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It came out as part of this twofer: Julian Priester & Walter Benton - Out Of This World (Jazzland - Milestone MCD-47087-2)

Interesting idea for a thread! I was most certainly influenced by my parents' musical tastes in mostly a positive way - no need to rebel against their tastes, although my embrace of jazz quickly included areas they were unwilling to cope with - my father hates organ, though he has an original LP of Jimmy Smith's "The Cat", he also thought "Free for All" - the Blakey one - was "free jazz"... but at least he did own it, and give me a first chance to hear what I still consider the most exciting Blakey album. The record collection of my parents was pretty diverse - lots of classical (mostly from my mother), lots of pop/rock/folk stuff (never any hard rock, just lots of Beatles and Dylan etc - Dylan, thanks to my dad, still is one of my loves today, I started buying his CDs at age of 13 or so, which was just about when the CD came into stores, in the early 80s). They also had some indian classical and other "ethno" or "world" stuff, but that's an area I am only slowly getting started in. Oh, and my mother loved "Amandla" from Miles... so I got into MD backwards, more or less. "We Want Miles" was one of the first CDs I had, probably even before "Kind of Blue" - I had gotten that from the library at school, but back then I muchly preferred the other Miles one they had, "Workin'". At the school library I also got into "Ascension" for the first time, and playing that aloud at home was something that made my parents... well, not exactly scream, but politely ask me to turn it down a bit and close my door... Anyway, I guess I took a lot of hints from them (another one would be one of those early, maybe the first?, Sly & the Family Stone LPs my father had), but went places from there, getting into music much deeper than they ever did. The one area where they, mainly my father, are into deeper than I am is indian classical - they attend concerts whenever they can (I have seen Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain and others with them, on the few occasions I went along), and my father buys 10 or 15 new CDs a year on his frequent trips (business/NGO) to India. (edited for some typos - I guess there are more...)

Very sad news Thank you for sharing your memories, Valerie!

Reform Judaism? Royal Jordanian Airlines? Or R.J. Gator's Florida Sea Grill & Bar (founded 1986, in case)? Or the electric plug? Who/whatever you're talking about, let me add best wishes, too!

Live broadcast of Experience have been very sloppy, in my opinion... that's alas the only WSQ I've heard so far, but I'll take some leads from here for the day I feel like getting more.

Not familiar with the WSQ, but a tiny bit with Hemphill, and this one's a classic: Same goes for "Dogon A.D." (Tim Berne had it for download on his site some time ago), and "Flat Out Jump Suite" (Black Saint) is another very good one. Lake I'm not sure - found him rather disappointing with Trio 3 (Workman was great, though!).

Very sad news. Her Mosaic was one of the biggest surprises - not that I expected it to be less than good, but it turned out to be great, and full of terrific performances, an instant love-affair! Thank you for all the music, Ms. O'Day.

That Desmond box Claude linked above has the Desmond/Hall albums (incl. the one with strings) plus the Desmond/Mulligan, yes? I have the US version (5CD) of the Desmond RCA (omitting the album with Mulligan) and of the Rollins (6CD). I assume the Bluebird single discs would sound better? I did get the Bluebird for the Desmond/Mulligan, since it has quite a bit of additional music that is not part of the French RCA Gold reissue. Usually these Bluebirds are still a bitch to find over here, alas - there'd be quite a few I would like to get. For instance, it seems the US Bluebird of Tijuana Moods is much better, and in fact complete, whereas the RCA Gold one is kind of a hack job, but only that one's distributed here...

I think our western european post-enlightenment and even moreso post shoah and WWII negative or precautious opinion on national symbols and patriot feelings may be something not easily understood in other parts of the world, probably not even in the US, for large parts of it... just thinking aloud, correct me if I'm wrong, please. The Swiss national anthem is pretty peculiar, btw. We had an old one that used I think the same melody as the (old? current?) UK one (or is that the english? Do they have four or one?), but it was replaced by some pretty weird old song.

