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  4. Forthcoming from Mosaic: JATP, Sonny Clark

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by colinmce

    I haven't felt too keen on the Blue Note sets from the last couple years since I have all of that already, but I may make an exception for the Sonny Clark, not just on the sheer strength of the catalog, but also because I think in this case I am missing a few of the trio sides, which have always been a muddle to me. I have Sonny Clark Trio, Blues In The Night, and Standards, but I think that has me missing a few things from the Art of the Trio King LP and maybe something more here or there. I'd be interested to hear if there's anything extra thrown in as well.

  6. Ahmad Jamal "Live In Paris (1971) - Lost Ortf Recordings

    in New Releases

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    5 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

    Try googling the headline of the article, and then click on the NYT link from within Google. That usually works for me, to get behind their paywall — or at least it does within the Google app on my iPhone.

    Yes, that’s what worked for me too. 

    9 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

    So when he got wind of a set of pristine old recordings, captured in the mid-to-late 1960s during performances at the Penthouse club in Seattle, he hesitated. It took some cajoling for Jamal to sign off on a release. Eventually, “I went along with it,” he said. “But it’s unusual for me.”

     

    His reluctance was thawed by Zev Feldman, the skillful and enthusiastic producer who unearthed the tapes, and by the quality of the performances themselves. Culled from half-hour radio broadcasts that had been caught on the Penthouse’s reel-to-reel tape machine, these recordings will see the light of day starting in November, with the release of two separate double-disc collections: “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1963-64)” and “(1965-66),” the first albums to arrive on Feldman’s new label, Jazz Detective. A third set, “(1966-68),” will be released soon after.

    a bit more to add, though the article is also a nice long profile of Jamal’s life and music:

    The “Emerald City Nights” albums come from the period when Jamal had just returned to touring, and his piano playing — always centered on finely wrought patterns and spare, interwoven phrases — was growing more lush. The Penthouse was one of his favorite clubs to play, so the new collections showcase Jamal in a number of different engagements, with a variety of trio lineups.

    The tracks include Jamal originals like “Minor Moods”; contributions from his bandmates; jazz standards by Cole Porter and Benny Golson; and pop ditties like “Feeling Good,” performed here just months before Nina Simone’s famous rendition was released. On “(1965-66),” one side features a particularly exciting (and rarely recorded) lineup: the drummer Vernel Fournier, whose famous beat had set the gamboling foundation for “Poinciana,” and the bassist Jamil Nasser, one of Jamal’s most consistent collaborators in the 1960s and ’70s.

    “He supervised every part of this production: listening to the music, ID-ing the tracks,” Feldman said of Jamal’s involvement in the archival release.

  8. All Things Hat

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

    A lot of (justified) scorn for Hat Hut for going the dreaded public domain route. However, Hat Hut in its new ezz-thetics incarnation has put out a lot of really good albums of new music by contemporary musicians that nobody here seems to give a fuck about. What do you want Hat Hut to release?      

    Agreed, there have been a lot of great ones since this imprint started up. As for the Revisited line, I do think the Ayler items are legit as he's been working with Ayler's estate since the hatOLOGY era and there's a tangible value in having this music available and in the best possible SQ. I wish he would've done more/better with Fontana. The Blue Note and Impulse! items, as well as the live Trane & Miles stuff, is ludicrous to me. 

  10. Mingus - The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott's

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Interesting post on Facebook:

    "I recently found this at a thrift store here in WA. Charles Mingus live at the Tyee Motor Lodge, Tumwater WA 1977. I have since had it professionally digitized by a master archivist and am in contact with the Mingus estate to see about releasing it. It’s rough in spots, but there’s some magic on there too. Including a 46 minute burner of Sue’s Changes. I can post MP3 of it once I get the copyright".

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1110595615993343/posts/1838289456557285/

    The group on the tape box is listed as:

    Bob - piano (I'm assuming Bob Neloms)
    Ricky Ford - tenor sax
    Jack Wallace - trumpet (I'm assuming Jack Walrath)
    Danny Richmond - drums

    This would track with the band on the July 1977 tape from Spain, three months after this Washington date.

    https://www.discogs.com/release/9300074-Charles-Mingus-Quintet-Spain-77

    There is also a broadcast from France with this group that's quite good 

     

  11. Peter Brotzmann

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    The 25 minute piece with John Tchicai on the Long Story Short box is my favorite example of the group. Another one at the top is "All Things Being Equal" from Images; a 37 minute masterpiece.

    Otherwise: per what Clifford said above, my favorite individual albums are the two with William Parker & Roy Campbell: A Short Visit To Nowhere and Broken English.

    I have yet to hear the two volumes of American Landscapes, At Molde 2007, and quite regrettably Walk Love Sleep; I missed it when it came out and the Smalltown Superjazz catalog seems to have evaporated from availability almost overnight. 

