Bluesnik

Big Latinum, which is four or five years latin, but no greek. And I can't say latin has been useful for me. Maybe I wasn't aware of it and it helped on a more unconscious level, with the language basics of other languages.

I think I'm going to play this tonight. Thanks for pointing it out.

That boxset is really good. And there are various DSM covers too.

Is that a David Stone Martin cover?

Disc 1. A bit of everything, and an interesting session with Harry James plus a boogie woogie trio, featuring Pete Johnson or Albert Ammons.

I have that plus Presenting Jackie McLean (with Donald Byrd, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins and Ronald Tucker) on Ad Lib, which was a Japanese facsimile mini LP and I like them both.

The liner notes to the RVG say only that session made it unto an LP at the time of the Japanese 70s, i think, Street Singer reissue. So the RVG is the first time both sessions are presented together, I assume in their integrity. Although the original release of Jackie's Bag contained half of the Street Singer session.

After that I listened to the Moncur Select, which is also very nice, presenting another side of McLean, but a very good one.

This is a real Hackensack to Englewood Cliffs album, with one session recorded at the old studio and the other at the new. I wasn't aware of this and just saw it. Plus there's Tina Brooks, a man I like a lot, on the second session. I was hungry today for some McLean.

I think I have that as a Verve Master Edition. Would have to check. It's a Verve Elite Edition. Got mixed up with the series.

I think I have that as a Verve Master Edition. Would have to check.

Yes, that's the one I have. And it looks like it was only German (not European) 60s jazz. I speak from memory, like always, (I don't even know where the CD is now) so I might get this wrong.

Thanks. I have a compilation of Wewerka material (pulled from its archives) on the German Sonar Kollektiv label. German and Europen 60s jazz. But I still don't know if it was a label or a sound library.

Wewerka? Didn't he have a label or a library?

I wonder wether the neglected first years of the label will be documented here. If so I might be very interested. I read Richard Cook's book many years ago and I don't remember exactly but I think he concentrated on the best known era.

Just finished The Blue Moment today, but I find it a bit far flung, connecting Kind of Blue with Velvet Underground, Soft Machine, ECM and even Eno's collaboration with David Byrne on My Life in the Secret Bush of Ghosts, an album I llike a lot, but which I think doesn't have so much in common with Kind of Blue. Yes it's true Kind of Blue had many connections with Bill Evans and the jazz of the moment, but maybe the arc is a bit too far stretched.

Wayne Shorter Quartet the other day at the Barcelona Jazz Festival. Very powerful quartet. Especially Shorter and Brian Blade, and the others as well.

Very nice.

Yes, I also had the same hope but i believe they will be going for the big sellers and often reissued stuff. I have some (not this one) CDs from this series, Art Hodes, Ike Quebec, The Port of Harlem Jazzmen, etc.

He's also on Marion Brown's Juba-Lee, which I got today and which is also discussed

Thanks to all. I only have the Savoy/Dial masters (am not to keen on alternates) Savoy released a little over a decade ago, so I don't know about alternates.

I'm wondering what's here that wasn't there. I asumme alternates, false starts and the like. Or am I wrong?