nelson (arr, cond). Webster Hall, NYC, August 10, 1962 26306 (PB 8048/PS 4008) My Romance Webster Hall, NYC, September 5, 1962 22159 (PB 8940/PS 1898) Rue Prevail 22160 (PB 8941/PS 1899) Raincheck 22161 (PB 8942/PS 1900) Street Of Dreams Webster Hall, NYC, September 20, 1962 22230 (PB 5121/PS 1930) Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) 22231 (PB 5122/PS 1931) Naima 22232 (PB 5123/PS 1932) Ruby 22269 (PB 5145/PS 1954) The Sweetest Sounds all titles issued on Mercury SR 60766 ______________________________ (K) THE BENNY GOLSON QUARTET – TURNING POINT: Benny Golson (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d). NYC, October 30 & 31, November 1, 1962 22471 (PB 5293) Alone Together 22472 (PB 5294) Turning Point 22473 (PB 5295) Three Little Words 22474 (PB 5296) The Masquerade Is Over 22475 (PB 5297) Stella By Starlight 22476 (PB 5298) How Am I To Know? 22477 (PB 5299) Dear Kathy all titles issued on Mercury SR 20801 _______________________________________________________ (L) THE BENNY GOLSON QUARTET - FREE: Benny Golson (ts), Tommy Flanagan (p), Ron Carter (b), Arthur Taylor (d). The Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, December 26, 1962 12081 My Romance 12082 Just By Myself 12083 Mad About The Boy 12084 Just In Time 12085 Sock Cha 12086 Shades Of Stein all titles issued on Argo LP 716 Original sessions produced by Hal Mooney (J), Esmond Edwards (L), Kay Norton and Jack Tracy (all others). Recording engineer: Ron Malo (F), Ray Hall (J), unknown (K), Rudy Van Gelder (L) and Tommy Nola (all others) Produced for release by Michael Cuscuna Tape transfers of Mercury sessions: Ellen Fitton Tape transfers of Argo sessions: Peter Doell Mastered using 24-bit resolution by Malcolm Addey at the Malcolm Addey Studio, New York City All other selections are stereo. All tracks courtesy of The Verve Music Group. This compilation (p)2004 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc., Santa Monica, CA 90404-U.S.A. Manufactured by Universal Music Enterprises. Warning: All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in the U.S.A. (B0002403-02) ©2004 Mosaic Records L.L.C., 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, CT 06902. All rights reserved. Phone: 203-327-7111/Fax 203-323-3526/e-mail: info@mosaicrecords.com. Web site: www.mosaicrecords.com. PRODUCER’S NOTE: There are occasional instances of peak distortion and of drop out, most notably on disc one, tracks 4 and 8, disc three, track 4 and disc 4, track 6, which are the result of damage to the original tape. This set encompasses the Argo and Mercury sessions by Art Farmer and Benny Golson separately and as co-leaders of The Jazztet. In terms of repertoire and sidemen, they are all one inter-related body of work. For musical compatibility, we have programmed the set by group. The first four discs cover the original Jazztet’s entire output. Disc five contains both of Art Farmer’s quartet sessions for Argo. Disc six contains Benny Golson’s quartet sessions, made within eight weeks of each other, but for different labels. The final disc is given over to two very different ensemble albums.

I think believing a lot that is in Robert Reisner's book on Bird is not necessarily prudent. . .