ATTN: Chewy

[.:.impossible]

Chewy,

I did a board search for West Coast recommendations and didn't see a specific thread. If anyone knows of one, please link it here.

Anyway, I was hoping you could start a running thread here of some of your favorite West Coast sessions...

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

oh god impossible, you want to reqest-a-chewy-thead? can do: lets see, oh god:

the 1st 2 wcj lps i got when i was a little boy were Lighthouse at Laguna & Katanga! (orig. pressings, mind u!)

elks auditorium 1947, art pepper live at dontes '68, hampton hawes of any era, i dont know

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Bob Gordon pacific jazz connsieur reissue cd

[clifford_thornton]

I'd love a WCJ-by-chewy recommendations thread, too. Haven't got far past the world of Lester Koenig here but I know that's just a surface scuff.

I'd also like it if chewy approved my facebook request, but I guess one can't have everything.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

if i accepted u id have 2 accept everyone and before u know it my facebook will turn into organissmo----although i do encourage you to join me in the "THE YAMAHA GX-1 APPRICIATION SOCIETY" club//

[clifford_thornton]

Haha, mine already has - but without the politics.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

omg i can name more than thjis, o god:

do you ever see wcj lps on discovery from the 1980s. theres a lot of good late period wcj on that

[.:.impossible]

Well keep em coming! They don't have to be WCJ label either.

I just thought thus would be a good place to consolidate Chewy West Coast recommendations.

Im pretty ignorant about this whole scene.

[Head Man]

Well keep em coming! They don't have to be WCJ label either.

I just thought thus would be a good place to consolidate Chewy West Coast recommendations.

Im pretty ignorant about this whole scene.

If you want an excellent introduction to West Coast jazz then I can recommend a couple of books that are well worth getting:

Ted Gioia - West Coast Jazz, &

Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast

(Catchy titles, eh!)

They whetted my appetite, but a word of warning - following the album recommendations will seriously damage your finances

[.:.impossible]

Thanks for the book recommendations! I've seen the Gioia book somewhere recently. I just picked up another Murakami novel though, so...

Here's some of the stuff off the top of my head that are new to me that I've listened to over and over in the past year or so.

Shelly Manne | The Three and The Two

Duane Tatro | Jazz for Moderns

Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan | Two of a Mind

Jimmy Giuffre Three | Hollywood & Newport Live

[Big Beat Steve]

Well keep em coming! They don't have to be WCJ label either.

I just thought thus would be a good place to consolidate Chewy West Coast recommendations.

Im pretty ignorant about this whole scene.

If you want an excellent introduction to West Coast jazz then I can recommend a couple of books that are well worth getting:

Ted Gioia - West Coast Jazz, &

Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast

(Catchy titles, eh!)

They whetted my appetite, but a word of warning - following the album recommendations will seriously damage your finances

Good suggestions (of course ...), and you're right about the hole in your pocketbook too... :D

And for those who happen to understand French, the book "West Coast Jazz" by Alain Tercinet (Ed. Parentheses ,1988) is good'un with PLENTY of evaluations and recommendations too.

A few recommendations that might otherwise tend to get overlooked too:

Marty Paich on Mode, Bethlehem and Tampa

Bob Gordon - Meet Mr Gordon

Jack Sheldon's records on PJ

V.A. "Modern Jazz Gallery" (Kapp)

"The Complete Nocturne Recordings Vol. 1" box set (Fresh Sound - and NO grey, shady boot here! Fully endorsed and supported all the way by Harry Babasin himself!!)

And have Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars been mentioned yet?

[Chuck Nessa]

So the sequence is NO, Chi, NYC and Europe. Where does the wc come in?

[.:.impossible]

Chuck, wc comes in one to three hours behind all the others, about nine behind Europe.

A couple of other things that I have that really like alot.

Black California (Savoy)

Eddie Costa Art Farmer "In Their Own Sweet Way" (Premier)