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Vick plays on the track 'Medina' on the Cassandranite CD, which is a bonus track actually taken from Joe Chamber's 'The Almoravid' session. The quintet tracks on 'Cassandranite' all have Joe Henderson on tenor. 'Coral Keys' is indeed a tasty session - great recommendation. The general feel reminds me quite a bit of 'Almoravid', absolutely not a blowing session. Vick is quite adventurous and moody, with Shaw featuring strongly on half of the session. Bonus also of Idris Muhammed on drums. Recommended !

To quote Art Blakey from the (invaluable) Mosaic booklet to the DeFranco/Clark set:- "Buudy DeFranco is a hell of a musician .......... and a hell of a man." High praise indeed from the Master ! B)

Sonny Rollins 'Our Man In Jazz' (RCA Victor) George Russell 'The Stratus Seekers' (Riverside) Ted Curson 'Urge' (Fontana) Max Roach 'The Many Sides of Max' (Mercury) Parker etc 'Jazz at Massey Hall' (Debut) Woody Herman Sextet 'At The Roundtable' (Roulette) Cedar Walton 'Cedar' (Prestige).

Just been listening to him on the Roulette Woody Herman Sextet 'At The Roundtable' LP. Now this one just has to be the most unlikely Nat Adderley session. Pretty much a straight-ahead swing date. Wonder how he ende up working with Woody at this time? (around 1959). BIG thumbs up for the Pablo double he recorded with JJ Johnson - 'Yokohama Concert'. These two make a great team and Adderley is in his usual fiery mood throughout. Superbly recorded too !

George - on the basis of that excellent first Timeless LP. It was a close judgement call though. Wouldn't Steve Grossman be another tenor option with this Walton/Higgins/Williams lineup?

Thanks for the recommendation on this - probably a stupid question anyway as I've yet to hear a less than good recording from Woody (does such a thing exist?) This guy was phenomenally consistent! The first occasion I saw Woody with Steve Turre it was so outstanding that I was right back there the next night for more. 'Katerina Ballerina', 'Theme For Maxine', 'Lotus Flower' and 'Seventh Avenue' - they played them all. Memorable B) ... 'Stepping Stones' is a must buy on vinyl. Why they didn't bundle this in with the Mosaic beats me. Anyway, it's a good excuse to throw this one on the turntable right now

Anyone heard Woody's playing on side 2 of that Walter Bishop Jr 'Coral Keys' LP? Opinions on this one most welcome as I have my eye on a copy of this ! Fave lesser known sessions - 'In My Own Sweet Way' on In & Out and '49th Parallel' under Neil Swainson's name on Concord. Both have really excellent late-career performances from Shaw.

This 'artful' cover from Chick still rates pretty well up there on the silly-o-meter ...

Recorded Monster in the Netherlands. Incidentally that piccie at the back of the LP of Johnny C jogged my memory. He was wearing exactly the same jacket and white cap at the Mingus Dynasty gig. They also featured him on 'Duke Ellington's Sound of Love' if my memory is correct, which also features on side 1 of the LP. B) First spin of this one - fantastic record.

By some fortuitous miracle of timing I came across a brand spanking mint copy of this in the racks yesterday. The Penguin Guide writeup is also extremely complementary so looks like a good acquisition. Looks as if the session was recorded during the same European tour that brought Coles to London as part of Mingus Dynasty, back in 1982. The only time I ever saw him live. Gives me a week or so to check it out before commenting further ....

From the booklet, the tracks from this set were compiled from the following Verve albums: MGV8158 Jazz Tones (originally Norgran MGN1068) MGV8169 In A Mellow Tone (originally Norgran MGN1068) MGV8182 Odalisque (originally Norgran MGN1094) MGV8183 Autumn Leaves (originally Norgran MGN1096) MGV8195 A Compendium of Jazz (various artists) MGV8221 Cooking The Blues MGV8224 Sweet and Lovely MGV8230 The Anatomy of Improvisation (various artists) 8221 and 8224 both have Tal Farlow added to the basic quartet on most of the tracks. Clark also plays organ on some of the tracks.

I was amazed Paul at just how young that band was. Frank Tiberi must have been the eldest in the lineup and he would have been in his mid-40s back then. My brief impression of Woody was encouragement to the guys and total lack of pretension. Too bad that into the 1980s all of those problems with the back-taxes plagued him to the end. Tragic... Glad you enjoyed playing Ronnies ! I frequented it a lot back in the late 70s and early 80s as a student (when I lived in London in times when it was semi-affordable and getting up early next day was not too critical ). At the time the club was teetering at the edge of bankruptcy, you could get in as a member for £1 during the week and with a good chance of a seat right at the front. I recall seeing the last set of Bill Evans one night (on his last UK gig) with about 12-15 people in the audience, totally absorbed. Some great big bands featured too - Buddy Rich (with Menza), Louis Bellson, the Herman band. Sadly I was about 7-8 years too late for those legendary Clarke/Boland residencies . Some bizarre acts there too - Professor Irwin Corey was a regular feature (Ronnie was a big fan). This was the guy who took the shades off Miles (in the house one night with hairdressers and hangers on) and came out with 'No wonder your smiling - everyone's black!' This guy used to shuffle on with battered tailcoat and lace tie, sneakers and levis and rip the sh*t out of anyone unfortunate enough to sit at the front. Ronnie would be watching all of this from the wings and chuckling away to himself !

