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I'm not hip to those at all! Sounds good! WHat I meant was jazz-wise - not much of interest after those black digipack releases came out (Dizzy's Odyssey, the Norvo, Pres etc. sets), maybe some 32jazz reissues, but then that was about it, sadly!

Just a personal note: those compilations are far from lousy! I'm not talking of any of those old digipack series - I have many of them and they're good or better! What I mean is those "Timeless" 1CD compilations, usually only about 40 minutes long, omitting some music where they could have just combined two full albums (i.e. the Timeless Donald Byrd, which has half of the Byrd's Word or Work album and half of Star Eyes - what a stupid disc! I still fell for it as I didn't have Byrd's Word/k at that time).

Well, I haven't been around all those years when Shepp grew boring... I know some of that not so great music of his, too, but I mostly just ignored it so far, so I can't really tell... Here's the info from jazzdisco on the trio session - the CD reissue of "On This Night" (GRD 125 - and old jewel case "domestic" Impulse CD) collects it all:

Well, after what Concord is doing (or rather: not doing) with the Fantasy catalogue... I really don't know what to think. Same for Savoy - who owns that stuff, is that still Warner? Or are they independent again? They, and Concord neither, don't seem to have any interest in doing "real" reissues, beyond repacking the best known items they own (Concord's RVG series) or doing lousy compilations (at least that's all I've seen from Savoy, in the last four or five years). I simply don't know.

I'd disagree stronlgy that all (I almost want to say ANY) of these saxophonists are "better" than Chariie Rouse! Yup, agree strongly with your disagreeing! Danny Quebec West? Well, yes, sure! Up in the league of Coltrane's! Anyway, what's the point in such comparisons? Sure, I'd love to have more Gryce w/Monk - the Savoy session is marvellous! Also more later Rollins w/Monk would have been great (if the two tunes on Rollins Vol. 2 are a fair indicator - there's Brilliant Corners, too! Ernie Henry!). As for Coltrane and Griffin, possibly they just did what they could with Monk and then left to pursue other things? I mean Coltrane was in his quick-evolving phase then, and Griffin... we have two full discs of great music there, and honestly, I somehow feel they couldn't have done much beyond that... don't get me wrong, I love Monk and Griffin each on their own, and I enjoy "Misterioso" and "Thelonious In Action" very much. Yet still, I never felt like I needed more of that...

cojones?

And on what EMI disc are the missing Playboys track (missing from the first depicted disc above, that is, but present on the Freshsound "complete" disc)?

Ok, continuing the confusion - what about Playboys? There's a new digipack by one the Spanish thieves labels I think, with some claims about being the first release to get some details right and stuff... that's also part of the Art Pepper Mosaic box, but for daily convenience, a CD of it should be handy (I have the LP version of the Pepper set) - so again: what's the best way to get that one? Glossy digipack from Jazztrack: 1. For Minors Only 2. Minor Yours 3. Resonant Emotions 4. Tynan Time 5. Picture of Heath 6. For Miles and Miles 7. C.T.A. and less glossy Fresh Sound digipack (with those claims for perfection...): 1. Tynan Time (Art Pepper) 6:19 2. Little Girl (Henry Hyde) 4:16 3. Minor Yours (Art Pepper) 7:12 4. Sonny Boy (Jolson-DeSylva-Henderson-Brown) 3:56 5. The Route (Baker-Pepper-Kamuca) 5:04 6. For Minors Only (Jimmy Heath) 5:41 7. Minors Yours (Art Pepper) 6:41 8. Resonant Emotion (Jimmy Heath) 5:41 9. Tynan Time (Art Pepper) 5:31 10. Oicture Of Heath (Jimmy Heath) 6:43 11. For Miles And Miles (Jimmy Heath) 6:24 12. C.T.A (Jimmy Heath) 5:11 The bonus tracks are from "The Route", right? (quoted from Amazon, but looks like Fresh Sound's own blurb) and finally, what about The Route? I have the old Blue Note/EMI/Pacific CD, there's a new one, using the usual cover - tracklist: 1. Halema 2. To Mickey's Memory 3. Slightly Above Moderate 4. Revelation 5. Something For Liza 6. Lucius Lu 7. Worrying The Life Out Of Me 8. Medium Rock 9. To Mickey's Memory (Alternate Take) 10. Jumpin' Off A Clef 11. Chippyin' 12. Pawnee Junction 13. Music To Dance By 14. Line For Lyons Swinging Sweded said above: And I have some more music from that date on the "Young Chet" compilation... and now to confuse things a bit more, there's also this release by our Spanish Friends - another Fresh Sound digipack: This a double disc: Disk: 1 1. Tabu 2. Halema 3. To Mickey's Memory 4. Down 5. I Can't Get Started 6. Revelation 7. Lucius Lou 8. Worryin' the Life out of Me 9. Something for Liza 10. Medium Rock 11. Pawnee Junction Disk: 2 1. Extra Mild 2. Chippyin' 3. It's Only a Paper Moon 4. Music to Dance By 5. Autumn in New York 6. Night on Bop Mountain 7. Slightly Above Moderate 8. Jumpin' off a Clef 9. Line for Lyons 10. Mickey's Memory [Alternate Take] Going from memory, methinks the old Route CD plus Young Chet contained all of that music. What happened with the additional music in the later "generation" of BN/PacJazz/Capitol/EMI CD reissues?

