Stefan Wood

Has anyone heard their music? From Dusty Groove (the bastards!):

These are absolutely essential: Dennis Brown - Money In My Pocket (2 cd set from Trojan) Gorgeous vocals and music from one of Jamaica's great artists. African Head Charge: A FANTASIC dub album. One of the great bands of the 80's, in any genre.

I saw Jackie McLean play a couple of years ago, also at the Vanguard. His chops were as good as ever. I don't think he would play if he couldn't give his best effort, even if it isn't the same as 10, 20 years ago.

The Jimmy Rushing vocal track on Ellington's Jazz Party always slays me! I like his other Columbia lps as well. I found a bunch of radio broadcast lps from the bebop era, like the Dragon lp Bebop enters Sweden, with Dizzy Gillespie big band, Chubby Jackson group, James Moody; Charlie Parker's 1949 Carnegie Hall concert, and others. Also, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars on Omega, which sounds real nice.

Dan, he's still alive and I think he's playing a gig this month!

Look for the seller kinggab. A few radio broadcast lps, Blue Notes, Sony Rollins RCA lps, etc.

I haunt that place like a bad ghost. It is good at times, poor at times, just depends on what they have in stock. They get good jazz cds very frequently -- it's just they sell just as fast.

Impressive, yes! Still, a starting bid of $49.99 for a Miles Davis 60's mono lp is way too high, even if it is mint....

Bertrand, You can go to www.naxos.com to look at their catalog. They include reviews by third party reviewers (which do contain good and bad) of most of their discs. Especially within the past five years, they have been issuing some top quality and award winning cds. The Bax symphonies and tone poems, the American Classics program (especially Barber and Gloria Coates), Spanish Classics (Turina and Rodrigo), are all great.

It's all subjective. We listen to music on different kinds of stereo equipment, have different "ears," even listen differently. There are people who find nothing wrong with the Mosaics, there will be people who think that the Japan reissues are the best. This kind of discussion always goes around in circles.

I have seen so far: Ella Fitzgerald Gerry Mulligan Wayne Shorter Jason Moran Greg Osby Bill Heid John Patton Ronnie Cuber Lou Donaldson Donald Byrd Joe Chambers Ray Barretto Tito Puente Peter Brotzmann William Parker Michael Thomas Rene McLean Jackie McLean Cedar Walton McCoy Tyner Stefon Harris George Russell Cecil Taylor Malachai Thompson Sam Rivers Odeon Pope and more that I can't recall right now.

Amon Duul (version I, not II). And crank it LOUD!!!

I'm looking for blindfold tests #1, 3-5. Can someone help? I can provide blanks.

I just saw this on the Jazzmatazz site: NEW Albert Ayler - Complete Live at Slug's Saloon Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27 NEW Sonny Criss - Lost Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27 — with five bonus tracks NEW Eric Dolphy - Complete Memorial Album Sessions (Lonehill) Apr 27 NEW Bob Dorough & Sam Most Quartet - Complete Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27 — with four bonus tracks NEW Harry Edison & Charlie Shavers - Complete at Midnight & At Riverside Sessions (Lonehill) Apr 27 NEW Duke Ellington - 1967 European Tour: Complete Teatro Sistina Concert - 2 CDs (Lonehill) Apr 27 NEW Booker Little - New York Session (Lonehill) Apr 27 — with one bonus track NEW Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer - Complete Live in Rome Concert (Lonehill) Apr 27 NEW Jack Teagarden & Bobby Hackett - Complete 1950s Studio Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27 What label is this? Couldn't find a website or any information regarding the cds. For instance, is the Booker Little session the same as the one he did with Donald Byrd?

I took a chance on this one and it was well worth it. I'm still absorbing the first and third discs, saving the second for later -- my ears have been opened to yet another group of solid musicians. I will definitely have to look for the studio sessions, if they exist on cd.

Damn straight! Monk and Blakey were a GREAT combination.

Alejo, Sent you PM.

I have the following for sale: Rod Williams - Hanging in the Balance (Muse) (w/ Marty Ehrlich, Graham Haynes) $6 Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra - The Definitive Thad Jones (Musicmasters) $6 Mel Lewis Sextet - The Lost Art (Musicmasters) $6 Mike Cuozzo - Mighty Mike (Savoy) (w/ Eddie Costa, Vinnie Burke, Kenny Clarke, Ronnie Ball) $7 XXXXJoe Harriott Double Quintet - Indo-Jazz Suite (Koch) $7 Black Chicago Big Bands 1922-29 - "Hot Stuff" (Frog) $8 Stan Getz & Friends (Compact Jazz Verve Series) $6 XXXXCecil Taylor - Indent (Freedom) $7 Stanley Turrentine - Never Let Me Go (McMaster Blue Note) $5 Willie Bobo - Bobo's Beat (Roulette Blue Note reissue - with Clark Terry, Joe Farrell) $7 Jimmy McGriff - Feelin It (Milestone - with Ron Cuber, Dave Newman, Melvin Sparks) $8 SEALED Booker Ervin - Cookin' (Savoy - w/ Richard Williams, Horace Parlan, George Tucker, Dannie Richmond) SEALED $10 The Trio (Chiaroscuro - Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, Bobby Rosengarden) $7 Dizzy reece - Comin On! (Blue Note Connoisseur) $8 OTB - Spiral Staircase (Blue Note) $12 Geri Allen - Maroons (Blue Note) $9 Papa John DeFrancesco - Hip Cake Walk (High Note) $8 Slam Stewart and Major Holley - Two Big Mice (Black & Blue) $7 Hank Jones - I Remember You (Black & Blue) $7 non jazz - Johnny Pacheco - Early Rhythms (Charly) $5 Husker Du - New Day Rising (SST) $8 James Carr - The Complete Goldwax Singles (Kent - great great 60's soul music!) $8 Johnny Taylor - Lifetime (3 cds set from Fantasy/Stax) $20 XXXX = on hold I accept paypal and money orders. Shipping is $2 for 1-3 cds, $3.50 for 4+ cds. PM if you see something you want. Thanks!

Nice find. They are all top notch musicains -- if there is no label, it possibly could be Tico, Alegre or even Fania records (60s' music).

I have Cosmic Music, but as an Impulse pressing, from the early 70's (black label/orange circle thing). So it was reissued once, but early on?

Question- if Cucusna doen't "care" about remastering, then why the hell are they putting out Van Gelder reissues? I don't consider myself an audiophile, but I am no longer satisfied with the sound of certain reissues (even TOCJs, which popularity on this board baffles me), but I have, with rare exception, been always satisfied with the Mosaics and many of the Blue Notes. McMaster vs whomever is just anal fussing. Sorry, but I just have to rant.

I agree about the strings on the Cooper/Shank -- music for insomniacs...... Been LOVING the Selects so far! The Curtis Amy, Carmell Jones, Dizzy Reece are all fantastic -- and the price has been nice too.....

I'm sort of tootin my own horn here, but I thought this was crazy. I just sold two Japanese pressing Verve REISSUES of two Buddy DeFranco/Sonny Clark lps for a total of $140. REISSUES!!!!

Gary, there are plenty of good Tubby Hayes sessions on cd. Jasmine records has done a good job of reissuing 50's and early 60's British bop music. There are even a couple of Dizzy Reece led sessions as well. Fontana reissues, etc.

Looks like the Liebman and Reece Mosaic Selects have been shipped.