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Nat Adderley - Branching Out Urbie Green - East Coast Jazz/6 Stan Levey - This Time the Drum's on Me Mel Torme - Lulu's Back in Town Chris Connor (the self-titled Atlantic) Jack Teagarden - Think Well of Me (I hardly know his recordings, but this one I love so much, it will be hard to top!) Charlie Persip - & the Jazz Statesmen Eddie Bert - the session with JR Monterose (on Encore & another Bethlehem album, both now on a Freshsound 2CD set) Stanley Turrentine - Live at Minton's

That's about as simple a pick as: Don Sleet - All Members I never meshed with this thread, but I'm at work and bored right now, so I'll think of some favourites - main problem is I feel actually to make such a statement you ought to be familiar with more or less the complete recorded output of these musicians, which in many cases I'm not, so I'll try and stick to musicians whose oeuvre I'm quite familiar with or add some kind of disclaimer... Charles Mingus - Black Saint & the Sinner Lady Cannonball Adderley - Something Else Grant Green - Idle Moments Kenny Dorham - Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus or Village Vanguard René Thomas - Guitar Groove (not familiar with too much of his stuff, though) Sonny Clark - Trio Hank Mobley - Soul Station Art Blakey - the 1953 Birdland, the 1954 Bohemia or Free for All - I really can't decide! Clifford Brown - Study in Brown (actually Brown/Roach) Max Roach - Freedom Now Suite Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch or the Five Spot live date Ornette Coleman - At the Golden Circle Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris Herbie Hancock - probably Inventions & Dimensions, but I'm not quite sure Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator Jimmy Smith - Groovin' at Smalls Paradise (the full glorious 2CD RVG!) Abdullah Ibrahim - African Marketplace (with Yarona a close second) Randy Weston - Monterey '66 or Volcano Blues Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (the Revenant 2CD set) Archie Shepp - Live in San Francisco Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (don't know more than a third or half his albums, though) Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie Ben Webster - Meets Oscar Peterson Bud Powell - the trio date w/Un Poco Loco & the quintet w/Navarro & Rollins Thelonious Monk - the collected Genius of Modern Music (including the session on Bags' "Wizard of Vibes") Stan Getz - the early Roost quartets (disc 1 of the Blue Note 3CD set) Herbie Mann - At the Village Gate (I barely know his work, though) Yusef Lateef - Live at Pep's (Volume 1 - Volume 2 never struck me as much as Volume 1 did) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Johnny Coles - The Warm Sound Art Pepper - Intensity (tough one to choose... all his late 50s Contemporary albums are da shit!) Art Ensemble - the Nessa box Horace Silver - & the Jazz Messengers Marion Brown - Quartet (I don't know that much of his stuff, but hey, this one's so feghing great!) Lee Konitz - Motion Lennie Tristano - Tristano Booker Little - Out Front Hal Russell - The Hal Russell Story (still need to look beyond his 3 ECMs and the UMS one I have, though) Jazztet - With John Lewis Benny Golson - Free Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic Booker Ervin - The Freedom and Space Sessions (cheating... that's the title of a 2LP set with you guess which two books) Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth Alan Shorter - Orgasm (easy pick!) Miles Davis - tough call, but I think I go with PLM and pick the Plugged Nickel box Gianni Gebbia - Arcana Major Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall George Russell - Ezz-thetic Joe Harriott - Free Form (though I know just his Redial reissues and the Koch indo-jazz one) Jackie McLean - another tough call... Destination Out, probably... Gil Evans - Out of the Cool Stephan Oliva - Cinema (part of the jazz & (e)motion box) Sonny Stitt - Endgame Brilliance (cheating again, but the two albums make a wonderful compilation!) Bennie Wallace - Big Jim's Tango (or the Gershwin album?) Tommy Flanagan - Giant Steps (or Overseas Revisited?) Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge Lester Young - much of his best stuff has not been on "albums"... love all of it, for a pick: the Savoy date with Basie where he does "Blue Lester" Count Basie - difficult again... maybe the Famous Door broadcast on disc 4 of the Columbia boxette) Duke Ellington - another tough one, but I go with those who chose Fargo, too! Albert Mangelsdorff - Now Jazz Ramwong Ianci Körössy - Identification Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up Larry Young - Unity Bennie Green - Soul Stirrin¨ Dizzy Reece - Star Bright Steve Lacy - tough one again... School Days, Work, or Morning Joy Charlie Parker - the Dial & Savoy sessions - all of them! Lucky Thompson - Tricotism (the trio dates!) Julius Watkins - the BN 10" albums Tadd Dameron - the Café Bohemia live stuff with Navarro, Eager and Rudy Williams! Someone ought to collect all of it and do set!) John Lewis - Private Concert Sacha Distel (w/John Lewis) - Afternoon in Paris Barney Wilen - Moshi (not quite sure, though) Shelly Manne - At the Black Hawk (all volumes)

