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some of that Prokofiev stuff off the Nelson Mosaic (from Jimmy Smith's Peter & the Wolf) - has been haunting me since I played it on Sunday... holy crap, those little themes and leitmotivs are great! next up: "Come Together" from Lynne Arriale's disc of the same title (plus likely also "Iko Iko" from the same disc... I know a couple of extremely infectuous live version of the later tune already, the CD version will play in a few minutes...)

Ah shit, of course it's "Creole Love Call"! Great tune! I love those early Ellington tunes, but I keep mixing them up!

ok, finally... as usual, one listen only, typed while listening, away from my collection, not googling or searching AMG, just some impressions - generally a very enjoyable disc, thanks a lot! #1 - Lovely opener, great groove set up by bass and guitar, sort of a ZA vibe. The soprano is a bit tame but has a nice, kind of restrained sound that gets quite singing at some spots (whenever it gets less airy, whispery). Guitar really puts its stamp on this, in a good way. The piano solo is nice, not leading places I think, but it fits the mood. Guitar similar, but I like it somewhat better... I like it quite a bit, actually! That light groove is cool, too... that's a non-US or rather ZA thing, too, methinks... it grooves quite some, but it's always very light, airy almost. #2 - Ogun? Well, not really, but organ... what's that tune again, reminds me of some standard, but it's only built on similar changes, I guess... Pretty nice, also the entry of the alto, flexible sound, not the fat kind I prefer, but attractive enough. I don't think I have this, but I like it, it's nice'n'easy, but not much different from tons of similar stuff I'd say... guitar solo is pretty, that twanging stuff and some other things remind me of someone but don't ask me who... second sax solo, hm, this should be the give away, gruff tenor... Ike Quebec? Is this from one of those JOS sessions on the "Open House/Plain Talk" twofer? Long time I played it... but that wasn't J-Mac on alto?! Ah well, 's nice! Could well be JOS, methinks, that almost clean sound is good... it gets grittier during the second solo though, but only in spots (I like JOS best when let loose and in really wild fashion, like on "Groovin' at Small's"). #3 - Crap, what's this tune? Not sure where I know it from, but I think it's some soul tune, originally? I might have played it in some big band years ago... groovy, that's for sure! Sax starts in a terrific way, lots of space, few notes, a bit of a swagger her and there... and in between the guitar (too low in the mix at the beginning, alas) - lovely stuff! Could be Stanley T? Holy crap, if only I was able to pin some specific memory to that bass line, drives me mad! Ah, now I know, it's Gene, the tune was done by Ellery Eskelin in his great homage to Jug ("The Sun Died"), Marc Ribot played the lick there (Wollesen on drums completed the trio). But is this really Gene? I'm confused... #4 - Ooooh, now we're talkin'! Ducal stuff, lovely! Clarinet (and of course as is the case here, bass clarinet) is such a marvellous instrument, too bad it's heard so little and when, then often in such polished clean swift manner, not the warm breathy wooden sound used here. Lovely tune, but as so often while knowing it I can't identify it... East St. Louis Toodle-oo? #5 - Hm, quite a change of pace, but this again sounds very familiar... early JB? I have this one a best of compilation - I like his music but I'm put off by the extreme macho-ism oozing out of almost every second of it... yeah, that's him, nice. Likely from the 50s, with Roy Byrd? Ok, there goes Maceo... nice! Yes, indeed, I like this one a lot! What I can't really take too much of at a time is the sweating, loud, wild, funky, whatever you call it, JB, but this kind of stuff is glorious! #6 - Pretty wild, huh? Hymnical post-Coltrane stuff in an organ way? Alas, the organ sound during the opening rubato part sounds too much like a church organ for my liking (but I guess that was exactly the point...). This might have been good in a live concert, but as a recording at least for me, it doesn't work that well. Not that it's bad, but it's long, and the drum solo isn't that necessary, in my opinion... it's messy and dirty and funky and that's all cool, but it's a rough and unedited (read: self-editing, not turning some buttons and cutting out stuff after the fact). #7 - Not much I can say about this - not that it's bad, but not one that really grabs me all that much.

Free, but I will sell booklets for $150. Send in the clowns, then...

Happy Birthday to Late & Face of the Bass (& to everyone who celebrated their birthday in the past few weeks, during which I never posted in any b-day threads, apologies!)

char-don-nay? I'll have to check my list, but I don't think I have any Frankly Jazz that haven't been mentioned here already. They seem to be pretty rare in trading circles.

