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Does anyone know this disc? I remember reading a very positive review about it but never came around checking it out, it's by another Italian piano player, Salvatore Bonafede and features quite an interesting band: Salvatore Bonafede - Journey To Donnafugata (CAM Jazz) Recording information: Rome, Italy (05/12/2003 - 05/13/2003). Personnel: Salvatore Bonafede (piano); Ralph Towner (classical guitar); Enrico Rava (flugelhorn); Ben Street (bass instrument); Clarence Penn (drums); Michele Rabia (percussion).

Thanks for the additional Pieranunzi recommendations! This is the one w/Wheeler: Enrico Pieranunzi - As Never Before

To add a bit to my short post: I'm not methodically buying complete outputs by any specific artists, mostly... but I have most of Coltrane's, Davis', Mingus', Monk's recordings, and there are many artists where I have much or most (Mobley, Morgan, Basie, Lunceford in terms of studio sessions, Ellington, Ornette, you name it), or almost all from one part in their career (Hill on Blue Note, Henderson on BN and Milestone, Tyner on Impulse, BN and Milestone, Shepp on Impulse, Jimmy Smith on Blue Note). Things mostly just kind of stack up and when I see something I don't have, I casually add it to what I have, without looking to fill all the gaps. There's just always that much more to explore... and that usually applies to both musicians I haven't heard yet or know little of, as well as musicians of whom I have some/many discs... for instance, I only got the Olatunji Concert and Live at the Village Vanguard again CDs by Coltrane recently (haven't even played them so far...)

never enough, i guess...

I regularly went to MM in Dietlikon in the 90s, but their jazz offerings got pretty small as well by now. The one at Sihlcity wasn't that great from the start, but sometimes you find something nice... and it's on my way home from work, so... (dangerous!). Thanks a lot for the Pieranunzi recommendations!

As for Pieranunzi... I don't know much of his officially released output but gee, can't he slow down? For a casual fan, there's just way too much available! The first Morricone album with Joey Baron and Marc Johnson is fine. Other than that I think I only have the more recent one (also on CAMJazz) with Kenny Wheeler added to the trio. It's too glossy a production I think... not sure what to check out but I've heard a bunch of broadcasts that I liked, including some by the trio with Heyn van de Gein (sp?) and I think André Ceccarelli. They also have some official releases out.

I have "Walking in L.A." on Elabeth from 1980, with Hemmeler, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne: a wonderful straight ahead piano trio recording. Another nice one is "Easy Does It" on Elabeth, a trio recording from 1981 with Ray Brown and Daniel Humair, mainstream piano jazz at its best. It is a shame that Hemmeler did not record more often. I found that one a while ago (after having posted here), of all places at Mediamarkt in Sihlcity, on sale... fine disc indeed! It seems to be on deezer and on iTunes, as well as still available on CD. Fine album! As you can see from the back cover, Stephane Grappelli sits in on one tune.

Schoof is a mainstay of european jazz... like Breuker, Brötzmann, Schweizer, Schlippenbach, Mengelberg, Hampel, and many others. He played with Globe Unity, George Russell, Hampel, the Clarke-Boland band, George Gruntz, and appears on many great records, this here could give you a rough idea: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Manfred+Schoof AMG is notoriously crappy as far as European jazz goes... Here's Schoof's homepage, which also has a little discography.

more like keepnews-y, rather than ugly, isn't it?

wtf? is there a law in the US that makes it a criminal act to wander around the streets?

