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The Buck Clayton box - from LP1 side a on... just about wrapping up "Christopher Columbus" - holy smokes, this stuff swings like mad! (<< Jo Jones!!!) Beautiful solos by Lem Davis, Julian Dash (that fellow is good!), the trumpet players (Joe Newman, next to Buck), and lots of smokin' trombone, courtesy of Bennie Green, Henderson Chambers, and Urbie Green... then there's Sir Charles Thompson, and then quite a surprise each time I pop in some of these LPs, Charlie Fowlkes' baritone - beautiful sound, and quite lovely solos, provided he was just a section player during all the years he spent with the Count!

Well, the fact that they don't include original album art is indeed a bit of a letdown sometimes. I guess they'd need to pay more to also license the right to re-print the art, though. As for second hand vinyl - nothing like that available around here... I just know of one shop, but prizes there are normal, 20-35$ for an album, just like a new CD. So Mosaic in the end will be the cheaper way for some of us non-spoilt non-americans.

the mingus is this one: Ed Armour (tp) Charles McPherson (as) Pepper Adams (bars) Jaki Byard (p) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d) "Symphony Sid" Torin (ann) "Birdland", NYC, October 26, 1962 Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa Ozone 19; Yadeon [J] 501 The Search - OP. (O.P.O.P.) - Eat That Chicken (theme) Yadeon [J] 501 * Charles Mingus - Cecil Taylor (Ozone 19) * Charles Mingus - A Night In Birdland Live, Vol. 2 (Yadeon [J] 501) someone ought to clean up these Birdland broadcasts and put them in a nice 3CD box, equivalent to what's circulating already... great stuff!

playing the Ozone right now - much more Mingus on it (and good one!) - the Taylor part is just a couple of fragments, one with Lyons... doesn't fit to the 1965-09-10 entry on the sessionography, really...

thanks for the recommendation, took a note! that tatum I have somewhere, not played in a long time, though...

hm, tenor? there some swiss trombone players also making use of alphorn (roberth morgenthaler would be one, I think), but tenor and from austria? not one of wolfgang puschnig's projects?

Yup, Shilkloper was what I thought of reading the thread title. That lady - jazz? Hell no! Stupid crap... I once saw her do a "song" in a TV comedy show, she goofed quite a bit and she's oh well... just another bad entertainment character. No way I'd call this jazz. If you'd be interested in some kind of jazz/swiss folk fusion, I'd recommend searching for something by Hans Hassler (on Intakt records), Töbi Tobler (check my blog for some), or Roland Schildknecht (who takes part in various projects, but had an important - at least for Swiss jazz - album out in the 80s with a band called "Schildpatt", the album was called "Bunju" and is on CD). Hassler plays accordion and is no jazz (but an improvising musician), while both Tobler and Schildknecht play the hackbrett (hammered dulcimer). Tobler more folksy, but with lots of improvisation and some astonishing ideas, while Schildknecht does many things, from "salonmusik" to jazz to electronic/ambient (of the good kind, in my opinion, with quite some illustruous folks collaborating, including Barbara Dennerlein).

Thanks for that info, Ed - sounds interesting, though I haven't dug deeper into Dixon's music yet. I guess I could have googled it up myself, but I'm so deep into stupid stuff my time on the web is scaled down to browsing some on Org these days

Happy Birthday, Ronald!

Yes, it's a pity! This music has a different quality from other traditional jazz of those years, I think. Much more focus on the blues (I think upon Lion's demand, in many cases). I guess in the end Classics is one of the easier possibilities (also in the case of Meade Lux Lewis, for instance).

Just in case - for the nitpickers: the other three releases (next ot Runnin' Wild by Bechet, the BN Jazzmen and the Ed Hall) were the BN Swingets (should have really been a 2CD complete set or 3CD if necessary), the George Lewis disc (leaving two discs' worth of yet to be reissued material which never will be reissued either), and there was I think one more? Then there also was a single disc of the Port of Harlem Jazzmen (adding a session by I think Bechet whcih wasn't on the Mosaic).

They should have at least put together a double disc set or something back when they had those 60th birthday early BN series! They also should have given us the material from disc four of the Johnson/Hall/DeParis/etc Mosaic... the rest I figured is all on the "Blue Note Jazzmen" double set and the Edmond Hall "Profoundly Blue" disc - that was a marvellous batch of reissues, too bad there was only one... the only later disc was a second helping from Sidney Bechet, "Fabulous" - I'd love to see some more of these blues-drenched recordings! Much more than more Rare Grooves, I guess... and much more than RVGs of stuff that's been reissued twice already in the CD era! Maybe they could sell Hodes as a Russian traitor who turned himself over to the grand nation of creationism or some such crap, just so people would run and buy it

Ok, am I hip enough to post here? I have Newton's Chrono Classics disc - what else is there to look for?

I think 9 euro, maybe 9.50 but I don't have access to my mails right now, could check again from home later.

pm sent on Condon!

Yes, my wish as well! The music is excellent, I have about a disc's worth on that Hot Jazz on Blue Note 4CD set. I'd love to buy it all!

What is "Dixonia"? A Bill Dixon sessionography/discography/timeline? That Rose boot Mingus/Taylor I have somewhere, need to play it again soon! I have a hunch that the panel discussion is around somewhere, but maybe then again it was only the transcript I ever saw - no time to dig through the old files and piles of CDRs right now, but maybe someone else who's involved in some trading knows more?

indeed nothing around as far as I know... but some boots are documented, see here: http://www.webmutations.com/ceciltaylor/

I wouldn't order from them directly - they seem to be sort of Universal's website in Yurp, so likely you can find the discs you want cheaper elsewhere... but I never tried, maybe they offer good service, it's just that from experience with the big labels, ordering directly usually means you pay a bit more (same with Blue Note, for instance).

I don't know much of Kagel's work, but the few bits I've heard (and read) have certainly tempted me... one of the names to check out some day, that's for sure. Interesting biography also. r.i.p.

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je est un autre... or maybe l'enfer, c'est les autres?

same - other?

Another big for this set! Love the sessions with the 'tines and w/Booger! The trios didn't seem that great to me, either, though... but I don't remember them being as dull as clunky describes.