John Tapscott

A fine recent Lanny Morgan recording is "Pacific Standard Yime" on Milestone (from around '96 or '97). Lanny is a 'bopper supreme and I mean that very positively!

Thanks, guys. I guess I'm like everyone else here, really glad to be be a member of Organissimo. I'm looking on the Mulligan Mosaic as my birthday gift to myself. (Hey, I'm worth it!) It is a very nice set, perfect for birthday listening.

The Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia Vol 1 &2 never, ever fails to lift my spirits. This music is like a tonic for the soul (and Dorham at Cafe Bohemia, too). The RVG's of this music are wonderful.

Hey Ed, congrats! Maybe you could just buy out Mosaic records and sort of like spread around the stock to Organissimo members. I'll take the JJ Johnson plus the Green and Chambers selects, if you don't mind. BTW,on a more serious note, what a scam these things are. I've probably received four or five of these e-mails at work. They all seem to originate in Africa. The last time I e-mailed them back told them that if I ever received another e-mail from them, I would report the whole thing to the RCMP (Canadian police, who are apparently already investigating some cases). Haven't heard anything more from them. But boy, these crooks sure know how to play on people's greed.

There another story from that same night. At the start of the first set Rosolino went over to the empty chair where Carl should have been sitting, curled his arm around the back of the chair, and said, "Hello Carl, I see you've lost some weight!" Only trombone players are crazy enough to think of these things (that's OK - I'm one of them, well, I was!).

Thank you Free for all and Amen! One of the greatest of all trombone players, perhaps not quite as explosive as Rosolino, but Carl was nearly nearly unbeatable for melodic flow. Bill Watrous was a really big fan of Carl's. Two fine recordings in my collection (besides this one) come to mine. Heavyweights - a mid-90's quintet recording by Bobby Shew and Carl (on Mama) Bobby Knight's Great American Trombone Company (from around '78). Carl and Ros' are guest soloists, and my memory is slipping here, but I think they play together on a couple of tracks. There is one funny story in the liners about how Carl was late for the gig one night because of a traffic jam. As soon as he stepped on stage Knight called an uptempo "I Got Rhythm" and let Carl take the first solo. Carl sailed through it. (it's on the recording). He said he figured Knight would do this and so had been warming up on his mouthpiece in the cab!

I got the Mulligan today (#119) and I've listened to half of CD #1 and so far I think the sound is fabulous. (I haven't hard the Verve mini LP). And it came through with no taxes or package fee added by the Canadian Post office. Thank you, Mosaic!

Thanks Pryan, I've heard enough Woody Shaw over the years so that I can probably distinguish the trumpeters. But we can compare notes after we've both heard the CD. It just bothers when liner notes expect us to be such experts that WE have to do the work. It tells me that the liner note writer is not such an expert himself. BTW, you may not have to wait too long for these. I'm in Canada, too. Check my recent posting in the Conn thread.

I haven't heard this disc, yet, but am really looking forward to it. I've got to say however, that it REALLY bugs me when there are two of the same instrument on a date and the liner don't tell who's soloing when. This REALLY, REALLY bugs me. Even if they would say left channel/ right channel it would be enough. I'm really surprised that Cuscuna would let this slip through. For what they're charging for the Conn's, they should give us this information. I was listening to Ike Quebec's Congo Lament Lp the other day and Michael does a great job in giving the solo order and telling when it's Quebec and when it's Turrentine.

Just ordered the Hill, Morgan and Mobley discs from hmv.com at $19.99 Canadian per disc (15$ US) and free shipping. They say 2-3 days shipping. We'll see.

The fact that the web-site has dropped the price of the new Conns is almost an admission that the list price is too high. (Of course, most new releases generally sell well below list). But if the RVG's became more popular when the price was dropped, why wouldn't the same apply to the Conns? And it seems to me the RVG's must be as expensive to produce - at least they generally have new liner notes.

Until I joined the old BNBB, I never paid much attention to whether something was an RVG or a Conn, or just a Blue Note CD with no special designation To me, it was a BN and that's all that mattered. But if memory serves me correctly the first RVG I ever bought was Hank Mobley - Soul Station. Actually, I had several before that because a friend of mine was a Capitol/EMI rep and he used to give me some extra promos he had around. So before the Mobley I had already the RVG's of Dolphy's Out to Lunch and Rollins' Vol 2 on my shelves (and maybe a few others).

