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The use of third stream with respect to Lateef might be mis-leading, and I apologize for that, but that's what came to mind as a term to use, even though I'm not sure it actually applies. Add "ambitious", but that doesn't describe any style... anyway, it just applies to a few titles, there's bluesy playing and hardbop stuff on all these discs!

Congratulations Garth, and only the best! imagine Specks Rampura playing "Something New from Africa" as soundtrack for this post!

Bumping this back up... I always had the OJCs on second priority, simply because I believed Fantasy would keep them in print forever... now I was not only picking up just about anything I could on sale, but also trying to buy some stuff by artists that I wouldn't want to miss, be it at full prize or used or however I could lay hand on it (including all four Randy Weston OJCs). So in the meantime I picked up what I think is the complete run of 'teef's Prestige/New Jazz output (plus the one Riverside): These are two 1957 albums, both done in one session. They feature Wilbur Harden, Hugh Lawson, Ernie Farrow and Oliver Jackson. They're pretty similar in mood to the 1957 Savoy material, but likely not quite as strong... the second one I got new (arrived yesterday, together with a legit copy of "Centaur" and "Three Faces", which I had before on an LP reissue called "This is YL" from dad). I think "Other Sounds" is by far the better of these two, with a bunch of awesome tracks, "All Alone" (opening track on tenor) and "Anastasia" (second track, with "world" intro and then some magic flute...). "Taboo" may be the highlight, done not as a Latin cut but with an arab/eastern moods prevailing. The last track, "Mahaba", is pretty unique for all his 55-65 output, as far as I know, with chanting and not much horns playing at all. This one I got a few months ago, together with "Into Somethin'". It's probably the most "world" like of these early albums, with lots of flute and the first appearance of the oboe. Lonnie Hillyer (otherwise familiar only as a Mingus sidekick) is on trumpet here. Definitely a good one, but I haven't played it for a few weeks and can't give a detailled rundown. (Can anyone explain the "bonus" cut with the 1957 quintet? nothing about it is said in the liners and the annotation isn't all that clear... where does it come from, exactly?) This one has a larger band, with both Clark Terry (flugel, actually) and Richard Williams on trumpets and one Hosea Taylor on bassoon, providing two pretty nice solos. Joe Zawinul is on piano, somewhat flowery in spots, but doing great, in general! Curtis Fuller, an earlier member of the Lateef Quintet ("Before Dawn", "Jazz Moods", "Jazz for Thinkers") is on trombone, and Tate Houson on baritone. It's very welcome to hear a few more glimpses of the later, I enjoy the Curtis Fuller Blue Note album with him a lot! The title tune is by a classical (?) composer, while the opening is an original by then 17 year old Kenny Barron, who also arranged a ballad/standard, "Ev'ry Day I Fall in Love". The "Centaur" is sort of mildly third-streamish, but it won't get too whymsical with Brother Yusef in charge, don't be afraid! A great album and a bit of a departure from the usual quintet (and quartet later) line-ups, and highly welcome as such! Oh, and as a bonus it includes two fun short cuts (Concord site says they were on a 45 originally, makes sense) with voices and lots of percussion backing Lateef. No need to say much about this one - one of his crowning achievements, with Barry Harris on piano, no second horn, and a bunch of great tunes, including a sublimation of that kitsch bit, "Love Theme from 'Spartacus'" and a few other good things... Ernie Farrow and Lex Humphries round out the band. Available now in an RVG reissue, I have the older one (need I upgrade?) Another great one, featuring Elvin Jones on drums! Half of it is in trio (Herman Wright is on bass), few tracks, Barry Harris makes it a quartet. Another of his best ones, but I can't say much more, would have to play it again before... anyway, it's great to see Lateef again in a slight departure and having Elvin behind him, instead of his usual drummers (they're good, mind me, but they're not Elvin!). This one features Lateef more or less equally on tenor, flute and oboe (hence the "three faces"). The band consists of Hugh Lawson, Herman Wright and Lex Humphries, with the addition of Ron Carter on cello. The opening tune (an arrangement of Dvorak's "Goin' Home") and Carter's presence, plus oboe and flute, let this get a bit third-streamish, too, in spots. Pretty interesting, and in fact quite different from the Lateef that explored eastern sounds on other albums of the same period. Standouts, for me, are the oboe tracks, including a great little blues! The CD has a goof, btw: the date and studio given on the tray are different from what's given on the back of the booklet (I assume the later is correct, but haven't checked yet).

Viola is on one of the two Buddy Collette Freshsounds (the ones with feghed up covers, "Tasty Dish" and "Soft Touch"). r.i.p. There are a few images over here: http://classicjazzguitar.com/artists/artis...e.jsp?artist=31

sorry, my order above then is mixed-up... I'll re-order the tags and then the post, later - haven't been able to listen to more than I posted about... and of course I haven't read any posts here, yet...

That "no more JOS" comment was a joke. There's a Jimmy Smith session scheduled for June as part of the upcoming Connoisseur Edition batch. Oh, and they can't really call a compilation of the remaining Sermon/House Party tracks Confirmation any more as that track was added to the House Party RVG. Theser two RVGs were so feghed up!

Bumping this up! I have finally started digging into my Bails set, and wow I like it! I have heard dsics 1-3 so far, and most of it is pretty good, to say the least! One small thing that I found pretty funny: it seems some kind of auto-correction changed Bernie Hanighen's last name into "Hangmen" in the liners. Too bad they didn't actually do some serious proof-reading. Does anyone know, would the Norvo HEP releases (five I think so far?) complement this box, or would they duplicate too many tracks from the Mosaic to make it worth getting them?

