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Grab the file for #83, too, please (see sign-up thread for details)! Would enjoy to have you aboard!

Yes indeed!

What a great idea! I'd absolutely love it!

Wanted to buy the "Plastic Dreams" MJQ disc that I left at the store last week... it was gone, instead I got me the Herbie Mann & João Gilberto in Rio De Janeiro disc with Jobim... quite nice, that one! Been circling around for that one for years, but since I get into that bossa mood again now and then in the past weeks, I went for it.

I know... I just copied the promo blurb from the guys who actually produce this reissue. I've sent in my order for sure... the stuff was around in blogland several years back but much of it failed to ultimately grab my attention (which too rarely happens anyway if I'm just listening on the silly ipod with earbuds - I want a physical product!) So this reissue is most welcome to me, if just to own the first (and I think best) of this bunch of albums.

So, the link's been out there for a while, has seen more than two dozen downloads so far (more takers are of course welcome - check the sing-up thread for details). Time to start the discussion then... There's no theme to this compilation, it's merely a selection of more or less obscure stuff (and some less so) that I enjoy and that I wanted to spread word about. As always, I'd be most interested to read some impressions, thoughts, reflections etc about your immediate reactions to the music - what do you like, what not, why? But if you're just in for the guessing game (good luck!), that's fine, too... I'll try and follow this thread regularly and post some replies whenever I have to add anything! Thanks in advance for your participation!

I don't think this has been mentioned here... Limited to 500, with exclusive liner notes by Benjamin Looker, author of the book "Point From Which Creation Starts: The Black Artists' Group Of St. Louis" This album was originally released in very small numbers as a private pressing in France in the year of 1973. The new reissue has been made from Oliver Lake's LP, under the assumption that most likely, the master tape is no longer in existence. Joseph Bowie: Trombone, Conga, Miscellaneous Instruments. Baikida E.J. Carroll: Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Bass, Log Drum, Cowbells, Miscellaneous Instruments. Charles W. Shaw, JR "Bobo": Drums, Woodblocks, Gong, Miscellaneous Instruments, Stylophone. Floyd Le Flore: Trumpet, Miscellaneous Instruments, Voice. Oliver Lake : Saxophones, Flûte, Marimbas, Mud Drums, Miscellaneous Instruments. Recorded Live in memory of Kada Kahan. Recorded Live in Paris – Aries 1973. "The Black Artists Group was an unit not unlike that of The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Except they only recorded this one document and it only came out in France on a label named after the group. This is squeaky, spindly stuff and very OPEN and a good indication of what was happening in the early 70′s with members Oliver Lake (later of the infamous World Saxophone Quartet) and Joseph Bowie (Art Ensemble’s Lester Bowie’s bro, later to start Defunkt). If you like Art Ensemble of Chicago (circa the 1970s) and the Human Arts Ensemble, you’ll like this recording. Needless to say, this music is hard as hell to come by." (Thurston Moore) More on the BAG on Oliver Lake's website. The LP is being reissued by Rank Records, based in Berlin. More information can be found on their website: http://www.rank-records.com/ Expected date of release is Feb. 21, 2011.

Look for some of his own sessions! There's the OJCCD pairing a date of his featuring Mulligan with the Fantasy Mulligan quartet tracks, for instance. Also lately some yurpeen boots... on topic: wrapping up my Hill 63-66 listen with two gos through the session for "Compulsion" and two (or three - I'm in the middle of the first now) to the not-so-great session with Sam Rivers. SWEET! Thanks I will take a look around Amazon. Chubby Jackson with Gerry Mulligan??? Sounds great There's also a great Chubby Jackson track on BFT #82... check there for a first sample!

So Chubby Jackson it was - great track, that one! And I finally ought to listen to that one Steve Lehman disc I bought nearly a year ago... The Giuffre is embarassing... got that disc, of course. Lovely, lovely stuff! Thanks a lot for this fine BFT of yours, hope mine will be an adequate follow-up... discussion will be opened tomorrow!

Look for some of his own sessions! There's the OJCCD pairing a date of his featuring Mulligan with the Fantasy Mulligan quartet tracks, for instance. Also lately some yurpeen boots... on topic: wrapping up my Hill 63-66 listen with two gos through the session for "Compulsion" and two (or three - I'm in the middle of the first now) to the not-so-great session with Sam Rivers.

sending pm on: Teo Macero – with the Prestige Jazz Quartet Duane Tatro – Jazz For Moderns Lem Winchester – Lem’s Beat

> here < some fine stuff mentioned there!

I have that Heiner Stadler disc - a fine one indeed! The biggest surprise to me is #8 - Al Sears?!? Wow!

Had no idea he's ill. Just played "Dialogue" three times on Sunday - and it really opened up my ears! I don't think I really "got" that one before, but really discovered it's beauty yesterday!

so? I still don't get this "user review" culture... but I guess that's what lots of folks tend to fall for, these days... but it seems to fit Germany's Next Top (ha!) Model or these silly jungle shows much better than a high quality operation like Hat! Anyway, the Braxton looks mighty interesting!

Been playing Hill all day - sessions D-H, all but the final two multiple times, and in between three runs through "Dialogue"

That's strange, when I click on the link in my post above, I get the page with the samples; the "alle anhören" button is right in the centre of the page. May depend from which country you open it... I'm not able to buy MP3s from there, also. Not that I wanted to, but...

I get no such button and no samples whatsoever on amazon.de... but I don't mind, my set should soon be on it's way. However, my order from last Wednesday has not yet been confirmed other than by the automated e-mail so far. Guess that all has to do with the cut-downs at Mosaic.

Playing discs 3 and 4 (Point of Departure) (and more) of the Andrew Hill Mosaic today :tup

Yes, they are... but while the Album Classics disc come in basic cardboard sleeves, the "For All Time" set has a sturdy box housing the five respective CDs in Sony/Legacy editions with their typically fine booklets/notes and all (not sure all of them have been made available separately, but "Time Out" and "Time Further Out" have and they're identical to the versions in the box).

That's a weird ranking... only know the Farlow yet, but his flow and swing are unmatched among other guitarists, in my humble opinion. What I heard of Pass' from that period (for instance in the Gerald Wilson Mosaic) has sounded great and I'm looking forward a lot to eventually getting that box, too... Anyway, I guess to me it's all apples and oranges, in the end.

It says 1961... and an excerpt on youtube says it's a commercial that wanted to animate people to place commercials in jazz films? Huh?

That's great, Jim! Anyone knows where this comes from?

Very sorry to hear that, Paul!

Love Roy Eldridge! The Mosaic was a revelation in many respects! Also the Paris 1950 recordings are pretty good... and some later Pablo stuff, too! And the trumpet/drum duos done for Granz are a fine proof (if any is needed!) of how adventuresome a musician Roy was!