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1953 and '54 sessions recorded by Van Gelder are given excellent treatment by OJC. Everything you'd expect from these groups but with something extra special:
Jazz French Horn! I'd never heard it before and on "Friday The Thirteenth" I fell in love with it as a Jazz instrument. There are tonal shadings, slurs and muffling imposible on Trumpet or Cornet or Trombone. Forget Flugelhorn. French horn is as much the King of Brass Instruments for Monk as for Weber!
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Look for works by Willie Ruff. He recorded usually with pianist Dwike Mitchell, as the "Mitchell-Ruff" duo. They were based in New Haven, CT, when I was a kid in high school. They did an album with Dizzie that is to die for. Ruff was (or possibly still is) a very cultured and erudite man, educated I think at Julliard. At some point, he lived in France for a while, as many did. He ended up as a professor in the Music Department at Yale. He wrote a book about his experience as a jazz musician not too many years ago. He played a great bass, as well, but I love his work on French horn. One of a kind.
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On Emarcy.Dwike Mitchell is also vastly under-appreciated as a jazz pianist. But that's a result of his being under-recorded; there is not enough documentation of his greatness. Same for Willie Ruff.
Edits: 04/21/14
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