jazzbo

Spell! Spell who? W.H.O.

I only saw Basie once, and it was before I really understood and appreciated its brilliance and history. It was at a Catholic church in south side Chicago in 1975. I enjoyed the show, but I remember it as rather sedate. . . . It was an afternoon recital at a church, and short and sweet. Plus I was distracted by the fact that the gal that I was so crazy about (NOW my wife Helen) was there with someone else (I hadn't gotten the nerve to ask her to this one) and I kept watching them on the sly when I could. Wish I had seen the band again!

Hey, rong is wrong! Point well taken though about "Blue Note" being used as a title for compliations including selections under the EMI "Blue Note umbrella." It's one thing to issue them under the label, another to title a compilation as if they all originated from the label. This is not part of my collection. I deliberated long and hard before buying "Helen Merrill Sings the Beatles" a few months ago. I'm a crazy fool for Helen Merrill. . . still . . . . I don't regret the purchase, but couldn't it have been. . . Townsend or Dyaln or something?

Well. . . I think the answer would lie in how and where you want to go. If you want to become a Charlie Christian completist, I recommend as your next step the excellent four cd set on Columbia that issues all his recordings for that label including some newly discovered items. It is pretty reasonably priced, has really good sound (can sound pretty bright in some systems. . . ) and a very informative booklet.

I think he's referring to the possible completion of the deal to sell Fantasy to Concord.

Guilty. Doing penance. . . for quite some time.

I'm pretty much with Simon (on the obsession level!) I'm looking forward to two cds of interviews . . . . I have more than that on the recent Ayler "tree" of interviews of musicians that worked with Ayler, and really enjoy listening and RElistening to those. So I'm sure I'll be delighted to hear these two cds! It DOES add to the cost of the set, and I wish there were two more cds of music too. . . to make an eleven cd set! I'll continue to go deeper into debt to have this set. . . .

Interesting that you felt that way. Tower Austin closed it's doors Sunday; I was in at the middle of the afternoon and bought an eight cd set on RCA Red Seal of the Guarneri Quartet recordings of Beethoven String Quartets. With the discount it was 32 dollars. . . . I've had many nice purchases like that and many nice hours of browsing in that store. It seemed to invite me to appreciate music and look at new things. I don't feel that at Waterloo here in town or heaven forbid at the mall. I think this is a sort of "end" to a particular type of hunting and collecting and acquiring "feeling" in my life in this town!

Hey every Monday I'm even older that that!

I have to confess, I haven't had this problem with enough frequency to even have wanted to develop a strategy, let alone come up with a solution for dealing with it. I find that the fact that I have been exploring almost all the forks in the jazz road since 1917 means I have plenty of things beckoning me to listen, and I have a collection too large to manage with always something to hear thats new or to listen to again . . . . I guess I'll continue to count my blessings. B)

Hey RCA put out Fats and Glenn Miller "best of cds" that come with a dvd! Now won't that hold you til the sequicentennial?

RT, in the late nineties Columbia imported and released to the bins for sale a series of Miles Davis Sony discs and I believe these may have been the ones you saw in Best Buy . . . .

Cosey has recorded with a Japanese saxophonist whose name I can never remember and Bill Laswell in the last few years; haven't heard it but I bet it's great. I enjoy his pre-Miles playing on John Klemmer's "Blowing Gold" on Chess.

The Mingus Debut box set.

I'll just add my endorsement. A real proof that refutes a lot of the barbed talk about Pres after the close of the forties. Nicely recorded stuff too! You may not want all of the volumes unless you're a Pres maniac (guilty as charged!) but a few would be nice to have!

I have a Japanese cd of Swedish Shnappes and no strings are onboard. . . . Great stuff! Jazz Perennial includes the session with Gil Evans that is controversial (in that some love it, some don't like it, I love it). Fiesta. . . it has the small groups "latin" sides. I like it. Probably don't play these that often. . . .

I too have been experiencing difficulties, mostly very very slow action, today.

Kellaway is a great player, I have the lp that Jim mentions, and many others. . .he's unsung and needs to be sung! This morning I was listening to him play very very well on Dick Sudhalter's Challenge cd "Melodies Heard". . . .

I have this material on Xanadu lps and I agree: this is wonderful material and thanks for the reminder to dig these out and listen to them soon!

I've had this for some time, and I really can't remember what impression it made on me. . . I'll have to dig it out and relisten if I can find it! Thanks for the reminder!

Can't comment on the lps, but I have the cd set. . . . As Hans says so rightly, fantastic in small doses. . . . I'd surprised if anyone could listen to it disc after disc. . . . But if you like that LA RandB sound from the day, this is a great set to savor!

Brownie, the latest Sony DSD remastered cd from Japan of "Miles in Europe" sounds fantastic, so potentially we'll have wonderful sound in the box set! Tony Williams' drumming at this Festival appearance has been an inspiration ever since it was first heard many moons ago!

Ah, here we go: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=candid+mingus

I really like the sound on this set, but the sound on the single Candid discs is comparable. There are two differences I am aware of: the Mosaic set does NOT include at least (maybe only one) track/take that IS available on one Candid cd; the "Mingus Presents Mingus" session appears in good sounding mono on the Mosaic and in less good sounding extreme stereo on the individual cd. There is a thread about these recordings around these here parts somewhere. . . .