So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Fritz Pauer - Live at The Berlin "Jazz Galerie" (MPS, 1970)
with Jimmy Woode & Billy Brooks

Superb ....

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Spinning this again:

Harry "Sweets" Edison & Earl "Fatha" Hines - Just You, Just Me (Black & Blue)

 

[John Tapscott]

Tom on piano; Don on drums. 

[Chuck Nessa]

6 hours ago, mjzee said:

Beautiful cover!  I wonder why they replaced it with this:

The change occurred when the record was transferred from the ML series to the CL series.

[ghost of miles]

Speaking of James Reese Europe, has there been previous board discussion of this 2018 Archeophone release and the book to which it was a companion?

I ordered both the book and CD just yesterday, before seeing the dustup in this thread, weirdly enough. 

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, bresna said:

I have been told that back then, Blue Note's bean counters routinely discontinued CD titles that failed to sell a certain number of discs per year. I believe the number was 500 but it may have been lower. The bean counters did not discriminate between older recordings and newer ones. They deleted a lot of classic Blue Note titles too.

BTW - when Michael Cuscuna found out about this, he complained and was able to get them to at least let him know before they deleted a title, which enabled him to stock up for Mosaic's True Blue store. For many years, the True Blue store offered many deleted Blue Note CDs for sale after they went OOP.

Michael and Tom Evered also worked with Tower Records' One Way distribution company to re-release a bunch of deleted Blue Note titles in the limited edition "Collector's Choice" series. I bought a ton of those when they came out circa 1995.

I didn´t know about Tower Records. As much as I remember there was a huge boom of RVG-Editions from the late 90´s on, and they practically reissued all the classic BN stuff, I mean the stuff from the late 40´s bop sessions until late 60´s , and in Japan they had those reissues that had mini LP format. I have some of them, but there was so many that people would collect cronological from the cataloge numbers. There were also records that sure did not sell well during the time they were originally released. I mean there were so many Jimmy Smith things, Hank Mobley things, Lou Donaldson things.  I have one with Milt Jackson that´s cool. 
But I never collected in the way to be guided by cronological order of releases, the way people did it to "have the 1500 Series complete". Sure I have records that I´ll allways keep like Mobley´s "Soul Station", Lou Donaldson´s "Blues Walk" and Jimmy Smith from that session with Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley and Art Blakey.
But it is strange that the RVG boom did not cover the BN recordings after the renaissance of BN, I mean when people like Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Jackie McLean, Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw still were alive and burning. 

10 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Fritz Pauer - Live at The Berlin "Jazz Galerie" (MPS, 1970)
with Jimmy Woode & Billy Brooks

 

Fritz Pauer, fantastic ! And great to hear that a young guy from the States spins his records. 
I could write many pages about him.
He was one of the very very best European pianists, like let´s say Tete Montoliu in Spain and he was my mentor.  Not only the best musician I could imagine, but also such a wonderful person. He took me under his wings when I was still almost a kid and I´ll never forget at one concert with some really fast company he let me sit in after intermission. 

During the years I heard him live, if he played trio it was mostly still with Jimmy Woode on bass, and the drummer was Tony Inzalaco. I heard him with all the US stars who visited Viena, with Johnny Griffin, with Art Farmer, Dave Liebman, Kai Winding......all of them....

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, optatio said:

I always kept that as a key record. You see, after first hearing Blue Trane when I was in my teens, I was eager to find also recording dates from the musicians involved in that date, you know: Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Philly J.J., so I soon had this record, then Lee Morgan´s "The Cooker", "Whims of Chambers", which I still listen from time to time. 
I think I also had other Curtis Fuller albums, one with a quite unknown baritone saxophonist, but it is not as fine as "The Opener" . 

[EKE BBB]

[Balladeer]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Fritz Pauer - Live at The Berlin "Jazz Galerie" (MPS, 1970)
with Jimmy Woode & Billy Brooks

Like Blue Note the  German MPS had unique artwork, too. Pop-art was typical for those early Seventiees LP covers from Musik Prduktion Schwarzwald. Stuff for a nice book...

 

[optatio]

Two Sonnies ... 🙂

[BillF]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

 

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Now playing:

[Peter Friedman]

[kh1958]

The Chronological Lloyd Glenn, 1947-1950

[John Tapscott]

[BillF]

33 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

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[HutchFan]

8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Fritz Pauer, fantastic ! And great to hear that a young guy from the States spins his records. 
I could write many pages about him.
He was one of the very very best European pianists, like let´s say Tete Montoliu in Spain and he was my mentor.  Not only the best musician I could imagine, but also such a wonderful person. He took me under his wings when I was still almost a kid and I´ll never forget at one concert with some really fast company he let me sit in after intermission. 

During the years I heard him live, if he played trio it was mostly still with Jimmy Woode on bass, and the drummer was Tony Inzalaco. I heard him with all the US stars who visited Viena, with Johnny Griffin, with Art Farmer, Dave Liebman, Kai Winding......all of them....

Thanks for sharing those memories, Gheorghe.  Wonderful!   

 

 

Last night and again now:

Earl Hines - Four Jazz Giants (Solo Art, 2 CDs)
This set compiles three tribute LPs that Hines recorded over the course of two days in 1971:
- Hines Comes in Handy
- Hines Does Hoagy
- My Tribute to Louis

 

6 hours ago, Balladeer said:

Like Blue Note the  German MPS had unique artwork, too. Pop-art was typical for those early Seventiees LP covers from Musik Prduktion Schwarzwald. Stuff for a nice book...

I agree, Balladeer, MPS covers would make a cool book.  So many of them are strangely interesting. 

And a few of them are just plain strange!   

 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

A very good Piano Trio recording indeed ....

[medjuck]

10 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Speaking of James Reese Europe, has there been previous board discussion of this 2018 Archeophone release and the book to which it was a companion?

I ordered both the book and CD just yesterday, before seeing the dustup in this thread, weirdly enough. 

Does anyone remember that Europe was a character (played by Earnie Whitman) in the film Stormy Weather? 

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[Dub Modal]

Listening to Grover's Winelight while working. Don't judge me...

Earlier, 'twas: 

via the Mosaic Select. 

[jazzcorner]

58 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

 

Earlier, 'twas: 

via the Mosaic Select. 

Agreed: a superbe  Mosaic box

[jazzbo]

[mikeweil]

Excellent CD. Chombo Silva was supposed to perform on these sessions but suffered a stroke shortly before. So it became a heartfelt tribute. This was, btw, the last copy available on discogs.