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After the Rudd, Wright, and Shorter, I also gave the AEC's "Phase One" a listen, though only in the background. Sounded very nice. Two LP-side-long cuts, slowly building. Three more general remarks: - both the Lacy and the Waldron/Lacy have bonus tracks (alternates, some differing in lenght very much from the masters). - sets are numbered (backside, lower right corner) - mine have nos. between 300 and 2500, so there must be at least 3000 of these. - the packaging ressembles the one of the Verve Elite discs a bit, only the cardboard is thicker, and three-fold only. The booklets are printed on real nice heavy paper, too. Thumbs up for how these look! ubu

EKE, I'll post and mail out a direct link to the archived show once it's there! then listen y'all. It's fun hearing the guy speak. You may want to record it and play at higher speed. He has this Swiss accent you know... hehe, that is not a swiss accent, that is swiss dialect, just as I talk all day long... and you dutchies sound strange to my ears, too (there was an announcement by a dutch radio speaker somewhere on the Cherry Multikulti I grabbed...). ubu (the swiss)

I got the Rudd and Braxton so far but will make another visit to Paris this weekend and, based on your comments, will probably also pick-up the Wright. Haven't listened to the Braxton solo sides yet but gave two spins to the Rudd and although there are many great moments I'm not yet sure about what to think of the disc as a whole as there is also some wanderin' here and there, but worhtwhile for sure, that I can say even now. I love the Rudd! Will have completed a first listen in only a couple of minutes, but I can already say I love it (that is different from how good it actually is, of course). The bass player loses a bit of focus in the second half, I think, so I don't consider him as good anymore as my last post made believe. He's no slouch, though, for sure!

bought a few too many today... six "Free America" discs: Roswell Rudd (self-titled) Art Ensemble: Phase One Steve Lacy: The Gap Alan Shorter: Tes Esat Frank Wright: Uhura Na Umoja Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy: Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet a few EMI discs, in a sale: Nat Cole: At the Sands (X-mas gift, will though burn me a copy before...) Buddy Rich: Mercy, Mercy Chet Baker & Bud Shank: Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" Stan Kenton: Kenton Showcase and my first Fantasy-panic disc (the ONLY!!! non-ZYX and non-Limited Edition [those are crazily expansiver here] disc the store had, the ONLY!!! ): Griff & Jaws: Tough Tenors (OJC/Jazzland) At least my sould gets a bit of a rest knowing I already have listened to the Shorter, the Wright, the Rudd, and that I will continue to listen to more tonight. ubu

Yup, congrats to your grammy nomination! And: ubu

Repeating a post from the correct thread: ************** Rudd, Wright, Lacy, Waldron/Lacy, AEC Phase One, and Alan Shorter. The goof on the Wright is not so bad, as the front text is just a sticker on the shrinkwrap, and once that is off, the goof is only on the spine. Listened to the Shorter, not sure I really like it, but will need a few more listens. Then went on to the Wright, and HELL THAT ONE IS GOOD!!! Beautiful music, on all accounts, Howard and Wright match very well, Few is cool, and Art Taylor - odd man out, his first "free" date the liners say (was it his last, too?) - is GREAT! Now started the Rudd. Should be nice if it goes on like it started... Oh, and the cover of the Lacy says Aebi is no cello only, while the Waldron/Lacy says "cello & vocal"... ************** The Rudd has now been half-listened, and wow! Tchicai is cool, and that bass player, Finn van Eyben (never heard of him), is doing some nice things, together with Louis Moholo! I bet this is essential, for us Rudd fans, as there are so few of his recordings available. ubu

Packaging is really nice, indeed! Bought six today Rudd, Wright, Lacy, Waldron/Lacy, AEC Phase One, and Alan Shorter. The goof on the Wright is not so bad, as the front text is just a sticker on the shrinkwrap, and once that is off, the goof is only on the spine. Listened to the Shorter, not sure I really like it, but will need a few more listens. Then went on to the Wright, and HELL THAT ONE IS GOOD!!! Beautiful music, on all accounts, Howard and Wright match very well, Few is cool, and Art Taylor - odd man out, his first "free" date the liners say (was it his last, too?) - is GREAT! Now started the Rudd. Should be nice if it goes on like it started... Oh, and the cover of the Lacy says Aebi is no cello only, while the Waldron/Lacy says "cello & vocal"... ubu

EKE, I'll post and mail out a direct link to the archived show once it's there!

