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Jeremiah The Elder

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Dec 30 07 5:17 PM

Hey, Jeff:

Yeah, that really sucks! A few years ago, my oldest son got into a bind and had to sell his car. It was on a lot, and a couple of young kids came in to look at it. They said they wanted to hear what the motor sounded like, so the young attendant working there went in and got the keys. When the phone rang, he went inside to answer it, and the kids hopped in my son's car and took off. Two days later, we got a call from the police that it had been parked at the far end of a parking lot behind a building thirty miles away. The only damage was that they took out my son's radio and tape deck. And they didn't leave a full tank of gas. They just wanted to have a two-day joy ride. Hopefully, your story will have as positive an ending.

It still sucks, though.

Jerry

Tom 1960

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Dec 30 07 5:49 PM

Portrait Of Sonny Criss - Sonny Criss

Sonny Criss - alto sax
Walter Davis - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Alan Dawson - drums
Recorded March 12, 1967

Heavily influenced by Charlie Parker, Sonny has a great and enjoyable tone even non jazz fans could enjoy. This album has been recommended many times as a good intro to Sonny's playing. The only downside to this release is that it clocks in just over 31 minutes. Very enjoyable just the same and highly recommended.

Durium

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Dec 30 07 6:03 PM

DUTCH JAZZ - WORLD

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Various Artists 2CD
1999

Keep swinging

Durium

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rdavenport

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Dec 30 07 6:55 PM

QUOTE (Tom 1960 @ Dec 30 2007, 05:49 PM)

Portrait Of Sonny Criss - Sonny Criss

Sonny Criss - alto sax
Walter Davis - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Alan Dawson - drums
Recorded March 12, 1967

Heavily influenced by Charlie Parker, Sonny has a great and enjoyable tone even non jazz fans could enjoy. This album has been recommended many times as a good intro to Sonny's playing. The only downside to this release is that it clocks in just over 31 minutes. Very enjoyable just the same and highly recommended.

Hey Tom,

I'm waiting for that one to arrive from Amazon. I bought it after buying "Sonny's Dream - Birth Of The New Cool" a couple of weeks ago. I loved that one - Criss really squeezes the sound out of the horn, a sound I'm partial to - Oliver Nelson is another who does this.

Anyway, been listening to:

The Clifford Brown Memorial Album (the Blue Note one)
Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil"

Blue Trane

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Dec 30 07 7:19 PM

Classic Sinatra: His great performances 1953-60.

Sugar: Stanley Turrentine featuring Ron Carter, George Benson, Freddie Hubbard. This was Turrentine's biggest seller according to the liner notes.

McCoy Tyner, Dexter Gordon- a DVD titled "Cool Summer Jazz" with an incendiary performance of Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit. Recorded at the Paul Masson Winery-uncredited musicians-except for the leaders and Bobby Hutcherson's guest turn with McCoy. It has to be after Dexter's big Village Vanguard gig-he plays Backstairs and it looks like McCoy's Horizon lineup with electric violin, alto, bass, drums. So-late 70s is the best I can do, for now.

Peace,

Blue Trane

St Louis, MO
" Jazz is the music of the freedom of collective improvisation."- Duke Ellington in Music Is My Mistress.

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
Duke Ellington quote

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.-James Weldon Johnson

"And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African-American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.'"-Kurt Vonnegut

Jeremiah The Elder

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Dec 30 07 8:03 PM

Sugar was the first Stanley Turrentine CD I bought... found it used at a video game store, where my sons were inesely focused on wiping out Space Invaders. I bought the CD, not knowing anything about Turrentine. He's turned out to be on of my favorite jazz musicians.

Jerry

rdavenport

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Dec 30 07 9:56 PM

Throughout the evening,

Clifford Jordan's "Spellbound"

Jimmy Heath's "The Thumper"

Both OJCs, both fab IMO

Django

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Dec 30 07 11:25 PM

All three Rob McConnell Tentet CDs. Wish there were more!

Durium

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Dec 31 07 9:31 AM

LES TRESORS DU JAZZ

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1955 CD 46

Retrospect 2007
Keep swinging

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Blue Trane

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Dec 31 07 12:38 PM

rddavenport- I love The Thumper as well as the rest of Jimmy Heath's Riverside/OJC work. Check out "Really Big" if you haven't already.

This AM is the magnificent jam session, Dexter Gordon's "True Blue" featuring Blue Mitchell and Sam Noto (trumpets), Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon (tenor saxophones) and the Cannonball Adderly alums Louis Hayes, Sam Jones, Barry Harris. This session was recorded for Xanadu on 10/22/76 six weeks prior to Dexter's historic Village Vanguard recording "Homecoming" and played with Dexter's energized authority and swagger. Let's see-take one bop classic-Tadd Dameron's Lady Bird, add an Irving Berlin ballad "How Deep is the Ocean" and top it off with a Blue Mitchell blues line "True Blue" and you have the recipe for success. If I was a downbeat reviewer I'd give it **** or ****1/2 stars. All hands, including the little known Sam Noto, turn in worthy performances. I have a theory that the presence of skilled arrangers like Cohn or Jimmy Heath on a date, set the bar suitably high in terms of disciplined performances in the best sense of the word. Barry Harris is of course a major asset - check out his call and response with Blue on "True Blue" , his rocking intro to "Lady Bird" and his solo turn on "How Deep Is The Ocean", all played with the authority of a veteran musician in fast company.

