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I won't explain either... I don't think in terms of albums, really - rather it's a constant process. And I couldn't name five, the following list is just a small part: Miles Davis - Cookin' (first jazz album I really dug - there's the explanation) Coltrane - Ascension Mingus - Ah Um Dolphy - Out to Lunch Miles - Bitches Brew Hendrix - Band of Gypsies Brötzmann/Drake - Dried Rat Charlie Parker - the complete Savoy 5LP set Lester Young - each and every side I ever heard Billie w/Lester (all of it, too!) Miles - Isle of Wight DVD Ray Charles - The Great Ray Charles Terry Riley - in C (LP dub on tape, no idea what recording it was... an old one, for sure) Archie Shepp - In San Francisco Ayler - probably not Spritual Unity... Hilversum Session? who cares... AYLER! Jimmie Lunceford - some of the Decca sides (thanks to brownie I've got the whole run of Lunceford's MoJs now!) Andrew Hill - the Mosaic set (no particular session, the twin basses & Hutch quartets, the KD/Dolphy/Joe Hen session... all of it!) Tristano/Konitz/Marsh - the Mosaic set (maybe except the Konitz sides, I knew Lee before from the effin' great "Motion") As I said, a very incomplete list... and concerts witnessed might have had even a greater influence, in the end anyway!

He did and the result is not bad at all. Yeah, not bad, but it's still one of the clinkers in CTs discography, all in all - go for "The Willisau Concert" (Intakt) if you want to hear him in a terrific solo performance! And on topic: been there, done that - there's the search function that's working again! I remember recommending the Lewis/Jones myself, in an earlier thread, also "Our Delight" by Jones/Flanagan. I can sort of see Chuck's point... and why on earth would you want even more notes played than Peterson does? Ok, it's Basie who plays only few himself... I guess OP fills up the gaps?

That's the Burghausen gig, yes? Got that off the air (as well as a few others, thanks to dime). She's great! Alas I missed a solo appearance of hers in Zurich some months ago.

Except for the stupid outer box, the Jelly Roll 8CD set is nice, too. Two long-book digi-packs, fold-up, holding four CDs each, a rather big booklet, plus a paperback edition of the Jelly Roll book. You also get a PDF transcript of the whole shebang on disc 8 - I made a nice printout and had it bound in a copyshop - won't fit anywhere inside the book, but for us non-native speakers it's much easier to understand the mumbling if we can read it at the same time, too... (I know about the sound discussion, but I don't care, just in case... no audiophile ears here, alas!)

My copy arrived today (CD copy, that is, LP is alreaday OOP it seems, but I would have gone for CD anyway). After a first listen, it's clearly a bit Thanks for mentioning this here!

Didn't you get a burn of this from a friendly O. poster? Yes, of course Anyway, I'd still buy a good-sounding CD reissue of this great album! (I keep feeling slightly bad having CDRs of albums that come back in print... can't help it...)

sent in an order for the Herman... ouch! not sure I need the Jazz Piano Moods set... and somewhat sad to see this one go so fast when much more interesting sets have taken ages only to time out... on the other hand, it's from 2000 so it's not that fast, but to me still any set with a number of 200 or higher is new (this is 199).

Ha (BB) beat me to it... just wanted to post that Mingus thing, too - a hilarious read!

I'll definitely grab "Hum Domo" when I see it! By the way, seems "Mexican Green" was just out of stock at Amazon UK when I last checked, hence I was quick jumping on a good marketplace offer... now it's back there again...

Alright, seems I was pretty wrong on "Stellar Regions"! I hadn't played it for at lest a couple of years before reading this thread and gave it a spin again and last night - and guess what? I was pretty impressed and found it rather beautiful, too! Thanks for the peer pressure, guys! -_-

Thanks for all your replies! I have "Greek Variations" only, so far (but I also have a few of the Vocalions plus two of the Rendell/Carr 2CD sets and some stray other british album). I think I've read about the "Hum Domo" reissue here before, but I'm off the computer this very second, will be back tomorrow...

I had no idea it was out of print much less priced at that inflated level. Rather crazy, isn't it? But that seems to be a common development with OOP OJCs and other Fantasy discs now... I'm grabbing fast as much as my bank allows... (Joe Gordon, Gil Melle, Doug Watkins, Sam Jones, Jaki Byard, Don Patterson, Jenkins/Jordan/Timmons, Jimmy Heath, Jaki Byard, and most of Bennie Golson's... and more - crazy! But rather at 10-15$ a pop, not 100!)

