jazzbo

Check out this link: http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm

I've seen it attributed to Laurie Anderson (as "writing about MUSIC"), which I can believe.

It IS hard to imagine Blue Note AFFORDING Miles in that time frame!

Yeah, up over and out. It is a sobering thing. In fact I have some recordings by favorite artists on a list and just haven't bought them. . . because I don't want yet to come to the end of their discography. It's like reading bios and getting to the final chapters. If I ever write one (my father has written four and has encouraged me to) I'm going to START with the final years, the funeral and the eulogies, and move from there to the life and finish at an important climax. . . . I've read recently about three bios in a row and I swear they have me depressed!

I'll bet they weren't "Caramba! The gigolo is going off in search of a new land!"

Texas Toast are very thick slices of Toast grilled and buttered. Only in Texas!

That looks more Melle-ian than Reidsian to me!

I thought of Nosnol. . . . my full first name reversed. I though of "Willis" as in LESTER Willis. . . . Decided thought that "I've gotta be me". . . jazzbo!

Probably no real reason. . . . The music will all be on your set as far as I can tell. Might sound a smidgeon better here, and some would like to have the old lp lineup (plus more) for sentimental reasons . . . "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"

I've ALWAYS loved this music, and cherished the lps and cds I have had. Dunlop on drums with Monk has been a favorite combination of mine (though I love Ben Riley's work as well)--Frankie just dances with the tunes and his soloing is so musical and inventive. And both the quartets were such hardworking working bands, and it shows in the music. This is amazing stuff, so clearly executed and masterfully conceived. (And the sound, the original recorded sound and the new remastering, have a clarity and solidity that add authority to the listening experience.) "It's Monk Time" has long been a favorite for the piano playing---it starts off with essential Monk transforming a standard by himself with real verve and that a perfect beginning for an excellent album of Monk pianistics (and more of course from the other three.) The new "Underground" is so cool because of the added bits (though it is a bit unsettling to hear this album differently after so many listens to the original) and the Hendricks bit accompanying the bass solo on "In Walked Bud" stands out as a fantastic listening experience. "Criss Cross" is a very satisfying album in all ways. It just is a blockbuster compositionally and in performance. "Solo Monk" which I have not yet bought in the new version has long been a favorite, one of my first Monk lps in fact, and one that I puzzled over for a long time and then delighted over when it finally reeled me into its eccentric orbit. Yes, I've been digging these for several decades and glad that they finally wormed their way into your listening world!

The US version DOES have more music, restored solos mostly. I've never heard or seen the Japanese set, always wanted to find one before the US set, and honestly afterwards as well, but never found one for sale at a price I would spring for. My GUESS is that the sound on the US would be "better," definitely going to be "different."

Here's one I was skeptical of at first but turns out to be magnificent: Sweet potato Crockpot Chili 3 Sweet Potatoes (or yams) 1 Onion 1.5 cups frozen corn 1 can pinto beans 1 can black beans 1/2 packet taco seasoning 1 small can or jar of your favorite salsa (in this instance I use a small can or Herdez salsa casera, or a small can of sliced hatch chilis) Dice the potato and onion, combine all ingredients and cook four hours on high or eight hours on low. You can also add sausage if you have to have some meat. If you're in central Texas use some Elgin sausage, not the HOT variety. This is some great eatin' with a salad and some cornbread or Texas Toast. . . .

Got mine a few days ago from cduniverse. It's nice! I've been waiting to hear these early recordings.

I've been enjoying the first in the Hazel Scott series, and the Elllington material on the latest (fifth) Charlie Ventura.

I have almost all of them. . . well more than 80% probably, I did not buy or sold some that I found Japanese or RVG versions of. . .

Sets are often licensed for a time period as well as for a number of copies, and I believe that this set must have reached its time limit. A mixed set, but a great one in many ways!

I have an earlier cd version of this from Japan, and I agree it's a nice album indeed. McFarand is an interesting arranger and writer and performer, he always had a thoughtful and original slant for an album it seems. . . .

Powell and Diz and Bud and Max (not really Mingus, sorry Charlie) SHOULD be considered fathers just because of the severe influence they had on the musicians that were putting out the first "hardbop" stuff (no matter who we agree those are practically!) . . . . and Bud and later (in my opinion) Diz were on the hardbop bandwagon too, as that became something to talk about and get a gig based on. . . . Not sure that I myself would call the music at Massey Hall "hardbop". . . . This labeling thing is hard to define and communicate. . . it was more like "fully-flowered bebop by badasses"!

Amen.

Yup, definitely a slip of some sort. . .

yeah, but lately bedixie has my hard!

Joking. I think. . . though some of those live dates from Pres in the first half of the fifties sure are some rockin' good hard swingbop.

Pres started it all. He started it ALL. End of story. -_-

Happy birthday! Glad it was a great one!

I agree with Jim that some of those LT covers are really great, I like Thinking of Home and Dance with Death quite a bit for instance. This new cover just seems an odd choice to me, but then I'm neither the Art Director nor that big on cover art on Blue Notes the way others are here. . . . Anyone who has seen any of MY covers knows I am no Reid Miles (nor do I have the same philosophy of cover art) so I shouldn't be pointing any fingers. . . .