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Thanks. Picked up both Tour Volumes.

"Comeback", or a "dead cat bounce"?

The conductions of Butch Morris are an interesting later development within "Third Stream". Wadada Leo Smith has contributed greatly also, start with Ten Freedom Summers.

Robert Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1, 2, 3

Yes. Mike, I had seen that. But thanks for bringing it up again. I had had relatively high hopes when I first saw it, but they were dampened fairly quickly. At least half of its contents are well present on the reissue market, either on Metronome itself or on Dragon, or in the series mentioned by Jazzbo (of which I have parts 1 to 8 as well ). Particularly little new in the reissue field of Gullin, Hallberg, Domnérus, Theselius and Ericson there. And very litle at all by the likes of Simon Brehm, Reinhold Svensson, Carl-Henrik Norin a.o. As if it was wellnigh impossible for any compiler to look beyond the obvious items for artists like these, for fear of not rounding enough sales. But hey, you reissuers, you are not so much going to sell compilations like these off the beaten tracks to the newbies wanting to expand into this area for the first time but to a not so small degree to seasoned collectors who already have most of the previous reissues and are looking to fil their gaps! Seems like reissues in niche fields of jazz that went out of their way not to duplicate previous reissues but specifically tried to fill gaps died out with the compilers of oldtime jazz or early blues. When did you all last see a reissue that specifically stated on its back cover something like "Additional recordings found on ... No duplications between these!" ? Yes I know - demands like these should not (necessarily) be adressed to Fresh Sounds! (Though they did dare to cover their share of ultra-obscure 50s jazz (U.S., though ...) ).

Larry Birnbaum - Preludes (Chelsea Music Festival Records) Excellent jazz adapations für piano trio based on selections from J.S. Bach´s Well-Tempered Clavier

The real sound and tempos. https://www.discogs.com/release/7919842-Anima-Eterna-Johann-Strauss-Valses-Polkas-Ouvertures

He once confessed in an interview he had played with everybody but Rollins and Miles. One of Europe's very best. And a real free spirit.

The two Werner Müller Orchestra LPs Ekkehart Fleischhammer gave me when we met a few weeks ago are great examples of what German musicians were capable of in that style. Previously unreleased recordings made for Berlin radio in 1960 and 1961, no Ameican exiles in the band! Really interesting stuff. Bancamp distributes Sonorama. https://sonoramarecords.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-mutations https://sonoramarecords.bandcamp.com/album/feuilleton-in-jazz

I have and enjoy all nine volumes in this series: https://www.discogs.com/label/441012-Svensk-Jazzhistoria

Freshsoundrecords.com just released a box set of 1950's Swedish jazz. https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/swedish-cool-and-modern-jazz-albums/57573-swedish-cool-and-modern-jazz-1949-1959-the-golden-years-4-cd-box-set.html

Daniel Humair is a serious badass.

So great ! My younger son, who lives in Spain and stays some days with me (I had an important gig and he went to see to show), we listened to this, it´s my favourite from the Prime Time I think. And sometimes it sounds similar to Punk Rock which is cool. I like Ornette´s violin playing on the last track "Compute" very much. It´s so strong the whole album.

Sorry . . . having no heat and having to shell out 8500 for a new furnace has my brain a little fuzzy as a defense against reallity. Right now Bob Wilbur and the Tuxedo Big Band of Toulouse, France "Unrecorded Fletcher Henderson Arrangements for Benny Goodman" Arbor Jazz cd Fun, swinging stuff.

For a second, you had me imagining Teddy Wilson with Duke Jordan... Might be really nice, if it worked out but quite risky ... NP: Lawrence Brown - Inspired Abandon

I'm deciding between going back to The Rex to see the Murley Eisenman Quartet again (Mike Murley, Mark Eisenman, Neil Swainson and Terry Clarke). I saw them on Wed. though a different drummer was sitting in, and they were excellent. Or heading over to Hirut for a group called the House Blend Septet (a 2 trumpet, 2 saxophone line-up including Alex Dean). I think I am slightly leaning towards Hirut, in part because they serve quite nice Ethiopian food at Hirut! Not that the food at the Rex is bad, certainly far better than what the Jazz Bistro serves... Choices, choices...

Now, “The Inimitable Teddy Wilson” Xanadu cd Teddy with Duke Jordan, Larry Ridley and Freddie Waits. Really hitting the spot right now.

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