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The good people at Lonehill released this double CD set which includes material which was never issued previously. How did Lonehill come across unissued material? From reading the threads on the board, I thought they just did redo's of stuff from previous commercial sources? I don't know, but that's a great two cd set. Yes, excellent! But in my opinion, it would have been better (less pirate-like) if they'd omitted some of the "bonus tracks" on disc two (mainly the Fantasy session that's part of the excellent "Theme and Variations" twofer CD, which contains a fine unreleased date that you'll miss if you stick to the Lonehill).

well, from my own experience army and mental health don't really go together anyway... army is more like organised/chanelled and socially sanctified insanity

double-posting this, for those who don't follow the "gig a month" thread: On Wednesday (Nov 4th), I caught Dave Douglas' Quintet (Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine, Matt Penman, Clarence Penn). Excellent concert. Great tunes, funny, charming, groovy, from marching band to dixie, from Masada to gypsy, from Monk to Ornette... Douglas and McCaslin were excellent, both with plenty of dirtiness in their sound, and lots of punch. Clarence Penn was terrific as well, very lose in his feel, very relaxed yet very poised and often very busy, sort of a groovier/funkier version of Elvin at some times, it seemed. Penman had some fine spots as well, but they were rather few. He and Penn were excellent in their backing though. Uri Caine was - interestingly enough, as Douglas kept pointing at him "the GREAT Uri Caine on piano, these tunes were written especially for him, and especially for him on grand piano" - pretty superfluous and boring. Of course he has great technical skill, but the piano was totally uncalled for in these tunes. They'd be much more open-ended without a harmonic instrument, and the clean sound of the piano (as Caine played it) was not a good match for McCaslin and Douglas' sonic inflections. Anyway, on top of that, Caine totally lacked humor in his playing... Still, it was an excellent concert!

Caught CéU on Friday 30th - excellent gig (see the "Hard Bossa" thread for a short review). On Wednesday (Nov 4th), I caught Dave Douglas' Quintet (Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine, Matt Penman, Clarence Penn). Excellent concert. Great tunes, funny, charming, groovy, from marching band to dixie, from Masada to gypsy, from Monk to Ornette... Douglas and McCaslin were excellent, both with plenty of dirtiness in their sound, and lots of punch. Clarence Penn was terrific as well, very lose in his feel, very relaxed yet very poised and often very busy, sort of a groovier/funkier version of Elvin at some times, it seemed. Penman had some fine spots as well, but they were rather few. He and Penn were excellent in their backing though. Uri Caine was - interestingly enough, as Douglas kept pointing at him "the GREAT Uri Caine on piano, these tunes were written especially for him, and especially for him on grand piano" - pretty superfluous and boring. Of course he has great technical skill, but the piano was totally uncalled for in these tunes. They'd be much more open-ended without a harmonic instrument, and the clean sound of the piano (as Caine played it) was not a good match for McCaslin and Douglas' sonic inflections. Anyway, on top of that, Caine totally lacked humor in his playing... Still, it was an excellent concert! Next up: Cesaria Evora on Nov. 12th, Carla Bley & The Lost Chords on Nov. 20th, and possibly on Nov. 22nd The Klezmatics. Not sure the wallet will allow all of this, alas... but tickets vor Evora I have already.

It seems Jost isn't interested much any longer... a friend of mine tried to get him to talk some by sending emails, but he seems to escape from questions. I guess this generation of producers might just well go and call it a day once their time here comes to an end, without actively trying to keep their legacy alive... sort of like their legacy will go when they go, too... that's sad, but then they can do as they please, of course. I'll have to get some of those Jazzwerkstatt reissues, some good ones there!

There's an earlier thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18722 Weren't there some issues about the FMP releases in the UMS series? (Related the split/breakup/fuckup of FMP as whole... the "wrong" party let Corbett do reissues or something like that?)