Another good looking one: Some info from jazzdisco: Mort Herbert Sextet Don Stratton (tp) Mike Cuozzo (ts) Sahib Shihab (bars, fl) Ronnie Ball (p) Mort Herbert (b) Kenny Clarke (d) NYC, March 12, 1956 69166 Swiss Movement Savoy MG 12073 69167 Night People - 69168 I've Got You Under My Skin - 69169 Son Of The Preacher - * Mort Herbert - Night People (Savoy MG 12073) Sahib Shihab Sextet Eddie Bert (tb) Sahib Shihab (bars) Tommy Flanagan (p) Kenny Burrell (g) Carl Pruitt (b) Elvin Jones (d) NYC, May 17, 1956 CO55945 Humbug Epic LN 3339 CO55946 Southern Exposure - * Various Artists - After Hours Jazz (Epic LN 3339) Mort Herbert Sextet Joe Wilder (tp) Bobby Jaspar (ts) Sahib Shihab (bars, fl) Dick Katz (p) Mort Herbert (b) Kenny Clarke (d) NYC, May 29, 1956 69211 Blues For Fred And Fay Savoy MG 12073 69212 Mitch's Carol - 69213 That's All - * Mort Herbert - Night People (Savoy MG 12073) Sahib Shihab Sextet John Jenkins (as) Clifford Jordan (ts) Sahib Shihab (bars) Hank Jones (p) Addison Farmer (b) Dannie Richmond (d) NYC, June 6, 1957 SSS70068 SWTWTFSS Blues Savoy MG 12112 SSS70069 Rockaway - SSS70070 The Things We Did Last Summer - SSS70071 Loba unissued * Herbie Mann/Sahib Shihab - The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Savoy MG 12112) Sahib Shihab Sextet Phil Woods (as) Benny Golson (ts) Sahib Shihab (bars) Hank Jones (p) Paul Chambers (b) Art Taylor (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, July 9, 1957 70085 SMTWTFSS Blues Savoy MG 12124, SJL 2245 70086 Sugar Dugar Savoy MG 12123 70087 Loba unissued 70088 The Moors Savoy MG 12124, SJL 2245 70089 Jamilla - * Sahib Shihab - Jazz Sahib (Savoy MG 12124) * Sahib Shihab - All Star Sextets (Savoy SJL 2245) * Various Artists - Jazz Is Busting Out All Over! (Savoy MG 12123) Sahib Shihab Sextet Phil Woods (as) Benny Golson (ts) Sahib Shihab (bars) Bill Evans (p) Oscar Pettiford (b) Art Taylor (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, November 7, 1957 Blu-A-Round Savoy MG 12124, SJL 2245 Le Sneak - Ballad To The East - Ba-Dat-Du-Dat - * Sahib Shihab - Jazz Sahib (Savoy MG 12124) * Sahib Shihab - All Star Sextets (Savoy SJL 2245)

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/420953 My little part in that discussion that's been going on about "sexy" pics and record covers being posted here (can't remember where that discussion took part, but I think it started not in the sexiest album covers thread and spread over various threads - oh, and of course I am guilty of having posted there, too... but not for quite a while, methinks).

Congratulations and all the best Rodney! And thanks for letting me in on Ronnie Ross!

c'mon guys, what about Shepp's "Live in San Francisco", "Mama Too Tight", the session with Izenzon, the live set from Newport with Booby? That's a great series of recordings, in my humble opinion - there's more than just "Four for Trane"! Also the NY Contemporary 5! Later/"classicist" Shepp is different... but "Steam" (Enja) is great, so is the Marge/Blue Marge/Futura/whatever Terrones label "Attica Blues Big Band" 2CD set.

Sad news! I only saw very few of his paintings in real but I liked them very, very much.

Wow, I never realized that about the lyrics of Moonlight in Vermont! Will have to check out that Sinatra version some day, sounds fascinating!

The two Merrill/Katz albums are among the best vocal albums ever, in my humble opinion! Terrific music! I have the Gitanes CDs of those (also of "Casa Forte", the Bird/Gershwin album). In addition to those, there were three piano trio albums, by Tommy Flanagan, Roland Hanna and someone else, Al Haig?... All of these (? I only have the Flanagan) also had Merrill sitting in on one song. That would have made for a good Select, I guess! Though possibly it would have been too much for 3 discs... with Casa Forte, the rest should have fit onto 3CDs, though. Anyway, it's good to see these being reissued!

