mikeweil

Italy produced a number of excellent jazz singers over the last twenty years, and she was one of the most promising - very sad news. Go to her website and listen to an excerpt from her latest CD ... (it takes a moment to load). On the gallery page there are links to youtube videos.

Thanks!

Wouldn't that be a project for our highly esteemed Mr. Horwich, reissuing the Hassaan LP with the unreleased material as bonus tracks?

Well, it got longer and longer when I had the idea of alternating instrumental and vocal tracks ... first it was just a few vocal tracks thrown in, but then I remembered all the other nice vocal tracks I had thought of in recent months. Right now I'd favor an all vocal BFT myself.

Dear BFT fanatics, I tossed around themes and ideas for about half a dozen different BFTs for a year now, but I decided (and your poll votes encouraged me a lot!) it will be all vocal, ca. 100 minutes, download links will come by the end of the month via pm and perhaps be posted here as well. (Jeffcrom will get them sooner to mail discs to any member requesting this format). Please post your download requests here - I'm still working on the compilation, but I guess I will manage to upload it myself. Participants so far: king ubu seeline Noj Bright Moments Hot Ptah jeffcrom Pete C Hardbopjazz to each his own alex. Big Al NIS Thom Keith chuckyd4

I'd love to hear that Oscar Brown Jr. album - was there a CD reissue?

Next they will tell us what to buy and listen to at each time of the day ...

why and how did they get charlie haden to pose for that album cover photo on a serious note, i'd love to hear an interpretation of these suites by haden. maybe a complete 'pizz' version... You gotta take Ron Carter if you want a jazz bassist pizz version ... Besides that, Jaap ter Linden plays nicely, but I don't like his tone - very much mesa di voce, even vibrato, and a rather thick sound, probably due to his instrument - I gave it away in the end. The far best, i.e. most beautiful version that I bought so far, is by Hidemi Szuzuki - great sound and conception, excellently recorded! It has been issued with at least three different covers - the one above is the SACD cover, the SACD sounds terrific!

Sigiswald Kuijken is not Dutch, he's from Belgium (Flanders, to be exact). BTW, Kuijken has since (2009) recorded the suites on "shoulder cello." Haven't heard the recording... I have since bought it - meanwhile there is even a second recording on the violoncello da spalla by Ryo Terakado, and another one. The sound is a bit thinner than the knee-cello, but the different playing technique gives it a more violin-like gesture - very interesting. Listeners accustomed to the widespread modern cello sound might take some time to open their minds and ears to this unusual sound.

Funny - that's what I thought a few days ago ...

Don't make jokes about this, please. One American singer living here that I worked with lost all her hair due to chemo during her cancer treatment. She had beautiful hair, and it was very hard for her.

I agree it's a lot better than most people would expect, but have you hear this one? I might, might, put it above Rural Still Life, in spite of the off-putting concept and cover. Tom Scott - soprano & tenor sax, flute Roger Kellaway - piano, harpsichord, clavinet Chuck Domanico - bass John Guerin - drums Yes I have that one - it's good! The "Hair" LP on Flying Dutchman, too - it's just that I like Scott's own tunes on "Rural Still Life" a lot more than the tunes he covered on the other two. He was an early member of the Don Eliis Orchestra and Scott's quartet, but then concentrated on studio work in L.A. and played on a thousand records. Excellent bass player!

Thanks - that's now on top of my wish list. An order from Barcelona is due, as soon as funds allow.

Very well said, indeed - you're responsible for me getting a copy - your post pushed my curiosity over the edge. The main difference to today's guys playing 11/16 or whatever is they're playing licks - but Hemphill et al are really improvising and listening - that's a big difference!

Received my copy today - clearly a labor of love - what a meticulous reissue! Thanks a lot for the effort. And I will keep it, as - thanks to many a post in this thread - I can appreciate the music much better now than in 1977 when the Freedom LP was out. You should offer your reissues on a subscription basis - when done that well, you can't go wrong, no matter what the music is.

The Tom Scott is maybe his best record, with Mike Lang, Chuck Domanico and John Guerin, a solid jazz effort with some rockish elements, but they do not dominate. Nice tunes in 7/4, 5/8 etc. - he was pretty much under the Don Ellis influence when he recorded this. Mike Lang is a great pianist!

I guess not even Hennessey knew everything still lingering in the Campi vaults ...

Exactly! It was also included in some 2 LP drummers anthology on French CBS. But it was recorded at the Golden Eight sessions.

Thinking about, I would print a limited edition of 500 on a subscription basis, pre-paid, and when they're gone, it's download only - but I would offer a lossless format and a booklet along with the download.

That's nothing - when this went through the local radio news they told a whole series of similar incidents, inluding one of Joseph Beuys' fat corners being removed by a cleaning woman ...

Is there any booklet note in the Mosaic of A Shade of Difference about the version of Lonely Woman? Merrill replaced her vocal part at the occasion of the Landmark LP reissue - does the Mosaic reissue the Milestone version? I wonder if Cuscuna was aware of that ...

Exactly for that reason it is fabulously recorded!

I, too, have that Carter/Chestnut duo promo ... so that's why it sounded familiar. Soem nice suprises: I usually recognize Shorter instantly. Surman! That Portal track was disappointing to me. But Lloyd with Sco - the first time I really dug his guitar playing.

Late to the party, as always in recent months, but here's my take on BFT 91: # 1 - Very nice starter, took me a while to hear there's a voice along with the horns, beautiful writing, just much too short. I get the idea this is supposed to be an overture, but I'd really like to hear more! # 2 - That tenor sounds familiar. Strong Coltrane influences. Now who played like this with a guitar in the band? Guitar player shows Scofield as well as Metheny influences, paces himself nicely. I like this, much to my surprise. These players all know how to hold back in the right place and not overplay. Well, could this be a Scofield live track with Lovano? If so, I like this a lot more than any of their studio recordings ... I like the way they take it up and down. Yeah ... Who is this? # 3 - An almost fragile soprano sound, I should know who this is .... # 4 - Now some familiar tenor sound, but I just cannot pin it down ... Gene Harris on piano? # 5 - Nice waltz tune - could be I have heard this before. Oh - nice how they slide into some Jitterbug Waltz paraphrase. I like this - these two players are real free spirits! Who are they? # 6 - Gil Evans Orchestra - Priestess, Billy Harper's great tune - an absolutely fantastic piece, one of my favourites in Evans' discography! ***** IIRC this was on Evans' LP with Masabumi Kikuchi. # 7 - I don't like this trumpet player - a trifle flat, and not a very expressive tone, in my ears. This track doesn't move me, especially after that stunning Billy Harper solo in the preceding track. # 8 - Carla Bley's Ida Lupino on accordion ... this tempo is too fast, makes the piece lose it's unique quality. Paul Bley's solo version hits the only right tempo. # 9 - Doesn't do very much for me ... a bit pedestrian, sloppy intonation. Conga is tuned way too high. # 10 - Nice sound on soprano, expressive but not exaggerated - who is this? # 11 - Strangely tuned piano, at least tuned differently in comparison to the soprano. Strange mixture of advanced harmonics and some almost New Age gestures ... Thanks a lot for compiling, some very insteresting tracks among them! p.s. edited for a typo

FWIW, here's a Pony Poindexter discography I compiled ... please contact me if anything is missing. Disco Pony Poindexter.pdf