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Good move. This time through last night, urged on by Joe's comment about Hank Jones, I concentrated on Jones' playing. The man has such a distilled style now, that is sort of the concentrated essence of support and lyricism. Amazing!

Part of the indefatigable work done by our board member Mike Fitzgerald: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/transitn.htm

A small label run by producer Tom Wilson (a good thing). Didn't last long enough, some of the dates that weren't issued by Transition were bought by Lion and issued on Blue Note, now I believe that EMI has the label and has issued Japanese cds and US cds under the Blue Note name. Every Transition I've heard I've really liked! I'm not sure but I think this was the original lp cover of the Transition lp. You do have, do you not, the "Donald Byrd" Transition lps two cd Connoisseur set? (This Byrd, the "Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill" and the Doug Watkins Transition lp are all included in the two cd set).

Complete Surf Ride Plus is a great find. I'm determined NOT TO BUY ANY MUSIC TODAY!

Universal UCCI 9105(Impulse)24bit,New Coltrane,Alice/Huntington Ashram Monastery* 2400 Universal UCCI 9110(Impulse)24bit,New Coltrane,Alice/Lord of Lords* 2400 BIG

That's sort of how I hear them too, and I suspect that pressing or pre-pressing mastering may be responsible. Not enough of a difference really for me to not purchase one over the other. (I'm becoming less picky I guess!) What I haven't really expected was to find that I prefer some Kirk Felton remastered US cds to their K2 Japanese counterpart (one specific case in point is the Clay/Newman "Sound of the Wide Open Spaces").

I'll pile on too and say anything recent of his I have heard has been very impressive!

I always laugh at the story that I heard that illustrates this ingenuity of his. It goes that early on in his career he heard raves about a trombonist that was using a waterglass to make great sound and music, and he marveled at how that could be, because he was under the impression that rather than using a bell of the trombone the musician was somehow using a waterglass in its place. So he experiemented and managed to produce a very unique sound and technique replacing the bell of the trombone with a waterglass that is marvelous to see and hear! Then he either saw the musician in question or was informed that the man was using a waterglass. . . as a mute!

I agree. The more I learn about Tea and the more I listen the more I realize how much of an amazing player and person he was. And I LOVE his singing. It snuck up on me and just corralled me; I just love it.

Mark, no problem and thanks. Here's to next year indeed!

I am a tremendous fan of Jack Teagarden's and I find that he is far more often that on than otherwise. . . . I tremendously recommend that you explore his work if you have been knocked out here! I have nearly everything I've been able to find. There is a new three cd set on Avid that looks like a fantastic way to get all the early highlights; I've got all this material on separate cds so I haven't bought the set but I've been tempted to I love Jackson so much! Also the Mosaic set of Roulette material is a wonderful wonderful set. And the recent Verve reissue of Mis'ry and the Blues is a great late Teagarden example.

Yeah for real. I'm solidly behind that. That was what I always tried to do as a musician. And those who couldn't seem to pay attention to that were the root cause of almost all my bad band memories!

Thank god you're no longer spinning at 33-1/3 rpm. . . .

Thanks! Ended the day with a long telephone conversation with my dad which was a wonderful thing. . . . I'm hoping that maybe somehow I can get a raise this year (haven't had one for three years and a month, and my wife has had six in that time, including a ten percent raise last week!) and maybe find work I want to do more readily (I use my birthday as a sort of review of my life and times and this year that wasn't a heartening thing!)

Happy Birthday Shawn! Take joy in ending the year on an upswing and a hopeful note or three, and here's to many more better ones!

Yes, I'm home with my lovely wife watching some stupid tv and letting the dust of the day wash away. Thanks for all the presents (and thinks for posting that about those born on Augst 4!) and helping make this a good day! I'm happy to spend a bit of it with you all!

Yeah, I've had this since the cd release. VERY COOL.

Thanks again all. The day is getting better. . . . The painters elected to choose my hallway to prop a 12' x 4' sign against and roll on very aromatic white enamel paint. . . . The resulting fumes have made it hard for me to focus on my Word documents and databases BUT has also dimished my ability to give a hoot!

I enjoy his singing. . . most of the time. . . sometimes I can't stand it and I don't listen to whole cds of his singing!

I think there's room for more. There actually IS variety within the Trio format and their recordings. They occasionally release a record more reliant on original compositions (and these really have a special groove and feel to them!) as well as sortof straight and sortof notsostraight standards sessions. . . . Ah hell, I dig the group and enjoy knowing more is coming out as time goes by. This is a group that has had surprising staying power!

Marcus, nice idea for a thread! I took advantage of a reduced price at Dusty Groove and ordered the second box set of Nara Leao's Universal recordings. Quite a variety of musical and production styles are represented across the fourteen discs, but many of them are quite enjoyable. I like Nara's voice and it is more polished and pleasant here on these later recordings, in my opinion. A good cross-section of brazilan styles from the seventies through the eighties. . . .

Thanks ALL! I'm feeling less blue as the day goes along. . . !

Joe, I'm in 100% agreement with your entire post. Just finished listening to this one this morning. Great cd!

You and me . . . and Louis makes THREE!

Happy Birthday Allan! Many happy returns!