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The left half of the cover is dark violet blue with large letters in white J G with the rest of the names in small type; right half is black with white type. Label is black with silver print and the matrix number is CHESS-LP-8681 or 82, respectively.

Phew! Just ordered my Chico Hamilton set ....

Just started reading Paris, Trance over the weekend: a funny, to the point account of a Londoner moving to Paris in summer when the city is almost deserted. If you've ever been in a similar situation you will recognize at least a part of yourself ....

You should have considered a Boogaloo Sisters Swimsuit Calendar first .....

Any details, sidemen, date?

Anybody have a list of the vinyl issues? Mike Fitzgerald's site doesn't have one - hard to believe .... or let's compile one here: UPTOWN LP/CD listing: UP 27.01 Joe Thomas – Raw Meat UP 27.02 J.R. Monterose - Live In Albany UP 27.03 John W. Bubbles – Back on Broadway UP 27.04 unissued UP 27.05 unissued UP 27.06 J.R. Monterose & Tommy Flanagan ... and a little pleasure (CD: Reservoir 109) UP 27.07 Dicky Wells – Lonesome Road UP 27.08 Hod O'Brien – Bits and Pieces (Reservoir) UP 27.09 Allan Eager - Renaissance UP 27.10 unissued UP 27.11 Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia - To Tadd With Love UP 27.12 Joe Thomas / Jay McShann – Blowin‘ In From K.C. UP 27.13 Haywood Henry – The Gentle Monster UP 27.14 Frank Wess / Johnny Coles - Two At The Top UP 27.15 Philly Joe Jones & Dameronia - Look Stop Listen UP 27.16 Pepper Adams – Live at Fat Tuesday’s (CD: Reservoir 113) UP 27.17 Don Sickler - The Music of Kenny Dorham (CD: Reservoir 111) UP 27.18 Charlie Rouse - Social Call (CD: UPCD 27.50) UP 27.19 Budd Johnson / Phil Woods - The Old Dude and the Fundance Kid UP 27.20 Barry Harris - For The Moment (CD: UPCD 27.47) UP 27.21 Al Grey / Buddy Tate – Just Jazz (Reservoir) UP 27.22 unissued UP 27.23 Don Joseph - One of a kind UP 27.24 Peter Leitch – Exhilaration (Reservoir) UP 27.25 Maria Muldaur - Transblucency UP 27.26 Kenny Barron - Autumn In New York (CD: UPCD 27.41) UP 27.27 Claudio Roditi – Claudio (LP and CD) UP 27.28 Carl Fontana - The Great Fontana (LP and CD) UP 27.29 Tommy Flanagan - Nights at the Vanguard (LP and CD) UP 27.30 Freddie Redd - Lonely City (LP and CD) UP 27.31 Pepper Adams - The Adams Effect (LP and CD) UP 27.32 Jimmy Gourley – Salute To The Bandbox (LP) / Left Bank of New York (CD) UPCD 27.33 An Uptown Christmas UPCD 27.34 Charlie Rouse - Soul Mates UPCD 27.35 Chet Baker - Boston, 1954 UPCD 27.36 Charlie Parker - Montreal 1953 UPCD 27.37 Densil Pinnock - I Waited for You UPCD 27.38 Serge Chaloff - Boston 1950 UPCD 27.39 Don Sickler - Night Watch UPCD 27.40 Sonny Clark - Oakland 1955 UPCD 27.41 Kenny Barron - New York Attitude (+) UPCD 27.42 Charlie Parker - Boston 1952 UPCD 27.43 Jack Sheldon - Playing for Change UPCD 27.44 Dodo Marmarosa - Pittsburgh 1958 UPCD 27.45 Coleman Hawkins - Jamestown 1958 UPCD 27.46 Lee Wiley - Music of Manhattan, 1951 UPCD 27.47 Barry Harris - For the Moment (+) UPCD 27.48 Charles ‘Baron’ Mingus - West Coast 1945-49 UPCD 27.49 Allen Eager - In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee 1947-53 UPCD 27.50 Charlie Rouse / Red Rodney - Social Call (+) Issues from UPCD 27.33 were CD only releases. Bruyninckx lists an unissued Feddie Redd trio session recorded the day after the sessions for UP 27.30. (+) markes an expanded CD issue. Some titles are now owned by Reservoir. Please post or PM your additions, I'll edit them in.

