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Miles, the Coltrane/Dolphy Session, the Mingus/Taylor one, I think some of the Tadd Dameron live stuff was on Ozone, too (also on other similar labels, one called "UltTadd"...) I used to see this in the one jazz vinyl store here in Zurich, they moved out of town now and I haven't been there for a while, no idea if they still have these boots. Very cheap production, btw, no info on musicians/dates, just the leader and the songs on the front cover, back cover is empty...

I like it a lot, too, but somehow it's more of an intimate jam thing than an actual album, no? It has a loose, slightly unorganized feel, sounds like you're there and all, but it may rather be for people who like Lacy, Evans, or both, or for people who like this kind of informal thing, rather than it's a great "album", no? Edit: how is it rated in Penguin?

The Sam Rivers "Contrasts" album, too, right? Also Dewey Redman 's "The Struggle Continues"

So that's Roy Hargrove? With Ray Brown? Willie Jones III on drums? (#12 I mean)

disc two was another fun compilation, although towards the end I found my attention got a bit less... probably it's just a bit too much music and not enough sleep... #1 Merdre alors! #2 More retro stuff? Tune sounds familiar but I can't pin it down. Nice one. #3 "Sweet Sue"? If it's Django, it would likely be Rostaing on tenor? Not sure where to put this one... #4 This is a similar performance, same tune as #3, but now definitely a new and retro one. Not my favourite, but pleasant enough. #5 Now this is another one played to death, I guess, but it took me years of jazz listening until I finally heard it, and I love it! It's "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael), right? Lovely trombone sound, but I'm not sure at all who this could be, guitar and sound of this makes me think it's not that old... maybe Carl Fontana or someone similar? Bill Watrous in a quiet peaceful moment? Guitar is very nice, too! Oh, wait, is this J.J.? The second solo reminds me of him a lot, but I don't have anything of his with guitar backing... #6 Nice and mellow one... Chet Baker? (That would make me guess Philip Catherine, Jacques Pelzer) #7 A Mulligan-associated tune... is that "Bernie's Tune"? I haven't heard the album with Annie Ross... sounds like it could be indeed Mulligan himself on baritone. I enjoy the baritone a lot, this laziness and the dry sound. Doesn't really sound like what I've heard of Annie... #8 More nice trumpet... nice piano solo, good groove going on beneath. Trumpet and alto are good, too, but I don't really have an idea who this could be, although the alto sounds somewhat familiar. Nice to have kind of a shout-chorus before the final theme arrives, something pretty old-fashioned that not many bands do nowadays. #9 "I'll Remember April" again. A few quotes too many in the violin solo... Retro stuff again, not bad, but not really my cup of tea, sorry. #10 More old-fashined stuff... not bad at all, I think, but the Django-like sentimental guitar doesn't really work for me. It does swing, though! Sax is nice. #11 Another latin track with nice trumpet... tune sounds familiar, but maybe that's just because of the deceptively simple melody. #12 More lyrical trumpet with guitar... is that one of your preferred combinations? This one doesn't do a lot for me, it may be fine, very good musicians, but it just doesn't reach out to me. #13 Entering fun territory again to end? Very nice! Al & Zoot? I like this a lot, it's very simple with just the two tenors, but it sounds like much more! #14 A lullaby? Ah, nice, there enters the tuba! A cute outro! Thanks a lot for these two discs!

I thought that was Joris, not "Jorvis"? Pretty nice one! I did royally wrong on some cuts, should have been able to guess Ellis and "Cheryl"... too bad about the Blakey cut, but I'm glad to realize at least someone from those days is leading pack, even though it's a much later recording... and then I never really was that interested in these retro things - the only thing putting this above any kind of Wynton M. schtick is that there's and oldster in it who was around back in the day (makes a big difference, but there's too much other stuff around that I find to be a lot more exciting).

#12 "What Is This Thing Called Love". A great performance, they're definitely on, whoever they are! Sounds like some old US pros, but in the end the tumpet player says thanks in German, so I don't know... the trumpet player has iron chops, but enough good taste to not just show off - I really like this, it's old-fashioned (a tune played to death, too, I think) but it's very well done! #13 Lee Konitz circumcising "Cherokee" - clear from the first tone that this is Lee! The old man still is in pretty great shape (or at least he has been up to around 2001-2003 or so, I haven't heard much of more recent vintage, and one or two 2005 or 2006 live broadcasts I heard were a bit less exciting, I thought). Is this from the Konitz/Mehldau/Haden "Alone Together" on Blue Note? I have to play those two discs again, long time since I did! Mehldau is pretty restrained, but that suits Lee's dryness quite well, in fact his full-blast romantic side would be totally misplaced! And of course this is another tune played to death decades ago, but if it's revisited like this, no one cares about that! (Phew, at least one I could pin down!) #14 And a fun closer... "I Want to Be Happy"?

Yes, I've heard recent live shows of Garbarek (in quartet with Brüninghaus/Weber/Mazur, I think) that were pretty fine, but it seems he (or Eicher? likely both...) is not interested in producing disks along those lines.

