Cliff Englewood

The Waldron/Lacy discs are on hold.

Yup that's what I was refering to as well, only I would call it uber, uber ridiculous. :g

I think you've got "What Is There To Say" confused with "Jeru", both of them are on Columbia IIRC. I feel that "What Is There To Say" could be used as one of those albums that you give to people who don't like Jazz as a way of breaking them in gently, it's a very underated recording in my opinion. If you're a big fan of it you should check out these two; This one done shortly before; And this one done shortly after;

Nice one, I'll have to check out "Walk On The Water" then, sounds like it could be a good one.

I replied to your PM Markos, cheers.

I hope not as there is a huge amount of other stuff I would rather see re-issued. It's not like it's hard to find Garland recordings in the first place and would anybody really need all of it.

This one is a lot better than I expected it to be, looking at the line-up is a bit deceiving as to how it actually ends up sounding, if you know what I mean. Anyone really interested in Mulligan the composer should check it out as it has a few excellent tunes that I don't think he did elsewhere, "For an Unfinished Woman", "Song for Strayhorn" and "K-4 Pacific"

I've sent you a PM in reply to your query. Cheers.

Up as the Universal Basie Set is now sold, all the others are still available.

Uh-oh. Looks like Mosaic Contemporary has slipped away quietly into the night. Link is no longer active. I could never figure that particular move out. Can't say I'm suprised, it was always going to be a matter of time really, even if the good times continued to roll for a while longer. Perhaps one of the worst ideas ever.

The Universal Basie Set is on hold.

Up for price drops. Cheers.

Music, furniture, design and style allow for the creation of one's own environment. That's what some of us do. You forgot to mention drugs, drugs will make the whole process an awful lot easier. :g

And the "future" that was imagined between the 1950s and 1970s is about 10,000 times better than the future we got. I'd rather listen to an early 70s version of the future than the millennial pop crap that was around (electronic music notwithstanding). I LIVE for albums like this. You can have the real future, I'll take the fake one. Yeah, reality is a bummer............ dude/man/etc. :cool:

I was listening to this Set over the last few days and with a few exceptions I am enjoying it a lot more than I though I would, especially the Buck Clayton session at the end of Disc 3. I know the notes make reference to a "chamber jazz" type of sound for this session but there are times when I heard things that made be think, "wow,... Tristano School", don't know why though, just maybe the overall vibe/instrumentation.

It really is a wonderful record, one that gets better every time you listen to it. Jimmy Rowles is excellent on it as well. "7 X Wilder" maybe suffers a bit in comparison coming straight after it and the fact that he's playing piano on 3 tunes is a kind of distraction, he plays both trombone and piano on the last track on "7 X Wilder" which makes one wonder why he didn't do that for the whole album.

The Mulligan the Arranger LP also included the great "All the Things You Are" referred to above by Larry Kart. Taking of Mulligan the arranger, I was looking at the notes for the RVG of the "Birth of the Cool" sessions and realised that Mulligan wrote 3 number (more that anyone else), arranged 6 (more that anyone else) and played on all 12 of the tunes (more that anyone else, except Miles, I think), although in the notes he wrote for one of the early re-issues of the material he gives Miles full credit for "creating" the "Group", I can't help but feel that it's almost as much a Mulligan record as it is Miles's. Some good early Jeru on this one; In this Jazzwax interview, in answer to the question, "Was "Deception" truly arranged by Davis? It sounds a lot like Mulligan", Gunther Schuller replies: "Look, Miles immediately learned from Gil and Gerry. In those days, very often, some other person's name was put on the ttle for one reason or another." http://www.jazzwax.com/2010/01/interview-gunther-schuller-part-2.html Thanks for the link Bill, I mean it's not like Miles to take credit for something he didn't do is it. :w

The Mulligan the Arranger LP also included the great "All the Things You Are" referred to above by Larry Kart. Taking of Mulligan the arranger, I was looking at the notes for the RVG of the "Birth of the Cool" sessions and realised that Mulligan wrote 3 numbers (more that anyone else), arranged 6 (more that anyone else) and played on all 12 of the tunes (more that anyone else, except Miles, I think), although in the notes he wrote for one of the early re-issues of the material he gives Miles full credit for "creating" the "Group", I can't help but feel that it's almost as much a Mulligan record as it is Miles's. Some good early Jeru on this one;

I agree, to me it sounds like someone in 1971 trying to imagine what the "Future" is going to sound like, nice try but no cigar. Also I find it quite rare for a Soundtrack to work in isolation, ie without it accompaning the film it was made for, I know some people really dig them but I'm just not one of them. I know that Gil did a lot of development work on electronic instruments/music but it doesn't necessarily mean that he was the best person to create music using those tools. Now if you want something really and truly timeless, try "Patterns in Jazz", that's a more legitimate candidate for "Gil Mellé's Greatest Album", I love the Prestige stuff too, but haven't listened to it as much as "Patterns in Jazz".

Good choice, a great and somewhat underated Pepper session IMHO, and the K2-ness just adds to the nice-ness. :cool:

If anyone was looking for the Parlan Set and missed out again, I still have one for sale here.

After listening to the sound clips, I would have to respectfully disagree that this is "Gil Mellé's Greatest Album". It sounds more like someone dicking around with some synths.

Sounds like they're a bit fucked up when it comes to doing inventory.

In 1975, the great Rory Gallagher was touring the US as the opening act for Bachman-Turner Overdrive. I didn't see the show, but I've seen Rory's Montreux Festival performance from 1975 on DVD. How those hacks from BTO followed that, I'll never know. Gallagher's Irish Tour '74 DVD (and CD) is also not to be missed. What a monster musician he was, one of THE great guitar players, from such an early age (what was he, 20 when the first Taste albums came out?). Hard to believe he passed so young. Sorry, what were you saying? I'm a million miles away. Ask the tattoo'd lady and the bearded baby, they're my family :-). You were a million miles away???? I was too but in fairness I'd just been walking on hot coals, twice.

Up for additions of 2 Shepp CDs. Cheers.