mikeweil

So here we have a book, If I read his introduction correctly, that was a blog before, drawing mostly on internet sources. He recommends Youtube, Spotify, Wikipedia. Did ever look into Michel Ruppli's Prestige Discography, or any of the printed jazz encyclopedias, or any other book on any of the musicians he writes about? I do not see a bibliographical list in his table of contents. For a blog relying only on internet sources, this is okay, but I would have expected he expands his sources for a printed version. Does his blog still exist? The prospect of a generation using the web as their exclusice source of information frightens me - there is a lot found nowhere else, like some details told here on the forum, but there is so much availabe only in printed sources or on records ... I'm skeptical, and find this approach a bit naive.

This series is dead, right? No chance of a revival? I'd have an album I'd like to discuss .....

UMRK was Zappa's name for his studio. It almost breaks my heart to see that this unique assemblage will be taken apart; it certainly would have broken the heart of my best friend who died last summer ..... he had an almost complete Zappa CD collection, which was probably dumped for the most part when his flat had to be cleared.

Visited the Fine Arts Museum in Schwerin yesterday, who have an old collection of Dutch paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, but also a small but fine selection of 20th century stuff, among them representative Marcel Duchamp and Ernst Barlach collections. http://www.museum-schwerin.de/

That's a reissue of the two Pacific Jazz piano trio LPs from 1962/3.

AFAIK Private Concert (he had his own Steinway moved to a New York church for the recording) is OOP, but used copies are available for acceptable prices. Another fan of the two Evolution albums here. Lewis repeated his repertoire very much on his albums, but always found fresh approaches. There is a fine trio album from 1987 with Howard Collins and Marc Johnson on EmArcy, The Garden Of Delight/Delaunay's Dilemma that is on the same level and in the same spirit as Evolution II.

Fischer's remarks about Marsh's timing are even more interesting in the light of an interview somewhere in the internet where Bill Fitch, conguero in the early sixties Tjader band that recorded Sona Libre, critizes Fischer of rushing the time ..... can't find the link right now. Found it: "Clare is a genius but personally a little too stiff for me. You always get this feeling that the tempo is going to jump." http://www.bronxconexionlatinjazz.com/blog-percussion/27-percussion-issue-6-fall-1997

More items missing from the list above: Poncho Sanchez' first two LPs as a leader on Discovery, Poncho (1979) and Pa'lante (Straight Ahead) (1970): keyboards and arrangements. Fischer played keyboards on Joao Gilberto's LP Brasil (1981); organ on Bill Perkins' Many Ways To Go (Sea Breeze, 1980).

Just had a look at the Tom Lord Disco: it is the Songs For Rainy Day Lovers LP that he comments with the phrase "Jazz content of above 2 sessions is limited". That said: There is another strings LP that he arranged for Donald Byrd, probably in 1959, that remained unissued, I cannot remember what label it was made for (the master number run B50329 to B50340). It was first released on Discovery LP DS869 as September Afternoon; there are European reissues on Lonehill and Phoenix. Before his first work for the Hi-Los Fischer recorded with the Pee Wee Hunt Dixielanders, Frankie Laine, and Mannie Klein (1946 to 1949); since some of Laine sessions were billed as by "Frankie Laine Acc By Clare Fischer's Swingtet" or Orchestra, he probably also wrote the arrangements for these sessions. A vocalist I knew told me similar things about Fischer after a jazz choir class conducted by Fischer she attended. He had very high standards ... but when he played with colleagues up to these, the results always were excellent.

Fischer also wrote string arrangements for an album of the group Rufus, but I do not know which one. Jazz discographers in their snobbish attitude do not list such endeavours; Lord even finds the jazz content of some of the albums Fischer arranged that he lists "limited" ...

Some more details: The Jazz LP from 1960/61 was on Mexican RCA, 5 tracks trio, 3 octet (!) The piano on the Gillespie LP was played by Hank Jones.

Fischer wrote the arrangements for this Gillespie Verve LP, too - woodwinds plus one trombone, piano on one track only, great bass and drums (Duvivier and Persip).Fischer was great at writing for woodwinds.

The only John Lewis solo piano album I know that comes close to Evolution I is Private Concert from 1990 - there is blues tune on it that is rather simple, but played so heartfully that it moves me to tears ...

Scheduled for September 23 release in Germany as well - will check it out.

His first solo piano CD on Capitol gives plenty of evidence of his wide knowledge of classical piano - a whole LP worth of bonus material on the CD reissue. I never heard a jazz pianist interweave classical elements so cleverly and authentically as Shearing did.

Cetainly not! Nice you mention Watkins - another one with a great, big, but at the same time very clear sound - too bad his life was so short.

Pres is one of very few soloists where alternates do not bother me.

The only jazz LP on Atco I can find besides Carter and Geller are two by Sir Roland Hanna. And, several years later, Sonny Sharrock's Paradise ... go figure.

That track is from Herb Geller's LP "Gipsy" on Atco, recorded before her Savoy LP.

Bought the Dixon recently after it was mentioned here - nice, solid music, a rare small group date by Dixon, marred a bit by that typical 1970's sound. The JPJ Monteux set is great!

Probably the following, if I'm not mistaken: 8115 Coleman Hawkins The High and Mighty Hawk8116 Billy Strayhorn8118 Dicky Wells8119 Budd Johnson Blues a la Mode

Here's a list - I have only few, but love them. 1001E Budd Johnson New Communications In Jazz 8101 Earl Hines Blues And Things 8102 Mitchell "Booty" Wood Hang in There 8103 Don Byas 8104 Jimmy Rushing Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You 8105 Earl Hines/Claude Hopkins/Cliff Jackson/Jay McShann/Sonny White Master Jazz Piano Vol 1 8106 Julian Dash A Portrait Of Julian Dash 8107 Johnny Hodges A memory of Johnny Hodges 8108 Keith Dunham/Earl Hines/Jay McShann/Cliff Smalls/Sir Charles Thompson Master Jazz Piano, Vol. 2 8109 Earl Hines 8110 Roy Eldridge The Nifty Cat 8111 Budd Johnson/JPJ Quartet Montreux '71 8112 Harold Ashby 8113 Jay McShann Going To Kansas City 8114 Earl Hines Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington 8115 Coleman Hawkins The High and Mighty Hawk 8116 Billy Strayhorn 8117 Keith Dunham/Gloria Hearn/Earl Hines/Sonny White/Teddy Wilson Master Jazz Piano, Vol. 3 8118 Dicky Wells 8119 Budd Johnson Blues a la Mode 8120 Jimmy Rushing Who Was It Sang That Song ? 8121 Roy Eldridge The Nifty Cat Strikes West 8122 Ram Ramirez Rampant Ram 8123 Rex Stewart 8124 Eric Dixon Eric's Edge 8125 Buster Bailey 8126 Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington, Vol. 2 & 3 8127 Buddy Tate 8128 Buddy Tate The Texas Twister 8129 Gloria Hearn/Earl Hines/Cliff Jackson/Jay McShann/Cliff Smalls Master Jazz Piano, Vol. 4 8130 Norris Turney/Snooky Young The Boys From Dayton 8131 Cliff Smalls Swing & Things 8132 Earl Hines Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington (Piano Solos, Vol 4) AFAIK most recordings were originally done for the label; some were reissued on CD on New World.