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  5. October Conns.

    in Re-issues

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    you see, Tony, at least we speak loud! :)

    now thanks, anyway.

    Seems to be a very interesting batch!

    The Hill is the greatest news, of course.

    Then I never heard the Mobley, Morgan and Rouse, neither the Larry Young one - hell, was born too late to grab that Mosaic. But I got the Rivers Mosaic, so probably no need to get a McMaster of that one.

    ubu

  7. Coltrane on Prestige

    in Recommendations

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    My personal favorites would probably be Soultrane, Settin' the Pace and Traneing In (all by the quartet of Trane, Garland, PC, Art Taylor). But then all the stuff with Wilbur Harden is very good, too! There is a nice 2CD set on Savoy collecting the three sessions which were originally issued as three Wilbur Harden LPs.

    Lush Life then is another good one, and to sum those sessions up, you also should get The Last Trane (a comp of left-overs, but what goodies!), The Believer, and, also Trane's leader-debut, Coltrane (with the obscure Johnny Splawn on trumpet).

    Then I like some of the blowing sessions, as the before mentioned Wheelin' and Dealin'. But my favorite among these tenor-battle affairs is the Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette. I really love that date! Waldron and co. create a very nice mood, and Trane and Vice-Pres have their fun, and are a very nice fit.

    ubu

  9. J.R. MONTROSE IN ACTION

    in Recommendations

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    BFrank, if you enjoy the Dorham live, get the "Jazz Prophets Vol. 1" disc as soon as you can. That one was reissued as a "Chessmate" a few years ago (and is OOP if I remember right, for one or two years now). It has the same band except for Dick Katz in Timmons' place, and Burrell (who was a special recording-session-guest for the Blue Note date) is omitted. Very nice playing by all included, sort of a minor masterpiece. I love "Blues Eleganté"!

    ubu

  11. Tony Williams "Life Time"(1964)

    in Artists

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    Truly a great record! That's the sort of record that's quite rare, I think. It has a huge openness, a great free flow. Sam Rivers is always a treat, in my opinion.

    Then the percussion trio track (with Hancock and Hutcherson) seems to be sort of a preview or predecessor to those "little-instrument" things that came in the late sixties and in the seventies (think of the AEoC, for instance).

    And the duet of Hancock and Carter is stunning, beautiful! Hell, Williams at 18 was also a very interesting composer!

    CJ, you might also want to check out Williams's second Blue Note record, Spring. It's available as an old domestic BN CD. It has Rivers, Shorter, Hancock, Peacock, and is a more organised affair, as I hear it, but quite good, too! And has a beautiful cover...

    ubu

  13. Mingus At Monterey 1964

    in Discography

    Posted

    I have the Jazz Workshop double LP only, but: the strange sound on track 1 (the Medley) - if the distortion you're talking of is similar - is actually no distortion, but Mingus' slippers making some noise while he's stamping his foot. Cannot remember anything particular about "Meditations", but the recording quality is sure not the best!

    ubu

  17. Kippie Moeketse

    in Artists

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    Hope this helps, don't know about correctness of the above data, however!

    ubu

    Wow, I don't know how to thank you for all this work, just shows you everything is possible, now I just have to try to obtain some of these.

    Thanks a million

    No problem! Those CDs are annotated so scrappily, and now I can always go to my favorite BB and there everything is in one place :)

    There are two more Kaz CDs by Dollar Brand, one called "The Mountain", and one called "Blues for a Hip King" (though I fear that one was not composed for my dear king ubu...). I have never had or seen them. Anyone knows more about them?

    Then, my comment on Ibrahim's piano not being that important: I have to correct that. There's one p-solo track (on "African Sun" - the one wrongly annotated as a group track in the CD's booklet), and "Tintinyana" is mostly a trio affair (though that jam with Blue Mitchell, Buster Cooper and Harold Land is quite a lengthy thing).

    Then yesterday, I gave a spin to "Voice of Africa". First time since at least 3 years. Wonderful stuff! Kippie and Mannenberg (that is Basil Coetzee) are two real, I mean REAL good saxophone players. They have that cry, so much soul, and those "african horns" playin' together get such a nice (and non-western) sound! I love it!

    Then, I also never had the Jazz Epistles discs (yes, I remember there bein two of them). I will have to look for them, too.

    And a general comment about South Africa in the sixties and seventies - though I was born only at the close end of the later decade... as a historian (or rather: as someone working to become a historian), I have some sort of sensibility, which somehow denies ZA of the apartheid being called "a fantastic time" - I mean, jazzwise or jive-wise it may have been just that, but I'd try to be a little bit catious in chosing my words.

    ---end of rant! no harm to be taken, just my two cents.

    ubu

  18. Favorite movies?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Seen some more, lately: "Key Largo" (great!), "Deadline USA" (good for an hour, then it became way too pathetic...), today, I'll go for Fellini's "I vitelloni" (which I've only seen the parts shown in the great Scorsese feature film) , tomorrow, it will be "Amore in città" (with episodes done by Fellini, Antonioni, Lattuada, Risi and others), and next week, Rossellini's "L'amore"... An almost complete retrospective of Fellini has just started here :excited::excited::excited:

    And as I 've passed my university exams for this summer, I'm going to catch as many as I can, including those I already know.

    ubu

  24. Sonny Rollins Question

    in Discography

    Posted

    Mike Fitz's Grimes discog will have the final word on this: link

    Thanks, David. Know that site (of course), but forgot checking there -_-

    It gives Zurich as the place, and Swiss Radio as producer.

    Jim: thanks for your insights! I always appreciate very much what you have to say about Rollins! I heard neither more of the march 59 stuff nor anything of the later. Will sure keep my eyes open for ANYTHING live by Rollins!

    ubu

  25. Sonny Rollins Question

    in Discography

    Posted

    I recently found that CD in a used-music store.

    The Tracks are:

    I REMEMBER YOU

    I'VE TOLD EVERY LITTLE STAR

    OLEO

    WILL YOU STILLL BE MINE

    IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU

    Rollins, ts; Henry Grimes, b; Pete La Roca, d. Zurich, March 5, 1959

    SONNYMOON FOR TWO

    Rollins, ts; Kenny Drew, p; NHOP, b; Albert Heath, d.

    Is this accurate? I think there are no official recordings by Rollins from early 1959?

    The following Rollins-link gives a Stockholm session for March 5, http://www.jazzdisco.org/newk-dis/. However, the tracks & CD-release are identiacl to what I have.

    Was this recorded in Stockholm or in Zurich?

    ubu

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