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That Eddie Bert disc that Larry mentions above is pretty fine! So is the Mighty Quinn... Very good player from what I've heard so far - sure would love to find more!

Ah well, depending on your point of origin, it's same music from different source Either way, it does look good! Problem is that some original tapes were deleted/re-used, whatever... it would have been too great to hear the complete Basie & Ella live shows, for instance! But there's still lots of material to be found there, that's for sure!

Oh, thanks! Wasn't aware of that!

Sounds like a similar venture to what WDR has been doing with Jazzline/LaserLight? I wish them good luck... bet if they're trying to do it the right way (I'm not insinuating they don't!), it takes a lot of time and money and patience to clear up rights for these recordings!

r.i.p. Barbara Lea Love the two Prestige albums, too! Either there's more than they contain or the discographies make a mess there... not sure, don't have any of the stuff at hand right now... or was there even a third LP? Also, why is the harp player given for the one (great) track on the one album but then is given as unknown on the other one, when the harp tracks seem to stem from the same date?

Very sad news. Thanks for all the music, r.i.p. Sam. Thanks brownie for sharing that wonderful photo!

Still need that Singer/Murray disc, thanks for the reminder!

Thanks, PM sent! Both of those Chet booklets (the 'Live' one and the 'Studio' one) are nice - well worth having. I'd be even more interested in the Studio one, as I've pieced those sessions together with various Pacific Jazz CDs... not even sure I've got it all, but then there's all the Sextet, Ensemble etc. sessions that weren't part of the box and that I want, too... quite a mess there, I always thought.

Hey, no offending Krazy!

Not exactly jazz, I know - but great!

True nail! @colin: I'd be interested in the Chet booklet, but I'm not sure shipping it to Switzerland makes lots of sense... could you roughly venture a guess on the total sum it would cost to pack it properly and have it shipped over the pond?

This one here looks like you might find it helpful: http://books.google.de/books/about/The_Miles_Davis_reader.html?id=Dx2Ty5xVg04C&redir_esc=y Don't know it, only just heard about it yesterday...

I believe ya ... Well, I was busy doing my second listen and typing my replies for the second time while you were busy typing up the reveals... not too familiar with Winstone yet, but what I've heard is quite a bit to my liking!

True, cih - I started out with 50s and 60s albums... the ones I got right away include "Hawkins Encounters Webster" (the very first one I heard of either of them, when I was what... 13?), the one I still don't just enjoy on an emotional level is "The Genius of". The Impulse quartet album is another mighty fine one, but I don't just get it on any given day. Btw, I was in the movies tonight and they had Hawk on before... a wonderful version of "Carioca", which I just saw is on that "Body and Soul Revisited" GRP disc... I see that one's not part of the Mosaic, guess I ought to get it!

Hey, and after all I *did* recognize/guess Winstone... too late, but still before having seen your reveals here! Managed to find used copies of the Hendersons last year... two slightly different editions, but never mind, it's all there and they're tons of fun!

Ha, I had that Ethel Ennis disc open thinking the Joni song might be from there! Is the whole album as good as that one? So that's Mahoganny and Joe Lovano then... good sax solo indeed! Also same question about the Winstone: whole disc as good? That's the most interesting one to me, I think! Bill Henderson, too! Did think of him, but as I only recently got the two Vee Jay discs (aren't they great?!) I didn't dare mentioning him...

