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SF Jazz Festival Spring Season B-3 Summit X - Joey DeFrancesco & George Coleman - Trudy Pitts Trio Saturday, May 5 • 8pm & 10:30pm BE there!

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I have an LP of one of those Chappell Recorded Music albums - "Brass and Rhythms". It's definitely a keeper. Great stuff. (nice cover, too)

I ordered Artie Shaw's "Self Portrait", which I just realized is OOP. I did several searches and found it for sale (and ON sale) at www.sonymusicstore.com. We'll wait and see if they really have it in stock. I remember hearing great things about this when it was released, but never got around to picking it up.

Another EXCELLENT Pablo recording is "How Long Has This Been Going On" with Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Louie Bellson & Ray Brown.

David 'Fathead' Newman - "Blue Head" on Candid. Recorded live in the late 80's with Clifford Jordan sitting in with "guitarist Ted Dunbar, pianist Buddy Montgomery, bassist Todd Coolman and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith." I was at that show. It was part of a series of afternoon NY shows on West 79th Street & Riverside Drive. I also saw Kenny Barron/John Hicks (also recorded on Candid as "Rhythm-A-Ning")

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I've been thinking about that myself. I was a big fan of those at the time.

As far as the Pacific Jazz "Artist Selects" album, keep in mind that everything on that disk will be in the Mosaic box. Great cover, though. If you want to try something contemporary, I HIGHLY recommend "In My Time". Besides the incredible "Sax Chase" he has re-recorded "So What" and "Jeri" on this album.

I've had "Summit Conference" for a while. I haven't listened to it as much as I should, but it's a solid session, that's for sure. Can't go wrong with Reggie Workman, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Julian Priester and Pheeroan Aklaff.

I just threw a few bucks in the PayPal pot. Glad to help.

Gerald. ... and then start picking up some of his recent releases. He hasn't lost a thing!

David S. Ware - "The Freedom Suite" It's 4 tracks, so you'll have one to look forward to when your account refreshes.

He was in the psychedelic incarnation of The Animals (San Francisco Nights, Monterey, etc.). There's no mention of him in the liner notes of "Winds of Change", which includes "SF Nights". He may have been on some other records. Anyway, I was mega-impressed with Copeland on the Grammys the other night. He was on fire. Almost makes me want to see them on tour. And as Rooster mentioned, Sting is much more interesting when being challenged rather than on cruise control as he's been for the last 15 years or so. Not unlike Clapton and the Cream reunion. That was some of Eric's most inspired work in MANY years.

Cool! I hadn't heard about that. If it brings Organissimo out here.....even BETTER.

Besides the live "I've Known Rivers", you should check out "Harlem Bush Music" from the same time period. This is actually two albums on one CD ("Taifa" and "Uhuru") and feature Andy Bey on vocals on many cuts.

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That's crazy! Why is he playing Fresno, of all places??

I have it in my "Save for Later" folder in eMusic. I read an interesting review somewhere about it.

Blue Mitchell - disk #3

This is pretty much my thinking, too. If Mosaic needs to expand its horizons in order to keep releasing the good stuff, it's OK with me. I'm not sure I understand what people are concerned about "tarnishing the brand" unless it somehow impacts their ability to continue the boxes.

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I'd say that Tom Hull's review "lacks finesse". If he's not familiar with the sessions in the Select box, then he's not really familiar with Tolliver.

Ratliff chimes in: CHARLES TOLLIVER BIG BAND “With Love” (Blue Note) The trumpeter Charles Tolliver started his career in the early 1960s, playing with Jackie McLean, Art Blakey and others; he became known as a bandleader later in the decade, after John Coltrane died. At that shaky moment in jazz Mr. Tolliver was an exciting, undefinable force in its mainstream, holding fast against abstraction and electric music, pushing out well-balanced phrases with the ferocious zeal of late Coltrane. Mr. Tolliver started writing big-band music for a few years in the early ’70s, then stopped and became less visible in general. In 2003 he formed his 20-piece group and jumped back in with gusto. His new big-band record, “With Love,” sounds like the work of a man who has been in storage for a long while and is ready to fight. The band, performing at the Jazz Standard tomorrow through Saturday, is brash, powerful and immediate, with blasts of high brass and sharp drum fills. Mr. Tolliver’s arrangements are reasonably complicated but direct; you can almost hear his furious conducting gestures. His music here represents a time when jazz wasn’t so tricked-up and self-doubting. Instead there are modern-jazz basics, done earnestly and energetically: quartal harmonies, call-and-response arrangements and a slug-it-out rearrangement of Monk’s “ ’Round Midnight,” taking the song through different moods and tempos. “With Love” has a comparatively old-school rhythm section in the bassist Cecil McBee and the drummer Victor Lewis; a young, iconoclastic pianist in Robert Glasper (whose improvisations in “Rejoicin’ ” and “Right Now” are squirrelly, hyperactive, exciting things) and a brilliant lead trumpeter in Mr. Tolliver, whose bright, almost shattering sound takes over in several solos. There’s something strangely manifestolike about this album. It isn’t preservationist or pedantic. It isn’t protecting anything; it’s having too much fun for that. But it demonstrates what we may be missing if we completely abandon the viscerally exciting qualities in jazz big bands that were important not so long ago. BEN RATLIFF

Anyone have any thoughts on the Mosaic Single "J.J."? The clips sure sound intriguing.