Niko

I have that Lesberg album, it's a good one... I have two more nice ones featuring Miller, one is the four tenor meeting of Ben Webster, Lockjaw, Miller and Bud Freeman - can't really go wrong with this even though it's not quite as great as I would have hoped, the other a split LP on Southland with a small group (and the other half by Armand Hug, fine pianist)

big Fruscella fan here... Fresh Sound also has what survived of that second Fruscella Atlantic album...

which Eddie Miller records would you recommend? (I have some that I like but there's room for more) brought back from Copenhagen and now playing for the third time or so... a meeting of two bands, one built around McPartland, the other around Hodes, with most players from both bands on most tracks, including e.g. Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Vic Dickinson, George Brunies, George Wettling... the state of "Chicago Jazz" ca 1962

Terrace Martin on twitter, according to an earlier post, Keys was his uncle, they were also supposed to appear at the Newport Jazz Festival together this year... RIP

on spotify, they are there as seven individual albums - but in the past, what you could stream there in Europe was not necessary the same as what you could stream in the US... I could also stream them all via youtube, again this (the first track) may not be available in the US

to answer my own question, I had twice about 2h in Copenhagen and spent them well (except that I didn't see much of the city). There are loads of smaller record stores so a tool like recordstores.love is useful... The two that I would strongly recommend are Sound Station (huge selection, a bit pricey though) and Jazzcup (only jazz, loads of it though - not a problem for me but maybe for others), both about 20 minutes walking distance from the main train station, though in different directions, and in both cases there are more nice stores in the surrounding area...

Big fan of Chicago Symphonies (and the slightly earlier Sacred Ceremonies), the emerald duets I have not played so much yet, the string quartets I have streamed a bit but 7cds seemed a lot

The discography on wardellgray.org says poss. John Anderson, Louis Grey, Allen Smith (tp); Bob Collins, poss. Isaac Bell, Atlee Chapman, John “Streamline” Ewing, or Britt Woodman (tb); prob. Sonny Criss, poss. Jerry Dodgion (as); Teddy Edwards, poss. Frank Haynes (ts); Jerome Richardson (flute); poss. Bill Green (bar); poss. Cedric Haywood (p); poss. Addison Farmer (b); poss. Gus Gustafson (d); Gerald Wilson (arr, cond); Bill Renault (Bill Jones) (voc) Criss and Dodgion as the two altos I find believable

Kenny Clarke, born Thomas Spearman is a great example for this thread... Also, all those Austrian Free Jazz players like Muhammad Malli from the Masters of Unorthodox Jazz Edit: sorry, meant the other stage names thread

I was thinking of Anderza as well, don't think it's too early, that Leroy Robinson, the other alto player besides Dolphy in the Roy Porter Big Band also had kind of a similar sound... But he died earlier iirc... I always thought that type of, well, hollow cry was something that was in the air at that time in LA, maybe Lloyd Reese taught it... Maybe his students figured it out on their own

Copenhagen or Odense? I'll be flying to Copenhagen and change trains in the center of Copenhagen on my way to Odense... so I don't have a whole of time - but if there's a nice shop with used LPs (or two) in walking distance I wouldn't want to miss it... thanks!

Congratulations!

just a tiny comment on a detail, the lack of collaborations: I've been under the impression that fans of traditional jazz are not fond of albums that mix musicians from different subgenres of their music... like when you read about e.g. that first Jazzology album by Tony Parenti (this one) people will point that it is good even though the frontline has Jimmy Archey next to Wild Bill Davison etc and there's the danger of things not mixing well... btw, this is a fairly nice album from the mid 60s that consciously mixes some of the different New Orleans scenes of its time and I'm sure it's not entirely without irnoy that it was recorded in a jazz museum

I really like the band on that Sonny Simmons album... RIP

Me, too

I have a copy of the Smith that's signed by Mitchell... but not the Mitchell either VA - Jazz on the Left Bank no time to eat in today's lunch break... but I did find this

since you're a "one album per artist" man, I stay to that convention with one exception (Kid Thomas)... generally, I've been following the pianists when exploring, Art Hodes, Don Ewell and - more recently - Earl Hines (who I left out here because he's too modern)... also spent quite a bit of time learning about this music in the past three years or so, our generation was not properly informed about it... American Music By Emile Barnes (e.g. Storyville) Marty Grosz And His Honoris Causa Jazz Band – Hooray For Bix! (Riverside) Kid Thomas And His Algiers Stompers Featuring Emile Barnes (Riverside) Billie And DeDe Pierce – Blues And Tonks From The Delta (Riverside) Don Ewell Quartet – Free 'N Easy! (Good Time Jazz) Joe Sullivan – Mr. Piano Man (Down Homes) Luckey & The Lion: Harlem Piano Solos By Luckey Roberts & Willie 'The Lion' Smith (Good Time Jazz) Barbara Lea With The Johnny Windhurst Quintets Art Hodes With Volly DeFaut – Up In Volly's Room (Delmark CD) Raymond Burke, Pinky Vidacovich – Clarinet New Orleans Style (Southland) Armand Hug and His New Orleans Dixielanders / Eddie Miller and His New Orleans Rhythm Pals (Southland, actually, the Southland Label was one of my starting points but I haven't found the perfect albums yet) Kid Thomas At Kohlman's Tavern (New Orleans) Lee Collins – A Night At The Victory Club (New Orleans) Burt Bales And Paul Lingle – They Tore My Playhouse Down... (Good Time Jazz) Revival musicians playing other music Bud Freeman Esq (Fontana) Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers (Folkways, the first track was my most played track in 2023 according to spotify)

Reading those reviews from DMG I was wondering: could it be that the info that comes with these recordings is rather minimal (i.e. lineups, composers and dates but e.g. no soloists)

Yes, i'd understood that after some research... I also like the new Lage album, it might become one of my favorites by him, but "no rough edges, no clinkers" seemed fair nevertheless...

Thought you were talking about the new Julian Lage album

Team Harden here...

Herbie Mann - Cherry Point interesting how this cover corresponds to the James Newton cover above it

Humphrey Lyttelton And His Band – Jazz At The Royal Festival Hall BillF's first jazz album purchase iirc (not this copy though, I have some of his CDs but I guess the LP collection went earlier)

Read Rosenthal's book a bit later in the early or mid 2000s and had the same reaction, it was totally ok but also not great - in sharp contrast to Gioia's much better book which I had read slightly earlier ... Wonder how I would like it upon rereading... Expectations are more realistic now but I guess my need for a generic book about hard bop is even less than it was then...

NJA has done some reissues (like Herman Schonderwalt's The Winner) but I somehow doubt the Dex which is relatively widely available (on LP) is their thing... In my post from November 1 above, I collected some names I could find in old newspapers (including "more Dexter")... one not mentioned there (and also not in the same concert series) is Freddie Redd who apparently played a solo concert there in the late 60s.... that one's near the top of my wish list