David Ayers

Brad - where is the bit about the road to recovery - I seem to have missed it! I have realised, in myself, that buying and listening are only semi-related activities, so I try to give time to listening rather than to planning purchases, and often take out and review older CDs. I'm now only an occasional purchaser, though I do periodically binge when the price is right. That's my road to recovery - what's yours?

Oh goody an easy one. Ask me another! Ask me another!

No. We prefer to generalize.

The way that jazz recordings are set up is to mix and match artists who sell in order to obtain a crossover effect of sales. If you tried, you would probably find that every musician in your collection could be linked to every other by virtue of a chain of who recorded with who. That means to buy on spec is rare and only my earliest purchases were (occasionally) that under-informed! Actually I sampled an Andrea Bocelli CD before I knew who he was and quite liked it. Little did I know how monotonous he would turn out to be. I regretted that purchase! The one track sampling thing seems to have been a staple of the BN post-Sidewinder ethos and of the jazz-rock era. Jazz rock (or -pop) albums were often found to have one vocal track designed for airplay, combined with other instrumentals of doubtful interest to the general punter (e.g. Breezin'). So personally I don't go much by the odd track. I would have to be absolutely rivetted... In the old days I bought things just for the cover or obscurity value - oddly enough, that worked very well...

I don't like cheesy jazz christmas tunes! My favorite Christmas listening is Bach's Christmas Oratorio. And not the jazz version!

David, try this search. It yields all 15 titles, and you get to read some very understated prose from our favorite bards ... Thanks! Wow, it seems that these are going to be more 'stunning' than anyone could have imagined! Some of the 'best ever' that these artists ever made!!

Does anyone have a convenient text-list which they can post, please? The website is very inconvenient and (wwhen I tried it) slow.

I like people who 'don't get it' - sometimes they are on to something. A lot of people have expressed reservations about this work. I have never been very fond of it myself.

Many are out of print. You can check what is still in print at hmv.co.jp and order from Early Records (which has much cheaper shipping).

UCCI-9001 John Coltrane: Ballads UCCI-9002 John Coltrane: A Love Supreme UCCI-9003 John Coltrane: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman UCCI-9004 Duke Ellington and John Coltrane UCCI-9005 John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard UCCI-9006 John Coltrane: Coltrane UCCI-9007 John Coltrane: Crescent UCCI-9008 John Coltrane: Africa Brass UCCI-9009 John Coltrane: Kulu Se Mama UCCI-9010 John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard Again UCCI-9011 John Coltrane: Impressions UCCI-9012 John Coltrane: Live at Birdland UCCI-9013 John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays UCCI-9014 John Cottrane: Ascension UCCI-9015 John Coltrane: Expression UCCI-9016 John Coltrane: Selflessness UCCI-9017 John Coltrane: Transition UCCI-9018 John Coltrane: Meditations UCCI-9019 John Coltrane: New Thing At Newport UCCI-9020 Archie Shepp: Four for Trane UCCI-9021 Archie Shepp: The Magic of Ju-Ju UCCI-9022 Archie Shepp: Attica Blues UCCI-9023 Alice Coltrane: World Galaxy UCCI-9024 Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins on Impulse! UCCI-9025 Sonny Rollins: Alfie UCCI-9026 Keith Jarrett: Death And The Flower UCCI-9027 Keith Jarrett: Treasure Island UCCI-9028 Count Basic: Count Basic & The Kansas City 7 UCCI-9029 Shelly Manne: 2 3 4 UCCI-9030 Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth UCCI-9031 McCoy Tyner: Nights of Ballads and Blues UCCI-9032 McCoy Tyner: Reaching Fourth UCCI-9033 Quincy Jones: The Quintessence UCCI-9034 Gil Evans: Out of the Cool UCCI-9035 Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon UCCI-9036 Elvin Jones: Heavy Sounds UCCI-9037 Ben Webster: See You at the Fair UCCI-9038 Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra UCCI-9039 Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus UCCI-9040 J.J. Johnson: The Great Kai and J.J. Johnson UCCI-9041 J.J. Johnson: Proof Positive UCCI-9042 Milt Jackson: That's the Way It Is UCCI-9043 Art Blakey: A Jazz Message UCCI-9044 Lionel Hampton: You Better Know It! UCCI-9045 Coleman Hawkins: Desafinado: Bossa Nova and Jazz Samba UCCI-9046 Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins UCCI-9047 Zoot Sims: Waiting Game UCCI-9048 Stanley Turrentine: Let It Go UCCI-9049 Albert Ayler: Live in Greenwich Village UCCI-9050 Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid UCCI-9051 Keith Jarrett: Fort Yawuh UCCI-9052 Keith Jarrett: Back Hand UCCI-9053 Keith Jarrett: Mysteries UCCI-9054 Keith Jarrett: Shades UCCI-9055 Keith Jarrett: Byablue UCCI-9056 Keith Jarrett: Bop-Be UCCI-9057 McCoy Tyner: Inception UCCI-9058 McCoy Tyner: Live at Newport UCCI-9059 McCoy Tyner: Today and Tomorrow UCCI-9060 McCoy Tyner: Plays Ellington UCCI-9061 Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison: Illumination UCCI-9062 Lorez Alexandria: The Great UCCI-9063 Lorez Alexandria: More of the Great UCCI-9064 Freda Payne: After the Lights Go Down UCCI-9065 Jackie Paris: The Song Is Paris UCCI-9066 Johnny Hartman: I Just Dropped By to Say Hello UCCI-9067 Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is UCCI-9068 Oliver Nelson: More Blues and the Abstract Truth UCCI-9069 Oliver Nelson: Plays Michelle UCCI-9070 Oliver Nelson: Live from Los Angeles UCCI-9071 Hank Jones: Happenings UCCI-9072 Gil Evans: Into the Hot UCCI-9073 Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana Revisited UCCI-9074 Shirley Scott: On a Clear Day UCCI-9075 Shirley Scott: Latin Shadows UCCI-9076 Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down UCCI-9077 Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady UCCI-9078 Charles Mingus: Mingus Plays Piano UCCI-9079 Sonny Stitt: Now! UCCI-9080 Johnny Hodges: Everybody Knows UCCI-9081 Paul Gonsalves: Tell It the Way It Is UCCI-9082 Coleman Hawkins: Today and Now UCCI-9083 Coleman Hawkins: Wrapped Tight UCCI-9084 Benny Carter: Further Definitions UCCI-9085 Art Blakey: Art Blakey!!! Jazz Messengers!!! UCCI-9086 Elvin Jones: Dear John C UCCI-9087 Milt Jackson: Jazz 'n' Samba UCCI-9088 Milt Jackson: Statements UCCI-9089 Freddie Hubbard: The Body and the Soul UCCI-9090 Kai Winding: The Incredible UCCI-9091 Curtis Fuller: Soul Trombone UCCI-9092 Archie Shepp: Fire Music UCCI-9093 Archie Shepp: Live in San Francisco UCCI-9094 Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight UCCI-9095 Archie Shepp: The Way Ahead UCCI-9096 Archie Shepp: Things Have Got to Change UCCI-9097 Marion Brown: Three For Shepp UCCI-9098 Marion Brown: Vista UCCI-9099 Gabor Szabo: Gypsy '66 UCCI-9100 Gabor Szabo: Spellbinder