That was a great concert! Jimmy Cobb was in fine shape, though exhausted after two hour-long sets (they didn't play an encore because of that, but too often encores are just sloppy afterthoughts anyway, often spoiling a good concert, I find). Schwaller was terrific, big sound, edgy, some Rollins in there. Cobb drove the band in a swinging and often very powerful way. Pianist Oliver Kent and bassist Thomas Stabenow were right up there, though they suffered a bit from the mix. The programme consisted of jazz originals a a tune each by Schwaller and Stabenow. They did "SOS" from "Full House" and a great Sam Jones tune, I think it was called "Bittersweet", looking it up on AMG it seems I haven't heard it before... sounded pretty complex. The only Miles-related tune was "In Your Own Sweet Way", which they did in that fingerpoppin' half-time groove Miles' bands so often used. A great concert! The downside of it was the location, I guess... and the crowd, too. This year's edition of the festival took place (for the second time) at Gunter Sachs' Dracula's Ghost Rider's Club, which is a pretty exclusive location (roughly 150 people, I was told). That's all good, but the disco afterwards (with the worst of the 70s and 80s, including "Material Girl", and something from "Grease" before we escaped) was quite weird yet the majority of the people there seemed to enjoy it at least as much as the concert... well yeah... sure, but not for me, please! Anyway, it was great hearing Jimmy Cobb in action! I went to tell him how honoured I was after the concert, he was pleased of course, but seemed pretty exhausted indeed. By now I guess he's back in NYC, having flown all the way for two concerts in St. Moritz. Crazy world... it seems in fall he's planning his own KoB homage tour, so that's probably why (thankfully) they didn't play any of those tunes this time.

Now I thought this was a thread about Tabatha Cash...

Seems he had a regular gig going on in NYC, weekly or something? r.i.p. - will play that JATP recording tonight.

He was 74. Sad news indeed. I realized that when I read this short entry here after posting my comment: http://www.citizenjazz.com/article3462906.html

Hell, sounds like we're married!

Where's that list again with those 50 newly printed Prestige titles? Not sure if these were just a European thing.. there was a thread and I posted in it as well, but I can't seem to find it.

ah, crap! he wasn't that old... have to spin that magnificient duo album w/Coltrane again soon, some of the strongest music I've ever heard there!

Hm, I don't think I'd travel to Dresden to see Garbarek... not much of a fan, really. On tenor he can be quite good though, at least in an ok-ish context (such as on that Miroslav Vitous sort of supergroup lookalike but only pieces of it pitched together track by track thinkgie). Also what little I've heard of Jarrett's European Quartet I found ok, but I never went places to find the albums I don't yet have (I have "My Song" and "Personal Mountains", I think).

Happy Birthday!

The upcoming Keith Jarrett release, "Testament", consists of solo concerts from last year (Paris and London). Here's the special website for the 40th Anniversary of ECM - it's German only it seems. Lots of information, including a detailed chornology. edit: I see David has posted the Jarrett info already, sorry.

edited my post above - sorry for the confusion!

Ah well... hasn't Vitous been known for his huge ego for a while? That's certainly an issue he shared with Zawinul... as for Zawinul, much weirder and claims were once made on this board, which I won't repeat here, as I thought quite surely they were BS as well... edit - sorry, hope not many read this post yet... the person mentioned had nothing to do with that weird previous discussion of crazy Joe, apologies! Here's the thread, then - it's not nice to make allusions and not give a clearer hint. I won't comment and don't want it to spill in here as well, so go read there if you need.

Good to see ECM continuing in these bleak times! But Bollani on ECM is wrong... (Rava maybe as well, but Rava has enough grandeur, or rather grandezza, to overcome most hindrances). Bollani's music is so joyful usually, but on ECM it gets so serious and loses much of it's momentum, to my ears. That's very much true for the Rava/Bollani disc, I feel, which can of course be lauded as a masterful album of miniatures, of boiled-down-to-the-essentials music etc etc, but in the end, the live recordings I've heard were just so much more full of joy (and of music...) Would that Corea/Burton thingie be interesting? I've not heard any of their collaborations, not even "Crystal Silence". The Jarrett would be new, I guess? A pair of newly released 70s solo concerts, maybe? With that tile ("Testament"...)? Now that could be interesting! Though it's been years that I played any of his solo recordings (other than The Music At night With You or whatever that "comeback" album was titled, that one is nice).

I quite like Baker singing... for instance on "But Not for Me" on the live album "Strollin'" (Enja) with the trio w/Catherine & Rassinfosse (sp?). Also, I just bought Vol. 4 of Enja's "The Legacy" Series, titled "Oh You Crazy Moon", a fine performance by the 1978 quartet w/Phil Markowitz, Scott Lee and Jeff Brillinger. Chet does some singing AND some extensive scatting and I like it! I also like Chet's early singing... but it's been a while that I played any of his early music.

I guess it's the one labelled "Nica" on Sonny Clark Trio (Time, 1960) http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:jxfwxqthld6e