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It is Mulligan, from California Concerts. It's a good record. Jon Eardley's on board and is plenty nimble! For example,; The IG LP was PJLP 1201, so I assume that it was the first Pacific Jazz 12".

DeJohnette was a giant. I saw him live only once - in a transcendent trio with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison - and I marveled at his ability to make a large hall sound small. He had an uncanny time feel, but more than anything else, I appreciated his talents as a texturalist. Considering the fact that he came out of that Miles/Jackie McLean continuum of shredding post-bop drummers, it's amazing what he could do with space and timbre. That final Special Edition record with the AACM guys is pretty extraordinary in that way. (I also like Wadada's The Great Lakes Suites, with Threadgill and John Lindberg, as a recent example of DeJohnette's work in freer contexts.) I second what Steve says about appreciating our giants while they're still here. Cyrille is my hero and a friend, but I sincerely believe that people still don't understand how remarkable he is. There are a host of elder statespeople, like Hamid, Michael Zerang, Gerald Cleaver, Donald Robinson, Chad Taylor, Suzie Ibarra, Marc Edwards, and so on who are still issuing relevant and powerful work. More of an implicit part of the conversation, but the calculus of the music has just changed a lot. Things that seem "new" or woefully contemporary, like the drumming of a Chris Dave or Thomas Pridgen, have been well and truly digested at this point. In the age of new media, music moves incredibly fast. IMO the biggest issue is that art moves too fast, and kids now are tasked with internalizing innovation without accumulating the lived experience that gives that innovation meaning.

Saw them both, but unfortunately not together ...

There's been an absolute ton of Percy France uploads the last month or so and the vast majority were not ones that the librarian had shared with me as items that were being digitized ... but Buddy Tate has appeared in the archive: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/162657 Actually its not as if Tate was not captured at the West End - but the other recordings are with the Countsmen, sharing the front line with Wells, Cheatham, Warren.

Seeing Dresser/Hemingway in about 3 hours:) Randy Peterson with Mat Maneri on viola / numero uno for me. Only thing better was with Papa Joe back in the day Gerald Cleaver with Brandon Lopez on bass /meanest best bass/drum tandem in NYC before Gerald relocated 2 plus years ago Tom Rainey with Tim Berne on alto saxophone /40 years simpatico Nasheet Waits with Sylvie Courvoisier on piano / sounds like it doesn’t make sense but it’s incredible Mike Reed with Jack Wright on saxophones (brand new pairing / saw 3 great shows this past Spring) these are all magical combinations

I know I saw Beaver Harris live twice in the 70's (once with Shepp, once in a group with Hannibal Peterson and George Adams), and he blew me away in person to a degree that never happened on the dozens of recordings of him. So I don't think it's a totally new phenomenon.

“Don Goldie’s Dangerous Jazz Band” Jazzology cd 497×500 70.1 KB Bass – Mark Trail Clarinet – Ernie Goodson Drums – Red Hawley Piano – Jack Keller Trombone – Hank Bredenberg Trumpet, Vocals – Don Goldie

That would make sense. Thanks! I felt a little tension between him and Eardley for a minute and that sparked my interest.

I’m a fan & a friend of Joey. He’s well under 30. He’s getting better too. He’s very good with his assorted cymbals. Got a bit of Lytton in him. Nasheet for one is never well served on record compared to live. Rainey is another. Hard for their dynamics & sound to shine on record. Ches Smith is another. His astonishing power live in a small room never translates to recordings. Plus as I’ve seen lots of the NYC based drummers up to dozens of times, I get very very spoiled. Certainly Drake, Hemingway, Sanders & Peterson come across better on recordings than the above 3 examples

Great pairing!

I read a review of this a while ago. But it was in an old magazine, from maybe start of the year. These are all Japan members. I like Mick Karn a lot.

It might be Mulligan himself on piano, see this page.

Damn, that's strange. I quickly checked discogs, and the release pictured seems to be a PD collection of Pacific Jazz releases from 1952-53. None of those Pacific Jazz records credit a pianist, AFAICT all bari-drums-bass-trumpet quartet. But I must have missed something.

Do you know who's on piano here? I went to discogs to find out but the CD doesn't list any pianist, even on the back cover photo which has all the other personnel.

Disc 2 Jack DeJohnette!

This was an EAR WORM this morning.

Charles Kynard went back to his church roots and released two gospel recordings, one of which even included a couple of tunes from his Pacific Jazz recording. He figured nobody would notice, and nobody did, until I spotted it after his - son? brother? - Gary Kynard sent me a recording and I pointed it out to him.

The Intense Media 600187 - Horace Silver " Senor Blues - The Best Of The Early Years 1953-1960"

Early Jimmy McGriff is a vibe: Organ has got to be a difficult instrument to master and develop your own style with, especially because obviously a lot of listeners carry biases and preconceived notions about where this sound belongs. I enjoy it, and like certain artists over others. Patton is probably my favorite within the bop world. But EVD is also the man. He's on Fred Jackson's Hootin' and Tootin' as well as this Quebec release. I made a point to take a picture of his B3 at the Motown museum. I trust them that it's the actual one but who knows.