If you are only ordering one title you won't have to worry about customs.

Perhaps what people are subliminally responding to is the unstated premise of the TOCJ 24 series - that, having given Rudy a go, the Japanese engineers figured they could do better. And guess what...

I only know the three Naked City titles originally issued by Nonesuch (The Tzadik site says there was one 'domestic' but I have three...). Two now run cold on me, but not The Big Gundown which still warms my cockles. It is a reworking of Ennio Morricone spaghetti western music and a fantastic tribute. If you have any liking for the Leone/Morricone collaborations, I can recommend this one to you as a place to start. Even if you don't care for Zorn but you like the Morricone music I'd say keep an eye open for this one. EDITED FOR RAMPANT INACCURACY Uhh - take it all back. It seems the Morricone music is not by Naked City but under Zorn's name. Still, I keep in the recommendation for The Big Gundown! By the way John Patton is on one track of Gundown and also features on Spillane. And do you know the News For Lulu disks? Covers of Blue Note hard bop classics with George Lewis and Bill Frisell. Nice!

I see that hopscotch have a website. The listing I got seems to reflect the fact that Sound 323 have just taken a delivery. I hadn't heard of this label, and I had never heard Tsahar, which is why these leapt out at me. I am listening to the clips - I'm not overwhelmed yet...

Hopscotch seems to be reissuing these. They also list these titles: COOPER-MOORE & ASSIF TSAHAR - TELLS UNTOLD [hopscotch] £11.99 *cooper-moore: harp, ashimba, drums, flute, deedly-bo, mouth-bow, twiner, shofar, synth & the bell *assif tsahar: tenor sax, bass clarinet, acoustic guitar, muzmar & thumb piano COOPER-MOORE & ASSIF TSAHAR - AMERICA [hopscotch] £11.99 *cooper-moore: piano, diddly-bo, banjo, mouth-bow, drum-skins & cymbal *assif tsahar: tenor sax, bass clarinet, classical guitar - rec. 2003 COOPER-MOORE, TOM ABBS & CHAD TAYLOR - TRIPTYCH MYTH [hopscotch] £11.99 *cooper-moore: piano *tom abbs: bass *chad taylor: drums - rec. 2003

