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I was aware of that, but with the OJC sales I picked up a few single releases to go with my ahem... copy of the big one... sort of having less of a bad conscience... Anyway, the prize was right, too, and the album is one of the best of Wes' Riverside output, too - and of course we all love Griffin, too!

What's new on the Wes? I only bought this by chance in a sale, wasn't aware anything of the bonus material wasn't part of the big box or previous reissues!

I had a great (self-made, or course) MD compiling the whole Chicken Shack/Midnight Special session. Haven't burned a CDR though, but this reminds me I should do it again to have all of it in one place!

Bumping this up - got the Mosaic single reissue of Wiley's other RCA album yesterday and immediately gave it a spin - wonderful album, highly recommended! After it was finished (much too soon!) I gave the Uptown another spin. That one does get a bit repetitious but with the changing bands/trumpet soloists, it's another fine Wiley CD!

hm, I guess I can live without it then, having that Mobley/La Porta as well as the Morgan (fine one, particularly Doug Watkins is great!)

worst is the package was bumped around quite a bit (by or after customs - I've never seen a package that went through directly that looked like this!) and one corner of the Roach box is a bit damaged (just "angestossen" - I won't bother Mosaic about sending me a replacement because of that). Anyway, as I got this for listening pleasure, not for making money out of it later, I'm happy I finally got it!

Not that I'd be able to answer your deep questions, Simon, but these may help: european toilet: (mine doesn't look like this, though, and I'm quite sure it's a european one, too - but google can't fail, can it? it can just be paid, though...) and a pair of european worms: might be we're just a memory...

Yeah, it's a great idea to have it all in one place, and also in the correct forum! I was just too lazy to compare with my post, so I thought I'd remind you of it in case you have missed it. The Hardbop Morgan/Mobley 2CD set seems to be a tough one to locate. How's the music? All I have is the "Jazz Message" album (mini LP with OBI, yup), the one with half a Mobley session and half a John La Porta one - escapes me why it's released as by Hank Mobley... even more so as the second half is actually better!

Longtemps, je me suis couchée de bonne heure... Right now I'm here, but by the time you'll see this, I'll be gone to elsewhere - he he he

Big relief - my Roach set finally arrived yesterday. it was held up in customs once more - feggers! (At least I had to pay only about 10 euro for it...)

Ibrahim is on three of these tracks, but not on #8! You might be right about #8, but I wanted to have a track from this particular band! #9 is indeed Ibrahim - no one, not even you, has a guess at the bassist?!? #10 is a stone classic... 70s again, as I said in response to MG's comments, it and #11 are sort of additions to disc 1... On #11, that's a cello indeed!

Yes! I am familiar with an LP full of music from this, very scratchy beat-up LP from a friend's dad - I guess he got it from someone who took it home from someone's party to whom someone else invited him and where he didn't know anyone or something... that's how beat-up it looked, the cover almost torn into pieces and falling apart etc... It shall be great to have all of it in - hopefully! - decent to good sound quality!

Hey, I'm glad to see you enjoyed #7 so much! It's from an old audience tape, hence no album... I cleaned this (and #5, too) up a bit but sound remains pretty beat-up. Still, I loved the cut so much I had to include this! No wonder the rhythm section steals the show on #6... McGregor orbit is a bit off but not really again... Not Dudu, I think (and so says my info). #7 is from that orbit... have to play it again to check if there's really no piano (maybe he just had a drink at the bar and enjoyed the hell out of the great band he'd assembled for this gig?). Feza it is, he has been identified already. #4 is Duke's "Rockin' in Rhythm", the flute is indeed a pennywhistle, and the singer... she got *very* famous later on but no one pinned her down yet... As for #2 vs. #3 I have to compare them again... as I said before, these are considered (with #1 and #4 and maybe a few of the earlier tracks on CD1) the "historical segment" of the compilation... will have to check if I react similarly to you with regard to #2 and #3... btw, only just last week I found a new compilation with similar material than the one I took these early tracks from...

I'm in total agreement with you. Sound is fabulous on this and the Wes (so far the only two in the series I own). Those two I have as well (also the Gene Ammons "Boss Tenor", Groove Holmes and "Hawk Relaxes"). I agree about the Adderley, sounds good! Still have to play the Wes and can't tell about Ammons, Groove & Hawk, these are the first versions I ever got of the respective albums (they all sound good, but I just have nothing to compare them to).

Thanks for spreading the news, Mike! Will have to look for this one!

Glad to hear you enjoyed the disc! No Konitz or Jackie Mac here, and alto sax isn't the theme... there's some fine tenor in there, too (on #9, for instance, although there's an alto there as well...)

Just finished Berigan CD4, will continue with CD5 and CD6 and thus complete my first listen to this great set! Still waiting for the Roach - effin sucks that shipping costs that much and it takes so long to arrive!

I once posted some Savoy list, too - both of the Denon Savoys and covers of the digipack reissues above, don't know where it was but I think in that reissues thread about the Savoy/Denon CDs. Not sure there's something there that hasn't been covered here by now, though. Sorry I missed the beginning of this thread!

I found Optometry pretty boring, sorry to say. Have a friend who liked it a lot and gave it to me, but I couldn't connect with it... I have most of Shipp's hatOLOGY releases and while they're generally ok to good and not very good or exceptional, I like them better than the Thirsty Ear releases of his I've heard.

Ooops, Paul Horn was whom I meant... mix up of four letter names... thanks for clarifying!