Oh yes, same here - the Enja is great! But I never went looking for other discs of his, for whatever reason (there's so goddam much to search for, after all...) Freddie Waits is the drummer there... and Jones blows some beautiful clarinet, in addition to his tenor. At some spots, it sounds like an updated (mingus-ized?) version of the Jimmy Giuffre Three... it's rootsy more in a folksy than a bluesy kind of way (and after all, rural folk - and blues of course - is often more "rootsy" and seems more honest about that than cool urban hardbop blues, no?)

seems so, after all... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Allan

The above is the only other disc of his I have, besides Yakhal' Inkomo... I think I'd agree that the earlier stuff is stronger, but the one I just got also sounds pretty good to my ears!

The spelling is Danilo Rea - he's good, although I haven't heard much from him so far...

the liners from Losin's scans can (almost?) be read:

Oh yes! I'm sure it was mentioned in the underrated Mingus albums thread... amazing stuff! The "Todo Modo" part is fun as well - and that film (with a different soundtrack or mostly a different soundtrack) is great as well, classic 70s euro political thriller...

holy holy - another huge thread to work through...

The Bill Evans Album is out again, at least over here in Yurp, in a cheapo edition, regular jewel case but just a one-fold booklet with bare-bones infos. It's part of a whole series (including albums by Duke and Miles and Brubeck... some silly cheapo series designed for casual buyers, I guess), that comes with a beige frame around the cover: I agree about Piano Player - it's worth having only for that Rosie movement! In general though I'd say these two Columbia discs are but a footnote in Evans discography.

trying to figure out what's on that compilation... tracks in italics are omitted: Jazz At The Philharmonic CD 1 JATP All Stars feat. Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson & Lester Young 1 The Drum Battle (ex The Drum Solo) (Norman Shrdlu) JATP All Stars 1953 4:16 2 One O’Clock Jump (Count Basie) JATP All Stars 1953 14:54 3 Lollobrigida (Oscar Peterson) Oscar Peterson Trio At JATP 1953 4:58 4 Pompton Turnpike (Will Osborne – Dick Rogers) Oscar Peterson Trio At JATP 1953 5:40 5 Swinging on A Star (Johnny Burke – Jimmy Van Heusen) Oscar Peterson Trio At JATP 1953 4:41 6 Love For Sale - Concept 1 (Cole Porter – Cole Porter) Oscar Peterson Trio At JATP 1953 3:57 7 Swinging Till The Girls Come Home (Oscar Pettiford) Oscar Peterson Trio At JATP 1953 5:52 8 Lester’s Blues (Lester Young) Lester Young Quintet 1953 4:59 9 I Cover The Waterfront (Edward Heyman – Johnny Green) Lester Young Quintet 1953 2:53 Total Time: 52:13 CD 2 JATP feat. Lester Young, Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter 1 Lester Gambols (Lester Young) Lester Young Quintet 1953 4:50 2 Indiana (Ballard MacDonald – James Hanley) Gene Krupa Trio At JATP 1953 4:19 3 Somebody Loves Me (Ballard McDonald – Buddy DeSylva – George Gershwin – Emilia Renaud) Gene Krupa Trio At JATP 1953 4:55 4 Laura (Johnny Mercer – David Raksin) Gene Krupa Trio At JATP 1953 4:09 5 Stompin’ At The Savoy (Andy Razaf – Edgar Sampson – Chick Webb – Benny Goodman) Gene Krupa Trio At JATP 1953 4:03 6 Flying Home (Sid Robin – Benny Goodman – Lionel Hampton) JATP All Stars 1953 6:43 7 Concert Blues (Norman Shrdlu) JATP All Stars 1953 23:16 Total Time: 52:19 CD 3 JATP All Stars feat. Roy Eldridge & Louis Bellson 1 Jazz Concert Blues (Norman Shrdlu) JATP All Stars 1954 16:51 2 The Challenges (Norman Shrdlu) JATP All Stars 1954 13:44 3 The Ballad Medley: The Man I Love/Tenderly/imagination/I’ll Never be The Same/Stardust (George & Ira Gershwin – Jack Lawrence – Walter Gross – JATP All Stars 1954 13:15 Johnny Burke – Jimmy Van Heusen – Gus Kahn – Matt Malneck – Frank Signorelli – Mitchell Parrish – Hoagy Carmichael) 4 Drum Solo (Louis Bellson) Louis Bellson At JATP 1954 7:15 Total Time: 51:07 CD 4 JATP feat. Buddy De Franco & Oscar Peterson 1 How High The Moon (Nancy Hamilton – Morgan Lewis) The JATP Sextet 1954 3:03 2 Body And Soul (Edward Heyman – Frank Eyton – Robert Sour – John W. Green) The JATP Sextet 1954 7:38 3 Flying Home (Sid Robin – Benny Goodman – Lionel Hampton) The JATP Sextet 1954 10:16 4 I’ ll Remember April (Gene de Paul – Patricia Johnston – Don Raye) The JATP Quintet 1954 4:09 5 Autumn Leaves (Jacques Prévert – Johnny Mercer – Joseph Kosma) The JATP Quintet 1954 5:10 6 Now’s The Time (Charlie Parker) The JATP Quintet 1954 3:05 7 Air Mail Special (Benny Goodman – Charlie Christian – Jimmy Mundy) The JATP Quintet 1954 7:31 8 Avalon (Al Jolson – Buddy DeSylva – Vincent Rose) Oscar Peterson Trio At JATP 1954 5:00 9 It’s Only A Paper Moon (Al Jolson – Buddy DeSylva – Vincent Rose) The JATP Quintet 1954 4:07 10 Easy Livin’ (Etaoin Shrdlu) The JATP Quintet 1954 6:07 Total Time: 56:11 disc 1 and disc 2 (Flying Home programmed out of sequence): disc 3 and disc 4: Looks interesting enough for the price, but the real thing would still be another huge JATP package with the 50s recordings... if they'd omit the commonly available "At the Opera House" albums and other commonly available stuff (and the material released later on on Pablo, of course), it should be doable... but I guess there's no one left at Universal that would actually care for such a box these days...

