Double Bass Wasn't RED a GREAT Player?

[Ron Lacey]

It's my pleasure (really). This thread's be silent for a couple of weeks I thought it was time to bring it to the top again. - Ron

ps. Why isn't this thread a sticky? Paul W's comments alone are worth a permanent place at the top of the list.

 

[oliebrice]

Why isn't this thread a sticky? Paul W's comments alone are worth a permanent place at the top of the list.

because it doesn't need to be! we keep it up there....

 

[mapleleaf4evr]

Another quick note on Red..........last weekend I picked up a new re-issue of the Jim Hall "Jazz Guitar" album. It was recorded January 1957 with Jim, Carl Perkins & Red. This version is unedited, and Red solos on almost every tune. Pick it up before it goes out of print again!

 

[powermans]

This clip MAY have been already listed.... I not going back through 262 threads to find out however.... HOW GOOD IS THIS? Red & Clark BRILLIANT!!!!! and Take the A train.

 

[Reuben]

Here's the URL cleaned up!

 

[powermans]

Thanks Reuben,
Got called away FAST.... didn't check the URL....
Yeh, Ain't It Good!!!!

 

[oliebrice]

someone's stuck a couple of tracks from the out-of-print LP '7 Pieces' (Red, Jimmy Guiffre, Jim Hall), up here:
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listening to them now, fantastic playing...

 

[Reuben]

I have the rest of that album (digitized) if anyone wants it.

 

[oliebrice]

yes please!

 

[oliebrice]

talking of digital copies, I hesitate to write this, maybe it'll piss people off, but - for those of us poor Red Mitchell fans who can't find the Jim Hall duo anywhere, how about a talkbass special, somebody stick the tracks up on the internet for a short while, that we can download on the strict understanding that we'll definately buy a copy as soon as it comes into print?

 

[damonsmith]

talking of digital copies, I hesitate to write this, maybe it'll piss people off, but - for those of us poor Red Mitchell fans who can't find the Jim Hall duo anywhere, how about a talkbass special, somebody stick the tracks up on the internet for a short while, that we can download on the strict understanding that we'll definately buy a copy as soon as it comes into print?

I don't think you need to feel guilty about OOP copies, if the owner of the recording wants to be paid, it is on them to keep it in print. Kinda goes double if the artist is no longer with us. I believe artists need to be paid but I also believe music needs to be heard.
I only have an lp copy unfortunately, and no USB turntable - yet.

 

[Nadav]

talking of digital copies, I hesitate to write this, maybe it'll piss people off, but - for those of us poor Red Mitchell fans who can't find the Jim Hall duo anywhere, how about a talkbass special, somebody stick the tracks up on the internet for a short while, that we can download on the strict understanding that we'll definately buy a copy as soon as it comes into print?

Sounds like a plan. I'll put it up some time this weekend when I have a second to breathe.

 

[oliebrice]

bump...
nadav? or anyone else?

 

[Marcus Johnson]

A couple of us (including Paul Warburton and myself) have contacted Red's widow, Diane, regarding a possible re-release of the duo CD. She manages sales of all of his recordings. Last time I talked to her, she very nicely said that there were no plans to release it at the time.

I wonder if she'd reconsider, given all the sustained interest in this great album. It would be nice to see it with the original packaging; it had some nice hand-colored photos of both guys playing, and some really cool liner notes as well.

I don't think it's overstating things to say that it's among the greatest jazz DB albums of all time. It still astounds me every time I give it a spin. Certainly it's one of Red's best performances.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

Anybody checked out the Artist Share site? I know Jim Hall has done a couple of recordings through there, as well as Maria Schneider.

Maybe somebody could do some research and point her towards that.

Just clicked around, check out the Jim Hall/Bill Frisell project...

 

[Don Higdon]

I just have to pass this on.
Red Mitchell and Clark Terry as a duet:



Edit: Sorry, folks. YouTube took it down.

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Thanks Donosaurus - those duets are fantastic! Make me wish my computer was plugged into the stereo..........

 

[Don Higdon]

And here's a trio, playing in Red's house:

 

[damonsmith]

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Red-Mitchell-Warne-Marsh-MP3-Download/11920445.html

 

[Huy Nguyen]

Woo just discovered the Warne Marsh duo records on emusic on my own today. Of what little I heard it's excellent. Very very cool.