My regular email from Sound 323 listed all these Tsahar releases on hopscotch. Does anyone know anything about them (or about the label?). Some may have been mentioned on Funny Rat but I lose track... ASSIF TSAHAR & TATSUYA NAKATANI - COME SUNDAY [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: tenor sax & bass clarinet *tatsuya nakatani: drums & percussion - rec. 2003 ASSIF TSAHAR, PETER KOWALD & SUNNY MURRAY - MA: LIVE AT THE FUNDACIO JUAN MIRO [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: reeds *peter kowald: bass *sunny murray: drums - rec. 2002 ASSIF TSAHAR, MAT MANERI & JIM BLACK - JAM [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: tenor sax & bass clarinet *mat maneri: electric 5-string violin *jim black: drums & percussion - rec. 2003 ASSIF TSAHAR, PETER KOWALD & RASHIED ALI - DEALS, IDEAS & IDEALS [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: tenor sax & bass clarinet *peter kowald: bass *rashied ali: drums - rec. 2000 ASSIF TSAHAR - SOLO: AYN LE-ANY [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: reeds ASSIF TSAHAR & THE ZOANTHROPIC ORCHESTRA - EMBRACING THE VOID [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: tenor sax & conduction *curtis huselbring, steve swell & reut regev: trombones *antoine brye & taylor baynum ho: trumpets *oscar nuriega: bass clarinet, alto sax *ori kaplan: alto sax *aaron stewart: tenor sax *alex harding: baritone sax *craig taborn: piano *tom abbs: bass *andrew barker: drums - rec. 2001 ASSIF TSAHAR'S BRASS REEDS ENSEMBLE - THE HOLLOW WORLD [hopscotch] £11.99 *assif tsahar: tenor sax *herb robertson & cuong vu: trumpets *vincent chancey: french horn *joe daley: tuba *chris jonas: soprano sax *rob brown: alto sax *susie ibarra: drums - rec. 1999 ASSIF TSAHAR CONDUCTS THE NEW YORK UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA - THE LABYRINTH [hopscotch] £11.99 *melinda rice, jean cook & katie pawluk: violins *stephanie griffin & jessica pavone: violas *okkyung lee & jonah sacks: cellos *terrence murren, byrne kley & todd nicholson: basses *sabine arnaut & muriel vergnaud: flutes *matt lavelle, nate wooley & marianne giosa: trumpets *reut regev: trombone *charles waters: clarinet *oscar noriega: bass clarinet *tatsuya nakatani: percussion - rec. 2002

All these Taylors are classics, though! (I haven't heard the MPS, but have and like/love/appreciate all the others to some degree). I don't think the Enja is second rate compared to the others, drummer Mark Edwards brought in some new stylings after Ronald Shannon Jackson, and the absence of bass (though not an all too rare feat for Taylor groups) makes for another change in sound. The CD restores the full 60+ minutes of that concert, from which the LP was taken. ubu I should have said - I like those sessions! I was just recalling that reviewers were iffy about them at the time and they weren't a massive career boost for Malik.

Sounds like a Christian Marclay installation... That's what it looked like too!

Malik appears on five Taylor recordings that I know of: the Enja, the two New Worlds, Black Forest (MPS) , and One Too Many... (Hat) As I remember, the Enja was badly reviewed and the New World's never got much acclaim. That is possibly because people found Mailik hard to take compared to memories of Dixon, and because people were at that time used to the trio/quartet based around Lyons and couldn't quite get the feel of the new voice. The presence of Ware and Edwards on Dark To Themsleves also made this seem like an imperfect offering.

I dusted off my copies of 21st Century Texts (FMP) and The Short Form (eremite) last night. I found these interviews with Malik today, at AAJ and Opprobrium. I don't know if there is much love for Malik-led sessions on this board (I searched and found a smattering of references pro and con). I find him enjoyable but finite, by which I mean I like him but his playing only expresses certain things and the players he appears with are fluent but too frequently border on bombast. Other opinions?

Only UK posters will appreciate this. I was in a specialist 78 shop in Edinburgh. This guy had everything and the stock was all over the floor. The shop opened twice a week, on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday. The LPs were in the back room in a bargain box - he didn't care a fig for 33s and sold them all off cheap if ever he got any. So anyway, you had to tiptoe through the piles of 78s on tables and all over the floor to get to the back room. As I tiptoed through one time I heard the unmistakable sound of a 78 snapping under my foot. I looked down and it was the Ying Tong song by the Goons. I acted like nothing had happened but I am pretty sure the guy knew what I had done! Could have been worse, I suppose. Hell, if it was worth anything why was it on the floor?!

Well, though I admit I am too familiar with it to feel thrilled any more, I'm surprised you didn't get much out of Regeneration. As for the Collective Quartet, it's true I sold my copy as part of my rationalisation program, but in effect this is a NY Art Quartet tribute group and IMO has its good points. Worth a try, unlike many other Leo's which are totally skippable.

OK I have read enough about playing vinyl carefully etc. Now I want to hear about vinyl you have trashed. Everyone here has ruined a great pressing or valued original. One of my worse was putting a stylus scratch right through my favorite solo on a hard-found original of Science Fiction (that's long before any reissue). I'm sure I've done others too. Let's hear about yours!

I think I heard this too, possibly in Banana Republic. The count-in came in that recognisable voice, followed by the backing track. I didn't get it and didn't really think about it any more at the time. Are we sure it is Jamie? I think there is more to this than meets the eye...

I think The Complete 1941 - 1954 Small Group Sessions Vols 3-5 cover much if not all of this material.