This is a good set for the jazz newbie -exciting, bluesy, and clocking in at a bit over 38 minutes. The voices are distinctive and lead on to a world of fine music if you follow the soloists i.e. Harris to Adderly and his own trios, the undervalued Cohn to his partnership with Zoot Sims, Dexter to his classic Blue Note recordings, Blue Mitchell to Horace Silver and his own dates and so forth.

On a personal note, the police recovered my front-end and steering column damaged van last night,and as I haven't picked it up yet from the towing company yet I'm not sure how grateful to be or how much of the tab I'll be left with after dealing with the insurance company. The family dog that disappeared last night when my son left the door open-he's ADD like me- showed up at 4:00 AM in my fenced yard a little chastened I think by his night in the cold. How he got back there is a minor mystery. I suspect my next door neighbor let him in.
Happy New Year to all and blessings for 2008.

Peace,

Jeff T aka Blue Trane

St Louis, MO
" Jazz is the music of the freedom of collective improvisation."- Duke Ellington in Music Is My Mistress.

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
Duke Ellington quote

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.-James Weldon Johnson

"And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African-American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.'"-Kurt Vonnegut

Tom 1960

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Dec 31 07 1:25 PM

Jeff, here's hoping for better luck going forward. Didn't realise the dog was missing. Glad he found his way back home. I'm a big time animal lover.

Right now listening to some very tasty stuff. Rdavenport, look this one up as well.
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Sonny Criss - alto sax
Cedar Walton - piano
Tal Farlow - guitar
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Lenny McBrowne - drums
Recorded August 18, 1967

Don't let the title scare you off. This is a real fine album with some nice assistance from Tal Farlow from what I understand recently came out of retirement. Sonny's playing here is very strong. Great solo at the end of "Willow Weep For Me". The more I hear of this guy, the more I'm impressed.

rdavenport

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Dec 31 07 5:15 PM

Tom,

I may well check that one out as well, I'm a fan of Tal Farlow.

Jeff, I've just started a Barry Harris kick (Luminescence, waiting for a couple of albums with Charles McPherson "Newer Than New" and "Con Alma"). The Jimmy Heath you mention "Bigger Than Big" - is that a big small-group line-up?

Tom 1960

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Dec 31 07 5:53 PM

Richard, here's the personnel on Heath's "Really Big". I own it also.

Personnel: Jimmy Heath (tenor saxophone); Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (alto saxophone); Pat Patrick (baritone saxophone); Clark Terry (trumpet); Nat Adderley (cornet); Dick Berg (French horn); Tom McIntosh (trombone); Tommy Flanagan, Cedar Walton (piano); Percy Heath (bass instrument); Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums).

rdavenport

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Dec 31 07 7:29 PM

Thanks Tom, sounds nice. I've particularly enjoyed a few big small-group recordings I've bought this year: The "Sonny's Dream" album, "Afro-American Sketches" by Oliver Nelson, a Donald Byrd-Gigi Gryce Jazz lab two-fer, and to a lesser degree a Tadd Dameron album "The Magic Touch". Looks like another one for my wishlist.

Tom 1960

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Dec 31 07 9:36 PM

Disc 4 of the Stanley Turrentine Mosaic features music from the albums "In Memory Of" and "Mr. Natural".

The players for the sessions as follows:
Stanley Turrentine - tenor sax
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Herbie Hancock - piano
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Otis Candy Finch - drums
Recorded June 3, 1964

and
Stanley Turrentine - tenor sax
Lee Morgan - trumpet
McCoy Tyner - piano
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Ray Barretto - conga
Recorded September 4, 1964

Jimmer

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Dec 31 07 11:24 PM

I'm listening to my last purchases of the year - Afro-Cuban and Horace-Scope. I'm hoping the RVG remastering of the former is a big improvement over the 1987 version.

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Happy New Year!

Jim

Jeremiah The Elder

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Jan 1 08 12:15 AM

Listening to disc one of a two disc set: West Coast Jazz on Castle Pulse. I have a lot of West Coast Jazz, including a 4 CD boxed set, but this is a wonderful addition.
It's a very broad cross section of West Coast Jazz in the 60's with all the expected names like Mulligan, Brubeck, Rosolino and Baker, along with less commonly heard groups led by Hampton Hawes, Dave Pell, Andre Previn and Conte Condoli. Even a squeally, irritating Maynard Ferguson track, if you're impressed with a lot of realllly high notes. This was a real good buy... just got it in the mail today.

Take it eazzzzzzzzzzzzzzy, Maynard...

Jerry

7844473

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Jan 1 08 2:59 PM

Though my favorite style of jazz is definitly what's known as hard bop, today I'm having a ball listening to this French female trio :

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Their repertoire spans from the Duke to Count to Louis Jordan to the Andrew Sisters and the likes.

These three girls from Avignon all sing and play, and they're backed by a bunch of fantastic yet little known jazz musicians from the same area towards South of France.

The master word here is SWING !

Rene
Paris, France.

Sundog

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Jan 1 08 3:34 PM

Kenny Burrell- God Bless The Child
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- Tom

Tom 1960

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Jan 1 08 4:22 PM

Disc 5 of Stanley Turrentine Mosaic

This final disc features the remaining material from the album "Mr. Natural" and "Another Story". I'm really enjoying the MN material because of the inclusion of Lee Morgan on the session which is always a plus for me. McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and the always excellent Ray Barretto really add some special to this session. The "Another Story" session features besides Turrentine:

Thad Jones - flugelhorn
Cedar Walton - piano
Buster Williams - bass
Miker Roker - drums
Recorded March 3, 1969

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