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Dig him on Cy Touff's Octet and Quintet.
Good call, prompted me to listen to this today. Some really nice playing, plenty of swing, lots of love for Pres -
I just received notice that my order for 'Patterns in Jazz' is on its way. woo hoo.
I don't know much about this CD (other than the sound samples I could find at hmv-Japan) but the lineup of baritone, guitar, and trombone is intriguing. Any opinions on 'Patterns' (or Gil more generally)?
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Great set! If I could change anything on it, I would've combined the 'Bout Soul tracks on the same disc as Some Other Stuff, leaving the Hipnosis tracks with Evolution. The feel of those sessions complement each other well and feel out of place on their current discs. That and the fact that 'Bout Soul is noise to my ears and Some Other Stuff puts me to sleep every time I hear it.
Good idea. 'Bout Soul is the curate's egg.....for me, I avoid it.
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Prior to purchasing this box a few years ago, I didn't have any of this music--so it was all completely new to me. Like so many other Mosaic sets, taking a chance opened up a new doorway. In this case to the 'freebop' Blue Note material (Dolphy, Rivers, Hill etc.) that I've subsequently purchased and now absolutely cherish.
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Earthquake in Illinois, what an experience! Some force you can't see is shaking your bed, your house, everything..really unnerving. First thing I checked on this morning was my stereo--it's unharmed
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Gil Melle -- Patterns in Jazz. Ordered it tonight, not quite sure what to expect, something West Coast-like (but recorded by RVG in NJ!).
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The Apple Jam session with Basie and the session with Charlie Parker are my favorites, but it's all good. Some people say Roy's over the top in these JATP type settings, but I think he's perfect
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Looks promising. From Capri Records.
(promo material, below):
CAPRI #74089 FAREWELL WALTER DEWEY REDMAN
Mark Masters has done it again! His latest outing features the great Oliver Lake joining the Mark Masters Ensemble (including Tim Hagens, Peter Erskine, Dave Carpenter and others) paying tribute to the late Dewey Redman. Masters honors Redman's creative spirit in his continuing series of recordings documenting great American jazz masters. His charts convey the sense of old and new and like Redman's music, explore the inner and outer boundaries of improvised music.
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well as I said in a thread some years ago about Leslie Gourse (RIP), I'll always put the Kart Before the Gourse -
for Larry's book. The Neo-Con game , the Tristano material, and so forth have given me some insight I don't imagine I would have ever gotten elsewhere. -
Thad Jones, Disc 1. Interesting to compare Shadow Wilson (first half of the disc) with Max Roach (second half).
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Enjoy. Ari is one of my favorites and Earma is a gem as well.
Thank you, we're really looking forward to this! Hoping for a nice turnout in order to set a precedent for future funding requests--there's so much talent in Chicago, it makes a lot of sense to try and spread the wealth a little downstate
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Ari Brown Quintet on Tuesday at Bradley University (Peoria). It's a free event (full disclosure, I'm involved in bring the group into town)... if anyone is within driving distance, should be a good 'un.
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Various: Swing Trumpet Kings - Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Red Allen, Roy Eldridge (Verve, 2 cd)
Nice find! All three sessions are wonderful. I had a difficult time tracking down that CD, I eventually found it a few years ago at an online Canadian store.
Bought yesterday:
Wayne Shorter --Soothsayer (RVG)
Johnny Smith--Moonlight in Vermont
Sam Rivers-- Fuschia Swing Song
Miles--Miles Ahead (this is a CD I've been intending to pick up for years, but for some reason, never got around to it. Maybe becasuse of mixed feelings about the other two collaborations; I like Porgy/Bess but I've never warmed to the Sketches in Spain session.)
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Got Booker Ervin's Freedom Book yesterday - had forgotten that I already owned the OJC CD version. The RVG sounds a bit brighter and more transparent, and has a bonus track - one of four leftovers that had been collected on the Groovin' High LP. That makes me hope for expanded RVG versions of The Blues Book and The Space Book.
Finally got around to picking up the RVG Freedom Book. Whoa
What beautiful music! Added bonus, the RVG sounds great, I can't believe how immediate and wide the sound is. And Richard Davis is so well-recorded. Rudy got everything right on this one...in '63 and then again in 2007
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I really enjoy the Tatro material--it was a revelation to me, thanks to those on this board who recommended it on the OJC thread.
The Teddy Charles OJC CD Collaboration West is good too (I think this is different than the Shorty Rogers music that Larry is suggesting, though I'm not positive).
