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Crescent - right there in the top rank of Coltrane albums!

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now listening to: J. J. Johnson playing Monk's "Misterioso".

Is it the equivalent of the "Like Sonny" CD on Roulette ? Well, I don't know, but "Simple Like" from the Roulette disc has the same melody as "Like Sonny" from Coltrane Jazz, although, of course, these are different recording sessions with different personnel. The three cuts from the Roulette LP, along with an alternate take of "Exotica", are on the Like Sonny CD. That CD is filled out by a Wilbur Harden LP originally issued on Jubilee. Don't know if the Morgans have ever made it to CD. Thanks for the information, Paul.

Is it the equivalent of the "Like Sonny" CD on Roulette ? Well, I don't know, but "Simple Like" from the Roulette disc has the same melody as "Like Sonny" from Coltrane Jazz, although, of course, these are different recording sessions with different personnel.

wow, that's a strong assessment (not knowing how you like other coltrane)... are they available on cd? I don't know if they're available on CD. I'm sure someone will be able to tell us. As to my liking for/familiarity with Coltrane, I have 10 LPs and 3CDs and - yes - those three tracks are the ones I'd grab if the house started burning! I have a musician friend who knows his Coltrane well and he's of the same opinion.

John Coltrane/Lee Morgan (Swing/Roulette) On Side 1 Coltrane leads a group which preceded the classic quartet. It has Tyner, Billy Higgins and Steve Davis and they play three Coltrane compositions, "Exotica", "One and Four" and "Simple Like". Although these tracks are not particularly well known, they are of the highest quality, Coltrane playing with amazing passion and they are my favorite pieces of Coltrane on record. Anybody else a fan for them? Side 2 has a quintet of Morgan, Shorter, Timmons, Jimmy Rowser and Art Taylor.

The only Sam Rivers in my collection is on Miles in Tokyo (CBS) where he plays some tremendous stuff.

Jazz Library: Dizzy Gillespie online from BBC Radio 3. Critic Alyn Shipton discusses Dizzy's records with bandleader Pete Long of the tribute band Gillespiana.

Bill Harris and Friends (OJC/Fantasy) With Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Red Mitchell and Stan Levey in 1957. Five master musicians!

Bill Harris and Friends (OJC/Fantasy) with Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Red Mitchell and Stan Levey has one of the most bizarre tracks I can recall. "Just One More Chance" is just over 2 minutes long and begins with Ben stating the melody in his silken style. Bill plays answering phrases, but they are very loud and with exaggerated vibrato. Eventually Ben stops playing and we get the following exchange as the rhythm section continues to play: Ben: Hey Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill: Yeah Ben? Ben: You feel alright? Bill: Yeah Ben. I feel good. How's yourself? Ben: I'm pretty good, you know. A little backache now and then, but do you feel alright? Bill: I feel good. Ben: Uh huh. What are you doing now? Bill: Well, I'm still with Woody. Ben: Woody who? Bill: Oh, you know. Ben: Uh, oh yeah. Bill: Well Ben, listen it's been nice talking to you. Ben: Yes, same here man. Bill: I'll see you around. Ben: Yeah, around sometime. The horns then take the tune out, but now Ben has lapsed into the same comic style as Bill.

Now Sonny Buxton is featuring a string of Joe Henderson tracks. What a wonderful tenor player Joe Henderson was!

Now switched to Sonny Buxton on KCSM. Now playing: John Coltrane, Soultrane with Red Garland and Paul Chambers.

Your list seems to be of tunes with fairly simple, easily memorable melodic lines. Perhaps the boredom factor is more easily kept at bay with complex, "unsingable" lines; e.g. Charlie Parker's "Confimation", "Relaxin' at Camarillo" and Monk's "Four In One". Most in your list are from the pre-bop era with simpler harmonic structures, so perhaps this is also a reason why they don't last too well for the jazz-attuned listener.

Jazz Line-Up from BBC Radio 3. Featuring vibists Roger Beaujolais and Jim Hart.

