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I love that one! Was my latest Coltrane acquisition, by the way. Otherwise, I have only a few of the albums mentioned so far. I can recommend any by Cohn/Sims (Either Way is fine, indeed!, You'n'me, too, also the one reissued on Blue Note with Phil Woods added). Cohn makes a fine appearance on the Vogue Oscar Pettiford album: A very good album, but it's OOP now. Kai Winding, Tal Farlow, Max Roach... Similar stuff on "The Birdlanders", reissued by Fantasy. This one here's another with Cohn (as "Ike Horowitz") I like very much: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=At1ae4jo71wal ubu

Have you heard her Bethlehem album? Very cool! ubu

Same sort of thing just happened to me... shitte! However, after having had my first encounter with Smith by acquiring "Tao Njia" (sp?) a month ago and then reading the AMG reviews, I'm pretty excited about hearing this music the first time soon! Then also, I am preparing a short radio programme (two hours, two weeks apart) in remembrance of Malachi Favors, so this one could certainly be of use for that occasion, too (and I do have a reason why I need to have it...) ubu

Great album! Listen to the music, don't bother about remastering! ubu (I have the Chessmates, and I never wasted a thought about sound, so it must be fine)

thanks for sharing, Milan! EKE, I would have to listen closely to his sides with the Duke, but on that Bethlehem album I posted above, his voice is good. He's sort of a crooner, I think. At least on that album there's no real fast number, but there are several songs he does very very fine. ubu

Porter is one of my all time favourite songwriters! I was trying to find the lyrics of "Give Him The Ooh-La-La" but couldn't find them. Love that one! ubu

I was going to let you slide, since I was just recently outed as a non lover of the Miles sound.

One of my favourite photos:

Seriously: one of my all time favorites! That Blue Note box set is one of the most often played box sets at my place. And then all the recordings from Café Montmartre... love it! ubu

You know, I just don't like his sound...

Thanks everybody for all the recommendations - I only have the early Mosaic and some stray later CDs. I still have the question open regarding the OOP Holman/Russo set: what albums was the music from that box taken from? Does that box include several complete or almost complete albums, or does it have two tracks from this and three from that etc? Then another question: at a shop closing down I had a look at the Chronological Classics 1950 and 1951. They have the Innovations tracks (I have that 2CD set). Was there anything between the music on the Mosaic and the Innovations orchestra? thanks, ubu

Atlantic New Orleans. I'm on the buy-when-it-hits-the-running-low-list-strategy. Can't afford any other way no more. So I only have like 12 or 15 that are in print still. When I have some money to buy 3 or 4 (shipping and custom taxes make me often more than one at a time, usually), I get either those on the "running low"-list, or, if I have those already, the ones with the lowest numbers. ubu

Oh, HELL I WISH I WAS 15 YEARS OLDER!!! I got started with Tristano/Konitz/Marsh, probably around 1998 - it was pretty new when I got it, but not the latest release anymore, I guess. Oh how I miss some of the older ones that were never reissued on any other label! ubu

Hey deus, wazzup? You stopped growning or what?

For everybody within reach of SWR2: next week, their series with recordings from the archives will bring forth a Coltrane broadcast. The David Wild site lists a Coltrane concert in Stuttgart on November 4, 1963. Tunes performed that night were: The Promise (7:33), Afro Blue (6:43), I Want To Talk About You (10:55), Impressions (29:10), My Favorite Things (19:19), Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye (6:25), and Mr. P.C. (35:32) Must've been quite a concert! I don't have the European Tours box yet, and I don't know if these tracks are included there, but it seems that box is quite a mess as far as annotation goes. Maybe someone can give some insight about this. Anyway, sound quality should be great (it was with tha Mingus stuff broadcasted last year). Here's the promotion from the SWR2 web: The important part: Thursday, March 4, 19:05-20:15 ubu

Bought this one today, for a very good price at a shop closing day after tomorrow: Disc one is composed music (4 numbers), disc two has 19 free improvisation. I will report back when I heard it a couple of times. ubu

Please do post the link, ghost, and forgive me for not linking your thread in my first post! ubu

The notes of the Reprise Ellington box try to single out which arrangements were done by Duke and which by Strayhorn - if they're correct, in those years most of the outstanding arrangements (all those pop tunes, Mary Poppins etc) were done by Strayhorn. And he really works wonders on some of them! ubu

I heard him on a broadcast with Charlie Mariano. Quartet, live in Germany, with a very good german bass/drum team. Great music they did play, also a tune by Juris, if I remember right. Congrats on that gig! ubu

Lon, thanks for creating this planet! EKE, thanks for bringing up that old thread. No time yet to read it. Regarding Strayhorn: I just got the Jazz Scene 2CD set (what a marvellous package), and I was really delighted by the few Strayhorn sides on disc 2! Also the few other things I have with him on piano (the small group sides on the Webster & strings set, some with Hodges) are beautiful. ubu

EKE, your post makes me want that MCA set even more badly! I listened to the Okeh set last week, and I really love the music! And then let me put in a good word for Freddie Jenkins! He was no slouch either! And Lon, thanks a lot for the Strayhorn corner - if there's one for the Duke, there ought to be one for Billy, too. (And to EKE thanks for linking things together, no need for me to edit my fist post ) As an aside: I was listening to the Cootie Williams on that Jazz After Midnight Jazz in Paris CD again this morning. And somehow that music never really grabs me. The organ player is horrible, the sound of the guitarist awful. The tenor is alright, very much in a rhythm'n'blues manner, but alright. Cootie then even fails to grab me on the slow numbers. What a contrast to the basie-ish tracks on the same CD, led by Joe Newman and featuring Frank Wess, Henry Coker etc! ubu

Where did you get that from? He's got his own website, so it seems he gotta be around... I recently got his Bethlehem album, and I rather like it. Cool cover, too: ubu

I think it would be appropriate if we had our own Duke Ellington corner on this board. The reason I start this now, is that I have been in hospital for the last weekend (nothing bad, luckily, but still...) and let me bring the Reprise box, as well as the Great Paris set (which holds the live recordings made during the Reprise years). And I have to admit it was the very first time I really listened to the Mosaic in its entirety and not while doing something else. I have since been on some sort of an Ellington trip, listened to the "Unknown Session", to Johnny Hodges' "Used To Be Duke" and "Everybody Knows" and some other Ellington related music. And of course I enjoyed it very very much. Now to have everything neatly linked, here is what we have already: Duke Ellington Photo Album (Started by our greatest Ellington fan EKE BBB) Album of the Week: Black, Brown & Beige (Columbia 1959) (again courtesy of EKE) A thread on recent and upcoming CD reissues Another thread about a batch of Columbia reissues Ellington Treasury Shows The Jazz Violin Session Ellington on LP The Ellington Suites Favorite Ellington LP Cover and another recent Ellington thread Mosaic Single: Newport 1958 Reprise Mosaic and Collectables reissues of same material Variety/Vocalion/Okeh Small Group Mosaic and again The Storyville "Duke Box" Ellington in the 60s and 70s The Blanton/Webster Years (RCA 3CD Set) Of course there are lots of other threads were some Ellingtonia were/are being discussed, but I think the man deserves his own little corner. ubu edited to add a couple of more links to other Ellington threads