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Rather less than more to be taken from Doug Ramsey's notes to the Mosaic box: OPUS DE FUNK: "Kamuca, Touff, a muted trumpet who may be Walp, and Woody are the soloists." I REMEMBER DUKE: only Woody and Nimitz are mentioned PIMLICO and COOL CAT: only Woody's fine clarinet is mentioned CAPTAIN AHAB: "Touff and Kenney (most likely), Kamuca and Hafer, Walp and Travis (I think) play tag. Woody pipes up, Nimitz and a trumpet player have a bit of Dixieland fun, and Flores boots the band to a big finish." BUTTERCUP (Mosaic-only): "Herman, Nimitz, Kamuca and Pierce do it justice." SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: "...with Herman and Bauer harmonizing the melody and Collin's full-bodied statement of the bridge. (...) Touff (...) Pierce (...) Herman SKINNED: just Flores is mentioned WHERE OR WHEN: no one mentioned

Happy Birthday, Mike! Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! :party:

I'll have a download, too, please - can't promise to post much though!

Happy Birthday, Hans! :party:

Happy Birthday, John! :party:

Playing last night's "Nuit Thelonious Monk" from France Musique - hosted by Franck Médioni, with Yves Buin (Monk biographer) being there and talking, as well as various pianists testifying... more details here: http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/ev/fiche.php?eve_id=285000151 The music (so far) has all been taken from regular releases, but the chatting is fairly interesting and it's great to hear such a big dose of Monk in one go!

A tongue-in-cheek record cover that should sit well with quite a few around here. For the record, that EP includes the following tracks from various 1958 sessions: Count'Em (the title track, obviously) / Meet Benny Bailey / Cherokee (the first two composed and arranged by Qunincy) All (and much more) found on Dragon DRLP 130/140. Fine stuff. Don't know that music yet... that page with Swedish covers over on Birka is amazing. I've merely scratched the surface with some Lars Gullin there.

Okay, thanks! So it's not that Soul Note bought some Strata East or Flying Dutchman masters... could have thought so!

I guess George Russell fits with the "up to a point" crowd, too... haven't really started exploring his Soul Notes, seems like a big investment of time will be needed there, too... what I've heard was fascinating enough to get the box, for sure, but I think with him, most folks go to the end of the riversides and maybe (if they can find it) add the MPS... but the two late Blue Notes are fine as well, and so is the London Concert on Label Bleu! Btw: what's the deal with some of the Russells having been on Strata East and Flying Dutchman? Soul Note/Black Saint got started in the mid seventies only - did they acquire these recordings later on? Any others where that was the case?

Agreed on all points!

Interesting, Jim! And very helpful! I did indeed think of Shorter's own 80s albums for Columbia, which I got in that recent box a few months ago, too - I found listening to them a very similar experience... music that fails yet to grab me on an emotional level, but where I feel there's plenty of fascinating stuff going on and I should just keep listening and let them grow on me.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Had first spins of all the Pullen and WSQ albums last week - some of it brilliant, much of it very good! And nothing really bad in there, at all. Rivers wasn't the best partner for Pullen, Chico Freeman fared better, and the Jarman/Moye trio album is great! The Pullen went straight to my favorite BSSN boxes list, next to the Dixon! Also had a first listen to the three Guiffre quartet albums... weird stuff that takes - I assume - quite some time to get used to. The synths, the electric bass, the many sounds of Giuffre (lots of flute, too!)... it's fascinating often, but it's still weird, to my ears. But it made enough of an impression that I'll keep trying to understand it, that's for sure!

Nah, he found it in Billy Byers' legacy

look here: http://www.ibs.it/disco/0094639436224/gino-paoli-1-enrico-rava/milestones-incontro-jazz.html (including samples) most of the tracks are up on youtube, too (click, click, and you'll find the others from there...) never really played it in a store - there's way too much singing...

The Horo cost around 15$... thought that was very much okay for nice vinyl and a good looking cover (no seamsplits and such). Haven't played it yet and am still unable to talk vinyl-lingo, but I'd assume it's somewhere between NM and VG or some such...

Yes they have - several in fact: http://www.testoftimerecords.com/artist.asp?id=31

it was in the tabloids yesterday...

I will check my copy tonight! So? Same as with mine?

Aw shit... guess we all need to hunt for vinyl then.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

I can now say I dig "Street Life", too - after a first listen, that is! @mike: I've got their early stuff (Mosaic, Jazz Waltz, Latin stuff, live albums... still waiting for Lighthouse 69 though, but I guess I'm not alone there).

I know about "Street Life"... but I thought Sangrey was saying "up to and including 'Street Life'" - maybe I got that wrong... anyway, the used bookstore nearby where I got most of my vinyl for the past two years had the four, and for pretty good prices, too (and in fine shape). Alas, they don't have "Scratch" (nor do they have "Free as the Wind", which looks even more tempting). Btw, while I did get the Originals CD-reissues of "I", "2nd Crusade", "Pass the Plate" and "Old Socks", I've never been tempted yet by "Images". Played some of it in a store and it didn't connect (will have to check with "Street Life", only just wrapping up "Southern Comfort" as I'm typing, "Chain Reaction" will follow first).