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It seems Mario Schiano has died yesterday, after a long illness. He has played and recorded with folks like Giancarlo Schiaffini, Marcello Melis, Bruno Tommaso, Massimo Urbani, Giorgio Gaslini, the Italian Instabile gang, co-founded/led the Gruppo Romano Free Jazz (with Melis and Franco Pecori, in 1966), and also Sam Rivers, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, the Ganelin trio, Peter Kowald, Gianluigi Trovesi, Don Moye, and many many others. I don't have many of his albums, but the LP "Rendez-Vous" (Red, 1977) which brought him together with the Sam Rivers Trio (w/Dave Holland and Barry Altschul) is one of the few treasured vinyls I own. I think there's an album of his that was back out on CD in the Unheard Music Series on Atavistic, too. He was the founder of the festival Controindicazioni: http://www.controindicazioni.com/controindicazioni.htm Here's a discography from AAJ Italia: http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1542 and a short biography from the same AAJ page: I couldn't verify the info online so far, but my Italian isn't very good, so I couldn't say if the news is on the website of some italian newsrag - not on AAJ Italia so far, though.

Ah, I see the Salim stuff is on this set here (sorry for not reading your post better, Lon) - looks mighty good! The Modern Sounds Of A.k. Salim - Complete Savoy Recordings 1957-1958 Double Cd A.K. Salim Featuring: A.K. Salim, Leader, Arranger and Conductor with Joe Wilder, Johnny Coles, Jimmy Nottingham, Kenny Dorham (tp), Nat Adderley (cornet), Frank Rehak, Buster Cooper (tb), Marshall Royal, Phil Woods (as), Frank Wess, Herbie Mann, Seldon Powell (fl, ts)... REFERENCE: FSRCD 474_2 BAR CODE: 8427328604741 PRICE: 17.50 € A.K. Salim (Ahmad Khatab Atkinson) was an ex-reed man who retired from playing in 1943 to arrange and compose for several jazz and Afro- Cuban bands. This 2-CD set draws together all the recordings he did as a leader for Savoy Records in 1957-1958. Most of his work here reflects Salim’s deep knowledge of blues and his arranger’s talent for setting down relatively simple lines combining down home traditionalism with harmonic sophistication. His unpretentious arrangements have an unmistakably visceral quality and offer a fine framework for the eloquently powerful soloists of both reed and brass sections. Some of the greatest modern jazz pianists, bassists and drummers round out the rhythm, along with guitar in a few tracks, in both support and solo capacities, while the presence of a conga blends well with the Latino-flavored charts in what is, overall, a satisfying and thoroughly swinging collection. Tracklisting: CD1 1. Duo-Flautists 2:45 2. Miltown Blues 7:20 3. Ballin’ Blues 3:23 4. Pretty Baby 4:57 5. Lopin’ 2:51 6. Talk That Talk 4:11 7. Black Talk 3:38 8. D Minor Dipper 5:16 9. Dejeuner 6:20 10. A Private Cloud 4:40 11. June Is Bustin’ Out All Over 3:07 12. Blu-Binsky 6:12 13. R.U.1.2. 8:00 CD2 1. Shirley Ray 6:03 2. Ba-Lu-Ee-Du 5:48 3. Pretty For The People 8:05 4. Takin’ Care Of Business 5:24 5. Pay Day 3:55 6. Joy Box 6:03 7. Full Moon 5:11 8. Blue Baby 3:36 9. The Sultan 4:24 10. Blue Shout 3:23 11. Dikie How Long Baby 4:59 RECORDED Hackensack, New Jersey, 1957-1958 PERSONNEL A.K. Salim, Leader, Arranger and Conductor with Joe Wilder, Johnny Coles, Jimmy Nottingham, Kenny Dorham (tp), Nat Adderley (cornet), Frank Rehak, Buster Cooper (tb), Marshall Royal, Phil Woods (as), Frank Wess, Herbie Mann, Seldon Powell (fl, ts), Johnny Griffin (ts), Howard Austin, Charlie Fowlkes, Pepper Adams, Sahib Shihab (bars), Kenny Burrell (g), Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly (p), Wendell Marshall, George Duvivier, Paul Chambers (b), Bobby Donaldson, Osie Johnson, Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones (d), Chino Pozo (conga)

It's a tough call there... I have probably two thirds of this set - the Verve, the OJCs, some of the Savoy (some off vinyl). About the Salim: are you saying all of it is in this box, or only Lateef's half? I'm totally unfamiliar with Salim anyway!

