mikeweil

I had no idea he was still alive. R.I.P. Oh the times when friends or DJs were immortalized by jazz musicians' song titles .....

Portal doing a perfect Jackie Mac imitation - who would have thunk it! Never heard of Pinky Winters - one more for the wish list. Never had any doubts about the quantity or quality of French jazz musicians, but this is a humbling compilation. Great, brownie!

Yes, that mal Waldron is one to look out for, even though I'm not totally happy about the bass sound. Cyrille - how precise and modern he is! One of the best modern jazz drummers. A shame I didn't get him ....

... et merci beaucoup pour les discographies!

.... oh, and that typo in the thread title is really cute .....

I wish I could remember where I picked up this rumor - I thought it was in the liner notes to the CD reissue of Monk's Blues, but it wasn't. Well, Columbia wouldn't have done themselves a favor by seeing that mentioned in a reissue on their own label .... That Monk's recording career ended with the misguided choice of Nelson as arranger is another tragic turn in his career. Among the unissued incomplete takes from this session is Teo Macero's Thelonious' Rock .....

One more track from this excellent session, A Ball For Othello, was issued on a French CBS anthology about drummers, Les Rois de la Batterie.

AFAIK Columbia really wanted him to do an album of Beatles tunes after the big band LP with Oliver Nelson ...... Monk doing "When I'm 64": We probably would all have ROTF .....

I happened to find a used copy of the Solal from a German amazon marketplace seller - turned out to be in mint condition, and was cheap! The music, on the other hand, is first rate - did you know this was recorded at the first occasion the Village Vanguard re-opened after September 11, 2001? This reflects in the music, somehow .... Solal plays with a stirring tinge to his music. One of the great originals in modern jazz. Get it if you like modern piano trios.

I'll be in Vienna for a gig next weekend and have a day off before we return - maybe I should try and go meet him?

R.I.P. Mr. McLean ....................

Ordered the Tatum Group box today ... an irresponsible gap in my collection will be stuffed.

Oh no .... I wanted to get both, but just crashed my car .....

That was the first that came to my mind, too. Atlantic had a policy of using jazz musicians on R&B sessions to get a more polished sound. George Duvivier, Connie Kay, and Specs Powell did a lot of these as well. Hell, all of the players did some time in R&B groups at the time! Wasn't there a Ruth Brown session with Kenny on it?

Well, they do! ........ at least on German TV ...

Oh No! This brings some tears to my eyes ........

Yep - 1951 and 1952. Cal Tjader was his successor.

Well, yes, Drums of Passion was recorded August and October, 1959, but released in 1960, and without horns. Just percussion and vocals. The next Olatunji LP - with horns and in the highlife style - was recorded January and February, 1961, and probably hit the shops by the end of that year or even later. The album called Highlife talking about the "new dance sensation" was recorded in December, 1962. That reduces the time gap considerably. Maybe Lateef played a part: he was on Blakey's The African Beat (recorded January, 1962, with Ilori participating) as well as on the first Olatunji highlife sessions. But, well, Hosea Taylor also played on dates of both leaders .... when Olatunji switched to Roulette he had Marshall Allen and Pat Patrick - all of these players had experience in jazz as well as African and/or Afro-Carribean music. Clark Terry plays nice solos on the Olattunji highlife albums, BTW.

At last I will get me this thanks to Zweitausendeins adding this to their Fantasy sales list - I will comment here as soon as I had a listen.

Judging from the personnel - four hand drummers - this sounds like another highlife session, not anything similar to the Byrd album, which had a vocal chorus. This is highlife music, not jazz, which shares some traits with jazz, and is certainly inspired by it, but is a style of African popular music from the 1950's and 1960's (same applies to the Olatunji sessions on Columbia, BTW, which also had solos by jazz musicians).

Too bad I just recently cleared my PayPal account - I'll donate some as soon as I have some $$ back on after my next CD sales. Absolutely nothing against CDU - never tried them but certainly will at the next occasion.

Same here with the Gil Evans: I wondered about the condition of the tapes when I heard the sound of the first US CD reissues - a Japanese of one of the two sounded the same. If they coulkd do something about the sound, I'd go for this, especially as it will be both one one CD. That Hill is great - and with Hubbard and Henderson on board the sales potential is there. Yes it was in the Mosaic box. I have TOCJs of the Blakeys and Ilori, and they sound fine to me - no need to upgrade. The Blackburn should be nice - I saw him with Mombasa (not Mombassa !!!) several times. The AMG on this group is not correct - they probably never heard the band nor their records, which were disappointing, bad sound, not as inspired as their performances, which were always fine. The music had African overtones, but was jazz at the core, some African rhythms and themes inspired by African impressions, but little authentic African material. And I never saw a player who was born in Africa in the several editions of that band! Not even the percussionists! My first conga teacher Tom Nicholas (who was from Philadelphia) played in that band.

......... a-klook-a-mop ...... Hope you'll have a less straining life in you next year and many to come!

The one I always looked at was a certain album covers thread, but it seems to be gone .....