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Ubu, check out the Tickle Toe album on Vee Jay (Blue Moon). It features a saxophone only big band and has some very WHACK arrangements by Shifrin. Very nice laid back renditions of Watermelon man and Girl from Ipanema Sounds good! Gotta order some of those Dawn discs sometimes, anyway. But I guess I should wait till next month... should cut down my CD expenses a bit. ubu

Well, let's try to get the album of the week thing going again! I always thought this was a welcome opportunity to listen to some things that may have been in my collection a long time, or to get acquainted with some new stuff, either buying it in time (the Garbarek/Stenson album, for instance), or afterwards (the Louis Armstrong one). Then it's always interesting to read what you guys have to say about some stuff I like/love/hate/don't care etc. Sometimes one's opinion might change with help of what others have to say. In hoping for a good start, I would suggest to leave this week open (one more doesn't matter too much now), and try to begin coming sunday with this album: One of my favorite Lee Morgan albums. I ordered it with my first Trueblue package (which was huge, to save customs, and then I was still paying with IMO, so the bigger the package, the fewer the costs...) I loved it ever since I listened to it first. And if memory serves me right, I only had "The Sidewinder" before, maybe "The Rumproller", too. I ever since been a fan of Morgan. Would be great if some of you could chime in, share your opinion on this album, post some short reviews etc - just like the old days B) For those who did not yet buy this one: Amazon has it with 24hrs delivery (18$, only 5 left) CDUniverse has it cheaper (14.29$ - quite a good price for a Conn, I think) Would be a pleasure if AOTW would be rolling again! And let me nominate Claude for picking the next one - he never had the chance so far. ubu

Maybe he finds some old wheaties... ubu

Mike, do you have "Aspects"? I love Carter - just made myself a CDR extracting the Carter sides from the Capitol Mosaic. Also had a listen to Further Definitions recently. He's so elegant, without ever getting too sweet or boring. Adorable! (He seems to be an influence on Cannonball) ubu

Ask Sangrey to dig that downbeat out of his closet! ubu

Perfect work, John! ubu

be sure to stay that way! I promised to see vol. 1 - some of the most boring hours ever spent inside of a movie theatre. And then going home you realize you could have bought a CD for the same prize... (what do you pay in the us? Here it is some 13-14$ at the current rate, or 11-12 euros - crazy switzerland!) ubu

now you could make him blink with one eye

Cool site, thanks for the link, Jim! Hey, have a look at this one: Would love to hear the music!! ubu

He not called "Dawid"! Hey, you're certainly able to edit that, John! You need to do better, remember the person in question is god... ubu

Seeing that Basie set on Ebay (buy it now for 1200$ or something crazy), and having the live set, I often wondered what the studio box is like. It seems they made only 3500 of it. Does anyone have a discography he's able to post here? Or just a list of the albums included? thanks, ubu

I mixed things up - Favors is on the "remake" of that album, of course. Still have to get that one, too. ubu

Thanks for posting this, brownie. Finally we know. Still sad news! Will spin some of his dates with Art Farmer as soon as I can. ubu

Would love to have all these fruits grow in my own backyard (which is non-existing anyway...) - cool, Dan! Congrats! ubu

Actually vol. 2 of "The Birdlanders" does include the Pettiford date: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Aejud6j8171y0 The Vogue disc has some alternates, but otherwise everything seems to be there. ubu

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.

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