This new release by Yusef Lateef should close the gap that Savoy left open (the "Early Savoy Sessions" that should have been added to the "Late Savoy Sessions" 2CD set): http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record-ma...?record_id=4952 **************************************** Yusef's Mood - Complete 1957 Sessions, With Hugh Lawson (4 Cd Set) Featuring: Featuring: Yusef Lateef (ts, fl, argol, scraped gourd, tambourine, Indian reed whistle, vcl), Curtis Fuller (tb, tambourine, Turkish finger cymbals), Wilbur Harden (flgh, tambourine, cow bell, balloon), Hugh Lawson (p, metalphone, ocarina, cow bells, Turk REFERENCE: FSRCD 492_4 BAR CODE: 8427328604925 PRICE: 31.75 € 4CD Set, 32 page book-let Digitally Remastered 24-BIT / 96 kHz In 1950, after a year on tour with Dizzy Gillespie’s band, Yusef Lateef returned to Detroit, the city where he had grown up as a jazz musician. With his powerfully preaching tenor sax tone and fluent, driving style he established himself as an influential presence in the Motor City scene, forming his own quintet in 1955. He made his first recordings as a leader in 1957, a productive year for him, as this gripping 4-CD set reveals. On it he plays tenor and flute with a compelling directness and overpowering honesty, surrounded by a nucleus of Detroiters like Curtis Fuller, Ernie Farrow, Louis Hayes, Oliver Jackson, Wilbur Harden and, especially, Hugh Lawson, whose rolling, two-handed piano is as exciting in solo as it is in his intelligent comping. The entire group plays in inspired fashion, speaking authoritatively for the Detroit jazz scene. Tracklisting: CD 1: 01. Beauregard 02. O’Blues 03. Happyology 04. Midday 05. Polarity 06. Ameena 07. Space 08. Metaphor 09. Morning 10. The Beginning CD 2: 01. G. Bouk 02. Blues In Space 03. Yusef’s Mood 04. Passion 05. Love Is Eternal 06. Pike’s Peak 07. Open Strings 08. Before Dawn 09. Twenty Five Minute Blues 10. Chang Chang Chang 11. Constellation 12. Seulb 13. Sounds Of Nature CD 3: 01. Song Of Delilah 02. 8540 Twelfth Street 03. I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good 04. Check Blues 05. Prayer To The East 06. A Night In Tunisia 07. Lover Man 08. Endura 09. Love Dance 10. Sram 11. Gypsy Arab CD 4: 01. Playful Flute 02. Taboo 03. Ecaps 04. All Alone 05. Anastasia 06. Love And Humour 07. Buckingham 08. Lambert’s Point 09. Meditation 10. Mahaba 11. Minor Mood 12. Take The “A” Train The hardcore of these sessions were recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey Note: In addition to the standard jazz instrumentation, some compositions, notably for the time, included several near-Eastern ethnic instruments to produce a remarkable blend of oriental harmonies, sounds and effects, superimposed on wailing jazz without compromising its unity or quality. These include the rebob, earth board, argol, tambourine, Chinese gong, finger cymbals, scraped gourd, bells, and other devices, among them a balloon and a 7-up bottle to achieve some uniquely arresting effects. More details and information in the boolet **************************************** Alas, it duplicates the Prestige albums from the same period, which were (are?) available easily as OJCCDs, as well as the great Verve album "Before Dawn" that was on CD in the Verve Elite Edition. Still, it's attractive enough, methinks!

Peda Eyes (Waldron) - Shihab (2 choruses), Stein (3), Woods (2), Quill (2) Kokochee (Charles) - Woods, Quill, Shihab, Stein (1 each), fours in same order No More Nights (Charles) - Stein, Shihab, Quill, Woods, Waldron (1 each) Kinda Kanonic (Stein) - Quill, Woods, Stein, Shihab, 8-bars apiece in same order, fours by Stein & Shihab w/Hayes Don't Blame Me - theme: Quill (16 bars), Woods (16 bars), uptempo: Stein (16), Shihab (16), tag at end by Shihab Staggers (Waldron) - Shihab, Woods, Stein, Quill (2 choruses each) Will have to put that one in the player again, too! r.i.p. Hal Stein

Forgot to mention here: my discs arrived two weeks ago, well packed and in fine shape! Thanks!

The Ella 4CD set is nice... got it (and the Basie 4CD "Golden Years") for 10 euro from Zweitausendeins a few years back. Just about as much as you need for both artists in the periods covered. The Howls, Raps & Roars is very, very interesting! You get the Ginsberg disc "Howl" and a full disc of Lenny Bruce, plus two discs compiling stuff by various poets. The Rollins "Silver City" is up for 9.99 and the Riverside Classic Jazz for 19.99 - not that great prizes, but I guess they're interesting, too (I guess that's about as much post RCA Sonny as I need... maybe I'm wrong there, but none of the Milestone albums I played in stores won me over till this day... recommendations welcome, though!) Anyway, I ordered the Booker T. and Stax boxes, thanks for spreading the word!

I wasn't even aware of that album! A Giuffre Verve Mosaic would be so great, even if much of it has by now been readily available.

cojones? somehow it's a bit sad to see the rat in such inactivity while hardly any new threads about anything beyond modern jazz and mainstream pop up... but then I guess most of the folks interested in such music have left from here by now... (and I've been mainly listening other stuff in recent years)

Secret Sessions is great! I paid some more for it last year, I think from newbury too (but it was 60 or 70$ - still not a bad prize). The other two sets were up elsewhere for 30 euro I think (that was two years ago or longer... when the dollar was still a decent currency). Got them but haven't listened to much of them yet (had that project of chronological Bill Evans listening... went through most of the Verve, than stopped but played the whole Secret Sessions, too - loved most of it a lot!)