Frank's great ! I remember seeing him at Bristol's Colston Hall with Woody's band back in about 1978 or 79 and being very heavily featured. Other notables in this lineup were a young and technically brilliant trumpeter named Alan Vizzuti (I think) and Lyle Mays on keyboards. Some of us in the junior big band I was in at the time were kindly invited back stage, got to see Woody at very close range and had an instructive chat with Alan. At the time, it was a HUGE thrill.

Great choice - one of my all-time faves ! I seem to recall reading that drummer Everett Brown was the only musician in the original Tapscott lineup that did the recording. Having said that, I'm suprised that Al McKibbon and Ray Draper were not automatic choices but I guess they were not part of the Arkestra. Interesting time this for Ray Draper. Within a couple of years of this recording he was temporarily resident with his wife in London, having left LA. From the tone of an interview he did for 'Jazz Monthly' around 1970 the LA scene of the late 60s must have gone into near free-fall.

There's a nice performance by Kuhn on Art Farmer's 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues', Dave. Well worth checking out (if I remember right there's also some fiery drumming from Pete LaRoca on this one). Also recommended is the quartet session titled 'Sound Pieces' that Kuhn recorded with Oliver Nelson, also on Impulse. The latter I believe has been issued on CD in Japan (and possibly also domestically by GRP).

Miles fills a whole shelf of LPs at my place so I would have to say ..... Wayne & Herbie

For the first show you might want to play one of the tracks recorded with Hutcherson off of 'Oblique'. "'Till Then" would be a good starter

Not to forget his great lead work with the Clarke/Boland Big Band. All of those albums on MPS are worth checking out and the precision of Benny's lead work stands out. Great flugelhorn stylist too.

This is a good thread. Good excuse to recall all of those great jazz names seen over the years, both in Europe and North America. Off the top of my head I have fond memories of seeing: - Gil Evans & his UK Orchestra - Bill Evans Trio (with Johnson & Labarbera) - Elvin Jones - Hank Jones - Buddy Rich - Woody Herman - Maynard Ferguson - Andrew Hill - Miles Davis - Sonny Rollins - Tony Williams Quintet - Sun Ra - John McLaughlin - Jackie McLean - Herbie Hancock - Bobby Hutcherson - Wayne Shorter - Louis Bellson - Harold Land - Arturo Sandoval - Louis Hayes - George Coleman - George Adams/Don Pullen - Mingus Dynasty - Paul Motian - Carla Bley/Steve Swallow - Woody Shaw - Julian Priester - Martial Solal - Dizzy Gillespie - Art Farmer - Jimmy Heath - Lee Konitz - Art Pepper - Art Blakey - Gerald Wilson - Cecil Taylor - Johnny Coles - Joe Henderson - Sheila Jordan - Bobby Watson - Archie Shepp - Pat Metheny - Red Rodney - Oliver Lake - Benny Golson - Teddy Edwards - Bud Shank - Bill Perkins - Lennie Neihaus - Cedar Walton - Mulgrew Miller - Wallace Roney - George Russell - Hilton Ruiz - Pat Martino - Freddie Hubbard - Curtis Fuller - Charles Tolliver - John Stubblefield - Stanley Turrentine - JJ Johnson - John Hendricks - Reggie Workman - Pharoah Sanders - Mongo Santamaria - Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - McCoy Tyner - Buster Williams - Bennie Maupin - Bill Holman - Chico Hamilton - Sir Charles Thompson - Joanne Brackeen - Jay McShann - Ronnie Scott Great memories !

Just picked up an original NYC vinyl pressing of Grant Green's 'The Latin Bit'. £3 in the bargain bins no less ! A few OOP Mosaics on LP as well to devour. Taylor/Neidlinger, Desmond/Hall and Quebec/Hardee.

Wayne's 'Etcetera'. McBee's playing is phenomenal on this one.

Baritonist Ronnie Ross on Lou Reed's 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side'. Great solo !

Now THAT's madness ....

Interesting ! That description of the liner view without the horizon from his Miami condo sure sounds like the front cover of Phantom Navigator...

Gotta go with Jazzbo on this one and vote for the Miles & Gil. The CD set was phenomenal enough but when I heard it on the Mosaic LP it was a revelation. Almost too many highlights to list - 'Miles Ahead' in stereo, all those fantastic rehearsal takes of 'Ahead' and 'Porgy and Bess', the fascinating development of 'Falling Water' and the embryonic sketch-score of 'Time of the Barracudas'. This one is real desert island material for me, end to end. Number two in my order is the 65-68 Quintet - again, desert island material no question. Nice additional material with the Herbie compositions too. Really though, they are all brilliant and hard to choose between.