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So now that I realized my BFT is the next in line, I'll better start this thread a bit early... Drop a mail, including address to: ubu_bft24@yahoo.com *************** Now I'd be happy for offers of help as far as distribution in the US is concerned, so please, if you can offer help in this respect, tell me a) if you'd distribute stuff for me, or b) if you'd be able to make burns AND distribute them. Just for the record: a package of 2CDRs from Switzerland to the US, by air mail, costs around 3.5$ postage. So I'd be very happy if I'd find three or four persons willing to not only distribute but also make burns. A little reimbursement will of course be included (though I haven't decided what exactly...). I will take care of the European mailings, and also of the odd locations such as Brazil or Israel or whatever may turn up. *************** A little note on the contents of my BFT right ahead: the music will be rather special on some accounts (though I settled mainly on mainstream jazz, as I don't want to piss off anyone) and you've most likely never heard any of the recordings (hint! hint!), but you may of course identify at least a couple of the musicians (there's a few tracks that are too easy, but as I love them, I spread them...) So please do sign up without hesitation, even if you're not willing or able to help with distribution! ubu

PM sent re: Billy Hart & Jackson/Freeman ubu

just today realized I'm now #24... a hell of a hurry! I haven't even had time to spin #22 yet... I'll be ready, will start the sign-up/looking-for-US-distribution-help-thread today. ubu

quietist vinyl?

Got this one in a sale: And liked it pretty well. Nice to hear some Malachi Favors! Smith sounds a lot like Miles, but somehow he is pretty much his own man, his sound being somewhat clearer, and lacking the fingernails-on-blackboard-effect that some seem to hear in Miles' playing... >samples here< Also gave a listen to a couple of the Leos (I went back to that store and picked up another 12 of them, in addition to the four I mentioned getting two weeks ago): Giorgio Occhipinti's "Kaos Legend" needs a few more spins, it's pretty dense, three long tunes (an hour, all together) plus one very short to end the disc. Gianni Gebbia is on the first half, Eugenio Colombo on the second, Lauro Rosso (I always thought his last name was "Rossi"...) on trombone, and a few more of the Minafra/Instabile guys are present (though not Minafra himself). Then I gave a first listen to "Position/Dark/Red" by the Not Missing Drums Project. Pretty whack stuff, but good! Also gave a first concentrated listen to the Remote Viewers' disc I got from Chaney (one of the unloved babies), and liked it pretty well. Seems like I'll soon be heading to that sale once again picking up some more Remote Viewers, and needing to check out Gies (he's involved with Not Missing Drums Project) solo release on Leo. The discs I bought are by James Fei, Keshavan Maslak (the trio with Lindberg & Sunny Murray), Trio Alliance, Gies (the duos), Bechegas, Karayorgis (two of his trio's releases)... can't list them all going from memory, but I got most of what was recommended, so many thanks again! ubu

Short of getting the Mosaic box, you'ld be OK with the two other JSP Django Reinhardts 'The Classic Early Recordings, vol. 1' and 'Paris and London, 1937-1948, vol. 2'. Remastering on those was done by Ted Kendall who worked from good 78s sources. The two JSP boxes are more complete than the Mosaic which has the Swing and HMV sides only. The Decca sides are on the JSP boxes. I suppose the Deccas are on the Jazz in Paris discs, too, so if I have those (seven they are, some stuff from other labels than Decca is included, too, I believe), I won't need the JSPs, right? (I do have the Mosaic and love it.) ubu

Sorry, I must have read too fast... I have that "Blow Up" CD, too, so the question is still up! Same thing as the LP? ubu

Sorry for being late - congratulations, John!

That one's from Juan-les-Pins (Antibes Jazz Festival), if the CD liners are correct, so I suppose no, not the same, but then I haven't heard it yet (the Swedish thing, I mean). ubu

Thanks for the Nuscope & Trio 3 recs! The Nuscope disc sounds very interesting! And that Shepp sounds good, too. I got a burn of "Left Alone Revisited" lying around somewhere, but I only gave it one listen some time ago. The other later day Shepp I also have a burn of, the one with Rudd (and Moncur III) I found pretty boring, to be honest, and that has a lot more to do with Shepp than with the trombone players, as at least Rudd can still deliver the goods (see "MALIcool", a marvellous disc). ubu

As this thread is up again, I can gladly report I got hold of "Abstract" a few months ago (via Amazon UK), and love it just as much as "Free Form"! Two great, if not essential, discs. ubu

Thanks! I didn't know that he was the founder of the festival, just know some of his announcements.

Now that the board is up again: I liked the Trio 3 disc quite a lot better on my second listen. Workman has a beautiful sound, and the band often grooves quite some.

