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Lucky you! I haven't found Bikini Tapes for a reasonable price anywhere! I almost went for it at full prize (some 35 euro over here, or even 40!) several times, so I was very happy to see it! But "Feet Music" is quite nice, too! (I have made luke-warm comments about it earlier, but I have likely been in the wrong mood for it then...)

his solo is good on itself, but it's sticks out like a sore thumb in the performance (which isn't cooking too hot to begin with). huh? so the solo of his is the best of it all? none other good on itself solos there, or not many, right? maybe we should just have a disc "Big Black's Night of the Cookers", theme, conga solo, outro for all of the too long tunes? As for Weston, he often uses conga drummers, in fact even in the trio he more often has his drummer (Neil Clark it was in recent years, I think) playing african drums as he opts for the drum kit. And Weston is the one musician where I never ask any question about congueros... he is beyond any slightest tiny bit of doubt, he's just a towering giant, only people haven't noticed that. It's not too late, as he's already going strong! I really wish he'd had that big break he deserved long ago!

Quite nice, I think! Haven't played it often enough to really say, but upon first listen, it's a good one!

Note that Malachi Thompson (and again Sonelius Smith) is on "La Dee La La", too! I think he's got one or two soaring solos! He left far too early.

I have the Jarman/Crispell duo (just above), but I never really like Jarman that much... Of the ECMs, I don't have the Peacock one, but the other two - found both of them in sales and after I was quite surprised by how much I liked the first one I got, "Amaryllis", and thus got "Storyteller", too, when I saw it in a sales bin. Pretty nice one, too. The only other thing I have is the Leo Golden Years 2CD compilation, long time I played it. And once I saw her live, with Grimes' fumbling space bass (yuck! for that sound, sorry...) and Andrew Cyrille. She was definitely the best part of that concert, a dense 80 minutes of mostly high energy playing, with her providing almost all of the highlights!

I assume you're talking of Shamek Farrah? I heard the first in the blogosphere... would have to listen again to tell you more, it didn't really impress me that much as I remember, but I mgiht have been in the wrong mood when I tried it. Here's an AAJ review of the first of the three:

What where the Newport tracks paired with? Haynes with Weston, that's at least interesting, and anyway good to see another disc out with Haynes!

http://www.ejazzlines.com/c847/RANDY-WESTO...ICA-p54996.html Thanks, I'd been searching around myself while you already posted.

Just checked, details are up on the website - all new to me, no idea where this had originlly been released: Trio & Sextet From 52nd Street To Africa - Randy Weston Featuring: Randy Weston (p), Ray Copeland (tp), Frank Haynes (ts), George Joyner, Bill Wood (b), Gilbert G.T. Hoogan, Lennie McBrowne (d), Big Black (conga) REFERENCE: FSRCD 433 | BAR CODE: - | PRICE: 9.50 € Although he has achieved neither the popularity of Peterson nor the mystique of Monk, Randy Weston is one of the most important contributors to modern music, both as a pianist and as a composer. In the 1950s he became one of the first soloists to compose and perform jazz successfully in waltz time. He was also among the earliest to bring to his music a sense of the importance of his African heritage, in his search for "the real link between Africa and American jazz. This is the link I want to get into", he said. "I feel it will really make jazz grow". While many of his works illustrate either one or the other of these initiatives, Weston has also retained his ties with the swinging essence of jazz represented by the Gillespie-Parker school of the 40’s. Tracklisting: 1. Announcement by Allan Morrison 1:01 2. Hi-Fly 6:39 3. Expert From Bantu suite 9:27 4. Beef Blues Stew 6:31 5. Introducing by Allan Morisson 0:42 6. Machine Blues 4:33 7. Blues For Strayhorn 10:34 8. Sad Beauty Blues 10:44 9. Afro Black 18:06 Randy Weston Trio: Tracks 1-6: Randy Weston (p), George joyner (b), Gilbert "G.T." Hoogan (d). Live at The Newport Jazz Festival, July 5, 1958. Randy Weston Sextet: Tracks 7-9: Ray Copeland (t), Frank Haynes (ts), Randy Weston (p), Bill Wood (b), Lennie McBrowne (d), Big Black (cg). Live at Both/And, San Francisco, October 1966. All tracks composed by Randy Weston.

What's that Randy Weston disc? Not a repackage of Freshsound's own Dawn reissue, I hope? That's the only one from that time that's got trio and group (quintet? not sextet, I think) tracks on it I can think of...

funn you just bought "Feet Music"... I found this one on sale (12€, approx.!!!):

So you posted this while driving through icy streets? It's snowing again here, too, just started early this morning - not that I like it that much

Then how about Denardo? Is that a common name anywhere?

Bo Gustav, says Wiki, but Wiki's not that much of my friend...

huh? Fortunatus "Fip" Ricard, trumpet player with Basie... there he is, along with Hobart and a chap on baritone who's first name is McKinley: http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/ping.html

Fortunatus

not that I knew, but liners are likely crappy, graphics a bit better, and sound probably a rip-off of some previous box set of the same music (it was on BN, too, no? I only have the single discs, never got any complete set). Anyway, the music is quite nice (actually more than that), but you can also get it by buying the 2CD Original Quartet disc (probably OOP, though) and adding the rest by getting the Mulligan/Konitz and Reunion disc. What you'll miss then (that one I miss, too) is the collaboration with Annie Ross. And there's also a GNP disc, plus a Fantasy disc, that have some more quartet tracks (the GNP adds a larger Mulligan date and the Fantasy adds a Chubby Jackson date). Of course you can get the Definitive box and add the GNP and Fantasy discs, too...

check that out here: http://www.propermusic.com/ there's also this here where you can compare: http://www.jazzdisco.org/getz/dis/c/ (not really that great, but good enough for this) edit: direct link to the Getz box disco: http://www.propermusic.com/popups/PROPERBO...discography.htm

I have "Pure Genius" on LP and the other Bee Hive date, too... are you sure this one here's a different? Will have to check my Brownie boots to see if I have it... As for Groove Hut, this one's excellent, I reported buying it elsewhere, already: I assume it's a rip-off of some japanese Argo reissues, but I have no idea. Never saw any Willette except the two Conns which I've had for a long time!

yesterday at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur - a show about early daguerrotypes, mostly related in some way to Switzerland (either done by Swiss or images of Switzerland by travelling foreigners). Quite a bit of fun, also bought the book to go with the exhibition. Also some recent austrian photography... about as kaputt as Austria seems to be, no wonder with their non-history...

I would like to do that, but I bought so many last year during the Zweitausendeins sales .... at least some obscures from the wish list were among them, but most were not, but at 2 or 3 € a piece one would have a hard time to resist. Same here... I still miss most of, say Teddy Edward's, Curtis Fuller's, Benny Golson's, Johnny Griffin's discs... and these lesser known names (as opposed to Duke, Basie, Peterson, Miles, Trane, Bill Evans, Monk) seem to be neglected so far in the new releases distributed by Universal

Yes, but the notification feature is great - I got "Get Happy" that way, and many other semi-obscure things. You won't get stuff there that's very hard to find, but many, many things eventually turn up at Djangos!

I was just looking for it myself... discussion of Concord related questions have been spread around too far (Misc, Reissues, New Releases...). I found my way to that list by going to the Universal homepage > Universal Switzerland > Jazz > that leads to a German website which has that listing. And to my best knowledge, that list isn't even complete, as I've seen (and picked up) Universal ex-OJC titles that aren't in the list.

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oh, and Djangos has lots of OJCs at around 10$, not too shabby! I just recently got the Westons (including the OOP one) and some Lateef from them.