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Hm, I have the Green Select and one of the three ballads on the Quebec "Ballads" compilation (which I got when the 45 Sessions weren't out again, so it contained a few titles I didn't have). That means all I miss are two more ballads/standards, right? Too bad... don't really feel like buying another CD for two titles only. On the other hand I have most of Quebec's output, so... waiting till the RVG's on sale, I guess

Welcome back, Matthew!

From a quick glance, the Monk looks like it's using the Sony/Legacy versions, too - those are very well-done CD, with restored tracks and some alternates, too.

very sad to hear this. this here's still my favourite photo of hers, taken by Jürgen Schadeberg in the fifties:

So sorry to hear of your loss!

I guess this belongs among those albums that aren't wide-spread (there's also an earlier one with McPherson coming to mind, "My Favourite Quintet" - never heard it), but indeed it's quite good!

yeah, you see - so he's indeed all over it!

sorry to hear this - Turner's definitely one of the interesting among the recent flood of young tenor players, here's hope he'll recover!

www.priceminister.com If it's not there it's because no one has it on offer at this time - but this is like Amazon Marketplace, things come and go, and often you find them for good prizes and shipping costs are fair as well.

MG, sorry for not reacting to your query regarding Ammons! If you don't have much Mingus, this would hardly be a first choice to buy, but I found a used copy for an ok prize (on www.priceminister.com - you'll need some french there) and I quite enjoyed it. Also I'm not home now but to me it seemed like Ammons was quite all over the place... soloing in various numbers (freaking up at least one, where he ends his solo in the middle of a chorus), and generally turning in some of the best spots of the whole set. However, maybe it's just the strength of his three or four solos that make me believe he's present as a soloist all over... Didn't notice the Lee Morgan reference (too bad Dizzy didn't have his trumpet with him anyway!), got late and I had to lower the volume when I got to the end of disc two... will have to check it out with headphones again!

smartass!

Konitz, not really. It's a throwback to Mingus' early 50s Tristano-ist phase in general & their 1951 Debut session in particular! True that - forgot about the fact that they'd recorded together (but not about the "cool" beginnings of Mingus, That is a really good album, in my opinion. I'd say it is his last real masterpiece. Might well be! A great album! (And as an aside: Todo Modo is a great film, too - too bad they didn't use Mingus' score! Though the one they did use was quite well as I recall.) I always enjoy Bobby Jones! On the "& Friends in Concert" album he's obviously standing in the shade of Ammons, but still has a few good spots. His Enja trio album, "Hill Country Suite" (with Freddie Waits!) is marvellous! Sort of Jimmy Giuffre Three's folksy stuff re-channelled through Mingus... sort of, maybe...

sounds like what they/"it" said about the previous 8th edition... still there were many goofs in there that were carried over from earlier editions. For instance the entry on Bunny Berigan... the text only takes in account two or three of five or six Chronological Classics releases and has wrong references, like "the second" disc but it's the fourth in the listing... that's the kind of good I'd expect to have been fixed if in fact someone reassessed each entry!

Bumping this up... just because there's no "general" Mingus thread, and I have for the first time heard "Charles Mingus & Friends in Concert". Quite like the Town Hall concert from 1962 it's rather a mess, but a great mess, in a positive, creative way. That blues at the end of the first half with Ammons is smoking! And Ammons in general turns in some great playing - quite a weird choice anyway, to get Ammons in there... though Konitz and Mulligan aren't that much likelier. And Jon Faddis doing that Eldridge piece is quite fun as well.

That's from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" - at least that's where I know it from, might as well be older. But that film would be a good point of origin if it is! Edit: a quick google search brings nothing but references to the film. There's also a book on Ford titled "Print the Legend". Could well be the source then. On the other hand who knows when which phrase turned up first...

another good one: Buck Hill - The Buck Stops Here (with Johnny Coles):

Whoah! Astonishing site, thanks a lot for posting that link!

I still don't own more than 20 or so Black Saint titles, but I thought this one here was great:

Finally got McIntyre's "Stone Blues"... I thought it was gone for good but found it for a more or less acceptable prize on amazon marketplace! It may indeed be a bit more conventional than the UA and Dolphy sessions, but I just love that alto sound and lines of his. He's got a slightly melancholy, acerbic quality (I might call it "zartbitter" in German, as dark chocolate is called here, I think that word quite suits his sound). A couple of the arrangements here almost suggest old-time jazz (trombone backing in not-quite but close to tailgate manner, simple bouncy beats...) His flute playing is lovely, too. Good soft and full-bodied sound, none of that annoying high and thin and hard-played jazz flute you often seem to get from less-proficient doublers. But his alto is what I love - floating and kind of blurry and soft around the edges...

What about Bob Enevoldsen? If I think valve trombone and West Coast Jazz, he's the one I think of first...

I'd love to see a Mosaic Select (or a full box) of those Bethlehem "Plays" albums by Williamson, Mariano etc. Mighty fine music! And in my opinion quite a bit better than what's on the Kenton Presents (with the exception of the Holman stuff, I think, but Holman's is partly non Kenton Presents, and Holman also doesn't turn up on the "Plays" albums).

Happy Birthday to the great alto sax player Herb Geller! To celebrate, I played the fine "Gellers" 2CD compilation on Fresh Sound (the Gellers being Herb and his then wife, Lorraine - here's a thread about her). A few years after he made the fine three EmArcy albums with his wife (plus an Imperial EP, all on said Freshsound set), he went to Europe, working first with the radio big band (or was that just a band, more an Unterhaltungsorchester really?) of RIAS Berlin, and after that for many, many years he led the reeds section of the NDR Big Band in Hamburg, helping to make it into one of the best European jazz big bands. I guess in America he was largely forgotten... which is quite sad, given the fact that he's a hell of an alto player (and also a fine tenor player). You can read up some about him here: http://www.herbgeller.de or here: http://www.herbgeller.com Right now I'm playing another Fresh Sound album, this one being one of their own productions from 1990, featuring Geller on alto with backing by Kenny Drew, NHOP and drummer Mark Taylor: This here's the fine set with the Gellers' recordings from 1954/55:

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I ordered a used copy of this the day after your post... enjoying it right now!

so who are Zack and Miri and where can I watch that porno? link please!