king ubu

ok - Winnipeg 30 for me then

What's this all about? Been invited by GA, but the only thing I do understand in here is the bit about the Mosaic gift certificate, so just hand me that one and you all deal with the rest, okay?

Shit, that's very sad. So glad to have seen him live though...

The recent reissues (2009-2011) all list him as playing bass guitar, if that's what you mean by guitar.

Seems he played mostly guitar on his own recordings? Never heard any...

Same as Sangrey here... enjoy bits of Kaempfert now and then - of course all the better if Herb Geller, Jiggs Wigham or Ferdinand Povel were involved (as on the album "Swing"). Even bought half a dozen of the reissues that have appeared 2009-2011 (seems they did all the albums again... I dimly remember reading so in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine at least - probably written after the final batch was out somewhen ealier this year).

The Real Earl Hines

Earl Hines Plays Fats Waller

Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan at Basin St. East How is that one? I only have "Tears for the Children of Soweto," which I like. I just found it on my little trip to Germany last week... was a first spin - pretty nice! But like the second album ("One for Dudu") it isn't quite as good as "Tears...", I think. That one's a favorite here!

Joe Malinga - Sandile

Happy Birthday, Bill! :party:

Anyone? Would be very interested in that, too!

very sad news - r.i.p.

[tongue-in-cheek mode]But with the Fresh Sound reissues we exactly DON'T KNOW how these albums DID SOUND back in their day![/tongue-in-cheek mode] Seriously: Fresh Sound did a few hundred reissues - fine. If you don't count the Prestige, Riverside, Pacific Jazz, Verve, Mode and other reissues that were also reissued in recent years by the proper owners of the recordings, there's still plenty left, I assume. That's fair enough to point out. "Frankly, I can't think of a single jazz musician who has ever complained to me about their earlier works being re-issued by Fresh Sound. Most have told me they're happy that the label has kept their names and music alive when American record labels have failed to do so." Fair enough, of course... that is, if they've given up all hopes of earning a penny with their old recordings (and I guess most have given up, due to criminal practices being just as wide-spread among majors and non-thief-labels in the US and everywhere). Oh, and believe me, when I'm making some snide or sarcastic remarks on such topics, it's never about exclusivity... I don't own more than three or four semi-rare LPs, I assume, and I couldn't care less. And I would - of course! - fully endorse the majors doing regular reissues, keeping their back-lists alive etc. etc. You might know that many times I've voiced my disdain of reissues such as the "Verve Originals" (taking a step back from previous reissues by omitting bonus tracks etc.). I'm no friend of the majors, I buy my music where I can find it (often used or on some marketplace sites) and I'm not feeling the least holier-than-thou.

most 50s albums? really? Guess he should be knighted and accepted as a member of légion d'honneur and receive all kinds of medals and decorations for that achievement! The lone saviour of 50s jazz, the noble Duke of Barcelona...

Lee Morgan Blue Note Fifties - parts of CD3 & CD4 (The Cooker)

Oh, holy, holy! Love his music. r.i.p. Terrible days, lately!

I'd love to be able to get single one from this set... any online retailers offering them in their own?

going for all vocals - guess that's one of your planned things... would be too bad if you had to mix up two of them into one!

Would you mind telling it that's indeed Webster on #7? And yes, jeffcrom sounds right! will look it up!

Happy Birthday, Rolf! Hope you're doing fine!

Ah, I see - then it does indeed make sense! I don't see why that turns up here again and I skipped that part, so I didn't get what Colin was referring to...

I don't quite get your point... but I assume you're not talking about me. I buy probably 5CDs a week, some old, some new, some reissues, some (admittedly much fewer, and in most cases several months/years behind schedule) new recordings.

Finally got my copy of the CD today - amazing! Fantastic cover reproduction (as was expected after the wonderful Dixon reissue), and the music is effin' great! Love to finally own all of it on a CD! And as others said: the discussion here is fascinating and definitely helps to really appreciate this particular album the way it ought to be appreciated!

Well, that makes three of us who own this disc but couldn't ID a tune from it! I'm listening to it right now, and I now distinctly remember wanting to put a track from this album on my last BFT, but I could never settle on any one track: I liked them all, but I wasn't familiar enough with any of them to be comfortable putting one on. I mean, it'd be kinda silly for me to not be able to identify tracks on MY OWN BFT!!! Oh, if you smuggled a track from one of my own BFTs in and didn't tell me, that might just as well happen to me