Giving this disc a second spin, first time around it failed to convince me: What I have to say is that it's beautifully recorded, as is usual with Palmetto discs. ubu

I maintain that I like this one a lot, just finishing a second listen. It has a mood to it that reminds me of some of the freer Blue Note dates of the mid Sixties (that Jackie Mac with Hutcherson, Moncur's "Some other Stuff" etc). ubu

And the Jimmy Lyons taking part, I suppose, is the Jimmy Lyons that announces the Don Ellis band on the Monterey CD, and not the ghost of THE Jimmy Lyons?

I insistently recommend the trio disc of Pierre Dorge-Khan Jamal-Johnny Dyani "Three" (also on SteepleChase) - relaxed, melodic spirited playing. Sometimes a slightly too much on the lite side, but exceptional musicanship (Kahn Jamal is the man! Not to mention this Dyani guy...) and obvious joy of playing together emanationg from the music more than compensates for it. I would have lots of catching up to do with Steeplechase, but *not* *now*... I know you love that Khan Jamal recording, I'll keep my eyes open, maybe I'll see it used somewhere... ubu

This disc is an absolute beauty! I really really love it! Also it's interesting to hear Dorge's scope... earlier today I listened to a Danish Brötz quartet broadcast with Dorge on guitar, pretty broad-minded, it seems.

not many recordings without a cello on Nuscope, and even fewer with a drummer any essentials there, who here knows their catalogue?

What about that Shepp? One to look for? Found this one over at AAJ: Jazz Magnet Label profile. So the Shepp WAS on Jazz Magnet? The Cyrille-Dresser-Ehrlich could be interesting, too... Just finishing a first listen to this one: I like it quite a lot! Thanks, David!

What label is it on? Have you had a chance to listen to Free America Lacy ("The Gap") - some wild stuff there - much more so than his later works I am mostly familiar with. I liked it. Steve Potts is such a powerful player (Lacy is more intense here, though!). Irene Aebi on cello only (doesn't add much - but, more importantly, doesn't hurt either). Surprisingly good sound quality (woudl have preferred if wonderful Kent Carter was recorded more upfront, htough). David, Snips is on Jazz Magnet, never heard of this label before. The website given on back of the CD doesn't work (www.jazzmagnet.com), I have no idea what that label is about. The CD says "a division of Music Magnet Media, Inc". Catalogue No. is JAM-2001, so it's probably their first release, maybe their last? It came out in 2000. I gave "The Gap" one listen so far (same with the disc where Mal Waldron sits in) and liked it as well, but couldn't type up anything without giving it another spin.

Coming close to the end of a second listen to Frontiers, the Leo Lab disc by Vladimir Miller / Vitas Pilibavicius / Vladimir Tarasov, and I have to say I like it much much better than the first time. Miller and Tarasov go together very well, and Pilibavicius (who somehow seems to have brought the other two together) matches well, too. Much of this music is rather sparse, in a lyrical, yet often grooving way. The play with little motives and licks, let them evolve, build something, and I quite like it. Not sure I'd generally recommend it to everybody, but for me it's certainly worth having! ubu

I'll have to give the "Roswell Incident" another listen soon, it seems . Listening right now, finally, to the 5$ disc with 40 minutes of Jimmy Lyons on it... The Futterman solo tracks are just as dense as the quartet. I'm not too fond of the solo tracks, but then I only heard them once. The quartet (which I'm hearing for the second time now) is better, Richard Davis is nice, so is Lyons (of course!), and drummer Robert Adkins (of whom I never heard before) is good, too. I'd say it is your usual free energy thing, but it is ok at least. I quite like it, but it needs quite some concentration, and I don't really "get" Futterman. The disc is called "Inner Conversations", by the way, and came out on Ear-Rational Records. The same order I got the Futterman with also included Frank Lowe's "Fresh" (Black Lion) and Steve Lacy's "Snips". The Lowe is nice, but too short, and somehow it doesn't really develop. I definitely need to listen again, there are some very nice moments, and I loved the arrangement and playing on the second Monk tune included, "MIsterioso". However, the last track, "Chu's Blues" (is that for Chu Berry?) is in a different bag and makes the rest of the album rather short at around 30 minutes. I would gladly have had more of this... The Lacy, "Snips", is a strange one, technically. The actual quality of sound is not bad at all (not for audiophiles, though, beware!), BUT there are voices to be heard in between tracks as loud as if it were those of the tapers... The photos in the package (it's a 2CD set in a nicely but cheaply done digipack) suggest there was a microphone, but not directly in front of Lacy, so those people sitting closest may indeed be those one hears between tracks. That is a bit annoying, but in the end the music is too good for me to be bothered too much. The concert, recorded in May 1976, represents the first time ever Lacy performed as a soloist in the USA, so it's sort of a historical thing. Also it's another document of the loft jazz scene, as the location was one of these lofts, the "Environ", which was painter John Fischer's loft, his abstract paintings can be seen on the two photos included. Must have been great to be there that night... I'm so glad I saw Lacy in concert a few months before he died (solo, in November 2003). ubu

brownie, thanks for your feedback on the Ortega disk! Glyn Paque was indeed a fine player. He was living and performing in Switzerland somewhen in the Thirties. ubu