What music did you buy today?

[Peter]

Ordered the following from the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago:

Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards

Ernst Dawkins - Mean Ameen & Southside Street Songs

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - Morning Song

ICP Orchestra - An & Uit (sic)

And from half.com:

Malachi Thompson - Blue Jazz

[brownie]

Found this CD (a real bargain at €4) from the Italian bootleg JZ label: '1945. New Year's Radio Dancing Party. 1946' with performances listed from Basie, Armstrong, Ellington, etc.

This is - as the cover subtitle indicates - the legendary radio program featuring all the top bands saluting the victorious American G.I.s around the world, as heard shortly before midnight, December 31, 1945.

Seems that all the music included has not been reissued anywhere else.

Among the featured numbers are:

- Count Basie and his band playing 'One O'Clock Jump' from New York (probably from the Apollo where the band was playing, according to the Chris Sheridan Bio-Discography),

- Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra playing 'Accentuate the Positive' from New York,

- Woody Herman playing 'Woodchopper's Ball' from Cedar Grove, N.J.,

- Stan Kenton playing 'Tampico' - with vocal by June Christy - from Chicago,

- Benny Goodman playing 'Gotta Be This Or That' from Boston (with solos from what sound like Slam Stewart and Red Norvo)

- Duke Ellington playing 'Let the Zoomers Drool' from Evansville, Indiana (that one is not listed in the Ellington discographies), with Al Sears, Harry Carney and Cat Anderson soloing

plus the bands of Harry James, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Freddy Martin, Carmen Cavallaro (playing a dreary 'Polonaise' as if Poland had not suffered enough at the time), Louis Prima.

The hour-long program ends with the Guy Lombardo band getting into 'Auld Lang Syne' just before midnight!

[neveronfriday]

Hank Jones - Upon Reflection The Music Of Thad Jones

Fabulous!

[neveronfriday]

Found this CD (a real bargain at €4) from the Italian bootleg JZ label: '1945. New Year's Radio Dancing Party. 1946' with performances listed from Basie, Armstrong, Ellington, etc.

This is - as the cover subtitle indicates - the legendary radio program featuring all the top bands saluting the victorious American G.I.s around the world, as heard shortly before midnight, December 31, 1945.

Seems that all the music included has not been reissued anywhere else.

Among the featured numbers are:

- Count Basie and his band playing 'One O'Clock Jump' from New York (probably from the Apollo where the band was playing, according to the Chris Sheridan Bio-Discography),

- Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra playing 'Accentuate the Positive' from New York,

- Woody Herman playing 'Woodchopper's Ball' from Cedar Grove, N.J.,

- Stan Kenton playing 'Tampico' - with vocal by June Christy - from Chicago,

- Benny Goodman playing 'Gotta Be This Or That' from Boston (with solos from what sound like Slam Stewart and Red Norvo)

- Duke Ellington playing 'Let the Zoomers Drool' from Evansville, Indiana (that one is not listed in the Ellington discographies), with Al Sears, Harry Carney and Cat Anderson soloing

plus the bands of Harry James, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Freddy Martin, Carmen Cavallaro (playing a dreary 'Polonaise' as if Poland had not suffered enough at the time), Louis Prima.

The hour-long program ends with the Guy Lombardo band getting into 'Auld Lang Syne' just before midnight!

Now, that sounds decidedly cool!

[Uncle Skid]

Did you pick up any Styx or Night Ranger, Big Al??? 

BASTARD!!!!

Hey Big Al,

You'd *better* buy some Styx records, RIGHT NOW, ... or they will have to come down to Texas and KICK YOUR ASS!!

[7/4]

Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project.

[marcoliv]

Bobby Hutcherson - Solo/Quartet

Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Relaxes

Joe Henderson - An Evening With Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, Al Foster

Milt Jackson - Born Free

Sam Jones - Seven Minds (Japanese)

Eddie Harris - Artist's Choice: The Eddie Harris Anthology

Grooveria - Grooveria

[DMP]

Cannonball Adderley & Ernie Andrews, "Live Session!" (I avoided this for 40 years, and I sort of wish I'd avoided it today.)

[gdogus]

Just ordered Andrew Hill's Black Fire (RVG)...long overdue, I'd say.

[mgraham333]

Just pulled the trigger on the Roy Eldridge Mosaic. Wooohooo!

Edited December 13, 2004 by mgraham333

[Chrome]

Latest BMG order:

Joe Henderson: In n Out

Lee Morgan: The Sixth Sense

Johnny Griffin: JG

James Moody: James Moody

Sonny Stitt: Personal Appearance

[mgraham333]

Johnny Griffin: JG

James Moody: James Moody

Sonny Stitt: Personal Appearance

Looks like you were catching up on some of the LPRs.

