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What's the source? Not doubting, just asking ... Never a personal favourite that spoke to me directly, but he has made a handful or really nice records ... the twofer that reissued his two Saba/MPS albums in the nineties was the first I heard (and one of my first encounters with Woody Shaw, certainly my first encounter with Carmell Jones). This here is probably my favourite album of his (followed by "Rules of Freedom" ... but I think I actually never heard "If", and don't really have a decent copy of the Domicile rekkid, which is mighty good, too): Regarding the Paris Reunion Band, this seems to be their earliest album (1985) and it feauteres all of the guys (Reece, Shaw, Slide Hampton, Griffin, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Woode and Billy Brooks - who's on one of the MPS albums already):

from an earlier thread on the Lateef/Knepper "Tracks in the Sand" sountrack (by Mills):

Thanks @ep1str0phy for your lengthy and passionate post above! Cecil's death, even to me as a non-practising musician with absolutely no real experience as a performer, still ... his death leaves a huge gap. And has me in state of I have been playing his early music, with Neidlinger, Charles and Shepp (and Earl Griffith, Bill Barron, Ted Curson ... I skipped the album with Coltrane) ... the trio sides and the album w/Griffith contain some astonishing stuff indeed, the quartet isn't always successful in my book (and the two all star cuts even less so, though Roswell Rudd is great in his solos - he digs into the music with gusto, quite unlike the other horn players), but still, a tune like "Cell Walk for Celeste" definitely produces something totally new. Those two trio cuts with Sunny Murray (probably?) and the two with Billy Higgins show signs of where the trip would go, but it's the short Impulse session where things really gel for the first time. Grimes/Murray are pushing things onto a new level, and Jimmy Lyons is wonderful and fresh even on this first session ... also, the R&B links are there, in "Bulbs", more openly than ever so far, I think? (The part on Stevie Wonder in Richard Williams' remembrance is really telling!) Then I also played the Montmartre/Nefertiti material again (I see that the PD reissue of it, also OOP by now, contained the Stockholm tracks initially on an Italian bootleg LP ... anyone can help me out there, drop me a pm please!) - and that is so monumental! So intense, still so fresh after all these years - there is a true shock moment there, with Murray splitting up steady time, yet still propulsing, swinging like mad ... and Lyons channelling Bird into his own idiom ... and at the heart of it, Cecil on piano, tearing it up. tune after tune after tune. This is truly cathartic stuff, and the fact that I know it doesn't change the experience one bit. Will need to revisit the sixties stuff (check my blog for some ...) and some more of the later recordings including the late 70s Unit ... also played "Air Above Mountains", "Indent", "Praxis" and "Leaf Palm Hand" over the past few days. The last one, in duo with Tony Oxley, represents the only setting in which I was able to catch Cecil Taylor live. Again, it was puzzling and weird (his dancing around in his white long underpants and with no shoes, approaching the piano as if it was a raging bull ...) but astonishing in so many regards. -- There's an unfinished sentence above, I know ... I don't find the right word and I guess that is telling again and a good display of the emptiness/decomposition/bleakness I feel.

Absolutely! And that may indeed have been reason enough to travel to London again! And yup, would love to read some about the concert!

This hurts. Thank you for the music ... and the life!

NoBusiness or DarkTree ... or possibly Mr. Nessa

Which Parker? Charlie, Evan, William? Obvsiouly envy you, too ... went catch a concert of the planned Golia/Bradford tour in Januar 2017, but then Bradford had to cancel because of an accident ... saw him live only once, with Gjerstad/Circulasione Totale, and that was amazing - would love to catch him live again!

Rouladen ... never heard them called that (hey there @Gheorghe ) - we call them "Fleischvögel" (aka "meat birds") - and yes, only plural (singular would be "Vogel" ...) And make sure not to mix "Vögel" with "vögeln" - that "n" ending for plural isn't always correct - in this case what you'd be saying instead of "birds" would be uhm, "to shag" ... - but to make it confusing, in some cases - linguistically speaking that is - "Vögeln" would again be the correct plural of "birds" ... then you surely do know Alfie and his quest for "birds" too, don't you? cheers!

I guess the whole controversy must be addressed in the new booklet, too? It looks great (as if they take better and mo' better care of that actually, as the series evolves ... first booklet was supposed to be lost, then they invented better sleeves, then they had cool design for lost q, then they had great design for Newport, then a small motivation crisis but still cool looks for FIllmore, and now again great design and lots of cool photos) but I haven't yet read anything in it. However, this old post of mine quotes some excerpts from the old (early/mid 90s) french Europe1/Trema/RTF release of the two Paris concerts (discs 1 & 2 contain the March concerts with Coltrane, discs 3 & 4 the October concerts with Stitt):

all three mighty good, methinks ... bought "Float Upstream" at a Tim Berne gig recently (trio w/Ducret and Rainey) and was a bit hesitant, as the previous Intakt disc by the same band didn't really do it for me ... but this new one is strong! And "Asteroida" is outstanding, I think! So is, btw, another recent piano trio on Intakt: Stephan Crump's Bordlines Trio (with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson) "Uproot" probably isn't for everyone, and it took me a couple of spins to "get", but I consider it excellent as well (and had the pleasure of catching the quartet on stage a couple of weeks ago at the artacts festival in St. Johann, Austria).

Same here, plus one corner bumped (which extends to the LPs, though the visible damage looks minimal - they must have taken a hard hit somewhere along) - as usual, amazon's packing was as lousy as gets. But either way, at that price I am not going to complain about anything

Wot!? Double wot!? You guys deaf or jes dumb? Seriously, I love that album w/Hawes! Some great blues, plenty of great Mingus bass playing, and then that fantastic take on "Summertime"!

