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Well, another of those great Fantasy twofers would have done the job... but wiht Concord even dropping Ellington titles from the catalogue, this won't happen, alas. I guess we'd have to break in at the Iron Mountain storage facility, 24-like or something, and steal all those masters, in order to not just freeze it all up for good!

Apparently not, but I can't identify an LP by him called "African moods". The only ones listed in the Ruppli Prestige discography are The music of A A-M NJ8266 (23 May 1961) Sounds of Africa NJ8282 (23 May 1961 (1 track) & 22 Aug 1962 (rest)) Eastern moods PR16003 (13 Jun 1963) Spellbound NJ8303 (12 Mar 1964) In addition, there were a couple of sideman dates. MG Jazz Sahara (Riverside RLP 12-287) - October 1958 East Meets West (RCA Victor LPM 2015) - March 16 & 31, 1959 The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz NJLP 8266 + 1 tune on NJLP 8282, see next session) - May 23, 1961 Sounds of Africa (New Jazz NJLP 8282) - August 22, 1962 Eastern Moods (Prestige PR 16003) - June 13, 1963 [announced but not released as New Jazz NJLP 8298] Spellbound (Status ST 8303) - March 12, 1964 I'm a big fand of the three albums I own (the first three for Riverside & Prestige, don't have the RCA). Would like to hear the rest, particularly "Eastern Moods", which is just a trio: Bilal Abdurrahman, cl,as,fl,perc; Ahmed Abdul-Malik, b,oud; William Allen, b,perc. Guess I should look for the RCA album for the time being!

Thanks, and yeah, I think you are right about that. Let this thread get away whilst moving and just now getting back to reading the replies. Thanks to all; Nessa offered to burn the material for my GF, as my burn capabilities went out with my burner biting the dust. Nessa the pirate!

Yes, that's correct - I can't vouch for the info, I merely posted it for the less-initiated ones... no idea about Feza, and in fact it's been a while since I played it at all. Not sure I could tell the three trumpet players apart anyway... It's great that there will be an official release of this one!

I don't have a setlist, but here's the rest of the info: Chris McGreger & Brotherhood of Breath JazzFest Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany November 4, 1971 Harry Beckett - trumpet Marc Charig - trumpet Nick Evans - trombone Malcolm Griffiths - trombone Dudu Pukwana - alto sax Mike Osborne - alto sax Alan Skidmore - tenor sax Gary Windo - tenor sax Chris McGregor - piano Harry Miller - bass Louis Moholo - drums

I decided to for the first time really dig deep into Ellingtonia before x-mas... started with the early sessions: the first volume of the Masters of Jazz Ellington (early stuff, the band and the Duke still searching, mostly), then the Columbai "OKeh Ellington" 2CD set, the GRP "Early Ellington" 3CD set and the first 6 or 7 CDs of the Centennial RCA box (I was too lazy to sort my listening in chronological order, just went label by label). Then I continued with the Storyville "Duke Box" and the corresponding mid-forties discs of the RCA box plus the Carnegie Hall sets (Prestige). Then the Blanton/Webster parts from the RCA box (much more than 3CDs there, by the way - what did they leave out of the 3CD set? All the small band dates? Is that enough to fit the rest onto 3 CDs?) In the meantime I ordered plenty of Classics to try and cover the missing years, roughly 1932-1939 (Brunswick and Vocalion dates), and that's where I am currently (around 1936). Some of the later ones are OOP and impossible to find (38-39, where there are about three volumes per year). I'm enjoying it tremendously, even the very early sessions I loved more than ever before. What strikes me is how excellent the music is - it's not just the Blanton/Webster band that's so great, I think some of the 30s material is just as great, and the 44-46 sessions (studio for RCA and live on the "Duke Box") are almost up there, too, in general! Oh, and Betty Roché to me was one of the very best singers Ellington ever employed - hearing her at greater lenght is one of the joys of the Storyville box - her period with the band would have been covered by RCA if not for the recording ban... 43/44, roughly - I think the RCA box only has one date with her returning shortly after she'd left the band.

Didn't know about this - sounds great, even more so with Louis Smith! The 1960 Newport show is around, too... in not so great sound - of course that band is much more common (Mitchell-Cook-Taylor-Brooks).

yeah, but then I guess Britney found it terribly important to be seriously commercial in our rotten US (and yurpeen dependencies firmly in hand of US corporations) mainstream music world...

Thanks a lot, will have to do some viewing there!

hey, could you direct me to the thread these interviews were linked in? or just post the links here? I must have missed that, and google was of no help... sounds like worth reading! as for Nat, in all the various Concord sales, I got a few more of his albums (I had "Work Song" and the 1955 Savoy one before, also the Cannon 1956 EmArcy package with Junior Mance - one of those was under Nat's leadership, I think... and of course the VME "Introducing" album) - to make it short: the brass one is fun, the saxes one ("That's Right") is fine, but the one that I really love is "Branching Out", a funky quintet album with Johnny Griffin at the top of his game! (the rest of the band is as the cover states, the 3 Sounds, and for once they're not just there and ok to the point of not bothering me, but they really hit a groove behind Nat and the little giant!)

I bought a few, and with one it had the new non-CC design but the CD itself actually had CC - I only found out at home when I wanted to put it on my ipod - that sucked, but I didn't bother to bring it back... (it was the Freddie Hubbard Sextet/Septet disc, can't remember its title). Titles I bought are: the Cecil Taylor disc, also Smith's Turning Point, and another Hubbard that I think was CC (Here To Stay). Also Blue Train was a CC disc, no? Not sure, but I think I got a few more, but I'm too lazy to check.

Hm, I only have "Turning Point" so far... And I'm oh so sympathetic about that annoying behaviour in brick and mortar stores... ever more so if they have what they call "sales" (meaning they're actually not totally beyond competition in terms of prices)... there are days where I can't leave without picking up a dozen discs, no matter how common and how much in print these may be (RVGs, Universal stuff... sometimes they also have SteepleChase or Leo sales... though usually it's just BN, Universal, and earlier on also Fantasy/OJC now and then... too bad I wasn't all over those when they were more common!)

I have the Atlantic NO set, the Blue Note CD (from their 60th b-day series which was made up of six very good trad-jazz/swing releases: BN Jazzmen 2CD, BN Swingtets, Edmond Hall, Sidney Bechet "Runnin' Wild" - or was it just five, I can't recall another one...), and this one on Jazzology/American Music, which is my favourite: http://www.jazzology.com/item_detail.php?id=AMCD-4

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.