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  2. buyers - Nat Cole Box?

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    Why is the Bear Family box so expensive ($250 for 11 CDs on CD Universe)?

    http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...ic&frm=lk_jzmtz

    Bear Family sets are always expensive, but they are lavish in the extreme. Generally, the pricing is about $20.00 per disc, and there is usually a hard cover "coffee table" style book which is priced as an additional 1 or 2 CD's. The books in recent sets I've seen are amazing - 100 or more pages loaded with full color pictures, album covers, label shots, foreign releases. lengthy essays by well known writers, full discographical details, etc. I've got many other Bear Family sets, and they are the last word on any given artist.

    As much as I love Nat, I've got so much of this already on vinyl and CD that I won't be springing for this.

  3. Atlantic mono pressings

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Maybe the Vortex albums were produced differently, although it was an Atlantic subsidiary (or was it?).

    Yes, it was. IIRC, both it and the later Embryo label were Herbie Mann "production" ventures. William Fischer was also involved in Embryo pretty heavily, it seems.

    Embryo was certainly Herbie Mann's baby, but I think most of the Vortex sessions were supervised by George Avakian, some by Nesuhi Ertegun, and at least one (Corea's) by Mann.

  4. BFT 34 Discussion

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    BFT 34

    I usually listen straight through to these BFT discs twice in the car over a couple of days, and then bring the disc inside and play it on my computer through earphones while typing up my responses. Sometimes on the third play through I hear things I missed the first two times, like the countoff at the beginning of track 1!

    1. Trumpet sounds like Kenny Dorham a bit, but I can’t identify the performance. A very nice intro to this baffling set!

    2. Bass intro, nice sound. The whole thing has an early-60’s feel, but by the drum sound it seems like it might be a more recent recording. Again, a nice track, although I haven’t a clue who’s playing.

    3. A nice light trio performance. My first thought was Roland Hanna with George Mraz. What is this tune? I’m sure I’ve heard it before.

    4. This didn’t kill me – a little too aggressive for my tastes. Pianist has got chops, don’t care for the alto player. Interesting chart.

    5. Well, this certainly sounds like vintage hard bop side, with the horns panned hard left & right. Both the trumpet have nice, if brief, solo spots, but they don’t seem familiar to me. During the second play of this BFT I began to suspect that maybe we are listening to primarily European (or perhaps all French) recordings. This has all the earmarks of an original US session, but I’m frustrated that I can’t pin down the players.

    6. “My Romance”. The alto might be Gary Foster, which blows my all-Euro theory out of the water. Nice lyrical tenor. I’d like to hear more tracks like this on BFT’s, and fewer of the modal tunes, old fart that I am! :w

    7. This starts out like “House of the Rising Sun”. A pretty, folksy melody. I think the trumpet may be Bill Coleman, and maybe Guy Lafitte on tenor? Liked this more each time I heard it.

    8. A nice tenor player. The tune starts out like “Crazy He Calls Me”, but then goes elsewhere. They must be well known, because it sounds like they’re playing in a theater to a pretty large audience.

    9. Sorry, this does nothing for me. Some French hipster, with a little alto solo to tease us. No thanks. -_-

    10. Semi-free tenor & piano, not too enticing. (yawn)

    11. Now here’s a vintage track, 1950’s. Can’t place the trumpet, but I swear the trombone sounds like Jimmy Knepper, and the tenor is very reminiscent of Yusef Lateef. I know they both played with Mingus, but this ain’t Mingus! Or is it???

    12. “How About Me”. The singer enunciates nicely, has good intonation, but is a little bland. Aside from the giants, I’m not good at identifying singers.

    13. Well, this certainly recalls many mid-1960’s sides groove-wise, and the guitar is very much in a Jimmy Raney (or possibly Jim Hall) bag, but I have no idea who this is. The tenor didn’t do much for me, but I like the guitar.

    14. Another 1950’s track, and a familiar tune, I think. The organ took me by surprise. Nice tenor, with that swinging old feel. Oh yes, there’s another tenor! These guys have very similar styles. Hmm, maybe an early Ronnie Scott & Tubby Hayes side?

    15. This one is not recorded very well, or perhaps remastered badly. Now that I’m hearing it on headphones, I can hear voices during the performance, but no audience. Maybe this is a demo or rehearsal recording, issued many years later. It sounds like some early “cool” jazz, with a trumpet that might be Tony Fruscella, the alto has got elements of Lee Konitz.

    16. Another French guy, or maybe it’s the same guy as #9. I think they are the same. Nothing to grab me here. <_<

    A challenging set, Brownie! Now that I’ve weighed in, I can go back and read the responses from others.

  18. What's the difference between Cool and West Coast Jazz?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    "Cool jazz" describes a style of music. "West Coast Jazz" was a marketing term coined by Dick Bock of the Pacific Jazz label, specifically for his artists Gerry Mullligan and Chet Baker. Since the music of many (but not all) of the "West Coast" artists can be considered "cool", the terms have become interchangeable in some peoples' minds. They shouldn't be, since a fair amount of cool jazz actually originated elsewhere, and a number of California musicians did not play "cool" jazz.

  25. Finally it appears that people are understanding this will kill you.

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I smoked for fourteen years, starting when I was 16. Finally kicked the habit at 30, having quit for over a year twice only to pick up the habit again. It's a nasty and insidious habit, and every time I see a kid smoking, I'm disgusted as to how the kid has been duped (as I was) by the idea that it's "cool" to smoke.

    Have now been tobacco-free for much longer than I was hooked. :P

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