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I have the Grolnick twofer, but haven't played it a loooong time... too long! It's a very good one!

What's that about #6 being Nathan Davis??? Mike, am I out to be the one most embarassing poster in this thread, tell me!!!

OK, Randy. Track #8 positively ID'd. A little tricky because of course it's Coltrane and the quartet in '65, but the two saxophones are due to a bit of Trane overdubbing. The track is "Living Space" (Impulse). Oh, thanks for pinning that one down! So it indeed is Trane! It got more and more likely as the track continued, but since I never got "Living Space" (the disc), I guess this overdubbing experiment so far escaped me... I also thought I recognized Jimmy Garrison, not sure McCoy and Elvin.

Thanks a lot Randy for still sending me a copy of your disc! Below is what I typed up in real-time during the first (and so far only - had the disc in the mail last night) listen: #1 Eddie Gomez-like bass…don’t like it that much. Could be Bill Evans? I am not familiar yet with his later recordings, although I own a big chunck of them… bass solo is much more to my liking than accompaniment. Drummer is a bit too light for my likings… #2 Folksy stuff… ECM? (upon entrance of soprano sax) Garbarek? Percussion is rather nice… all in all a nice track, but not one that I’d play all too often. Probably some seventies ECM stuff? Not sure who the pianist could be, but I think I like him best. Bass does not provide enough bottom, really… some of those small piano licks remind me very much of Jarrett, but the overall groove does not sound a lot like him… or could this be his Yurpean quartet? I have one CD, or maybe even two, but have only played them once and that was a long time ago… not sure if Christensen does all that percussion stuff… #3 Again that bass sound… though this time the bassist goes down a bit from time to time… tenor gets pretty wild, but I’m not sure how well this kind of blowing meshes with the rest of the band. Something bugs me about sound here… ECM again? Drums sound so bright, bass so clean and non-deep… but still probably my favourite track so far. No guesses… theme is not really fitting with the tenor blow-out… #4 A post-Trane hymn? The saxes fit together nicely. Sound, alas, is not much greater… nice first tenor solo! Not sure it goes anywhere, but I like it quite a bit! Second tenor is ok, too. #5 Somehow it seems all the music so far is from a period that is not one covered very well in my collection, roughly 1975-1990, I guess… I need to overcome the sound of these recordings quite a bit to enjoy the actual playing… same again on this cut. Tenor and trombone make a nice frontline, though. But again the drummer doesn’t really do it for me (didn’t do it on #4 either, I’m afraid). This is not my favourite cut… not that I really dislike it (except for the drummer), but it just doesn’t do a lot for me. Nice flute over the outro vamp! #6 This starts out great! A simple blues… maybe in the footsteps of some of those themes on “Coltrane Plays the Blues”… and then again the out of tempo part… trumpet has a haunting quality. And the tenor is there, marking full presence with that first separate tone. Very nice! This is older than the preceeding tracks… I guess I should know this and I may even have it on a CD I barely know… some Wayne Shorter Blue Note? Being away from my collection I cannot compare, but this could be Freddie Hubbard? Thus it would be from “Speak no Evil”? No, wait, it’s Lee Morgan? So AMG tells me it’s the title-cut, right? Great one! Definitely my favourite track so far! Rhythm section is great, but then of course I love Elvin! And Workman’s short bass spot it excellent, too! (Ok, I just checked the sample on AMG… glad I was able to pin at least one cut down!) #7 Sounds very familiar! Hmm… not sure if I ought to know this. Another nice cut, for sure! Very nice trombone solo! This may turn out embarrassing… I am really not sure if I know it, but I like it! #8 The good run continues! Reminds me a lot of the fourth movement of Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”… but then it’s most certainly not Coltrane, is it? When the beat gets stready (and rocking!) and soprano #1 takes off things get even more Trane-like… but the sound of the soprano player as long as he’s wailing is rather different (when he does those little squeals high up he sounds quite like Trane, though!). Now having Trane himself in such a two soprano setting would be something! Drummer does his Elvin? Or is that Elvin himself? Maybe even some Elvin recording? (I still have to get that Mosaic…) Ok, this is Elvin himself, I’d say. McCoy, for sure. Hmm… now this starts sounding more and more like the classic Coltrane quartet… hmm… I am so clueless! Whatever this is, it is great! #9 Oy! Cello and trumpets and drums and basses… very nice! Dave Douglas? I am clueless again, but this is one more great track – I enjoy the cello a lot here, and all the others do very fine, as well! So in short, I enjoyed the second half of the CD a lot, but found the first half just ok. No offense to be taken, just different tastes, I guess. Thanks a lot, Randy, for putting this disc together!

Another fan of Shirley Scott here! Jim, I read that same story, prob. in some liner notes (I have two of her Prestige twofers, one being the Moodsville thing that has her on piano for half of the tracks - prob. read it in the notes to one of those). "On a Clear Day" is also a very fine album!

