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now available (CD) - just received email & ordered http://www.darktree-records.com/en/horace-tapscott-quintet-%E2%80%93-legacies-for-our-grandchildren-%E2%80%93-live-in-hollywood-1995-%E2%80%93-dtrs16

oh yeah!!!

yes - two & a half hours of sublime solo Steve, mostly unreleased (15 tracks) with 5 titles (Hedges Cycle) from Switzerland (1981) that were released on the Ballets 2LP - these are also accompanied by a dancer who you can hear occasionally on these tracks - the remaining previously unreleased Swiss titles (two on disc 1 & five on disc 2 - got that wrong on a previous post) are sans dancer. The Hedges Cycle was originally written for sax & piano but here its with sax & dancer Tracks cover Shots, Sands & Hedges Cycles, Highly recommended - i'm biased of course - big fan of Steve

one of the other members here lined up for me in Orlando, FL for the Ayler LP set - here's his story (btw, This set wasn't made available in Australia). Thanks again Dan. He'd lined up previously (Dolphy LP set) for me so this wasn't his first experience "If you really want to know it was different from last time and not as satisfying. Over the years since I waited in the dark for the Eric Dolphy set the record store has been overwhelmed with customers. Hundreds are showing up now with some in line late on Friday! Starting this year they implemented a reservation system which you applied on line to them to get an entry time. I knew nothing of this until I telephoned them on Friday. The reservation list was full, starting at 9am and customers without a reservation (like me) could enter the store at 1pm. I got there about 12 hoping for a relaxation of the rules but not going to happen. Actually entered the store about 1:15pm. Store was jammed with people, the jazz section was tucked away in a corner since most people are not interested in jazz. There were several Albert Ayler LPs in the Jazz section but not the 5-LP set. I was suspicious that box sets were displayed elsewhere. I got ahold of a very helpful person who looked all over the store where box sets were under the counters. Still no luck. Next she told me to fill out a form which listed all the RSD items, where I checked the Ayler box. I then handed the form to a person in a back room where most box sets were stored and customers not allowed. Miracle: about 10 minutes later I was handed the box set. I then proceeded to the front of the store where the check-out line started. After about 30 minutes standing in line I was able to pay and leave. Last inconvenience- there was only one person operating the register! There should have been 2 or 3. What a day! I spent about 1 hour in the store, not counting the wait outside. When I left there still was a long line waiting to enter the store. I am happy to have done it and will do in the future, but more efficiently! "

LP #1 (Hedges - live Switzerland 81) of the double LP set (Ballets) was released in 2014 on the double Emanem CD "Cycles". The Emanem release has a further 5 previously unreleased tracks from the same concert. AFAIK the second LP (The 4 Edges) has never made it to CD. https://www.discogs.com/release/6122361-Steve-Lacy-Cycles-1976-80

Roberto Miranda (b) & Fritz Wise (dm)

Many thanks Ken - any Horace T is most welcome downloaded WAV files & burnt to disc - SQ is great (especially via CD player) https://archive.org/details/Hoarce-Tapscott-Trio-Four-Queens-Hotel-Las-Vegas-March-16-1992

It's up on the Dark Tree website with what looks like extra material - I'll do my usual order from there when available (coming soon on CD!!) LEGACIES FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN – Live in Hollywood, 1995 THE HORACE TAPSCOTT QUINTET HORACE TAPSCOTT piano MICHAEL SESSION soprano, alto, tenor saxophones THURMAN GREEN trombone ROBERTO MIRANDA double bass FRITZ WISE drums SPECIAL GUEST DWIGHT TRIBLE vocals 01 | Ballad for Deadwood Dick | 02 | Motherless Child | 03 | Breakfast at Bongo’s | 04 | Close to Freedom | 05 | The Theme | 06 | Little Africa |

RIP Paul my first exposures to Paul's piano were the 1994 Joe McPhee "Sweet Freedom - Now What" & the 2000 Victoriaville "Complicite" 3CD set

same here - been listening to them since the early 70s I was lucky enough to see them in the early 2000s - they came out to Australia to play at one of the "Big Day Outs" - my partner bought me a surprise ticket

Wow!! huge Nick Drake fan - have been since the late 70s Robert Kirby's string arrangements are sublime IMHO there is more footage (looks like it's contemporary though)

facebook messenger - if you search for me as Stephen Platt (Queensland, Australia)

sure, are you on messenger?

