The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols

[Guy Berger]

Get it!

[BruceH]

Thanks. Got it when it came out, actually. Had the Mosaic LP box before that, too.

I like Herbie Nichols.

[B. Goren.]

Get it!

Get also this one:

Edited May 3, 2006 by B. Goren.

[ghost of miles]

I have the Blue Note reissue--great notes for that one (Kimbrough and Allison, I think?). I'd also like to read the Mosaic booklet, which I want to say was written by Rudd or another musical compatriot of Herbie's.

[Dave James]

Certainly one of the most telling testamonies to the difficulty of getting yourself heard as a jazz musician (especially if you're a bit off plumb) is the fact that someone as talented as Herbie Nichols has exactly four recording sessions to his name. If you have the Mosaic and the Bethlehem, that's it. What a shame.

Up over and out.

[couw]

If you have the Mosaic and the Bethlehem, that's it. What a shame.

Up over and out.

you'll also want the HiLo/Savoy sides, issued on "VA - I Just Love Jazz Piano" (Savoy)

[Guy Berger]

Unfortunately LGCL is out of print!

Guy

[paul secor]

I have the Blue Note reissue--great notes for that one (Kimbrough and Allison, I think?). I'd also like to read the Mosaic booklet, which I want to say was written by Rudd or another musical compatriot of Herbie's.

Roswell Rudd did the Mosaic notes (with some additional comments from musicians ranging from Danny Barker to Gil Melle to Archie Shepp), and they're a great read.

[B. Goren.]

Unfortunately LGCL is out of print!

Guy

Take a look here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...5Fencoding=UTF8

[sidewinder]

That Herbie Nichols booklet by Mosaic is their greatest ever - along with the Dean Benedetti. Essential !

[B. Goren.]

Unfortunately LGCL is out of print!

Guy

Its available also on Amazon UK for a reasonable price.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...2558751-5883603

[Patrick]

Have and enjoy the Blue Note box and Love Gloom...

Does anyone have discographical details and/or opinions about the Monk/Nichols Savoy recording M & N?

Finally, anyone have suggested venues for nicely priced Herbie Nichols Project Soul Notes?

Thanks

[Ken Dryden]

This CD compilation is enjoyable, but not essential unless you are a completist when it comes to collecting Thelonious Monk or Herbie Nichols (I am):

Gigi Gryce Quartet:

Gigi Gryce (as) Thelonious Monk (p) Percy Heath (b) Art Blakey (d)

New York, October 15, 1955

Brake's sake

Gallop's gallop

Shuffle boil

Nica's tempo

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Herbie Nichols (p) Danny Barker (g) Chocolate Williams (b,vcl) Shadow Wilson (d)

New York, March 6, 1952

My lady gingersnap (cw vcl)

Good story blues (cw vcl)

Who's blues ?

'S wonderful

'S wonderful (alt)

Nichols and dimes

Nichols and dimes (alt)

Edited May 3, 2006 by Ken Dryden

[ghost of miles]

Have and enjoy the Blue Note box and Love Gloom...

Does anyone have discographical details and/or opinions about the Monk/Nichols Savoy recording M & N?

Finally, anyone have suggested venues for nicely priced Herbie Nichols Project Soul Notes?

Thanks

Frank Kimbrough, the pianist from HNP, posts here... he might be able to steer you towards some copies.

[Guy Berger]

Have and enjoy the Blue Note box and Love Gloom...

Does anyone have discographical details and/or opinions about the Monk/Nichols Savoy recording M & N?

Finally, anyone have suggested venues for nicely priced Herbie Nichols Project Soul Notes?

Thanks

towerrecords.com has one of them for $15. Orders >$20 get free shipping and you can probably get a coupon to lower the price.

Guy

[Guy Berger]

Chuck once said is that he gets a lot out of the alternate takes in this box. I agree -- Herbie's compositions are so interesting that they bring out interesting stuff each performance.

For what it's worth, I'm totally deaf to the Dixieland and Caribbean influences in Herbie's music.

Guy

[JohnS]

Get it!

I agree, essential.

[Kalo]

I have the Mosaic Nichols box on vinyl. I never got the Blue Note reissue, because I recall reading at the time that there were sound problems, including drop outs. Can anyone confirm or deny this? It's be handy to have this stuff in CD for.

As for the Rudd notes, they're essential, though the notes in the CD box should be good if Kimbrough had a hand in them.

[sidewinder]

By some strange quirk I have the Mosaic LPs, the Blue Note CD box and the Mosaic CDs. Picked up the Mosaic CD box for £10 in a second-hand shop, couldn't resist it. Box a little bit worn though. Sound on the Mosaic CDs is pretty nice.

[brownie]

The Herbie Nichols box was my initial purchase from Mosaic. When they were doing vinyl only.

Got the BN CD set to enjoy it when driving. The set is among the most played music in the car.

[Enterprise Server]

I first became introduced to Herbie Nichols when I read A. B. Spellman’s book “Four Lives in the Bebop”. In 1966, at the height of the avant-garde and the year when the book was released in its first edition, Spellman interviews and writes about Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, and Jackie McLean. Nearly forty years later, in the newest edition, Spellman notes the capriciousness of the jazz industry and writes of darker cultural currents. I read the book around 1974. I still have the original paper back. At that time, I was very familiar with Taylor, Ornette and Mclean but I had never heard of Herbie Nichols. Shortly after I read the book, Blue Note came out with a Herbie Nichol twofer called “The Third World”. I lost my mind when I played those records! I highly recommend Spellman’s book which has been reprinted under the title “Four Jazz Lives”. Check it out!

[Swinger]

Essential music.I have the 3cd box set and Love,Gloom,Cash Love.I've been playing those cds over and over again.I can't tell why his music is so special.

I also recently bought Regeneration and Change of Season (Soul Note).Very thoughtful version of his songs.

[BruceH]

Get it!

Get also this one:

Got it.

[BruceH]

I have the Mosaic Nichols box on vinyl. I never got the Blue Note reissue, because I recall reading at the time that there were sound problems, including drop outs. Can anyone confirm or deny this? It's be handy to have this stuff in CD for.

As for the Rudd notes, they're essential, though the notes in the CD box should be good if Kimbrough had a hand in them.

I haven't noticed drop outs (though people tell me I tend to not hear stuff like that; maybe my brain "fills in" the missing part, I don't know) but oddly the old Mosaic vinyl edition sounds better to me than the BN CD edition. But heck, I got it for conveniance.

As I recall, the first, vinyl, editions of Nichols, Monk, and Tina Brooks were the very first things I ordered from Mosaic way back when.

[Nate Dorward]

There is one horrible problem on the Blue Note box: the master take of "The Third World" has a bit where the channels get weirdly out of sync for a few bars.