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Legit in Europe but not in the US is my assumption (which actually is true for the flood of PD releases that we saw in the past dozen or so years).

There's a new film on the label as well ... my parents asked me to join them for the Sunday matinee next weekend - not expecting all that much but am curious. https://bluenoterecords-film.com/en/film/ blurb from there: The film explores the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in search of uncompromising expressions. Through current recording sessions, rare archive and conversations with iconic Blue Note artists, the film reveals an intimate perspective of a legacy that continues to be vital in today’s political climate. Legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter come together with today’s generation of groundbreaking Blue Note artists such as Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire to record an All-Stars album. These reflections lead us back to the highly influential figures of the past on which the legacy of Blue Note is built: Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Miles Davis. The Film strives to transmit the values that jazz embodies and that Blue Note has been promoting since its inception: freedom of expression, equality, dialogue - values we can learn from and that are as relevant today as they were when the label was founded.

No idea @Big Beat Steve, and frankly not sure there's any such thing as "Erfahrungswerte" with the current state of affairs anyway. On the positive side, they arrived towards the end of the alphabet and have just sent me a shipping notification

Last night heard Pierre Favre (celebrating his 81st birthday today!) with a quintet and an all Monk programme ... gee, that was fun! Line-up: Nils Wogram (tb), Samuel Blaser (tb), Philipp Schaufelberger (g), Bänz Oester (b), and Pierre Favre (d). They were crazy enough to do "Brilliant Corners"!

No shipping notice yet ... ordered months ago, to be shipped together with the Teddy Wilson. Hope it works out ... maybe dropping them a not tomorrow.

Ha, same here! Three Threadgills actually as I was still missing out on "Old Locks" too.

First spin right now ... just got took out of the mail box on the way home from the daily grind - and yowzah, my feet keep dancing! Did @Alexander Hawkins forget to alert us all in good time or did I just visit the site too seldomly to catch the news? Either way, saw the group play in Italy around two years ago, and it was a hoot. And so is the disc. The tracks segue into each other and the whole thing builds and builds, Edwards and Hawkins are intense and it seems that's what's needed these days to really push Mr. Louis to deliver his best. I think that gig in 2016 was the last one I heard where he really hit it hard ... I've heard him several times after, in London as well as in Italy, but never in working groups and not with groups that really pushed him constantly, though he's of course always wonderful to hear and see! Anyway, the rhythm section gels and the two horns match wonderfully on this recording from a bit over a year ago at London's Café Oto. Yarde contributes some mean soprano - dig him on #4, "Ezontakana (Those Little Birds)". But I guess the best thing is how beautifully they melt together, i.e. on #5, a drop-dead gorgeous take on Dudu Pukwana "B My Dear". So yeah, finally documented on disc

Well, it is a mess ... the two Laserlights are fully covered by the Frémeaux (CD1 plus CD2#1-2) it seems, then contains a whole bunch of addiitonal tracks (CD2#3 to end). The Fantasy/Universal Alhambra disc contains a few tracks not on the Frémeaux then, and also a "Rockin' in Rhythm" (without "Kinda Dukish"? I didn't double check) that may be different ... Bottom line: I don't really trust the info provided by these releases (dates/venues) ... not sure anyone has cleaned this up (the DEPanorama site just lists the Fantasy disc for instance, didn't check Lord or Bruyninckx yet).

I don't think so ... and would strongly consider him a much more interesting, involving and characterful player than Potter or Russell ... funny enough that the other really good Bird/40s bop bassist, Al McKibbon, is on the other Nichols sessions for Blue Note.

And Herbie Nichols of course! He and Max Roach ... not too shabby

Couldn't say I'm a fan but yes, fine bass player for sure.From an Ethan Iverson interview with Charlie Haden: EI: Is there another 50’s bassist you want to mention? CH: Teddy Kotick. EI: Oh? I’ve never really listened to him carefully. CH: You’ve got to listen to “Kim” with Bird, Hank Jones and Max Roach. Also, he’s on the first Bill Evans album with Paul Motian, New Jazz Conceptions. Great intonation, great sound, gut strings. He died too young. https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-charlie-haden/

Thanks! Goes straight onto the CDjapan wishlist!

