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Thanks for your post, MG - I'll post a tune-by-tune reply when home from work tonight. The Ibrahim medley would have been the first thing I'd have omitted on a one disc-compilation, but I'm enjoying it a lot... you're quite wrong on his accompanying players, though... I thought this was one of the most obvious cuts. Also on #10 you're a bit off... but as I said, more later!

You know, the worst is, back when I started buying Mosaics, some of these would have been easily available, but they held no interest for me back then. Aaaargh!

I'm sure you'd pass the Milburn, Hall/Johnson/DeParis/Dickenson, Master Jazz Piano, Teagarden 50s, Chaloff, Otis Spann/Lightnin' Hopkins, Charles Brown, Kenton Holman/Russo, and the T-Bone my way, yes?

I keep noticing how many jazz fans are afraid of / have aversions against some hand drummers ..... Why do you wonder about that? It's almost as bad as free jazz, you know... all these boring bumpy beats in a total mess with no order, and no melody at all!

Excuse me for intruding (this is the wrong of too many threads on this series anyway...) - the Stitt bonus tracks in question are the takes without Eldridge at the end of the VEE disc, right? I have that one (although with a somewhat damaged cover, but it was the only copy of it I ever saw, had to pick it up!)

I haven't been able to find anything by Coetzee, Rachabane or Jansen, alas... but I still wanted to share this music, even though the number of discs I picked it from was pretty small! Sangrey got the links even though he didn't ask for them (as did 10 or 11 others - the whole BFT thing is fading away it seems so I just sent the links out to a few more, hoping some of them might join in, but had no reaction whatsoever to my spamming action...)

Sure, sure (same band as which one? To nitpick, not as #8...) Indeed - same band as "Memories of you". #8 is, I think, a later edition of the same band with completely different personnel, except the pianist. MG correct, professor! I totally forgot for your encompassing love of african music... I thought there might be just one or two persons being able to pin down the occasional track and maybe a few more that recognize just one or two cuts, but this, I didn't expect! -_-

You can still contact Sony through the information in the booklet. They may still have some replacement discs for this set. Hopefully, they stocked up on A LOT once they realized what a problem they had with the F'ed up packaging. Glad to report the used copy that arrived here looks fine - some minor scratches that don't look frightening at all, and no glue problem or anything looking like it!

oh ho ho ho - part two... Effin chops - one of the greatest! Bleed they did indeed, alas... McGregor, Dudu, Feza... 'bone is from yurp, Kippie isn't here... yup yup, that's the theme... Yeah! Another great favourite - in fact the LP of this was in constant play at my parents' home when I grew up and most likely played a pretty essential role in me getting drawn to jazz... one of my first concerts in the mid nineties when I was in high school (swiss equivalent of) was Ibrahim solo, playing (and singing on one or two occasions - his "Tuula Dubula" on those solo albums from around 1980 is magic! That evening he sang his Coltrane homage, though) in a beautiful church here in Zurich. Still a magic remembrance for me. Also I love the alto player who gets the most solo space on this album (he's terrific on "South Africa", also on "At Montreux" and "Zimbabwe", but "South Africa" - also done live in Montreux, btw - is my favourite of those). Much later... retro stuff by the band you mentioned, indeed. I took this from a sampler, haven't got any full album of them and am not sure I'd be interested, but this track is a good one. The closing tune the musicians played in the old district 6 days when they were too tired to play for the mobsters anymore... sure is, ain't it! Thanks for your great post, MG! Waiting eagerly for your opinion on disc two!

Oh ho ho ho! I should have known and told you not to post until June 20th or so... almost spoiling the party there, Sir! But good to hear you're enjoying it! Got it! I wonder can you guess more than the pianist? Of course "Body & Soul," yes... I just included this because it's sort of atypical since it's an ole standard - there's a reason for that, though... I find the trumpet player interesting - he's trying but he's not there yet. There's that spot in his solo where he has that idea (wants to go up) and simply doesn't pull it... an embarassing moment I'm sure, but also a strong moment, somehow. This came out on a collection of - as far as I know - previously unreleased music, it's pretty old, may be the reason for the weird sound. Not Abdulah, indeed... and not a big band, either, just a sextet... This cut is one of my favourites! I've been unable so far to locate the CD reissue on which the album it comes from was included... it's tenor sax (Dolphy is in sound the closest you'll get to Parker, in lines the weirdest you'll get playing inside changes - whatever altered changes they may be... you need to check out some, even though it's not "aimed in your direction", as you put it! Same for Lacy - he played soprano [almost?] exclusively...) Got it, again! One of my personal and sentimental favourites... yes, of course this guy is KILLING! I don't know... sounds weird but seems to be a piano - I got several similar recordings with this sound and the liners giving piano... PS: perhaps, perhaps, perhaps (do count...) Not Dudu! I'd be very astounded if anyone (besides one of our local aliases) would know this... love the whole album! (Dudu did work with BoB, also with McGregor's first band, the "Blue Notes".) Yup - stone classic! Couldn't omit it and I love it! The alto solo ain't bad, either... Sure, sure (same band as which one? To nitpick, not as #8...)

