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More from Ginger Baker. This is his trio sessions with Bill Frisell on guitar and Charlie Haden on bass. These 3 videos are from the same concert at the jazz festival in Frankfurt Germany. On the 3rd video Baker solo’s from 9 minute mark to 12:30,... 
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**********Roy Eldridge makes the claim that he can tell the difference between a black player and a white player merely by listening. Leonard Feather gives Roy a blindfold test. Roy fails.******* Thanks acman3 for that tidbit. All in all it would ... 
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rok2id your right "never" was the wrong word. I should have written "the majority" 
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I think frogman made a lot of good points and I agree with him. Not trying to start a war here but if you blindfolded any jazz aficionados, man or woman of any race and played many different variants of jazz, (songs they were not familiar with) th... 
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rok2id, Here is more Wynton Marsalis NOLA jazzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RqWGuWIM_g 
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acman3, I only listened to disc one last night and the recording was remastered as good as one could, I think, from the source tapes. Very open soundstage and separation of the instruments. I will listen to disc 2 next Friday and compare it. My li... 
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rok2id, Thanks for that link. That is some smoking New Orleans style jazz. Eric Clapton looks like he's having a great time sitting in with that terrific band ensemble.Did you know that Clapton's bandmates from the super group Cream, Jack Bruce (b... 
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nsp, I have this 4 disc version of Art Pepper live at Ronnie Scotts:https://www.amazon.com/Blues-Fisherman-Unreleased-Pepper-Vol/dp/B005BY8XA4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qi...I was unaware of the Milcho Leviev releases. I believe he plays piano on the... 
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orpheus10,I want to hear your answer 
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alexatpos, thanks for the Victor Feldman links. I saw Ronnie Scott playing tenor on one of them. Ronnie Scott was also the owner of the Ronnie Scotts jazz club in London. The place is still open. I have a bluray of Jeff Beck performing live at tha... 
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Thanks nsp for the recommendation. I found the complete (2 discs) Mannehole sessions at discogs for 15 bucks. Amazon wanted 40 bucks and up for used copies. Its on the way to me. I'm sure you know of Manne's work with Hollywood scores like Peter G... 
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I just checked Amazon for the 4 CD box set I have and its not to be found. However, there was an import for sale titled "Shelly Manne And His Men Complete Live At The Blackhawk" which has 1 disc so is obviously not "complete" I guess the set I pur... 
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acman3, I really love those Shelly Manne Blackhawk sessions. IMHO  the musicians really gelled and played off one another perfectly. The songs have so much of a "cool vibe" I listen to that set at least once a month! 
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I don't know if they are related but I just ordered Blacknuss on CD after listening to samples on Amazon! 
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orpheus10 I would like to know what you think of the quintets Shelly Manne put together for the Blackhawk live recordings. The music itself and the recording quality. Do any of the other members here have the 4cd set besides me?