What music did you buy today?

[Stefan Wood]

I didn't think I would get this set, as I ordered very late. Looking forward to it!!!

[Uncle Skid]

Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi

First CD I've purchased from a real brick-n-mortar store in a very long time.

Still not sure what to think about this one, it will need repeated spins. I usually love anything that Rudresh does, but this one confused me on first pass.

[BillF]

[BillF]

[B. Goren.]

I ordered this 4 CDs set from Amazon UK for £8 (Including shipping).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

A bunch of LPs from PeteB turned up this morning. What with water being intermittently cut off for the last couple of days, I only just managed to get to hear them now.

Various Artists - Live at the Apollo 1944-1947 - Everybody's

Phew! Some cracking playing from a bunch of great big bands, and even the Duke and Basie are overshadowed by Erskine Hawkins!

Erskine Hawkins - Swingin' in Harlem - Vocalion (Tax, Sweden)

Very nice early sessions from 1936-38. Never heard any of this stuff before.

Lionel Hampton & his orchestra - 1948 - Alamac

Live broadcast stuff with the band veering towards, and sometimes leaping into, bebop. Fats Navarro & Benny Bailey to blame

Arnett Cobb - Arnett Cobb is back - Progressive

Every bit as good as you think it should be.

MG

[BillF]

A bunch of LPs from PeteB turned up this morning. What with water being intermittently cut off for the last couple of days, I only just managed to get to hear them now.

Hydraulic record player!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just found this on e-bay.

The Kansas City Melodyaires - Softly the night is falling - Songbird

Hugely expensive - $45 inc post - but I've been after this since 1969 !!!!!!

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, with my New Month's Resolution to buy fewer records in December leading me to buy more expensive ones , I just found this on AMazon UK

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot Rhythm & Blues - Tommy Dean - Miracle, VJ & States cuts (Official, Denmark)

I saw this in Tower in London when it came out but I'd spent all my money, so I decided that I could get it from Spillers when I got home. However, a week later Official had closed, and copies have been very scarce. I saw one on AMazon UK a couple of years ago for a hundred quid and didn't bite . But I just found one there now for only 17! Wow!

Dean was an important St Louis organist - the man who influenced Sam Lazar and with whom Grant Green developed his style. This LP doesn't contain the tracks from Dean's VJ session with Green, which have never been released.

MG

[robertoart]

Well, with my New Month's Resolution to buy fewer records in December leading me to buy more expensive ones , I just found this on AMazon UK

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot Rhythm & Blues - Tommy Dean - Miracle, VJ & States cuts (Official, Denmark)

I saw this in Tower in London when it came out but I'd spent all my money, so I decided that I could get it from Spillers when I got home. However, a week later Official had closed, and copies have been very scarce. I saw one on AMazon UK a couple of years ago for a hundred quid and didn't bite . But I just found one there now for only 17! Wow!

Dean was an important St Louis organist - the man who influenced Sam Lazar and with whom Grant Green developed his style. This LP doesn't contain the tracks from Dean's VJ session with Green, which have never been released.

MG

You should have done the liner notes to the new cd MG. They should have flown you to St Louis for a week of research and partying.

Do you know if the VJ sessions survive?

[B. Goren.]

Ordered both from Amazon:

[kh1958]

Ordered from cdbaby:

Melissa Aldana, Second Cycle, and

Barbara Dennerlein, Spiritual Movement No. 3

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, with my New Month's Resolution to buy fewer records in December leading me to buy more expensive ones , I just found this on AMazon UK

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot Rhythm & Blues - Tommy Dean - Miracle, VJ & States cuts (Official, Denmark)

I saw this in Tower in London when it came out but I'd spent all my money, so I decided that I could get it from Spillers when I got home. However, a week later Official had closed, and copies have been very scarce. I saw one on AMazon UK a couple of years ago for a hundred quid and didn't bite . But I just found one there now for only 17! Wow!

Dean was an important St Louis organist - the man who influenced Sam Lazar and with whom Grant Green developed his style. This LP doesn't contain the tracks from Dean's VJ session with Green, which have never been released.

MG

You should have done the liner notes to the new cd MG. They should have flown you to St Louis for a week of research and partying.

Do you know if the VJ sessions survive?

I think they don't. Michael Cuscuna was into the Vee-Jay files and achives a few years ago and I can't believe he wouldn't have done at least something.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This arrived today, having done a fast swim across the Atlantic.

Grant Green - Live at the Holy Barbarian, St Louis, 1959 - Uptown

Good sleeve note about the background, and fascinating newspaper clips. But they still don't acknowlege Lazar's debt to Tommy Dean.

GG seems to have been using the Gibson at the last gig at the bar. Sounds like he was for the recording, too, though I don't really know.

MG

[save0904]

Bill McHenry La Peur du Vide

[paul secor]

Cecil: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! (MPS)

Back Home with Drifting Woods (Mississippi)

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas - Nathan Milstein (EMI)

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 13; String Quintet - Pacifica Quartet + Michael Tree (Cedille)

[B. Goren.]

After more than 3 years I called Mosaic and ordered 3 sets:

Earl Hines

Coleman Hawkins

Charles Mingus

Edited December 3, 2012 by B. Goren.

[paul secor]

After more than 3 years I called Mosaic and ordered 3 sets:

Earl Hines

Coleman Hawkins

Charles Mingus

You may not have to order for another three years. Lots of good listening there.

[BillF]

[paul secor]

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume Six

Ives: Emerson Concerto; Symphony No. 1 - Feinberg/Sinclair/NSO of Ireland (Naxos)

Fletcher Henderson: The Harmony & Vocalion Sessions Volume 1 (Timeless)

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7,8 - Ward/Northern Chamber Orch. (Naxos)

[B. Goren.]

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume Six

Paul, what you need is the complete set of Group Masterpieces.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I think it was Stefan Wood who posted that he'd got this, some months ago.

Guelewar - Halleli N'Dakarou - Touba Auto K7 (Teranga Beat)

I thought it was the Xaley N'dakarou K7 with some bonus tracks. Now I've got it, I see Xaley N'dakarou was issued as a 2 K7 set, of which I've only got one. Now that's the way to do reissues!

Interesting sleeve note all in all. Never knew Moussa Ngom came from The Gambia (though I suspected it).

Thanks for the info, Stefan.

MG

[paul secor]

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume Six

Paul, what you need is the complete set of Group Masterpieces.

Possibly, but I'm not a huge Tatum fan and I'd rather explore piecemeal. Also, I find that if I get a box, I'm less likely to take it off the shelf and listen to it - even listen to individual recordings from it.

Edited December 6, 2012 by paul secor

[erwbol]

Ben Webster - Gentle Ben (SACD)

[BillF]