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Hi Jack, Thanks for the recommendations I will Listen. You will be glad to know we will Be releasing the Basie for 2 nd time and the Art Tatum Ben Webster. I also love these two . I will hunt down some of the records you mentioned and listen to them. Thanks Chad

Hi jack, wanted to ask bout the record sleeves you use to protect your collection, specially the gatefolds. Thank you

I think I mentioned before 'Basie and Zoot', which is probably the best record recorded for the Pablo label along with 'Duke's Big 4' and 'This One's For Blanton'. I bought these and many more ( e.g. Carter's 'The King') when they were new in the 1970s. The Tatum/Webster is a reissue from the Tatum Group Masterpieces from the 1950s, but a new issue of this is always welcome. I have this many times and in many versions and I will, if I can, acquire the new re-issue when it comes out. It is quite simply one of the greatest jazz records of all time with Ben not being intimidated by Tatum's masterful playing and just playing the way he always did to produce something magical. It is the stuff of legends. My recollection is that as the Pablo label went along Granz began to issue more and more jam sessions from Montreux on the label and the quality went down and became less interesting. That was how it seemed to me at the time.

Great video again Man. As I told you, yes, the last Basie big band's albums sound, musically, "tired" because the chief was ill. It shows us that Bill was really the boss. When he was in a good form, the band sounded like fireworks. When he was not well, the band sounded not precise, "tired" .... About On the Road, I was at the concert. They recorded in both digital and analog systems ! But Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, wanted to be the first man in Jazz to record his concerts with this new system, Digital. So he signed a special contract with Sony. They bought from Tokyo, just for the festival, this brand new digital machine. So Norman agreed because it was a really huge publicity for some new ways to record music on those days ! They sold a lot of albums because it was in Digital. That's why Norman put out a lot of those albums, written in big "Digital". But Claude recorded the concert with the usual equipment then. I have a copy of the analog concert and it's sounds 10x better than the digital one. I don't know if the original analog tapes are still around today ... I'm almost sure that nobody knows that analog tapes exist ... As I was there and a close friend of Bill, I can tell a lot about all of those things

be great if they would re-release all of Pablo titles

That Tatum-Webster album is from 1956, not 1975. Ben Webster died in 1973,,,

Great video, very interesting to see all those Pablo records. I have a Pablo with Benny Carter called "Live and Well in Japan" that I really enjoy. I will have to look for the one you showed! Thank you for sharing your collection and your knowledge!

The Tatum title is on Chad’s list. What an amazing album.

Thanks Jack, couple of Pablo's there I need to chase up

Those Pablos are tempting. Great video, Jack. Thx

Nice video Jack, I need to check out that Benny Carter. That Ben Webster-Art Tatum is actually a 1956 session, originally put out by Verve in ‘58, it is awesome! Over the past couple months, I’ve been going deep with the old Norman Grans produced records on Clef, Norgran, and Verve - can’t believe it took me so long to dive into these, some of the best! - Mike

While adding to my collection, anytime I see a VG+ or better, I pick it up. Most are great finds at decent price. Thx for promoting a super label.

I love Zoot Sims, I wish more of his album were reissue. I don’t why he doesn’t get love that other do

I think that Count Basie Kansas City 3 coming later in November

Great list! Have many of those. I would add Oscar Peterson and Freddie Hubbard Face to Face to the list sounds amazing and they are on fire on that record!

I really enjoy your videos. I am a CD guy but love to hear you talk jazz. Folks just don't know what they are missing by not listening to jazz and blues.

Hi, Jack Basie "For the second time" and Tatum-Webster Quartet are on the list of 2024 releases. Best wishes fron Spain. Cayetano

I can find these titles between 5 and 10 dollars. They are generally clean and sound great. Why would I spend 40 bucks? Makes no sense

Hi Jack I've just got my first Pablo record. Sarah Vaughan How Long Has This Been Going On. I think it's a masterpiece.