I have the Hamilton Mosaic and enjoy it a lot, in fact the dates with Collette, both studio and live, are very good, in my opinion! He's got more beef than Dick Katz, later on. Collette appears on a few tracks on the great Uptown Baron Mingus 40s disc - I always find it interesting to be reminded again of these common beginnings of Britt Woodman, Charles Mingus and Buddy Collette, hard to think of more different musicians, if viewed from their later careers! There are two fine discs of Collette out on Fresh Sound, "Tasty Dish" and "Soft Touch" (better get both together, my versions as well as all others i've seen in stores have the front covers mixed up/printed onto the wrong liners...). On these you can hear Collette fronting his own quintet with Gerald Wilson, Al Viola, Gerald Wiggins, Howard Roberts a.o. Info is here: http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/search.ph...p;artist_id=859 I don't know the OJCs of Collette's and I guess they're gone by now... there also was a flute duet album with Herbie Mann on Mode, presumably on CD by VSOP, but I don't have it, either. I think I like Collette's tenor the best, in general, so the Hamilton dates fit me well as he's playing all his three horns there, not just the bottom-less flute stuff (though I'm not a flute hater at all, Collette wouldn't be my first choice - I prefer an approach like Yusef Lateef's...)

Up for eloe_omoe - maybe he can share some definite/insider knowledge?

here's the discography: The Complete February 1957 Jimmy Smith Blue Note Sessions (#154) Discography All sessions were recorded at Manhattan Towers in New York City using remote recording equipment brought in by Rudy Van Gelder. Only U.S. issue numbers are used in this discography. ______________________________________________________ (A) Donald Byrd (tp), Lou Donaldson (as), Hank Mobley (ts), Jimmy Smith (org), Eddie McFadden (g), Art Blakey (d). February 11, 1957 tk.3 Falling In Love With Love BLP-1547 tk.4 First Night Blues (omit horns) unissued tk.5 Funk's Oats 45-1677, BLP 1547 tk.6 Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart (omit horns) BLP 1556 tk.8 Groovy Date BLP 1548 tk.9 I Let A Song Go Out OF My Heart BLP 1548 _____________________________________________________________ (B) Lou Donaldson (as), Jimmy Smith (org). February 12, 1957 tk.1 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 45-1668, BLP 1548 tk.2 Summertime 45-1667, BLP 1551 same session, add Eddie McFadden (g), Donald Bailey (d). tk.3 Somebody Loves Me (omit as) BLP 1556 tk.5 Plum Nellie BLP 1552 tk.6 Plum Nellie (alternate take) 45-1668 same session, but Kenny Burrell (g), Art Blakey (d) replace McFadden and Bailey. tk.8 Billie's Bounce BLP 1552 tk.10 Yardbird Suite BLP 1551, BST 89903 BNLA 159-2 tk.11 There's A Small Hotel (no as) BLP 1551 tk.12 All Day Long 45-1676, BLP 1551, BST 89901 _______________________________________________________ © Jimmy Smith (org), Eddie McFadden (g), Donald Bailey (d). February 13, 1957 tk.3 The Third Day unissued tk.4 All The Things You Are (omit g,d) BLP 1556 tk.6 The Fight (omit g,d) BLP 1556 tk.7 There Will Never Be Another You 45-1686, BLP 1556 tk.8 How High The Moon 45-1667, BLP 1547 tk.9 Buns A Plenty BLP 1552 tk.10 The Duel -1 BLP 1552 tk.11 Blue Moon 45-1685, BLP 1556 BNLA 400-2 tk.12 Cherokee unissued -1 omit McFadden, Art Blakey replaces Bailey (d). _____________________________________________________ ALBUM INDEX BLP 1547 A Date With Jimmy Smith - volume one BLP 1548 A Date With Jimmy Smith - volume two BLP 1551 Jimmy Smith At The Organ - volume one BLP 1552 Jimmy Smith At The Organ - volume two BLP 1556 The Sounds Of Jimmy Smith BST 89901 Jimmy Smith's Greatest Hits (double LP) BST 89903 Blue Note's Three Decades Of Jazz 1949-1959 (double LP) BNLA 159-2 reissue of above BNLA 400-2 Jimmy Smith (double LP) Original sessions produced by Alfred Lion Reissue produced by Michael Cuscuna Executive producer: Charlie Lourie Recording engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Recorded in mono All photographs by Francis Wolff Design direction: Richard Mantel Design production: InkWell Inc. Masters courtesy of Blue Note Records, a division of Capitol Records, Inc under license from CEMA Special Markets. (p)1994 CEMA Special Markets. Product of CEMA Special Markets, a subsidiary of Capitol-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. ©1994 Mosaic Records, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Producer's note: The wealth of material that Jimmy Smith recorded for Blue Note from 1956 to 1962 could generate a dozen boxed sets. We've selected this three-day run in the studio not only because of the exceptional quality of the music, but also because it is a wonderful microcosm of his output. There are sextet jams, Jimmy's own trio with and without a soloist added and an all-star trio with Art Blakey and Kenny Burrell, as well as some experimental solos and duets. These three days set the pattern for the various contexts in which Smith would record throughout his Blue Note career. Because of the extremes in tune length, we have had to stray farther than usual from chronological order in order to fit this material into the LP and CD formats. Since we have had to break the mold in this regard, we've tried to make the LP sequencing as musically sensible as possible. The first selection on Discs Two and Three are out of chronological sequence. Unfortuately, no Francis Wolff photos exist from these three sessions. For the booklet, we have selected other session shots by the participants from the period of 1956-58.

I'm playing it right now, in fact - almost through with the second disc now Don't have time to write up kind of an ok review but maybe later, assuming the disc will be available for a while!?