But wasn't that the only case when they did something like this? The Sounds of Jimmy Smith is out already and it does contain all the otherwise missing tracks. They could sell the RVGs as "Complete" editions including two full albums each without having to change the track order or leave off individual tracks as was the case with The Sermon/House Party. Yes, I think so, but after that someone even posted something along the lines they wouldn't do any Smith any more... and I'm still pissed. I don't expect an RVG of "Confirmation" filling in the gaps all that soon.

arright, then! tracks weren't properly tagged, so I hope I have them in the correct order on my ipod, here's few first ones: #1 "Comin' Home Baby" (Ben Tucker). Very nice opener! Barisax is very cool at the bottom! All together a flimsy little thingie #3 Ha! Wazzat? Some film soundtrack à la "Sweet Smell of Success" (or "Man with the Golder Arm"? g: )? Oh, wait, what the fuck... a pastiche of all-too familiar licks, Peter Gunn? Stoopid little funny ditty! Nice trumpet bits, more nice barisax! I like this one! The timpany things are a bit roughly edited, though... #3 This sounds slightly more serious now... tenor is pretty nice, I assume I should be able to pin it down? #4 Helen Merrill doing "Arcangeli Twist"? Great fun! Not what Merrill did that often, I think... her italian accent is pretty weird -- how old/young was she when she went to the US? SOme words sound pretty proper, but much of it sounds like some yankee attempting to sing in a serious kind of language... ha! nice cover, too: #5 Them doorbells are pretty prominent so far, aren't they? Nice little groove tune, this wouldn't be out of place on a "serious" jazz album, but it's plenty of fun, too, with them congas and all! This doesn't happen to be that Jerzy chap? #6 Ha! Corny boogie stuff à la late 60s Blue Note... some kind of pop song from those years, I assume? Would make a nice film soundtrack for something like Elliot Gould's private eye flick by the late great Altman... Stanley T on tenor? Sure reminds me of some of his later BN albums... never my favourite kind of stuff, but occasionally I still play some of it. Definitely not bad for what it is! #7 Similar stuff, corny guitar, feeping flute and organ... just like I imagine what it sounds like in MWTG's house! #8 Hm, sounds familiar, the opening piano lick is of course stolen from Herbie... #9 Sort of a rip-off of Mogie's "Sidewinder", groove-wise? Not bad, no sir! Very nice speech-like trombone solo! Very nice track! Tenor sounds familiar, but it's not Joe Hen, I think... or is this from the Julian Priester date on "Sonic Boom"? That would make George Coleman on tenor... doesn't fit with the timings on AMG, though.

My order arrived yesterday! Extremely fast, once again! And as usual, one of their huge flimsy boxes, containing 6 or 7 hatOLOGY discs, pretty pathetic!

Thanks for following up on my remastering question! The later US versions, that would be first the jewel-case editions of albums like the Dixon/Shepp (great one!) or "Bluebird" by Hank Jones' Trio with guests (J. Richardson, D. Byrd, J. Wilder a.o.)? These were new remasterings, as far as I know. And they had the Atlantic logo on them - why, actaully? Just a distribution thing? Around the same time, there were the cardboard packages, of, among others, Art Pepper, Kenny Dorham, Fats Navarro, and 2CD sets of Coltrane/Harden (marvellous!), Cannonball & Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef (I have that one packed in a jewel-case, but still with the cardboard-layout). Some of these had the Atlantic logo on them, too. Then there are the compressed black cardboard packages (still marvellous music, of course... I have the Gillespie, Norvo and Prez in that edition, half of the Prez on one of the Denons, too). And the great 8CD Bird box (Savoy/Dial/related stuff, including the Norvo session w/Bird & Diz) was a one-off, correct? That one is marvellous!

Well, at least I already played the last disc, with marvellous Lee Wiley! (edited for typo...)

can't you start to at least write the names of these musicians correctly, first it would be showing a little bit of respect, and second one could actually find the threads when doing a search... I have the twofer and one of the others, all very fine music!

Wasn't this motivated by the japanese "LP reproduction" ideology (including reproduction of previous errors)? That's such a weird practice - I really don't understand why these vinyl fetishists don't just buy vinyl if they want the *original* album anyway.

Ah, I see... but the Japanese and American series used the same remasterings?

Claude, don't think it's the Denon releases. The ones I have include yearly lists in their liner notes and there is not gap in the catalogue numbers. Must be from another Japanese Savoy reissues series. But these look the same, no? And the numbering is similar or the same, either, no? I think these Denons were distributed all over, not just in Japan, as most other Japanese reissues (JRVGs, TOCs).

Yeah, I saw it a few hours ago when I browsed the Mosaic site. Glad I have mine!

I think so, but if I were to go the JRVG route, I'd end up having to pay for four discs. I'm hoping that the US/Europe editions will compile the remaining material onto just two discs. Nope, see Sermon and House Party. I'd hope, too, but then I don't. I missed that Mosaic in the last minute - that was when I still had no credit card and sent orders by mail, by the time mine arrived, the set was gone...

Is there any list available of these?

that was is written right between her, ahem, right...

Congratulations! Now when will that second silver platter of yours be out?

Thanks for sharing the good news, brownie!

I'll get it a few month before it goes OOP and likely will give it a first spin a few months after it's OOP... and I think I'm not alone there... too many things to pick up, no chance to keep up with the Mosaic release schedule!

Happy Birthday

I just got my confirmation for the Feb. 22 order (hat discs, too, I assume, Claude?) - it's dated back to yesterday and said the package went out yesterday, too. All items were still around!