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Why that? I know exactly where in which shelf they stand... (although I have no idea how long it will take until I'll have played them all through...)

I had been planning a concert like this while Monk was alive and after his death I could not continue. A couple years later Art Lange revived the idea and carried it off supurbly. Don Sickler, Tom Harrell, Cecil McBee and Eddie Bert were in the band too. I have a tape of the gig. They played Epistrophy, Bye-Ya, I Mean You, Evidence, Light Blue, Oska T and Four In One. Great thread, thanks Lazaro for sharing these remembrances! Chuck, part of this tape is circulating (it was on radio, back then, I assume) - if you're talking of Chicago Jazz Festival 1986. Here's the line-up going with it: Tom Harrell - trumpet Don Sickler - trumpet Eddie Bert - trombone Steve Lacy - soprano sax Phil Woods - alto sax Charlie Rouse - tenor sax Howard Johnson - baritone sax, bass clarinet Barry Harris - piano Cecil McBee - bass Ben Riley - drums

Please send the amount you're willing to pay for the Schopenhauer (I skipped it twice already...) my way! Send PM for paypal details of postal address in case you prefer to send cash. Will help me fund the Mingus and pay off the debt on my card from the last huuuuge OJC order...

So finally there it is! Great! Order sent in, thanks a lot, tjobbe!

The Day After It's on Howard McGhee's Sharp Edge date . Success again - thanks a lot, Chas. I will tell the dime-a-dozen clientele.

Hope you had a good one! Happy birthday!

And on a more positive side, let me add a for Trygve Seim!

it's a pity they didn't let that guy write the article, might have been very instructive (more for Louis Sclavis and John Surman, however, than for the reader...) Haven't seen the issue but isn't that the dread pianist/polemicist/hoaxer Jack Reilly? Yes it is - though I have never heard of this moron...

some Beachwood, N.J. chap's letter was published in July 2006 downbeat: Now seriously no one can tell me Mengelberg don't swing - that's just plain shit! And without the simple harmonies of yurpeen folk music and classical music, there'd have been no harmonic foundation for jazz... it wasn't just blues that stood at the beginning, was it? Crap!

Thanks for the bigger jpg - I wonder why google didn't find that when I did my search! MG: the JJ is much more.... let's say "sophisticated" than just some hardbop throwaway stuff. I assume we agree that what ultimately makes hardbop fun is the quality of the soloists and the fun grooves and blues feeling, but not the arrangements and most often neither the selection of tunes (and the originals are mostly fun but not really intriguing - save for Horace Silver and similar off-kilter tunes). Anyway, that's where the JJJ is much stronger: beautiful arrangements, no standard solo successions, no need that everyone solos on each tune, much more variation. Plus beautiful playing by JJJ, Bobby Jaspar, Nat Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Jordan, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Max Roach, Tootie Heath, Victor Feldman etc. I consider it one of the best Mosaics! The one that I'd compare it to most is the Jazztet, for the stress of good tunes and great arrangements and variation of solo order etc.

Email sent, thanks Dan!

Hopefully so! It does spoil the fun to look at the others' posts before posting oneself! But tooter should have known...

Tal Farlow? Must listen again soon. I just played "The Return of Tal Farlow" for the first time last night... love him! But Matt has mentioned that the guitarist had been id-d correctly, and Farlow wasn't mentioned so far...

Thanks a lot! I'll read this (and the liners) tonight at home! The photo is rather creepy, indeed, but I always love seeing some photos from these days where quite obiously I haven't been around...

ha! Indeed all of this has been discussed before... my take: those in that thread enjoy it, everyone is welcome to join, by using search > show posts it's easy to find something specific, too. The new threads usually don't work, Erik. The "rat" has a long attention span, so if someone mentions a disc and I get it two years later, I can still reply to that first mention in the rat, while reviving another of those two-post-threads may end up in that thread growing to four posts before vanishing again...

I also just got the Wellstood/Jackson album - not played yet - but also "Blues by Lonnie Johnson" - wow! Featuring Hal Singer, this is a great one, Chris! Any stories to share about it?

Seems Mili was an Albanian... not that this helps, but maybe someone can get any clue out of that? Maybe like "John"? (in Hungarian "György" - as Kurtag - the opening g is a voiced "J", too... and the "y" is fused with the "ö" which is spelled as a German "ö" - can't think of an english word using that "ö"-sound, though. Anyway, if that's similar the "Gj" would end up as just voiced "J" - not sure if this deduction is a tolerable one, of course...)

Wow, great news! 1958 Messengers is perfect for me, I love that band with Golson in his prime! The Basie looks great, though I assume if it was from 1959 or 1960 it would be even better... by 1962 the band was just about to end their prime years, with key members leaving etc. There are other Armstrong 1959 items around (from Italy and Germany, in the two cases where I know). There would be tons of great things around, if the TV stations over here would open up their vaults - for instance J.E. Behrend's "Jazz gehört & gesehen" (Jazz heard and seen) show that ran for years (or decades) on German TV. That show was prob. comparable to Gleason's show, pairing some tunes with short interviews in between, or at least some spoken introductions by JEB. Rarely ever is one of those being re-broadcasted, it seems - and last time some pieces were used (in that "Greatest Jazz Film ever" or what was its stupid title, up on arte and discussed here back then) it was only short fragments and they went all b-s about it, instead of trying to regularly broadcasting some of these shows - I'm sure it wouldn't bother anyone if they had some of these on in the middle of the night...

Moving words, Kevin. My sincerest condolences.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, considering the growing amounts of country music I'm listin' to, it's not such a weird suggestion. And there's one NZ/Oz dude - Tex Morton - that I'd happily bend an ear to. He's highly regarded by those who dig the Wilf Carter/Montana Slim sort of thing. But Slim Dusty, Keith Urban and Australian country in general - blech! I'm an ardent supporter and lover of Australian jazz, and much of the reason for that, I think, is that jazz - just about right from the get go - has always been pretty much international and adaptable. Australian jazz has its own integrity and thing going while still being part of the bigger deal. Country don't travel so well. There's something soulful that goes missing in the translation. Oz country makes me cringe. So do Oz blues. There's cool music, sometimes, in both. But they've invariably got fuck all to do with Muddy Waters or Hank Williams. Whereas, with alto saxophone master Bernie McGann (for instance) it's totally righteous to say he's all Australian and pure jazz. Well, Dusty is blech, for sure, I fully agree! Sounds like there'd some nice Australian jazz... not much known about that here! Probably not easy to lay hands on any!

Jim, care to correct my post-count, too? Thanks a lot!

I just saw that, nice! I think I'll take a closer look at those 4 'Jazz & Cinema' vols. and weed out a bit of stuff I'm not interested in hearing (Jan Wetzel's harmonica is it so far) and put together a nice little comp. Anything else buried in those 4 vols. that one might want to skip? Hmm, hard to tell. Some's a bit on the easy side, but I like all of it. Maybe some duplicates you can skip, such as the Herb Ellis date with Roy Eldridge, Getz etc. or the Blakey and Barney Wilen soundtracks, if you have them elsewhere.

Ain't there some kind of OZ-aic of his for you to spend money on?

ha...

Happy birthday from a fellow (half, that is...) OZ-tralian... have a nice one, mate!