EMusic

[Pete C]

Charles Brown is in the house!

A 5-disc JSP set has just arrived: The Classic Earliest Recordings (1944-50).

[Tom Storer]

Pete, you beat me to it! I had planned to start exactly this thread this morning, specifically to recommend the Charles Brown box.

Two great minds with but a single thought...

[BFrank]

Just found a really nice big band album.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Trane Whistle
It's only about 33 minutes, but it's very well produced and has some nice tunes.

A lot of big-time names on it, too. Eric Dolphy, Melba Liston, Oliver Nelson, Clark Terry & Roy Haynes to name a few. I don't think they necessarily have solos, but it's an impressive lineup.

[Pete C]

Not only that, some of the charts are by Oliver Nelson, and it has the original recording, before the famous one, of "Stolen Moments," titled "The Stolen Moment."

[bluenoter]

Just FYI, Trane Whistle is one of the albums in the Eric Dolphy on Prestige box.

[steve(thelil)]

Baidika Carroll: Marionettes on a High Wire. Hip Mid-Late-Milesish stuff.

Dave Ellis. Good young post-bop former Charlie Hunter associate.


The 88. "Kind of Light". Sound just like the Kinks

[BFrank]

Haven't listened to it yet, but they just added Ron Horton's "Genius Envy" on Omnitone. Should be good.

[steve(thelil)]

This thread can be an important resource. Let's work it.

Thank you.

Frank Strozier: Fabulous Frank Strozier

The altoist's quintet consists of Miles Davis' rhythm section of the time (pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb), along with the late, great trumpeter Booker Little. The music, mostly comprised of Strozier originals, is advanced hard bop, and the music is both enjoyable and (due to Little's presence) somewhat historic. [The 1993 reissue appends five more songs than the original release: "Lucka Dance," "Run," "Tibbit," "Just in Time," and a different take of "Off Shore."] -- Scott Yanow

Frank Wess Tryin' To Make My Blues Turn Green

Avishai Cohen Colors: Besides being a hip bass player, one of the finest young writers around, already with a distinctive sound.


Cedar Walton Latin Tinge: One of the many actualy RECENT recordings on High Note label. Up to CW's high standard.

Larry Coryell Cedars Of Avalon: Another fairly recent High Note release. Best straight ahead Larry ever. Also features Cedar Walton.

[Uli]

You cats are makin me salivating. I am gonna try it again.

My first attempst were kinda freakish. I was really gung ho on all the stuff they have. Wanted to first download all the Gene Ammons'. A lot of stuff I once had but it got stolen. I sucessfully was downloading the first but hadn't burnt it yet. Next day or so I wanna go on and see my list and where I could find it. The system told me that my account could not be tracked because of invalid e-mail address. So I make sure that I cancel out of the free trial. and i thought I may take it up again later. Next thing I get is debits to my credit card. It took a very involed exchange of e-mails. They told me that they could not trace my cancellation because they could not trace my account because of an invalid e-mail address. I told them that I already knew that but thought they were kinda too greedingly billing me for an account they couldn't trace because of an invalid e-mail address.

any way, the vaults are incredible.

[Tanager]

Originally posted by steve(thelil)
Cedar Walton Latin Tinge: One of the many actualy RECENT recordings on High Note label. Up to CW's high standard.

Larry Coryell Cedars Of Avalon: Another fairly recent High Note release. Best straight ahead Larry ever. Also features Cedar Walton.

Both of these are outstanding. I second the recommendation of the Coryell side (which features Walton, BTW) in particular.

One of my absolute emusic download faves are vols. 2 & 3 of the Woody Shaw live disks. And, although I've pushed it before, lemme just say that more folks should go d/l the Ricky Skaggs sides.

[BFrank]

Just started a long project of downloading Bill Evans' "Consecration" and "Last Waltz" sets. This really seems to be Bill at this best (also his last).

[Noj]

A few of my favorites:

Sonny Criss UP, UP, & AWAY and SATURDAY MORNING
Modern Jazz Quartet DJANGO
Joe Pass VIRTUOSO
Charles Earland LEAVING THIS PLANET
Baden Powell GUITAR ARTISTRY OF...
Cannonball Adderley PYRAMID
Hampton Hawes NORTHERN WINDOWS PLUS
Nat Adderley WORK SONG
Woody Shaw BLACKSTONE LEGACY
Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones SWEETBACK

non-jazz:
Pete Namlook AIR albums
Desmond Williams DELIGHTS OF THE GARDEN
Johnny Guitar Watson LONE RANGER
Syl Johnson CHICAGO TWINIGHT SOUL

[steve(thelil)]

Another big 2 thumbs WAAAYYY up for Ron Horton's Genius Envy.

All of the 8 Teddy Edwards discs

Really Big! by Jimmy Heath

Smack Up by Art Pepper

[BFrank]

Originally posted by steve(thelil)
Another big 2 thumbs WAAAYYY up for Ron Horton's Genius Envy.

All of the 8 Teddy Edwards discs

Really Big! by Jimmy Heath

And yet another THREE thumbs for "Really Big!" - not to mention "Swamp Seed".

Teddy Edwards for sure. Specifically "Together Again" w/Howard McGhee.

Harold Land, too! "Eastward Ho!" and "The Fox"

[Pete C]

JSP Blind Blake & Blind Willie McTell sets have recently arrived.

