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And it has the Jazz Violin Album, which is KILLLER!

Well, I think this is a great period of Weston, even including the date excluded here, "Destry Rides Again". . . . The trio material here really is amazing stuff, and shows his technique and his compositional skills to good effect. The live date with Hawkins is just. . . well it's some of the best jazz made that year in my opinion, and it was a very good year! And I've really learned to like the larger ensemble work a lot. Weston and Melba Liston worked really well together, the quirkiness of one's orchestration really bringing to light and smoothing over in a way the other's writing. When I first heard the Roulette twofer cd, I wasn't that crazy about it but over time I've come to really enjoy it. Weston continues to be a tremendous player and presence. What I've heard of his of the last five years or so (including unreleased recordings of appearances) shows that he's not resting on laurels he should have if he hasn't been given them! He's an extremely interesting person and an artist of great stature, at least in my estimation. His work throughout the four or five decades he's recorded is of a very high calibre. I think you'll enjoy exploring his work, and this Select will be a great place to start.

This was released on Discovery Records cd in the early years of digital, and I haven't seen it around in some time. I believe it may have been reissued paired with another Reprise Ellington on a European cd, but my recollection of the details is not to be trusted. . . .

Since Ghost of Miles started a thread, I'll resurrect this one. He's right, this is a great release! www.worldsrecords.com has it at a good price too.

Well I typed in my number and it didn't reveal anything. I'm pleased!

I'll agree with you Chuck, this is a great piece, and Freddy Jenkins was a wonderful player.

Well, the subliminal sure worked on me! Thanks for weighing in with the email address Jim. I'm really enjoying this one!

Here's a recommendation for Quartet Out, "Welcome to the Meat House." This cd from this esoteric and under-utilized quartet of Dallas Musicians (capitol M for a reason) is a real treat. Hard-swinging (yeah, in its way) and revved up from beginning to end, it shows several things clearly: that these guys can PLAY, that these guys can think on their feet and write themes that WORK, and that these guys can breathe and boogie together in the way that working bands can and not as often as we'd like DO. It's free and it's structured and it's blowing and it's well thought out and it's what a "jazz" album should be. I see this as an "open letter to Bob Belden" that NYC is not the only place that STUFF HAPPENS. Okay, seriously though there are great musicians hard at work in other places. And they should be recorded. I would like to think that a copy of this cd and a copy of a live recording done by the Marchel Ivery Quartet in the last months sent to a dozen record labels would mean that a team of A&R and recording folk would be on the way to Dallas. I'd LIKE to think that. I have to be realistic and know that is maybe one of my pipe dreams. But check this cd out. If you need help finding a copy of this, leave your question here or email me at lonjazz@yahoo.com PS: In the fine Blue Note tradition, I managed to get a typo into the subject line! Where is my mind? If the moderator would like to edit this I'd be quite happy.

Finished Caetano Veloso's "Tropical Truth" and Hampton Hawes' "Raise up off Me" and have started to re-read "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. (For like the fifth time.) There really is no timelier book in several ways; it's a great companion to the time we have now in America with our myth-making dogs at the helm. I'D LOVE TO SEE SOMEONE MAKE A MOVIE OF THIS!

I really doubt that a possible little wrinkle may have been noticed in sales dips because of the close of the bulletin board.

I really doubt that a possible little wrinkle may have been noticed in sales dips because of the close of the bulletin board.

I have a lot of this stuff, but there is material new to me, and I'm sure this is going to be a great set!

Yeah, that sound calls the children home! People who say he had no technique are just clueless! Despite Bertrand's negative response, I do honestly think there is a resurgence in interest in Ayler and his music.

It's a decent book. There's room for a better bio, but will we see one? Unlikely.

Good stuff. The Tristano stuff is mostly as far as I remember live radio material that had all star sessions. . . good stuff.

The Akiyosha/Kuhn is very good. It has a sort of George Russell feel to me to the arrangements. Has guitar, two basses and two pianos and drums. Uses a few c and w themes, but boy is it NOT country and western!

Here's another I've never seen before:

Here's one I never saw til yesterday:

Here's one I really like that I bought recently. . . I'm redblooded and like it for obvious reasons. . . and is an excellent album as well!

And the Babs (though I haven't heard this cd version) is a HOOT AND A HOLLER AND A HALF. Nice record to have reissued!

Well, being enamored with bossa nova lately, I did the Barron. Yeah, not much blowing, but sometimes I don't need a lot of solos, especially in bossa nova if the material is interesting, and hearing this musical in this style is interesting. But that's me. The Akiyosha / Kuhn I didn't really expect to like but it's very interesting and I like it a lot. I haven't heard the cd version of the Salvador, but I was pretty unimpressed with an lp version I've heard. . . .

It's amazing music. I am a huge fan of Armstrong, and this is a great set to have. Almost all if not all the music is available elsewhere, but it's a wonderful assembly and a very well produced set. Verve did a great thing by putting out an expanded "Autobiography Sessions" release in the last few years. It includes the little monologue introductions NOT included in the Mosaic set. Still, I like the sound on the Mosaic as well or if not better, and NOT having the introductions is not that big a deal to ME. It may be to others.

The German Ayler cds sound pretty darned good as well. The music is. . . something else!

Good news!