mikeweil

Yes, happy birthday, live long and thanks for this place!

I'd rather count on our friends in Barcelona, who reissued the jam sessions years ago see https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/cachao-albums/5080-descargas-the-havana-sessions-2-cd-set.html -, and just annoinced this:

You're talkin' about "Drums Around The Corner"? I think it's a general problem of people having problems of relating to music without melody instruments. TTK, how many of your drum albums have absolutely no melody, no vocals? Just curious.

It is hard for any non-drummer or non-percussionist to "understand" these discs. It's a simple as that.

That's Jan Persson, well-known Danish phtographer in Eurpean jazz circles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Persson http://www.janperssoncollection.dk

During the last few days until right now:

Saw him with Rollins, too, and have a few of his CDs, which are excellent. Who's playing with him on that video?

Same here, saving funds for replacing my prosthesis. Implants and crowns are impossible, my jawbones are too thin. One grand, still.

For those who can't wait for the Mosaic: https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/earle-spencer-albums/2121-the-complete-black-white-recordings-1946-1949-2-cd-set.html

This is what Lord says: Frank "Fat Man" Humphries (tp) Herbie Nichols (p) others unknown. c. 1950 G756 Birmingham bounce Abbey 3016 G757 Doby at the bat -

I've read the same was told by trombonist Melba Liston. Stories like these killed my naive belief jazz musicians might be better humans.

Same here. See my pm. Dan, do you have access to the Tom Lord Discography? As jazztrain said, noting with France listed there was recorded in Europe.

Why not ask Maupin himself? There's a contact page on his website. http://benniemaupinmusic.com

Will have to go down to the basement for my Bruyninkx copy. Lord usually has everything from there, but I cannot see anything recorded in Europe. What time span?

Holiday For Skins is kind of in the middle between Orgy In Rhythm and The African Beat. DATC is the jazziest, TAB the most "African". But you have to enjoy drum focussed albums to repeatedly play any of them.

As an old friend told me lasr week, "growing old is not for cowards". Glad the funding went so well, glad it all turned out to be legit, or I would have felt pretty bad for posting the link. My best wishes to Kenny and his wife - he will always stay my favourite jazz guitra player. And, seeimg all the famous musicians who donated, it feels good to see how much he is respected and loved on the scene. He deserves it.

Now this is the perfect artist for our friends at Fresh Sound ......

From one of the many European PD labels. Sound is inferior to the previous reissues on Fantasy or OJC. As I must know its contents for the discography in the upcoming second edition of the Cal Tjader bio, I had to get me a copy. The four page booklet lists the tracks, but no personnel or recording dates, just the albums they are from. Seems like they mixed up the track sequence of the 10" Savoy LP. I cannot recommend this. For car playback only.

A friend of mine in California is looking for an MPS reissue CD: John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan ‎– Two Originals: Karuna Supreme & Rainbow He has both albums on vinyl but would like the CD as well, as he is re-writing an article on their collaboration. (John Handy, he told me, didn't have reference copies.) If anyone knows of a copy or is willing to part with his, please pm me and I'll get you in touch to make a deal. Thanks!

I saw Inzalaco at a local club, maybe with George Coleman. He was swinging!

If anybody purchases McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments from the upcoming June batch, please tell how it sounds.

Chaumont was overlooked for many, many decades. He was just a priest in a small town, nothing much is known about his life and musical activities, but had two volumes of his compositions printed, the first of which is nowhere to be found. The second contains over 100 organ pieces, about a third is on this CD. Excellent music, flawlessly performed on a perfectly suitable instrument. This is on the same high level as the organ books of Couperin and Grigny.