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Very sad news I heard that Paris gig on radio and indeed it was great!

The only ones I have from this bunch are Bass on Top and Morgan Vol. 3. This is the most exciting RVG batch since I started buying them about three years ago. Ok, that's a point of course! Anyway, I'm young too and started buying jazz around the time when the first batches of Conns were already impossible to find, still in the meantime I was able to get what I wanted in most cases, as far as BN is concerned, and while the Conns still hold some surprises, the RVGs as a series of reissues of stuff already on CD has turned more and moring to me... there were some cases, like that Lee Morgan disc with Frank Mitchell on tenor, The Sixth Sense, where the old CD edition had been out for just two years or so (and can still be found today), but already it was RVGed... it's just that I don't get the reissuing again and again of the same stuff... they could instead just keep some of it a bit longer in print and reissue other things instead that have become rarer to find (where's Reuben Wilson's "Blue Mode"? I didn't try really hard, but I never found that, for instance...)

yup, good one! one of the few ok 32jazz covers, too... (or just fitting, not really good per se): Can be found cheaply on US Amazon.

50 now... waiting for the Herman Capitol... 8 Selects (Weston, Green, Brookmeyer, Amy, Williams, Tyner, 2x Hill) 1 Single (Wiley) That's scary, so many more in just 3 years... an a few hundred other discs, and a dozen or more other box sets...

same here - very fast delivery!

Just finished disc one - wow! Great sound, too!

I wont buy any of these - have them as TOCJ (Chambers - good one, in my opinion!), Conn (Quebec & Davis), part of a Mosaic (Morgan) and the Jordan I have from an Italian Blue Note Magazine issue. That Jordan is a hell of a fine album, by the way! Dizzy Reece is great on it, as is Stanley Turrentine! Still a rather underwhelming bunch, to me...

Just about to finish a complete listen to "Jazz at the Pawnshop" - 3 fantastic discs! And yes indeed, pianist Bengt Hallberg is a mighty fine musician!

I don't know much more, but there's a great disc of Peiffer's that came out fairly recently, available here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/peiffer It was put out by his son and has some liners/documentation.

Happy Birthday! :party:

I haven't seen such a crazy one before, but there are many sellers offering OJCs for 100 $ or € - this is just plain crazy, though, hence I started this thread...

http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B000...9321&sr=8-1 I wasn't able to get hold of this - if anyone has a copy for sale or knows of a local shop that still has one...

Happy Birthday!

And I find it hard to believe I have forgotten to mention Sylvie Courvoisier earlier! Saw her life with Vincent Courtois & Ellery Eskelin and she was great! Also her disc Abaton (ECM, 2CD) is recommended! That's not a jazz recording, however... rather a mix of composed and freely improvised music, performed in trio with Mark Feldman (they're a couple in private as well) and Erik Friedlander.

Just to make sure: my "another good one" remark was directed at Alain Jean-Marie (as in: another good european piano player), not at that CD, which *I don't own*!

Sophia Domancich I've got her quintet disc, "Pentacle" (Sketch - OOP) and like it a lot! The trio Domancich/Avenel/Goubert is fine, too (don't have their disc, though).

Michael Wintsch - releases on Leo Records

My Bryant is still pretty thin... I have the Prestige trio album and enjoy it a lot, then somewhere (but unheard for years) I think a vinyl dub of "Little Susie", too... will have to look for that and for more discs! edit / note to mods: could this be moved over to the artists forum, please?

That's fairly good news, so there's still hope... I still need the details for vol. 3 of the Wiley - hasn't been up on the baldwinstreet-site before it was gone, I think? Anyone has the details?

There's a whole thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...54&hl=cello A great cello player I saw live recently is Vincent Courtois (he has played with Louis Sclavis, but I've seen him in trio with Sylvie Courvoisier and Ellery Eskelin).

up! did they just disappear?

I quite like the cello - O.P. is fine, but most notable would be, I think, Erik Friedlander (great solo disc "Maldoror"), but that's a whole different area than Watkins or Carter... I quite like the Dolphy dates with cello, for sure. There's a weirdness that gets otherworldly in some spots (think "Weird Nightmare" or some of the early 50s Gil Mellé sides from his very first 10 incher on Blue Note).

Bumping this thread up again! I love Doug Watkins a lot! In fact he's one of my very favourite bassists active in the years of hardbop, his sound and lines contribute greatly to many a Prestige session he's on. I think I first heard him on "The Cats" by Flanagan/Burrell/Coltrane/Sulieman, but of course he's on more than just a bunch of my CDs... many james by Coltrane, Gene Ammons and others, and most notably he's great on a couple of Savoy albums, too, one that comes to mind being "Introducing Lee Morgan". Anyway, I just recently bought his sole leader entry in the OJC/Fantasy catalogue, "Soulnik". Watkins is playing cello there exclusively, with Yusef Lateef (mostly on flute, but he does some great blues playing on oboe - no tenor for a change), Hugh Lawson, Herman Wright and Lex Humphries (so actually it's a Lateef group hired by Watkins). Watkins - so speak the liners - had just played a cello for the first time in his life three days prior to the session and sounds quite good on it (some intonation problems/weirdnesses here and there... fingerings aren't the same as on double bass, it seems). This most definitely is one to get fast (I assume the other bassist-led dates too: the one by Wilbur Ware and the three by Sam Jones - I got them all by now, the Ware is great, with Griffin & John Jenkins on saxes), before OJCs have all disappeared. Ron Carter's "Where" with Dolphy is somewhat similar (cello with flute/bass clarinet) and comes recommended, too - it's also part of the 9CD Complete Prestige box of Dolphy's. While I like this album (the Watkins, that is), it's also kind of a lost opportunity, or rather a memento of how short Watkins' life and career have been, since he never did a similar album as a leader where he was completely in charge of things, and playing his great bass... (the Transition album is rather kind of a Silver/Blakey/Byrd thing to me - not bad, but it goes along with plenty of similar dates from the mid fifties)

Yeah, and I haven't even got hold of a single one of the Dickerson's yet... stacked up the Golson, the two Mellés (act fast if you want them!), the Jimmy Woodes, the Joe Gordon, now waiting for the Barry Harris and Lock/Griff... and there's still a bunch of things, like Gigi Gryce, Don Friedman, Griffin, etc. etc. that I'd like to have! A thought that occurs to me again and again, upon hearing the newly acquired discs, is how fine they all are, most notable almost each and any Riverside album, but also many, many Prestige sides are just as good as all the hyped Blue Note stuff! And Blue Notes are still so easy to find in sales again and again here, I really feel bad about buying so many of them in the past years while neglecting the OJC/Fantasy catalogue!