Ah well, seems like eventually I need both... I decided to buy the Selects by the numbers, but there are a few where I'm not sure (for instance the Chambers I'd buy only to have the two sessions with Trane - other than "Whims" - on CD, instead of only on the brown 2LP set... and I think the Chambers would be next in the list now). A few days ago a neighbour came over to ask if I had anything by Liebman and I went through my boots list... culled about a dozen of sessions, from the 70s to last year... some of is is fascinating, for instance a marvellous Quest live show from Paris in 2006 (I think some of it may be on that hatOLOGY disc, but I have at least two hours... some magic moments, for instance on Ornette's "Lonely Woman"). (...) Yes indeed, just checked - and both "Lonely Woman" as well as the great take on "Redemption Song" are on that CD - highly recommended, thus!

Oh, and yes, I was irritated by "on the other hand", too - do you consider those minor as opposed to the "one hand" major artists? Or "serious" vs. "entertainment" or what kind of distinction do you imply?

MG, I don't think recording guys like Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Prez, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Flip Phillips, et al was that popular a thing in the 50s. Not that I knew, really, but I think I read somewhere that indeed several of those artists then signed by Verve were pretty much out of the record business before Granz took them under his wings. Remember Roy Eldridge was playing dixieland gigs... (he also did one album in that vein for Verve). Not that that's a bad thing, but it was hardly what he wished for, I assume.

disc 4 - the Kenney stuff is weird, but now Russell is wailing! (Well, stuttering, muttering...) Went straight to the end with it yesterday - great one! The album with Pee Wee Russell is a highlight! The organ stuff with Smith is great, that very first number off "Bashin'" is amazing! How it builds with the big band and lays out a mostrously grooving carpet for Smith to enter - and then, BANG! here he is! Still I regret a bit having bits and pieces of various albums... (at least I have that Ray Brown/Milt Jackson twofer to complete that album, and of course also "Bashin'" - of the Smith/Wes material I only have the VME of the first album, never had the second...)

good resource for such kinds of stuff: http://www.spaceagepop.com/ more specifically: http://www.spaceagepop.com/joseph.htm Here's the cover:

disc 4 - the Kenney stuff is weird, but now Russell is wailing! (Well, stuttering, muttering...)

Last night: some of the first Hodges Mosaic Now: Oliver Nelson, disc 3 (the Lunceford song with Shirley Scott is great!)

I quite like this one, not mentioned here before. Thicai's not on all tracks, but I found it very enjoyable, both the parts with and the parts without him. http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/9503.html

Very sad news

not a song, I know... but this disc quite grabbed me, bought it two days ago:

Up for Chuck - now that you're back here - hope all's well!

Correct. I have the solo disc on vinyl and a Japanese cd from 2002. Thanks again - I guess that one's almost impossible to find by now... (I didn't even know of it before I searched the net again a few days back)

Assumptions, hearsay and fading memory regarding Akisakila - I have the original vinyl, heard the Konnex discs were needle drops and own a Japanese cd reissue on AMJ. I bought the cds about 8 years ago and memory says it was better/different than the original lps. That would be the Japanese 2CD reissue that does only contain the actual Akisakila, then? (as opposed to the Konnexes which also have the "Lono" solo album to fill up the second volume) Thanks a lot Chuck, for weighing in!

That's where I'm stuck right now... been playing lots of other things in the meantime, but this wants me to go back to the Maini set NOW! They took all that from the site Niko linked above, I guess... go have a look there, fascinating!

Of course, that was meant tongue-in-cheek... Anyone knows about the sound quality of the original "Akisakila" vinyl release? Is it as bad as the Konnex CDs? I asked this above, but it seems mostly this thread has gone so far from CT's music that no one even noticed yet.

great second half tonight... if football was always like this, it wouldn't bore me to death as it usually does!

How's that one? I'm not quite sure if I need to get it... but as I decided to buy them by number/release date, it will be a while before I'll have to decide...

Ha, I knew I saw them somewhere, here you are: taken from this Don Cherry disco site: http://cd-v.net/jazz/discography/cherry_d.html

This is a great site, I am ordering more and more from them (among others "Tentatives" by René Urtreger just about a week ago). Yes, it's indeed a great site! A couple of weeks ago I ordered half a dozen Stephan Oliva discs from there, the first one arrived a day after I sent in the order! Just to be correct: two of the Emarcys I ordered from French Amazon. Yes, I'm all for priceminister, having found the Basie/Carter Kansas City Suite for 10 euros at a time when amazon.uk was asking £55 for it! Mind you, you do need a working knowledge of French to negotiate the site. Yup, that's true. Also after a dozen or so orders, it still takes me five minutes to figure out where the hell they hide that "log off" button again...