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Thanks for posting. This was a great period for Lee it's so sad to witness this great music knowing it would soon end so senselessly.
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Roy Campbell Akhenaten Suite
Ike Quebec Blue & Sentimental (RVG)
Bobby Watson's new one From the Heart
Art Tatum/Ben Webster
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Columbia was an "agreeable" label, and it was just a good time (great time, actually) for everybody concerned in pretty much every way.
I'm not sure who was responsible (Avakian? or Townsend?), but Columbia seems to have provided a lot of latitude and resources for Ellington....the type of stewardship that is pretty much history today.
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I’ve been listening to a lot of Ellington from this period the last few days. Signing with Columbia in '56, after the Capitol years, reinvigorated Ellington (or provided a medium for the already invigorated Ellington). I've been listening to The Festival Session (some great Jimmy Hamilton e.g., 'Idiom '59' and Paul Gonsalves on 'Copout Extension') and Such Sweet Thunder in particular. Newport 56 is probably my least favorite from this group, not sure why. Anyway, the Columbia years in the 50s seem to have been particularly fruitful for Ellington, I’m wondering how others feel about this period. Nice studio sound,btw.
Ellington Uptown
Masterpieces by Ellington
Newport 56
Newport 58
Such Sweet Thunder
Black, Brown., Beige
Drum is a Woman
Anatomy of a Murder
Festival Session
Piano in Background
Piano in Foreground
Blues in Orbit
Cosmic Scene
Jazz Party
(this list is probably incomplete--these are the titles I'm familiar with-- and it's not chronological)
Incidentally, some of these seem to be going out of print.
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Black Jazz has a store on Ebay , and the CDs are cheaper if you buy them through there . Given the good feedback , that's the way I'd go if I were you .
Thanks for the suggestion!
There's going to be an Awakening reunion on March 28th here in Chicago. Original members Ken Chaney, Ari Brown, and T.S. Galloway, and then some ringers: Corey Wilkes, Josh Ramos, and Charles Heath. I'm told there will be mostly new music performed with a couple old tunes mixed inSpeaking of Ari Brown, his new CD on Delmark (Live at the Green Mill) is fabulous.
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Reading through this thread it seems like, at least a couple of years ago, ordering through the black jazz site usually worked out. Has anyone ordered through the site more recently? I'm tempted to give it a shot.
Nice Black Jazz tribute here (from a few months ago)
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I downloaded the Flac version of the Pristine Audio 1944 Carnegie concert: I think it's excellent. I a/b'ed it with the Prestige cd: the Pristine Audio is brighter, with detail I hadn't heard before. The source material, like almost any live recording from the period, has inherent limitations; despite the famed Carnegie Hall acoustics, the recording was a bit muffled and thin. But the Pristine Audio version is a real step forward in hearing and appreciating a wonderful example of the Ellington band. Well worth the download.
The download sounds really fantastic...a lot of detail from a live 40s recording! The earlier comment about having no US distributors because of copyright laws has me confused a little bit. Is it legal for a US customer to purchase this type of material directly from the European source, but not legal to purchase if from a US source?
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"That's the definitive jazz album. If you want to know what jazz is, listen to that album. That has all you'd ever want to hear. It embodies the sprit of everyone who plays jazz." -- Tony Williams.
FWIW, " Milestones" has long been one of my two favorite records of all time, the other being Sonny Rollins' "A Night at the Village Vanguard." I play "Milestones" way more than "Kind of Blue" and I wonder if others do too. The latter may be the more important and influential record historically but "Milestones" is a lot more fun and if I could only have one, there's no question which one I'd choose. If "Milestones" turns 50 this year, then "Kind of Blue" turns 50 next year -- get ready for the onslaught of anniversary stories. Ugh. 'Course, I'll probably end up writing one myself. Sigh. Anniversaries are like crack to journalists. Can't break the habit.
Miles' creativity was so vast, he could create within a year two masterpieces, KOB and Milestones, that feel completely different from one another. To me, Milestones is more hard-hitting and angular, if that makes any sense.... My preference for one album or the other is dictated by whatever mood I'm in at the time.
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A new release due 3/11--featuring Billy Bang-- on Aum Fidelity. I keep reading how the CD is dead, but there are a lot of cool new releases coming this spring.
Gil Mellé
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That's the type of vibe I'm hoping for, thanks!
It's becoming ridiculously difficult to track this type of music down..anything a little off-center. Hard to believe 10 years ago BN released the complete Gil Melle; if i'd only known then what i know now....