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Belated best wishes, Jim! :party:

Here's the mail (May 2015 Newsletter, sent out May 12): Spring New Releases Live at Okuden by The Uppercut: Matthew Shipp Mat Walerian Duo (ESP5007) ESP-Disk' is thrilled to share with you all a new recording that extends the label's already considerable free-jazz legacy: Live at Okuden by The Uppercut: Matthew Shipp Mat Walerian Duo. Mr. Shipp is the most exciting pianist of his generation. Mr. Walerian is a Polish saxophonist/clarinetist flutist of extraordinary talent who deserves a world-wide audience. Live at Okuden documents their profoundly beautiful and imaginative performance on May 15, 2012. Shipp hardly needs an introduction at this point thanks to a career of over a quarter century, including not only many acclaimed albums under his own name but also a long and prominent tenure in the David S. Ware Quartet and a vast array of collaborations with the likes of Spring Heel Jack, Ivo Perelman, Sabir Mateen, Darius Jones, Joe Morris, Jemeel Moondoc, and more. Walerian is the younger of the two, so many jazz fans are not as familiar with his work as they are with Shipp's, but one listen to this album should convince everyone of the imaginative depth of his musical vision and the likelihood that he will soon be counted among the avant-jazz scene's international stars. Largely self-taught and deeply immersed in Eastern philosophy, his approach to improvisation is unique and compelling. Press Quotes: "[Walerian] is one of the most talented young jazz musicians on the Polish scene, if not THE most talented." – Maciej Lewenstein, Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond "Matthew Shipp has become an elder statesman in the jazz world. How that happened can be boiled down to two simple elements. One: he has created a unique sound and language for improvised music and two: Shipp has become a doyen of cutting edge music making and opinion." – Mark Corroto, All About Jazz http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/5007.html Repressed and Limited Edition of The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP1014) (ESP1017) It was 50 years ago, on April 20, 1965, that Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra squeezed into Richard Alderson's little studio to record their first ESP-Disk' album, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra. Later that year they returned to record a second volume. To honor this anniversary, ESP has re-pressed both LPs in 1000-copy limited editions on Esperanto-green, 180-gram vinyl. These astonishing sessions went light years beyond "free jazz" improvisation to create music of deeply-felt, explosive and gentle gestures made from sound itself without reference to previous notions of melody or harmony. This set of tracks found Sun Ra breaking ground by using synthesizers and having the Arkestra musicians double on percussion. Volume 1, with an 11-member band, consists of seven relatively short tracks (none over eight minutes); recorded with an octet, Volume 2, in contrast, is much freer and features the side-long "The Sun Myth" and the 15-minute "Cosmic Chaos." In tandem they rank at #9 on Spin's "The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s" list. http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/1014.html http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/1017.html Two John D. Thomas Albums Released (ESP5005) (ESP5006) At age 19, guitarist John D. Thomas was enlisted as a sideman by both Jimmy McGriff and Joe Henderson for recordings and concerts. Later he worked with more jazz greats, including the AACM Big Band, Stanton Davis, Carter Jefferson, Andrew Cyrille, Kenny Drew, John Lewis, and Chet Baker. ESP-Disk' recently issued two albums led by Mr. Thomas. ESP5006 issues for the first time on CD and download his 1985 fusion album Serious Business, while ESP5005 is the first issue in any format of Headwall by his more straight-ahead jazz group Extremely Serious Business. "[Thomas has] a unique solo style. John's latest offering gives a superb example of why, in my opinion, he is one of the all-time great jazz guitarists." – saxophonist Charles Tolliver http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/5005.html http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/5006.html

Oh well, I'm considering throwing in the Lunceford on top of that, wanted it for a long time, it was on backorder, now it's around again, so ... shipping wise, it won't matter, and having to pay those annoying fees only once helps as well (the VAT doesn't matter of course, have to pay it anyway, as those fees apply on orders of more than c. 65 US$ value, and rarely does a parcel slip by these days). After that, my Mosaic collection will be more or less up to date - for the first time since I started collecting them. Still want the Goodman, eventually, but other than that and the upcoming Bee Hive, I think I'll have all I want (which is: nearly all of 'em )

great cover indeed!

anyone? takes ten minutes - and I'd really appreciate opinions!

Will order mine later this week ... and the Dial set as well (crazy, as I have most of its contents via the Spotlite discs, but I'm an official Mosaic nut).

Just how many Armstrong All Star dates do you guys have/need? Having both Mosaic sets, some glorious studio albums (Plays W.C. Handy, the Ellington encounter), the Storyville sets (the "In Scandinavia", too, hence the plural) ... with Ellington, I'm willing to go on and on and on, to name one example with an even larger amount of stuff available, but with the Armstrong All Stars, I really don't quite know (and frankly, the Storyville set, the large one, does contain a few less-than-great moments - Ricky is fee enough to tell so in his notes).

Don't think so, there was a newsletter announcing some upcoming releases just a few days ago.

r.i.p.

IMHO, the extra material on discs 3 & 4 are significantly less interesting than the original Bitches Brew release. So, If you're not a Miles completeist and you already own the 2-disc version of Bitches Brew, I'd say that you're fine. As ever, YMMV. I guess other than a few dozen albums, pretty much anything in jazz (or in music) is significantly less interesting than "Bitches Brew"

Great news indeed

Very sad news.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Any news on this? It's over 2 years now ... Q Well, the news is that Evensmo scolded us (the public/the subscribers of his newsletter) for lack of interest ... but please tell me how I can lay my hands on these (and add the entire Savory collection if you will) or whom I could write in order to be able to buy a legit CD release of it

well, I knew you knew but still we didn't have a pic of Miller in this thread yet (or it's hosted on a site that doesn't show on my work computer?)

That's a pretty nice disc! Bought mine from someone here (Lon?) many moons ago ...

well, that's Mitch Miller ... maybe DSM merged Bird and him there?

probably, yes - it looks weird!

what's this, no moustache but a beard?

yeah ... that's not Bird anyways ... but I like the cover nonetheless - maybe DSM thought Bird w/strings sucked and wanted to state just that between the lines? word of the day: moustachioed

Question for those that know better than me ... have been revisiting the great Hindsight 3CD set "Big Band Jazz – The Jubilee Sessions, 1943–1946" recently ... and lo and behold, there's a great honking Quinichette solo on the one Johnny Otis track included, "J.T. Stomp". But now ... the tenor player on the Elmer Fain track "Stampede in G Minor" sounds, to my ears, most similar. For Fain though, no line up is provided at all. Date given is "August 1944" (Jubilee 94). He plays a whole run of Vice Pres' pet licks, the tone and phrasing sounds perfectly like Lady Q, too. Check out the solo entry at 1:07, then that slur upwards (it's repeated at the end of the first solo). When he re-enteres after the trumpet break, again, the entry (1:30-1:33) sounds very much like Quinichette. Any other opinions there? Or has everyone known and I'm the last one to find out? Evensmo, for one, doesn't list that track in his solography: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/paul_quinichette.pdf He lists some other Jubilee sessions though, including the Otis - but mostly there he provides no dates whatsoever (the fact that the Otis turns up so early might mean Evensmo thinks it took place earlier than October 1945, the date given in the Hindsight set?)

Nice!

I like that one, too!

Blue and Sentimental w/Basie (Decca) for starters? Then there's this: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/herschel_evans.pdf

r.i.p.