Ditto. ... make that three ... same here!

brothers, uhm sisters in song:

Same here. Most anthems soun dour and pompous. Le Marseillase sounds very uplifting. Yep. Check out the version on this: I prefer Cirribiribin... no national anthems for me, pulleaze! This is the weirdest thread ever since this board got started, methinks... for the cuteness factor, maybe that little tune them hippies did sing? another good one: cute, huh? yuck! oh, and I have my own national anthem, of course, the "King Ubu Stomp"

I can understand that, being myself quite fond of good looking packaging, and considering that mp3 quality varry depending on the source store. What I find interesting in Jan Ström's move is this notion of download-only titles, which allow him to release music that would not have reached the public for lack of potential CD sales. If only for this, i guess it's something to praise. And except for the medium, the music is mastered like regular releases, so if music stores do their stuff correctly, the result for the listener is quite fine. Yeah, ok, but why can't he just put the files up on his site, you send 5 or 7 $ via paypal and get access to downloadable 320 kbps MP3s? Why always through some stores, none of which seem to really have good offerings for non US-citizens, and with none of which I want to register, as I'd only want to get that Ayler thing?

Hi, first post around here. The Futterman is really enjoyable, as are the Simmons and Gjerstad (my favorite of the three so far). The Steve Swell is right up my alley, with Ascension-like bits and pieces and incredible energy. For the prices, it's true they varry from store to store, but as all releases will eventually be available at both iTunes and eMusic, it's just a question of time to get these at the best quality/price ratio. I couldn't help but notice the comment about cover art, but I find Ayler's position on this quite unusual and noticeable. They do offer cover, tray and label artwork on their website, in the form of PDF files. This is rare enough to be acknowledged. My 2 cents. welcome here! At the moment I do have a job where I can occasionally print something in colour and I'm happy with those printouts, but still, it's not quite the same. I do not enjoy the whole development from quality to MP3 format, in general, but I do see the new distribution possibilities of the web. Anyway, I have not embraced it yet and I'll keep being at least reserved for some more time, I'm afraid...

just for the record, I have plenty of Mosaics I hardly ever post in that thread this list is based on... not sure what my favourites are, but the Hill may be among them. I missed a lot of the older sets (hey, I was born merely 2 years before Mosaic was founded, so...), and since many of those have been reissued by other labels (mostly BN, Monk, Bud, Nichols, Green/Clark etc., but also some others, like the Desmond/Hall RCA, the Mingus CBS on Sony/Legacy), many of these older boxes are perceived by us younger people as BN (or whatever) boxes. Oh, the Tina Brooks is one of the old sets I got, and that one was great to have, since by the time I got it the Conn of "True Blue" was long gone, and the only one easily available was "Back to the Tracks". So it served me as a great introduction to Tina (I still don't have "True Blue" and last unreleased album in their CD incarnations). Others, beside the Hill, I enjoy a lot, are Thad Jones, Jones-Lewis, J.J., TKM, Jimmy Giuffre, O'Day, the VeeJays, the Ventura/Phillips, the Basie live (missed the studio when it was available). Hard to pick any absolute favourites at this time. THe Weston is my favourite select, but I only have four (Amy, Brookmeyer and Bennie Green).

Just finally ordered two copies of this one from CDU (oh my, I hope I used the correct big-o link! not sure anymore, but it's too late now) for me and for a friend as an x-mas gift. Looking forward to throw the vinyl rip CDRs in the garbage! This is such a great recording, most certainly one of Mingus' very best ones!

Long Goodbye is great, Allen - I wanted to post in here yesterday but forgot the title of the film. Elliott Gould is one of the weirdest private eyes in the history of cinema. I don't care wether he's over- or underrated. He was one of the best in modern crappy commercial Hollywood, and that's an achievement however way you look at it. Oh, and "M.A.S.H." is pretty feghing hilarious, even in german synchronization and on tv. r.i.p.

That one was a printing error, Mr. Uehlinger told me. I got one from him when we interviewed him, gave away the blue one to a friend, but in the end I'll want to get the hatOLOGY reissue, as it seems it sounds quite a bit better... There'd be tons of different hat covers, but the onld ones are very hard to find on the net. Virtually any album reissued after ca. 1993 or 1994 (when they started the current design, musicians, later citiscapes b/w photos w/orang text) has had another cover before. There are a few post 1993 albums that have been reissued in cardboard hatOLOGY versions using the same covers again (for instance Myra Melford's quintet album with Dave Douglas).

