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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!

And some by Gil Mellé, right? @Rooster_Ties Thanks, however there's not "buy it now" price and I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow ... bad timing

Thanks ... but great: the only sane offer on discogs (30$ sans shipping) is unavailable for me in Switzerland ...

I know, but *I* don't have it ... and I don't think there are offers for sane prices (US offers are not game, with the crazy shipping costs added), hardly any offer under 100€ that I can see ... is the TOJC okay or should the later one be hunted (which seems a pretty impossible mission anyways).

Hoping to catch Sheila Jordan again tomorrow night ... and then off for Padova for a short vacation, including catching Chicago London Underground while there. Too bad that Randy Weston is playing the same night nearby ... but I've seen him twice and Mazurek is never around here, plus I made my decision long before took note of the Weston gig (which hopefully has long ago sold out anyway), so ...

Still missing Tyrone W. ... and was quite shocked recently when I realized "Unit Structures" had its last "big" reissue in ... 1988?

You're giving away the Stuff Smith/Dizzy Gillespie too cheaply ... glorious music!

Well, I would assume they did consider that option when the destruction of CD masters happened ... and they nixed it. And back then, sales probably still were quite a bit better, so I really don't see this as an option. Also, wouldn't all those sets have "timed out" by now? My understanding is that only the EMI-held sets (such as the Mobley) would not time out after such and such number of years. Third, if amassing pre-orders before re-pressing is the way to go nowadays (Bee Hive set), do you think they'd get enough of these to bring back old sets that many do have? And finally, printing booklets and stuff is probably about as expensive or more expensive compared having CDs pressed ... there has been quite some change/fluctuation in paper/printing quality in the past 10 or so years it seems, some were high gloss, some were sturdy paper, some were rather filmsy, some had cover pages printed on paper of the same weight as the rest (thus they have no real "cover") ... this doesn't inlfuence the whole idea of bringing back sets, but still still would have to be part of considerations I assume.

Yup, sorry to say

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio (w/Drew Gress & Kenny Wollesen) last night - was fantastic! Their recent Intakt disc is mighty good, but live the same tunes got much longer and I guess more intense/dynamic ... first set was a whopping 90 minutes, second another hour, for an encore they had to do a free impro as they'd ran out of tunes it sempt.

I came to know the same day that Météo festival announced its 2018 line-up - which includes a solo concert by Tippett on opening night. No one told them about it?

Same here! Two terrific sets indeed!

Same here ... also waiting for the Wilson as I thought it would make sense to combine the order.

Very sad - but what a long life! This then might be his final album - and it's a fine one!

You guys have Milestones on ignore?

That's sad - I think music has gotten way too cheap, and if even avid listeners (not just casual consumers) are willing to pay for it ... either way, I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with all the HighNotes to offer a qualified answer to your question. Off the top of my head I'd say "On Tour Volume 1" is the best of the entire bunch. And that possibly you can skip the Onkel Pö disc, albeit it's very good.

Pricey? 16$ I think ...

He is also a member of the Gary Peacock Trio, which I understand is the kinda successor of the Keith Jarrett Trio (Marc Copeland on piano) - I know only this album from last year, but it's pretty good. Not sure Baron really is among the top current drummers (Marcus Gilmore, Eric McPherson, Tyshawn Sorey, PNL, Mark Sanders, Steve Noble ... and most certainly Andrew Cyrille amongst the veterans, and I guess Louis Moholo on a good night, too), but I've always enjoyed his playing, that's for sure

Thank you all! @brownie was looking at your wonderful Cecil Taylor Unit photos on Jan Ström's Lyons site again lately @Daniel A The past couple of years were really busy with concerts ... I started checking out classical music in concert about two years ago and am taking immense pleasure out of it. 2-3 concerts a week (including an opera once every 2-3 weeks, and plenty o'jazz as well) weren't too rare. I am also still sometimes travelling to other places, some nearby (Basel, Lucerne), others further away (Novara, Mulhouse, most recently the festival in St. Johann ... and coming up the Chicago/London Underground in Padova), combining vacation with a bit of live music. So yeah, lots of stuff going on ... and I guess it's what keeps me goin', though I've started a new job in December at the archives of the city of Zurich, and that is a big help, too--a step in the right direction, out of the (fringes) of the global financial world into an area that combines my professional skills and expertise (records and information management, as they call it) with my academic background as a historian ... So things are looking really good around here, I'm happy to report Yet obviously, all of these activities (and a trip to India in between jobs, last October/November--I posted some snapshots) keep me from spening my used-to-be regular amount of time on music sites.

Danke Michael & Nikolaus! Not much of a programme last night, out for an early dinner though ... but planning on catching some movies with (young) Claudia Cardinale tonight and tomorrow, hearing Regula Mühlemann and the Basler Kammerorchester (conducted by Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, a nephew of Arturo) on Sunday, and then on Monday catching the new Jelinek play at the local theatre ...