All Activity

Probably Arthur Blythe's finest hour 😍 ....

Arthur Blythe – Lenox Avenue Breakdown ... 1979

Tito Puente "Tratame Como Soy" (Tico Records) 1979 .... Adalbarto Santiago shines ....

Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève & Mathieu Herzog – Voice Of Hope ... 2023

The Verve „Lucky Men“ (Hut Recordings) 1997 ….

Have these too and that seems all which is released. Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 2 1959 Contemporary 7578 Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 3 1959 Contemporary 7579 Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 4 1959 Contemporary 7580 CD Manne,Shelly ..and his men at the Black Hawk Vol 5 1959 Contemporary 660-2 Manne,Shelly ...and his men at the Black Hawk,Vol 1 1959 Contemporary 7577

Everything Everything „A Fever Dream“ (RCA) 2017 ….

Aztec Camera "High Land, Hard Rain" (Rough Trade) 1983 ....

It was a special prepaid "limited edition" Item for LAJ members announced last year. Some tracks have appeared on a vinyl " The Chet Baker tracks" on Cpontemporary. The rest is as far as I see it 'unissued'

Thereof CD 2 Mahler 5 (Klaus Tennstedt + RCO on December 9th, 1990) …. another triumphant Tennstedt Mahler "live" recording .... must hear ....

Artis Quartett Wien Zemlinsky String Quartets 3 & 4 / Johanna Müller-Hermann String Quartet Op. 6 (Nimbus Records) 1999 .... btw excellent performances too ....

Just came back from a Kronos Quartet concert at which they played "Kiss Yo' Ass Goodbye" credited to Sun Ra, Terry Riley and Sara Miyamoto. According to the program notes it "utilizes Sun Ra's Track 'Nuclear War' as source material." It begins to really kick ass when they sample the drumming and chanting from the original.

Quite a strange record indeed. My copy is titled "Bud Powell 1957" . There are some tunes that Bud rarely played. "That Black Old Magic" returned to his set lists one decade later after he had returned to New York, as well as "Though Swell" and "Someone to watch over me". It´s interesting to compare this slightly stride version with the ballad version he did 10 years later on "The Return of Bud Powell", which is my favourite version. I love Pharoah Sanders and have loved his music as early as the 70´s when he put out all those great records for Impulse I think. When I was in my early teens I got his first record "Live at the East". What personnel is on this one ? I think this one is from the same time like "Soul Station" and is another great record. I think Soul Station and this one are my favourite Mobley records.

"Segundo" (21st Anniversary) by Juana Molina

Andi Steirer "Trance of Noiz" : This is a first class album of Austria´s greatest percussionist Andi Steirer. I am very proud that I got him for my own album "Waltz for Serena". Though he is very very much in demand, I´ll have him also in future on some of our gigs, most possible the larger ones. He is so fantastic and this album is so great. It has also some of Andi´s own compositions like "Hongkong Tavern" "Do Da Doo" as well as stuff with great guitarist Rens Newland , co-compositions between them both, like the title tune "Trance of Noiz". The album also features the wonderful saxophinist Thomas Kugi on soprano and tenor.

Documenting a mighty fine hour of Henry Grimes ....

This is a favorite of mine and always has been. I've had all the previous single releases of this material and have the 3 CD complete set bootleg of this material now. In fact, I ordered the 3 CD set off Amazon and sent it to Zev when he was looking for more Rollins to release that Sonny might approve of and I suggested this stuff so Sonny could, at the very least, be properly compensated for the release of this material. In the end, I was not involved in this release at all but early on, I was told that they found a few of the original sources of some of the recordings in various radio archives but not all of them. If Bernie Grundman was involved in the mastering, I have no doubt this material is now sounding about as good as it can possibly sound. I've done a few projects with Bernie and enjoyed working with him immensely and thought his work to be pretty impeccable.

Reminds me of .... : https://tokyotoilet.jp/en/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/tokyo-toilet-tour-japan-wim-wenders-film-perfect-days

Sounds like you are listening to the Sonny Rollins in Holland release. The live in studio radio broadcast from that set does suffer from heavy reverb that to me, make it very hard to listen to. with all the advances in recording technology, the one thing that still has not been invented yet (as far as I know), is the ability to remove reverb, real or manufactured, from a recording. I've had heard all these recordings that are on this new release before and none of the struck me as having too much reverb but I have not heard the Resonance release.

Maxim Vengerov is outstanding here ....

I saw the Neil Swainson Quartet at the Rex. He was here 4 nights, but I only managed to get out tonight, and only for the second set. But it was still quite nice. The Rex was packed. In general, it's been quite busy on Friday and Sat. for the 8:30 and 10 pm sets, which is quite good news for them. I do wish they managed to bring in more out-of-town artists, but that's fairly rare. My copy of that live Woody Shaw set, Vim 'N' Vigor, showed up, so I brought it in and had Swainson sign it. He said no one had contacted him and certainly not gotten him a copy or paid him anything. I said I could try to bring him a burned copy the next time he plays the Rex, which should be in June.

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 33.

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 47.

Nate Chinen