On the turntable, new arrival "Face To Face - "Baby Face" Willette" on Blue Note. Tone Poet reissue remastered by Kevin Gray. Baby Face Willette – organ Grant Green – guitar Fred Jackson - tenor saxophone Ben Dixon – drums "Swingin' at Sugar Ray's" - 6:35 "Goin' Down" - 7:24 "Whatever Lola Wants" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 7:21 "Face to Face" - 6:17 "Something Strange" - 6:42 "High 'N' Low" - 7:07
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I've been slacking off posting here, have a new little buddy who's been keeping me busy... He's had an early education in Joe Henderson and Coltrane among others, naturally. Anyway, I finally got round to getting myself the Dial Mosaic box, listening to the Dodo disc this evening.
Listening to CD 5 from "Miles Davis - The Original Mono Recordings" on Sony. CD 5 - Porgy And Bess Miles Davis – trumpet, flugelhorn Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles and Louis Mucci – trumpet Dick Hixon, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland and Joe Bennett – trombone Willie Ruff, Julius Watkins and Gunther Schuller – horn Bill Barber – tuba Phil Bodner, Jerome Richardson and Romeo Penque – flute, alto flute & clarinet Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone Danny Bank – alto flute, bass flute & bass clarinet Paul Chambers – bass Philly Joe Jones – drums (except tracks 2, 8, 10 & 11) Jimmy Cobb – drums (tracks 2, 8, 10 & 11) Gil Evans – arranger & conductor Cal Lampley – production Frank Laico – recording engineering Buzzard Song George Gershwin 4:07 Bess, You Is My Woman Now George Gershwin 5:10 Gone Gil Evans 3:37 Gone, Gone, Gone George Gershwin 2:03 Summertime George Gershwin 3:17 Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess George Gershwin 4:18 Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) George Gershwin 4:39 Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab George Gershwin 4:06 My Man's Gone Now George Gershwin 6:14 It Ain't Necessarily So George Gershwin 4:23 Here Come de Honey Man George Gershwin 1:18 I Wants to Stay Here (a.k.a. I Loves You, Porgy) George Gershwin 3:39 There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York George Gershwin 3:23
One of the best fomations in Jazz ever on this EmArCy Cat# MG-36056 But there is more of it. Can only recommend the 3 LP series reissued in 1984 by Nippon Phonogram, Japan under the title" Mainstream Of Jazz" Gerry Mulligan And His Sextet , Volumes 1 to 3. Volume 1 = EmArCy MG 36101 - reissue 195J-34(M) - recorded January 25 & September 26, 1956 Volume 2 = 195J-35 (M) - recorded September 21 & 22, 1955 Volume 3 = 195J-36(M) - recorded October 31, 1955 & January 25, 1956 Featured band members are Gerry Mulligan (b) / Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb) / Zoot Sims (ts) /alternating Jon Eardley or Don Ferrara (tp) / alternating Peck Morrison or Bill Crow (b) / Dave Bailey (dr)
“If you own a phonograph that plays good records, then this is a must for your collection.” -Norman Granz Oscar Peterson - piano Barney Kessel - guitar Ray Brown - bass Alvin Stoller - drums Verve SHM-CD
I am dismantling a kitchen that I built 35 years ago, getting ready to demolish part of my house to build an addition that includes a handicapped bathroom, handicapped access, and a new 800 square foot music library in a basement with an exit to a ravine. Involved in all of this, I am moving massive quantities of records and CDs out of the way of the construction. I mean massive. I may not have access to most of my music for 6 months or more. I have not gone without music access since I tried to follow the life style of a monk 45 years ago. That did not last, obviously. Mostly because I could not deal with sleeping on a hard floor. But in this back-breaking labor, I have been discovering stashes of music that I had long forgotten. I came across my collection of Woody Guthrie 78s, and a batch of maybe 200 V Discs (my main V Disc collection was elsewhere, that is another story). I am doing this project to keep myself from being sent to an institution. But some of my friends say it is proof that I should be institutionalized.
at one time, that was probably the scarcest Monk album and very hard to find. it seems his fans did not want to hear a big band. so, few were made and few pressings existed
You have a point. Maybe his fans do not like this album too much. It's not an easy album for me and I'm a huge Monk fan.
I like Big Band & Quartet in Concert much better, although Hall Overton wrote the arrangements for both.
I’m riding out this Dolphy mood This morning, The whole thing is obviously great but the 30 minute Fables of Faubus is essential listening. Pure collective mind genius. Next time I listen I need to grab a pen and write down all of the quotes they drop from other songs. As fun as the quotes are don’t be deceived, this performance is not a gimmick or novelty. Whereas Fables is collective, Take the A Train is pure Dolphy - he just goes off on this standard
According to the Robin Kelley biography, Harry and Jules Colomby proposed the idea to Monk. Jules and Monk agreed that Hall Overton, a Monk friend who was a faculty member at Juilliard, would be best for the Arranger job. But, although Overton had the job of writing arrangements, Kelley says that Monk is on tape, at the piano with Overton to teach him each piece, bar by bar, in just the way that he wanted the music to sound (pp. 258-260 describes this in more detail). Monk also chose the musicians and ran the rehearsals. When setting up their reunion for Columbia, Overton and Monk agreed that the previous band had been too bottom-heavy, so they replaced the tuba and French horn with soprano sax and cornet.
With Steve Kuhn (p), Palle Danielsson (b) & Jon Christensen (d). Recorded 6/2-3/68, MPS Studio, Villingen, West Germany. Producer: J. E. Berendt. Recording director: Willi Fruth. Engineer: Rolf Donner. The original MPS LP had a back cover with similar pictures of Phil & Leo which are not reproduced on my 1978 Pausa reissue. Apparently this was first issued in the U.S. on Prestige in 1969. A notation indicates that I previously played this in May 2012.
Do you note each listening in writing, or just sometimes? Once in a while, I find the date that I did a radio special on someone and it only reminds me of the passage of time. I rarely keep any notes, however, even on the radio shows.
Listening to CD 11 from "All Monk - The Riverside Albums". Thelonious Alone In San Francisco "Blue Monk" - 3:44 "Ruby, My Dear" - 3:56 "Round Lights" - 3:34 "Everything Happens to Me" (Adair, Dennis) - 5:37 "You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart" (Rainger, Robin) - 4:01 "Bluehawk" - 3:37 "Pannonica" - 3:51 "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:41 "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie" (Meskill, Richman, Wendling) - 4:18 "Reflections"- 5:06
I mark the LPs as I play them. I got carried away & accumulated a large number of unplayed records which I'm trying to play at least once. I mark them as I listen to them. Mostly classical.
At least Victor Musical Industries, Japan reissued it in 1977. BTW the other big band with Monk is found on Columbia CS 9806 "Thelonious Sphere Monk" conducted by Oliver Nelson.