Interesting comparison with Art Pepper there! Didn't occur to me before, but sort of makes sense... #3 certainly is non-US players trying to play some hardbop... #8 is a stone classic... Hey, what positive ID? I'd like to know, if only by you dropping a hint or posting a link!

Thanks everybody! I'll look for some RCA material then, likely rather on Hep than on Classics... The Wiley material I have, Guy - all four of the Baldwin Street discs (although last time I checked detailed info was only online for Volumes 1 & 2).

So I played discs 1-3, parts of disc 4 and then (in chronological order) disc 7. First impression: darn good! Disc 7 contains three small group dates, the first pairing Berigan with Bud Freeman, and it's effin' ridiculous! The second has Johnny Hodges in, Teddy Wilson on piano as well as chubby Mildred (yup, I love her singing!) and no drums (funny John Hammond story - seems a drummer was scheduled but Hammond gave him a call not to appear without the other musicians knowing...). The third date is with Edgar Sampson and Eddie Miller (I like his contributions on the Classic Capitol quite a bit, but Bud Freeman is again providing highlights there, too), as well as Cliff Jackson on piano. And all three dates have Moncur senior thumping away on bass, and doing greatly! Really three fantastic dates! As for discs 1-3, some of that is just run of the mill stuff, Berigan accompanying singers (bad ones, mostly) with ARC studio bands, Berigan playing with the Dorsey Bros. (often backing the same bad singers), and Berigan with the Boswell Sisters or just Connie Boswell - some of those sides are again pretty great. Never heard Connie Boswell before, but she's fine! The highlight of these dates for me is the session (two tunes, two takes each) with Lee Wiley ( ) - Berigan had an affair with her, it seems, and he's backing her in a much more intense way than any of the other singers. Effin' great stuff again! Now I hope that the rest of disc 4 and discs 5 and 6 continue on the better side! I wonder: what else to get to have more *good* Berigan? Classics' run of releases picking up after the Mosaic ends? (Or even those covering the same years? Is there material on those volumes coming from labels not covered in the Mosaic?)

Happy Birthday!

Just finished discs 1 and 2 of the Bunny Berigan - some chaff and some fine things hidden in between (Boswell Sisters tracks) and the highlight to top it off: the date with Lee Wiley at the end of disc 2! It's also on Vol. 1 of the Baldwin/Devil's Music Wiley edition of course and was familiar to me, but it's still a great session to hear again!

He played as part of the Globe Unity Orchestra at this year's Jazzwoche (jazz week) in Burghausen in March and is also present on a 2006 recording of the Globe Unity that I have, so seems he's still/again part of that group.

Another for this set! The highlights for me are the two Golson quartet albums and the Jazztet Meets John Lewis, but actually all of the music is first rate! The Jazztet stand out from "your usual ole hardbop" in that they have tighter arrangements (in fact: they have arrangements, simple as that...) and their music is more varied than just the usual strings of solos. Maybe the Mosaic to compare this most is the J.J. Johnson. The musical results may be a bit tamer often than say your ole BN album, but there's much more to grab your attention, too.

If you want to go one by one, get "Big Jim's Tango" next. Next trio would be the "Public Theater" recording. But first/in between I'd get one of the great quartet sets (Live in Berlin or the Gershwin or the self-titled AudioQuest if you can find that). There are a few more albums of Bennies that I didn't mention in my post, newer ones, that means between 2000 and "Disorder" which is the latest release, I think. I kind of lost track as some have been released on small US labels that don't have any distribution over here (there's at least one, blue cover, something with "Moods..." in the title, "Moodsville"? I think it's been mentioned here but don't ask me in what thread...)

