mikeweil

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.

This one is availabel as a single CD reissue and not a part of any of the boxes ....

IIRC that's one of the best of the bunch. I found his studio album always a little restrained. They should have recorded the band with Peter Giger live, they were wild. Too few live recordings by Albert's working band. Joe Behrendt was Orrin Keepnews European counterpart, in this respect.

I knew this was issued but never saw a copy. Was on my search list for decades! Where can I get this? p.s. found it - the Florida saurian ships to Germany.

Just my thoughts - Mark Twain banned? I don't get it. Who did this? Too bad the site linked doesn't explain the reasons ...

ebay link LUCKY THOMPSON - BONGO JAZZ - Bertelsmann (Germany)66126, orig 1st pressing. Lucky Thompson (sop) Fats Sadi (vib) Benoit Quersin (b) Gana M'Bow (bgo) Cologne, Germany, February 7, 1959 · Cool night · The world awakes Ado Broodboom (tp) Jack Sels (ts solo) Lucky Thompson (ts) Jean Fanis (p) Fats Sadi (vib) Benoit Quersin (b) Rudy Frankel (d) Cologne, Germany, February 7, 1959 · Ginger · Minor works This is extremely rare - the first time I saw a copy offered. This has never been reissued. If anybody here decides to buy this, please burn me a copy - I can't afford it right now ...

This hasn't left my players at home and in the car since I got it. People tend to forget Willis and Masekela made friends in the early 1960's a the Manhattan School of Music, Willis was Masekela's regular painist for some time, parallel to working with Jackie McLean. His groove is every bit as great as Herbie's, who's another old friend of Willis. A largely underrated pianist, IMHO. Just for the fact that he played with Masekela and then BS&T, which doesn't seem to make the same reputation as other bands ... Gomez, OTOH, was playing funky grooves on the bass with Jeremy around the same time - he isn't associated with that style very much but he was one of the first to have it down.

Oh my - I remember watching that on tv at the time - I remember Gary Windo screeching like mad, biting his reed. A wild band. I liked the trumpeters, I remember Charig and Beckett. Skidmore ... well ... was his own scale-running self. All those horn players were all around the British progressive scene, playing with Keith Tippett, Soft Machine - Nick Evans and Griffiths made nice contrast, too. I should check this out ...

What is Ashley Kahn going to write up next? I'm not sure that I want to read label stories ... now if he'd cover Prestige, Savoy, Fantasy (that would be a hard one), Riverside, I probably would go for it. Aren't there any other jazz albums of the stature of Kind of Blue or A Love Supreme?

Mike what you are using many might consider audiophile! Thanks for the kind words - but I have the impression that it starts with equipment costing at least five times as much!

I used the link posted above and it worked perfectly just aminute ago ...

This Blue Thumb double LP was finally reissued in the Verve Originals series. All ten tracks, re-mastering is okay - I had to boost the treble a bit, as the recording is a bit muffled. The drum set sounds awful - some rock kit available in the London studio, kickdrum as dead as a concrete post, toms with plastic heads tuned as loosely as possible ..... but the playing is fine. Hugh Masekela - fluegelhorn Dudu Pukwana - alto sax Larry Willis - piano, Wurlitzer electric piano Eddie Gomez - bass Makaya Ntshoko - drums Recorded at Island Studios, London, January, 1972 1. Part Of A Whole (Caiphus Semenya) 2. Minawa ( Sekou Touré) 3. The Big Apple (Caiphus Semenya) 4. Uhomé (Miriam Makeba) 5. Maseru (Hugh Masekela) 6. Inner Crisis (Larry Willis) 7. Blues For Huey (Kippie Moketsi) 8. Nomali (Caiphus Semenya) 9. Maesha (Caiphus Semenya) 10. Ingoo Pow-Pow [Children's Song] (Caiphus Semenya) All South African writers, except for Willis' best known tune - I'm not a collector of South African jazz, but I loved this one ever since I got a cut-out copy of the Impulse LP reissue in the 1980's. Spinning the LPs I rarely got past the first tune, which I almost wore out - I dig these ostinato grooves, and the tune has some unexpected turns. Great chord choices. Caiphus Semenya wrote many great tunes. The CD will finally give me a chance to listen to the other tracks ...

I'm very happy for you and your machine which costs four times the one I'm looking at. Yeah, but it has a harddsik which allows you to store several hours of live recording or whatever - the TEAC allows to work only on one project in real time. If you have a pair of good stereo mics and a pr-amp you cab make excellent recordings - a friend of mine has one and its a great machine.

p.s.: I, too, spend way more money (too much) on CDs than playback equipment. My low-budget equipment (listed here) is good enough for me. The music is more important to me than top-notch high end machinery. Especially as it only reveals recording more flaws the better it gets, and many high end recordings are only second rate, musically.

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In capitalist America, everything is under copyright - don't worry, someone will be there to claim the royalties.

28682 posts - that would add up to $ 2.868.20 - not enough to give up his day job. If they started paying him from the start, which I seriously doubt. That money is put to better use financing Organissimo CDs ... They should pay some people for each post they do not post - but that is rather hard to verify ...

I take it Chris removed them before he left, or did they somehow "die"? I think they were lost in the one great board crash last year - many uploads were gone after that one.

If I were Jim, I wouldn't give a damn about your or anyone else's post count ...

A simplistic, b/w view of attitudes in this survey.

Wish you a great one, no snakes, much good music!

"INDIE Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle" ???????? what a sh...y piece of research ...

Today is vinyl day: First, Sam Most's Debut LP from the Xanadu reissue Second, Bill Evans with Jeremy Steig, What's New (Verve) now: Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton, A Day In Copenhagen (MPS) - this is a killer album, with Dexter in top form swinging like mad and a slightly knife-edged tone similar to Yusef Lateef's - highly recommended. Dizzy Reece is in the band, too, and Kenny Drew, NHÖP and Art Taylor.

The Dead Rock Stars Club is a good website to look this up - they list most jazz musicians just as well.