Comments on: Prez to Rollins to Trane and More

By: Scott Lowrey

Scott Lowrey — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:04:29 +0000

About a year ago thinking an original pressing of Saxophone Colossus would never be affordable for me, I spent $100 on a NJ pressing. Guess I shouldn’t feel so bad about having to stub for the NJ pressing anymore. Can’t believe it almost reached $1,000, even in that condition.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:44:20 +0000

Routinely tuning in to Jazz Collector / Just bought my Miles Davis “Birth of the Cool” movie ticket – here in San Diego.

By: lennib

lennib — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:58:17 +0000

Happy arrival day Mr. John Coltrane!
9-23-1926

By: lennib

lennib — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:52:54 +0000

Yeah Mark, to me at times that’s the real music. Hearing those tales, when the sound was in the air and alive.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 21:13:50 +0000

Lenni I’m happy to be good friends with an older man who saw Lester Young in 1955 at a JATP concert. In 1953 he saw Buddy De Franco with Art Blakey and Kenny Drew. He’s seen all the greats in their prime…saw Coltrane multiple times including the show with Wes and Dolphy. Miles at the Blackhawk. Ornette in 1958. Sonny Redd and Don Cherry in 1957. He is *full* of stories and tales and I cherish hearing them multiple times whenever we get together for listening sessions. It really gives me the feeling of being there…

By: lennib

lennib — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:35:27 +0000

Lester Young, man. Having a record store in Chicago’s Hyde Park area and being known as a “Jazzer,” I gots to meet/talk with lots of oldsters who were around ‘back in the day’. When the area was filled with clubs such as The Beehive, Crown Propeller Lounge, McKie’s , Sutherland and on.
And the stories I heard, of Dexter and Ammons jams, Wardell Grey doing ‘Talk of the Town’ solo for “like forever” they said, and Lester at the Beehive, not long before his demise, playing with this poignant beauty, and I would listen to the telling of the tale(s) and I was there, for real.
Of course it’s all gone now, the clubs, the tellers of the tales and the players. It must have been a time.

By: Kristian

Kristian — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 17:12:36 +0000

That Prez record is iconic, one of his best, and among the best piano Nat Cole ever did

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 06:25:11 +0000

I don’t have an opinion in this case. For me, the only distinction is between a mat grey Mercury and a glossy black Clef label, Mercury being the first.

By: Art Klempner

Art Klempner — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:03:28 +0000

Hey Doc, it just goes to show ya that the B.N. label controversy is also to be found on other labels. Where is Sherlock Holmes when we need him ? My research only confirms that “both labels ate 1st editions”. That’s as far as I can go on this chase. By the way the piano player sure sounds a lot like Nat King Cole…or Aye Guy!

By: dottorjazz

dottorjazz — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 08:49:37 +0000

my comment did not appear so I try again.
I’m not sure that Prez is original.
Mercury MG-C 100 series, at least for first numbers, has a different label.
-no trumpeter
-no personnel
-shiny and wrinkled label, not matt
-“under the personal supervision of Norman Granz” just above cat #
I have different samples, Bird, Bud, Lady Day, Oscar.
or mine aren’t original, or this ain’t.