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  2. Louis Moholo-Moholo RIP

    in Artists

    Posted

    I've been playing music by and with Louis Moholo non stop since Friday evening ... glad I got to hear him in person a few times (w/Irene, w/Four Blokes, w/Tippettses & MinAfric Orchestra ...).

    Thanks so much for sharing your story and thoughts and insights @ep1str0phy 🖤

  3. Horace Tapscott & Pan Afrikan People Arkestra - Live at IUCC 11/2678 2CD

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by king ubu

    Anyone venture a guess who plays the trumpet solo on "Equinox" von Vol. 7 (30 Sep 1979)? Can't all be Lester Robertson on trombone there. Vol. 8 (and again Vol. 11) has one Juana Nash listed, who has no other entries on Discogs. The trombone solo starts quite early, emerging out of the ensemble chants around 1:05 and runs to 3:20. Around 3:24 the second solo beings, off-mic and in the middle register, around 3:35 it might be a french horn, too, but not a trombone. Around the 4 minute mark it goes into higher areas, and around 4:15 it's quite clear it's a trumpet, and when i'ts finally really on-mic around 5:15, it's definitely clear we're hearing a trumpet. The solo wraps up around the 6 minute mark.

    Great track for sure, not bitching too much, but hey ... some of the volumes have decent liner notes and soloist identifications, others have neither. They could also have been a little bit more generous about which tracks were included on the original double album (and the expanded reissue from a few years back).

    Anyway, I've been making my way through these slowly (four Vols. remaining) and I definitely enjoy the ride!

    --

    In #4 ("A Call for Truth") around 8:48, there's another trumpet solo, on mic now, and I like the playing!

    --

    Also, in "Song for My Father", there's a male voice singing the lyrics ... who might that be? Sounds a bit shaky, so I'm guessing one of the instrumentalists?

  5. Anthony Braxton Quartet UK '85 tour recordings

    in New Releases

    Posted

    WXU sold ... and continued right away (150 CDs in 0.5 yrs or so it feels ... many of them pirated, but some really great things, too!), which made buyers stop from considering doing anything with the "old" catalogue. Rogue deal, somehow, I assume, as the buyer has one of the finest in things classical for 20+ years (alpha, Ricercar, Arcana etc pp). But of course I don't know the fine print...

  7. Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons First CD Issue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Oh, that's cool!

    There's another series running ... by BYG or whomever remains (or inherited the remains of the stolen goods) of them, anyone knows how this all fits together?

    https://bygrecords.bandcamp.com/

    All LP and CD it seems (I think when I checked last, a few weeks back, some were digital only) ... possibly nearer to the source (not that it matters much, some of the albums from August 1969 sessions sound quite bad in all issues, it seems, notably the Sunny Murray) and maybe with readable notes and including complete cover reproductions (too bad the Japanese CDs don't reproduce the entire inner part of the fold out covers).

    Also as I was considering upgrading the Dave Burrell, I noticed that in this case the Sunspots (manufactured by Abraxas, which also did ESP-Disk' reissues that I've always considered to be bootlegs) seems to be properly licensed.

  9. Kenny Dorham "private" dates

    in Discography

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    On 2/6/2025 at 10:40 PM, aparxa said:

     

    Sorry to report that our friend Claude, one of the authorities on all things Kenny Dorham, has left us about a month ago.

    Oh no, very sorry to hear this!

    I exchanged some recordings and stuff with him a few years ago, and while it was sometimes a bit difficult to understand each other (language gap plus, I assume, multi-generational gap and somewhat of a cultural gap, too), he struck me as a kind person still curious about all things concerning the musicians he'd been following (in this case it was about Clarke/Boland and - mostly - their big band for him).

    I've got the KD disc on order and hope to receive a copy that will work alright ... will take a week or two until I know (some other early May releases in the same order, and me on vacation in early May, too).

  12. Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions New Upcoming Release March 25

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    Those are weird omissions indeed, thanks for pointing them out ... alas that French CD contains the same five tracks that were also part of the two previous Mel Powell CDs issued by Vanguard:

    https://www.discogs.com/release/14735742-Mel-Powell-The-Best-Things-In-Life
    https://www.discogs.com/release/14667510-Mel-Powell-Its-Been-So-Long

    So, two track missing ("My Last Millionaire" and "Soon"), it seems.

    While the Nat Pierce session is included in its entirety, it may be worth noting that the four tracks can also be found on a pretty good Fresh Sound compilation (quite certainly no match in sound quality):

    https://www.discogs.com/release/7238051-The-Swingin-Nat-Pierce-Band-Kansas-City-Memories

  13. SONY and SONY Classical New Releases

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Since they're usually called "Complete ... Album Collection", a discogs search is quite useful ... but if anyone finds a list, let me know please! It's not completely reliable, so you may want to try a few similar searches (i.e. you need to replace "sony" w/rca to find the Peter Serkin box, though the entry has both RCA and Sony Classical listed as labels):

    https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=complete+album+collection+sony&type=all&genre_exact=Classical

    add a genre filter depending on if you're looking for Leonard Cohen, Earth Wind & Fire and Judas Priest or Monk, Weather Report and Blakey or Fritz Reiner, George Szell and Glenn Gould (that latest category is the one I'm most into with these ... and running such a search does two things: make me realize how I bought gazillions of discs in the past 15 years, and also hurts with regards to boxes I skipped, such as the Rudolf Serkin or the André Previn).

