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love it! Mal Waldron (and his tunes) add a lot to this one, in my opinion. The two Gaslini discs I have should be listened to more often then they are, too! (I have the Monk and Ayler piano solo discs). ubu

"Patterns" is still around here, too, I think (but far too expensive for your us-tastes). "Oblique" is a very good one (I have a burn thanks to a kind board member, never saw the disc). "Happenings", then, might be my favourite! And what a beautiful cover! It's one of four or five japanese discs I have (payed like 30$ for it, it's a TOCJ), and I really love it! ubu

I'm pretty thin on Charles. I have half of the "Word from Bird" Atlantic LP pictured above on the Mingus Atlantic box - do I need to have the CD, too? What's there besides the rather muted date with Mingus? Then I have Charles' Bethlehem "Salute to Hamp", and I do like that one very much! Art Farmer's there, as is Zoot, if I remember right, and some other great musicians. ubu

Posted this earlier today in the "Funny Rat" (as there are some Dyani-fans over there): Wanted to mention this one: It features 44 minutes of music (one short ZA-jive, and two long ones), by a medium-sized group including Don Cherry (who was sick that night, the liner notes say), Carlos Ward, Hamiet Bluiett, Roy Brooks (drs), John Betsch (perc), Talib Rhynie (never heard of him), and the great Johnny Dyani. Dyani's playing is strong, beautiful and big-sounded as always. Like this one a lot (AMG gives it three stars only). It was reissued last year, on the Chiaroscuro associated label Downtown. ubu

uh, you know, while posting you cannot see the date you did register, so I needed another post to make this clear, but, HELL, I forgot it again already! Can't someone tell me, so I can look it up in someone else's post while typing? ubu

Uh, wait, as I do autoarchive them regularly, it should be not too old, but the oldest one I still have should be from some day close to when I registered, which was...

What's again the point of this topic? Post-count aside? ubu

upping this one, as I have been listening to all the Albert Ammons and Helen Humes dates over easter. Great GREAT music! That session with Albert & Gene Ammons is smokin'! Also some nice Johnny Hardee on the first Humes date, and some short moments of Rudy Williams on the second. Then you have those two very nice Mary Lou Williams on the end of disc 7! That box is a treasure! ubu

You generally get more than one copy of the receipt from Mosaic. The pink copy and the yellow copy. Place the pink copy in one box and the yellow copy in the other. See? Problem solved. And what about the other four boxes I got with that same order? I just pile them up somewhere, but usually I do keep them - don't ask me why! On topic: the only un-attached I have is the Atlantic NO, but then that was the first one I bought since maybe 3 years. ubu

ss1 - you might try "Sunship" for post-classic, or transitional Trane. It's one of his most beautiful and accessible dates, in my opinion! And add "Live at Birdland" and "Quartet Plays... Chim Chim Cheree etc" to John B's list (he seems to be quite fond of "Ballads" ). Also the Impulse "Coltrane" (there's one one Prestige with the same title) is very good! There's a 2CD edition of it (as there is of "Ballads" and of "Love Supreme"). Simon, AB - thanks a lot for this very enlightening discussion! Should find the time soon to listen to Seattle and Om again. It's been years (five at least), since I listened to Om last. ubu

Also had another listen over easter to this one: Gustafsson is good, solid, Flaten has a big woody beautiful warm sound - fitting very well to this Don-Cherry-penned or -styled music. Nilssen-Love, then, is one of the better drummers around these days, I think. Some of this music is much in a post-Trane mode (mainly as far as Gustafsson is concerned), also moods and colours do remind of Ornette (and Don Cherry), some of it is just plain beauty - when they hit the folksy grooves, bass ostinate falls in place, drums play the beat, and Gustafsson falls in with one of those simple (Ayler, Ornette, Cherry...) melodies, almost overblowing his horn (Ayler, Sanders, Gato...). ubu

Wanted to mention this one: It features 44 minutes of music (one short ZA-jive, and two long ones), by a medium-sized group including Don Cherry (who was sick that night, the liner notes say), Carlos Ward, Hamiet Bluiett, Roy Brooks (drs), John Betsch (perc), Talib Rhynie (never heard of him), and the great Johnny Dyani. Dyani's playing is strong, beautiful and big-sounded as always. Like this one a lot (AMG gives it three stars only). It was reissued last year, on the Chiaroscuro associated label Downtown. ubu

Love that one! It was one of the first jazz discs I had! ubu

Uh, I'm afraid I got the wrong one... now that's better, no? (Saw that film last night on tv ) ubu

Evan, hope you had a good one, and many happy returns (you know, all them Babes are a healthy thing ) ubu

I don't know the two you mention, but I'd start with "Student Studies", recently reissued (there's a Cecil-thread in the artists section where it was recommended - I got it after reading about it there). A great one, with lots of room and space and air to breath (the absence of which is the thing bothering me most about Taylor). My collection is not too strong as far as post 1966 Taylor is considered, but the "Willisau Concert" on Intakt is a great one! Also, if you see it, get "Nefertiti" in its 2CD edition on Revenant (it came out in 1997 and is OOP for some time now, but I have no idea if it might be easy to find). An awesome recording, just the trio of Taylor/Lyons/Murray. Then, the three tracks originally on Gil Evans' "Into The Hot" (now on CD "Mixed", by Taylor/Roswell Rudd, Impulse), are great. They are sort of a "bridge" between the Candid dates and "Nefertiti". btw, D.D., don't ask about the "Two Ts..." box - you'd get the same answer as for the "Alive", only that I have been through two whole discs, so far (one & two). ubu

The fact that this one has been lying around here for months, and I never made it beyond the first three or four tracks of disc 1 is one of the reasons why I won't buy any (read: not too much ) new stuff in times to come... I did like that half disc, but I am into other stuff mostly at the moment (non-funny-rat, such as Prez, Basie etc...) - I'll write my impressions once I got around! ubu

Well, no guitar player here, but another one of those strange cheese-eating swiss guys... welcome! ubu

I'm a big fan of "Deep In A Dream"! An awesome album in every way! Other than that I have some Freshsound discs ("Plays", some Boston stuff with Jaki Byard, and one more, I think), as well as some of his sideman appearances. I love his playing on Mingus' "Black Saint" - that's where I first heard him. His sound is very much his own, and as Jim did elaborate earlier in some other thread, his playing on "Deep In A Dream" is some of the most personal, most honest and touching committed to disc recently. ubu

Listened to this one today: (Cover by Hans Koller) Cool front line: Lee with Mark Turner, then add Peter Bernstein and the good rhythm section of Goodwin/Gilmore. ubu

And one more email sent your way! ubu

And a cool one! ubu

The Jones/Lewis is awesome, in my opinion! Also it features Joe Henderson playing some real hot stuff! ubu

Have heard this one recently for the first time, too. A very good one, indeed! It's one of two Braxton discs I own so far (the other is the large band "Eugene" on Soulnote) ubu

Good choice indeed! The "Number 7" track on the latest BFT made me want to listen to some Cannonball - the band with Lateef is probably my favorite, and their best recording might be the one still missing in the Blue Note Landmark/Capitol reissue series: Vol. 7 - Cannonball in Europe! The band with Victor Feldman, though, when I heard it first on the reissue (in that same series) of the Lighthouse date, was quite a revelation, too! ubu