I have the same copy, it's a SHM CD - the saw solo is plain as day (very prominent) running from 12:30 to 14:00 - so this disc hasn't been tweaked - i really dig the saw sound btw https://www.discogs.com/release/7081273-Lee-Morgan-Lee-Morgan Wonder who is actually playing this as there are dms/perc audible behind the saw (Reggie Workman is listed as playing perc also)

RIP Allen looking forward to listening to the Ayler 5LP set - arrived today (Australia)

Albert Ayler? the jacket/coat he's wearing hints at Albert (from some of the pics have seen) plus Black Saint may indeed be a reference to Albert

what a find - loving it!!

Thanks for the link In 2019, the Candid back catalog and label was sold to Glen Barros (above) and Exceleration Music. Barros brought in John Burk, Charles Caldas, Amy Dietz and Dave Hansen as partners, and they are now remastering and reissuing Candid albums. The following five recordings have just been released on CD and streaming and will be available as vinyl albums on June 24. The sound of these remastered albums is warm and vivid: Mingus Presents Mingus, We Insist!!, Straight Ahead, Otis Spann Is The Blues, Lightnin' In New York

The Hip Chicks!!! sold me bit of Lucky Thompson there too

bought my CD copy about 20 years ago - the Castle/Sanctuary UK CD release gives little info on the source material for the reissue

I've now downloaded three of the Savory YouTube sessions & extracted tracks (just the music in most cases) that hadn't been previously released (downloads & Mosaic Box) There appear to be 23 tracks in that category & I've managed to fit all of them on a CDr (79mins in total) as AIFF files created by Audacity The Savory Collection Part 2: The Big Bands The Savory Collection Part 3: The Jam Sessions The Savory Collection Part 4: The Small Bands There's some amazing material here - the two Lester Young/Goodman/Teddy Wilson/Roy Eldridge tracks, plus 6 more Goodman (trio, quartet, quintet & sextet with Christian, Orchestra), three with Chu Berry (Cab Calloway Orchestra plus his quintet The Cab Jivers - absolute killer version of Liza with Chu on fire), Three Louis Jordan Orchestra, one Bob Crosby Orchestra, one by Artie Shaw Orchestra, one absolutely amazing Duke Ellington Orchestra rendition of China Boy (first recording of this by the DE Orch) with an extended soprano solo by Johnny Hodges & orchestra members egging him on.....and there's more. I'll be thrashing this disc into the near future.

I think I did listen to that when I visited the museum in 2017 (primarily sought out Lester Young & Lennie Tristano material)

JAM SESSION (I've put this together from Jazz archaeology & the YouTube Savory material) NYC. Nov. 16, 1938 Roy Eldridge (tp), Benny Goodman (cl), Lester Young (ts), Teddy Wilson (p), Ben Heller (g), Sid Weiss (b), Jo Jones (dm). Broadcast, Martin Block Make Believe Ballroom, Bill Savory collection, three titles: I Know That You Know* Solo 64 bars. Very weakly in ensemble 32 bars. (F) Tea For Two* (NC) Solo 12+64 bars (NC). (FM) After You’ve Gone Solo 3 choruses of 40 bars. (FM) *Included in “The Savory Collection Part 3: The Jam Sessions” (YouTube download) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmj4_PARM8 A fine solo on “… You Know”, particularly when one considers the very high tempo. However, this item is only a faint introduction to what follows!! The first chorus of “Tea …” is unfortunately destroyed, but the rest is just something I never imagined I would hear. And after digesting this, the “After You’ve Gone” brings you into nirvana, so elegant, natural flowing improvisation which could have gone forever!! When he has to close, his good-bye tag is just teasing us. This item puts some attention on the reports telling Pres had to have six-seven choruses to properly warm up, and then he started improvising. Here we get four … oh what have we been missing, born to late, and in the wrong place!!! From Lester Young (part 1) p 18, JazzArcheology.com http://www.jazzarcheology.com/lester-young-part-1/

many thanks John - worked like a dream & the download time was soooo fast compared to the other web based converters I've been using. Looks like I'll stick with this one in future. Used Audacity to extract the 6 relevant music tracks, declicked & saved as AIFF files then burnt to CDr

Wow!! those two Young/Eldridge/Goodman/Wilson tracks are something indeed - hope all of the tracks (6 in all from '38) Tea For Two, I Know That you Know, I Can't get started, Honeysuckle Rose, Blues & I Got Rhythm get a decent release (CD or download). Maybe Mosaic are planning on a second Savory box? I'm having difficulty downloading this as an MP3 - have been successful (with web based YouTube to MP3 Converters) in the past. Not sure why - keep getting network errors & it stops downloading. Maybe it's something to do with the length of the broadcast (1hr 21mins)