Big for that Cobham trio album above! A mighty fine one! The Zoot Sims w/Dannie Richmond should be this one on Bethlehem: I like it a lot! And I think that McKenna is at least as over the top as is Richmond! Frankly, speeding drummers never really annoyed me (I guess I don't even really notice... well, most of the time I just don't pay attention to that)

I'm very sorry to hear this, Jim, my sincere condolences.

Thanks for confirming - and sorry to hear you missed out on hearing him (again, I guess?) in recent years. I have one of his Splasc(h) discs, "Supposing That..." - will play it again in the next days.

maybe some of the Italian posters here can shed some more light? porcy?

It seems Mario Schiano has died yesterday, after a long illness. He has played and recorded with folks like Giancarlo Schiaffini, Marcello Melis, Bruno Tommaso, Massimo Urbani, Giorgio Gaslini, the Italian Instabile gang, co-founded/led the Gruppo Romano Free Jazz (with Melis and Franco Pecori, in 1966), and also Sam Rivers, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, the Ganelin trio, Peter Kowald, Gianluigi Trovesi, Don Moye, and many many others. I don't have many of his albums, but the LP "Rendez-Vous" (Red, 1977) which brought him together with the Sam Rivers Trio (w/Dave Holland and Barry Altschul) is one of the few treasured vinyls I own. I think there's an album of his that was back out on CD in the Unheard Music Series on Atavistic, too. He was the founder of the festival Controindicazioni: http://www.controindicazioni.com/controindicazioni.htm Here's a discography from AAJ Italia: http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1542 and a short biography from the same AAJ page: I couldn't verify the info online so far, but my Italian isn't very good, so I couldn't say if the news is on the website of some italian newsrag - not on AAJ Italia so far, though.

Ah, I see the Salim stuff is on this set here (sorry for not reading your post better, Lon) - looks mighty good! The Modern Sounds Of A.k. Salim - Complete Savoy Recordings 1957-1958 Double Cd A.K. Salim Featuring: A.K. Salim, Leader, Arranger and Conductor with Joe Wilder, Johnny Coles, Jimmy Nottingham, Kenny Dorham (tp), Nat Adderley (cornet), Frank Rehak, Buster Cooper (tb), Marshall Royal, Phil Woods (as), Frank Wess, Herbie Mann, Seldon Powell (fl, ts)... REFERENCE: FSRCD 474_2 BAR CODE: 8427328604741 PRICE: 17.50 € A.K. Salim (Ahmad Khatab Atkinson) was an ex-reed man who retired from playing in 1943 to arrange and compose for several jazz and Afro- Cuban bands. This 2-CD set draws together all the recordings he did as a leader for Savoy Records in 1957-1958. Most of his work here reflects Salim’s deep knowledge of blues and his arranger’s talent for setting down relatively simple lines combining down home traditionalism with harmonic sophistication. His unpretentious arrangements have an unmistakably visceral quality and offer a fine framework for the eloquently powerful soloists of both reed and brass sections. Some of the greatest modern jazz pianists, bassists and drummers round out the rhythm, along with guitar in a few tracks, in both support and solo capacities, while the presence of a conga blends well with the Latino-flavored charts in what is, overall, a satisfying and thoroughly swinging collection. Tracklisting: CD1 1. Duo-Flautists 2:45 2. Miltown Blues 7:20 3. Ballin’ Blues 3:23 4. Pretty Baby 4:57 5. Lopin’ 2:51 6. Talk That Talk 4:11 7. Black Talk 3:38 8. D Minor Dipper 5:16 9. Dejeuner 6:20 10. A Private Cloud 4:40 11. June Is Bustin’ Out All Over 3:07 12. Blu-Binsky 6:12 13. R.U.1.2. 8:00 CD2 1. Shirley Ray 6:03 2. Ba-Lu-Ee-Du 5:48 3. Pretty For The People 8:05 4. Takin’ Care Of Business 5:24 5. Pay Day 3:55 6. Joy Box 6:03 7. Full Moon 5:11 8. Blue Baby 3:36 9. The Sultan 4:24 10. Blue Shout 3:23 11. Dikie How Long Baby 4:59 RECORDED Hackensack, New Jersey, 1957-1958 PERSONNEL A.K. Salim, Leader, Arranger and Conductor with Joe Wilder, Johnny Coles, Jimmy Nottingham, Kenny Dorham (tp), Nat Adderley (cornet), Frank Rehak, Buster Cooper (tb), Marshall Royal, Phil Woods (as), Frank Wess, Herbie Mann, Seldon Powell (fl, ts), Johnny Griffin (ts), Howard Austin, Charlie Fowlkes, Pepper Adams, Sahib Shihab (bars), Kenny Burrell (g), Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly (p), Wendell Marshall, George Duvivier, Paul Chambers (b), Bobby Donaldson, Osie Johnson, Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones (d), Chino Pozo (conga)

It's a tough call there... I have probably two thirds of this set - the Verve, the OJCs, some of the Savoy (some off vinyl). About the Salim: are you saying all of it is in this box, or only Lateef's half? I'm totally unfamiliar with Salim anyway!

