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not sure what I'd vote here... maybe ICP? and wtf is the mingus bb doing here if there's supposed to be no ghost bands? I like them alright, but with all their repertoire being from mingus, I consider it a ghost band. and just because Schneider did a project with the DRBB... there are other very good radio big bands over here, though just a few ones remain by now, NDR Big Band and WDR Big Band deserve mention just as much as the DR BB, I'd say!

bumping this up because of this thread over here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36577

found it, it's after all by rooster: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14388 is that the one you meant, niko?

ICP! Martial Solal's Dodecaband and recent Newdecaband still searching for older threads, can't find any but I remember at least one, not sure that one was by rooster, though... it was about mid-sized ensembles, ten-piece, groups like that.

well, who cares - wishlist is just all that I don't have yet...

I wasn't even aware that existed! Looks interesting! Kenny Burrell - Barry Galbraith Quartet Kenny Burrell, Barry Galbraith (g) Leonard Gaskin (b) Bobby Donaldson (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 10, 1957 1246 Billie's Bounce Status ST 8318; Prestige PR 7448 1247 Prelude To A Kiss - 1248 It Don't Mean A Thing - 1249 unknown title Prestige rejected * Various Artists - Guitar Soul (Status ST 8318) * The Best Of Kenny Burrell (Prestige PR 7448)

Mike, I think the 2 guitars and Day may both have been in the recent reissues done by Universal over here in Europe. I got both of them in a sale half a year or so ago. Both fine albums, by the way. The Night album I got in the zweitausendeins.de ZYX-sale, so I didn't fare too badly. But if you find the Lonehill for a good prize (I guess that would be all that's less than 20 euro, roughly) and can earn a couple of cents by selling the Night, why not go that route. I guess it's by now too late to think too much about ethical questions as far as the big labels go, and Concord is screwing up too much indeed, so... if you still feel bad, support some small labels in return, their future despite the demise of the CD market may still be brighter than the majors', even more so if people actually buy their stuff! And if the Spanish/Andorran labels take care of the music the majors don't care for any longer, all the better for us, in the end! (Though I'd have loved to keep buying OJCs from Fantasy for years to come, of course, but Concord...)

Could be... but then there's been so many BN reissues in the past years, and some albums have come out several times within short periods of time, so I guess there's no need. And honestly, not much interest here for more BN Mosaics, either... there's lots of other much more interesting ground for them to cover!

But that's still not much more than two CDs worth of music, if there's nothing additional to release. It would be a terrific set though, that's for sure!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphorn I wouldn't know if the Bavarians or any other weirdos call it "Alpenhorn" as wiki states, but here, no one would call it like that... I guess that's wiki's way of kwality kontrol...

Oh well, you're always faster than me... I guess Armstrong just held this horn ("Alphorn") to his mouth for a moment of publicity... Arkadji Shilkloper, the great Russian virtuoso of the French horn, he does play it though, and with some quite astonishing results, too!

Possibly Byas is just guesting on some tunes, as there are six reeds listed, instead of the usual five that Duke had.

By the way, the design of the covers is very cheap, I think - almost looking like they're boots... but TCB has done their great "Swiss Radio Series" with historical recordings from the vaults of all three swiss national radios (DRS, RSR and RSI), so these will also be perfectly legit. (However the design is, the photo of Satchmo is great - it's been used for publicity here again and again, of course!)