Yes, LFR is a great session, and Bob's notes are good on this one. I love the little story where Jackie talks about how Hank Jones would tune him up before a gig. Jackie would play and A, Hank a B, and they'd be off and running, as close to being "in tune" as possbile.

Gee, I don't know. Maybe for a symphony or studio musician, but I'm not sure it's a necessity for a jazz musician. This topic probably deserves its own thread. Now I will admit that Strozier is far from my favorite alto player (I have this session), but Jackie McLean is one of my favorites, and nobody ever accused Jackie of playing in tune. In fact, it's his wayward pitch which makes his alto sound so personal. I love it. To stay with altoists, I 'm not sure Art Pepper's playing (especially after his comeback) was in always in tune, either. But I wouldn't get rid of any of it.

BTW, what the heck is going on over at www.cheap-cds.com ? They used to be right on the ball with the new Conns and RVG's, even shipping them out before the street date. ( I have bought LOTS of cds from them). But they don't even have the new Conns listed. And their back stock has reduced to nearly zilch. Most CD's (except for the very latest) for most artists are listed as NONE.

As Pryan pointed out, we here in Canada will have to wait a bit longer for these Conns. But I am already looking forward to what you guys are going to say about them. I expect to see reviews beginning on Oct 7th starting around 12 Noon EST. I'm really looking forward to comments re the Hill, Morgan and Mobley CD's.

The problem with the one star review is that it will forever drag down the average review of this set. Both these reviews should be removed from the site.

Mach 3 and they're very good, though expensive ( I wish the patent would run out soon so we could start to get the generic kind), plus whatever shaving cream my wife buys on sale - either Foamy or Edge gel (which I prefer, thankfully she brought home 3 cans just the other day).

This is a great album (in spite of Costello) and I think may be their best since Nostalgia in Times Square. And don't forget that it's not just the Big Band on this CD but the Mingus Orchestra on half the tracks, a smaller band, and very interesting.

I agree with those who advise not getting rid of stuff too quickly. I can't tell you how many times I've given something a listen or two and thought, "Well, that's OK, but not great," and filed it away. But then I came back to it years later, listened to it anew, and raised my opinion of it. Sometimes it works the other way, of course, but usually the movement is upward. I have 4,000 + jazz CD's, Lp's and cassettes amassed over the past 30 years. Not excessive, perhaps, and I'm not a big seller, though I did sell 500 or so LP's about 20 years ago, when I returned to school for three years. But I'm glad I have all of them, and going back to listen to something I haven't heard for a long while (especially my LP's) is almost like listening to it for the first time. it's a very enjoyable experience. And I'm glad I have many of the AOTW's. I have a job where I work alone some of the time and so can listen to a lot of music on the job. And to be honest, I find jazz just as enjoyable and exciting as ever. I don't consider myself a collector but a big fan. I rarely if ever, buy anything just for the sake of buying it. I buy to listen. And I especially enjoy discovering new artists. I'm with Bev on this. So many times I've bought a recording just out of curiosity and probably 95 times out of a 100 I've been more than pleasantly surprised.

Oh man, I thought you were talking about listening to jazz and collecting jazz records!

Zero here. Ok by me.

I don't have too long to comment, other than to say this is just a wonderful album, which I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting. And Shad Collins - what a trememdous trumpet player, beautiful tone, flowing solos, sadly underrated. There is one long and very subtly "bent" blue note in his Old Fashioned Love solo which is a joy to hear. Also the tune Sir Charles at Home is small group swing at its best. Great choice for AOTW.

Tenor man David Schnitter has a nice version on his first Muse album ("Invitation"). The Mickey Tucker thread brought it to mind since Mickey's on the date. I think they were both in Blakey's group at the time ( '76). BTW, whatever happened to David, a really fine hard-bop tenor player?

I have this LP, but haven't heard it for a LONG time. As I recall though, it's a real good one. I have several of Mickey's records from the '70's on Xanadu and Denon. Whatever happened to him?