Just in case anyone's interested: Interview parts are only around 15 minutes, all together. If you wait till the show is archived, you can skip them in Real Player. ubu

Friends and fellow rats, some have gotten this announcement via email, yesterday, some not, so I post it again here, to make sure no one misses out:

Again thanks, Garth! Things start to clear up a bit.

No, I'm afraid I wouldn't know how to find this stuff, but it sounds good! ubu

So tracks 2, 3, 5, 9 & 13 are with Mehegan, and all the others are with the Epistles? Or do you have any more information suggesting that not being the case, either? Thanks for clearing this! ubu

Happy birthday, my friend! Keep being crazy - it's good not to be alone Wish you a great day!

Is that from a reliable source? God, I hate Kaz and Camden I have Jazz in Africa Volume 1 on Camden, it has the tunes in question, BUT: I thought this was a Jazz Epistles ONLY disc!!! The full title reads: "JAZZ in Africa - Volume 1 - featuring The Jazz Epistles" (Camden CDN 1004, rel. 1998). The liners (by Donald McRae) tell the story of the Epistles, and don't mention any other musicians, BUT of course (crappy Camden), there is NO DISCOGRAPHY... (I think I typed one up in the Kippie thread, at least one that I then believed was correct.) Now Jazz in Africa Vol. 2 I have in its Kaz reincarnation (rel. 1992). That one has a discography, but there's no Epistles, and no Mehegan there... Now am I to suppose that parts of the Vol. 1 feat the Jazz Epistles are the "real" Epistles, while parts are half of the Epistles (the horns) with Mehegan?!? ubu

Thanks for these links, Garth! I printed both, will read them tomorrow.

so it looks! The new Golson photos are great, too, by the way!

Thanks for the nice photos, Mark!

Finally got this one! A great compilation, indeed! Only I'd wish for a complete discography! Amazon UK has it for 9 £. ubu Thanks for the link ubu. I actually managed to order it from one of their Marketplace sellers for £2.16 a short while ago. You're going to like it! Mine just arrived .... Loved it... rather eclectic .... and I REALLY want to find that John Mehegan "In South Africa" album (a cut of which, with Kippy, is on this CD), which was originally issued on a Gallo LP in the early sixties. I wonder if it was ever reissued on CD. PLEEEEEEAZE hook up with me in case you can find that Mehegan! I'd die to hear more of it!

Is that tradition maintained by Italo-Americans? And hey, you also need James T Cat in your avatar, no?

Didn't Katz also write those real nice and very informed notes for the 2CD reissue of all of Columbia's Monk solo sides? A real good writer he is, too (besides being a real good piano player, of course). ubu

Thanks for these recommendations, John! The Nessa is on the list, and I'll certainly get a few more some day, too, but NOT RIGHT NOW... x-mas is being hard on my bank account without me buying even more CDs...

I'm a big fan of the Wilson Mosaic, I had two complete listens so far (and some incompletes, of course), and I think this is one that continues to grow. Of the thirties recordings I only know the music that is part of the Billie Holiday Columbia box, and very little besides that. Oh, of course the marvellous Goodman trio, too! Love it! There's one nice trio date with Benny Carter, on the Verve disc "3,4,5", which I remember is compared by the guy who wrote the liners, to the trio date Carter made with Art Tatum. A beautiful date, will have to listen to that one soon again.

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Fred who? "On the Run" is great, but it's so far the only Anderson disc I own. ubu