I wasn't aware of this and think there haven't been any threads about these two discs (there was one about the Lionel Hampton release that's part of TCB's "Swiss Radio Days" series, though). Here's the TCB homepage. And here's some info (taken from the website): TCB 43062 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, 'live in Zurich, 1950' Miracles happen. This recording was found by accident in a drawer...and it is an unbelievable recording. The performance of the Duke Ellington Orchestra on the night of may 2, 1950 at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland is absolutely outstanding. On top, the recording quality is sensational. This CD is an absolute must and not only for Ellington fans. Even though this music was recorded some 57 years ago it sounds so fresh like it was yesterday. I am happy to be able to present this historic document to you. TCB 43072 - Louis Armstrong All Stars 'live in Switzerland 1949' Louis Armstrong, tp, voc Jack Teagarden, tb, voc Barney Bigard, cl Earls Hines, p Arvell Shaw, b Cozy Cole, dr Velma Middleton, voc Cover picture taken upon arrival of Louis Armstrongs All Stars at Zurich Airport in 1949....and immediately checking out the Swiss Alphorn...... For most of the elder jazz fans, Louis Armstrong was the important jazz musician per se. The New Orleans born trumpet player and vocalist did lead the way of jazz as far as articulation, timing and choice of notes are concerned. It would be futile to search for his complete influence and legacy within the playing of jazz by the thousands of renowned name-jazz interpreters during the past 80 and some years. His high estimation and musical traces can be found with even the most advanced jazz soloist of today. Armstrong has left an inestimable musical legacy and is rightly still highly estimated the world over by musicians, jazz fans and even by kitchen connoisseurs („Toast Louis Armstrong“). The band he offered his European audiences in 1949 was undisputable the best to be found amongst the New Orleans oriented musicians. The best of all trombonists, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, a genuine Creole clarinettist from N.O., pianist Earl Hines, over towering virtuoso of that style, all of them featured with their own solo tune left to be judged by the ear of the beholder. The rhythm section was completed by Arvell Shaw, bass and Big Sid Catlett, the excellent swing drummer Cozy Cole. The vocal department was augmented by lady singer Velma Middleton, a typical blues interpreter. All of these virtuosos need no further introduction nor any information about their previous career – it remains the most impressive performance of solid and well played jazz and TCB Music can truly be proud to present this great and historic concert on CD. Some or most of the Ellington set will form part of the daily show "JazzZ" on Radio Suisse Romande 2 (Espace 2): http://www.rsr.ch/espace-2/jazzz You may be able to listen to the webstream later (many shows are archived in that form) by a little link that will appear next to the date (go to "émissions précedentes" on top to check out other shows that have been archived). And you will certainly be able to stream it live if you're interested, just go to the homepage at the right time (Friday 22:00-24:00 centralyuroptime)

I'm not sure how much I like the new design... I think the old one might have been better. But the site looks easy to handle now, that's for sure. I also asked them about posting the old/OOP sets' discographies, it would be great to have them all accessible!

That sounds interesting, to say the least! The "original" Change of the Century Orchestra was a collective, though, wasn't it? (So it's kinda wrong to bill this to Sunny?) Did they release any official albums, the original group, I mean?

Happy Birthday!

Sir, do I see an infringement of copy rights here? Nah, Organissimo is not "medium" is top "high". ah well, and I guess the Telegraph's interests aren't protected by the RIAA, either...

Sir, do I see an infringement of copy rights here?

Hope you had a good one, Sir! Have one on me later today!

I have the set on now. It's really a beautifully done box, and it was $45.97 shipped for a five CD set from Amazon. In addition to the Dameron, Elmo Hope, and Ray Draper sessions, it's also missing the Red Garland sessions. Hope the third box with those sessions sees the light of day. This and 'Fearless Leader' were obviously labors of love. These are not missing, as these are "sideman" dates, as opposed to Coltrane taking part in jam sessions (which is the focus of this set). Glad to hear it's a nice box, will have to get it eventually! And here's more hope they'll really bring the third (sideman) box, too!

All the best to George Cables - time to play the Pepper Vanguard box again... and their duos and stuff on Galaxy. (Gee, what drama!)

Playing the two Steeplechase albums I have, "Half Note" and "On Stage Vol. 2" right now Also I'm copying some of the Riverside/Jazzland/Blue Note material onto the ipod to check it out again - funny but I always dug Jordan, right away! Much more than other of those rather static players... I love Dexter of course, but still today there are months that go by without me playing any, and many days where he'd bug me... similar with Ammons, I love him if in the right mood, but just so often, the mood's not right. Never had that "problem" with Clifford Jordan!

great! mind you, is there anything you don't have? I guess if you'll let me enter your music room once, you will never get me out of it again, forever

Can anyone help me and post the discography of the Holman/Russo Mosaic collection of Stan Kenton's? I just went all the way through the 1943-1947 Capitol and dug out my single CDs of later (mostly or all 50s) Kenton, wondering once again how much of the music that was part of the Holman/Russo collection I miss. Anyway, I often wondered: the individual albums, such as "Sketches on Standards", "New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm", and "Portraits on Standards" (not "Kenton Showcase", however, which is all Holman or Russo) contain some titles by different arrangers, such as Mulligan, Kenton, or Roland. Are these absent from the Holman/Russo Mosaic (which they should be, if the title is indeed correct), or is the title of that box intended to suggest a period of Kenton's oeuvre, rather than actually concentrating on just these two arrangers?