What music did you buy today?

[BillF]

A bunch of LPs from PeteB turned up this morning. What with water being intermittently cut off for the last couple of days, I only just managed to get to hear them now.

Hydraulic record player!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just found this on e-bay.

The Kansas City Melodyaires - Softly the night is falling - Songbird

Hugely expensive - $45 inc post - but I've been after this since 1969 !!!!!!

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, with my New Month's Resolution to buy fewer records in December leading me to buy more expensive ones , I just found this on AMazon UK

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot Rhythm & Blues - Tommy Dean - Miracle, VJ & States cuts (Official, Denmark)

I saw this in Tower in London when it came out but I'd spent all my money, so I decided that I could get it from Spillers when I got home. However, a week later Official had closed, and copies have been very scarce. I saw one on AMazon UK a couple of years ago for a hundred quid and didn't bite . But I just found one there now for only 17! Wow!

Dean was an important St Louis organist - the man who influenced Sam Lazar and with whom Grant Green developed his style. This LP doesn't contain the tracks from Dean's VJ session with Green, which have never been released.

MG

[robertoart]

Well, with my New Month's Resolution to buy fewer records in December leading me to buy more expensive ones , I just found this on AMazon UK

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot Rhythm & Blues - Tommy Dean - Miracle, VJ & States cuts (Official, Denmark)

I saw this in Tower in London when it came out but I'd spent all my money, so I decided that I could get it from Spillers when I got home. However, a week later Official had closed, and copies have been very scarce. I saw one on AMazon UK a couple of years ago for a hundred quid and didn't bite . But I just found one there now for only 17! Wow!

Dean was an important St Louis organist - the man who influenced Sam Lazar and with whom Grant Green developed his style. This LP doesn't contain the tracks from Dean's VJ session with Green, which have never been released.

MG

You should have done the liner notes to the new cd MG. They should have flown you to St Louis for a week of research and partying.

Do you know if the VJ sessions survive?

[B. Goren.]

Ordered both from Amazon:

[kh1958]

Ordered from cdbaby:

Melissa Aldana, Second Cycle, and

Barbara Dennerlein, Spiritual Movement No. 3

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, with my New Month's Resolution to buy fewer records in December leading me to buy more expensive ones , I just found this on AMazon UK

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot Rhythm & Blues - Tommy Dean - Miracle, VJ & States cuts (Official, Denmark)

I saw this in Tower in London when it came out but I'd spent all my money, so I decided that I could get it from Spillers when I got home. However, a week later Official had closed, and copies have been very scarce. I saw one on AMazon UK a couple of years ago for a hundred quid and didn't bite . But I just found one there now for only 17! Wow!

Dean was an important St Louis organist - the man who influenced Sam Lazar and with whom Grant Green developed his style. This LP doesn't contain the tracks from Dean's VJ session with Green, which have never been released.

MG

You should have done the liner notes to the new cd MG. They should have flown you to St Louis for a week of research and partying.

Do you know if the VJ sessions survive?

I think they don't. Michael Cuscuna was into the Vee-Jay files and achives a few years ago and I can't believe he wouldn't have done at least something.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This arrived today, having done a fast swim across the Atlantic.

Grant Green - Live at the Holy Barbarian, St Louis, 1959 - Uptown

Good sleeve note about the background, and fascinating newspaper clips. But they still don't acknowlege Lazar's debt to Tommy Dean.

GG seems to have been using the Gibson at the last gig at the bar. Sounds like he was for the recording, too, though I don't really know.

MG

[save0904]

Bill McHenry La Peur du Vide

[paul secor]

Cecil: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! (MPS)

Back Home with Drifting Woods (Mississippi)

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas - Nathan Milstein (EMI)

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 13; String Quintet - Pacifica Quartet + Michael Tree (Cedille)

[B. Goren.]

After more than 3 years I called Mosaic and ordered 3 sets:

Earl Hines

Coleman Hawkins

Charles Mingus

Edited December 3, 2012 by B. Goren.

[paul secor]

After more than 3 years I called Mosaic and ordered 3 sets:

Earl Hines

Coleman Hawkins

Charles Mingus

You may not have to order for another three years. Lots of good listening there.

[BillF]

[paul secor]

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume Six

Ives: Emerson Concerto; Symphony No. 1 - Feinberg/Sinclair/NSO of Ireland (Naxos)

Fletcher Henderson: The Harmony & Vocalion Sessions Volume 1 (Timeless)

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7,8 - Ward/Northern Chamber Orch. (Naxos)

[B. Goren.]

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume Six

Paul, what you need is the complete set of Group Masterpieces.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I think it was Stefan Wood who posted that he'd got this, some months ago.

Guelewar - Halleli N'Dakarou - Touba Auto K7 (Teranga Beat)

I thought it was the Xaley N'dakarou K7 with some bonus tracks. Now I've got it, I see Xaley N'dakarou was issued as a 2 K7 set, of which I've only got one. Now that's the way to do reissues!

Interesting sleeve note all in all. Never knew Moussa Ngom came from The Gambia (though I suspected it).

Thanks for the info, Stefan.

MG

[paul secor]

Art Tatum Group Masterpieces Volume Six

Paul, what you need is the complete set of Group Masterpieces.

Possibly, but I'm not a huge Tatum fan and I'd rather explore piecemeal. Also, I find that if I get a box, I'm less likely to take it off the shelf and listen to it - even listen to individual recordings from it.

Edited December 6, 2012 by paul secor

[erwbol]

Ben Webster - Gentle Ben (SACD)

[BillF]

[B. Goren.]

[mikelz777]

Second Spin had a 12 hour, 40% off sale yesterday when you purchased $30 (pre-discounted price) in used CDs so these came out to be less than $4 each. I think my CD collection is reaching a saturation point. Even at these prices, I really had to work at it to find enough titles I was willing to buy.

Johnny Cash - Bootleg Volume 1: Personal File

Leon Redbone - Christmas Island

Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

Jimmy McGriff - Greatest Hits

Bela Fleck - Tales From The Acoustic Planet

[Bright Moments]

Interesting - I have this:

[BillF]

Interesting - I have this:

As a download, It didn't come with any cover art, but I preferred the look of the 50s version, which JohnS says is from the British Esquire label.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

In the middle of parcel wrapping, decoration assembling and erecting, Christmas tree repotting, arrives

Various Artists - Bob Geddings' Big Town records story - Big Town (Acrobat)

Many thanks to Dan Gould!!!

MG

[Ted O'Reilly]

I've been enjoying Ed Bickert, Mike Murley and Steve Wallace on a just-released CD ("Test Of Time") of material recorded in 1999. The trio had been recorded live at a Toronto club, but the results were not up to everyone's expectations. Though a live record was desired, there wasn't going to be an opportunity to do in the near future, so they did a couple of sessions at the producer's (Barry Elmes) modest home setup.

But before those tapings were mixed, an opportunity came up to again record at a club. Since a "Live" release was what they originally wanted, they jumped on it and made "Live at The Senator" (Cornerstone CRST CD 113) which won a Juno -- the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. The studio sessions lay fallow for a decade until Elmes was making safety copies of the (Artist-Owned) catalogue, and knew they should be released.

For those who love Ed Bickert's guitar playing (and who wouldn't?) these tracks are especially important as they represent some new treasures of a talent that hasn't been heard since his retirement more than a decade ago.

http://www.cornersto...s/whatsnew.html and http://mikemurley.com/ for more, including a link to a CBC site that lets you hear examples...