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July 19th: 1929: Louis Armstrong with Carroll Dickerson's Orchestra records Ain't Misbehavin' (Okeh) 1996: (19th- 21st) Carla Bley Big Band in Perugia- Goes to Church (Watt)

I would second that opinion!

Uh... You don't own this album, then?

Seriously, scrimp and save every penny you can, sell off unwanted possessions, work overtime, whatever it takes, to get the Mercury box. One of the most consistently enjoyable collections of music I own. It will give you many hours of rewarding listening. After that, there was a twofer of Rip, Rig & Panic (which is in the box) with Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (which isn't) on Emarcy. Inflated Tear (Atlantic) Kirk's Work with Jack McDuff (Prestige/ OJC) The Jaki Byard Experience (Prestige/ OJC) Roy Haynes- Out of the Afternoon (Impulse) Charles Mingus- Oh Yeah (Atlantic) Some of the later Atlantic is a little patchy but he usually does something worthwhile on all of them. And, while it's not in the front rank of Rahsaan appearances, try and catch his guest spot with Mingus on C Jam Blues from Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic, 1974)... Kirk totally tears up George Adams with hilarious consequences!

How about forming an all-robot band? http://www.me.gatech.edu/mechatronics_lab/.../group3/content

Planet of the Pigs!

July 18th: 1946: Sarah Vaughan with the George Treadwell Orchestra record for Musicraft (I've Got a Crush On You, I'm Through With Love, Everything I Have Is Yours, Body and Soul) 1980: Abdullah Ibrahim at Montreux Jazz Festival- Dollar Brand at Montreux (Enja) 1990: Stan Getz in Munich with Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Alex Blake, etc- The Final Concert Recording (TDK, DVD only)

Lazily written by an ill-informed pseud. How dare he mock Earth Wind and Fire's wardrobe!

One track from this (Round Midnight) now on the 2CD deluxe edition of 'Round About Midnight) 1956: Tubby Hayes- After Lights Out (Tempo), reissued on The Swinging Giant Volume 2, Jasmine 1962: Bill Evans- Interplay (Riverside), 2nd session 1973: Dave Brubeck- one track from All The Things We Are (Atlantic) 1986: Miles Davis at Montreux Festival- Complete Montreux Recordings (Warner Bros) 1991: Miles at Nice Jazz Festival, same box 1990: (17th to 19th) Pharoah Sanders- Welcome to Love (Timeless) 1996: (17th & 18th) Kenny Burrell- Live at the Blue Note (Concord)

1963: Jimmy Smith & Kenny Burrell- Blue Bash (Verve), 1st session 1963: Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie- Ella & Basie (Verve), 2nd session

Wow! My ex-girlfriend gave me a copy of this album (she said the saxophone solo on- I think- the opening track sounded like me! ). We broke up not long after and I haven't played it since... Will have to revisit.

Whatever you call it, that's one weird looking axe...

Oh, and his guitar is one of the oddest things I've ever seen!

I've only got a couple of Charlie Hunter things but I like them. There's a good DVD out as well, Right Now Live which lets you study his technique up close... it really doesn't sink in listening to the records but watching him is quite staggering. The first few tracks are solo guitar, the rest is with a good band with John Ellis on tenor & bass clarinet and Gregoire Maret on harmonica.

I always think I'm neutral about him, but then I'll listen to one of his albums (as leader or sideman) and enjoy it. Best taken in small doses, though, I find.

Great flute player, too.

1942: Lester Young and Nat 'King' Cole record for Philo/ Aladdin 1963: Ella Fitzgerald with Count Basie: Ella Basie (Verve) 1995: Esbjorn Svensson Trio in Arhus- EST Live (ACT) 1999: EST again, at Montreux- EST Live (ACT)

Yep. The titles referred to the albums they were on. Looking at it now I should have made that clearer.

Yep, same session. Brownie sits out which is why it doesn't appear on his discography. BN507-0 tk.12 It Could Happen to You BN BLP 5028, BLP 1506

July 14th: 1926: New Orleans Bootblacks (same line-up as the New Orleans Wanderers session the previous day) record for Columbia 1930: Jelly Roll Morton records for Victor 1949: Woody Herman records for Capitol, reissued on Keeper of the Flame 1953: Shorty Rogers records four titles for the soundtrack of The Wild One, issued as an RCA EP 1954: Another session for Louis Armstrong- Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia) 1955: Cannonball Adderley records for Savoy, issued on Presenting Cannonball Adderley, Discoveries and Spontaneous Combustion 1960: Duke Ellington- Unknown Session (Columbia) 1962: Horace Silver- three tracks from The Tokyo Blues (Blue Note) 1964: Paul Desmond & Jim Hall- Glad to be Unhappy and Easy Living 1977: All from the Montreux Jazz Festival:- Clark Terry- Montreux '77 (Pablo), also on DVD Dizzy Gillespie Jam Session with Jon Faddis & Milt Jackson- Montreux '77 (Pablo) Ella Fitzgerald- Montreux '77 (Pablo), also on DVD 1980: Sonny Stitt- Sonny's Back (Muse) 1985: Miles Davis at Montreux, included in the Complete Montreux boxed set 1986: Michel Petrucciani at Montreux with Wayne Shorter, Jim Hall- Power of Three (Blue Note) 1989: Miles Davis in Preugia- Live Tutu (Suisa)

July 13: 1926: New Orleans Wanderers (Johnny Dodds, Lil Armstrong, Kid Ory, George Mitchell, Joe Clark & Johnny St. Cyr) record for Colmbia ('Gatemouth', 'Perdido Street Blues', 'Papa Dip', 'Too Tight') 1935: Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton & Gene Krupa record 'Body and Soul' 1954: Another session for Louis Armstrong- Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia) 1977: Benny Carter at Montreux Jazz Festival- Montreux '77 (Pablo), also available on DVD 1977: Milt Jackson & Ray Brown at Montreux- Montreux '77 (Pablo), also on DVD 1977: Trio of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams record Ron Carter- Third Plane (Milestone) and Herbie Hancock- Trio (CBS Japan) 1991: Keith Jarrett at Vienna State Opera house- Vienna Concert (ECM) 1996: (13th - 15th) John Abercrombie at Visiones, NY- Tactics (ECM)

Forget? I didn't know anything about it!

Apparently the recording sessions were videoed, so you never know...

Just noticed this has been discussed before: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=song%20x&st=0

I'd heard it was on the way, but I just came across it on the Nonesuch website... A new version of Song X, the rather wonderful collaboration of Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman. The original eight tracks have been remixed and remastered and... wait for it... there are six additional tracks from the sessions! Police People All of Us The Good Life Word from Bird Compute The Veil Metheny's been quoted as saying the extra stuff is as good, if not better, than the original tracks. August release date, apparently. With the Tubbs reissues, the Miles Cellar Door box and the Monk/ Coltrane this is gonna be an expensive few months...