    As for the original question, I use Presto Music (never any issue with my credit card there, and they got lots of money from me) ... and sometimes JPC or evil A as well. They offer plenty of lists (I never use, unless when browsing through offers), including one on Sony:

    https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/labels/1333--sony

  15. Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons First CD Issue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    On 2/6/2025 at 4:10 PM, RiRiIII said:

    These are the March 26, 2025 releases as listed at cdjp.

    #11-22 were issued in December 2024 with catalogue numbers starting with SGJZ-xxxx and a lower price of 1400 yen:

     

    1.      Ketchaoua Clifford Thornton 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    2.      Love Rejoice Kenneth Terroade 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    3.      New Africa Grachan Moncur III Album CD 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    4.      Dave Burrell 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    5.      Way Ahead  Jacques Coursil Album CD Way Ahead 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    6.      Blase Archie Shepp 2000yen  EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025Pre-order

    7.      Sounds Of Feelings Joachim Kuhn 2000yen  EUR 12.65March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    8.      What About? Andrew Cyrille  2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    9.      B-X / NO-I-47 Anthony Braxton  2000yen EUR 12.65March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    10.  Acting Trio  Acting Trio 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025Pre-order

    11.  Ramblin'  Paul Bley 2000yen EUR 12.65 arch 26, 2025  Pre-order

    12.  Luna Surface  Alan Silva 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025Pre-order

    13.  Poem For Malcolm  Archie Shepp 2000yen EUR 12.65 arch 26, 2025  Pre-order

    14.  Other Afternoons Jimmy Lyons 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    15.  Aquariana  Burton Greene Ensemble 2000yen EUR 12.65March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    16.  Stigmates Michel Puig 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    17.  Africanasia  Claude Delcloo & Arthur Jones 2000yen EUR 12.65arch 26, 2025  Pre-order

    18.  Magick Brother +2  Gong 2000yen EUR 12.65 arch 26, 2025 Pre-order

    19.  Yasmina, A Black Woman Archie Shepp 2000yen EUR 12.65March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    20.  Hommage To Africa Sunny Murray 000yen  EUR 12.65  arch 26, 2025 Pre-order

    21.  A Jackson In Your House Art Ensemble Of Chicago 2000yen EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    22.  Mu' First Part Don Cherry 2000yen  EUR 12.65 March 26, 2025 Pre-order

    Thanks a lot @RiRiIII - much appreciated! An order from CDJapan with some of the first batch (#14, 15, 17, 20, is waiting to be filled as #11 is out of stock ... I've got a previous - prob. bootleg - edition of that, so no sweat). Will consider more of these (I do have previous eition of all the Shepp, Cherry and AEoC).

  16. Horace Tapscott & Pan Afrikan People Arkestra - Live at IUCC 11/2678 2CD

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Excellent, glad to hear most of us who ordered got their deliveries or are about to. Really happy things did turn up well!

    Just started listening with Vol. 1 again today, and while sound is rough there (first gig for the engineer and his equipment, the short notes state), the music is rough, too, and bubbling and intense, and sometimes pretty wild - and that is great to witness indeed!

  17. Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    Yeah, mostly they're okay, but I've had some cost 30€ and turn up without 90° corners, cracks in covers (or even backs) etc. ... what started as a book dealer has generally gotten really bad at selling books (and good at supporting fascism) ... I've had plenty of new books ordered that were never delivered, i.e. the Ella Fitzgerald bio ... just gotten a new delivery estimate e-mail monthly for years, and when I canceled and created a new order for the paperback, the same thing started anew ... and of course the poor sobs in customer service have no clue. So I'm generally weary of them ... only thing that works reliably is major label music (classical CD box-sets mostly) that I pre-order or order right upon release ... if you wait a month or two, the same games started anew: monthly delivery estimate updates ... I've got a few order that have been running for two years, it'ss pathetic ... I just settled into accepting those items are oop, while amazon listed them as "in stock" for months and months - and sure I contacted customer service, see above ...)

    For the Ella book, currently they say 3 copies of the hardcover in stock, the paperback oop - I never got neither.

    https://www.amazon.de/Becoming-Ella-Fitzgerald-Transformed-American/dp/039324105X/

    Sorry for the off topic excurse about lamentable american billionaires doing what they do best 🙃

  18. Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

    Preorder price 27.99 EUR on amazon.de.
    An option for you, even if you are not in Germany?

    Thanks, it is indeed - didn't check yet (one thing I'm really weary of is all the cheap - and not so cheap, price-wise - print on demand crappily crappily printed books amazon is selling nowadays ... but with a new book there's hope at least in the first few months they'll sell decent copies).

  20. Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    On 2/3/2025 at 6:21 PM, Dan Gould said:

    I had to pay $6 and you get free international shipping? Doesn't seem fair but 30% off makes it a really good deal then.

    20-25$ would be realistic for shipping, I think... probably after passing the order they will reach out about that? I have only gone through it until before payment and then stopped because it seemed wrong.

  25. Marion Brown Live In Bremen 1969

    in New Releases

    Posted

    On 5/11/2024 at 7:53 PM, T.D. said:

    Good point.

    I find the ezz-thetics reissue program weird in several respects.

    To be honest, I never thought of "to" in the inclusive sense, given that many of the packages prune tracks from the component albums. 🤔

    Ended up with both and the sound is quite similar (not to say almost identical) to these ears... not great, but very much okay. Guess I'll pass on the ezz-thetics, as I already have a reissue of "Three for Shepp" (Impulse Master Edition or whatever that was called, bought around 25 years ago, I guess.

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