well, actually i had intended to buy albums until 2050 or 2070... same here... but even if CDs disappear, we can switch to vinyl in 2040 or so!

Maybe they're overreacting a bit because they slept on the whole www thing much too long? On the other hand, it might in fact be them who have the power to actually fulfill their prophecy, too...

Happy Birthday, David!

If you have that 'Le Jardin aux Sentiers Qui Bifurquent' CD, hang on to it! There won't be any more in that series. The Wilen 'Estate' forbade the release of the other albums I got that one just when it came out, by email, directly from that guy who has been liquidating his business for a while now... sad times. Why did they forbid?

That's great news! Did you ever hear anything about a second release on that other label that did the bifurquing disc?

You're 24 addicts, too? I couldn't watch it on TV, would be too hard to wait a week... waiting for Season 5 on DVD now!

hammond = cheese = TRUTH! (...but only out of context, of course, as if that was necessary to add... )

Happy Birthday!

Herzliche Glückwünsche & alles Gute! I'll play some Guaraldi later to celebrate (I have your MP3 compilation on my iPod now, but I also got Black Orpheus and the Charlie Brown soundtrack, as well as a bunch of Tjaders, some with him... and of course the Tjader/Getz! Thanks for helping me getting hooked - Tjader-wise, mikeweil was a big help, too...)

You know, I too remember seeing mainly MoJs at one store here in Zurich, but that was before I got interested in anything pre-Bird/Dizzy/Bud, alas, and once I became aware of the great series, it was too late and they were all gone! The Classics have never had good distribution here. And the duplication thing is bothersome, BUT, in my opinion: for a MoJ disc, which has thorough annotation, good sound, and complete sessions (there are not as many alternates with everyone as with Bird, be honest, usually it's not such a big annoyance to have a second take with different solos, no?), even if half of it is just duplicates of tracks I already have. But a Classics disc I would not buy in such a case, since possibly masterings are bad or at least spotty, sessions are not containing alternates, playing time is only ca. 60 minutes (if it's an archival project, why not include a date more per disc?)... I am willing to buy a quality product if I have half of its contents on lesser editions, but I'm not willing to get another lesser edition... (I know, Classics does a great job in documenting the music, but they're definitely not as good, quality-wise, as MoJ or Hep or some other labels). The blues reissue policy sounds like a great idea and would indeed make sense with jazz reissues, too! Sad it isn't so! I guess each company is just milking their Miles and Trane and Brubeck etc. and not looking any further. Power to the small companies! If Freshsound continues in the direction they're taking now, I hope for many good reissues from them, for instance! Fegh Sony if only because of Duke & Basie, fegh em! At least they do Miles near-perfect, but that's probably because they sell it better...

Was this one ever on CD in recent years? I could have picked up an original LP of it (don't remember if mono or stereo) but it was too expensive... I didn't even play it to make sure I wouldn't buy it (35$ or so).

But if you ever had a "Chronogical Classics" and an MoJ and compared them - both content-wise (MoJ had alternates and rarities, unreleased live material etc), documentation-wise (MoJ has photos, good liner notes, and a real discography for the disc, even listing soloists on each tune), one would wonder why the chronos continue to exist and the good ones went belly-up!

