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I've got the Barney Wilen (caiman through amazon, I think amazon.fr it was) - well done, but much too expensive in local stores (at least 30$), which is annyoing... more often releases from closeby (Italy - CAM for instance, Germany - ECM, these MPS ones, ACT etc, or France - Dreyfus, Label Bleu) cost way more than US releases (though of course those are fabricated in the EU most often... but even orders from amazon.com often are cheaper. Freaking madness!

the monkey? why does it symbolise drugs?

It's well worth seeing! Here's an earlier thread about it: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=37109 There's also been some discussion in the artist thread about Ayler, here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4449

Not much info on AMG: a live set, AMG says rec. 1980, with Simone (voc,p), Arthur Adams (g,elb), Cornell McFadden (d), originally on Verve (1987 or 1990)

That Basie should be nice. The Barbieri is another useless one - there was a 2CD set in Impulse's "Master Editions" or however the earlier digipack reissues were called, combining Chapters 1 & 2 and more material - great music! (OOP but still to be found) Chapter 4 is part of this series already, but Chapter 3 (old GRP jewel-case-packed CD) is OOP and usually pretty expensive... they should bring that one out first! The Ayers... weird but I think I already saw that one... though maybe there are several out already and that band was called Ubiquity like this upcoming album, so I may be wrong. What's the Nina Simone?

I was rather slow in picking up on Gryce, but I got his three Prestige albums (two OJCs, the orange one as a Japanese mini-LP), as well as the three Gryce Jazz Lab ones from Lonehill. Also got the Monk sides of course - those were my first encounter with Gryce... and the Brownie Paris material. Guess I really should listen to all of this in a row soon! Posting here because just recently that Mathews album was recommended by Larry in another thread... it's very OOP it seems, just ordered a copy for around 18 euro, rather steep!

http://www.sonnysimmons.org/lasha.htm There's the 1973 Michael White album "Land of Spirit and Light" (Impulse AS-9241) - White of course was a member of Handy's group some years before, the succesful one that made that Monterey live album.

Just in case, here's the short note from Denis Gonzalez that spread the news on Sunday - it goes back to John Handy spreading the news:

Hey, fast mister, John Collins isn't forgotten in this house! brownie, thanks for posting the link to the obit.

Sad news indeed. Thanks for the links - will have to read the interview. That 1965 album looks... ahem, interesting? Lasha with harp and Stan Tracey's gang... who are the trumpet and trombone player, anyone knows them? Here's a nice photo with Ben Lindgren, 2001 (photo by Eleanor Lindgren - source)

hard to say... I guess I need to play those small group tracks again some time soon! with "band parts" I meant that big band session, of course... I always considered the small group sessions much more interesting, but it's been too long to say if I find them essential...

With these fast deletions, upgrading is no option any longer. I mostly stopped doing so anyway... because it seems in many cases it's not an upgrade, but just a differently sounding version. Dippin', Tomcat, A.T.'s Delight and the Elmo Hope I all have in the old editions.

That part about the copycrap period makes sense... yet I was happy to find some of these titles finally turn up as normal CDRs over here and finally bought them. Maybe they should have allowed some more time - but then I guess time is THE most expensive thing in any kind of business in these crazy times.

I think Storyville is more interesting... but then it's been among the two or three first Parker discs I've known (thanks to our high school's library). I don't like the band parts of the Washington that much, but I remember the final few tracks being quite good. That Washington disc was part of a batch of releases with Bill Evans In Paris Vol. 1/2, Getz/Dailey "Poetry" and I think two by Petrucciani (100 Hearts, Live at the Vanguard). Of those, the OOP Getz/Dailey is the most recommended, one, another beautiful one by Getz, though at a much later point in time than the great Roost sessions.

essential: very good ones: honourable mention: the jury's still out on: maybe I'm too hard on some (Hamilton, Carter, Morgan, Mobley) but it's been a while since I played most of those... By all accounts, if you're interested in bebop, don't miss the Dameron/Navarro (there's a Definitive substitute of course) and the Nichols (no substitute I know of yet), then add the Hope (he belongs to the same bunch of great pianists around in the early years of modern jazz as Nichols). McLean's New Soil is one of his best, and so is Mingus' Wonderland album (the first of his band with John Handy/Booker Ervin, Richard Wyands is subbing for Parlan). The Mulligan/Konitz is some of the best Mulligan I'm aware of (and fine Konitz, too! He puts this on a different level than the Mulligan/Baker quartet recordings, I think). And the Getz is pure magic - some of the most beautiful and imaginative playing there is... pure, too. Between this and the last bunch of deletions, several of McLean's best albums and almost all of Tina Brooks' output goes OOP again. Sad. Also it makes me worry a bit that recent reissues like two of the Capitol vocal collection albums (Hendricks and Raney), Benny Carter's fine "Sax à la Carter", and recent RVGs like the one by Art Taylor are going OOP so fast!