This new release by Yusef Lateef should close the gap that Savoy left open (the "Early Savoy Sessions" that should have been added to the "Late Savoy Sessions" 2CD set): http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record-ma...?record_id=4952 **************************************** Yusef's Mood - Complete 1957 Sessions, With Hugh Lawson (4 Cd Set) Featuring: Featuring: Yusef Lateef (ts, fl, argol, scraped gourd, tambourine, Indian reed whistle, vcl), Curtis Fuller (tb, tambourine, Turkish finger cymbals), Wilbur Harden (flgh, tambourine, cow bell, balloon), Hugh Lawson (p, metalphone, ocarina, cow bells, Turk REFERENCE: FSRCD 492_4 BAR CODE: 8427328604925 PRICE: 31.75 € 4CD Set, 32 page book-let Digitally Remastered 24-BIT / 96 kHz In 1950, after a year on tour with Dizzy Gillespie’s band, Yusef Lateef returned to Detroit, the city where he had grown up as a jazz musician. With his powerfully preaching tenor sax tone and fluent, driving style he established himself as an influential presence in the Motor City scene, forming his own quintet in 1955. He made his first recordings as a leader in 1957, a productive year for him, as this gripping 4-CD set reveals. On it he plays tenor and flute with a compelling directness and overpowering honesty, surrounded by a nucleus of Detroiters like Curtis Fuller, Ernie Farrow, Louis Hayes, Oliver Jackson, Wilbur Harden and, especially, Hugh Lawson, whose rolling, two-handed piano is as exciting in solo as it is in his intelligent comping. The entire group plays in inspired fashion, speaking authoritatively for the Detroit jazz scene. Tracklisting: CD 1: 01. Beauregard 02. O’Blues 03. Happyology 04. Midday 05. Polarity 06. Ameena 07. Space 08. Metaphor 09. Morning 10. The Beginning CD 2: 01. G. Bouk 02. Blues In Space 03. Yusef’s Mood 04. Passion 05. Love Is Eternal 06. Pike’s Peak 07. Open Strings 08. Before Dawn 09. Twenty Five Minute Blues 10. Chang Chang Chang 11. Constellation 12. Seulb 13. Sounds Of Nature CD 3: 01. Song Of Delilah 02. 8540 Twelfth Street 03. I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good 04. Check Blues 05. Prayer To The East 06. A Night In Tunisia 07. Lover Man 08. Endura 09. Love Dance 10. Sram 11. Gypsy Arab CD 4: 01. Playful Flute 02. Taboo 03. Ecaps 04. All Alone 05. Anastasia 06. Love And Humour 07. Buckingham 08. Lambert’s Point 09. Meditation 10. Mahaba 11. Minor Mood 12. Take The “A” Train The hardcore of these sessions were recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey Note: In addition to the standard jazz instrumentation, some compositions, notably for the time, included several near-Eastern ethnic instruments to produce a remarkable blend of oriental harmonies, sounds and effects, superimposed on wailing jazz without compromising its unity or quality. These include the rebob, earth board, argol, tambourine, Chinese gong, finger cymbals, scraped gourd, bells, and other devices, among them a balloon and a 7-up bottle to achieve some uniquely arresting effects. More details and information in the boolet **************************************** Alas, it duplicates the Prestige albums from the same period, which were (are?) available easily as OJCCDs, as well as the great Verve album "Before Dawn" that was on CD in the Verve Elite Edition. Still, it's attractive enough, methinks!

Peda Eyes (Waldron) - Shihab (2 choruses), Stein (3), Woods (2), Quill (2) Kokochee (Charles) - Woods, Quill, Shihab, Stein (1 each), fours in same order No More Nights (Charles) - Stein, Shihab, Quill, Woods, Waldron (1 each) Kinda Kanonic (Stein) - Quill, Woods, Stein, Shihab, 8-bars apiece in same order, fours by Stein & Shihab w/Hayes Don't Blame Me - theme: Quill (16 bars), Woods (16 bars), uptempo: Stein (16), Shihab (16), tag at end by Shihab Staggers (Waldron) - Shihab, Woods, Stein, Quill (2 choruses each) Will have to put that one in the player again, too! r.i.p. Hal Stein

Forgot to mention here: my discs arrived two weeks ago, well packed and in fine shape! Thanks!