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just found this in the sales bins yesterday - after having known a few live sets from dime, it's nice to own something by these guys and the gal: Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer - [em] 3 I find it hard to put in words what they actually do... it's quite European to say the least, it's groovy (but not of the EST kind, which always bored me to death), it's impressionistic and it goes into some strange harmonic/melodic fields now and ten. Yet it's not at all difficult music I find, and at the same time it's pretty rewarding.

This is just a shot in the dark... I have a spare copy of the Bud Shank/Bob Cooper Mosaic Select and am looking for the Pacific Piano Trios Select. Anyone?

Weird and getting weirder... anyway, I'm not compelled to buy anything (besides whatever new official/legit release may turn up).

Thanks for the alert, bought me a copy of today's "Liberation"!

Thanks for spreading the news, I'll be looking for that new release! I saw some kind of 2CD (DVD?) package of "Electric Ladyland" from MCA recently, what was that, also some kind of making of thing? I think it was a CD plus a DVD, but I can't remember.

r.i.p. I think all I've heard is one of those Concord discs, but I can't even remember its title. I'd love to hear the Riverside one, looks like a great one, with that line-up!

Alain Jean-Marie - Lazy Afternoon (rec. 1999 with Gilles Naturel & John Betsch) Reissued on the second disc of "After Blue" (Jazz in Paris "Hors série 5"): I think his solos are better though... I'm only just discovering his own recordings, really, though I've had his excellent set from the "Jazz 'n (e)motion" box for several years. That one's from 1997 and includes a few wonderful songs related to films (inclduing "Touchez pas au Grisbi", "The Connection", "A Felicidade", and several each from "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music"). The solo disc on the above 2CD set is titled "Afterblue" and was recorded in 1998. It also includes a few interesting songs, such as "Some Other Spring" and one more Irene Kitchings tune, "Ghost of Yesterday", as well as many originals by Jean-Marie. As this is off-topic here, I think I'll rather start a thread about him!

Several favorites have been mentioned - Don Friedman (the albums with Attila Zoller added are great as well!), the Wolfgang Dauner on L+R (a recent discovery here, too!), Buster Williams' "Houdini", and the John Williams trio disc on Fresh Sound! Another one I just heard for the first time: Roy Haynes - Just Us (with Richard Wyands and Eddie de Haas) Richard Wyands has a fine trio disc available on Storyville, too (with Lisle Atkinson on bass!), "Then Here and Now": Other favourite piano trios, of the more open kind, included Colin Vallon's trio and BraffOesterRohrer (their website should be here: http://www.braffoesterrohrer.com/ but it's been hacked, it seems, Braff's page is here: http://www.malcolmbraff.com/): Colin Vallon Trio - Ombres (Unit Records) & Ailleurs (hatOLOGY) BraffOesterRohrer - Walkabout (Unit Records) Both are Swiss, both have the great Samuel Rohrer on drums. You can check out Braff's album here: http://www.malcolmbraff.com/mp3/?p=BraffOesterRohrer%20%28A-Trio%29/Walkabout

He had a long career and was making films until recently... haven't seen many though (and skipped his last one, which didn't sound very interesting). Anyway, when I'll get a chance to see some of his films on the big screen, I'll certainly catch it (I missed out on his last retrospective here... I think something else was running at the local cinematheque at the same time, forcing me to make picks...) Le Monde's obit: http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2010/01/11/mort-d-eric-rohmer-legende-du-cinema-francais_1290329_3382.html#ens_id=1290326

Oh, and for historical reissues, definitively the Getz/Barron "People Time" box! Oh, and for historical reissues, definitively the Getz/Barron "People Time" box!

So did they finally come up with the 100TB ipod or what?

You're welcome! I had to think a while to remember where I read about that Asch story...

Gee, am I the only one of the non-review-writing people here that has hardly any 2009 release in his collection at this point? To me, discs from 2007 and 2008 are still brand-spakin'-new, I just can't keep up! I got the latest Threadgill (not listened to it yet though), a recent release by BraffOesterRohrer (though the recording is from a few years ago), and I know I'll love the Von Freeman disc Chuck put out (I've known the recording for a few years and am happy to see it officially released). Other than that, some other recent ones that would come to mind are all older than 2009 (Steve Kuhn's Blue Note disc from 2007, Charlie Haden's fine "Rambling Boy" from 2008, I think?) ok, going through the lists... I also have most of Chuck's 2009 reissues, as well as the Lucky Thompson, but this being mainly about new releases... I'll definitely get the Halvorson/Redding hatOLOGY disc some day, though (and I'm going to look at it as brandnew when I'll eventually do so, in a year or two ) And I also have the Freddie Hubbard disc...

