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...and Jazz Magazine has swallowed Jazzman in the meantime...

do you all have electronic agendas and stuff? would take me a while to compile it all AND to add the dates... some that do come to mind: Mary Halvorson Trio (very, very good!) CéU (great!) Richard Bona (total disaster!) Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley (fantastic!) Cesaria Evora (short but sweet) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (heady, but interestinga nd towads the end when they did the Bowie homage, it got real swinging!) Carla Bley & The Lost Chords (terrific!) Dave Douglas Quintet (fine, but Uri Caine's quite a bore...) Sun Ra Arkestra (a huge fun party!) Circulasione Totale Orchestra (how nice to see Bobby Bradford in person, and how sweet his trumpet sounds!) Roman Schwaller Quartet feat. Jimmy Cobb BraffOesterRohrer The Klezmatics I guess that's about all... I posted some impressions about some of the concerts over here:

rather than starting a new thread... thought this might be of interest to some here - annoying story! Jack Kerouac’s estate went to his mom, instead of his third wife. When mom died, she gave it back to the wife, cutting out his kids. Was mom’s will a fake?... more

Warren Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Paul Whiteman

I happened to stumble over the Stein/Fitzgerald Progressive disc - gave it one spin so far, sounded very good! Bob Dorough is on piano and Paul Motian on drums, recorded at Van Gelder's in 1955. On bass, there's an Alphonso Cotton on bass. Both Stein and Fitzgerald sound good enough, and Dorough is always nice to hear (no singing, just in case...) Funny, but there seems to be a punk guy called Warren Fitzgerald as well, and AMG wants us to think he performed songs by Hal Stein... http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hbfuxqt5ldke

I've not heard anything but "Grab This" and the albums with Amy (on the Select). Fine player - r.i.p.

Funny reading this old thread... having seen some of Oshima's films made me remember Imamura, and a search brought up this thread. I must have seen a thousand more great films (many of them classics) in the meantime, and it's a bit embarassing to see some of the "favourites" I posted here, years ago!

They're essential sides. Most of them are available on the Classics Mezz Mezzrow 1936-1939 CD. Also on a Hugues Panassié Sessions CD from the Hot Club de France that I see around off and on. Will try to pick it up for you! That would be most kind! I've never seen any Mezzrow Classics around here!

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I've not heard the music that brownie mentions, but I'd love to! These Blue Note sessions are indeed special, and I think the 2CD Blue Note Jazzmen set would sort of fit what you're lookig for (but it IS different). The HRS Mosaic set is great, loads of great music there, and quite a bit of it would fit the bluesy small groups you seem to be looking for. Here's one that might fit as well - it's less blues-based, but it's bautiful, I just played it again last night: http://www.mighty-quinn.net/EdmondHall.html

Well, with Lagrene, Miller and Galliano, it seems to not only come from Sony/BMG.

NORK - mentioned in the first post... I got the Retrieval recently, still need to play it! I finally played the whole set last weekend. The best of it is glorious! But yes, it's a bit uneven. Though still a fine package that comes highly recommended! (mine has the beige frame cover though)

ok, since I mentioned in the "2009 top ten" thread how far behind I always was... a few 2008 favourites include: Alpine Aspects - Homage to O.C. (Universal Austria) O.C. is Ornette Coleman of course, and this project features Wolfgang Puschnig, Herbert Joos, Jon Sass, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Reinhart Winkler with the Amstetten Brass Band (dir. Robert Pussecker). Sort of an Alpine, or rather Tyrolian, look at some of Ornette's tunes (Peace Warriors, Latin Genetics, Theme From a Symphoney, and In All Languages) as well as some Puschnig and Pussecker tunes, and a traditional. Stefano Bollani - Carioca (Emarcy/Universal) A latin jazz project by the great pianist - beautiful music! Charlie Haden - Rambling Boy (Verve/Universal) A discovery for me... having discovered some of the early 70s stuff by Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, the Flying Burritos etc, I went further on and got some more Johnny Cash etc. This came in handy, and to me it feels very genuine and the music's beautiful. Aldo Romano - Just Jazz (Dreyfus) A fine quartet with the great Géraldine Laurent on alto, Mauro Negri on clarinet, Henri Texier on bass and the leader's drums. Mostly short pieces, including some Romano staples (Lontananza), a pair of classics (Maple Leaf Rag and Black and Blue), and some tunes with clear dedications (Township, Chick Webb). A fine example of working in the tradition without sticking the head in one's ass... And of course some of the great reissues dedicated to South African Jazz need to be mentioned (they've been mentioned by others above, but this is my own list now...): The Blue Notes (Ogun Box) and all the Fledg'ling reissues by Chris McGregor

I'd sure be there if I was in Paris, Tom!

some discussion about how the film came to be here:

Thanks, Brownie. Minimal in the sense of lacking personnel info? I would imagine that the EMI has better sound, though, since EMI made the original recordings. my own, rough translation from "Jazz Magazine" Jan 2010, p.26: "Collecting the recordings from the Pathé catalogue (EMI), 'Djangologie' was one fo the first large complete editions on LP ever dedicated to a jazz musician, and was a reference until the appearance of the compact disc (...). Three decades after the advent of CDs, EMI finally offers a CD version for a price around 51€ with (mini lp or digipack?) sleeves, facsimiles of the 18 original sleeves, with no liner notes or an additional booklet." Further the short review says it's actually not complete, spanning 1928-1950, with 2 bonus CDs (27 "unreleased" tracks, their quotation marks) from the Rome sessions in 1949 and 1950. "If you compare it with the track listing of the complete edition on Frémeaux, you'll see that in fact there are but three unreleased titles: Nature Boy, Night and Day and a third version of Micro. The rest is more complete on Frémeaux." And then they add a note snorting at EMI for being one of the biggest obstacles for Frémeaux!

So are these licences by someone? Or did all the labels get together and decide to do these 5CD set?

Seems the EMI "Djangologie" has minimal info... Frémeaux is the route to take, I guess!

The Galliano has been around for a while. Those are Dreyfus discs... are they part of Sony/BMG now?

Happy Birthday, Tom! :party:

Those four tracks are on this one: http://www.amazon.fr/Collection-Jazz-Paris-Renaud-Digipack/dp/B000051TKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1263589232&sr=1-1

Moncur in 1970, with the AEC? What's the story about that?

so I got my package today... Eureka Brass Band (AMCD-70) George Lewis with Kid Shots (AMCD-2) Baby Dodds (AMCD-17) Bunk Johnson - 1944 (AMCD-3) Bunk Johnson - 1944/45 (AMCD-12) Kid Thomas and His Algiers Stompers (AMCD-10) George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers Vol. 1 (AMCD-100) Papa Celestin's New Orleans Band - Marie Laveau (GHB BCD-106) George Lewis - Beverly Caverns Sessions + Beverly Caverns Sessions Vol. 2 (Good Time Jazz) these will keep my busy for quite a while

Very sad - a terrific drummer. His "Out of the Storm" is a hell of an album!

bump... still waiting for that order I mentioned, it went under in mid December, but when I wrote to ask about it yesterday, I got an answer immediately and they promised to send all the discs this week! I can't even remember what I ordered (that site - jazztime.ch - doesn't create automated emails for order confirmation).