Interesting, thanks - never saw the "other" one before, was completely unaware of it!

This here seems to be the most active thread on Woody Shaw ... so two questions: 1) what's this (just announced by CDJapan, there is a 1975 Dexter Gordon item, too)? http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/KKJ-1029 2) are there two albums w/Tone Jansa, or how does this relate to the rather well-known "Dr. Chi"? http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/CDSOL-6359

No news as far as I am aware of ... The Ellington may have been surplused by the Fremeaux set, but I've been unable to determine how exactly they (in my case the Pablo and the Fremeaux, I skipped the JiP one) relate. Rather superficial info, surely on purpose. Pablo/Fantasy: JiP is identical I think. Fremeaux: Some info here: https://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=64&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=1819&option=com_virtuemart Also saw this one on Laserlight for the first time ... the SACD editions sometimes (always?) where shortened editions on one disc from two disc CD editions as far as I know (bought an SACD by mistake once and was pissed): The CD listing on aFR doesn't have a tracklist, doesn't even tell if its a double (someone not on vacation an restricted to dumbophone can certainly figure out that part) Ok, two ... earlier CD edition: https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-Alhambra-29-Octobre-1958-Part-1/release/11087005 https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-Alhambra-29-Octobre-1958-Part-2/release/11087092 Same as Fremeaux? (Not doing that myself on phone) Fantasy/Pablo/JiP fully included? (Note: Fremeaux says it covers multiple nights ... so: different versions?)

I'd like to know that too! The one digit volumes most likely ... but I wonder where the "switch" is these days.

The problem is: early volumes are CD-Rs by now (and obviously/crookedly not sold as such) by now ... else I'd have them all, but as it is, that's depressing, I didn't have the funds or enough interest in Ducal sounds whe the series started ... I think I'm up to Vol. 22 with the recent ones and will definitely get the following volunes but am not yet sure what to do about the missing earlier ones ... -- Duke Box 3 though, I'd be all for it if there is still enough material around!

Sad news. Was he actually still performing? Took me quite a while to get his qualities ... but yes, fine player. The Prestiges are herewith officially delegated to Fresh Sound for reissue (or are they too late for that? Fegh Disney fehg The Beatles fegh the Jacko heirs fegh el tupé!)

Hm, okay ... one thing: most of the CDs bought from Trueblue back in the day *did* have a particular smell actually, not a bad one but a weird one ... I think I noticed the same on other discs delivered from the US, but never with ol'yurpeen ones ... must be that smell Dvořák had in mind when he wrote that symphony (or not )

Maybe that's why he writes "one of the last"? - for a career that went on for five more decades, I think that's a sound way of putting it. After all, up to that point, Taylor had recorded plenty of standards ... and "This Nearly Was Mine" is a standout! Regarding the apocryphal stories and episodes, I wouldn't mind Shatz mentioning them, but the insistence on them being true is indeed problematic. But obviously, the grown-up reader will still harbour his/her doubts ...

Spread reading over two days .... excellent article indeed. One tiny gaffe that is weird as it seems the research and/or fact checking was done thoroughly: Taylor's contribution to "Into the Hot" can't be considered "big band".

And I saw Ed Partyka conducting a Big Band and backing up Sheila Jordan last night ... first time I saw Ms Jordan was back when we met in Vienna. She still has it at 89! Weber ... so far not really a musician whose stuff I got into much. Maybe time to give it another try. @mikeweil off topic here, but Aynur will soon play Zurich. Won't make it though, way too many concerts all the time ...

Yup, I have a copy of the other TOCJ actually and I like it! But somehow, in all these years, I just never managed to find it for sale.

Thanks, excellent reading!