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ah well, Brönner... he's a mighty fine trumpet player, I once heard a complete set with a classic late-Chet accomopaniment of just guitar and bass (Dieter Ilg on bass, some scandinavian guitar player, Leonhufvud or something like that, never heard of him but he's fine, too, Ilg is great of course!). In such a setting, he can do some nice things, but his usual pop-jazz stuff has no appeal for me, at all.

Thanks Claude!

Would anyone happen to know if the label called "Vid Jazz" is legitimate or not? Here's a release of theirs: http://www.worldsrecords.com/pages/artists...ngton_7498.html DUKE ELLINGTON IN AMSTERDAM & ZURICH This is a video. Total running time: 58 minutes. Medley: Black & Tan Fantasy - Creole Love Call - The Mooche (a) My Funny Valentine (a) Mr. Gentle And Mr. Cool (a) All Of Me (a) Medley: Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me - In A Sentimental Mood - Mood Indigo - I'm Beginning To See The Light - Sophisticated Lady - Caravan - I Got It Bad - It Don't Mean A Thing - Solitude - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (a) Satin Doll (b) I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (b) Basin Street Blues (b) Diminuendo In Blue (b) Personnel: a- Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Ozzie Bailey, Jimmy Hamilton; b- Ray Nance, Quentin Jackson, Russell Procope, Paul Gonsalves Label: VID JAZZ Number: 31 Item Code: 7498 Format: VID Genre: Jazz Dates: (a- Amsterdam 1958; b- Zurich 1959)

That's got to be one of the coolest Strata East covers I've ever seen! Take that its not available on cd? Here's another one designed like that: Cecil Payne - Zodiac

ahem, you might want to tell this to those britons and their atheist buses... he he

Did you contact the radio stations? They might have some files about recordings etc. SWR, DRS (as he played the Zurich Amateur Jazz festival) etc - maybe someone there can give you more info, or lead you to retired radio people who might remember some stories? maybe you could ask here about any swiss-related activities: http://www.jazzorama.ch/index2.html

Wow, thanks so much for sharing these photos! Some priceless ones among them!

Yeah - I got a DVD of that performance through dime. It's most enjoyable ! Hm, I must have skipped that for lack of space and bandwidth... though for Rhoda I should have got it, I assume!

I assume you all know this discography? http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/izenzon.htm it's not a complete discography/sessionography, but it's a good starting point, I assume... and it lists some private recordings, too.

Do get the RVGs of the Ornette albums - much additional music on them! Among my favourite 60s albums, that's for sure! Here's the jazzdisco.org entry of that Rollins date - one of the highpoints in Rollins' discography, I dare say: Izenzon is on bowed bass, and of course who else could have been at the piano if not Herbie - one of the most lyrical recordings in modern jazz, I dare say... I know, a few superlatives too many, but both this and the Golden Circle albums range high on top in my book!

Never liked her - no real organ sound there, all too clean (and I don't dig her electronic extensions of the organ) - sorry. Ok, now on to disc 2... and hopefully soon on to BFT #61 as well! Wow - I thought she was pretty big in Germany/Austria/Switzerland ! She seems to be big in Germany, don't know about Austria and not really about Switzerland either.... she once played the prestigious Berne jazz festival with Rhoda Scott in a special ladies ogun night, of course Rhoda smokes! No way for me Dennerlein comes even remotely close. But then this is just my opinion, and being of that opinion, I don't really care to know if she's "big" here or not...

My sentiments exactly. Nice one for getting the Ammons and identifying Farmer, Shaw and Henderson ! Yes, as far as identifying some of the musicians go, I was a bit better here! I'll still need to sit down and study the answers thread a bit more closely!

Thanks! I quite made a fool of myself here though But that happens to the best of us...

Oh, and isn't he on Sonny Rollin's magic "Trav'lin Light"? (on one of the RCA albums - two takes exist)

In 1977, Izenzon recorded and toured in a trio of Paul Motian's, with Charles Brackeen on tenor and soprano. The album is called "Dance" and is available on ECM:

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday, David! :party:

That makes me think... why did Booby never record with Booger Ervin (Irwing?), wouldn't that have been great? They could have founded a band "Booby & Booger Do the Boog-a-Boo" or some such...

I've got to put this one on again soon! In the meantime I also got "Now!", which is again a very different animal (and different from what's called "Hutcherson on Blue Note" above, too). Not nearly as intriguing as "Head On", but still worth mentioning, I think.

Blue Note should really reissue that Mecca ten-inch album! I'd love to hear it!

Phew! glad i got Henderson/Shaw right! I bought that Swainson disc recently from Dan Gould's sale, played it two or three times so far, it's quite nice! Art Farmer I also guessed. As for Ardley... I guess I'd need to invest more time in his music, I don't really "get" it quite yet, but then I've not heard much of it. Ah, of course Ammons I recognized, but then who didn't... Thanks a lot for these two discs! Lots of music, but some of it very, very enjoyable!

