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Thad Jones Complete Blue Note/UA/Roulette, all three discs really making me appreciate what a unique voice he was

Charles Brown, disc 1

1. Nice ensemble playing 2. Beautiful tones on the sax duet. Sounds like Stan Getz on one sax. 3. This one swung the living crap out of my speakers which then began to see the light. Awesome. 4. Great tune- nice guitar solo 5. I know this but can't identify it. Love the driving piano accompaniment. 6. Pretty nice song though nothing jumps out at me 7. Nice solo piano track, won't venture a guess though 8. Reminds me of Art Pepper 9. Solid energetic track, sounds modern 10. EMI production sound, which I tend to enjoy 11. Cute, too cute for me generally, but fun 12. Pretty solid 13. Nice clarinet... kinda smokey, old timey (in a good way) 14. Pretty solid for old-school, music I need to listen to more of 15. pretty piano 16. Boy howdy that's a lot of trumpet. Sounds like the great young lions of the 50s. This is the most fun BFT I've listened to so far.

I got the Mobley, Elvin Jones, and Max Roach sets just to make sure I won't have to worry about being able to afford them if they run low soon. I will use this thread a resource for future purchases- thank you all.

I have this one and love it. I complimented it with the remastered Grandstand, Idle Moments and Green Street albums, as well as the Mosaic Clarke/Green box set to give me a nice Grant Green collection.

They Pats also proved that they still have a defense to reckon with. Sure it was scary when Moss started the game with two huge receptions, but once the Pats threw their safeties out extra-deep they were able to throw Collins off his rhythm and it was all over.

1. Trio tune starting off with bass lead. Cool. If I had to guess, assuming it's one of the classic cats, I would say Ron Carter 2. Bad ass! Cliff Brown? Perrhaps with the Jazz Messengers? 3. This was ok, nothing that made me think of anything else. 4. Double saxamophones, like Al Cohn and Zoot Simms, but more boppish. 5. Ok, this is different. Reminds me of that Lebonese jazz dude I heard, Rabu-something or other. 6. This sounds like some record date I heard a while back that had Jimmy Giffrin, Hank Mobley and John Coltrane. I think it was called "Holy Crap That's A Lot of Saxophone!" 7. I think I have this one. Lee Morgan? Hank Mobly, maybe? 8. What an odd bass tone. The rest is ok. Wouldn't hazard a guess though. 9. Groovy track, though too generic to guess or compare. Drummer reminds me of Jimmy Cobb. 10. The playful nature of the vibes performance reminds me of Bobby Hutcherson. 11. Reminds me of the current Joe Lovano/Hank Jones material. 12. Nice hot track. 13. Rock on, man! Does the theme here have something to do with bass players? Seems a lot of emphasis on them...

1. Oh nice, classic New Orleans style jazz. Piano sounds like Earl Hines. 2. This one sounds a bit cutesy but still fun. I'm not even going to try to guess who's performing these. As if guessing the normally favored bop material isn't impossible enough. I'm just enjoying the music. 3. Very cool. Love the restrained swinging here. 4. Duke? 5. Bass clarinet? Sweet. Also sound quality and piano make it sound very modern. 6. Pretty. 7. I like the music but not the bass tone so much. I guess we're out of trad... 8. Bowed bass. Dunno many who do that outside of Paul Chambers and this definitely older. 9. Groovy. Familiar sounding tune. 10. Nice arrangement. 11. Ooh, A Night In Tunisia. Art Blakey, from the album of the same name? 12. I feel like I should know this... 13. A lot of hard 4-on-the-floor rhythms on this BFT. Must say I'm not impressed by this track as I'm not really following the trumpeter's groove here. 14. Ah, I like this kind of trumpet playing. Art Farmer? 15. Back to some old school? Lionel Hampton? 16. Powell inspired piano but of the next generation. 17. Kenny Burrell? 18. Is that Ron Carter bowing? Freddie Hubbard-like trumpet blowing. 19. This one's OK, not bad, not terribly inspiring, though the instrumentation is pretty cool. I have no idea who this is, though I'm tempted to say Eric Dolphy, simply because there's a flute and he does weird harmonies like this.

Arrived yesterday and have listened to disc 1. Thanks!

Anyway, we can no longer offer that price, however for the board members here only we can offer a discount to $69.99 (and you can choose the free UPS in the 48 lower). If you decide to take us up on it, please put "Organissimo Special" in the comments section of the order and we will change when the order is processed (it will not show up when the order is placed). THANKS Rick Red Trumpet ← Done! Thanks

Got mine and am listening to it now for the first time. Great stuff, impressive arrangements.

Damn... just clicked on that link and it lists it at $77.

New Orleans Atlantic sessions never sold one

I've been reading rumours of a complete Atlantic Ray Charles box set coming out (7 CDs). I have the key R&B material which I love but this will have live material and a session with Milt Jackson! I've often seen Ray referred to as a jazz musician but haven't really heard him do "jazz." Does he, and if so how is it?

My girlfriend and I attended. We had fun. Because we came from far away and I had to drive a lot, we came a bit late both days and left early Sunday. I was actually planning to stay to the end on Sunday because I though Brubeck was playing later but since he went on early we left earlier. I didn't feel like sitting through Chick Corea even though I bet the Roy Haynes thing was fun. Acts I missed that I would have liked to see; Haynes, Patricia Barber, and especially the Dave Holland Big Band. This was the third time I've seen McCoy Tyner. I enjoyed him a lot before but not soe much here, though I only caught the last couple of tunes. I agree with Guy about the bass player- too show-offy and mugging for the audience. Ravi Coltrane was fantastic. The trumpet player was too loud and like the bass player. Of course the audience cheered for the two guys I didn't like. Whatever. Tyner was leaning as heavy on the chords as always. I was not familiar with Brad Meldau but we enjoyed his solo piano performance. My girlfriend likes that sort of thing anyway. I found it pleasant and musically interesting, a nice middle ground. We stayed longer for that than we though we would. I tried to check out some of the Fleck/Clarke/Ponty trio. Even though I don't like "fusion," I figured these three together should sound interesting. But everytime I approached the stage one of them was playing solo. zzzzzzzzzzz Meanwhile my gf was in the bathroom/gift shop and I got so bored I went to find her and when I did she was like "so how's the ban?" and I blurt out "now the bass player's just jerking off himself" and some woman shoots me a fantastically dirty look. Wynton was kinda dull. Charles Lloyd was nice, I just really like his ballad playing. The second day was a lot better. I got a real kick out of Brubeck. I've never seen him before. He played with energy and invention, delving into free and trad and swing and bop stylings. Very nice quartet music. The topped it off with a rousing rendition of Take the A Train with Wynton. A did an uncharacteristically corny thing for me: went up to the front to snap a pic of Brubeck. My first attempt failed 'cause Wynton stepped in front, but I believe my 2nd attempt was more successful. We ended the day with Lovano and Hank Jones, reliving our first date over a year ago when we saw the same band (with Paul Motian instead of this drummer) at the Iridium in NYC. Musically, this was the finest performance of the weekend. These guys are just so tight, so sweet, and Jones really is the master of taste and elegance. I realised that nothing Corea or the possibly circus-like nature of the Haynes b-day thing would top it, so we left.

← Oh it's wonderful. Of course I knew Elvin from his work with 'Trane but the sheer variety of the music here made listening to the whole box in one day feel like nothing. (Listening at work allows one to listen to entire Mosaics in a day) Especialy love the sax trio stuff and the concert on the last 2 discs.

Elvin Jones, for the first time, discs 1-6

Kind of Blue: - Bought the remastered CD - Bought the Miles w Coltrane box set - Bought domestic SACD (non-hybrid) - Gave remastered CD to girlfriend - Sold box set - Took CD back from girlfriend - Bought import SACD (hybrid) - Gave remastered CD back to girlfriend - Sold single-layer SACD Giant Steps: - Bought expanded Rhino CD - Bought Heavyweight Champion box set - Sold Rhino - Bought MFSL gold CD

I think part of the problem is that some people don't want to accept that they just don't know stuff; that there are people who are way smarter than them and who study and work their asses off to study the natural world, and so they like to dream up alternative "theories" and get offended when it's not taken as seriously as the ivory-tower eggheads who publish conclusions with their "research" and other snotty elitist stuff. Science is hard.

I used to own the 2 CD "complete" Grant Green w/ Sonny Clark set which has most of the tracks on the Mosaic, but I got the Mosais off ebay anyway and sold the 2 CD set. The Mosaic does sound significantly better- less harsh, smoother, a much more pleasant listen. And yes I love the packaging. But I didn't pay $350 for it.

Don't let that list scare you. They include anyone who's every been "involved" with it in any way. I saw the entry for Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) who "learned a lot about it from her acting class." How much more vague can ya get? Also, when the Church of Scientology gives stats on their "members," they include anyone who is on a mailing list. Everyone knows that mailing lists are way bigger than actual memberships to anything.

Yes. Scientology taught him that his music should reach out to more people and he decided that Circle was too self-indulgent and so he created Return To Forever. Corea, like Hancock (not a Scientologist) both made the conscious decision to make music that would attract a wider fan base. Both made some nice music initially with that, but more often than that resulted in bland crap that was a waste of their talents.

I just won this off ebay and rather like it. Favorite? Of course not, given I'm more of a post-bop fan, but it's a nice addition to my colleciton. The only thing that's tough about it is that 78s, singles and LP versions of the same tune are right next to each other and, like CDs with alternate takes, I don't like listening to the same song more than once in a row.

Actually, weizen, though I've transferred all my CDs to sleeves, I'm holding off on the cabinets for a while until I move (don't know when that will be) and take my stuff (including the bulk of my CD colleciton) out of storage. For now, I bought a couple of their smaller cases to store my audiophile and classical CDs at home. I do suspect that those cabinets will be great for mini-LPs, though note that some min-LPs are a bit wider than standard jewel cases so those may not fit.

Thelonious Monk: Complete Riverside box set, 15 CDs like-new conditon $140 includes shipping to anywhere in the U.S.