mikeweil

His trio made one of the first ten ECM LPs, "Output". Far out and fun. And never on CD. Eicher would not release music of that type any more. The latter has long been on my want list.

R.I.P. He was among the first ten jazz musicians I saw live - his trio with Eberhard Weber and Fred Braceful subbed for the Bulgarian Jazz Quartet to open for the Herbie Mann Quintet in Frankfurt - must have been 1970. He was a true original, perhaps the most original of all German jazz pianists, totally unprejudiced. He could hang with the best of them on any scene. Owned one of the first three synths in Europe. Wolfram Knauer, the Darmstadt Jazz Institute's director, will present his new book on the German jazz scene later this month at the local public library. I'm sure he will adress this on the occasion.

Great find! Would have picked it up at that price, too. On to Discs 6 & 7 today:

Is the original LP mix included in this box set? If not, is/was there any CD issue of this mix. I don't like Zappas remix ......

Found a cheap copy from a reliable German amazon seller - this was offered only for big bucks ever since it went oop.

Arrived here on Tuesday from Jazz Messengers in Barcelona. My wife loves it. I'd enjoy it even more were there more solos by other besides Satchmo.

From here, too .....

R.I.P. To my ears he was unpredictable as a trumpet improvisor.

I listened to the tracks on headphones and cannot hear a bass on "Moon" and neither bass nor drums on the vocal track. Sounds like it was recorded on a machine with automatic recording level adjustment.

Yes. I hear some typical Brubeck pianistics of those years.

We all probably sold LPs for lack of space or funds. It is just a few albums that I wish I had kept: These were mono pressings that probably would sound terrific with the mono cartridge I now have ...... The next didn't thrill me musically, but it sounded great, like most Contemporary LPs: Your turn ........

Since we moved the better hi-fi to the living room I put on LPs more often - probably because they are at hand on the shelves right there. This afternoon:

Jazz Messengers were out of stock but have it back available again (along with the new Herman, BTW). Just ordered a copy.

The voice on the 10" test pressing James Harrod found sounds different - this might be Frances Lynne.

We can still fit that into the new edition of the Tjader bio during the last proofreading. I will send S. Duncan Reid a link to thi page. Is this a 12" 78 rpm disc?

Roy DuNann recording!

I need to hear the whole disc!!!! Barbara Ritchie is correct! She worked at NBC in San Francisco at the time; Dave and Iola Brubeck had remembered her name when asked about the singer's identity after James Harrod had found a test pressing with Brubeck cuts. http://jazzwestcoastresearch.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-11-15T16:19:00-08:00&max-results=7 Harrod found evidence that Frances Lynne also sang with the group, but this lacquer prooves that Ritchie did, too! I need to hear this to compare the voices, as there are no other recordings of her, and the few of Lynne are very hard to access. Please get in touch with James Harrod about this! This would be a great discovery for the Tjader discography as well. Tjader did tap dancing as a boy.

The Blue Note listings on jazzdisco.org are not complete, missing some alternates and tracks released on later issues. This is because they belong to those worshipping the "original LP", which was not always the optimal way of releasing the music nor listing the session's music. Blue Note LP fetishism .... The hodge podge started with the strange decision to use only part of the tracks from Mobley's three 1963 sessions and scatter them over two LPs, The Turnaround and No Room For Squares. When Cuscuna found the unissued tracks he released three of them on Straight No Filter with the three 1966 quintet tracks. The larger band tracks from A Slice Of The Top he had already issued in complete from in the LT series. That was replicated on a CD of the same title. Then there were the CDs which kept the 1963 quintet session intact, but added the three Straight No Filter quintet tracks and even used that title, which is somewhat misleading. I think these sessions sound best in recording order. That is why I will keep those CDs and probably skip the big box. With older music listening to a series of alternates can be boring, but with these sessions recording oder is best, IMHO. Blue Note LP fetishism can lead you to strange decisions.

No 2019 posts here??!? My excuse is that our phone and internet was off until a week ago, and I was too busy with other things until a few days ago. My Xmas jazz so far:

My postings in these threads were interrupted by some booking mistake of our phone and internet provider which left us disconnected for two weeks until a week before Christmas. Good thing was it inspired us to re-arrange our living room and move my good hi-fi there which is much more fun listening than in my small sleeping room. So today: The latter in memory of Don Alias, who would have turned 80 years on December 25. I miss him.

So he took the surface noise for applause .......