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Sad news indeed. Thanks for the links - will have to read the interview. That 1965 album looks... ahem, interesting? Lasha with harp and Stan Tracey's gang... who are the trumpet and trombone player, anyone knows them? Here's a nice photo with Ben Lindgren, 2001 (photo by Eleanor Lindgren - source)

hard to say... I guess I need to play those small group tracks again some time soon! with "band parts" I meant that big band session, of course... I always considered the small group sessions much more interesting, but it's been too long to say if I find them essential...

With these fast deletions, upgrading is no option any longer. I mostly stopped doing so anyway... because it seems in many cases it's not an upgrade, but just a differently sounding version. Dippin', Tomcat, A.T.'s Delight and the Elmo Hope I all have in the old editions.

That part about the copycrap period makes sense... yet I was happy to find some of these titles finally turn up as normal CDRs over here and finally bought them. Maybe they should have allowed some more time - but then I guess time is THE most expensive thing in any kind of business in these crazy times.

I think Storyville is more interesting... but then it's been among the two or three first Parker discs I've known (thanks to our high school's library). I don't like the band parts of the Washington that much, but I remember the final few tracks being quite good. That Washington disc was part of a batch of releases with Bill Evans In Paris Vol. 1/2, Getz/Dailey "Poetry" and I think two by Petrucciani (100 Hearts, Live at the Vanguard). Of those, the OOP Getz/Dailey is the most recommended, one, another beautiful one by Getz, though at a much later point in time than the great Roost sessions.

essential: very good ones: honourable mention: the jury's still out on: maybe I'm too hard on some (Hamilton, Carter, Morgan, Mobley) but it's been a while since I played most of those... By all accounts, if you're interested in bebop, don't miss the Dameron/Navarro (there's a Definitive substitute of course) and the Nichols (no substitute I know of yet), then add the Hope (he belongs to the same bunch of great pianists around in the early years of modern jazz as Nichols). McLean's New Soil is one of his best, and so is Mingus' Wonderland album (the first of his band with John Handy/Booker Ervin, Richard Wyands is subbing for Parlan). The Mulligan/Konitz is some of the best Mulligan I'm aware of (and fine Konitz, too! He puts this on a different level than the Mulligan/Baker quartet recordings, I think). And the Getz is pure magic - some of the most beautiful and imaginative playing there is... pure, too. Between this and the last bunch of deletions, several of McLean's best albums and almost all of Tina Brooks' output goes OOP again. Sad. Also it makes me worry a bit that recent reissues like two of the Capitol vocal collection albums (Hendricks and Raney), Benny Carter's fine "Sax à la Carter", and recent RVGs like the one by Art Taylor are going OOP so fast!

Cannonball's Jazz Workshop Revisited is fine but far from his best. In light of the deletions, from these Capitol reissues I'd go with, by order of appearance: Cannonball in Europe - my favourite album by what I think was his best band, the sextet with Lateef - a smoking oboe rendition of "Trouble in Mind" among the highlights Live at the Lighthouse - a great album by the quintet with Victor Feldman (not enough recordings of the band with him do exist) - this contains "Sack o'Woe" with one of Cannonball's classic solos Them Dirty Blues - I think there's some disagreement about this one, but I just love it. Cannon's solo on the slow title track is amazing, in addition you get the studio versions of Bobby Timmons' "Dat Dere" and Nat's "Work Song". Piano duties are shared by Barry Harris (a rather unlikely choice, his live debut on Riverside was recorded at the same time as Cannonball's Riverside album "At the Jazz Workshop") and Bobby Timmons. Cannonball Takes Charge - another fine album, slightly less funk/soul-jazz in orientation, with Wynton Kelly on piano throughout and Chambers/Cobb and Percy/Tootie Heath in support, respectively. Some almost kitsch (Serenata), and another great tune, "Barefoot Sunday Blues" (I think OK admits being accountable for the stupid title - but it sounds like he's rather proud of it...) Next up the Poll-Winners (his meeting with Wes Montgomery and Shelly Manne, and again there's Victor Feldman here) and JWS Revisited, then finally the - admittedly delightful but still unessential - Cannonball's Bossa Nova. For those interested in Adderley's alto solos, there's some great stuff on the bossa album, to be sure! As for the later, actual Capitol albums, I'm not quite sure how I'd rate them... they're all good I'd say, but none is absolutely outstanding to me so far (but I'm still waiting for "Domination" to make it and haven't given many spins yet to "Money in the Pocket", "Why Am I Treated so Bad" and the weird Zawinul album). The meeting with Nancy Wilson is a delight (and half of it is just the quintet, "Fiddler on the Roof" is the only readily available album with the Charles Lloyd line-up (but I haven't fully warmed to it yet), and the meeting with Ernie Andrews is one to skip except for diehard fans, I assume (I got it in a sale a couple of months and only gave it one spin so far).

Gee - are they winding down now? All these recent reissues already being deleted!?! Not many I still want (the Foster Conn, maybe the Lovano 2CD, Crusaders Lighthouse '66) - but this looks like a bad sign!

hey, the samples really sound good!