Steve is better known as a Bansuri player (Hindustani classical bamboo flute). I've had the pleasure of hearing him perform many times. http://stevegorn.com/ You know, usually I'm rather sceptical about caucasians playing indian classical music/instruments... but yes, Gorn plays bansuri on this Lindberg disc, too, and it fits in nicely! (Or is that a live recording of the group where he plays bansuri? Now I'm not sure anymore... whatever, the master of the instrument is Hariprasad Chaurasia!)

I like all of the Hilliard Ensemble's discs I have heard:

Some more 6 year old stuff... *************************** back on topic: what's the word here about Taylor's Leo discs? I recently found "Tzotzil / Mummers / Tzotzil" in a sale and gave it a spin. I think it's pretty much ok. Taylor himself is great, Ward is a bit... different from his usual self (but then his full-bodied soulful alto would be totally misplaced in this context, anyway), and Leroy Jenkins is rather great! It's more of a group recording, though, as I hear it.

Plenty of that around here, too - just not in the center of the city (where all the above photos have been taken - you'll note that the church with the twin towers, the "Grossmünster", is on most of them).

ummmm... I'm afraid I don't get what's so funny about this...

That explains why Black Lion did an extensive Candid CD reissue series several years ago. I suppose he leased them to that US company? What US company? Black Lion is Bates, too, no? He also did some Freedom reissues (CD and LP, I have some Randy Weston... great stuff! Also that Andrew Hill one with Lee Konitz and Ted Curson).

Saw Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori live last year or the year before... Zeena was terrific! Here's their disc, which comes recommended to anyone inclined to look a wee bit further than yer ole Blue Note hardbop grandpa stuff: This *great* third stream album (starring John Lewis, Stan Getz, Tony Scott, Aaron Sachs, Lucky Thompson and others) includes some very effective harp comping: This thread indeed is fascinating and makes me want to buy some more CDs... as if I didn't have more than enough already. But I'll definitely want to check out "Afro Harping" and the twofer by Dorothy Ashby.

Your city is just a wee bit more beautiful than mine. Sometimes I really hate Michigan. But I'd prefer your weather! I was in the mountains for 3 days and had actually enough of that white stuff they call snow, but just when we returned, it started snowing like crazy down here! There must be around half a meter of snow, which I have never seen in Zurich in all my (young) life!

and two more - the one on the right taken by a live webcam five minutes ago!

Here are a few photos of Zurich - absolutely crazy! On Sunday people were skiing or boarding down the streets!

Belated best wishes, Al!

Many best wishes, Garth! Been away for a few days, thus the delay... party on! PS: I hope them playmates enjoyed that Hal McKusick disc you had continuously spinning!

To answer the question above, I have this one: and just recently played it and found it excellent. I have never heard (of) Steve Gorn before, but he's very good on clarinet (and saxophones, but I like his clarinet playing better), and Baikida Carroll is someone I'm not all that familiar with, either - very good player. On drums is the great Susie Ibarra (I'm sure some rats could tell some stories about someone having a crush on her...). So even though the band looks somewhat less interesting than the one on "A Tree Frog Tonality", the disc is just as fine, in my opinion.

Shaw has replaced Marcus Strickland in Roy Haynes' "Fountain of Youth". I heard him live with the Mingus Big Band and on a radio broadcast with Haynes and both times he was great! Of course the quartet setting with Haynes left much more space for him to blow, and he made good use of it, for sure!

There are several "series" of Candid CDs, as far as I understand. The ZYX ones are prob. the oldest ones around. Then there are different looking UK editions (Candid is owned by a UK company, no? There's this website here: http://www.candidrecords.com/). I think among my five Taylor and four Mingus discs, there are at least three different runs of CDs covered. Some have *very* badly photocopied/scanned covers, too. Anyone knows if there's a difference in sound or not? My guess is not, but I haven't really tried to find out. And for all those inclined to buy any of these Candids: big for the Booker Ervin - probably Felix Krull's only post-mortal appearance on a jazz recording... a great disc, Krull being Parlan, the rhythm team being Parlan's crew of that time (Tucker-Harewood). Fits in nicely with the Parlan Blue Note sessions and the Savoy disc (which adds Richard Williams on trumpet to the same crew).

(Bainbridge version with different cover)

Lovely album! Fine work by Triglia and Kotick, but I'm not so sure about Mardigan... probably it's just the "not exactly hi-fi" sound but his cymbals sound like some kiddie tambourine.

It reminded me of some of those projects by the likes of Dave Douglas, incorporating eastern european sounds (harmonies, melodies), like the "Tiny Bell Trio", for instance, or his "Charms of the Night Sky". Not just because of the instrumentation (with accordion). Speed is very good, in my opinion! Might be one of the most interesting of that bunch of tenorists that came up virtually at the same time (Cheek, Potter, Turner, Redman... ok, Turner is great as well, if only because he sounds so differently...)

Happy birthday, Wes!

Randy, it may be of interest that Intakt will release a new Trio 3 disc, Time Being, on April 2. Intakt CD 106