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Thanks indeed! And now that I read through your notes - I remember the Apollo material is definitely new to me indeed, and I did find out, but totally forgot to check it out so far.

here's a great tribute, including a run-down of a ton of records: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2014/01/roy-campbell-jr.html

Losin does not list these releases at all, I think? ... I never tried to figure it out - if you do, please post your results here! (Same goes for the Pres discs.)

(sorry, that's a pun I can never resist )

Happy birthday! But, but ... no microtones! - Though at least you did get the time signature right

This one? http://www.discogs.com/Dollar-Brand-Don-Cherry-Carlos-Ward-The-Third-World-Underground/release/3613693 Cherry's also on this: http://www.discogs.com/Abdullah-Ibrahim-Dollar-Brand-The-Journey/master/529781

Very much like the recordings of the Max Roach quintet with the Turrentine brothers snd Julian Priester, too!

disc two now

I don't wear 501s as often now due to the evolution of my waist line from 1980 through 2014. In the 'eighties they were all I wore if I had a choice. 510 here ... not that I'd fit into those Levi's ...

I've really bought it for the things other than Prez (Duke Jordan, Cecil Payne etc.) ... there's a ton of Parker (10 or 12 or so discs?) and some Pres (3 or 4 discs?) ... it was discussed in some detail here: I never tried to find out what exactly the Pres and Bird material is in detail (and haven't played any of it yet, either) ... but I think there's not much new to today's listener (i.e. Bird's Rockland is there, but I think at wrong speed ... but check the thread linked above for more).

another obit: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-amiri-baraka-has-died-20131224,0,7133089.story#axzz2pwEOHZyv

disc one - the Hackett/Teagarden (goes on into disc two)

Those were mentioned here and there, but I don't think there was ever a thread dedicated to them ... there's also a Miles and Coltrane Prestige (I think a Dolphy too), then a Chet Riverside, a Duke @ Carnegie Hall (the four double disc sets) ... and probably more. The only one I ever bought was the Rollins (silly story, I since passed it on to a friend), it had a booklet with just info on one side and cover on the other - a double page per album. No notes, no nothing. Some of the "real" Universal sets (remember those Concord-thingies are just a distribution thing, Universal handles the distribution of Concord's holdings in Europe - lots of OJCCDs were re-pressed, too, with the catalogue numbers amateurishly covered by a blank spot approximating the cover of the tray, and adding a new number plus a small Universal logo) seem to include better booklets - i.e. the Brownie box has the whole thing, as did the original one. Not sure about Bird, JATP, Pres and others ...

Burning Ambulance's twitter feed: https://twitter.com/burn_amb/status/421333028237877248/photo/1

This was planned for release back then ... so not sure it fits the "any other documents" category or was actually taped for release, specifically. It's stated in one of the two liner notes that Cherry was opposed in the early seventies (1971) to put out three year old stuff - but it's not made clear if that was the reason for it having been shelved. I'd say it's more "all over the map", and there's also Maffy Falay on trumpet, with whom frankly I'm not that familiar yet, so I couldn't probably tell for sure which trumpet bits come from whom - but there's some real blowing on these long tracks, for sure.

Wow, that's shocking news - horrible. I had a lengthy chat with him when I heard him play in duo with Joëlle Léandre in Paris in front of a handful of (lucky!) people at Sept Lézards ... since there was virtually nobody there that Friday night, they invited me to come back (for free) on Saturday. Here's my recollection from a while later, but with a much fresher memory than I have now: Here's the link to the programme of Oct 2007: http://www.7lezards.com/programme/10-2007.htm Friday night after the concert, around midnight or so, while taking a casual stroll back to my generous host brownie's place, right through the center or Paris, the atmosphere was amazing - France hosted the rugby world cup that year and had just beaten the Kiwi's 20 to 18. spinning this very good disc right now:

Actually I don't think ordering from amazon.it necessarily means the order will ship from Italy. Rather it will ship from the European warehouse that has the item in stock ... but then these Universal Italy releases don't usually seem to be widely available elsewhere, so they may be the exception in that respect and very likely will be shipped from Italy. I for one have ordered from amazon.it many times - when there was an issue, they were friendly and fast in answering (very much like amazon.fr and very much *unlike* amazon.de), so I'd say buy with confidence.

I've not played that for a long time, but remember it being messier/looser in a not that good way than the new one. (Referring to "Brotherhood Suite", didn't catch the post in between) Somehow I think Cherry's no big deal any more in general ... which is somehow sad. The long story in The Wire a few months back certainly had me reconsider, although I've not yet started to actually re-listen to his music (I've got much of the early stuff, but less of the later).

Gave a first listen yesterday (it just arrived) - sounds pretty good I'd say, but I'm no expert regarding that era of Cherry's career ... have had the Sonet 2CD set from Universal for many years though ... good stuff! First part (1968) is the Rosengren combo of that day with Cherry and Maffy Falay, second is a similar band with Cherry, Falay, Koverhult, Okay Temiz and prob. Rolf Ohlsson on bass ... all details here: there's a blurb on Caprice's website, also available in english: http://statensmusikverk.se/capricerecords/artikel/live-in-stockholm/?lang=en

Any recommendations regarding other YAL releases? And any hints on where to get them? I've been meaning to check out a few for years, but they never showed up anywhere. Don't even remember where I found the Lateef/Freeman, probably in some weird sales bin, where some obscure stuff would show up ... I miss those bins!

I'm not sure about the Hackett ... it's one I've been mulling over for years ... guess I might give in. For the first time, thanks to a pair of big orders in the past months (one paid for by my employer, many thanks! generous gift after having worked there for 10 years), I'm for the first time in a position where I actually have most sets around - just five or six left at this time (among them the Lunceford which I want badly, not sure I can wait for Mosaic to get it back in stock, but it's still cheaper for me than using jazzmessengers.com, which still seems to have it) - anyway, not showing off or anything here, it's just that I kinda caught up with where many of you have been for years, and it feels comfortable to be there (I have to confess though there are quite a few boxes around that remain unplayed or virtually unplayed as of yet - but with those, usually I knew a certain amount of music beforehand, so the curiosity was a bit lower than with those that are brand new - the Hackett would be one of those ... I've heard him, but none of these albums).

That's by far the best idea here (not that I knew that lady, but I'm sure she hands out coffee proper ... holy crap, 'merikins and their "coffee" ... microwave?!? gimme a break! )

The Crusaders is great! Also the live albums reissued (mostly, one's missing, I think) on single discs. And the Dizzy has been on the list for a while.

Good, not great, I'd say.

Happy Birthday, Clifford!