These two titles are at the end of disc 2 of the 10CD JATP 1944-1949 box set - all the following info is taken from the CD booklet: Joe Guy, Howard McGhee (t), Willie Smith (as), Illinois Jacquet, Charlie Ventura (ts), Garland Finney (p), Ulysses Livingston (g), Red Callender (b), Gene Krupa (d) February 12, 1945, Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles. Oh, Lady Be Good (11:57) How High the Moon? (13:57) Announcement by Al Jarvis (0:24) 78s: Asch 453-1, Stinson 543-1 (parts 1 & 2 of How High the Moon) Asch 453-2, Stinson 543-2 (part 3 of How High the Moon, part 1 of Lady Be Good) Asch 453-3, Stinson 543-3 (parts 2 & 3 of Lady Be Good) 10" and 12" 33 RPM: Stinson LP 23 from John McDonough's "An Introduction to JATP": *) March 5, 1947, Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh (with Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, Willie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Flip Phillips, Kenny Kersey, Benny Fonville, Buddy Rich on "How High the Moon", the same minus Hawkins on "Bell Boy Blues", and the Kersey-Fonville-Rich trio on "Boogie Woogie Cocktail" and "Sweet Lorraine". "How High the Moon" was Clef 107 (parts 1 and 2) and 108 (parts 3 and 4) and Merc/Clef 11009 (parts 1 and 4) and 11010 (parts 2 and 3) "Bell Boy Blues" was Clef 2001 and Merc/Clef 10016, and the trio cuts were on CLef 8948 (and Clef EPC 125). The whole concert was on Merc MGC 508, MGC 608, Clef MGC 608, Verve MG Vol. 1, VSP/VSPS 15 (all 12" 33 rpm).

Happy Birthday, David! :party:

Crap - that's the case with my Hubbard "Blue Spirits"! The CD has 7243 5 94318 2 6 (made in EU) The paperwork (all of it) has 7243 5 94317 2 7 (made in the US) This was bought sealed in a local (Swiss) store and was definitely new and untouched! I guess I'll drop Blue Note an email about it, as it sucks even more having a copycrap disc when it shouldn't be one (I bought a few Conns because they were cheap, so I'm ok with that, but not with this, were I intended to buy a regular non-CC disc!)

Happy Birthday Patricia! :party:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Well, I'm just testing, I have been able to dig up MSIE8 on my computer again (I had no shortcuts, no folder under "Start\Programs" etc, very weird), and that split-window is only in MSIE7, which I have to use when at work. But if you're using a private computer, why not upgrade to MSIE8 and solve the issue? Or get Opera, which I'm using at home most of the time, and like best by far, among the browers I've installed (I hardly use Firefox, I never got used to it, so I can't say how it compares to Opera).

Gigi Campi died on January 6, 2009. Pierluigi (Gigi) Campi (* 15. December 1928 in Köln; † 6. January 2010) was an Italian jazz producer and architect, from 1949 to 1980 he ran the famous 'gelateria' cafe Campi in Cologne which hosted many jazz concerts and soon became an established meeting point not only for local artists of all kinds but also for international musicians, in the 1950s he founded Mod Records and the label Old. Since 1983 he was involved in the renovated Art Deco location 'Alter Wartesaal' inside Cologne's central station, since 1997 his family also runs the bistro inside the WDR main building. Campi's discogs entry: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Gigi+Campi some german links: wikipedia entry campi im funkhaus obituary from "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" Campi had Francy Boland play at his gelateria for the 1959 carnival in Cologne, with a few other musicians. This marked the beginning of the Clarke-Boland big band, which Campi designed around Boland and those musicians. In May 1961 they recorded "The Golden Eight" for Blue Note, and then in 1966 the Clarke-Boland Big Band played its first gig. Campi managed the band until 1969. This is roughly my own paraphrase of the jazz-relevant bit of the German wiki entry, or rather of the CBBB relevant bits... for his own Mod label, he had started recording artists like Jutta Hipp, Hans Koller or Attila Zoller back in 1954.

Yes, and the four Carlyne reissues from the seventies... and the one later Carlyne, and the Black & Blue trio album, and "Onirica" and the one on Minium... all recommended! And of course the early "Joue Bud Powell" which was reissued in the Jazz in Paris series!

Ah, didn't realize that... so my best guess is, it's a live show from around the same time!

Very nice video, thanks for posting!

Congrats to Mr. Urtreger (is he Sire now, or what's the title they use? Knight? :-) ) A trio set recorded in December war recently broadcast on France Musique (on Jan. 2, to be exact) It can be streamed for another few days (until Jan. 9, I think) here: http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/bleu-nuit/emission.php?e_id=65000052 (click on the headphone on top right) Edit: move forward to ca. 10:00 to hear the live recording!

Ok, just listened to this - it seems indeed to be one live show, and the band given above could be right, the line-up being t/tb/ts/p/b/d. It's definitely Bob Cooper on tenor (and when there's oboe on "Angel Eyes" that's sort of the final proof), and it could well be Levey, Candoli and Rosolino. I'm not familiar with Dick Shreve, so I couldn't tell... I didn't hear many of those Powell-like runs that Claude Williamson sometimes play, rather the piano is more basic and a bit funkier (and there's some "moaning" along, too, if that's an indication). The tunes segue into each other with applause in between - that's no proof, I know, as this can easily be achieved by crossfading etc. However, the whole disc sounds like recorded under the same circumstances. I also compared the timings to the respective sessions where these tunes show up, and none of them fit. (I didn't dig up the "Jazz Erotica" and don't have the Stan Levey album where one of the tunes appear.) There's one session (which again I don't have) where two of the tunes are included, that would fit from the line-up, and also I think from the date (although I'm not sure I could really differentiate between a 1955 session by the same men... it does sound newer than, say 1953, though): Are there any further titles on that release? That may be a further indication... Anyway, I guess the liner's indication that this is a new release is correct, then (but the liners are a joke, really, which is why I second guessed them initially).