Despite my admiration for Benny Golson, I'd prefer "Whisper Not" to be whisper not again.

What can I say about being 68? Well, I suppose it means I was around to see Jack Teagarden, Johnny Hodges, Lee Morgan, Jimmy Rushing, Ben Webster, Bobby Timmons, Paul Desmond, Roland Kirk ...

Dexter Gordon, Daddy plays the Horn (Bethlehem) Recorded Hollywood 1955 with Kenny Drew, Leroy Vinnegar and Lawrence Marable.

Fopp's closed now - no doubt flogging cheap stuff to Niko MG Which Fopp - Cardiff? Manchester's was re-opened by HMV (but retaining Fopp's name) and from what Niko says it sounds as if Cambridge's is OK too. Ah, interesting. I heard that the whole chain closed. Some sites might have been bought up by other firms, of course. Cardiff definitely hasn't been reopened - not that it was worth a wank anyway. MG IIRC HMV reopened about eight of the eighty or so stores in the former Fopp chain. These were the still profitable ones and tended to be in places like London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, etc. Perhaps Cambridge fell in the profitable category because of all those students!

Fopp's closed now - no doubt flogging cheap stuff to Niko MG Which Fopp - Cardiff? Manchester's was re-opened by HMV (but retaining Fopp's name) and from what Niko says it sounds as if Cambridge's is OK too.

Have now got Lee Katzman Meets Supersax and find the following information in the liner notes which links in with what's already been said in this thread: "Recordings featuring Lee Katzman: Jive for Five, Bill Holman (Andrex Records) Critic's Choice, Pepper Adams (World Pacific Records) Jazz in a Weather Vane, Jimmy Rowles (Andrex Records) Back to Balboa, Stan Kenton (Capitol Records) Skabadabba, Bob Dorough (Pinnacle Records) Bill Holman Great Big Band, Bill Holman (Capitol Records) Live at the Summit, Terry Gibbs Dream Band (Verve Records)"

i feel my first credit card is coming nearer as well, always avioded one for reasons of (lack of) self-control... while in britain i bought much more diverse stuff than i usually buy, guess because there was a half-decent brick and mortar store (Fopp) and buying there always leads to other results, and there was this nice sale of whatmusic albums at 4 pounds... 23 pounds well spent on Jacques & Micheline Pelzer - Song for Rene Open Sky Unit - Open Sky Unit Vitor Assis Brasil - Tajeto (the winner of the bunch so far) The very best of Ethiopiques (2CD) Beth Orton - Central Reservation (first cd of pop music i bought in quite some time; i used to really like "Stars all seem to weep", smoother than i had remembered but some nice songs) 7 pounds i should maybe have avoided Deodato - Prelude Deodato 2 Deodato/Airto in Concert (haven't listen to most of the three so far) Paulo Moura Hepteto - Fibra Very profitable shopping, Niko. Fopp has always been excellent for bargains. It's the only UK store where I've ever bought a CD for as little as £3. (It was Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh, Intuition on Spanish Blue Note.) And, of course, at the moment as a Euroland shopper, you have a huge advantage when buying items priced in the sliding pound or dollar.

Finding KCR difficult to locate . Google gives me Kowloon-Canton railway or Kalamunda Community Radio, Western Australia. WKCR Thanks for the link! Better than Chinese railways!

A few years ago I traded in this old favorite for the CD version because of the extra tracks, but I lost the back cover photos of the group and the large scale image of that great black and white abstract painting on the front. shouldn't have done that!

Moody features as a sideman on two very contrasting albums in my collection. The first is the Howard McGhee Sextet's Moods With McGhee from 1947 with Milt Jackson, Hank Jones Ray Brown and J. C. Heard. It's a 10" LP on the French Guilde du Jazz label. The second is Tubby Hayes's Return Visit (i.e. to New York in 1962) on Fontana where the young British star is also joined by Roland Kirk, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.

Finding KCR difficult to locate . Google gives me Kowloon-Canton railway or Kalamunda Community Radio, Western Australia.