I'm quite a fan! The live recording Berlin 2000 (Disorder is from Berlin 2004 or 2005) with George Cables is great (a terrific "It's Only a Paper Moon", among other good things. http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9425 Also "Big Jim's Tango", a trio with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones. http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/4046.htm "Live at the Public Theater" is an early one in trio setting with Eddie Gomez and Dannie Richmond: http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/9127.htm His debut "The Fourteen Bar Blues" (with Gomez & Eddie Moore) is fine but not that good, I think: http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/3029.htm "Mystic Bridge", a rather unlikely encounter with Chick Corea, is pretty good (though not particularly because of Corea). It has just come out in the new Enja 24 bit series: http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-2108 His Gershwin tribute, "Someone to Watch Over Me", has a very annoying cover but it's another very fine disc, with Mulgrew Miller on piano: http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9356 The other Enjas (Sweeping, Free Will, Talk of the Town and the newer Nearness of You) I don't know/have yet. Two other fine ones are on the AudioQuest label, the better of them it just titled "Bennie Wallace" and has Tommy Flanagan on piano throughout, with a few very fine songs being done. The other one's called "Old Songs" and is partly in trio and partly with Lou Levy on piano. He also did two albums for Blue Note in the 80s, I have "Bordertown" on LP. It's a bit of a ragbag, with changing line-ups including Scofield, Ray Anderson and I think Dr. John, too... not bad, though. Maybe a CD full of the best of the two albums would be a nice thing to have. To my knowledge, both are LP only so far and my hopes to find the other one aren't exactly high... http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-2108

How are Wes Montgomery's A&M albums? I never heard them...

Does anyone have a discography of these that could be posted here or mailed? This is probably the one Mosaic production I am most sad about not having been around in time to get it!

Cool album cover! I think it's silly really. So silly that it's cool again, but still silly. The album or the cover? It's out as a digipack "LPR", right? Got an earful of this in a store last week - I don't have the knowlege of it's surroundings so I can't really make a statement if it's better or worse, but I *love* Lateef and this came as quite a shock, I'm afraid... I think that they contain genuine playing and some attempt at artistic merit. For example, Miles' solo on "Code MD" on "Decoy" is a decent jazz solo. The long blues near the end of "Decoy" is not a commercialized cut. "You're Under Arrest" is a mess, in my opinion, but one can discern some artistic vision behind the efforts, as muddled as the results of the vision turned out. An album like Freddie Hubbard's "Splash" is far worse than these Miles efforts. "Splash" is pure schlock--disco lite, annoying even as elevator music or dental office music, with no redeeming value. If there is an album where Miles veered into over-commercialization, I would cite "Amandla", which to me has an almost easy listening sound to it. I agree with Claude here. "Amandla" has a couple of very good cuts (Mr. Pastorius, anyone?), so does "Decoy". "Under Arrest" never interested me much - too many bits and pieces (plus one of the worst album covers I've seen...) As for Eddie Harris, I'm not familiar with all his Atlantic albums, but "Plug Me In" or "Sylver Cycles" for instance have lots of great moments, and EH somehow just could pull this thing! His sound, you can even detect it on varitone very much, always was fitting for this kind of "sweet" stuff - his first hit, "Exodus" is where it all began, I think. In between he did those great quartet/quintet sessions with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins, but even there, on some ballads, the side of his that's deemed "commercial" is there, I think. Anyway, I love him and think you can't blame him, with all the hardness and lack of recognition he had all through his life.

Sorry I'm a day late and a dollar short to comb through 500 pages of this Hysterical Mouse thread, but which Clusone 3 disk did you pick up? I have Soft Light and Sweet Music, and like that one quite a bit. I should add that I'm not familiar with the other Clusone titles-is it the Rara Avis one? Yup, "Rara Avis" (title mentioned in the post you quoted, but I didn't bring together titles and artists...). The other one, "An Hour With" is still around, too, but "Rara Avis" had been listed as OOP for years and now suddenly it isn't - probably they found another box of it somewhere... I only with the first McPhee solo ("As Serious as Your Life", hatO 514) would turn up again, too! Also Shipp's "Multiplicator Table" I missed, but at least I got a CDR of it... I also miss Gregorio's "Ellipsis" and Mat Maneri's "Acceptance" but I'm less sure I need these.

My question was actually if the bonus "Our Love Is Here to Stay" was the same as the one mentioned being on that other 4LP release... I knew there was a bonus version of that tune on the VEE, of course... Thanks for giving some info on the Lonehill, Garth - guess this one goes on my list, then, for lack of better options...

some samples up here, now: link - note that they're encoded at a crappy 128 are indeed just tasters that ought to bring some interest in the real thing! Support the artists as well as Jacques and his label by buying the actual product!