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Then how about a decent and complete collection of the early Decca sides by Lunceford? And how about a complete reissue of the Columbia sides (I have the 4LP set, but that's quite old and not in the best shape)? And yeah, I want that damned booklet, too! ubu

I'd like to get some Basie, in the best case they would be: - Complete Vocalion/Columbia 1938-1952 Recordings - Complete Verve 1952-1966 (?) Recordings - Complete "Blazing Saddle" Years ( ) And how about a nice Mosaic set of the Decca and RCA sides? New Addey-remasterings, and, HELLYEAH - I WANT THE DAMNED BOOKLET! ubu

Makin' Whoopee Another bride Another june Another sunny Honeymoon Another season Another reason For Makin' Whoopee. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of shoes A lot of rice The groom is nervous He answers twice It's really killin' That he's so willin' to make whoopee! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Picture a little love-nest, Down where the roses cling, Picture the same sweet lovenest, Think what a year can bring. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He's washing dishes And baby clothes He's so ambitious He even sews But don't forget, folks That's what you get, folks, for Makin' Whoopee! Another year Or maybe less What's this I hear? Well, can't you guess? She feels neglected And he's suspected Of Makin' Whoopee! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She sits alone 'Most every night He doesn't 'phone her He doesn't write He says he's "busy" But she says "is he?" He's Makin' Whoopee! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He doesn't make much money Only a five-thousand per Some judge, who thinks he's funny Told him he got to pay six to her He says: "Now judge, suppose I fail." The judge says: "Budge, right into jail! You'd better keep her, I think it's cheaper Than Makin' Whoopee!!" ... has to be omitted, I guess congratulations! ubu

Another nice Mosaic hiding there... that Lerner/Loewe is cool, indeed! It's out coupled with "A Night In Tunisia" (sans alternate takes) on a Collectables 2CD edition - I actually bought that for the Lerner/Loewe alone. ubu

THAT one could concievably make a Select. indeed! But then I guess you'd have to talk Verve into doing this themselves, seems unlikely they'd allow Mosaic to do this... ubu

Oh Yeah! We discussed that before, that would be a huge box, but I would ABSOLUTELY NEED to have it if it was out! ubu

brownie, good call for the Columbia Messengers! A great one! And it IS on CD, with several (worthy) bonus tracks, too. And Donald Byrd is GREAT on that one, too! Otherwise nothing to add - get them all seems the way to go (I'm almost there, myself). D.D.: good to know Free For All will be RVG-ed later this year! I got the original LP from my father, completely beat-up and a scratch on side 2 that can't be surpassed... but hell, this was my introduction to Blakey, a long time ago (compared to my young age ), and it's still one of my favourite hard bop albums. The "Paris Jam Session" (recently in the Jazz in Paris series) is another nice one. Barney Wilen sits in (on alto) on two tracks, Bud Powell subs for Timmons, I think on the same two tracks. ubu

Wazzup anyway? I have trouble replying to threads, too. Once there are two replies, once it just gets lost, and only in one of four cases was I re-directed to the thread after posting, in all other cases, nothing happened, I had to re-enter the http-address in order to find my way back and check if my post was indeed processed once or twice or not at all... ubu

Prices in Zurich are 40-120 swiss franks (about 25-90US$!!!) - crazy bastards! I won't be willing to pay that much. Missed the Shorter/Perez/Patitucci/Blade concert for the same reason. The cheapest ticket of that was probably 50 bucks... ubu

Very true! Maybe a Select culled from Silver's own archives would be cool (it seems he does have his own archive containing loads of unreleased stuff - so he said at least in that issue of Downbeat with him on the cover). The Vogue box might be too big. There was, however, an excellent series of CDs by artists such as Lucky Thompson, Martial Solal, Bobby Jaspar, Barney Wilen, Roy Eldridge, Zoot Sims, Monk, Duke Jordan, Henri Renaud, André Hodeir, Jimmy Raney, Hawkins/Hodges, as well as several compilation discs collecting shorter sessions by Erroll Garner, Arnold Ross, Al Haig, Lee Konitz, Frank Foster, Roy Haynes, Hans Koller, Lars Gullin and others (as well as several discs I forgot to mention). Loads of beautiful music, indeed, but definitively too much for one boxed set. The Dawn, though, might be cool (but then they're all available at Freshsound's in pretty decent issues, containing alternate takes and rather good sound, too). Chuck, are you serious about Stenson? That could make a nice ECM boxed set (they did that Jarrett one, why not one collecting some Stenson! But I guess we dream...) Then, of course, I agree with lots of the musicians Bol lists - Carter, Jones, Lewis (how big would an Atlantic set be?), Webster, Jamal, Gordon/Montrose (would fit into a Select, and as they're doing lots of West Coast Selects chances wouldn't be that bad, I think! Drop them a mail!), and Bill Perkins (another nice Pacific Select?). ubu

