jazzbo

You might find this nice readin' and listenin': http://www.redhotjazz.com/mound.html

I've had this set for several years, and it's a fantastic value. Don't hesitate!

I haven't bought it. Though I've really had to sort of hold myself back. I just wish I had it. . . it's not my most favorite period of Miles. . . it's too expensive in that case. . . but I'm still curious. .. and yellow.

And I believe that those you list are from the only session with Hawkins. MOST of the Mound City Blue Blowers as a band were trio or quartet sides with Jack Bland, Eddie Lang or Eddie Condon, and that hot comb and kazoo sound from Red. . . .Some other sides had added musicians as well, including Bunny Berigan. Great stuff, if you ask me! The later incarnation was more of a small group swing Chicago style influenced project, and had Berigan and others as well. Red's vocals were a more prominent feature.

I love this band. There are two cds on Sensation of the original band, and a Chronogical Classics cd of the later incarnation of Red McKenzie bands which are different, but I like Red a lot. I recommend one of the Sensation discs HIGHLY.

Well, jazzbo. . . I've always liked this term, and I had a great-uncle who actually had a "Jazzbo Jim" similar to that pictured on my avatar in his attic that I would see occasionally, all dusty. . . . So I decided to use that handle here and found the right avatar. Lonson: well I discovered some years back that "Lon" is strong in Gaelic, and "lionlike" in Teutonic languages. . . . I have both Scotch-Irish and German in my background, but the name is a family name on the side with the Scotch-Irish, so I guess I have to admit to the rather redundant "Strong Son of the Strong Arm" version of my name. But I can roar with the best of them. . .sometimes.

"We don't flat our fifths. . . we drink 'em."

"We don't flat our fifths. . . we drink 'em."

Al, I agree that Al Johnson was a monster in WR, and my favorite of their bassists as well. Live in Tokyo has been out on cd at least three times that I know of from Sony in Japan and French CBS. . . . The French version I have sounds pretty darned good, and was pretty cheap, about 19 bucks a year or so ago. The lps I have actually sound better though I think. . . darn it.

Live in Tokyo is available in several imported versions.. . .but there's been no domestic cd reissue. It's among the very best of their works.

You know I really resisted coming here regularly. I saw the demise of the BNBB as we know/knew it as an opportunity to free myself from the chain of cyber posting, this weird hypergraphic like addiction I had. . . . I intended to read here and only post occasionally. Yeah, right. . . But this place has grown into a real home with real neighbors and hallelujah!

Mr. Larsen, in my opinion the WR before Heavy Weather is different and better thant he WR after. That's just a personal thing, but Heavy Weather is probably my LEAST favorite (especially the way I feel in the last half a decade) of their output. So from my viewpoint, not liking that one doesn't mean you wouldn't like others. I'd recommend the first three or four, the self-titled, I Sing the Body Electric, Mysterious Traveler, Suitenighter, and Talespinning. . . .

That may be true of some of the tapes. Some however are master tapes, especially those that contain alternates and alternate versions if I remember correctly.

This is one very cool movie. BUT I have to say I think I preferred the first one, by a hair. Action ain't the be all and end all to me, and the structure, tension, characterization of the first was in my opinion a bit better. Which is to say I loved them both.

Congratulations on completing that project!

If blue is your favorite color, this is the place!

I'm just operating from memory, but I think that is on all copies. I remember reading a talk with Dorn where he said that they just took the analog reels straight into digital 16bit, with no audio cleansing, etc. which is not a bad thing to do in my opinion. I don't think they "de-hissed" or "de-noised" these, and I think they sound pretty darned good overall (perhaps as a byproduct.)

Thanks for calling my attention to the link. Looks as if they may have split the original cd into two volumes. RE: the TOCJ remastering possibility: all I know is that the Leo Parker I have sounds as if it were a TOCJ, and that it is not the same remastering (and doesn't have the alternate) of the early US version.

Wow, wonder what's on the second Joao Gilberto?

Sidewinder: those are cool. Not on cd.

And Imp: yes, "Ace"---I remember that album fondly, and what a killer cover too! Thanks for reminding me of that one. I could stand to listen to that and the Dead stuff from '73 to '75 again.

Boy are you a BRAVE man! Hey, no flaming from me, from what I can remember you've given good advice, though I will admit to a real fondness for the tune "Althea" on Go to Heaven. . . . I don't know why, I just really like that tune!

All these are great recommendations. . . which just means that there is so much excellent Stanley out there. Dan's very insightful look into the assembly of the masterpiece "Blue Hour" is right on: this is a masterpiece, a real statement for both the label and the two principles (four really) Stan and the Three Sounds. The real truth is. . . unless perhaps you go into his later work which I haven't explored too much because I sampled one that was a little uninspired and I just haven't gone further. . . the truth is that if you pick up almost ANY Stan T recording as a leader, or a sideman, you'll have some great stuff!

Wow Tod, I have one fantastic cd of this material, and knew that there was another out there. . . FOUR cds total? What label is this on? Where did you land it? I'll have to look in to this!

I haven't listened to this too much, but I did enjoy the first and third discs a lot, more than I thought I might! Also I'm enjoying the Milton Brown set. Gosh, I've been in Texas 23 years. . . now I'm actually buying western music. . . something's happened to me!