Thanks for explaining

Congrats, Daniel! Will have to listen to the samples later... and order a disc, too!

Jim: "ridiculous" applied to McGriff's Solid State LPs: do you mean that in a good or in a bad way? Or some of both? May be my lack of english, but I notice each time I play some McGriff that his sound is indeed rather different...

Sad news. He was a very good guitar player indeed! That album he did with Barney, I just love it!

Finished the "Dig Ben" box by Ben Webster - great one! Some beautiful short sessions on disc 6, the big band sides on disc 7, and on disc 8 the "No Fool No Fun" rehearsals (plus a lovely date with Jimmy Rowles - who shines on the Mulligan Meets Webster album, too!). I also played disc 1 again, a terrific compilation (from three following nights) with Kenny Drew, NHOP and for once Albert Heath (usually it was Alex Riel who I think was nominally the leader of the trio). That's some of the best Webster I've heard on disc 1! Still I don't quite get why that session (from 1968) wasn't programmed in its place, as the box is more or less ordered chronologically. Also since they did do a box with their Webster sessions and they do mention that from these three nights in 1968 there are two hours of music, I don't see why they didn't include some more (and previously unreleased) music, as this is clearly one of the highlights!

I have one of Basie's and one by Ellington. These are boxes of six Chrono Classics in a sturdy black cube-box, plus an additional booklet (giving much helpful information, such as soloist ids, but the two I have don't have full track-by-track notes). The Basie is his first six discs, the Ellington I have is Vol. 3 and covers the 30s (up to 38 or 39). So there are at least two more Ellingtons, not sure what other artists got that treatment.

Rufus Harley I presume? I recently watched a DVD of a 1974 Sonny Rollins show with him. He played soprano and bagpipes... it was weird watching him play bagpipes, as of course his blowing and the outcome were totally out of sync... it struck me how similar the sound was of his soprano and of the bagpipes (but maybe that partly was due to the mediocre sound quality of said DVD...)

quite a thread of confessions here... I think the only thing I'd generally agree are the steel drums (but there are those Beaver Harris things where they don't bother me at all... that guy Othello Molineaux - what a name! - who pops up on the Jaco "Birthday Concert", now that's all yuck yuck to my ears).

this is NOT a US only thread. I shipped stuff from Switzerland to Taiwan...

Yes, I immediately thought of the Roulette material as well! That would have been great! The Columbia stuff has even been bootlegged (at least the Monterey) on one of those Spanish labels (one of those with glossy digipacks, JazzBeat or JazzTrack I think). "Karuna Supreme" is great, I have it on vinyl. There was a CD reissue of it in the 90s, when that german label Motor Music (another enterprise under the Universal umbrella I think) reissued a few MPS albums (those Two Originals and Three Originals sets, for instance).

Yes, that's what I've been thinking, too!

You're talking of the photographer, David LaChapelle? Weird stuff... but I can't say a lot about it. I think his 1999 book "Hotel LaChapelle" was the last one I had a look at in a bookstore.

One other thing I read rather early was both Rimbaud's poetry as well as Baudelaire's "Fleurs du mal" (both in bi-lingual editions... luckily we still learn *some modest* bit of French at school) - yet I never got into Verlaine to this day (I never tried in the past 10 years though...). Also I read lots of Dada stuff early on (15, 16), poems by Ball, Arp, Huelsenbeck, Tzara etc. etc., Serner's "Die Tigerin", Ball's fascinating diary, all those manifestos, as well as plenty of secondary literature. Then something else I got into early on was Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance - I remember reading a whole lot of his "Jesse B. Simple" columns, I think it was a book collecting those, as well as a novel and some poems, then Carl Van Vechten's weird "Nigger Heaven", Ralph Waldo Ellison's great "The Invisible Man", and lots of poems (in the great Norton Anthology of African-American Literature). Then some of the Beats - Kerouac, Ginsberg, also Burroughs... I was bored most often in English classes at school (but since it's not my mothertongue, I wouldn't get a dispense...), so I started reading english literature on my own. Sorry for the name-dropping, but ey, it's great being reminded of all this great books and poems! It's been a long time that I enjoyed some novels just for the fun of it. In recent years I was mostly concentrating on reading historical books and articles connected in some way or another to my studies (i.e. Italian renaissance and moreso the history of renaissance history, particularly centred around Hans Baron... I once did a thread about this).

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent)) hey, but you're not 30 yet - it's supposed to be the ideal books for people at the age of 30, because there's that passage where Ulrich asks himself how he had turned into the person he was... without remembering any decisive or important decisions he made... I'll have to read it next year, shall suit me perfectly well then

"The Modern Art of Jazz" Thanks, will have to look for that one! Those Dawn albums were a fine bunch!

Yes, that's one of these 2CD sets - isn't this the one that's below 80 minutes? I think it is. The second of the 2CD set is called "At Café Downtown Society and Birdland"