king ubu

Bonne anniversaire!

I only just ordered some more Heath. Got a japanese edition of The Quota sometime last summer when the US version was gone (seems it was there again for the Concord sale? Not so "Swamp Seed", that one's impossible to find...). Anyway, I liked "The Quota" a lot, looking forward to hearing "The Thumper", "Triple Threat" and "On the Trail" (no hurry on the big band one, that should be around for a while...) Other than that so far I only have one Heath album, a disc on Prevue, "Picture of Heath" - a very fine quartet album with Barry Harris, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins. Heath has a notably beautiful and controlled sound on soprano as well! Is he actually still performing?

oh, and I still think this DVD looks like a weird over-ambitious thing... the film's from 2006, here's the cast list lifted off the IMDB entry: looks a bit better, but then again... it seems more or less limited to mainstream (incl. ECM, but then that turned maisntream long time ago), however with Sclavis, Rava, Urtreger, Kühn, Minafra, Salis etc. there are some interesting musicians in there, it seems. (edited for crappy original editing)

Yeah, sort of, I guess... tough weeks, rather - sorry -_-

for those who only read the big print, soo... If there wasn't a smiley there, my short reply would be eff-off... I don't like being compared to Wynetone, and I don't think my posting activities here give you any reason to do that, so please don't do that again, thanks for understanding. The Amazon blurb mentions how Benedict travelled through all of Europe to collect material... and if the all-encompassing aspect of this project gets stressed like it is in that blurb, I can't but oppose to that, even more so with the few mentioned names. Of course it didn't escape me that most of the names on the DVD cover are Americans - all the weirder. However, even if it's about expats in Europe and/or defining concert on European soil (yuck, Blut & Boden anyone? Is "soil" a harmless word in Engish/American?), the list would be different, including, for instance, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Clarke, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, or in case of concerts, the Miles 1960 tour, the first bop concerts after WWII, or the Fondation Maeght concerts by Taylor and Ayler, or the Antibes concert by Coltrane. Wot - no Tubby Hayes and Joe Harriott? or Martial Solal. As you might well know, I love Solal, you might know less about my love for Harriott, and as for Tubby, I'm not so well-versed yet... but I liked the four or five albums I've heard (including the great first one by Dizzy Reece on Blue Note).

Eh? Oh, I see, you're Swiss MG Err, well, I'm rather pissed about it, but a majority of my compatriots so far doesn't want to join the EU - but then, there are positive aspects about it, too.

Previous thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=37182 and previous thread on LoneHill pirate issue: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9585

Ok, seems this is just another portion of the well-known 1957 Chester, PA concert... the liners of this disc make mention of the Chester concert, but do NOT mention this disc having been taken from there, hence I didn't check the discographies... weird package! Here's the link to the Jazz Unlimited disc that contains another (mostly the same, alas - I've had this JUCD for years, it's great!) portion of the same concert: http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.a...mp;state_2831=2 The full entry: Live "Club Bel-Aire", Chester, PA , June 15, 1957 Groovin' High (false start) BV Haast (Du)OD-001 [CD], Olfert Dapper 1 [CD] Groovin' High - - , Hindsight HCD282 [CD] Whisper Not Jazz Unlimited (Dan)JUCD2040 [CD], BVHaast (Du)OD-001 [CD], Olfert Dapper 1 [CD], Hindsight HCE283 [CD] A Night in Tunisia Anitra's Dance Jazz Hour JH1029 [CD], BVHaast (Du)OD-001 [CD], Olfert Dapper 1 [CD], Hindsight HCD283 [CD] Groovin' for Nat Jessica's Day Jazz Unlimited (Dan)JUCD2040 [CD], Hindsight HCE282 [CD] Tin Tin Deo Hindsight HCE282 [CD] I Remember Clifford Jordu That's All Dizzy's Blues Hindsight HCD283 [CD] Whisper Not Birks' Works Jazz Unlimited (Dan)JUCD2040 [CD], Hindsight HCE282 [CD] Tour de Force Hindsight HCD283 [CD] Begine the Beguine Jazz Hour JH1029 [CD], BVHaast (Du)OD-001 [CD], Olfert Dapper 1 [CD], Hindsight HCE282 [CD] Autumn Leaves Dizzy's Business Manteca Hindsight HCE283 [CD] Cool breeze A Night in Tunisia Dizzy's Blues Tour de Force You'll Be Sorry Flamingo Yo No Quiero Bailar Lovely One in the Window (I Love You Much too Much] Jazz Hour JH1029 [CD] Note: All titles from Jazz Hour JH1029 [CD] also on Lonehill Jazz (Sp)LHJ10107 [CD] How great it would be to have all of this concert in a well-done 2 or 3CD set!

"Featuring the great masters of European jazz such as Chris Barber, Jan Garbarek, Juliette Gréco, Stefano Bollani and Till Brönner, to name but a few" - huh? Juliette Gréco and Till Brönner and Chris Barber are some of "the great masters of European jazz"? Sorry, give me a break! Everyone knows Garbarek, he's more of a new agey easy listening guy by now, and Bollani while very, very good, is only just getting started... alternative list (incomplete) of "great masters of European jazz": Albert Mangelsdorff John Surman Peter Brötzmann Misha Mengelberg Han Bennink Derek Bailey (jazz? well...) Enrico Rava Gianluigi Trovesi Giorgio Gasini Bernard Peiffer Barney Wilen Irene Schweizer Pierre Favre Daniel Humair Louis Sclavis Michel Portal Henri Texier Aldo Romano Manfred Schoof Krzystof Komeda Bernt Rosengren NHOP Peter Trunk Ronnie Ross Tony Coe Francy Boland ... wtf? I quite liked Benedikt's Blue Note film, but then mostly so because it was nice for the newbie I was back then, to see so many photos of these great musicians... but this is way over the top!

but but... US firms respect law, US firms don't "launder" anything, anytime, anywhere... that's us swiss who launder money, and you europeans (remember, I'm not one of them!) who are pirates! har har!

