Larry Kart

Bennie Maupin was, and I assume/hope still is, a fine player -- out of Rollins, at least at the time of this recording, but with an individual twist. In the booklet I'm glad that they asked Jaime Branch to contribute. Her brief comment was particularly nice.

The West Coast pianist

Carl Perkins or Bobby Timmons

Jimmy Noone or Irving Fazola Flip Phillips or Georgie Auld Marian McPartland or Bill Charlap

My copy arrived some time between yesterday afternoon (when I placed the order) and first thing this morning. Bravo Amazon!

OK, I bit on the CD set after listening to a few tracks from the old 3-CD set. The music is so fresh and electric that if they've improved the sound quality a fair amount, I tell myself that I've got to hear it. In particular, I'm hoping to hear Roker more clearly. He really had the pots on, as they used to say.

Tim is indeed a fine player.

Ruby

Just to be clear -- I am NOT the person I've been talking about here with the hearing problem; my friend is. My hearing problem was solved some years ago. As I said before, all I know about my friend's situation is what he tells me. I should fly down to wherever he lives now (Colorado, I think) and put him and his audiologist up against the wall? I'm just trying to be as helpful as I can at his request and based again on what he decides to tell me. Becoming an expert in the world of hearing aids is not my goal -- asking what seem to me to be a few common sense questions is.

First, some years ago, I went to the Northwestern University audiology clinic, based on a recommendation from a music industry figure who had a had a lot of trouble finding help for her hearing problems. The audiologist there was just fine, but then she left -- last hired, first fired -- and re-settled in Texas. Then I went to a chain outfit, Hear USA (don't recall how or why I chose them) and was happy there, and now I'm on my second or third Hear USA audiologist (they migrate) all of them very good IMO. BTW, I dumped Northwestern after my initial good experience there because it was a teaching facility, and and after a while they seemed to have not much time for me versus the time they had for the students.

Clifford Jordan Al Haig

He's a doctor.

I can only report what my friend has said. He went to an audiologist and through him has tried several well-regarded brands of hearing aids with no satisfaction. What is guiding him, I assume, is what his audiologist has told him and done and above all his own response to the hearing aids he has tried. Beyond a certain limited point, I can't insert myself into this food chain; he hears what he hears. His hearing loss, he tells me is, and/or was described to him, as "sudden," which sounds ominous and may have involved a staph infection that put him the hospital for a while. He reached out to me because he knows I have hearing aids and am happy with the ones I have. I told him which brand and model they are, and I think he tried them and was not satisfied.I did suggest that he might try another audiologist. I spoke to my audiologist's knowledgable secretary (the audiologist was with a patient), and when I told her that my friend had put a price ceiling on the various models of hearing aids he had considered/tried out, she said that this might be the problem -- that the particular nature of his hearing loss might call for a more pricey high-end solution. I feel for him because he's a great guy whose life revolves around listening to music.

I have Ind's Wave album of solo walking bass performances. Not at all boring.

I'd like to hear it because IMO the original CD set sounded like crap (for that reason I seldom listen to it), but I'm not curious enough to buy this music in this form. David Weiss has weighed in here about how it was mixed per Bob Belden's tastes versus how Weiss feels it could/should have been mixed, but I think it's likely that recording engineer Dino Lappas either was not what he should have been or he was presented at the Lighthouse with various restrictions/problems that made his job very difficult and the resulting sonic material close to irreparable, regardless of how it's mixed. I'd be happy to be wrong.

Kenny Dorham or Art Farmer

Garzone for me too, but Bergonzi (thanks HutchFan) does deserve full props. Wyands. Hope and Duke Jordan -- can't choose; both great and they're so different.

George Garzone or that other Boston-area veteran tenor saxophone harmonic systematizer whose name I can't recall ... help me out here.

Milt Levy (though I enjoy Jolly) Hicks Jacquet (though I enjoy Cobb) Cuber libre!

Raney Sal Nistico or Tubby Hayes

Webster Morgan -- and I'll take Bill Hardman over Hubbard too. Too much flashy diddling from Freddie at times. Without being at all solemn, Hardman was a serious player. Herman Chittison or Clarence Profit Mickey Tucker or Walter Davis Jr. Sonny Red Kyner or John Jenkins

Stewart

Don't love Abercrombie, but for me Frisell is a black hole. Al Cohn or Zoot Sims Phil Woods or Gene Quill Junior Cook or Jimmy Heath Tommy Dorsey or Jack Jenny (as trombonists) Lucky Thompson or Wardell Grey

Pettiford/Brown just as bassists. Because Pettiford went to Europe and died there, he's been unjustly semi-forgotten. If he'd been recording for Blue Note in that time, forget about it.

Bill Coleman or Buck Clayton Rex Stewart or Harry Edison