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John Zorn - Book of Angels Vol 12: Stolas this album I remember as a favorite from the book of angels series, Zorn guests on alto on one track, otherwise, it's basically Uri Caine and Joe Lovano taking Zorn's spot in Masada... it's basically a Hard Bop album

Yes, Minimal Brass is amazing! Also looking forward to discovering Wadada Leo Smith on Tzadik beyond the Kabell Years box

Mount Analogue is my go-to Zorn album... there are other albums w a similar lineup from that time which are great... Great Jewish Music Bacharach was the first thing I played today... tomorrow I'll be revisiting the Book of angels series and Nova Express is great, classical Jazz in the vib/p/b/dr lineup

I'd say the electric guitar does come close

Also they're quite productive... I just counted 107 new John Zorn albums on spotify which were released since the last one I am familiar with from 2011 (and that count isn't even complete because there are albums like Virtue where he's the leader in the cover but not on Spotify)

Thanks for pointing this out! I remember visiting the UK in 2007 or so, one of the first things I did was install spotify and listen to all those Tzadik releases that were available then... (Other stuff, too, but Tzadik was really a priority)... I was a bit sad to see them give up on streaming and also followed there releases much less since they're so plenty and quite expensive over here...

thanks for pointing this out! In the early days of spotify, Tzadik was already streamable for quite a while... until it wasn't

It's only loosely related but it's what's on my mind right now... I learned earlier today that one my closest friends (and one of Noel Gallagher's biggest fans) will have no grave, no funeral, nothing, just a quiet disposal of the remains, the family thinks everything else is too much of a hassle... I would have thought I don't care, it's all earthly anyway... but I do.

Re early horn players from outside New Orleans (and the San Francisco angle, and Dallas) how about Reb Spikes (wiki)? (I started reading Tom Stoddard's Barbary Coast about early (1910-15) SF jazz earlier this year but then switched to the Gushee book but haven't gotten back to Stoddard yet... fascinating stuff)

Just had a look at the Dutch newspapers from back then... no further concerts in the Netherlands at that time it seems

Agreed

thinking of lists, a really curious one are the New Age Grammies from 1987 to now, with winners like Pat Metheny, Yusef Lateef, Jack deJohnette, Paul Winter of course, Stewart Copeland...

will check it out (so far, the best I've heard by the two was Ross's Parable of the Poet last year, I also kind of liked the quartet albums by Peter Evans and Theo Hill that you played recently, as well as the In Common album with Ross... but nothing comes close to that gig)

yes, that Marquis Hill album has grown on me as well... but the best live band I've seen in a while was Hill's quartet with Joel Ross recently... I wish there'd be a record by that group that can compete with he concert I saw...

There was some discussion of how to extract data from Discogs here recently iirc... there's also the option of using the discographies on jazzdisco.org, maybe nicely asking them about the underlying database ... those visualization tools are relatively easy to use, for a start they just need a big matrix with zeros and ones for the connections... I don't think it's more than a week of work

My dad was making those pictures when I was a kid in the 90s and I've always been fond of them (even though I have some doubts how much you learn from them)... have been thinking about doing some Jazz social network analysis for a long time, maybe just start with the discographies of the great hard bop labels and then see how people enter and leave the network, collaborate, bring in others, learn who was central to the networks of Prestige, Riverside and Blue Note at which points in time....it feels like something I might do in retirement (still over two decades to go...)

Ok, so the original publication was by Sam Donahue in his collection "Tenor Saxophone Styles" published in 1944... the tunes contained in it were Kelly's stable blues, by Coleman Hawkins.--Hi heckler, by Lester Young.--Blues on the bias, by Don Byas.--Feed the kitty, by Eddie Miller.--Short juice, by Dave Matthews. and I guess the first main question is how Sam Donahue came up with the music, whether he transcribed stuff he had - or whether he just created something "in the style of"

In Lewis Porter's book (p.115) it says that Hi Heckler is a transcribed Young solo (not a tune ) that was first published in 1944 and then in 1964 in Dave Dexter's The Jazz Story (so that could have been your book as well). Porter doesn't say where it was first published and notes that it doesn't correspond to any known recording... But, of course, the book is from 1985... Anyway, Lewis Porter seems like the person to ask

I must admit I never quite got the intention without the comma but also never tried to hard: Were they trying to say "Next we present jazz ramwong" (as in "chicken teriyaki" or "jazz samba") or is the "now" a qualification of jazz like in TTK's "now sound"... The comma makes it clear that it's the former... (see also Ramwong)

I knew Rain Dogs fairly well when I first heard Swordfishtrombones, knew Greg Cohen a bit from his work with John Zorn... There's stuff that's just different when you live through history in it's linear way

Gil Evans plays Jimi Hendrix was one of my first 10, 20 CDs as a kid... at that stage, you accept every album for what it is... loved this one and played it over and over again... but haven't played it in years... Myself, I am just revisiting Swordfishtrombones for the first time in a long time and it seems that I'm finally ready

this is her son, Doug DeMontmorency, apparently a skateboarder of note [I am completely clueless on this topic], he tells quite a bit about his youth with her in the 1960s http://www.endlesslines.free.fr/ghost/ghostpages/ghostdougdemont1vo.htm going by this page on familysearch which mentions a woman named variously Betty Stitt, Betty Staufenberg and Kalina de Montmorency... and his memories of his mom playing with Stan Getz and Charlie Parker in Greenwich Village... If this identification is correct - which I am pretty sure it is - she lived from 29 April 1926 to 12 February 2007... (and on her 55th birthday, I was born). The name Staufenberg she took in 1951 - so this might the Chicago business man she married as remembered by Bill Crow, most likely one Charles W. Staufenberg Jr, born in 1926, one of their two joint children being Bruce V Staufenberg of Montecito CA

I know very little, too, but recently played this one and thought it was great:

Dick Grove - Little Bird Suite according to John William Hardy in his role as ornithologist, the cover photograph may well be the first published picture of an Aulocorhynchus Prasinus