Yup ... seems the cheapest price offered during the entire pre-order period was 42 cents lower than when we ordered. Guess I could pick it up tonight, but as I'm going to a concert and don't want to carry along anything, it'll have to wait until tomorrow after work.

Cool beans, Chuck! Will order mine from Spain for once, can't wait!

Regardless of end of civilization rants (they were true at any time I guess and will remain so) ... The Shelly Manne on Contemporary was most likely one of those long-sellers that sold numbers over the course of the decades that would have pushed it into the charts if it sold those numbers within the first months?

Mine has shipped!

Was not expecting any music last night, but Ken Vandermark was sitting there with his instruments, in the midst of Petra Cvelbar's fine photographs. He did a four piece solo set, I guess around half an hour long, starting with a clarinet piece for Lee Friedlander (circular breathing, falsetto stuff, got pretty shrill and weird at times - some of the audience left after that ...), then honking on tenor, then back to clarinet for another great piece (still consider clarinet he's best on clarinet!). For closers he bunrt it up on tenor with Ayler's "Love Cry". Mette Rasmussen was in the audience, and later jaimie branch dropped by, too. Now looking forward to the first actual festival night!

Got a reply now And another couple o' for Mr T!

Sad news. Time to spin that duet disc with Fred Anderson again tonight!

Traveling there tomorrow ... artacts'18, St. Johann in Tirol, 8-11 March 2018 (the festival proper starts on Friday, but I'm in need of vacation right now ) Looking forward to hearing @Alexander Hawkins again, first time in the band with Elaine Mitchener (get rid of those prejudices against singers and get the Intakt CD!) ... also looking forward to hearing live for the first time jaimie branch, Dave Rempis, Lotte Anker ... and most of all, Susana Santos Silva! -- Donnerstag, 08. März ‘18 19.00 h Exhibition by Petra Cvelbar: SWEET ADDICTION Freitag, 09. März ‘18 ab 19.00 h Flunger / Berghammer / Vicard / Gnigler Elisabeth Flunger - metal percussion / Thomas Berghammer - trumpet / Alessandro Vicard - double bass / Jakob Gnigler - tenor saxophone followed by Branch / Rempis / Håker Flaten / Østvang Jaimie Branch - trumpet / Dave Rempis - reeds / Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten - double bass / Tollef Østvang - drums followed by Gasser / Massaria Clementine Gasser - 5-string-cello / Andrea Massaria - guitar followed by Shelter Ken Vandermark - reeds / Steve Heather - drums & crackle box / Nate Wooley - trumpet / Jasper Stadhouders - e-bass & e-guitar Samstag, 10. März ‘18 15:30 Joe Williamson solo Joe Williamson - double bass followed by Vandermark / Hessels Ken Vandermark - reeds / Terrie Hessels - e-guitars ab 19:00 h Mette Rasmussen solo Mette Rasmussen - alto saxophone followed by Life and Other Transient Storms Susana Santos Silva - trumpet/flugelhorn / Lotte Anker - tenor/soprano saxophone / Sten Sandell - piano / Torbjörn Zetterberg - double bass / Jon Fält - drums followed by Mallaun / Harnik / Poore Martin Mallaun - zither / Elisabeth Harnik - piano / Melvyn Poore - tuba followed by Oliwood feat. Trevor Dunn Oliver Steidle - drums, compositions / Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone / Kalle Kalima - e-guitar / Trevor Dunn - e-bass Sonntag, 11. März ‘18 16:00 Performance/Sound installation by Elisabeth Flunger Elisabeth Flunger - performance/sound installation ab 19:00 dieb13 / Didi Kern Dieb 13 - turntables / Didi Kern - percussion followed by Alexander Hawkins / Elaine Mitchener Quartet Elaine Mitchener - voice / Alexander Hawkins - piano, compositions / / Neil Charles - double bass / Stephen Davis - drums / followed by Castelló / Duthoit / Agnel Sophie Agnel - piano / Angélica Castelló - paetzold, tapes, electronics / Isabelle Duthoit - clarinet, voice followed by Ken Vandermark's Entr'acte Ken Vandermark - reeds / Mette Rasmussen - reeds / Nate Wooley - trumpet / Elisabeth Harnik - piano / Jasper Stadhouders - e-guitar / Terrie Hessels - e-guitar / Joe Williamson - double bass / Dieb13 - turntables / Didi Kern - drums / Steve Heather - drums http://www.artacts.at/Artacts-Programm_pid,53003,type,newsliste.html

Same here ... but yes, it's a wonderful book indeed, and most helpful (I've got the Blue Note one, too, eventually, but it's still sealed I think, after 2-3 years ... rarely happens, usually I open everything right away ... but then we all know so much about BN, and comparatively so little about Granz and all his activities. That's what makes the book so interesting, I guess: it starts out early, with his concerts in LA (those jam sessions where Nat Cole and Lester and Lee Young would appear), then JATP, then his releases on Mercury, the start of Norgran/Clef, the evolvement into Verve, the big JATP and later package tours (that still ran under the JATP moniker) ... excellent documentation, and lots of photos and stuff (flyers, posters etc.)

I sent a "hello" yesterday and realized my initial mail dates back to late December ... time flies! New job, new life, kinda ... and less present on the interwebs these days, but still dropping by here, every now and then, often just to read though. Either way, it does somehow feel a bit as if the Mosaic era may come to an end (they started doing reissues before that got big, they keep on doing it for a longer time than most did ...) - though I certainly hope to be proven wrong!

No clue ... wrote about combining my pre-order with a pre-order for the Savory ... no reply. Either trouble is so that they're gone or they're so far outta trouble that they no longer need my money ... Definitely not Mosaic-like

They don't answer mails by customers anymore, do they?

The Nocturne box doesn't count as it was legit to begin with ... and of course you have a point, even official release sometimes are produced by cheats