Bluesnik

one i find very good, though i might have said it before, is the Complete Live at the Village Vanguard Bill Evans box. it features everything that was recorded on that day (5 sets!) with some titles repeated plus club chatter and some interludes. and it sounds great (3 CDs worth of K2s released originally in 2005). it also has a booklet with an exhaustive text by Orrin Keepnews analyzing among other things why and how he recorded on that date, plus some unknown photos of the trio that day. and it features many classic Bill Evans tracks plus MIles' Solar. and the interplay of the trio is wonderful. it's as the text on the box says, "three men breathing as one".

i like Art Taylor. i think it's basically the (first) quintet with Miles and perhaps also the trio with Red Garland plus the quartet with Trane.

look back nostalgically at downloads? i don't think so. not for the moment. but maybe in a short while... who knows

i got the 3cd box of the 25 june 1961 village vanguard concert by bill evans and it's fabulous. and it sounds great. i gave the OJCs of Live at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby to a friend, although they also sound good. but it's a duplication of the material.

but weren't all (existing) K2s the same? i might be mistaken, but the Concord K2s (the ones in the cardboard box containing the jewel case) are the same remasters JVC used. at least i thought so. maybe it's not that way... i don't know were i got that from but i think it was a trustful source.

yes, that's a very good price for K2s. but very, very good. i would go for Monk's and Bill Evans' albums and particularly Monk's Music (which i don't have) would be a good choice. i would like to have it as a K2 and would jump at it if i could get it at that price. and Art Pepper's +11 would also be very recommendable.

not that it has anything to do with Graham Lock, but the title of the book made me think of a book i recently got. it's a compilation of drawings by Robert Crumb of blues, jazz and country pioneers made in his typical style. together with it comes a CD with a compilation of Crumb-selected music that illustrates the drawings perfectly. the book features Bix Beiderbecke, together with a ton of other people i don't know (like a group called the Sheiks of... Araby, or something like that). together with every drawing of the artist comes information about his vital data. i think it was published in 2006. i had heard of these drawings before i saw it. i gave it to a friend who liked it a lot.

Without doubt, the 1956 sessions that produced Miles's Workin', Cookin', Steamin' and Relaxin'. i'd have to think of that one, but that's a very good example.

same thing happened to me...

there is a 3 CD box of the complete Monk Prestige material which i own and like a lot. it is a grouping of K2 material and i think it includes the Miles date Bags Groove, where Monk playes piano, two Monk trio dates, one of which should be the one that's asked after, the one called Monk and which has that drawing of a modern sculpture on the cover together with the lettering Monk, the Trio album, then the with Sonny Rollins date which is also brilliant, and i hope i'm not forgetting anything (i haven't looked and i write strictly from memory like most of the time). the box sounds very good and it's a very good collection of everything Monk recorded for Prestige. it was one of those Concord projects. you're refferring to individual discs, RVGs and K2s. but if i'm not mistaken it exists in this box. and it should also exist as an individual K2, but i wouldn't bet on that.

yes, i have that and it's very recommendable. lots of early scatting as in the birth of... i think it's from the fourties though i'd have to look now to be sure.

i don't want to say with that that i only listen to old stuff. at the contrary, there are lots of good things done today. i like coralie clement's last album toystore a lot and i love amy whinehouse and dubstep. but what i mean is that i mostly listen to old stuff on blue note. i'm not very interested by what's being done now. at its best its just recooking old stuff. that's what i mean. i love the fifties and early sixties. all the classic stuff. but i don't like much the blue note of the late sixties. and much less what comes after that. in rock and pop and brazil i also specially like what's done in the sixties and seventies. and i don't much understand all that eighties revival. i understand it for nostalgic reasons, but the music from that decade is not so great. i like a lot what's being done now or what was done in the nineties that reflects its era. the detroit techno for instance was great. and i still like it. and some of the music from today, like the dubstep and the broken beat. but in jazz i think the best was done in the fifties and the early sixties. also the thirties and forties are great. the swing and the bebop. i love bebop.

i have all three books but have only read the Impulse book. it was a bit disappointing to me. Especially all the ramblings on ABC records and all the ventures Creed Taylor had been involved in before he opened Impulse.

the other day i bought this box through caiman and amazon.fr. it is put out by Sony and BMG and contains on 4 CDs all masters from that era and supposedly 4 unissued tracks. it's called RCA and COlumbia masters and includes all in all 95 tracks, featuring among others Johnny Hodges, Barney Bigard, Harry Carney and Juan Tizol. some tracks were recorded at the Cotton Club. it's got a beatiful swing sound. i didn't own any Ellington from these years so this will fill up a few holes. apart from Ellington this series also covers Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong (The Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, which i got in another incarnation), Glenn MIller, Memphis Minnie and Mississippi John Hurt. they are all Columbia and RCA masters. all boxes are specially priced, so it isn't too expensive to buy 4 CDs.

blue note's heyday day WAS the fifties and sixties. include part fo the forties if you like but nothing more. what everyone collects and what's getting reissued is THIS, nothing else. everything that has been done ever since pales in comparison and isn't the real deal. to me anything by Hank Mobley or Lee Morgan or Sonny Clark just is light years away from the Marsalis and Medeski, Martin and Wood and others. and it's not just Blue Note but also Prestige, Riverside etc. The past, heavy, and the present, hollow, to paraphrase Joseph Malik with his famous ...the past, the present, the future... recitation in Futuristica.

i have had this for quite a while and like most Pepper sessions i like it a lot. haven't heard it in a while but i remember i liked it a lot. and it's more of a Pepper session than a Marty Paich.

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.