#1 - Cool one! That sounds produced by the trumpet sound funny! Benny Bailey did such upwards slides, but here they go up and down again... good tenor. A little swagger, good sound, though all in all in the Getz Jazz Samba-tradition. Trumpet is nice! #2 - Sound is very much Coltrane-influenced, a bit much vibrato though... sounds great! If this isn't the original, it's a very well-done copy! Gets better and better, very intense! Great track! #3 - What's this song again? Beautiful performance! Not Johnny Smith, is it? No, too restrained. I like this lush soft sound a lot, have got no clue though... I don't listen to that much guitar jazz. #4 - A straight modern big band chart... not at all an exciting arrangement methinks. Once the alto solo comes in it gets more interesting... too bad the arrangement is so boring! The solo is nice, not too much under Bird's spell, could be some veteran? (*) The trumpet is ok, the guitar is again very much not to my liking (soundwise only, but I can't get beyond the sound of course...) #5 - Now there's a break in styles... nice solid r'n'b number from the late forties or fifties I assume? Too lazy to google, but this is a style I hardly know anything about... like it. Tenor sax is simple but good. #6 - This sounds familiar right from the piano intro... "Easy to Love" it is hm, Gene Ammons? From "Jug"? Wyands has such a nice touch, and of course Doug Watkins was among the very best... easily one of my favourite Ammons albums! #7 - What's this? After the intro it almost sounds like minimal music for a while... then it goes places... nice one, harp backing, good tenor playing - a bit too much in the end maybe, I mean too much of a mix in the whole track... #8 - Very nice alto! I'm clueless though, but it does sound familiar... or wait, is this the Frank Morgan track? No idea, really, but it's very good! #9 - Hm, sounds like I might know this, or at least like I should know the musicians... maybe something by Joe Henderson (I was about to type "Woody Henderson"... so Woody Shaw?) - not sure though... has a 70s post-bop feel, Coltrane, Tyner, the Blue Note era is all in here. Good one though somehow not an immediate favourite (I generally have a harder time getting into musicians that came onto the scene later than say 1960, roughly... don't know why, but any Lee Morgan is easier to listen to than Woody Shaw, but this also applies to McCoy Tyner and many others...) #10 - Good one! I quite like some flute now and then (and not just Dolphy and Lateef and Kirk). Good tenor solo, not sure if I should know this one... #11 - Nice groove! I like the electric bass here! The strings and everything... a bit cheesy but I like it! Art Farmer on flugelhorn? Lovely sound! #12 - Oooh, clarinet - what a great instrument, and what neglect in modern jazz! That wooden sound, I like it so much! The backings sound Ellingtonian... while the solo voice gets a bit more abstract. Lovely! No clue who this could be, maybe that clarinets band? Never heard them so far... ah, there comes the rhythm section... and the brass and everything. The electric piano is alright, then there's baritone...no idea what this could be, I like it alright, but I think the solo clarinet opening was the part I liked best! Ah, now the baritone sax comes solo - nice! Hm, all in all it doesn't really convince, too much of a good thing... #13 - The bass like is like the one from Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder"... hardbop big band jazz? Tune sounds familiar. Latin percussion is a bit too nervous but it still works alright... harsh brassy arrangements, stuff like this I mostly listen only if the soloists are of real interest, this tenor sax player here is, that's for sure! Probably one I should recognize but I don't have a spontaneous guess. Ok, but the percussionists starts getting on my nerves now... he could at least lay out in the walking parts! Sounds like an updated version of Dizzy's late 40s big band, but not like Dizzy's 1956/57 big band I think (and it's definitely not Golson on tenor, can't remember all their other tenor soloits, but Billy Mitchell was one and this doesn't sound like him either... now for that outro bit they can relax a bit at last! Gee... I think I'd like this better on other days when I'm more in the mood for a loud, driving big band! (*) Niko wrote about a Frank Morgan track in a mail... would this be it? Could well be... I've liked what little of Morgan's I've heard so far!

Hm, just finally laid hands on the Nocturne 3CD set, have only received it this week though and not popped in one of the discs so far... This one I recently bought, didn't fully warm to it, only played it once or twice... Got this as well... I think Chuck commented rather harshly about it, most likely somewhere in the "funny rat" thread... haven't played it often. I remember liking it (and finding Chuck's comments too harsh), but it's one I should play again soon! I only know his collaborations with Harriott, and frankly I dig those for the horns mostly (Kenny Wheeler is on there somewhere, too). Not really a well-working fusion, in opinion, at least not in this case - John Handy/Ali Akbar Khan's "Karuna Supreme" (MPS) is gorgeous! Another one I have, ouch! Not played in a long time, but this is a nice track! Never liked her - no real organ sound there, all too clean (and I don't dig her electronic extensions of the organ) - sorry. Ok, now on to disc 2... and hopefully soon on to BFT #61 as well!