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Thanks a lot for your fun compilations, Hans, and thanks for sending me that reminder! I've had your BFT on the ipod for a couple of days and gave one background listen to all of it yesterday, and now did a second round while at work, typing up some impressions and comments. So far I've got #1-11 of disc one, I will not read the threads before having posted comments on all tracks of the discs! #1 Is this one serious or not? Very groovy! Could be some of these Dutch maniacs in retro mode? The drummer builds a great swing, I love this kind of brushes playing! Bennink? First alto is a bit lazy in execution and the sound fits perfectly with that... second alto is nice, too, and the piano backing is quite nice as well - a great start for this disc! #2 Nice one, no clue who it is... #3 This one does sound familiar, but I can't pin it down. Ye olde hardbop, but pretty nice, especially the drummer! Playing it again... who the hell could this be? Is it less old than it sounds first? Tenor solo is pretty nice, is this from a Donald Byrd date? The Mobester? It's been quite some time since I played any Byrd... but who'd be on alto? The entry sounds like it could be Jackie Mac, but later the sound and execution gets a bit tamer... Hmm, I suppose I'm making a fool of myself with these comments... #4 I know this tune, but once again I can't pin it down... nice combination, trumpet/guitar/bass/drums. I enjoy both the guitarist's old-fashioned sound (with that slight twang! pretty nice!) and the sound of the trumpet player. I don't know of many trumpet players who worked with this format, Tom Harrell comes to mind, but then I'm not familiar enough with his playing to tell if this is him... but could be. #5 Nice ballad. The alto sound is rather pretty, but for my taste a bit inconsistent (changing between pretty full - which I like - and rather etheric and thin - which I don't enjoy... main reason why in 9 of 10 cases I prefer tenor...) Piano solo is nice, a bit flowery in between... all rather old-fashioned, bass and drums mostly staying out of the way, although the drummer does a few fills here and there, and nicely so. #6 More alto, a bit beafier, I prefer this one. Jackie Mac influence? I enjoy the alto solo a lot! Good backing by the drummer! Piano is good, too, out of a Tyner bag, a bit? #7 Ouch, this almost hurts! Quite a change of style! Not bad in itself, but it doesn't fit here, in my opinion. #8 This one's nice! The stop-and-go feeling is nice, could be one I ought to be able to identify... Herbie Nichols? Longtime I played his BN material, but the box has recently been added to the listening pile. #9 Rhythm-A-Ning by Monk, not easy for any pianist to cover Monk, and likely bound to fail, I think... not bad, but nowhere near Monk, sorry. #10 One of those Bird tunes... "Blues for Alice"? One of the moaners on piano, but a nice solo, sounds at some moments like late Bud Powell. Alto makes a nice, understated entry, pretty cool sound for a hot player... nice one, but I'm clueless once more! #11 Another abrupt stylistic change, but this is a fun track, right from the bass-lick and congas to the stacked horns. Trumpet has nice bits! Electric piano fits in well here, too. A pretty enjoyable track!

adult contemporary? (aka the US version of ECM euro smooth...)

Oh yes, "On a Clear Day" is great!

You first have to put together a valentine compilation of "Sun Ra for Lovers" - no full-size images before that! (use the img-logo on top, the one with the tree, and insert the images url there - it's merely linked into your post that way and not attached. downside is if the link is gone, so is the image, but it saves lots of space for the board, too, I assume)

Garbarek had bad electronics before, nothing new under the sun.... but you'd be quite alone among serious jazz fans if you still considered him someone to watch... true, he was quite ok on the Katché Neighbourhood album, and probably also on the Vitous one, but that's about it, as far as Garbarek goes, in the last 15 or so years...

I picked up several CDs of hers in recent years and they've all been good: Trio Classics, Vol. 1 (a twofer of "Great Scott" and "Shirley's Sounds"), Like Cozy (a twofer of the album of the same title and "The Shirley Scott Trio", both on Moodsville), also her "Legends of Acid Jazz" with Turrentine is very fine. Then there's the Impulse "QUeen of the Organ" and the Blue Notes with Stanley T. ("Hustlin'"!)... she's easily one of my favourite organists!

If you're still looking, drop me an email about it!

I once asked for the T-Bone with no luck, but I searched around and found a lot of the info. I'll post it later, don't have it with me.

Sad news "The In-Crowd" still is in my father's LP collection, pretty beat-up... and just recently I picked up a copy of this fun Water twofer: BORN AGAIN (1970) / MELLOW DREAMIN' (1971) Eldee Young (bass); Redd Holt (drums) Additional personnel include: Kenneth Chaney, Bobby Lyle (keyboards); Donny Hathaway (background vocals). Liner Note Authors: Redd Holt; Pat Thomas Recording information: P.S. Studios, Chicago, Illinois (1970 - 1971) For the first time on CD are two classic soul-jazz albums from Young-Holt Unlimited originally released in '70 and '71 on Cotillion/Atlantic (blurb excerpted from the CDU page, via big-o)

and why start this in the discography forum anyway? want to pull together a list of ECM smoothies here?

On second thought, if what ECM releases is smooth jazz, the same applies to (not 100%, either, mind me!) the output of labels like Palmetto, Criss Cross et. al. It's just a bit of a bluesier and boppier kind of smooth, but it's all old mainstream crap, too.... and of course nothing beats king of smooth remasters, RVG's editions, although it would be smoothier if it wasn't for his use of edgy compression...

Another of these great threads! I love'em!

Just ordered the Goldkette from worldsrecords (along with the Arbors of Wild Bill Davison's two strings albums and the Tommy Turrentine Time they have on "sale" for 9 bucks) Seems the Goldkette just duplicates one cut from the Bix/Tram Mosaic, which I have on my wantlist...

Definitely worth checking out, yes! He also appears on a trio date by Grant Green that's pretty good, and his two Argo releases have recently been released on yet another spanish or andorran outfit (check dustygroove.com, they list it) and are worth checking out, too! (That label that did the Argos has quite an ok look, btw, much better than Definitive or Lonehill or any of those, although they're slowly improving, too.)

someone sent me this link yesterday, I hope it's new to some of you, too: http://www.reubenradding.com/12.html Both instalments so far feature Jack Wright! Of Radding himself, I haven't heard before...

Yeah, maybe that's a wise decision, but that particular trio is the best Ahmad ever recorded, I think. Nothing he did after that matches up, good as some of it is.