Bluesnik

i like The Awakening a lot, so a Mosaic of the Impulses wouldn't be such a bad idea.

i was going to mention Marc Myers and jazz wax but i see it has been talked about before. highly recommended. there are always lots of articles (on the most different items) and a lot of interesting interviews in it.

cassette??? i thought this format was dead and ripe for a nostalgia fad. and 100 copies, what? is that an ultrarare and extrashort collectors edition or what?

agree with that. i like them a lot, as i also do everything recorded by Watkins at WOR.

i have the box and enjoy it a lot. another album i like a lot from him is the Bethlehem Love, Gloom, Cash, Love. it is atypical trio affair and is very good. i think i have it as a Charly edition. but i'm not too sure about that, what's sure is that it's a Bethlehem.

i liked specially the Capitol side I had the craziest dream but i recently bought The DAve Pell Octet plays Irving Berlin wich is really good. it's typically west coast fare and the only stellar player i know here are Don Fagerquist on trumpet plus Ray Sims (brother to Zoot) and the tenor of Dave Pell himself, but the rest are also good. it's versions of the Berlin classics arranged by among others Shorty Rogers. there is really nice ensemble playing plus much cool on this one. it has been reissued on CD by Freshsound around 2000. i don't know what label it was on originally. i think it was Kapp but i'm not sure. Freshsound also issued his 1984 effort in their "The stars of West Coast Jazz today" series.

i like Gil Melle a lot and have always liked him. i have the Prestige sides compilation, which is quite cool, a Blue Note he recorded, which is also good and my favourite of them all, the volume, double CD IIRC, on his 5000 series recordings. It was a Conn and belonged to that fantastic 5000 series reissues. this is the Gil Melle i liked most, with baritone sax, sometimes guitar... remember that he also designed covers for Blue Note in a superb way. i like his covers specially. IIRC the cover of Urbie Green's album from the 5000 series, which i have as a TOJJ vinyl, is his.

i have her coffee and cigarettes album and i think another roulette album. i'd have to look it up now. there's one album with johnny smith, i think, which is good. i enjoy coffe and cigarettes, though it's a languid affair. kind of a romantic singer, a little bit in the June Christy vein.

thanks!! i just finished taking themall and will give them a listen soon. at the same time i also downloaded Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben, a very very good mid seventies album of Jorge Ben brazilica.

i agree with that. Pacific Jazz is one of the labels i'm most interested in and that gets reissued less. Blue Note is really no big deal. they are available all the time. i'm happy if they rvg some OOP album but that is not suprising. I'm more than happy with their current wave of reissues but i only hope EMI would think wider.

that is very sad news. i have and will listen to one of his albums with Sonny Simmons, The Cry. will have to see what is out there as CD and what has been reissued.

i think it'd have to be Morgan/Shorter Vee Jay Bob Gordon etc. Kenton Presents Tal Farlow though I much love the other sets I have

and what about the Japanese mini LP remasters? there was a bunch of them released last year. were these also DSD?

sorry, this was a quick answer one day i was on a quick browse through the board. i hadn't read the full thread. and i'm really surprised by this piece of information. the track is attributed to Shorter, Wayne Shorter, on every album i've seen it recorded on. on Broken Wing Alan Trecinet even mentions it as a Shorter tune in the liner notes. but if it wasn't actually written by Shorter i'd like to know who then wrote that nice piece of music. and who's been collecting royalties for it

thanks for the link. i'll have a look there.

it is on their website, here. but i'm afraid it's not updated or at least doesn't feature upcoming projects. all those cats, one of their older reissues, which i have, is there.

Gianluca Petrella did some fine collaborations with NIcola Conte and other artists on his Schema label, like i think Gerardo Frisina and i think also the INvisible Session. All this is more groove based clubjazz but with some fine playing. And i think he also has other records exploring freer territories. on a different note, i'm tempted to pick up something from the Basso Valdambrini combos. can anyone recommend some albums? which are the really outstanding recordings?

thanks, big beat steve. so this session was unissued before Blue Note released it? was it never intended for release or was it maybe indirectly recorded for Blue Note like some Dexter Gordon or Hank MObley sessions recorded in Paris? though i don't think this is the case here. otherwise Hickory HOuse vol.1 wouldn't be considered her first BN recording. i tend to think it was recorded in Frankfurt and never released and maybe picked up later by BN when Jutta arrived in the US. or maybe she brought it with her under the advice of Leonard Feather, her discoverer. anyway, the fact that it still is owned by Blue Note speaks against a leased title, like some of the 5000s were.

i listened to the Jutta Hipp Quintet, the 5000 series album, again last night. it seems to be a leased or bought session not recorded in NYC. all musicians are German and it was recorded under the supervision of a German producer as you can read on the back cover. so it looks like something recorded before she left Germany. Emil Mangelsdorff, Albert's brother and an active member of the German swing cult of the 40's, prosecuted under the Nazis, plays alto. plus on the hickory house recordings she is announced by Leonard Feather as being recorded for the first time for Blue Note. and if i'm not mistaken the 1500 series was started after the 5000 series was closed. some 5000 series titles were reissued in the 1500 series. does anybody have more information on that record's origin? the cover is also a total departure from the Blue Note aesthetic, even from the 5000 series, though many of these were also quite uncommon. and it's really beautiful: a simple drawing of Jutta Hipp dressed in black against a black background with the word Jutta in red lettering.

i like her 5000 series album a lot. don't remember it's name but i have it as a JRVG. the hickory house live dates are also very good, this time in a trio.

the Mosaic sounds great but i imagine the Blue Moons or others might also sound good. they're actually 24 bit as well. so you might get the CDs if budget's an issue. but whatever you do get ready for lots of goodness. especially with the Young Lions session, one of my favourite hard bop albums. just listened to it the other day.

yes, AFAIK the only difference is the disc material. this time i'm not buying into the hype (much as i love the Japanese). i'm not planning on getting any of those SHM discs.

i'd recommend the latest European remaster from the Uni France Heritage series. it features all 26 tracks, that is the recorded session and the edited version for the soundtrack, echo and echoless. it's a nice digipack with beatiful pictures of a very young Jeanne Moureau fooling around with Miles and his trumpet in the studio and it's midprice. i would say this is available in the US, so what need for an expensive Japanese release? oh yes, the LP sleeve, i see but honestly, this reissue is good enough for me. the sound is good, you get both versions of the program, original cover and some nice pictures. needless to say the music on this cd is superb. completely moody and full noir. even the solo bass passages are great, generating some really cinematic tension. some claim this as their favourite Miles.

Crescent is one of the Impulses i'm still missing. it's high on my wish list, followed by Coltrane. i'm waiting for these to be reissued as Impulse Originals. i debated long enough wether i should get the 90s 20-bit releases (after all that is one of my favourite reissue series ever, together with the 5000 series Conns and the West Coast Classics) but i think sound might be a bit superior on the new ones. packaging is a different question, of course. there are little reissue series (excepting mini LPs, maybe) that come close to the elegance and beauty of that one. but for a change, and because they are midpriced, i'll wait for the new ones. or shouldn't i? one of the lesser known Coltranes i really love (it could be one of my favourite pre-Impulse albums) is Coltrane plays the blues on Atlantic. it's just a blues program, but what playing! And Africa|Brass is also a favourite.

this is one i almost picked up years ago. i had read his book and was curious. i remember holding it in my hands (together with the AEC) several times but i never kept it in the end. now they have all vanished. at least from the shops. and i think now i would like to have it.