June 16, 1950 & September 18 or November 18, 1953 are on: March 15, 1956, I just realized, is on: so no flea market searching necessary, since I have the JiPs! March 16, 1956 is on: from the Bud Powell date, "Groovin High" is on: and "Taking a Chance on Love" in on: The fact that the third Bud/Three Bosses/Zoot cut is not on any of the three Fantasy/Pablo Powell discs makes me hope there's more coming, but with Concord now, who knows? But no trace of the 1961 on a CD, or is there a reissue?

Happy birthday! I'll play the Joe Malinga later to celebrate!

Pity then the Americans Swinging in Paris wasn't a twofer... but I'll look for it anyway. Right now playing this one: A 32jazz release that is now out on Savoy (now being... ahem, 2003 - I'm lagging behind, obviously). The crappy jazzdisco I used for the Paris dates above (it doesn't show on their start page, but there's still a Zoot disco... I assume it's not a complete one?) gives mid 80s and an unknown Philly club, while the disc gives nothing (unless in the liners maybe, but this is the first spin I give it, and I haven't read any liners yet). There's also a Zoot & Al Leftbank one that was out on Label M (short-lived 32jazz successor), as well as another one by the two on 32jazz - I have a botched version of that, one of those originally in those ugly black plactic boxes, mine was used and obviously the black thing was destroyed and I got it in a jewel case with a flimsy copy of the outside sticker of the plastic box being used as traycard. Anyway, it's called "Body & Soul" and has the trio of Jaki Byard, George Duvivier and Mel Lewis backing the two tenors, thus it can't be bad, can it?

Ok, I'll put the March 16 one on my virtual/mental list... should turn up cheap some day. No flea markets for me... the only ExLibris LP I know of is an Oscar Peterson collection from my parents... bad annotation (no line-ups given), but looks like quite solid vinyl. The one great ExLibris thing I have is a reprint/Lizenzausgabe of one of the few good Goethe editions, 20 tomes, I think