Jack - thanks for covering off on some of these lesser known titles and artists. By chance I happen to pick up the Bob Cooper record that you showed a couple of months. I really didn’t know Bob Cooper at that point, but could not pass up a clean vintage Contemporary pressing by Roy DuNann (black label cut using the Westrex cutting head). Of late I have been into mono pressings (I use have a dedicated mono turntable with a mono cart), but these stereo Contemporary pressings are dynamite. Similarly I picked up an OG stereo pressing of Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk #4 for $7 (solid VG and plays beautifully) just a couple 😅f days ago and it sounds great! I look forward to more upcoming videos.

I like the suggestion of Terry Gibbs in a small group setting on Emarcy. Those albums swing so hard and the sound is so well recorded it’s like the band is right in your listening room. Shades of Ahmad Jamal live at the Pershing.

Great video thanks again Jack

Hi Jack. Andre Previn, I hate the guy. Classical pianist extraordinaire, Jazz supremo, sense of humour, suave and charismatic. Don't you just hate that. 🤣🤣🤣 Just picked up his Shostakovich No5 on EMI. Sounds awesome. Great vid mate.

Great new features...I listen to classical also and I hope you will continue to talk about that a little bit. I have been getting into Ben Webster recently and am really enjoying that journey. I got a record called Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson that I have been enjoying. But I am definitely going to check out that Johnny Hodges record!

Jack, thanks a lot for your great videos. To tell you the truth, I don't understand when, suddenly, they reissued, some Count Basie last recordings which are not, very far away, on the same level as some others Pablo's before .... The 2 which are reissued there are the last to buy !!! The band sounds very tired and not precise at all. Those are very very dissapointing sessions !!! Better than that : all the tunes were on the book for decades, never recorded before. So they had them in the fingers as I can say but it's not at the top level as Bill used to give us, musically. As, today, we are into "the best sound quality possible way", the producers decide to reissue those. Come on !!! What about "I Told You So", "Live in Japan 1978", "On The Road", the 2 volumes with Milt Jackson, "Warm Breeze", "Kansas City Shout" .... Those are masterpieces to me. As you know, Bill was not in good health since the fall of 1981 and really, we all can feel it. The band sounds more loud, unprecised, more conventional ... This was no more the Basie band that I loved, revered for all of decades that we know .... I'm pissed of, sorry to say. I think I have all Basie's albums, about 500. Sound quality first, then the quality of the music. I'll never buy this concept ! All about money and money, sellings and sellings !!!!!!! Bob Cooper was one the greatest to me, sooo underrated because he didn't recorded that much in Jazz settings, very busy in the studios for composing and arranging and this is a shame !!! But we can't go back and do again the history. But boy !! He could play !!! Great arranger and composer. Jazz people don't really know about it, he did a lot for TV shows, series and movies, cartoons, when his name appeared in a very little characters .... A shame but that was a time then. Life, sometimes, isn't always fair enough. He was a good friend of mine, that's why I write those words about him because I know all the story. Do you know who put and arranged Victor Feldman's moving from England to LA and in the LA studios ?

That’s one cheesy looking cover on the Bob Cooper album.

Andre Previn recommendation for you AP and Thomas Stevens ‘A Classic American Sonbbook’ cheers, Ted

Great job, Jack! I'm loving the Johnny Hodges reissue. What a beauty and that jacket was so beautiful as well! That particular Victrola is one I DONT have and I do love the original and Classic Records versions. Always worth a chance with Victrola, I'm sorry you didn't get a truly mint one this time. Thanks for the shoutout and for your appearances on the Everything Ckassical Livestream.

Nice work Jack. I have the Bassie 88 would love the new KG mastered item but here in the land of blatant rip offs (Australia), the cheapest I can find a copy delivered is around the AUD $150 !!!!! will keep playing my old copy...ha ha ha. You are correct the Sibelius No5 was Living Stereo LSC2405. Cheers Graham

Great video Awesome Great job Jack

Great video Well done

And don't forget the soprano album!

