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Yes, I do believe that Monk stopped by the recordings session: here's what I found as personnel: 323m-1-18 Helen Merrill - Teddy Wilson / Helen Sings, Teddy Swings (Victor SMJX-10111)* Larry Ridley, Lenny MacBrown Looks like a real WINNER!

Here's the cover, this and the Monk photo are both from 1970 in Tokyo, the Monk photo mentions "from a recording session". . . . I think they're connected.

No, my cat has already been named, for thirteen years, Marjorie Bouvier Haggerty-Armstrong, because when we took her home from the pound, literally a little handful of tortoiseshell fur, she used to sit on the window sill and growl like Marge Simpson at people or animals or the occasional car drifting by. . . .

Hey I named my wife Helen! No wait a minute, that was her name when I met her. . . pure coincidence, probably. . . .

There's an album with Teddy that was a Japan only release, recorded I believe when Teddy was touring Japan, and Helen was living there. I think the picture with Monk may be from that same period, Monk may well have been in Japan then as well, but I don't know for sure.

One day I want to have her recording with Teddy Wilson. . . .

I've become a big fan too. I think as much as I love her Emarcy dates on the box set, I really love the Dick Katz collaborations more, and Chasin' the Bird in particular, and some later dates such as "You and the Night and the Music" and "Just Friends". . . . I haven't heard the Finlandia but I have it on my list. . . . I like the boldness that she exhibits to tackle almost any musical situation. There are some singers that just wouldn't dare to do half of what she does and does so very well. And the sound and texture of her voice is so unique and sensuous. . . .

I voted for Underground. A lot of variety on that disc, trio sides, quartet sides, John Hendricks' masterful appearance. The new reissue is a stone classic rechiseled right.

I like him a lot, on all his horns. I have all five of the Chronogical Classics, and I turn to these for my Ventura fix, and I have the Mosaic as well which duplicates about half of the fifth Classics. Fun stuff, and he sure was a master saxophonist!

This one I like too. . . . Just like the sort of vibe from late forties/early fifties artwork. . . .

I have always liked this one, my Dad has it from the back in the day. . .

Immanuel Velikovsky, "Earth in Upheaval."

Amen to that one Dave. I'm going to say two that I almost always say, "Ellington Indigos" and "East Coasting" by Duke and Mingus respectively.

Speaking of recent tributes or treatments of Bix items, this is a splendid cd:

There's no really bad place to start! The early stuff is stupendous, and like Catesta I love "Movin' Right Along."

The Mosaic and the Bix Restored series both have excellent sound. It's sort of apples vs. oranges as to which is best or better. . . depends on your taste and system, but both are produced with quality, accurate sound as the standard they shoot for and hit.

Yeah, I was hoping to be optimistic. . . .

Okay, I have the Paris material as an RTE, but it sounds better here, it really is a kickass 52 minutes of live Monk, everyone on and playing with spirit. And the kicker is a dvd included of Monk in Oslo. Only saw the first selection of the show so far, but it's AMAZINGLY GOOD in all ways. More Monk! YEAH BUDDY! I believe there is another in Dorn's reissue of the family's material due out soon. . . .

Yeah, well I agree with PD ultimately about the influence, but it certainly was there during his lifetime and diminished in importance afterwards. Sunbeam/Bix is going to eventually, they say soon, release a single cd of tracks featuring trumpeters that were at one time or another considered to have been Bix by some collectors. Actually, I probably have most of the selections, but it will be a fun release.

yeah, one pair of shoes was my philosophy til I got married. Now I have three: a dress pair, and I searched til I found a comfortable pair of Rockports, for suits, which unfortunately I have to have as well; a pair of Birkenstock Chicagos for work and evening wear, and my old pair of Rockport Prowalkers--my former everyday/evening pair--for mowing the lawn and yard and garage work, etc! Marriage sure does change ya!

Maybe I should go to AAJ and put my response there on this thread? Bix was a great player. I don't idolize him, but I really enjoy his music, and every time I hear someone playing in an attempted Bixian manner I realize how influential his sound and his work and the mystique has been for decades! I have all his known recorded appearances. Looking forward to the Sunbeam/Bix Records "sounds like" release. . . .

How do you "zeroes" get out of the house in the morning without something to curb your cowlicks and keep your wild hairs in a National Socialist civilized format?

Well, I have a lot of Prima and enjoy the forties and fifties material for what it is, entertaining music, and love the thirties material---it is hot jazz of high order in my opinion, with the sides wtih Pee Wee Russell being a big highpoint for me (I'm a huge Russell nut.) Prima called Russell somtinghinlike "the finest musical mind" he ever met. Their music together is wonderful to hear in my opinion.

Andreas Meyer did the transfers from acetates and metal parts, and Mark Wilder and Seth Foster have done the tape transfers. So far I have only really heard the transfers from acetates and metal parts and they sound very very good, typical of Meyer's work. There's depth to the sound, and Pres and the trumpets sound great! I think they did a good job selecting and assembling this set. Once you know ahead of time it isn't complete, then the usual incomplete nature of Keepnews' productions aren't an issue. I haven't been able to really read too much of the booklet yet, but it seems solid.

Mont, I think you'll really enjoy the Mel Powells!