choosing one out of four

[Niko]

after having bought about 150 CDs at 2001 2,99 sale in the last two months I try to restrict myself a little, for the usual reasons, now, there are those four CDs which (of course) are somewhat different, but also somewhat related, and I decided I'd buy one first and then maybe add some of the others... but I can't decide with which one to start. I don't have any Chet Baker except the Paris Studio album with Dick Twardzik (but just read the de Valk book and am curious), no George Coleman except Maiden Voyage, no Mabern, no Gregory Herbert, no Buddy Terry... these are the four CDs, I'll write in brackets what "attracts me to them"

Chet Baker "On a misty night" (3 Dameron tunes, curious about Baker and especially George Coleman)

Chet Baker "Stairway to the stars" (also 3 Dameron tunes, curious about Baker and especially Coleman)

Chet Baker "Once upon a summertime" (curious about Gregory Herbert and Baker)

Harold Mabern "Few miles from Memphis" (Blue Mitchell is on it and I'm curious about George Coleman; might be sold out soon)

I'd really be thankful for a hint at a good starting point...

niko

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

choose one: chet baker, chet baker, or chet baker----ppsssffst---someones got a fetish!@^%

[Niko]

choose one: chet baker, chet baker, or chet baker----ppsssffst---someones got a fetish!@^%

fetish = buy all the seven (?) Baker albums they have for 2,99 = no problem -_-

it's not that easy

[king ubu]

I have the digipack bad-sounding versions of the Baker albums (five albums on five discs, or is it four?). This 3CD version of the same session(s?) seems to be much better sounding. But then while it's a good band and all, it's not the best Baker there is (for that, I'd advise you to look for the quartet stuff with Bud Freeman - some of the live discs, there are 3 of them, all on Blue Note, seem to be or go OOP).

Anyway, the Mabern isnt' exactly what I'd call essential (got it in this sale, too). It pairs two albums, so value for money is good, as well. The music is nice, some of it groovy (think Memphis...) but there's nothing too deep about the music. Of course Coleman is nice (but he's nice on the Baker discs, too, even in the lousy editions I have).

Not really much help, I'm afraid... "Lerner & Loewe" is nice, though, if they have it at 2001!

[jazzbo]

I'd go with "Stairway" myself. . .for just purely gut response personal reasons.

I think you mean "Russ" Freeman Flurin. . . I was wracking my noggin for a minute for instances where Chet and Bud played together in quartet format. . .would have been cool.

[mikeweil]

I like the Mabern - if you're into the hardbop boogaloo groove, this is the one to go for - it's much better than I thought.

The Bakers give you all the music from three LPs on two CDs ..... if you like Baker, this is some of the better music he recorded during those years.

Toss a coin .....

[king ubu]

I'd go with "Stairway" myself. . .for just purely gut response personal reasons.

I think you mean "Russ" Freeman Flurin. . . I was wracking my noggin for a minute for instances where Chet and Bud played together in quartet format. . .would have been cool.

ouch! of course! I was typing fast (at work), but I felt something was weird with that name...

[king ubu]

I like the Mabern - if you're into the hardbop boogaloo groove, this is the one to go for - it's much better than I thought.

The Bakers give you all the music from three LPs on two CDs ..... if you like Baker, this is some of the better music he recorded during those years.

Toss a coin .....

Well yes... I guess all of these discs contain nice music, but in the end none are essential (still I have all except "Once Upon a Summertime"...)

[Niko]

thank you all for your recommendations - looks as if the decision is really not that simple, (partly because the stuff is not so essential that one is forced to say "get all of them" - especially given what else there is at this price) I think I take one of the Baker/Coleman CDs and than get the others depending on how much I like each of the two... (although de Valk seems to favour "Once upon a Summertime" of the three Baker CDs)

(but as I am typing I'm listening to Johnny Griffin "Grab this" and think that I should maybe get Griffin's "Kerry Dancers" first, one at a time turned out to be a good rule, since I usually can't keep from going there twice a day - you never know what's in the "blue boxes")

(thank you, Ubu, also for that short moment of imagining the Bud Freeman / Chet Baker record - those 20 seconds before it dawned on me that you meant Russ certainly belong into the better part of this day)

[andybleaden]

I have the Harold Mabern and it was well worth buying. Never got much of a kick from Chet Baker though.

Go for Harold Mabern as the Chet stuff will always be around...won't it

[Niko]

Go for Harold Mabern as the Chet stuff will always be around...won't it

this is indeed a good argument - at least there will always be as much chet baker available as one may want to buy suppose i will take mabern and once upon a summertime and will later add the other too if I want more baker or more coleman (which is rather likely - but this is how it always turns out)

[king ubu]

(thank you, Ubu, also for that short moment of imagining the Bud Freeman / Chet Baker record - those 20 seconds before it dawned on me that you meant Russ certainly belong into the better part of this day)

sorry again!

[Niko]

it's that time of the year again...

tommorow i might come by this used cd store, and most likely they will still have the following japanese cds

Joe Farrell - Outback

Roy Brooks - Town Hall 1974 (Baystate with Marcus Belgrave, Sonny Red...)

Paul Jeffrey - Paul Jeffrey (i think that's what it's called, the mainstream album that has Paul Jeffrey in pink letters on blue ground)

Shamek Farrah/Sonelius Smith - The World of the Children

they are all around 10 euro which i guess is a pretty good price but i've bought a lot lately so say if i want to buy just one... which one should it (not) be?

thanks in advance!

[jazzbo]

I've only heard the Farrell and the Jeffrey. . . and I like them both. . . the Farrell may win out for ME by a hair. . . a think hair.

[Niko]

used CD stores here have like boney james, etc. why don't you buy it all. you are blessed to have a nice selection.

i've gone to that used cd store for like 10 years and the only thing i ever bought was "live for the moment" by willy schwarz (not recommended), used to be the crappiest cd store in town, recently essentially all the other closed; then someone must have unloaded there a real nice collection, hope he's doing well... their pricing policy is pretty random except when they know the artist by name (say, anything by chet baker starts at 15 Euro) already got trippin with cal green, tapscott dial b for barbra, randy weston at monterey, doug carn adam's apple, charles williams grass and trees and things, valdo williams new advanced jazz... (in two bunches couldn't make it for four weeks, nothing i had put back was gone...)

(not many cds from that guy, at most 30 but pretty focused)...

[Niko]

I've only heard the Farrell and the Jeffrey. . . and I like them both. . . the Farrell may win out for ME by a hair. . . a think hair.

thank you! (bought the farrell (3 euro cheaper than the other four) and nate morgan's "journey into nigritia" (which was really cheap); having a good time with that one right now..)