Colin, "Yarona" is my favourite, but then it's 10 years old already - a magnificient live recording with a slightly more intervening trio than he leads now (the youngsters he has now are merely supporting, and alas a bit boring, I think). Good to hear Ibrahim is still in good form, though!

I'm afraid I'm once more making a fool of myself, but here are some impressions on disc one... thanks, Mr. Bassman! #1 nice little opener - setting the theme? #2 Everything I Got Belongs to You - a nice old-fashioned arrangement with horn backings. Like the singer a lot, somewhere close to the songbirds but with a heavier touch in the voice, very nice! Sounds like from the 50s? Very nice, although the backings get a bit tiring after a while... don't dare to mention any names... #3 That's one of those stiff Glenn Miller riffs, no? The growling brass is cool and the beat is decidedly dry and funky. Not to put this down, but it sounds like something any kind of professional big band could do... nice, but lightweight fun. #4 A very, very nice combination, bass & baritone sax! Tune sounds familiar... a bit tame, bari could try a bit more, soundwise, but it's nice! A combination I'd like to hear more often, for sure! #5 Bass sound is pretty ugly, gives this away as a retro recording (prob. by older guys, thus retro is unfair...) of much more recent vintage than it is, stylistically... tenor is pretty nice, drummer I don't like a lot - pretty clichéd bop fillings, all stuff you can hear much livlier and done in a more swinging way on recordings of all the great bop drummers (Max, Philly Joe...). The sound also keeps me from enjoying the bass solo a lot, sorry. Tenor is the only thing I really like here... the tune sounds familiar, too, but as usual I can't pin it down... #6 Sounds like it could be a Dave Brubeck tune... but the rhythm is even more restrained, Wright would swing in an earthier way and Morello would play a bit more... but this drummer starts building some and gets quite good, too! Tenor is of the "inside" kind of Trane followers, not bad at all, but sound's a bit thin. Not a bad performance at all, but maybe a bit long? #7 Post Bill Evans piano trio? Bass solo is good, but in the intro/theme it's too "glibberish" for my taste... #8 Now we're talkin'! I like this one a lot! Swings quite some, even though there's no drummer. Nice vibes, not sure who, but either some mainstream chap (Hampton) or a rather modest modern one (Charles?). Very nice tenor here! Out of the Hawk bag, but much softer... Lucky T? Long time I played any of his stuff... hm, thinking of Lucky would make Bags the obvious choice, but if that's bag he's quite laidback, not to say restrained! Not Bags & Lucky, no... nice trombone/tenor shout chorus! Nice how at the very end the trombone gets a bit dirty and a wee tiny bit out of line, compared to the very tight surroundings. #9 Fairly recent recording, not bad, tenor has some nice small sonic inflections, but alltogether this doesn't really convince me. #10 I love this kind of funk with a real double bass... beats are sort of drum'n'bass-like... a bit of a pastiche, but fun! #11 This one grows on me... I hit the repeat button a few time because I drifted off, but I begin to like it! The guitar reminds me of some of the tunes on Keziah Jones' great blue-cover album (the blufunk one, before he turned to doing harder stuff). #12 Another post-Evans trio... nice one. #13 More funky stuff. The combination of sax/trombone is a good one, and too rarely heard, I think. Ray Anderson? Sounds definitely familiar... one of my favourite cuts, with its lazy funky groove! #14 More groovy stuff, good, but not the most involving... not sure if the soprano amounts to much, but I like it, even if it may just be noodling around... #15 Is that from Dieter Ilg's folk songs album? I heard another tune from it elsewhere when it came out in the 90s, very nice. Would be a disc to get, eventually! Very nice closer!

I figured everyone know the original ones thus I was a bit lazy...

a few other alternates: (this was actually a Ron Carter date, also issued as "Where" on the Prestige sub New Jazz) (this is of course the great Mal Waldron album, same title originally)

two from trane, never saw them before, I think:

and some smartass remarks to make us laugh here, too!