  12. Unusual trios

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    Sure, also Bud Freeman et al.

    Some great sides by the Charlie Ventura/Gene Krupa/Teddy Napoleon group.

    On 8/20/2022 at 8:49 AM, Milestones said:

    There's a track on Strange City (Herbie Nichols Project) that I really like: "Blue Shout."  This has Ted Nash (tenor), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Matt Wilson (drums) 

    The title track of Ted Nash's Sidewalk Meeting (a very underrated downtown album) is a trio with Gordon in incredible form, Nash on bass clarinet, and Miri-Ben Ari on viola. It's a beautiful tune.

  14. My top 5 Blue Notes

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    A borderline impossible ask but off the cuff:

    Personal top 5, simply in terms of the importance of the music to me, less so as a full picture of what BN has to offer in full (and with some CD-era cheating included):

    The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols
    Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard (Complete)
    Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
    Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
    Ornette Coleman - At The "Golden Circle" Stockholm Vols. 1 & 2
     

    What I might tell a newcomer, roughly trying to choose 1 album from each era (as much as I like the pre-bop BN recordings, you can hear that style to better advantage elsewhere):

    J.J. Johnson - The Eminent J.J. Johnson Vols. 1 & 2 (bop)
    Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet (hard bop)
    Baby Face Wilette - Face To Face (soul jazz)
    Joe Henderson - Page One (post-Coltrane)
    Don Cherry - Complete Communion (avant)

    ack I'm already dying inside

     

  16. Abdul Wadud - By Myself LP Reissue

    in Re-issues

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    46 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Nice! Pulled an original from the bins in a long-gone East Village record store over 20 years ago and was floored by it. Great record deserving of wider hearing.

    The Abdul-Hannan is cool but is unlikely to see a proper reissue (it's been tried).

    I would imagine that the Carroll will get the Soufflé Continu treatment as part of the Palm catalog. 

    I’ve been wondering this myself but the lack of it so far— or the Khan Jamal & Byard Lancaster titles— had me wondering if these were somehow not in the scope of the series, or if there were rights issues. Would love to see that happen if it’s possible. 

  19. Paul Bley

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    LMAO!!! Yeah, I had a copy of Life Between The Exit Signs but did not keep it because a) Jarrett and b) I have enough Paul Bley records to listen to and enjoy.

    I keep it filed because I don't feel like I have enough Paul Bley records to listen to and enjoy haha. Two sides of a coin.

    Does this mean you don't have any KJ?

  21. Brew Moore - Special Brew (Steeplechase) - 1961 Recordings

    in New Releases

    Posted

    I noticed this interesting release on today's Jazz Messengers email:

    https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/90829/brew-moore/special-brew

    This recordings from a Danish Radio concert in October 1961 and a TV recording in Malmø, Sweden in November 1961, make this album an important addition to American jazz tenor saxophonist Brew Moore's discography and a reminder of a genius whose life ended too prematurely.

    PERSONNEL:

    Brew Moore - (tenor sax)

    Harold Goldberg - (piano alto horn)

    Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - (bass)

    Alex Riel - (drums)

  23. Windham Hill, most beloved

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Not sure I could endorse anything in the jazz realm (I have not heard the Denny Zeitlin or Richie Beirach albums they released; I don't find the Braxton ones very compelling and the recording is ghastly), but there are some good records in there. Some favorites:

    Daniel Hecht - Willow
    Bola Sete - Ocean
    George Cromarty - Wind In The Heather
    Interiors - Design
    Tim Story - Glass Green
    Ira Stein/Russel Walder - Elements
    Bill Quist - Piano Solos of Erik Satie

    They also reissued some good Cesaria Evora and Hawaiian albums.

    And there is of course, somehow, one of the finest albums ever made by anyone: Robbie Basho's Visions of the Country

  24. BLACK MYSTERY SCHOOL PIANISTS — and who else(!) is similar?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

    Yeah, I had that same exact thought earlier — because I do think Lennie approaches this ‘sound-world’ somewhat (sometimes), if certainly not always.

    Did Lennie ever cite any influences (by name) that would lend some credence to the theory?

    Of course, the thing this he’s often WAY more ‘metronomic’ than anybody truly in the “Mystery School” category.

    Think that last line answers your question, yeah. 

  25. BLACK MYSTERY SCHOOL PIANISTS — and who else(!) is similar?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Yes, he mentions him in the article as existing in this idiom, though in my opinion it's hard to place Ran squarely into any jazz continuum like you might with Hasaan or Herbie Nichols.

    Posing more questions that I'm answering there. That's why you gotta love Ran.

    i.e. is Ran a jazz musician? Sure, but he's also a folk musician. Is Sun Ra a folk musician? Yes. Is jazz folk music? Yes. But is jazz per Blake relatable to jazz per Sun Ra, or Mal Waldron? Not so sure. 

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