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Heard a wonderful set by Life and Other Transient Storms (Sten Sandell, Susana Santos Silva, Torbjörn Zetterberg, Lotte Anker, Jon Fält) at Artacts in March (the photo was taken in a small "box" set up for tiny solo sets) ... my favourite disc of hers so far is the duo with Kaja Draksler on Clean Feed, but I have yet to check out what she did elsewhere (she's got plenty on Clean Feed and it's probably all worth listening if you like her - which I do).

Only on Fresh Sound I think -- or is that another one (you mention Little and Coleman, but the one I have in mind has Paul Serrano and Bunky Green)?

Well, obiously Kirk's "Rip, Rig and Panic". His "Beautiful Edith" is quite wonderful, too. And Blakey's "Buttercorn Lady" is pretty strong, so is "Soul Fingers" ... and I guess "'S Make It" as well, probably, but I kinda hoped for some extended John Gilmore solos, which you don't really get, it'a confectioned Limelight production. The Golson and Jazztet material is strong - "Free" and "Plays John Lewis" would be my top favourites, but anything they did on Argo ... The Sims/Cohn are both strong, "Al & Zoot" possibly my favourite album of theirs. The Costa "Guys and Dolls" is very good as well. The Gryce is nice. So are the Herb Ellis and Mulligan CJB And Johnny Griffin "Night Lady", is mighty good, too! Speaking Europe, the Vander is nice (not essential I guess), and the Tubby Hayes is friggin' great! Might go for some of the Stitts (the one with Sims I've got in a previous Japanese edition, it's fun), the Bley, the Williamson, the John Young, the MJT Daddy'O, the Pim Jacobs ... or not, don't really know yet. There was this edition, in a series that was mostly compilations, but eventually they did some full reissues (a Don Ellis, the Griffin, a pair of Freddie Hubbard albums, some European stuff by Ingfried Hoffmann:

Missed this the first time around, but it's making a re-appearance end of Nov.: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VICJ-70051 Guess I better order NOW!

He played a wonderful duo set with Mat Maneri at Willisau 2016 (I was there).

Fan of Kris Davis, but not of Ches Smith here ... but I think the new Formanek is pretty strong, nonetheless. Regarding Günter Baby Sommer, lotsa love for him, but that duo with German tv beau Till Brönner really strikes me as weird. Brönner is a fine trumpet player (when he was very young, Johnny Griffin gave him a gig or two), but he also sat in the jury of one of those talent casting shows and is more of a poster boy it seems, than a musician dedicated to anything. It does seem (liner notes? someone mentioned something elsewhere) that Sommer is quoted as having enjoyed the encounter very much -- well, as said, Brönner can play. Still, I'm most likely not going to get that disc. Seems German Intakt subscribers got the Brönner/Sommer, me in Switzerland, I got the Aeby trio disc, which is, I think, the first meh disc of the subscription ... it's for people who like The Bad Plus and E.S.T. and the like, I guess, it's fine for what it is, but it's just not for me, I'm afraid. The Vandermark I've not bought yet either, there's just too much stuff coming out all the time ....

First spin over the weekend, enjoyed it a lot ... they also have a new Don Byron/Aruan Ortiz duo album out, gotta get it as well! "they" being Intakt, the logo is barely visible (top right corner, in white)

so is mine ... pre-order at amazon.fr, together with the Shaw (best price in Europe, at least when I checked last week)

I can relate to better albums/better player very well indeed. And to "ways of saying"/"things to say" as well. Favourite album, pressured to name one (that is, one besides "Somethin' Else", of course ) would probably be "Nippon Soul" or "Cannonball in Europe", both with the sextet w/Lateef, which is easily my favourite band of his (though the earlier quintet with Timmons and then Feldman comes close). However, the in-the-pocket groove of the mid/late 60s band and then Cannon's very, very good playing on top ... it took me a while to get to the point ("Live in Japan" was one early exception, "Mercy Mercy Mercy" never did as much for me back then) ... is an alltogether satisfying experience.