Bob Cooper sounds amazing on the Howard Rumsey Music for Lighthousekeeping album, I'm really hoping they do the album you mentioned here on the acoustic sound series!

have you listened to any of the trptk LP's? classical label out of the Netherlands I got some seam splits and a scratch on my order. They replaced all three records in their new better box

So glad to see a video on Andre Previn.I first heard his playing on Shelly Manne and Friends album and was really impressed,also his Jazz rendition of Camelot.Hes the only jazz pianist that I would ever consider in the same stratosphere as Bill Evans in that non Bluesey / classics based piano jazz that l prefer.

Great video Jack

He SHOULD BE spoken about with all those names you mentioned - he was a PRODIGY! INCREDIBLE pianist!!! I have the Previn 96 CD box set as well as jazz & classical vinyl LPs !!! Great video 👍

My Fair Lady is a favorite! Previn, Shelly Manne and Leroy Vinnegar make a great trio!

i have a few andre previn albums, he made a few non jazz albums, but the ones on contemporary records are definitely jazz!

Hi Jack! Great video on this I'm important artist. I knew him from the classical world, and was surprised when I started discovering his jazz outings. Thanks for covering this aspect of his career. Loved the West Side Story reissue. Great stuff! I appreciate the shout out!

Great video on Previn. His album King Size is my favourite and so deserving of a reissue.

Great video, Jack. And thank you so much for the shout outs! Cheers, a

Hey Jack! I should have guessed you had a channel with all your knowledge! Just wondering as I am a Jazz newbie. What are your thoughts on Melody Gardot? I love her, almost as much as Billie and Ella - almost 😁

Bill Evans was never background music. Bill Evans 65' was a great group. I saw them live at Shelly's Manne Hole in the sixties. The record itself was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder the great Blue Note Series. He was my least favorite engineer for Evans. Evans Riverside recordings captured the soft nuances of his sound. I thought Van Gelders sound was hard and mettalic😮

I have about a dozen box sets on Bill Evans alone. He's not in my Top 10 at the piano and I rank Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Sonny Clark, John Wright, and Red Garland much higher. When you have 80K cds, they all compete for your time and Evans is middle of the pack for me but very distinct. Like Art Pepper, Chet Baker, and Dave Brubeck, I find his later work rather redundant. I have his full catalog twice over in standalone cds and box set form. Stan Kenton was popular as well and we see how much he's discussed today. That's for the tip off on Golson. That I missed. By the mid 60's, I'm falling off the wagon and getting into Stax and Motown.

Speaking of Bill Evans there's a great new book out by James Kaplan called 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the lost empire of Cool that just came out this year you might want to check out

Good one Jack - Mike

Even's music was a staple of my father's studio. So I learned about cool jazz before I could walk. It’s true that the audience imposes meaning and context onto music. Every record is special to someone. But that is the living essence of culture in a consumer world. It gets validated when people dive deeper, and get beyond personal likes and dislikes. There is plenty of music that I respect, but would not be my first choice to listen too. Consuming music is NOT the same as composing or performing it, and it is very easy to forget this. Which is why humility is essential. There is nothing like music to bring out the closet fascist in a random citizen. Thank god the era of art critiques and king maker record labels has been relegated to the history books by the internet. The money may be gone, but every song can in theory find its fans. Comparison, is the ultimate market force that refines popular culture over the long term. The gems tend to gather their own audience, and seminal works don’t have to be great performances in their own right. Culture is full of happy accidents, and all ideas can be inspirational. I dig Bill Evans because his work CONTINUES to stands out as my musical knowledge expands. What greater compliment can anyone make?

I just love "Trio 65". I have that same copy. The music just keeps growing.

I can see, where the reviewer was coming from. When the reissues of Trio 64 and 65 were announced, I streamed them on my phone, while I was doing stuff around my home. At that time I was still new to jazz and not familiar with Bill Evans. The music didn't catch my attention and I remember thinking, that it was kind of elevator music. I gave it a second chance later on, where I would just sit and listen to the music and not do anything else. This time it did catch me, so I ordered both records and still like them. But Trio 64 is still the stronger one imho. My favorite recordings of his are You must believe in Spring and Everybody digs... With Peace Piece as my favorite track. That song is pure bliss.