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omigod! I couldn't remember that I posted this here! I thought you might have gotten "official" info - I think, but as I can't even remember posting it anymore..., I think my post was just an elaborate guess - I can't recall where I took that info from! Hmmmm, getting old?

I'll try to ask - will see how the interview goes and if I think asking for new releases/reissues will not be problematic in any kind... seems he's in a good mood, though, judging from his emails to us! Adam, is the above mail a new one? I didn't get it, and I think I deleted all earlier hat mailings... (which is why I couldn't quite the one I was paraphrasing above).

Just in case: those who got my BFT have heard guitarist Flo Stoffner on the Ayler track finishing the second disc. A pretty interesting young musician, I should think. I am not familiar with the horns, nor the bassist. Friedli plays with ... well, future BFT material

I've heard the Liebman (on radio - there are live broadcasts and later re-broadcasts from Willisau every year - so yes, I've heard the Braxton, too). Great set of music! Liebman plays tenor, soprano, flutes (I think wooden ones, but maybe also the regular?), and drums. A masterly display of musicianship! There's an annual solo set in Willisau, that often was taken up by pianists (Andrew Hill, Matt Shipp, Cecil Taylor - released on Intakt as "The Willisau Concert", a great GREAT set), and in the year before Liebman by Anthony Braxton.

Thanks Chuck, will do so! I can't seem to find Uehlinger's latest mailing - he sounded not that confident, stating that the future release schedule was dependent entirely on the financial states of his business - also it seems he does suffer from wars like the Dubya feghing shitte in Iraq - fegh it even more, then!!! - since the US is one of his biggest sale areas, and sales seem to go notably slower in war times. There still seems to be hope, though, and I like to stick with that. Would be too sad to see hat dying, so let's hope he'll manage - and let's support him by buying his releases, not just bitching around about what he holds back, for whatever reason that may be (again, I assume he'd be able to do more reissues AND more new relesases IF sales went better...)

One thing I forgot about the pictures above: I took them from the website of a club in Zurich, the "Bazillus" (a semi-legendary illegal club in its early days that has now re-opened legally again). The "Club Africana" where these photos were taken was a small bar/lounge in a hotel here in Zurich - the hotel's still there, but where the Africana used to be, there's a flower shop now (and ever since I've knewn it). The Africana was the home of Abdullah Ibrahim in his first months of exile, in Zurich, and as far as I know it was there where Sathima (his wife) dragged the Duke to hear him play, after Ellington played a concert (probably at the Kongresshaus in Zurich - not sure of the year, 1961?). Anyway, the Africana helped Swiss jazz getting a mighty dose of ZA "feeling" - you can still hear it in some of the playing of our most important free pianist, Irene Schweizer, who heard Ibrahim back in those days.

That one? Chris McGregor & The Blue Notes Eindhoven Netherlands June 21, 1979 Dudu Pukwana - reeds Rev Frank Wright - reeds Chris McGregor - piano Johnny Dyani - bass Louis Moholo - drums others unknown CD1/42:15 CD2/45:36 TT: 87:51 Sound: A-/B+ Lineage: unknown source > cass > Peak > Xact Note: A free-blowing late-period session from The Blue Notes. Anyone know the complete line-up Got better documentation abou it? This is not "classic" Blue Note stuff, as far as I can tell, but it's a nice one! They had lost some of their ZA jive feel and soaked in a lot of US blacknuss vibes by then (who wonders, with Rev. Wright in there), still I like this recording!

What's the duration? The most most recent Lee Morgan Conn ("Sonic Boom") was not copy-crapped due to long duration - seems that discs of a certain lenght (76? 77 minutes?) cannot be released in crappy versions for lack of space on the disc.

The Teagarden is highly recommended! I love that disc! Beautiful songs (mostly or exclusively by Willard Robinson)!

Early sixties THE BLUE NOTES Concert at club Africana ON PICT: DUDU PUKWANA as FOTO BY:ART RINGGER

YEAR. Early sixties THE BLUE NOTES Concert at club Africana ON PICT: Nikele Moyakhe,ts FOTO BY: ART RINGGER

Bringing this thread up again... (I have in the meantime heard Irene Schweizer perform, btw...) Below are some photos of Chris McGregor and the Blue Notes I found on the www and thought would be nice to share here! ********************* Early sixties THE BLUE NOTES Concert at Africana ON PICT:CHRIS MacGREGOR’S BLUE NOTES from Southafrica f.l.t.r. Nikele Moyakhe,ts Chris MacGregor,p Johnny Dyani,b Louis Moholo,dr FOTO BY: ART RINGGER

I'm a little biased because I was there, but have since listened to the BBC broadcast several times, but: the Braxton is phenomenal. Everyone in the UK who's into this stuff has been talking about it. The whole band plays an absolute blinder (Taylor Ho Bynum in particular!) ← I've heard the Braxton set (on a webcast-sourced CDR, I think). Good one, yes! Would be interested to hear more about the Nabatov if anyone gets it! The Nabotov/Bennink (OOP now?) that I picked up upon David's recommendation is fabulous! How's the Nabotov on hatOLOGY?