[Tanager]

Recently, I've checked out and dug the following from emusic:

Toshiko Akiyoshi - Interlude
Paul Bley - Closer
Joanne Brackeen - Take a Chance

All outstanding disks.

[Pete C]

King Bennie Nawahi, Hawaiian String Virtuoso

*****

!!!!!

[steve(thelil)]

There's Shuggie Otis disc "In Session, Great Rhythm and Blues", that sounds like it would suck, but I enjoyed it. He re-recorded great OLD R&B hits, using the original vocalists. I'm not enuf of an expert to guess after one listen whether they are original arrangements, but they sounded "right" regardless.

[Gary Sisco]

Cool, Pete. I need some more Blind Willie. Don't have any on CD.

[BFrank]

Recently stumbled upon Bobby Timmons' "Workin' Out". This is 2 sessions on one "disk" and the second set is a killer date with Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Jimmy Cobb from Jan 20, 1966.

[Dicky]

Between downloading the entire Fantasy catalog (Specialty Records included) I wholeheartedly recommend everyone investigate a few jazz oriented discs outside the traditional canon. Here's some starters:

Getachew Mekurya - Ethiopiques 14 - Negus Of Ethiopian Sax

Otherwordly and utterly infectious with a decisive Ayler tinge. Unlike anyhing you've ever heard before.

The Skatalites Meet King Tubby - The Legendary Skatalites In Dub

For the uninitiated, King Tubby was an engineer and the quasi-inventor of dub. His approach to arranging sound is not unlike Basie's use of dynamics within a big band setting. This is a mid '70's incarnation of the Skatalites featuring some serious musicians - Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook and Ernest Ranglin. Though not readily available on emuisc, Jamican ska (easily found on Heartbeat Records) is instantly appreciable by anyone with an ear for jazz chops. As an aside, original Skatalite Don Drummond was cited by Sarah Vaughn as her favorite trombonist.

Dave Tarras - Yiddish-American Klezmer Music - 1925-1956

Not as consistently superb as the above selections but when this is good it's very good. The first few tracks in particular blur the line between Yiddish music and Ellington's "Jungle" music.

Enjoy.

[gdogus]

Originally posted by BFrank
Just started a long project of downloading Bill Evans' "Consecration" and "Last Waltz" sets. This really seems to be Bill at this best (also his last).

I second that emotion, though I've downloaded "only" Consecration (8 discs). Hey, BFrank - is The Last Waltz a significantly different proposition, or more of the same? Don't misunderstand me - more of the same is more of an amazing, enthralling thing - but is there something especially compelling here that Consecration doesn't offer?

And yes, let's keep this thread going as a resource. I've been digging Art Pepper's Thursday Night, Friday Night, and Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard. I chose to download these over the 9-disc Complete Village Vanguard Sessions because the latter is available only in 128k .mp3s ...

[BFrank]

Well, gdogus, I guess it's "more of the same" in that the Last Waltz is from the same series of shows at the Keystone Korner. I believe the way it goes is that "Consecration" is all of the first sets from that week, and "Last Waltz" is all of the second sets.

[gdogus]

Thanks, BFrank - The Last Waltz, with its second sets, does seem to offer a greater variety of songs than Consecration. One has greater breadth, the other greater depth. Maybe?

Another recommendation: if you haven't got them, grab Art Tatum's Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces (8 discs). I'm especially fond of Volumes 1 (with Benny Carter), 2 (W/Roy Eldridge), 7 (w/Buddy DeFranco), and 8 (w/Ben Webster).

And then there are Tatum's Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces (also 8 discs)...

[Pete C]

Originally posted by gdogus
I've been digging Art Pepper's Thursday Night, Friday Night, and Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard. I chose to download these over the 9-disc Complete Village Vanguard Sessions because the latter is available only in 128k .mp3s ...

There's some great stuff on The Hollywood All Stars Sessions.

[BFrank]

Don't think I can deal with all those Art Tatum sets right now. I should do it, though. Classic stuff.

I was reminded of "Fantastic Frank Strozier" on the EMusic BB. Definitely one to download - with Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, Booker Little, Paul Chambers and others, it's a hard one to pass up.

[Pete C]

The Tatum/Webster is essential, even for someone like me who doesn't much care for Tatum.

[Noj]

Tonight I've got King Tubby/Skatalites and cued up King Tubby/Lee Perry for good measure.

Then I've got Bobby Timmons Workin' Out and Jimmy Heath's Really Big! and Swamp Seed as the jazz must always be steadily flowing in...highly rated on AMG as well, I'm expecting the best.

I've already listened to some of the King Tubby/Skatalites, and it is exactly the kind of reggae I love. I will not hesitate to buy this one.

Thanks for the recommendations everybody.

Some more of my favorites:
Lee Morgan Expoobident
Legends Of Acid Jazz Prestige series
Ubiquity funk compilations

[Tanager]

Noj, both those Jimmy Heath disks are excellent. You're gonna dig 'em, I think. There are also some excellent Kenny Dorham disks on eMusic, well worth downloading and definitely the equal of much of his Blue Note work, among those Blue Spring and Jazz Contrasts are particulary good.

[Pete C]

Anybody who is unfmailiar with pianist Walter Norris should download his Concord albums pronto. Not that anybody is familiar with him shouldn't.