What music did you buy today?

[papsrus]

[sidewinder]

'Bout time someone else bought this.

MG

How is it? (maybe I shouldn't ask )

Just noticed they have a gig coming up in London later this month.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

'Bout time someone else bought this.

MG

How is it? (maybe I shouldn't ask )

Just noticed they have a gig coming up in London later this month.

Best bit of grease this year! And would stand comparison with almost any bit of grease made in the last fifty! GG Jr is developing a bit away from his father and it turns out he can sing quite well. I saw them in Brecon in 2000 and they were very good indeed (though swamped immediately after by Lonnie Smith/Ronnie Cuber/Peter Bernstein) and on the strength of this album (made in 2005 but took a long time to get it out) they've improved no end. I should go and see them if I were you.

In fact, I should probably go and see them if I were me. Where's the gig? When? How much?

MG

[sidewinder]

In fact, I should probably go and see them if I were me. Where's the gig? When? How much?

MG

MG - It's the 'Jazz Cafe' in Camden Town 13-14th Dec. Not my favourite venue and I probably won't be able to get into town but it sounds tempting. Their admission (standing) is usually around £20 I think.

Edited December 7, 2007 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

In fact, I should probably go and see them if I were me. Where's the gig? When? How much?

MG

MG - It's the 'Jazz Cafe' in Camden Town 13-14th Dec. Not my favourite venue and I probably won't be able to get into town but it sounds tempting. Their admission (standing) is usually around £20 I think.

Twenty quid for Jazz Cafe! I don't MIND the venue, managed to get just behind Charles Earland's organ there, so I could see everything he was doing. But adding up the fare from South Wales, and a night in a hotel, I think I'll give it a miss.

MG

[sidewinder]

But adding up the fare from South Wales, and a night in a hotel, I think I'll give it a miss.

Yep, I know that equation pretty well - but from the UK side of the border !

It has to be pretty special these days to get me up to London for a gig.

[paul secor]

Roscoe Mitchell Quintet: Turn

Art Ensemble: Urban Magic

[mikelz777]

Home - Cecilia Coleman Quintet

Higher Standards- Cecilia Coleman Trio

Kismet & Camelot - Cecilia Coleman on piano with Tim Givens on bass/cello

These were part of CD Baby's $5.00 sale and have been simmering on the back burner of my wish list for some time. I decided to take advantage before they were taken off the sale list and I ended up regretting not getting them.

I'd never heard of Cecilia Coleman until I heard one of her numbers being played on "Live 365" internet radio. I loved it and had to invesitgate further because I wanted to hear more. A Google search lead me to her web site which in turn pointed me to CD Baby. That these were part of the $5.00 sale was an only added bonus which allowed me to check them out in full at a great price.

I've listened to the sound samples for each CD numerable times and find Cecilia Coleman to be a wonderful pianist with very solid support on all 3 CDs. Give the sound samples of Home a listen. There's a definite Horace Silver vibe and sound to her quintet. I found the trumpet and sax solos to be solid and interesting and really look forward to hearing this one in full. Kismet & Camelot sounds to me like it's going to be a nice Sunday morning or quiet evening type of CD. Find your way to the CD Baby site and give these CDs a listen!!

Edited December 7, 2007 by mikelz777

[EKE BBB]

-Bob Wilber - Original Wilber (Phontastic)

-Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge (Capitol)

[mikelz777]

Curse these sales that keep popping up!! Jazz Loft is dumping its inventory of Gambit, Jazz Factory, Lonehill Jazz and Definitive CDs for 40%-50% off and of course, I couldn't resist picking up a few 2-CD sets. With all these CD buys lately I think I've pre-spent my Christmas money!

Edited December 9, 2007 by mikelz777

[aparxa]

Thelonious Monk - Live in New-York Vol 1.

Charlie Rouse - Unsung Hero

[tonym]

Last week:

Thanks Al! A Christmas album I enjoy

&

for less than £30!

[thomastreichler]

Nat King Cole - The Complete After Midnight Sessions (Essential Jazz Classics)

Coleman Hawkins - With The Red Garland Trio (Prestige)

Coleman Hawkins - Hawk Eyes! (OJC)

Nicki Parrott and Rossano Sportiello - People Will Say We're In Love (Arbors)

Frank Rosolino / Carl Fontana - Trombone Heaven (Uptown)

Thad Jones - New York-Detroit Junction (Blue Note)

Clark Terry -Serenade To A Bus Seat (Riverside)

Toots Thielemans - Columbia Jazz 1955-1978 (Columbia)

Various Artists - The Jazz Piano (Mosaic)

[EKE BBB]

Nicki Parrott and Rossano Sportiello - People Will Say We're In Love (Arbors)

Please, report back on the new Sportiello when you listen to it. I really loved his debut album on Arbors!

[ejp626]

Jimmy Heath - Really Big

Thad Jones - Magnificent Thad Jones

Johnny Griffin - NYC Underground

[thomastreichler]

Nicki Parrott and Rossano Sportiello - People Will Say We're In Love (Arbors)

Please, report back on the new Sportiello when you listen to it. I really loved his debut album on Arbors!

I will do. I already have his two solo records on Arbors and Jazz Connaisseur and love them both. So I am looking forward to this new effort.

Edited December 10, 2007 by Tommy T

[Matthew]

Grateful Dead:

--- Two From The Vault.

--- Terrapin Limited.

--- Fallout From the Phil Zone.

This last purchase completes my collect of all the official cds out there, except for the 10 cd Complete Fillmore West 1969, which I'm hoping someday will come down in price, or Rhino will re-release it next year. Now it's time to get serious on the concerts.

[Niko]

wilbur ware - the chicago sound (ojc)

surprised to see this was still around

[Brute]

"Accent on Tenor Sax" - Lucky Thompson

and

A Famous Jazz Party 1958 (Shavers/Hawkins)

FYI, Jazzloft.com is having a sale, all import CDs are 50% off! (this includes lonehill, gambit, jazz factory, etc.)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, I had a Virgin voucher for my brthday, so finally got around to going in to buy a record. Good grief! Virgin is now called Zavvi - the rumour is that Branson flogged the firm because he knew it was going down the tube and wanted it to go down under someone else's flag so much that he chucked in fifty million quid's worth of training as an enticer. Nick, at Spillers told me several weeks ago that I'd have difficulty spending the voucher. I did. There was literally only one album in the blues, jazz and world music sections to get. This one.

It's OK - it's a recent set re-recording a lot of numbers of which I already have Baobab's original versions. I've got to say, the new performances aren't as good as the originals but, hell, the band's been together for well nigh forty years, with few personnel changes, and I'm not going to say that it's wrong for them to get paid by an English record company for remaking their old stuff that appeared on Senegalese labels. Nor am I going to refuse to support the effort and deny the guys their probably small royalties.

Though, probably, I could have gone into the Urban section and picked up a Jill Scott

MG

[Guest Bill Barton]

Curse these sales that keep popping up!! Jazz Loft is dumping its inventory of Gambit, Jazz Factory, Lonehill Jazz and Definitive CDs for 40%-50% off and of course, I couldn't resist picking up a few 2-CD sets. With all these CD buys lately I think I've pre-spent my Christmas money!

Indeed, I might as well give Alan Lawrence the password to my PayPal account...

The Ornette complete Hillcrest sessions and the Rahsaan Third Dimension aka Triple Threat plus Introducing are my latest acquisitions. This is a helluva sale, by the way, a ton of good-to-great material at very reasonable prices.

[paul secor]

Ordered this morning:

Beethoven: Early String Quartets - Takacs 4tet

Don Lanphere/Fats Navarro/Leo Parker/Al Haig: Prestige First Sessions Volume 1

Curtis Counce: Exploring the Future

[EKE BBB]

Ordered this morning:

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Don Lanphere/Fats Navarro/Leo Parker/Al Haig: Prestige First Sessions Volume 1

...

You won't regret it, Paul!

The Don Lanphere sides are very interesting, and Leo Parker's "Mona Lisa" is worth the price of the disc itself. Needless to say anything on the Haig and the Navarro sides, obviously.

[paul secor]

Ordered this morning:

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Don Lanphere/Fats Navarro/Leo Parker/Al Haig: Prestige First Sessions Volume 1

...

You won't regret it, Paul!

The Don Lanphere sides are very interesting, and Leo Parker's "Mona Lisa" is worth the price of the disc itself. Needless to say anything on the Haig and the Navarro sides, obviously.

Yeah - I let this go for so long - first as a LP 2-fer, then as a CD - I figured I'd better go for it before it disappeared. Looking forward to listening to it.

[mikeweil]

Finally scored this rare LP on ebay:

Been looking for this for several years now - there was a "buy it now" copy but at too high a price for the condition it was in, and now there were two copies offered - I had one competitor while bidding, and he outbid me on on the first copy, and I had the suspicion he wanted the second as well (?) but backed out at $ 41.00 - the next to last gap in my Don Patterson collection closed!

Now cross your fingers for me that it arrives in time for Xmas!