But BGO has such foogly layout ... quite a threshold for me (except for stuff hardly possible to get in other forms ... Carr/Rendell, Graham Collier ... most recently Arthur Blythe). I've got - and love - the Mosaic, guess I will stick with that.

Haven't really explored "Radio Nights", but the other two, yeah (though Lloyd - respect and all - somehow always seems like the lightweight version of "deep" to me ... which is an art of its own I guess but not one I'm all that keen on, so far). Also, I've loooong have had a weak spot for this:

But what about Real Gone Jazz? We all know it's a new joint venture by those 2 guys already. They're the 77 albums on 0.3 CDs label, lousy design, sometimes it seems mp3 pressed onto CD, lacking info ... thou cannot get cheaper than that, would be an epic fall from the (partly self-proclaimed) parnassian heights of Resonance. (Edited for lousy typing on lousy remains of phone.)

So the holiness almighty of Resonance/Elemental goes euro pd pee pee now? Or is there nothing you can really tell? Real Gone Jazz (not the same as Dustygroove related Real Gone Music, just in case) would definitely not bother about any substantial booklets (though I agree having the design team of Resonance isn't worth all that much, the design is merely okay at its best).

On that feast of capit'lizm they call Black Friarday: https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10461 I guess/hope CD will follow somewhat later?

Popular these days I'm afraid ...

So same "Other Aspects" (silly addition, reducing the really new material to 70 min) or other "Other Aspects"? Why is 1962 part of the title (edit: not of title but of info on rsd site, see link above; disk union says 1964 instead, which is prob. wrong - or it was 1964 actually, and the info on the BN CD is off?) - 'cause of previously released Aspects? I'm already not that enthused about this release, that is for sure. And Resonance should cut their hyperbole, big time!

Excellent disc indeed!

Hm, seems if they left off the bonus track (they could hsve added one more to the first Dexter disc, after all, ix it's thag good), that Haig portion would have fit in .... too bad! Either, good news ... has me wonder if Elemental is a 2-musician-reissue-label though

Up to 32+ minutes per side ... high quality vinyl? Details: https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10435 I'll gladly wait for the CD. The ca. 155-160 minutes playing time, so neatly matching two CDs (I know that could go into 170 min by now) has me wondering though if we really get *the* comprehensive package here ...

His br'er's nut? Not sure I need to know that Other than that fantastic news!

So 15 or 16 new Art Ensemble albums? Now *that* would be a feast!

Certainly to me as well, but that's the ethical/moral point of view. I was wondering about the legal one. And different question: at least with European labels (which Gearbox is, yes?): doing the right thing would include more than a deal with the Monk family ... sidemen/heirs, composers etc. Even if it's all PD. My guess would be when doing it "right" in Europe that would normt extend beyond "deal w/Monk family" usually (and even that isn't usual of course). Either way, slippery slopes galore ... which was what led me to wonder about the purely legal perspective in the first place (not saying "legal" is "right", but I think I have said that already).

Saw this in a store today, here in Udine (rather: the corpse of what must have been a fine store once) ... and wondered: so this hasn't been around previously? No previous boot or PD (as this is I guess) release? (Ah, Monk family nodded approval ... from a purely legal point of view - which isn't one we ozght to take all that often, but knowing it may help): does that make a difference?)

"Ahmad's Blues" (though I've passed it on by now, same for "Cross Country Tour") is definitely still one of the most played discs of ny life! Glad to have the Mosaic, but for many years that disc gave me the Jamal fix whenever I needed it ... tremendous stuff!

Thanks @Ken Dryden! I'm not long enough in the game to know such details (started buying Mosaics about 20 years ago, when I found out about them by reading a review of the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh, which was the first I got). So while I did get some older ones (including the Stuff Smith ), I had no one around to tell me how this all worked (most of what I have learnt about the record business I have learnt from you good guys here).