I have seen his Braff-Oester-Rohrer trio live and it's terrific! They have a disc out, too, I should think (don't have any of Braff's discs so far). Rohrer is one of the most inventive and joyful drummers I was able to catch live so far!

Probably because you can get it for just 100$ from a single Amazon marketplace seller? Crazy! Too bad I missed this one, will keep my eyes open!

I just recently got hold of the (now OOP, it seems) Tubby Hayes disc "Mexican Green" - just finishing a first listen, very good one! Inside of the traycard, there's an add with other releases available: Ardley/Carr/Rendell - Greek Variations Costanzo plus Tubbs - Equation in Rhythm Amancio d'Silva - Integration Michael Garrick - Troppo Tubby Hayes & the All Stars - Return Visit! Tubby Hayes Orchestra - 100% Proof Tubby Hayes - Tubbs' Tours Tubby Hayes - Tubbs Tubby Hayes - Mexican Green Mike Taylor - Trio Mike Westbrook - Celebration and of course the two compilations: Various - Impressed with Gilles Peterson Various - Impressed with Gilles Peterson 2 Is this all there is? Anything else not in this list? I did a search here and came up with various related threads (on Tubbs, on the compilations etc) but it seems there hasn't been a general one with the whole list being mentioned, so I figured I'd start a new thread and ask... Also I noted that "Mexican Green" doesn't list the personnel anywhere else except in the original notes (they're mentioned in passing in the new notes, too) - rather crappy... also the typo on the tray ("A Deication to Joy").

It's a bit weird... I used to love Stanko, saw him three times with this trio, but last time it was pretty mediocre... the trio was great but sounded awful (cheapo drumset, not the club that is to blame, rather the Miskiewicz' bad-sounding cymbals, I think)... anyway, the trio on its own then I don't find as interesting as when they're backing Stanko... too restrained, too pop-like (EST, yuck... how boring!). Anyway, the disc isn't bad but it's ECM and hence it's a far cry from what they do in a live situation... Find an earlier discussion >> here <<

That's great news! I just recently found a new copy of Vol. 1/2 of the Jazz Tribune RCA 2CD set online and love it!

I don't like "Follow Me" that much, either... but I like him very much in the classical piano trio setting! Did you check him out in that format?

Because we're not europeans? I consider Humair about as French as Godard...

I thought this was more about younger pianists so I didn't mention big names such as Tete, Solal or Arvanitas. Big yet on all of the ones brownie mentions (Johansson I still need to check out, though), specifically Oliva... and Pilc! If you enjoy some more adventurous music, check out something by Irene Schweizer (her discs are almost all on Intakt, you might start with "Chicago Piano Solo", which I love a lot, or the first of the two "Piano Solo" volumes).

ALBERT AYLER, "THE HILVERSUM SESSION" esp4035 The legendary recording, digitally remastered with new artwork, and liners by Russ Musto. Includes free 9.5 x 9.5 pullout poster! Coming September 2007 source: http://www.espdisk.com/newreleases.html

Yes, that would be good, even more so with ESP finally back in action and starting to do some things right that Abraxas didn't... I guess I'll need to finally replace my needle drop mini-LPs of "Bells/Prophecy" and "Spirits Rejoice", too!

Pierre Favre! Daniel Humair! Many good ones around!

Interesting thread... I am not familiar or barely familiar with many of the musicians you mention. You might be interested to check out Eric Legnini. He played/plays both with Bunky Green and Stefano di Battista. He's got at least one disc under his own name (on Label Bleu). Another good one is Stefano Bollani. He played with Enrico Rava, both in quintet as well as duo settings. I don't know any official releases of his, but he's great! If you want to go into territorry completely unknown to the folks here, you might check out also a few fine young Swiss pianists: Colin Vallon - he's got two discs, "Ailleurs" (hatOLOGY) and another one (Altrisuoni) - don't have the discs, but heard him live and on the air, he's great! Hans Feigenwinter - again, I don't have any of his discs, but several live broadcasts and also heard him live... Malcolm Braff - one of my big favourites! http://www.malcolmbraff.com/ Pierre Luc Vallet - he's also a good organ player (homepage) Thierry Lang - a very lyrical player, important chap on the Swiss scene, several albums on Blue Note Then there's George Gruntz - leader of his great Concert Jazz Band (previously "The Band") for several decades by now, who did a solo album for the German ACT label recently, "Ringing the Luminator" Another very fine young Swiss pianist is Jean-Paul Brodbeck who recently did an album of songs by Tschaikovsky (heard a live show and the disc in store but don't have it yet) (homepage)

Thanks Lon - that's interesting, that ESP is reissuing this... I wonder how that comes!