My greatest finds probably were: - a mint copy of the Larry Young Mosaic in a second hand record store for the equivalent of $ 30 !!! (later on I found the Shearing and Freddie Redd sets there!) - A.K.Salim's Afro-Soul Drum Orgy on Prestige, very good LP, with Yusef Lateef, Johnny Coles and Pat Patrick, at a store in Rome - an original pressing of Randy Weston's Bakton LP - Johnny Griffin's lone Argo LP

Buy it! If I were to review it in downbeat, i'd give it four stars: ****, meaning "very good", and I'm very (!) critical .... The only thing I think that could have been "better", or different: I would have programmed it differently (I dig odd time signatures, love to play them, but would have opened the CD with a straight tune), and, playing some drums myself, I prefer a more colorful snare and fuller bass drum sound, it's a little dry for my taste. But this is all I have to critize. I store my new CDs in a tower beneath the system and listen to them for a while before I file them away, and the Boogaloo Sisters stayed there for weeks!! I mean, buy it, order a second copy for a friend, it's one of the best organ combo CDs I've heard in a while, with a lot of styles from funk to straightahead to pensive to experimental, has a great guest soloist, and excellent core members, it hits right in the middle between SOULIVE and the Larry GoldingsTrio, covers a lot of ground, please reserve me a copy of the follow-up ....

A search in the Bruyninkcx Disco turned up some interesting items: Saxophones Inc. with Hal McKusick (on soprano!), Phil Woods, Al Cohn and a host of other great saxes The first jazz piano quartet with Maorris nanton, Bernie Leighton, Moe Wechsler and Irv Joseph Folk songs for far out folks by a Fred Katz ensemble featuring some fellows from the Chico Hamilton quintet as well as multiple guitars a record by the candoli Brothers with Jimmy Rowles, Gary Peacock and Shelly Manne backing up Funky Piano New Orleans Style by Alton Purnell with Red Callender, Plas Johnson and Earl Palmer - I sure would like to hear that one! David Allyn with large orchestra, Dave Terry arranging Danish Imports one of the few jazz records by Svend Asmussen and Ulrik Neumann as well as some Pete Rugolo, Shorty Rogers and other West Coast stuff - is that worthwhile resurrecting? not to mention the two Marty Paich records reissued on Discovery, and all the other stuff mentioned above. I'd sure risk a copy of the six items above ... but I doubt this would fit the Mosaic formats.

I too have never heard a second of Marsalis' opus, but voted for Herbie, nevertheless. Headhunters is a record that changed the music world, and I dig it and play it like crazy! All these guys are marvellous, and Harvey Mason and Bill Summers are the epitome of taste and funkiness!

Needless to say I'll order a copy, no matter from which part of the world, as long as it is the Uptown issue! I can't say enough good things about that Mingus issue and would threaten to kill anybody who attempted to buy any Spanish bootleg of it. Jim, I get your point! When I started collecting bebop, I always wondered how these huys sounded without the swing ryhthm sections the record companies engaged to play it safe, a appreciative as these players were ... now we're going to get a sample!

Thanks Jim for your reply. I wanted to ask about another Jane Ira Bloom recording you mixed but did not record. I thought you'd handle it that way. But I keep asking myself: what's wrong about the sound of a basement studio? Who wants it to sound like Carnegie Hall, the musicians, the producer, or is it a widespread sound esthetic you have to follow, or do you - or anybody else in the process - simply like it better that way? In a way, isn't that cheating? - A friend of mine had an organ CD made in a church in northern Germany sounding like a big cathedral but was surprised to find a small building with rather dry acoustics when he visited that particular church ... And: do YOU hear the difference, if it was recorded that way or in a small basement studio?

Let's hope he's just too busy; maybe the questions were not that interesting, something was too special for me, at least, but never mind ...

Jim, a rather general question: When you are mixing a record someone else has recorded, do you add reverb to the mix? And to what extent? Do you use reverb and how much when recording? Or do you add it only later in the mix, if you use it at all? Thanks ...

La incomparable, indeed. Another great loss, this is a sad year. R.I.P. Celia, aché .....

I liked Javon Jackson's organ combo CD on Blue Note with Larry Goldings, Dave Stryker and Billy Drummond, but how's this? Any comment by someone who has (listened to) it is appreciated .... Javon Jackson at Palmetto website

Okay Jim, what devil has made you tell us all this ?!?

Thanks for the many responses in such a short time! Very nice choices. After the first 50 posts I'll count them and post a list, so far Dexter Gordon and I guess I'll hang my tears out to dry top the list. Puzzles me Lester Young isn't getting more votes .....

Was listening to Lester Young quite often these days, and find his rendition of I Can't Get Started" from 1942 is the saxophone ballad that moves me the most. Now what is your all-time favourite saxophone ballad interpretation for the desert island? Only one please, yes, just one .... I know it's hard, but try and do your best.

Noone can join you on this couch as long as you're jumping in the middle spreading out to both sides ..... will you please keep still for a moment or two?

I remember this cookin' assistant from the old BBB days who's out of a job at the moment ....

At least he had his share of success and international fame before it was too late. But he was not a jazzman, but a sonero!!!

AFAIK the Stanley Turrentine Time LP was recorded at two sessions, with Tommy Flanagan at the piano on 4 of the 7 tracks. Couldn't it be that Bob Shad had the idea to have Max Roach back Stanley Turrentine on his debut LP, and Max then offered the brothers the job when part of his band gave notice?