I'm late I know... played once while at work, no googling, no access to CDs, just some first-time impressions: #1 - Nice opening, crime-jazzy, but then it turns into a straight yet still very moody big band chart. Sparse orchestration, like this one! No clue who/what it could be, but I'd guess anywhere from the late 50s to the late 60s, hard to tell. Quite some dissonances in those crying high brass intermezzi, but the main focus is on the deep instruments, bass very prominent (no piano)... hm, could this be a Gil Evans track? The mood and the dynamics and all would fit, also the woodwinds in there... lovely! #2 - More similar stuff, latin beat, snaky soprano, fat trombones... and then a lyrical trumpet solo, very nice! The soprano has a soft sound a bit weak and insecure it seems, some small glitches at the end of lines, but I like that sound! Ah, oguns, too! Gets pretty dis-organized but I like it... ah yes, and only now during the quiet flute part I notice it's a waltz. #3 - One of Pres' boys, I guess... Quinichette? Doesn't sound much like one of the "brothers". That moment where he goes down to the lower end of the sax is nice, also bits of honking - those elements were important in Pres' style but with Sims, Cohn etc they sort of got smoothed out a bit (maybe transformed into a more forward-leaning style?) #4 - What's this bass lick? Cream? Sunshine of Your Love or what? This was over before I really started listening, but I think it's not one of my favourite cuts so no repeat for the moment... #5 - More moody stuff, vibes, sounds a bit like late 60s Herbie Hancock. I don't think it's him though. #6 - Move sixties stuff... interesting alto solo, touched by the new wave, not Spaulding? Good one, tenor is nice as well, piano goes into some Cecil Taylor touches below for a moment... what I don't quite get is the electric bass, mostly just running straight through, rather boring. #7 - Is soft guitars kind of a theme here? Lovely opening! Nice bass trombone! This sounds familiar, on the verge of kitsch, again from the mid/late 60s I'd guess. #8 - Again a less restrained cut... more good alto here! Nice sound, ripe yet not too, pushing a bit, yet not really going out. Good piano, Tyner-esque. Interesting, this one and #6! #9 - Obviously "Ill Wind"... sounds good! Lovely beat! Good voice, sounds familiar but I can't pin her down. #10 - Oh, sitar and tabla... and piano - a misfit somehow, but as it goes on I kind of start to like it. Ah well, that's what I was afraid of... violin, electric bass, drab fusion beat... then the tabla player speaks along as he plays... I've never seen an Indian do that in a classical setting, but what do I know (*). It's all too easy for my tastes, a kind of jazz-rock I don't get much from, and the inclusion of some Indian touches don't change much about that, I'm afraid. Trumpet solo is pretty boring, but then how could you get inspired in this setting? Sorry, not quite my cup of tea... #11 - This one starts out nice, with that twangy singing guitar and the woodwinds and then the strings... I seem to hear a lot of Gil Evans influence on this disc by now. Though when the strings come in bigtime, this is far removed from Gil's sound paintings. Not a favourite track #12 - The riff is from Coltrane's version of "Body and Soul" (on that great Atlantic album, one of his finest, not well-known enough it seems...), Trane also spells his shadow on the tenor sax here, but his sound on "Body and Soul" was much harsher and the general mood much less warm than here (Dexter used that going down and up again chord-riff as well, for instance I think on "Homecoming"). I don't think this performance lines in with the great tenor versions of this song (Hawk, Chu Berry...), but it's not at all bad! Tyner casts his shadow on the pianist, but again it's a pretty nice solo. #13 - More guitar, oh, and synth... yucky stuff again, I'm afraid. This isn't a real organ, is it? It's in five, but still it's all too smooth for my taste. The drummer sounds quite good though (thinking of it, there seem to be some nice drummers at work on this disc!). Hm, as the solo gets going, it starts sounding like a real organ, still very light and little volume (no low-range). Ok, I kind of like the organ, but not the guitar, not at all, sorry. #14 - Good groove here, nice piano opening! Kind of fits my "stoopid music" bag! Good tenor solo - at one spot it sounds like he's soloing on top of a samba band or something, very nice! Ah here comes the trumpet, very nice and soft sound! Great closing track! All in all, a nice listen (*) the weirdest example of this can be found on the strange Blue Note Dolphy compilation "Other Aspects", the Indian track there sounds so very amateurish, and the tabla playing is just ridiculous as I remember it!

What's on that one as filler?