Agree with your assessment. For me also, Elvin solo is the highlight of the disc (beautifully recorded, btw... I would have loved to have a solo Elvin CD recorded this well). Redman sounds a bit tired IMO, but still quite good... his saxophone sounds like alto here - I would have preferred a bit mpore bottom. I remember Cecil's interview in STN where he was saying how much he enjoyed playing with Jones (they played some duo concerts together - who knows, probably they get released one day). A nice cover art also. I am not sure it is still in print, so don't wait for too long with obtaining it. Anybody heard the Cecil/Maneri duo yet? I think that, with only Cecil playing along, Elvin really breakes loose! Remembrances of the best passages of the 1965 Coltrane quartet when McCoy and Garrison drop out and let Trane and Elvin dialogue... Once Redman is in, things get more bound to fixed tempi, almost "grooves", sometimes. Agreed on the recording! Elvin is recorded very bottom-heavy, and that fits him verrrry well! That solo, maybe is the best of his, together with that astonishing solo he does on "Africa" (the master take of the "Africa/Brass" sessions). Astonishing, and a very pleasant listen to memorate the master. The disc is OOP for maybe a year or two, but I don't think it's rare already. I got mine from CDConnection or CDUniverse (both have it for roughly the same prize). ubu

Just tried to send a PM (to mikeweil), got an error message, had to close down the pop-up window, and nothing is in my sent items folder. Has the PM arrived, nevertheless? ubu

cool! ubu

Listened to Momentum Space, the 1998 recording by the late Elvin, the still very lively Cecil Taylor, and the, well, let's put it thus: still among the living, Dewey Redman, for the very first time this afternoon, and featured it in my radio programme later tonight (last of a five part series on Cecil Taylor). I am very impressed, I have to say! Redman, then was still in very good shape, full sound, good ideas, but a bit conventional at times. Elvin is doing great in the duo with Taylor, and his solo is, for me the highlight of the disc, together with Taylor's solo. Taylor starts his solo really introspective, sounding almost like some Jarrett-Corea-wannabe playing his own version of a Schumann piano piece or something, and develops until he ends up playing quite wild stuff. A great performance. And Elvin's solo, well - I LOOOOOVE the sound of his drums! The two trio numbers are, I'm afraid, the weakest tracks of the disc, I think. They're not bad, far from, but not up to the Elvin, Taylor, and Elvin/Taylor ones. The duo of Redman and Elvin is rather good, too, but one hears that both of them are far more conventional and traditional players compared to Taylor. It's the tracks with him that really go over the edge - I consider Elvin's playing on the duo with Taylor to be among the best he committed to record ever. All in all, I can really recommend this disc! A very positive surprise! ubu

One of my all time favourite musicians!

You will be our first honorary dr. - Dr. org. h.c. - for providing this wise insight (Have you studied zen buddhism in the wake of Madonna, pardon, Esther?) ubu

And even more... many happy returns! ubu

The second one sounds verrrry cool.... (maybe, dare I say.... like one our royal highness would looooove to hear some nice day ) (And this is not to stress any disinterest for the first one, no sirrr!) ubu

oh the heights, indeed. Wonder why noone has mentioned great british drummer Phil Seaman so far. ubu

Fascinating thread! Thanks everybody! I cannot really participate here, but I do own that 4CD Fantasy set, and there was a time when I was reading some beat stuff, Corso, Ginsberg, Kerouac, had a book of Ferlighetti poems I really loved... then, there's that short film "Pull My Daisy" by Swiss photographer Robert Frank... Got to check out some of the names you mentioned! ubu

EKE, discs arrived, thanks!

(again) Has anyone found something on the personnel and recording date etc? We have Jack Sheldon (tp), Shelly Manne (d), and Neal Hefti (arr/cond) so far, it seems... I had no luck. ubu

As far as us jazz freaks are concerned, just hope Sony does not reorganize their Legacy-imprint in BMG-manner - that would mean no more jazz at all... or hardly any... Support the small and independent labels by buying their releases! ubu

Nice photo, Luca! Who's on drums? ubu

"No Private Income Blues" is some of the best blues playing available on a Mingus album (and that IS something)! I love the Wonderland/Portrait however it's called album a lot. You also get to hear Richard Wyands on piano, subbing for the actual band-member Horace Parlan, and you get to hear a lot of Mingus the bass player, really good solos of him. (Then, as always on the great Mingus albums, there's Dannie Richmond, dressed to kill...) Handy/Ervin, by the way, so the saying goes, were the reason why Mingus fired Shafi Hadi & Jimmy Knepper, and the saying goes he fired them right away to get the two new fellows in his band. ubu