John L

Very sad news. RIP

Yes! Not to be confused with the Black & Blue album of the same name that was reissued on CD.

While I understand the reservations expressed here, it is still that case that 1960 was a very important a pivotal point in Coltrane's career. These recordings are therefore important for Coltrane fans even if the sound quality might hinder the pure listening enjoyment. If the tape that has already been circulating is any indicator, the sound quality might not be as bad as Bird at St. Nicks. John

It is kind of funny that none of the rock covers ever really picked up on Robert Johnson's original rhythms in Cross Road Blues, which, in my mind, are a primary source of the song's originality and power. Eric Clapton's dumbed down rhythms for it also became the foundation for most subsequent rock covers of the song. Give me the original, please.

I have a preference for the alternate take, myself. Most blues rock musicians inspired by Johnson who emerged in the 1960s never heard the originally released version. Did they need to? The first time I heard it was on the Roots Delta Blues compilation that you mention above.

Thanks for posting this. The Columbia 2011 release of the complete recordings was a major sonic improvement over the 1990 Roots'n Blues package. I don't really hear that much difference between this newly discovered disc and the 2011 release, but I guess that it might be a slight bit sharper and clearer.

Bird is one case where also having the alternates makes a lot of sense. Bird makes different takes sound very different. I also enjoy very much hearing Bird do successive takes of the same track in a row. For example, it is extremely rewarding to move with Bird as he spontaneously composes Bird of Paradise through three takes starting with All the Things You Are.

One of the reasons why Rocket 88 gets so much attention was an accident. One of the amplifiers blew out and created an unexpected distortion in the bass, which sounded like....Rock and Roll, or at least different than the song that they based it on: Jimmy Liggins' Cadillac Boogie.

Thanks, Allen. I'm certainly intrigued enough to keep listening to him.

I personally have the three discs that Lon posted above on Jazz Unlimited. But I assume that the newer set is the same, maybe with better sound.

This is a great set indeed. If you have the Mosaic Decca All Stars box, that doesn't do it justice at all, even though all of the studio tracks are there. You need the 3-disc set with the original ordering and the narration.

Sad news. RIP

Damn! RIP

Happy to help!

Wow, I didn't realize that the bluenote board archives still exist.

That was one of the very first books that I read about the Blues, and I still consider it to be one of the best. I PMed you.

Luckily, I have everything ripped and don't play CDs much anymore. But this is still a problem. If I had everything is alphabetical order, I could find stuff a lot better. Instead, I have this fetish of having everything in complicated suborders that approximate the chronological, stylistic, and geographic significance of each artist. I have no trouble locating my CDs of major artists who made lots of them (in my collection). But it is the more obscure artists, or artists for whom I have few CDs, that can be hard to locate.

Very sad to hear this. RIP Ebo Taylor.

I just re-listened to the first recording. While sound is indeed terrible at the very beginning, it gets significantly better. Loud audience voices are the primary distraction. The music is fantastic.

Thanks, Romualdo! I actually downloaded at lot of that first session somewhere online. I can't remember where. I don't have any of the second session, where I presume the pending Giant Steps and Satellite are coming from.

Yes, and now we need Mosaic to come along and do the exact same thing that they did for the Dean Beneditti recordings!

The Sparks Brothers first recorded it in the 1930s under its current title. Memphis Slim reworked it somewhat, although he called the song "Nobody Loves Me."

Yes, there is one on YouTube. Somehow I missed it.

Actually, my reaction was just the opposite. Holy shit!! As far as I know, there have so far been no known Coltrane live recordings of either of those two songs. Am I wrong?

Yea, it took me a long time to get through it. But, as Jim says, it does have value. A lot of work and research went into it.