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The hard drive on my CD crashed and had to be replaced. If we converse by email, I have lost your email address from my address book. Please send to john.felser@verizon.net. Thanks!

I'll put in a good word for Chewy. I sold him the Grant Green CD he was looking for, and the exchange was flawless and pleasant.

Hank with Monk? Can that be right? Or did they throw in some Hank radio broadcast from somewhere else? Breaking down the syntax in their listing, it sounds like some broadcast of Monk from Philly, 1960, plus other miscellaneous broadcasts, apparently from other miscellaneous artists. Gives credence to the sessions stated by those much more knowledgeable than me about these sorts of things.

Amazing stuff, of course. I have more CD's by Blakey than by anyone else - might be over 100. This was his first classic. And anything by Clifford Brown needs to be treasured.

the McLean, Handy, Washington, Young, Smith all sound great to me. Also, the Art Blakey Roulettes, especially 'Gypsy Folk Tales', which introduced the mind-blowing Bobby Watson to the world (at least my world). Also, the missing McCoy Tyner and Bobby Hutcherson 70's Blue Note material if the Mosaic Selects aren't going to happen (they keep getting bumped).

According to my old Prestige disco Stitt didn't play on them and they were released under Ammons' name. I have the LP version of the Ammons 78 era and the credits there confirm this. Interesting, as the credits on the All-Star Sessions CD name Stitt as the tenor.

Best to get them on the other CD's mentioned.

Fabulous recording. The whole thing makes up the last two CD's of the Elvin Jones Mosaic set. Mainly tenor, yes. Exclusively, I can't recall, and don't have the set here in front of me. Liebman is superb, too. A great example of two tenors utilizing the lessons and vocabulary of 'Trane in a very positive way, five years after his death, and after the dust had settled down, so to speak. There's some soprano on 'Fancy Free', but I can't remember if it's just Liebman. The entire set is almost all double tenors, which Elvin did better than anyone. Farrell, Coleman, Liebman, Grossman.... The Mosaic is spectacular, and somehow still in print many years later, I think.

But I think it's a big improvement over the original CD, isn't it? I picked up the Aretha, very happy with it.

For the 99% of us who don't have unlimited funds, if you can buy the 7 individual Hill CD's for $70 and sell the Mosaic for $200, that's $130 that can be used for groceries, mortgage, gasoline, etc.

Sure. I'm sure most people here understand what I'm saying on this.

I wasn't able to find it using the site search engine. If someone could post a link to it, I'd appreciate it.

Found a website named itsaboutmusic.com which is offering digital downloads and CD's of some artists I have been seeking obscure work by (It's A Beautiful Day, Ten Wheel Drive & Genya Raven). They also have jazz available by several artists, including Philly mainstays John Blake, Sumi Tonooka, and Byard Lancaster. Has anyone acquired CD's from this site? Are they legit? I thought the It's A Beautiful Day titles were tied up in litigation with Matthew Katz, and the the Ten Wheel Drive titles were just flat-out never released on CD. Thanks for any info you can give me on this.

Good clue there of course. Looks like Jimmy Smith had like 13 albums released on Blue Note in 1957.

I know that several of the Pacific Jazz CD releases contain restored full-length performances, so I guess that would indicate the editing was done on the masters. I'm sure you'll get a much more complete and precise answer from others on the board.

It's not that far from "On The Corner" to a lot of things, although again, not too many of them are "jazz". Which is what my problem is with it, I think. It's why I can't really "hear" hip-hop either. Robert Christgau wrote (at least) once that the music you enjoy most will be that which reflects the rhythm of life as you hear it, and for me that isn't funk. I realize it is for hundreds of millions of people. Talking Heads really weren't a big item for me either, more of a novelty. It's not that I'm too old to have never enjoyed this stuff ( I was born in '54), but rather that it isn't how I'm wired. "Heart Of The Sunrise" and prime Motown provide my rhythms rather than Talking Heads and George Clinton. Helpful comments from all to make me understand that my objections are subjective rather than objective.

I've heard that some of the 80's live stuff was far superior to the studio albums from that period, but haven't wanted to lay down $180 for the Montreux set to find out if I agree.

Has anyone really been that anxious for an 'On The Corner' box set? I own 'On The Corner' because it's Miles and I'm "supposed" to, but can't imagine sitting through 5-7 hours of it, and paying to do so. Yet, if/when the box set appears, I'll wait and get it from yourmusic.com because it's Miles and I'm "supposed" to. I'm glad he retired for awhile in '75 - gives me a natural jumping off point in his discography, so that I don't have to feel compelled to own the 80's stuff.

Same here. So much for 'upgrading.' In general, I think the old OJC's had amazingly good sound for the time. I haven't found the upgrades of the OJC labels and Blue Note and Impulse! to be the stunning sonic revelations that some of the rock upgrades (Byrds and Spirit and Dylan come to mind especially, also the 2fer European versions of the Elektra stuff like Paul Butterfield and Tim Buckley and Judy Collins) have been. Probably due to the simplicity of the original recording (no overdubs, etc.), though I am no expect on the subject, especially in terms of the people on this board!

Up with edits.

I'd buy it too, but I think in the case of someone like Teddy Charles, the right approach is to be thankful that so much of his work was made available again at all in the CD age.

Unforgivable error if you consider yourself a Hitchcock fan. I don't! I'm a Rod Serling guy (Twilight Zone and earlier).

I agree that one is their best, like all of the first four a lot, also the Model Shop stuff that was recorded during that period. A lot of their other stuff was good, but never measured up to the first four. I even like Feedback OK, even though it doesn't have Jay Ferguson or Randy California. But they lost something that they never regained when Ferguson left - the combination of him and California seemed to give them the magic. I have a real good concert DVD of them from the mid-80's (commercially available and inexpensive) which has Walter Egan ("Magnet and Steel") of all people playing bass, and doing a good job. Cass takes a great solo on "It's All The Same". The DVD is much too short, no extras, but excellent performance, good enough sound, and excellent picture. Legend has it that Cass had played with Thelonious Monk in the past, but I don't know anything about that for sure, and have never seen him in any jazz credits. He was in the Rising Sons with Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder just prior to Spirit. He was Randy California's stepfather, I believe. Mr. Clean - great appearance with that shaved head! They were truly one of the five or ten greatest groups of the sixties (which for me means of all of rock history). http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...377452175&BAB=E

Agreed on the cost of Criss Cross. I don't actually buy them either, but trade for them at every opportunity, and just find them to be a consistently strong body of work. Don't know that I've ever been really disappointed in one. That's how I used to be with Steeplechase back in the day also, really enjoyed them when I could get ahold of them, but couldn't afford to buy them outright. Except for the Live Tony Williams, I'm actually not that enamored of his later Blue Note albums, and the ones J-Mac did with Tyner and Onishi seemed overly polite to me. I do like Onishi's other stuff on the label, maybe best of all their latter day releases. Andrew Hill is someone I respect more than actually listen to, truth be told. Some of the Rosnes stuff is pretty good, but I want more than pretty good from the greatest of all jazz labels! Can't wait for the Tolliver. Can't remember the last time I looked forward to a new jazz recording so much!

I actually used that tune as the background on my answering machine message for a long time back in the day. Also used 'Oliloqui Valley' for a long time.