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It's a Jazzdeau, right! Alas I was born too late to ever see one, but it's been one of my favourite animals ever since I remember... I had that little book, "Dilbert and the Dodo" by Kate Robinson and James Hart... loved it - probably still have it somewhere, torn into pieces...

Can you provide more info, please? What tunes from what date? And why would they have been omitted from the set?

All (? most?) of that was reissued by 32jazz - great discs, most of them! Then some cheapo UK label did a 2CD set with the four full albums of which 32jazz did the compilation of that title. Dig the ugly covers!

something is fishy here, 's like you are looking for an alibi. So to be on the safe side, let's blame it all on catesta for a change... That's the standard procedure anyway, and I see no reason to change that...

Congrats, Ronald! I must have missed this thread when it was up and I guess there's no need for help by now! The only thing I might have is a setlist for the Osby/New Connexion concert from Schaffhausen, but I do remember I wasn't able to match the names with the actual music (I have four tracks and five titles or something, but the radio chaps said it was the complete concert, so most likely one track is a medley, but since these are all unknown tunes to me, I can't really tell...)

'Lonely Star' - It's the third of the disks with Chet Baker's Prestige material with Kirk Lightsey and George Coleman. Very nice they are too - the others are 'Stairway To The Stars' and 'On A Misty Night'. Ah, I see... ok ones, yes - but I have the five digipack 20bit discs of these sessions... Oh, would someone order the "This is Criss" for me and send it my way? I missed that one

What's the Lonely or Loney Star and what trio does is complete? Pardon my ignorance...

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 Yes I'm sure broadcast tapes are floating around. Barry Harris was NOT on piano. Mal was. In 1982 Mal and Steve performed as a duo at the same festival. It was broadcast too. Then Mal also did the quartet part (with Rouse, McBee & Riley)? Will have to sit down and listen... The idea was resurrected with a very similar line-up in 2000, btw: Monk Tentet All Stars New Morning, Paris (FR) - April 4, 2000 Don Sickler - trumpet Jack Walrath - trumpet Eddie Bert - trombone Steve Lacy - soprano sax Phil Woods - alto sax, clarinet Johnny Griffin - tenor sax Ronnie Cuber - baritone sax Ronnie Matthews - piano David Williams - bass Ben Riley - drums

Hey, once you'll play it and hear all the wonderful music, there's no way you'll regret!

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!

Happy birthday, Chris!

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...