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here's the Heath quote from that interview (link still IS good):

Then go clean your ears! It's almost entirely hit for me!

Wordless vocals? That's Keith ... I think it's a mighty fine set - but obviously you'll need a few more of his Blue Notes that aren't included. To me, these albums show him close to his finest (which would be, I think, his earliest Milestone albums), and I guess by now they're not that easy to find, indivdually.

late Feb/early March 1955: Bill Carney's Hi-Tones (Bill Carney, John Coltrane, Shirley Scott, Albert "Tootie" Heath) Coltrane in an interview with Björn Fremer (1960) - not sure why Coltrane refers to it as a trio: September 1955, gig in Philadelphia: Jimmy Smith Trio (John Coltrane, unknown drummer) Odean Pope was Coltrane's successor (when he left to join Miles, first gig was September 27 to October 2 at Club Las Vegas, Baltimore, MD). Not sure this link is still working (lots of stuff blocked on my work computer) - it's from an interview conducted in 2000 with Heath: http://web.archive.org/web/20070928041509/http://www.iaje.org/article.asp?ArticleID=125 Supposedly, there's indeed a tape of the Carney band, but "Coltrane Reference" suggests the authors don't know it (not sure if there's any updates there - no updates on the 1955 page on David Wild's site)

The recent Storyville "100 Years-Forever Young" included tracks from a December, 1953 Boston date, but that is with Gildo Mahones on piano, not Horace Silver. too bad this Storyville "100 Years-Forever Young" info wasn't posted in the 'new releases' section 3 years ago. Hu? Don't understand ... it was definitely discussed, starting here: Not a bad place to discuss Pres and his music, I guess ...

well, the good thing about Selects is they're no good to use as drawing boards for kids in the back of the car

Glad to be on the safe side for once ... time to grab all those Selects you still want, I assume.

Oh shit, that's very sad!

That reminds of me JG who mentioned in some interview how he practised in a cork-coated room ... until he got his HUUUUUUUUUGE sound right in that, uhm, narrowing surrounding. And then when he came out of there .... BOOOOOM in your face!

off topic: anyone knows what's up with Reel Recordings? on topic: I got to know Downes via the great Reel disc of his ... off topic: and I'd really hate to see that label go! on topic: this new one has me interested, for sure, thanks for spreading word!

Yes, a reissue of all the 1960's Fontana releases with the Marte Roling covers. Now, THAT would be something! That's just what I had in mind! But there must be a multitude of reasons why that stuff is so rare (rights back at the musicians' being one? which would make this much more nightmarish than the Bley trio box, I guess ...)

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speaking of which ... since they did/do tread avant territory a bit more often: a Fontana set would be da shiznits!

Great news! And no, to my knowledge, no Boston material was part of the "usual" boots!

Sheesh! Some yurpeen dailys have a weekly selection of NYTimes articles (in english,of course) added ... and that totally clueless article made the cut - I can't quite believe that! And --- ouch, Larry, that video hurts the eyes and ears! Some of you may remember I once accused Don Byron of lack of clarinet technique, but by comparison he's a grand master in any respect. This is extremely awkward - and yes, most corny, too.

I'll be in in the next few days, Jim!

Mats Gustafsson Ken Vandermark Illinois Jacquet (edited for typo)

gee!

I know ... is there no Naxos edition?

It's all in the EMI ICON by Fournier - very well worth buying, in my opinion! Contents are listed here: http://emi-icons.com/5099962953924.php

Stumbled upon this post and also read your personal introduction on Mike's Prospero site and was wondering what you like about Francescatti's interpretation. I often find his tone uneven (Menuhin has the same problem as far as I'm concerned), and he throws in a lot of vibrato now and then. On the other hand Casadesus is wonderful, a great pianist. The Grumiaux/Haskil set is a golden standard for me, despite the not very good, hard sound. A great "older-style" interpretation of Beethoven's cello sonatas is the Fournier/Kempff set - in my opinion, of course I still find it very hard to talk sense as far as violinists go ... I've got no issues with tone or intonation of Menuhin or Francescatti. In fact I'd wish more of Francescatti's recordings were available! I've got both Music & Arts set (the 3CD compiling some Columbia studio recordings, mostly sonatas, and the 4CD set of live recordings of concertos), and I got the Masterworks 2CD set with some more concertos and I just love his overall feel, his touch, his way of approaching things in what to me seems to be a clean cut manner - "aufgeräumt", never pretentious, yet still rather "French" in feeling and tone. Fournier/Kempff was not on my radar, but Fournier/Gulda has been in my shopping cart for months. Guess I'll go for both, eventually ... but then I might try and find some HIP version of those sonatas, too, who knows

What group of records would you suggest, if I may ask?

the dumbing down dumbs itself down in the meantime ... (edited for dumb typos)

was ist das? that's Buddenbrooks, right?

I sure try not to, but Sir Paul is a rather difficult case ... time to dig out the Beatles mono box, I guess