Nice and cool this morning and no rain overnight! I had a busy day yesterday and slept like a log. Had a nice walk in the dark with Tobi and a freshly-batteried flashlight.

Staring off "Outward Bound" with Eric Dolphy Quintet on the Prestige Remasters by Rudy Van Gelder cd.



Now on to something quite different, that sounds so much more impactful than the last time I listened to it, due to system improvements.

Barney Wilen & Dièse 440 "Live In Paris 8 Janvier 1983" Marge cd

Recorded on January 8, 1983, at the Théâtre du Forum des Halles in Paris and features Wilen on tenor saxophone collaborating with electronic musicians Michel Bertier, Guillaume Loizillon, and Claude Micheli.

Miles Davis  April 11, 1970
Fillmore West Auditorium, San Francisco CA

This is the "Friday Night" performance that exists in edited form on "Miles Davis at Fillmore" and then was part of the Bootleg Series, Volume 3 in less edited form. BUT I am listening to a bootleg version that I acquired about 15 years ago. Love this music!

An almost cold morning. While in the back yard Tobi luckily did not notice four deer in the trees just beyond our cleared back yard and he obediently came inside for breakfast and I avoided another confrontation . . . .

Starting off with a Savoy/Denon cd, a sort of Dixie/Swing session that I have not heard in a long time.

Emmet Berry and Joe Wilder, Buster Bailey and Vic Dickenson, Bucky Pizzarelli et al as 7th Avenue Stompers, "Fidgety Feet"

Art Farmer Quintet "The Time And The Place (The Lost Concert)" Mosaic cd

Bass – Walter Booker
Drums – Mickey Roker
Flugelhorn – Art Farmer
Piano – Albert Dailey
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Heath

From Mosaic:

"In 1967, Columbia issued The Time And The Place by the Art Farmer quintet, billing it as a concert from the Museum Of Modern Art. In fact, it was a studio recording with fake applause dubbed in. The real concert sat in the vaults until three tunes came out on a 1982 double LP reissue. Even then, no one seemed to discover the ruse. When Mosaic began researching Farmer's Columbia tapes, it became obvious that those three tracks were live and the original album was manipulated.
    The actual concert took place on August 18, 1966 was recorded and, except for three tunes, has sat in the vaults ever since. Mosaic has uncovered the original three-track masters of the unedited performance, which contains seven superb extended performances and remixed them in 24-bit."

I don't remember my Verve cd version (in the Complete Verve Recordings box set) sounding particularly bright. I may remember to check it out soon. An interesting album; there are other solo piano recordings by Evans that are more typical "Evans."

On the way too and from my storage unit today I listened to disc 1 and 2 of Grateful Dead "Dave's Picks Volume 23."  Recorded at McArthur Court in Eugene, Oregon, on January 22, 1978. I was struck by some really fine guitar playing by Bob Weir.



Later in the day I listened to Ike Quebec "Heavy Soul" Blue Note Japan 24 Bit RVG lp facsimile cd.

Not a classical album!

Boyd Raeburn And His Orchestra "Boyd Meets Stravinski" Savoy/Denon cd

From AllMusic:

"This superb album is comprised of tracks recorded by the band at its creative peak in the mid-'40s. The arrangements and original compositions by pianist George Handy acknowledge developments in 20th-century classical music up to that time, melding poly-tonality, shifting meters, and irregular rhythms with bebop and contemporary big band techniques. The musicianship is absolutely top-notch. In terms of ensemble execution, the Raeburn band was nearly unsurpassed, and the solos -- while often talking a backseat to the compositions themselves -- are frequently excellent. Of particular note is the work of the Johnny Hodges-inspired alto saxophonist Bothwell. Handy's fanciful arrangements occasionally go off the deep end, but the extent of his creativity was considerable, and the balance of artistry and kitsch usually weighs in favor of the former."

Ron Carter "Where?" New Jazz/Rudy Van Gelder Remasters cd

I'm now listening to one of four different versions of this material that I have, the 1995 Japanese 2 cd release on Eastworld TOCJ-5939-40

It sounds a lot like the Jazz Classics US 2 cd set, perhaps a bit more bass.

If I weren't fully awake by now, this cd will do the trick. . . .

Johnny Griffin & Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis "Tough Tenors Back Again!" Storyville cd (from the box set "From Johnny Griffin with Love")

Bass – Curtis Lundy
Drums – Kenny Washington
Piano – Harry Pickens
Tenor Saxophone – Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Johnny Griffin

Recorded at "Montmartre", Copenhagen, July 10, 1984.

Bill Perkins "On Stage" Pacific Jazz/West Coast Classics cd



Alto Saxophone – Bud Shank
Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Jack Nimitz
Bass – Red Mitchell
Drums – Mel Lewis
Piano – Russ Freeman
Tenor Saxophone – Bill Perkins
Trombone – Carl Fontana
Trumpet, Valve Trombone – Stu Williamson

I always think of Pres when I hear this album.

Sonny Stitt "Only the Blues" Verve Elite cd

Alto Saxophone – Sonny Stitt
Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Stan Levey
Guitar – Herb Ellis
Piano – Oscar Peterson
Trumpet – Roy Eldridge

Recorded October 11, 1957 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood.

Zoot Sims "Quartet & Sextet" Vogue/BMG France cd

Part of the "Original Vogue Masters" series of cds--these sound very good.

Bass – Pierre Michelot or Don Bagley
Drums – Kenny Clarke or Jean-Louis Viale
Guitar – Jimmy Gourley
Piano – Gerry Wiggins or Henri Renaud
Tenor Saxophone – Zoot Sims
Trombone – Frank Rosolino  

Recorded Paris, June 16, 1950 and November 18, 1953

"Four French Horns" Savoy/Denon cd



Accordion – Mat Mathews
Bass – Milt Hinton
Drums – Osie Johnson
French Horn – David Amram, Fred Klein, Julius Watkins, Tony Miranda
Guitar – Joe Puma

This album keeps intriguing me.

Immanuel Wilkins "Omega" Blue Note cd

I love this disc. Beautiful music by Jobim, and this quartet interprets it in a new, non-Bossa Nova way.

Franco Andrea New Quartet "Jobim" Philology cd

Another cool morning, slightly soggy after rain yesterday evening (Tobi and I got caught in some of it during our last walk of the day, but we were pretty close to home and jogged home pretty dry).

I've been busy this morning with my task of putting discs into binders--this morning about 150 Miles Davis cdrs that were in storage. Pretty amazing how many there are out there--Sony could make some great Bootleg Series sets still, there are more "Lost Quintet" items they could make a set from. as well as many good broadcasts from Europe of another Lost Quintet, with Bartz and Jarrett and Chancler, and also fascinating non-Japan studio and club appearances with a final "pre-retirement" group featuring Sam Morrison that would make a nice set.

Listened at first to the Phillipe Baden Powell disc from the "Jazz Piano Master" series from Adventure Music--a new disc I received in the mail as my previous disc has a digital pressing defect on track 9. Well so does this new copy. Darn!



And after loooking at all these Miles boots I had to listen to some Miles, and the first one that I pulled out was "Someday My Prince Will Come," the Mobile Fidelity half-speed master cd version, which sounds great.