Just picked this one up used: A beautiful disc, highly recommended!

Sorry folks, as usual the interview will be conducted in Swiss German... Exactly in two weeks time we'll meet Uehlinger! Anyone in with any questions?

Happy birthday, Chris!

Someone posted on the Dime Jazz Email List that Amazon sent him a cancellation mail for his order, since the release of the set was cancelled. I didn't post that here, since I don't know that guy, but now that another source seems to seed this same rumour, I thought I'd share it here. How ridiculous this all is!

It's a bit more mellow, istn't it? If one wants to hear Trane going nuts, Paris is the choice, but I *love* All Blues on the Zurich set!

Probably the single disc digipacks? I have the older Trema 4CD set. I have no issues with sound, but then I'm no audiophile. The plus of that version is a very nice booklet with material documenting the controversis that arose after the Paris crowd/critics/musicians were more or less shocked by that angry man on tenor... interesting stuff, that I assume you will neither have in the cheapo laserlight edition nor in the digipack edition. This is what I have: And this is how the (single disc) digipacks look: Trane, March 1960: Stitt from October 1960: There seems to be a new version of the 4CD box-set, too: Then here's the Laserlight cheapo edition: And here's the Zurich release on Jazz Unlimited (I like this one a lot - am I alone here?):

Hey, would you post what you have, please? I only have some "elaborated guesses" I put up with help of Losin's site... If anyone needs the cover are for the HSHB Forensic, drop me a PM, I got it somewhere (I think from dime, when the tree was seeded, recently).

I have a couple of these but forgot to ask William Claxton to sign them. This would have suited him better than the very heavy copy of the book he signed! He had a bit of a trouble lifting it and opening it to the first page to sign my copy! The book is quite astonishing. One of the very best jazz photos book ever! ← This book is astonishing! No way I can buy it now, though! Saw it in a shop this week... it's almost as big as the Taschen Newton ("Sumo") and Araki books! (Not *that* expensive, though...)

The JazzUnilimited CD has liner notes by Jan Lohmann, the author of THE Milles Davis Discography book. Doubt that he would contribute to a grey release! ← I know, but he also wrote the liners for the JUCD "Miscellaneous Miles" which includes the whole Newport "comeback"-gig, the two cuts from Bohemia with the Jaspar-Flanagan-Chambers-AT quintet, some tracks with Pres from Europe, fall '56 JATP tour, plus the session with Edelhagen... this is definitely "grey"! And fegh Columbia for not releasing the full Newport set!

This thread coming up again made me play the great live release on Leo again! Love it! Pino Minafra, trumpet, flugelhorn, didgeridoo; Guido Mazzon, trumpet, flugelhorn; Alberto Mandarini, trumpet; Giancarlo Schiaffini, trombone, tuba; Sebi Tramontana, trombone, voice; Lauro Rossi, trombone; Martin Mayes, French horn; Mario Schiano, alto saxophone, voice; Eugenio Colombo, soprano and alto saxophones, flute; Carlo Actis Dato, tenor and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet; Daniele Cavallanti, tenor and baritone saxophones; Gianluigi Trovesi, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Renato Geremia, violin; Paolo Damiani, cello, bass, voice; Bruno Tommaso, bass; Giorgio Gaslini, piano; Vincenzo Mazzone, drums, percussion, timpani; Tiziano Tononi, drums, percussion. Detriti (14:18) Ippopotami (08.10) La czarda dell'aborigeno (10.20) Pierrot Solaire (13.17) Noci...Strani frutti No. 1 (12.06) I virtuosi di Noci (13.45) Munasterio e Santa Chiara (01.10) Track 3 recorded on 30 June 1991 at Europa Jazz Festival, Noci; other tracks recorded on 24 January 1992 at Festival International du Jazz, Rive-de-Gier. Cover design (reproduced above) by Guiseppe Genco.

And I assume it's correct that this Amsterdam date is the Scheveningen set, yes?

Fully agreed. Those two were the first I got from this tour. What about the Jazz Unlimited release of the Zurich set? Is that definitely grey, too, or is that some kind of radio thing with some kind of arrangement? Jazz Unlimited is part of or related to Storyville.