there you go - CD1 again - just squeezed in another listen: #1 - Not my favorite voice, I'm afraid, but plenty of character her. The opening is pretty strong, but then the whole thing goes off in a bit too smooth a direction for my liking. #2 - Well, I'm not crying "sacrilege", but this is a tune that I like quite a bit (favorite might be Sonny's version on "Saxophone Colossus") and I don't get this version here at all. Wrong tempo, wrong phrasing with these bent and extended notes... then underneath that pseudo-happening nervous beat that's not going anywhere except to tell us: hey, I can pull drum'n'bass beats as well as your drum machine... well, sure it's more lively, but I don't get this one, sorry. Also the alto sounds somewhat generic, and the voice... well, maybe I'm totally off here anyway, but it sounds like there's a bit too much of everything in here. #3 - Beautiful voice here, but weird lyrics, kind of... very nice mood though. Nice post-Trane tenor there (not Pharoah in a more restrained moment, is it?) - and very good bass and drums, too! And piano and guitar mix perfectly well, too - this is smooth in a good way! Enjoy it a lot, even though the lyrics are a bit... well, whatever, "joy gives you peace"... sure. No need for angels here #4 - This here's nice! Like that voice a lot, no antics, just straight out it goes... nice song, good accompaniment with particularly good bass, very laid-back. Wonderful! "Beauty's only an illusion"... does this happen to be Norma Winstone doing "The Peacock"? Great one! #5 - Starts out rather nice - rubato, Ornette-ish mood... but then that yucky guitar enters. Horrible, sorry. Still the mood is nice, the voice good (too much vibrato though, for my taste). But can someone please lock up that guitar player in the fridge or wherever I don't have to hear him any more? Guitar fits better under the good sax solo, but to me, it doesn't fit the moody atmosphere that the singer creates. #6 - This one's fun! Good scatting by a guy steeped in bebop and able to get through the chords, as far as I can tell... good groove, nice brushes from the drummer, good time from the bass. Good solos by the piano and very nice, old-fashioned tenor, with some swagger and a hint of a honk now and then... ah, and the bass gets some, too. Stomping good fun! #7 - Love the idea: voice, two basses, drums - great line-up! And nice mood, too! Interesting, cool-ish singer with good pacing. Ha, got it! Thanks to the second listen! That's Joni, yes? Wonderful! With Wayne on soprano? Beautiful soprano, bit of a weirdish story told in the lyrics, but never mind, it has a nice flow and the voice is wonderful, love me some Joni! Hum, but where's this from? It's not from "Miles of Aisles", it seems (one of the few early Joni albums I don't have yet) - is it not Joni, after all, just someone doing her song? If so, all the more impressive, how it bears her stamp! Well no, it's not Joni... I'm intrigued here! #8 - This starts out gorgeously! Love the idea to do "Caravan" in a slow-motion way... but as I was afraid, it does speed up eventually - though not as bas as I feared, just medium-up, not the speeding rushed tempo it's so often done in. Still, the mood gets lost a bit during the instrumental parts. (I made a mention of Shirley Horn in my original/lost post... adore her very much, and especially her ability to pull these slow-motion tempos... would have loved this much more if it had stuck to the original tempo.) #9 - Nice one, "Blues in the Night" by some male singer with what, a Fender rhodes? Very cool sound from that electric piano, and good singer, too. Would love to hear him kickin' with a full rhythm section, too! #10 - Now this one is definitely not my favorite again... not sure if this is a pipe organ or all synthetic stuff, the soprano is played with some ugly octave device or processed in some way... not for me, not at all, I'm afraid. But still the layers of sound leave me puzzled in a not only negative way... guess I'd have to hear more of this. #11 - This one's nice enough, but there are some of these nervous beats again that don't really go too far... not sure what to think of it. Doesn't bug me at all, but doesn't drag me in either, just goes along... #12 - Good opening, but too much vibrato for my taste... otherwise very nice voice though. But too much... "attitude". Thanks a lot, Mike! Interesting, even though some tracks are really not my cup of tea.

I'll try again, Mike! Work computer, no influcence on settings of crappy MSIE, alas... will squeeze in another listen right now and typ the answers into a txt-file this time

Shit, just lost my whole post for disc 1... ah, no... some of it I loved, some I didn't, some piqued my interest even though I didn't really like it... oh, crap. So sorry, Mike! Not sure I can repeat the listen within useful time (and I don't even have disc 2 on my ipod yet). Ah no, hate when this happens! (Why doesn't this site reconstruct partial posts when you hit to forward and back buttons - other forums do!)

lap dances and more or Wynetone serenading your gal...

Same here! Love it! It often has this very human touch - and it's right there in the range of the (male) human voice, which is always something I cherish, no matter if it's a cello, a tenor sax or a 'bone.

So if you take the cheap one (hey 350 is a bargain!) they'll throw you out before midnight to make room for the snobs?

Wow, amazing! Love the "Near East" label! And the one on the first "Holy Modal Rounders", too!

Subway has no continental mind... they seem to be closing down over here, rather than expanding. Starbucks still is closest to the pest though. Soemmetimes it seems as if no matter WHAT corner you turn around, Starbucks was there before you...