mikeweil

Well I hope the Gerald Wilson is still around next month ... Got the Parlan set today, two days after ordering. Incredibly fast service. It's # 3199. Some listening lies ahead ...

German news has it this evening that composer Mauricio Kagel died during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. He was 76 and still active, was supposed to appear on a Frankfurt symposion this weekend. To me he was a truly cosmopolitan composer, starting with his ancestry of Jewish, German, and Russian - his family has emigrated to Argentina in the 1920's, where he was born in 1931. He went to Germany (Cologne) to study in 1957 and has been a vital part of the German avant-garde scene ever since, transcending the boundaries of music and theater in his very own personal and often humorous and unorthodox way. He will be missed. Link to his publishers, C.F. Peters - scroll down for English text.

Yeah - the CD reissue includes both takes!

FWIW, his brother, Stephen Chambers, better known as Talib Rasul Hakim (* 08.02.1940 - † 02.04.1988), was a noted classical composer - it's in the family. from: http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/Library_and_Arch..._Collection.php

There was a Chambers tune on his very first Blue Note session, Freddie Hubbard's Beaking Point: Mirrors

We really need an album covers forum ...

Yes - listening to Wadin' right now. Them and Johnny Coles ..... had to choose between this and the Wilson, and I need this more ...

Oh my ... I shouldn't, but I hit the button this time. Hope the Gerald Wilson is still around when my funds have recovered ...

There's an interview with Gilmour in a recent Mojo magazine where he comments on how bemused he was at having to do those solo sets. Maybe it was the same with Wright. 10 minutes to fill - out come all the bits and bobs from his training. There's certainly some very 'Romantic' piano...all a bit Rachmaninov (or maybe Addinsell). Oh, that makes sense - sure sounds like this type of thing.

I have the Manteca LP, but no means to digitize it right now. I have Duality on CD, however, or rather the 8 tracks that made it to the "Waltz" CD on Discovery. PM me where to send a copy, if you have enough time to have it sent from Germany!

Oh well ... sad news. I thought his attempt at a piano concerto in his part of Umma Gumma was a bit bombastic, but his organ playing was fine. Liked him more than any other rock organist. May he play his organ eternally up there!

I have that one, and saw the band live before the session, and they were, of course, smokin' a lot more than on the record.

Like every other jazz musician, Monk wasn't in top form every night - compare the Live At The It Club and Live AtThe Jazz Workshop performances, which were recorded soon after one another. His playing during his Columbia years had a certain steadyness, like he was a bitt settled - rather consistent. I have nothing to complain about this.

I, too, got the large box from Zweitausendeins - didn't know there was a cubes edition of this one.

You'd have to make track by track comparisons to identify them - Crown usually changed the track titles. I have two Crown LPs I got for the Cal Tjader tracks on them, and they were re-named tracks from Fantasy albums, nothing new.

Believe me, he was! I've seen them all, and Kronberg was all fire and ice, where the others where still searching where to go. He was what he played, instantly, authentically - Lauer always sounds to me like an intellectual who mentally understood what people like Trane did, but has none of the guts associated with it. He's from a different world, as is Sauer - always that sour (pun intended) tone, rarely any beauty or real soul or groove. That's what I miss the most with the players over here, a touch of black soul and groove. Well, maybe that's just me. But too many players to my ears are playing for their own self-seaching, not enough for music for its own sake.

Yes, of course they did. Very fine they did. Perhaps he wanted it. But none of them was rhythmically as close to Monk as Frankie Dunlop was, as far as rhythmic conception is concerned. Just me, of course.

I dunno - but jazz work is scarce over here, and Sauer would have been dumb to quit playing in one of the busiest bands on the scene. That said - Sauer's playing is rather limited, IMO - the band they made after Albert changed personnel, Voices, had Albert's ex-sidemen with Bob Degen on piano, but it split when Günter Kronberg died, who was the hottest soloist in the band. I remember a gig where Kronberg blew all others off stage, including Sauer, Christof Lauer, and Gerd Dudek. Too bad he never recorded under his name. He was, IMO, the best saxist Albert ever had, and would have given Jackie Mac or anbody else a hrd time.

I think there rarely was a horn player with a conception really adequate for Monk. Running phrases and scales over chord changes won't go anywhere. What you need is a definitive rhythmic conecpt - Phil Woods did that on some of the Big Band sides, as did Thad Jones. But no other sax player. When Monk comps behind you, you must engage in rhythmic interaction. But no sax player I heard with Monk did that.

Someone bought it, for £74,90 .....

I don't think so. These items achieve crazy prices on ebay, but no label cares for them it seems. The CBS LPs of Mangelsdorff's bands have been reissued by L+R Records. But not the earlier stuff. There has been one CD that Michael Frohne, the discographer, compiled, a very limited reissue, I'll have to search for this ...

Mombasa! I can't remember how often I saw these guys live - the conga drummer of the second, Tom Nicholas, was my first idol. But these CDs are lame, sound compressed, controlled - the band was a killer live, and was never recorded adequately. Lou Blackburn agreed when I asked him about this. If you like the albums that much, you would have gone crazy over them at a live performance!

Bushler & Berk - a great team name, too! Well, Workman & Chambers, OTOH ...

Yes - Georges Arvanitas. That Curson band was good! Liked the Bushler/Berk team a lot. Berk went on to live in California,played with Cal Tjader in the early 1970's. Bushler was with Gil Evans and Tony Williams' Lifetime at that time - wonder what has become of him since.

Rather not ... his working bands is only Birds of Underground - all others are "projects" - I don't understand why Berendt didn't record his regular group more often. Albert was much more avant-garde than these albums show, he was a regular member of Schlippenbach's Globe Unity. But he was versatile. I always found the United Jazz Rock Ensemble rather bland - no black groove. I heard him live so often I don't need any CDs to remember him.