Listening to "Artworks," the second disc in the Art Pepper "Promise Kept" box set of the complete Artist House recordings. Nice clarinet playing!
More Art Pepper here All Things West Coast Jazz And The Surrounding Scene* 16 CD box and more + some of Laurie Peppers "Widows Taste" issues Enjoy!
I have my Dads Jazz collection and this is in it but I have yet to play it so thanks for posting. Several years ago I realized their are so many terrific records & sessions that I had to reel myself in from going down so many avenues that I wasn’t listening to the albums I really enjoyed enough. Consequently many records like this one got pushed to the back burner.
Silly question for you all. As my Jazz collection continues to grow, I find I have numerous "_____ meets/encounters _____" titles. How do you file these? For example, does "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" get filed under Ellington or Hawkins?
There's no correct answer, just file it the way you think you'll best remember where it is when you want to listen to it. I would file it under the artist's name who appears first in the title. In the case you give it would be under 'Ellington'.
In my cataloguing program it would be found under both letters "E" and "H", but in the shelf it would be under "E".
Makes sense. I'll go with it. This question prompted me to pull this one out and give it another listen.
I heard from Jim Alfredson, the owner of Organissimo, about how to become a member. Jim requests that you email him. He has to manually add new members because of spam. His email is [email protected]. When you email him, please have include what you'd like your username to be. He may not get back to you right away because his band Organissimo is busy touring. if you wish you can mention my name and that he talked to me. Brad
Pretty much what @ATR said. Sometimes i'll file it under the artist that I favour in general, or 'stands out' for me on the album. I used to have all of my 'Milt Jackson Meets' albums under the other artist's name (Coltrane, Hawkins etc) but as I started getting more in to Milt Jackson I moved them to the Milt Jackson section. Another rule of thumb for me is if I don't have anything else by the 'top billed' artist, i'll file it with the artist that I have a lot of. For example, Cactus by Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp... like a lot of these albums it might be arbitrary who's name comes first, but nevertheless I file it under Shipp because then i'll be able to find it, whereas it will get 'lost' getting filed under Kapp. Another one is if it's released under a band name... if the band is a thing (the Bad Plus for example) i'll file it under the band name, but sometimes it might be a one album band, or I only have one album by that band and am not going to get any more... case by case, but in those cases i'll sometimes just file it with the 'primary' artist, again so it doesn't get lost. An example of that would be the Duck album by Buffalo Collision... there's no other albums that i'm aware of, it's on Screwgun, I file it under Tim Berne.
Thank you all! You’ve been a tremendous help in my jazz journey. Like many who grew up in an era where jazz meant nothing me, I still always was intrigued by it. But couldn’t get into it. The journey has been talked about by many but I stuck with it and it took a marketing campaign by Blue Note to hook me. I’m 38 and shun commercialism and the current social world that’s been dumped on us, so it’s funny that I’m posting this and have found the joy in music that I sought through a marketing effort by the UMG giant. Yet this forum brought me tremendous insight into jazz after I was finally able to hear the AAA releases of Blue Note through the Tone Poet and BN80 series. It took a good number of months but I finally caught up on this thread. I don’t have a friend that’s into jazz so each of your insights and album posts have opened up my musical world. After an illness, divorce, the death of my best friend and pup and so much more, music is what grounds me. Just as it does with so many of you. I still lean on more than just Jazz, but Jazz connects with me now. And today I may have had my best record seeking day. Despite not finding the two titles I set out to buy, I came across a variety of titles that I have seen in these parts. I then stopped at my stereo shop to partially play each of them on three different absurd systems, before returning home to continue my day of music on the system that I love. To cap it off, I acquired my first original mono pressing of a Blue Note, plus much, much more! I’ve heard the tales but it did more than I could have imagined to my soul. And it wasn’t even one of the ‘must haves.’ Anyways, currently listening to my new buys: Donald Byrd Byrd in Flight (OG NM mono!) Sonny Rollins Newks Time (late ‘60’s reissue) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Drum Suite (Orig mono 6 eye!) Chick Corea Crystal Silence Oregon Winter Light Al Di Meola Casino Keith Jarrett Köln Concert Lou Donaldonson Midnight Creeper (OG but well loved) Thank you all once again!
32 track compilation of 50s sessions. I don't remember why I bought this set but the sound is horrid. I decided to rectify this and I bought the 3 CD Dizzy's Diamonds Verve collection for 5 bucks at Discogs.
Now spinning: Junior Mance Trio - At the Village Vanguard / 1985 / OJC reissue This is my first Junior Mance record, and it is not disappointing. One track fiery be-bop, the next funky as hell. I'm surprised by the quality of the recording. It sounds far better than Coltrane, and Rollin's live vanguard records. Everything nicely seperated, clean, crisp, and dynamic. I wonder why? I'm in vinyl heaven today - 40 records just arrived from the USA. The majority are classical, but some choice jazz cuts too:
