colinmce

I'm going to go all-in and say that Forces In Motion is without question the greatest book ever written about a living musician. I re-read it yearly. It's an incredibly inspiring work, a labor of love and inquisition on Graham Lock's part. You will come away from reading it a better person. It's also funny as hell.

Berman is awesome. I hope he has a new one out soon. Another solid date is Chicago-Luzern Exchange: Several Lights with Keefe Jackson, Frank Rosaly, and Mark Unternahrer. And a plug for my buddy Jonathan Crawford who does photography and design for Berman & Adasiewicz's Delmark stuff, as well as all of the Aerophonics titles and other Chicago things here and there. Very handsome packages if I do say so.

(Scratch the last one I mentioned-- that's record 1 from Hipnosis. Still wondering about the Tina Brooks stuff)

It's weighted. What Ran Blake can do with the piano, Wadada can do with the trumpet.

Oof. Who owns that stuff? Would they ever release it?

One thing I've never bothered to figure out: are all the cuts from Street Singer available on the Jackie's Bag RVG or is some of this still unreleased in the US? Save Bout Soul and Demon Dance I have every 59-67 McLean session released here by Blue Note. Do I still need to track down Street Singer? And what about the Japanese one with the plain sleeve with (I believe) Sonny Clark? I'm being lazy! Do this work for me!

Yeah, I saw. Just double checking it's strange, the Verve date is frequently mentioned but this is the first I've heard of the Atlantic. I wonder what Lacy sounded like in a trio at that time. Listening to Evidence yesterday, he sounds like himself, but still a small ways off from coming fully into his own style. Also I don't think Brown sounds remotely like Charlie Haden. He plays well, but offers mostly support. I don't know what it would take for Haden to lay back like that.

Still dying to hear that Don Cherry date. Maybe some day. Is the Steve Lacy date the one with Denis Charles & Roswell Rudd that was eventually released? That was done for Verve. Did Lacy also record for Atlantic?

For my money that's THE McLean hard bop date.

I've said it before but I really don't like Adam's Apple. I just don't feel like the tunes are there. The version of "Footprints" doesn't do it for me. All Seeing Eye is nice but muddled to my ears. Give me Night Dreamer, Speak No Evil, Etc, or The Soothsayer any day.

Off the cuff, I'd say I'd blast the hell out of Joe McPhee - "Old Eyes"

Is the Mitchell electrified? Consider it a personal deficiency, but I just never cottoned to the electric bass & keyboard sound so a great deal of 70s jazz just doesn't land with me.

Thanks for checking in again. Very much looking forward to the new one. Do you have an idea of a release date? Also glad to hear the website is up and running again. I'll place the order I've been meaning to for quite some time.

These records are never more than a couple months out of rotation. The 1964-66 music on the Mosaic is certainly the pinnacle, but let's not forget all the wonderful sessions from 1959-1963, my favorites of which are Jackie's Bag and Bluesnik. Of the later stuff, Destination Out! and It's Time stand out. But it's all pretty much perfect. Consequence is slighter than some of the other sessions, and I also don't much care for New & Old Gospel. Still don't have Bout Soul or Demon's Dance. For my money, though, one of the truly great purple patches in jazz music.

You were right.

I wouldn't want to be within a mile of MD myself. FWIW Lennon loathed jazz.

Great to see her still at it. All the best to a total original.

Take pride. As soon as I get my Cecil Taylor FMP box that one is next on the list! I hope the price isn't too inflated in 30 years...

25 euro difference for one disc?!!?

I'll certainly let you know. This is my first Chapin title. Very much looking forward to it.

Thomas Chapin - Never Let Me Go Chicago Trio - Velvet Songs (To Baba Fred Anderson) Anthony Braxton Quartet - Twelve Compositions, Oakland 1993

I've long tossed around the idea of a blog devoted to centralizing information about new jazz releases. I never quite got around to it because I assumed that no one would really care. Maybe that's not true? Ideally I would get input from artists and labels. While all labels have websites, I find that artists today are actually pretty terrible about promoting themselves. Very few have webpages and those that do almost never update them, even when they have recordings coming out.

So they did. Like I said, no chance I could've made it, but damn. One of these days... (years?)

Thanks for the heads up. Finally! Now PLEASE do The Baptised Traveller!!

Geez. What if it was a $13 CD? Same rigamarole?