I mentioned this elsewhere, but the November issue of The Wire has an interesting piece about Threadgill... looking forward a lot to the Mosaic box (as well as to a package with some of his Pi recordings that should arrive any day now)! you can watch a 12 minute streaming video of ZOOID there, too: http://thewire.co.uk/articles/3232/

Got another overpriced disc in a local store, but it's worth some! A beautiful album by the late Mankunku Winston Ngozi, done for Sheer Sound with the help of trumpet player Prince Lengoasa and pianist/producer Andile Yenana, recorded in 2003: Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi - Abantwana Be Afrika (Sheer Sound, rec. 2003, with Prince Lengoasa, Andile Yenana, Herbie Tsoaeli, Lulu Gontsana) Just gave it a second spin, and it's smooth in a good sense. Not too much South African (jive, kwela, whatever) influence there, but it still comes through here and there, in the creamy, groovy bass lines, for instance, and here and there also in the harmonies and horn arrangements. The compositions are all Mankunku's, except for one a piece by Mackay Davashe (Lakutshon' Ilanga) and Duku Makasi (Inhlupeko). On a couple of tunes, there's some singing by the band (by all except Mankunku). The most outstanding thing here, though, is Mankunku's stunning soprano playing, very warm, soft sound, for instance on the opening tune, but heard several times over the course of the disc. Beautiful!

from Losin's page, a better scan of the original cover (CL 1041):

Thanks for the additional info! Wow, Sims w/Rowles... how I'd love to have seen those two!

I'd buy that. Yes, so would I! Something else: how about a Period box?

I skipped the Cuong Vu in a sale... found it rather boring (but I probably only listened for five minutes). Petrella should be well worth checking out. Do a search in the "funny rat" thread (recommendations part of the board, go for "display posts") for Auand, I dimly remember there having been some discussion.

So anyone has more info? I'd gladly buy some legit Horo releases!

Bebel I don't know at all so far... she'd have played in Zurich on Sunday, but a short pre-view in the local media although heavily biased towards Bebel still made me think I'd enjoy her a lot less than CéU... Bought this one last week: Sounded nice when checking it out in the store, and it was on sale... haven't listened to it yet though.

Thanks, will keep my eyes open!

Monte Kay - the label was called FM Read James Gavin's liners here: http://jamesgavin.com/page42/page84/page84.html