I found this disc in a store last week, never heard of it before, but as I enjoy the 56/57 big band of Dizzy's a lot, it was a no-brainer. Please let me know if you need my index-finger and the disc in order to make sure I didn't just download it. Here's the info I could get from the CD booklet: 1. Dizzy’s Business 4:21 (soloists: Gillespie, Henry) 2. Ann Gillespie 0:35 3. Night in Tunisia 10:21 (Morgan, Golson, Tom Bryant, Grey) 4. Anitra’s Dance 3:23 (Gillespie) 5. Begin the Beguine 7:41 (Kelly, Persip, Dizzy) 6. Ann Dizzy 0:13 7. Yesterdays 3:19 (Jimmy Powell) 8. Cool Breeze 11:55 (Grey, Dizzy, Billy Mitchell) 9. I Remember Clifford 3:59 (Dizzy) 10. False Start Groovin’ High 0:28 11. Groovin’ High 4:51 (Henry, Dizzy) 12. Whisper Not 5:02 (Dizzy, Henry, Golson, Kelly) 13. Doodlin 5:20 (Dizzy, Moore) 14. Hey Pete, Let’s Eat More Meat 13:58 (Dizzy, Powell, Grey, Kelly) with the soloists (listed above), we get: Dizzy, Lee Morgan (t), Al Grey, Melba Liston [she was there, must have, her being in the band is mentioned as one of Dizzy’s conditions to take this US State Dep. job at all] (tb), Jimmy Powell, Ernie Henry (as), Billy Mitchell, Benny Golson (ts), Pee Wee Moore (bari), Wynton Kelly (p), Tommy Bryant (b), and Charlie Persip (d) this means all we don’t know ist wo or three more trumpet players and one more trombone player Anyone has complete info for this release? It's a bit weird that the CD doesn't give it, as the liners are rather well-researched (or copied off someone?) giving historical background on how this band got together and where they went on tour, also giving info about all other known recordings... but then there's nothing specific about the music included. In case it matters, the disc is being distributed by BVHaast, hence it could be this weird OD label is Dutch, too?

Jazz and Jazz, Kenny Clarke and the one by the two guys named Bernard just arrived. Spinning Jazz & Jazz now and it is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Nervous, angular, longhair. Flutes, vibes, and wordless female vocals. THANK YOU!!! You're welcome, TtK! I'm glad it hit the spot for you. I need to pull this one out and give it another spin myself. you two maybe should look for this one: It contains earlier material (1949, 53, 55) and all or most of the solos (even some by Don Byas) were written out by Hodeir. Another very interesting disc! Musicians involved are Bobby Jaspar, Bernard Peiffer, Nat Peck, Fats Sadi, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke and others.

Imperium, MG! The pirates then are CDU and whoever is selling this on the US market. As for Quebec, there's another legal in yurp, illegal in the US release on Definitive, collecting all the BN master takes and the master takes from Quebec's lone Savoy session. Mighty fine music indeed! There was of course the Blue Note compilation "Blue Note Swingtets", which was made up by some sides of Tiny Grimes, Johnny Hardee (incl. the great "Hardee's Party"), and two each from the Benny Morton and the Jimmy Hamilton session, if memory serves me right. That was a great compilation, but still it's a major pain that BN never did put out all of that swingtet material in its entirety...

Wow, great news! So I finally get to hear a big chunck of the Blue Notes then! Thanks for sharing the news!

Happy Birthday, Tom! :party:

Don't mean to mislead anyone. I had nothing to do with the original date but did prompt the reissue by having an online pissing contest with one of the 32Jazz guys on RMB. He mentions this in the notes. Ubu, since your are unaware, do you know this music from some download? No, I went on a 32jazz search when the label went belly-up and was lucky to find about 25 or so CDs, among them the Altschul. It has just been a couple of years that I played them, and I happen to read liners once mostly, when I get a new disc, and not look at them again later...

Thanks for spreading the news, EKE! Good to have sources for McKusick and Tolliver up!

btw, did you change birthdays from 26th to 16th recently?

Another one gone by... happy birthday, have one on me! :party:

I wasn't aware, Chuck - will have to play it again soon! Always liked it!

Oh, sorry - I thought you were asking for an RVG of Now He Sings again, mis-read your post! "Song of Singing", as Chuck said, had only one US issue in the 80s. And add my to the Altschul disc on Muse - it was on CD thanks to Joel Dorn and his 32jazz operation.

Just sent in a mail!

That's a great idea, Kyo! I'd be all over such a Select!

yeah, and Sam Spade, too!

No need at all. There was a late 80s CD and then a few years ago the CD was re-done. No point at all in doing an RVG of that one and releasing the same stuff yet again! As for the current situation, I hope for the best, but then the future of BN seems to be less safe that it has been in recent years for a while now, with reissues decreasing etc. Anyway, I still hope!