Do you already have Illinois Jacquet's Desert Winds and Roland Kirk's Kirk In Copenhagen? If not, I highly recommend them.

Those five albums together are one of the best "batches" of releases of 2004.

[BruceH]

Jack Wilson---Easterly Winds

Initially held off on this, but it's quite good.

[marcoliv]

great sale at FNAC today

Horace Silver - Finger Poppin' (RVG)

Funk Como Le Gusta - FCLG

Richard Groove Holmes - Comin' On Home (RG)

Donald Byrd - Street Lady (RG)

Milt Jackson - Wizard Of The Vibes (RVG)

Donald Byrd - Caricatures (RG)

Brother Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin' (RG)

Art Blakey - Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World (RVG)

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Great Summit Complete Sessions

Urbie Green - The Fox

Airto - Fingers

Paulinho da Viola - Meu Tempo é Hoje (DVD)

on the mailbox yesterday:

Freddie Hubbard - First Light (CTI UK)

Upchurch/Tennyson (CTI UK)

Deodato/Airto - In Concert (CTI UK)

[John B]

my last order, before going "cold turkey" for a while, was to pick up a few more discs on Nessa:

Von Freeman - Serenade & Blues

Roscoe Mitchell - LRG/The Maze/S II Examples

Wadada Leo Smith - Procession of the Great Ancestry

as well as an Okka School Days disc, while Chuck still had the $11 sale.

[king ubu]

bought a few too many today...

six "Free America" discs:

Roswell Rudd (self-titled)

Art Ensemble: Phase One

Steve Lacy: The Gap

Alan Shorter: Tes Esat

Frank Wright: Uhura Na Umoja

Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy: Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet

a few EMI discs, in a sale:

Nat Cole: At the Sands (X-mas gift, will though burn me a copy before...)

Buddy Rich: Mercy, Mercy

Chet Baker & Bud Shank: Theme Music from "The James Dean Story"

Stan Kenton: Kenton Showcase

and my first Fantasy-panic disc (the ONLY!!! non-ZYX and non-Limited Edition [those are crazily expansiver here] disc the store had, the ONLY!!! ):

Griff & Jaws: Tough Tenors (OJC/Jazzland)

At least my sould gets a bit of a rest knowing I already have listened to the Shorter, the Wright, the Rudd, and that I will continue to listen to more tonight.

ubu

[LAL]

Fantasy binge:

Art Farmer - Sextet

Joe Henderson - Milestone Years box

Mongo Santamaria - At The Village Gate

Duke & Billy Strayhorn - Piano Duets/Great Times

Duke & Ray Brown - This One's For Blanton

Duke - Harlem

Wes - Movin' Along

A dozen or two more to come.

[Uncle Skid]

my last order, before going "cold turkey" for a while, was to pick up a few more discs on Nessa:

I've been attempting to go cold turkey too, but I had to get these titles from Chuck first:

Von Freeman - Have No Fear

Fred Anderson - The Missing Link

Art Ensemble 1967/68

These should keep me busy for awhile! B-)

[John B]

my last order, before going "cold turkey" for a while, was to pick up a few more discs on Nessa:

I've been attempting to go cold turkey too, but I had to get these titles from Chuck first:

Von Freeman - Have No Fear

Fred Anderson - The Missing Link

Art Ensemble 1967/68

These should keep me busy for awhile! B-)

I haven't heard the Von you ordered but the Fred Anderson is fantastic and the AEC set offers a wealth of material to explore. I'm still digesting the music in that set and most likely will be for years to come.

[7/4]

Rudresh Mahanthappa - Mother Tongue

Jimmy Lyons box

[Big Wheel]

For me, Hendrix's Band of Gypsys.

[Dmitry]

Karl Denson - HERBAL TURKEY BREAST

Just about to unwrap this baby.

[Big Wheel]

For me, Hendrix's Band of Gypsys. 

Now you have to get "Live at the Fillmore East". B-)

Does that include all the material from the Band of Gypsys record? D'oh! I bought a used copy on a whim...now I'm thinking of taking it back.

[Big Wheel]

Whew! Good thing, because I can tell BoG is going to be in heavy rotation for a while.

I read some of the Amazon reviews of the Fillmore discs. Quite a few people seem to be disenchanted with the editing. Does it detract from the music?

[marcoliv]

Claude is responsible for this one:

Jim Hall - SACD Hybrid