mikeweil

Just saw there is two more weeks of Max Beckmann's early graphics at the Städel in Frankfurt. I will try to catch that, especially since they have a parallel exhibition of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610), who influenced people like Rembrandt and Lorrain - Frankfurt's most important painter ever! (more)

Judging from his posts in the BFT forum he has a serious interest in the music.

Whoa--Sahib Shihab? How is this? I'm the lucky owner of an original MPS LP copy of this. Shihab plays sopranop sax exclusively on it, in a slightly orientalized fashion. It's nice, an inpsired meeting of jazz and Tunisian musicians sensitively arranged by Gruntz. There also is a TV documentary made for SWR tv by Berendt during the trip, which is very nice, and a HR radio recording of a later reunion that starred Joe Henderson that I witnessed at the Frankfurt jazz festival. Together that would make a terrific set!

I recently invested in a minor upgrade of my system - a new Pioneer amp with a very good phono preamp, and a better Grado Blue pickup for my Thorens - which resulted in so much better sound as far as vinyl is concerned that I really enjoy listening to my LPs again. It seems to me that the average balance between the recording process and the playback system is better with analog recording. But I also have a lot of CDs that sound excellent, and as many CD transfers that sound far better than the old LPs. I enjoy both, and regret the sale of many an LP over the years, but space and funds are limited .....

Last Sunday my wife and I caught the last day of Max Beckmann's watercolours at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. Glad we made it. More here. Before that it was 10 of Max Klinger's 14 graphic cycles in Neuss.

Some yes, some no: I got three with my order, with mixed results: Hal Gaylor/Billy Bean/Walter Norris Trio - this obviously is the US remaster and sounds okay Benny Carter Jazz Giant - too much treble Bobby Timmons Born To Be Blue - sounds like having been de-hissed so much you can't hear the cymbals any more - I was lucky: I just sold it on ebay.

I have a German CBS Michal Urbaniak Super Constellation with Adam Makovic on Rhodes, Wojcech Karolak on organ. They were good - that I still have it says it all.

I can't help but think this has to do with the very limited number of releases on Jazz West and the completist attitudes of Japanese reissue producers. With less than a dozen you have the complete catalogue covered. Jane Fielding (2), Jack Sheldon (2), Kenny Drew, Art Pepper, Paul Chambers, Julius Wechter - except for the last I have them all in some form. Only the Fielding and Wechter sides were not reissued in the US.

I bought Japanese pressings of the two Jazz West LPs many years ago in a vinyl sellout and never regretted it. Those two together with some unissued material would make a nice Mosaic Select.

Movin' In with Sahib Shihab and Specs Powell - a German Vogue pressing of a Roulette session. Large combo with lots of sweet trumpet from Ray Copeland and liner notes by none less than Dizzy Gillespie. The music is between swing and bop, good solos all around. Must be rare - I never saw that mentioned anywhere.

After consulting my dictionary I understand that (w)racking can be as painful as wrecking; both didn't lead me to the oldest CD, but I'm alive and well.

How long will the offer last? I can't buy anything right now but probably will be back on buying duties during the summer ....

I've been wrecking my brains but cannot remember the first CDs I bought - it was jazz, that's for certain. (I'm a bit surprised how many here bought rock and pop before jazz on CD ....) I do remember the first player, a Philips, and the first item I bought on ebay (Brahms' 1st Symphony conducted by Roger Norrington), but not the first CD ...... strange. My first three LPs back in 1968 were rock, though - Paul Revere & The Raiders, Cream, Pink Floyd. Then it was the Modern jazz Quartet, Herbie Mann, and Cannonball Adderley.

Two more primary baritonists that just came to my mind: Bill Graham (with Gillespie in the early 1950's) Pee Wee Moore (with James Moody and with Gillespie's 1950's big band) And what was the name of the guy who played in the Gillespie movie from the Cuban tour?

Nice site! Concerning doubling baritone players: I think they all made important contributions, because they always took it very serious whenever they picked it up, so I think they should be included in the list. But primary baritonists should be marked with an * or so. It would be strange to omit players of the caliber of Giuffre or Perkins from the list. Yesterday I listened to a record where Pete Christlieb played a very nice baritone solo! Would have been a great BFT item!

I updated the discography after getting some new info.

Gene Allen already there, Jack, but Jack Washington is a new name to me. Must look him up. One of the earliest? He was with Basie 1936-43 and rarely had an opportunity to solo, with Pres and Hershel in the band .....

Jack deJohnette, Have You Heard? feat. Bennie Maupin

Just found out that this Lp fell victim to one of my fundraising Lp sales in recent years. Another OJC to get before it's too late ....

I just confirmed that I still have the 45 of the follow-up, "Finchley Central" ....... Saw the on TV once - they really were not that bad. The dusty older editions of rock encyclopedias I just consulted do not show any personnel overlap between the New Vaudeville Band and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band. But there was a comedy show band that included several Vaudevillieans that toured Germany every year during carnival time, at least for some years: Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band. I always laughed heartily while watching their shows on tv.

Great! Now this is the baritone appreciation thread!

Terrible news, no matter how it happened - my thoughts are with him. A similar discussion is on the CongaBoard.

Wait until you've listened to my BFT # 37 before you call me boss man - mad man will be more appropriate - you want one, too?

Juli Wood (doubler), whom I included on BFT # 18. Roger Rosenberg Trevor Koehler Let's put up a list here - can you sort them by year of birth (and perhaps add nationality?), like I did on the vibes thread?