So McDuff wasn't that hip, huh? Thanks for posting that, very interesting read!

I wondered about that ever since I got the Bethlehem CD, too... (I have the Avenue/Rhino version)

late again... congratulations! :party:

btw: ordered March 31, shipped April 11, arrived May 1 (?!? probably lay there since the evening of April 30th...) - not bad at all, just one month, alltogether!

As mentioned elsewhere, I got my Kalahari package today! Everything in fine form (except one broken jewel case, but that's not too bad... happens all the time with CDUniverse or Amazon orders). Played the Mankunku (fine, but not quite as great as the one track I knew, the opneing title track, made me expect), Jansen (nice but a bit too "pop" music in spots), Masilela/Phale (great! But way too short! 26 minutes... it could go on for hours!) - and now I'm halfway through the African Jazz Pioneers' "Sip 'n' Fly". A mighty enjoyable ride! The three Bra Ntemis will follow tomorrow, I guess. This prompted me to check out if the links to my ZA BFT (#48 for those who want to search) were still good, and indeed... continue reading over here if you're interested: The Joy and Pain of South African Jazz Sounds good, huh? there's not much there, except for tons of links and stuff, but not much to fulfill the promise of the title anyway... except the music, and that - indeed! - speaks for itself...

Yes - great music. The Kosei Nenkin CDs (two double length CDs from one or two nights in Tokyo) are also sensational - Milt, Teddy, Cedar, Ray Brown, Higgins. And all on top form! Phew! MG both of those are finally on the way to me!

happy huppy!

Ok, so these four pieces are from a Rome concert in June 19, 1959 with Buddy Clark on bass (and Jim Hall, as on the "7 Pieces" studio album). I have video of two tracks that came as from 1956 (June 19, too, same location given as I found googling for this one, Teatro Adriano). No clue how accurate this information is... What CD(s) is that? This one: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:3zftxq8gld0e It contains: "Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre", Lee Konitz "An Image" (Bill Russo arr., strings), Jimmy Giuffre's string album for Verve (Yanow says it's "the least interesting" of the lot, not so sure of that...), and as kind of a related bonus, Ralph Burns' 1951 ten incher "Free Forms", with Konitz on board. Great double disc!

Oh yes! That 2CD set with those Konitz/Giuffre things is a marvel, and the Giuffre/Holman album for O'Day is one of the highlights of the O'Day Verve Mosaic (I didn't know much of her before... just took the plunge and was mighty impressed!)

Yeah well, I ate balls for lunch today, too... though only meat balls, alas...

Quite astonishing, but besides Misterioso, Ruby and 'Round Midnight, two of my very favourites have only been mentioned once in this thread (twice if you include mikeweil's list): Reflections and Criss Cross. Bright Mississippi is another fun one. And for standards, I think it would have to be Lulu for me - and how about that weird "There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie", from "Alone in San Francisco"?!

Hey, I'm glad you did buy and then sell it on to me for a nice price!!! I think the rhythm section is fine... however, Howard seems to have a difficult time shepherding the music into anything truly galvanizing. It's a somewhat static-sounding, 'free' blowing album that has some excellent subtle spots. At the very least, the SA cats play great--Dyani is, as always impressive. Howard was capable of a lot more, though. Hm, I only just got this and gave it one spin - found the ZA part much more enjoyable, but all in all it didn't exaclty blow me away... but yes, Dyani is fine! Now why I dug this thread up is because I finally got hold of the Cuneiform discs (all the BoBs and the one to which this thread is dedicated). Isipingo was a mother of a band, and Miller/Moholo - wow! They keep impressing me, wherever I hear them (Osborne's great trio album on that Ogun twofer was the most recent addition of Miller/Moholo to my collection - better than the two FMRs, I found, and indeed a mighty fine album! The Quintet album on the CD, "Marcel's Muse", is ok, but less impressive). Anyway, Isipingo, holy holy! Will have to play that disc again as soon as I have an hour of quiet and can blast it up aloud! The Ogun album is sort of a lost promise, I found... doesn't live up quite (though I may be wrong in the end...), but this live show is just great! (I've had it before as a boot - seems it originated from some collector's tape or something, who was involved it the show being spread on dime - or at least I seem to remember reading something to that effect.)

a guinea pig, most obviously...

You're right about "adaptable". Have you heard Giuffre playing outrageous rock 'n roll tenor on "Block Buster" and "Dynamite" by a Shorty Rogers group that called itself "Boots Brown & his Blockbusters"? It's a hoot! Incidentally I just read about those recordings today and wondered... I assume I shall have to look for those early sessions some day...

Yeah, but "trad" means dixieland... and that's what Eldridge often played in his late years... I guess Giuffre was in his way just as "adaptable" as his colleague Pee Wee Russell (I just played their long blues from the Mosaic, marvellous).