jazzbo

Yes, Catest, this is one beautiful woman!

Worth watching that dumb Hunter show for. . . .

Ah well. . . two threads about this devoted jazz fan and excellent engineer-musician is NOT a bad thing!

Me too. Such a beautiful sound! Such a great sense of melody and structure! Such a shame he left us so young so long ago!

Welcome folk! Join the discussions and enrich the joint!

It's double sad news with two threads! J. R. really helped the early jazz speak to many of us and I will always have his work in my collection. Chris, you CAN delete this. Look at the bottom of the page you'll see "Moderation Options." As the creator of the thread you should be able to delete it following those options.

Thanks Chris!

Sad news indeed.

The Columbia has extensive (and imo very nice) notes. The Columbia has really magnificent sound from the original parts or test pressings for most sides. The two sets also have different non Hot Fives and Sevens material from each other. The JSP has good sound, and some may even prefer the sound, but I think the Columbia wins out for me and my ears and my system. Plus it's a more stately (and expensive) presentation.

Yeah, I would love to see "Say it Loud" or "Cosmos"!

She shore is purdy.

I was incredibly happy the first years of my teenage years, in Ethiopia and Swaziland (especially my time at the boarding school, Waterford Kamhlaba, in M'Babane). Then I was incredibly crushed and down the middle portion when we returned to the States to a very small Ohio town where I was "Rev. Armstrong's son, COMMA, Lon." Comma Lon was not a happy camper. Then things picked up for me when I went to the University of Chicago for the first year or so and met intellectuals and beat misfits and fell in love (then unrequited, but still thriling) with my wife, Helen.

They're both good sessions, perhaps a bit less formulaic than a lot of BN hard bop etc. Davis acquits himself well, as always. I don't have the new twofer, but I don't think they edit anything out with the merger. I wish that Davis had recorded more as a leader and sideman; what he has done is excellent.

AMEN Brother Wes!

The sound on this set is in my opinion. . . fantastic, about the very best of their earlier jazz sets. Warm and detailed. There is a great variety of material within the set as well, from hot little ensembles with Lang and Tram and others, to uniquely voiced large orchestras with a swing and feel all its own, to various groups and arrangements of a differing nature in between. I like this set a LOT. I'm going to have to dig it out and dig it again soon!