Cannonball's Jazz Workshop Revisited is fine but far from his best. In light of the deletions, from these Capitol reissues I'd go with, by order of appearance: Cannonball in Europe - my favourite album by what I think was his best band, the sextet with Lateef - a smoking oboe rendition of "Trouble in Mind" among the highlights Live at the Lighthouse - a great album by the quintet with Victor Feldman (not enough recordings of the band with him do exist) - this contains "Sack o'Woe" with one of Cannonball's classic solos Them Dirty Blues - I think there's some disagreement about this one, but I just love it. Cannon's solo on the slow title track is amazing, in addition you get the studio versions of Bobby Timmons' "Dat Dere" and Nat's "Work Song". Piano duties are shared by Barry Harris (a rather unlikely choice, his live debut on Riverside was recorded at the same time as Cannonball's Riverside album "At the Jazz Workshop") and Bobby Timmons. Cannonball Takes Charge - another fine album, slightly less funk/soul-jazz in orientation, with Wynton Kelly on piano throughout and Chambers/Cobb and Percy/Tootie Heath in support, respectively. Some almost kitsch (Serenata), and another great tune, "Barefoot Sunday Blues" (I think OK admits being accountable for the stupid title - but it sounds like he's rather proud of it...) Next up the Poll-Winners (his meeting with Wes Montgomery and Shelly Manne, and again there's Victor Feldman here) and JWS Revisited, then finally the - admittedly delightful but still unessential - Cannonball's Bossa Nova. For those interested in Adderley's alto solos, there's some great stuff on the bossa album, to be sure! As for the later, actual Capitol albums, I'm not quite sure how I'd rate them... they're all good I'd say, but none is absolutely outstanding to me so far (but I'm still waiting for "Domination" to make it and haven't given many spins yet to "Money in the Pocket", "Why Am I Treated so Bad" and the weird Zawinul album). The meeting with Nancy Wilson is a delight (and half of it is just the quintet, "Fiddler on the Roof" is the only readily available album with the Charles Lloyd line-up (but I haven't fully warmed to it yet), and the meeting with Ernie Andrews is one to skip except for diehard fans, I assume (I got it in a sale a couple of months and only gave it one spin so far).

Gee - are they winding down now? All these recent reissues already being deleted!?! Not many I still want (the Foster Conn, maybe the Lovano 2CD, Crusaders Lighthouse '66) - but this looks like a bad sign!

hey, the samples really sound good!

Thanks for explaining

Congrats, Daniel! Will have to listen to the samples later... and order a disc, too!

Jim: "ridiculous" applied to McGriff's Solid State LPs: do you mean that in a good or in a bad way? Or some of both? May be my lack of english, but I notice each time I play some McGriff that his sound is indeed rather different...

Sad news. He was a very good guitar player indeed! That album he did with Barney, I just love it!

Finished the "Dig Ben" box by Ben Webster - great one! Some beautiful short sessions on disc 6, the big band sides on disc 7, and on disc 8 the "No Fool No Fun" rehearsals (plus a lovely date with Jimmy Rowles - who shines on the Mulligan Meets Webster album, too!). I also played disc 1 again, a terrific compilation (from three following nights) with Kenny Drew, NHOP and for once Albert Heath (usually it was Alex Riel who I think was nominally the leader of the trio). That's some of the best Webster I've heard on disc 1! Still I don't quite get why that session (from 1968) wasn't programmed in its place, as the box is more or less ordered chronologically. Also since they did do a box with their Webster sessions and they do mention that from these three nights in 1968 there are two hours of music, I don't see why they didn't include some more (and previously unreleased) music, as this is clearly one of the highlights!

I have one of Basie's and one by Ellington. These are boxes of six Chrono Classics in a sturdy black cube-box, plus an additional booklet (giving much helpful information, such as soloist ids, but the two I have don't have full track-by-track notes). The Basie is his first six discs, the Ellington I have is Vol. 3 and covers the 30s (up to 38 or 39). So there are at least two more Ellingtons, not sure what other artists got that treatment.

Rufus Harley I presume? I recently watched a DVD of a 1974 Sonny Rollins show with him. He played soprano and bagpipes... it was weird watching him play bagpipes, as of course his blowing and the outcome were totally out of sync... it struck me how similar the sound was of his soprano and of the bagpipes (but maybe that partly was due to the mediocre sound quality of said DVD...)