Is that the Vogue one with a quartet date from 1950 and a sextet w/Rosolino from 1953, or the later one that was reissued as part of EMI's "Americans Swinging in Paris" series? The former I have and it's good, the later I still need to get... Zoot Sims Quartet Zoot Sims (ts) Gerry Wiggins (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Paris, France, June 16, 1950 V4021-1 | D422 | D428 Night and Day Discovery 148, DL 3015; Prestige PR 7817 V4021-2 - Prestige PR 7817 V4021-3 - unissued V4022-1 | D424 | D430 Slinglin' Hash Discovery 148, DL 3015; Prestige PR 7817 V4022-2 - Prestige PR 7817 V4023-1 | D427 | D433 Tenorly Discovery 149, DL 3015; Prestige PR 7817 V4023-2 - unissued V4024-1 | D423 | D429 I Understand Discovery 149, DL 3015; Prestige PR 7817 V4024-2 - unissued V4025 | D425 | D431 Don't Worry 'Bout Me Discovery 150, DL 3015; Prestige PR 7817 V4026 | D426 | D432 Crystals - V4027 Zoot and Zoot unissued * Zoot Sims Quartet Recorded in France (Discovery DL 3015) * Zoot Sims - First Recordings! (Prestige PR 7817) * Zoot Sims - Night and Day c/w Slinglin' Hash (Discovery 148, 45-148) * Zoot Sims - Tenorly c/w I Understand (Discovery 149, 45-149) * Zoot Sims - Don't Worry 'Bout Me c/w Crystals (Discovery 150, 45-150) Zoot Sims Sextet Frank Rosolino (tb) Zoot Sims (ts) Henri Renaud (p) Jimmy Gourley (g) Don Bagley (b) Jean-Louis Viale (d) Paris, France, September 18 or November 18, 1953 Toot's Suite Vogue (F) LD 170 The Late Tiny Kahn - Call It Anything - tk.2 Zoot's Suite - Once in a While - tk.3 Great Drums - * Zoot Sims Goes to Town (Vogue (F) LD 170) Zoot Sims - Henri Renaud Quintet Jon Eardley (tp) Zoot Sims (ts) Henri Renaud (p) Eddie de Haas (b) Charles Saudrais (d) Paris, France, March 15, 1956 Charlie Went to Cherbourg Le Club Francais du Disque (F) HF 95 Crazy Rhythm - I've Found a New Baby - Charlie Was in Rouen - * Zoot Sims/Henri Renaud - Night Session in Paris (Le Club Francais du Disque (F) HF 95) Zoot Sims - Henri Renaud Quintet Jon Eardley (tp -1/3,5/7) Zoot Sims (ts) Henri Renaud (p) Benoit Quersin (b) Charles Saudrais (d) Paris, France, March 16, 1956 1. Captain Jetter Ducretet-Thomson (F) 250V023 2. Nuzzolese Blues - 3. Everything I Love - 4. Evening in Paris - 5. On the Alamo - 6. My Old Flame - 7. Little Jon Special - * Zoot Sims in Paris (Ducretet-Thomson (F) 250V023) Zoot Sims - Pierre Michelot Quartet Zoot Sims (ts) Martial Solal (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Paris, France, March, 1956 It Had to Be You I Giganti del Jazz (It) 8; Europa Jazz (It) EJ 1007 * Chet Baker - Gerry Mulligan - Bud Powell - Clark Terry (I Giganti del Jazz (It) 8) * Bud Powell - Europa Jazz (Europa Jazz (It) EJ 1007) The Three Bosses with Zoot Sims Zoot Sims (ts) Bud Powell (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Kenny Clarke (d) "Blue Note Cafe", Paris, France, January, 1961 Groovin' High Mythic Sound MS 6005-1 Taking a Chance on Love - Blue Bud Blues / 52nd Street Theme - * Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 5 - Groovin' at the Blue Note, 59-61 (Mythic Sound MS 6005-1, MS 6005-2) Zoot Sims - Henri Renaud Quartet Zoot Sims (ts) Henri Renaud (p) Bob Whitlock (b) Jean-Louis Viale (d) "Blue Note", Paris, France, December, 1961 Zoot's Blues United Artists UAL 4013 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most - Once in a While - These Foolish Things - On the Alamo - Too Close for Comfort - A Flat Blues - You Go to My Head - Stompin' at the Savoy (Savoy) - * Zoot Sims in Paris (United Artists UAL 4013, UAS 5013) Ok, I see now it's likely the very last one - has that been on CD? Or is that the "Americans Swinging in Paris"? Nope, that one's the March 16, 1956 date - has this last one from 1961 been on CD?

That one's a blast! I have it filed with my Körössy albums, so I didn't think of it when this thread was started. Anything by/with Körössy is worth having, and if it also has Zoot, all the better! Dig Ianci on "Jitterbug Waltz"! And look out for his MPS album "Identification" in any form you might be able to find it, it's terrific!

This one: It has all the sessions recorded by Pete Rugolo for EmArcy/Mercury with the cream (at least the vast majority) of the West Coast musicians from July to November 1956. The various tracks appeared on albums like 'Music For Hifi Bugs', 'Brass In Hifi', 'Reeds In Hifi', 'Out on a Limb' ... Plenty of solos by the likes of Don Fagerquist, Pete Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Ronny Lang, Bud Shank, Howard Roberts, etc... Shelly Manne is on drums throughout and Joe Mondragon is also on all tracks and provides superb bass playing! Thanks for posting some detail, I'll have to look for this! Freshsound has turned into a great reissues enterprise in the last two years or so. Before, their covers and liners and layouts and docuemtation often were rather shabby, I found... but these and recent JazzCity reissues, too, are a fine bunch!

What about the US cover is not ok?

and I was thinking of and

Oh yes, the Legrand OJC is good! If only they hadn't used an electric piano... but in the end the music is too strong that it matters! The Coral "Al & Zoot" is definitely great, maybe that one's my favourite of the duo. It was reissued on CD in the long-gone Chess Masters series, probably hard to find by now, alas. Could anyone specify a few of the Pablos? I only have "Soprano Sax" (so-so) and "& the Gershwin Brothers" (terrific). If one doesn't just want to get all of them, where to continue?