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For me it's "Smokestack." Just eerily beautiful. Those two basses and those interesting piano lines and melodies. Dark, thought-provoking music.

NOJ: The Bartz is pretty much the same all the way through. . . . I like it, I bought it new when it appeared. Sentimental favorite. . . .

That's good advice there re: Stuff Smith. I would think that a fan of Parker's would like Stuff. The Definitive Coltrane is pretty cool. . . just don't expect it to really be "a Coltrane cd." It's Diz all the way! That Milton Brown is nearly a complete set! That's great. And the Verboten Swing box set looks quite interesting.

I have to say that recently I have been grooving to: Various live bootlegs (mostly Oct-Nov 1967) This is a very interesting period, and one that "right now" I would say is my favorite. . . . Right Now.. . .

RT, it's one of my favorite ESPs. Odd, not always "in tune," moving and adventurous.

This is a good one, not my favorite of Dan's, and I think the charts could have offered a little more challenge to the players, but a hard-swinging fest!

RONNIE BOYKINS!

It's going to be Columbia label stuff, mostly as a sideman. Late twenties to early thirties would be my guess. Brad, I'm not jazzed to see a Hutcherson Mosaic of sixties stuff, as almost all were readily available within the last ten years, and I have it all and don't need to buy it again. And as for the albums such as "Inner Glow," "Head On," "Waiting," "The View From Inside," "Now," "Cirrius" and "Knucklebean"---I like them, I'd welcome a couple of Mosaic Selects from them, I don't think they'll be reissued as a full Mosaic set by Cuscuna. I could be wrong. I don't think he feels that there is a big enough market for them. I agree that we shouldn't be knocking others' tastes. I don't think Weiz was; I apologize if I appeared to be. I'm very excited at the direction into pre-bop that Mosaic is taking. I find this area of the history very interesting in the past five years or so, and my interest in bop and beyond waning. Glad Mosaic is sailing into these waters.

There are about four others. . . I don't think Michael is that fond of these and would make a Mosaic of them. He's kindof rightwing when it comes to Hutch. Would make a better "Select" than a full box.

What do you need that for? A few seventies sides? Wouldn't it be better to just ask for them as Rare Grooves? Also: they're his most leftist recordings!

"The Legendary Joa Gilberto."

"Celia" is a new tune? It was new in 1957, MAYBE. . .

Good to know you have been getting lots of rest!

Howdy Mike C and Mike F! Hope all is well!

I don't have this problem with my wife in that there is nothing vitally important of this nature that isn't shared. . . . But I do have problems understanding friends' and coworkers' obsession with sports, which I cannot imagine having. I enjoyed playing some sports, and I can understand the feeling of enjoyment in that, but watching others performing sports over and over was never something I was into, live or televised!

Hey, nice "avatar"---resembles an Austinite with a Blue Note appetite, Omar! But I guess it's Joe Lovano! I have had the Fontana in an early European release, and recently bought a Japanese Fontana reissue in lp facimile. The sound on the Japanese is better than the Jazz in Paris---I was very surprised to hear this actually. AND I like the additional music very much. There are pieces that are not represented in the original soundtrack, and the material that is in the original is presented on the Fontana without the echo, and it's interesting to hear how the echo changes the feel of the pieces. In short, I think if you saw the Japanese Fontana and grabbed it you would dig it!

Once he gets under your musical skin and in your head, it's hard to believe that Mingus isn't a favorite of every jazz nut!

Yeah, I hope people will give this album a chance to. As you say there are some moments that are just brilliant! But you know, if they keep listening to Mingus I think it is possible that one day as Big Al mentions they might SEE and then they may become like I am (and I suspect you are): MINGUS NUTS WHO HAVE TO HAVE IT ALL!

I wouldn't exactly say I gave it a short showing. . . . It's not my favorite of Mingus' big band dates, and I'm not always moved to the core by this (in some ways it seems a patchwork, coming from two sessions) BUT it's Mingus and he's high on my list of composers and leaders and players. I did say that I thought he had the best solos!

Big Al, hey that happens. One day Mingus may click for you. I think that the one that did it for ME was an lp reissue of "East Coasting." That session just opened up the way that he put together his music, and then when I started to collect and study and absorb Ellington, I found a way to understand and enjoy other Mingus works. I'm glad you listened to Mingus x 5 and gave it a chance! As you say one day you may find yourself a big Mingus fan, and if not, 'salright!

Actually R, I believe that US and Japanese RVGs are NOT cut from the same cloth. At least not in the case of these early ones; the separate One and Two Miles were made before the Complete double JRVG which used the disc sources as the American separate counterpart RVGs did. And I don't believe that any of the JRVG single releases were actually sonically the same or using the same masters by RVG as the American versions (when applicable.) The two cd Japanese Complete Miles Davis JRVG should be nearly the same as the American separate volumes. . . though I bet the polarity is reversed. (Seriously!)

PS: What spurred me to listen to the cd when I did was hearing a Horace Tapscott live recording with Roberto Miranda on bass. Miranda was playing amazingly, with some sonorities and some technique that made me think immediately of Mingus, then I remembered I had meant to listen to Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus. Miranda is a MONSTER!

I think that there is a resurgence in interest in Ayler; I've seen it with myself and a few others coming into the fold. "Healing" is an interesting album. . . I'm down with almost all but the bagpipes! "New Grass" is in my opinion a better album, and may have been a better choice, but as I have the Japanese of "New Grass" I'm happy they released "Healing." That sax sound on both is just so huge and expressive!

Hmmm. . . . I won't flame, I agree essentially, but two points: Miles I think DID fit in well with a host of sax players, I think he and Mogie were pretty much equals in this department, and I think that Brownie probably could/would/should have had we had him longer. It's one of the great tragedies of 'fifties jazz that Brownie was just coming into his time of great work and influence and then was taken away. . . . And there are some others, such as Diz and in his way KD and also Clark Terry that I think were as good as Miles and Lee in this; I think that Lee is right up there in the top rank of trumpeters who can meld so well with front-line partners, and when you get to the top rank it's hard to say one is better than another.

Jo Jones. . ."The Wind". . . what a great player! What a confident man! I enjoy that "Dixieland USA" a lot as well!