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  1. Finally, a WOODY SHAW thread...

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    Yeah, Woddy! He deserves having his own thread!

    I grabbed all the 32 releases some thime ago, after the label had gone - Little Red's Fantasy & Moontrane are fantastic, Iron Man (is this the most out album he made as leader?) and the Berlin as well as his demo-session (the one with Joe Henderson, Larry Young, Herbie Hancock etc) are personal favorites, as is the Mosaic.

    Muse/32 had some nice dates with Woody as sideman:

    - Louis Hayes: The Real Thing (with René McLean, Ronnie Mathews, Stafford James & Slide Hampton)

    - Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (with George Coleman & Hugh Lawson)

    Then a nice and probably not too well known CD:

    Louis Hayes - Woody Shaw Quintet / Lausanne 1977

    Woody Shaw - t/flh

    René McLean - ts/ss/fl

    Ronnie Mathews - p

    Stafford Hames - b

    Louis Hayes - d

    In Case You Haven't Heard (Shaw) 15:25

    Moontrane (Shaw) 15:39

    Contemplation (Shorter-arr. Mathews) 8:08 (omit horns)

    Jean-Marie (Mathews) 13:35

    Bilad As Sudan (McLean) 19:16

    Recorded live at Salle d'Epalinges, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 4, 1977.

    ubu

  2. Beer Test

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    no need to try, as I'm very much into some local beers (a tradition, which, hélas!, has been slowly but surely decaying over the last years in switzerland), and some other european ones.

    How about a nice ol' Leffe?

    Or some Jever?

    Then, of course, there are some moments in life, where nothing but a Guiness is right...

    ubu

  4. Buddy De Franco Sonny Clark Mosaic

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    The Bright One:

    De Franco (cl), Clark (p), Wright (B), White (d):

    April 7, 1954:

    Cable Car

    Yesterdays

    Lover Man

    Jack the Fielstalker

    Deep Purple

    If I Should Lose You

    August 9, 1954:

    Titoro

    Mine

    Now's The Time

    Gerry's Tune

    August 10, 1954:

    Laura

    I'll Remember April

    The Bright One

    September 1, 1954:

    A Foggy Day

    What Can I Say Dear

    ---

    The title track is not in its chronological place, but at the end of the CD.

    brownie: Past Perfect also has some licensed stuff (several Candid albums, I bought some of these lately). So they're not purely a rip-off, it seems. Not that they produce too nice CDs, but at least you can get some good music at a nice price... (I got the Russell/Hawk, Don Ellis & Clark Terry Candid albums in their Past Perfect reincarnations)

    ubu

  6. Herbie Hancok

    in Artists

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    re Donald Byrd: yes, it is that one paired with Grant Green´s

    Hope your friend will find many RVG at 9€ in Madrid Rock

    EKE: hope my friend has a large enough CD allowance...

    Have to find that Green/Byrd date. Think it's still around.

    ubu

  10. Herbie Hancock

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    Herbie time again...

    first, here is the link where you can find our first broadcast. Thanks for your interest. It was, as a whole (and being our first time live on air) quite successful, I'd say. I'm by the way not the guy announcing Watermelon Man (which we had played already) instead of Maiden Voyage... ;)

    Click the loudspeaker-symbol to access the programme.

    ***********************

    Then, here comes part two: next sunday, we'll present the Sextet. The albums from which we'll include music are:

    - The Prisoner (Blue Note, 1969. Johnny Coles, Garnett Brown, Joe Henderson, Buster Williams, Al Heath, woodwinds)

    - Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner, 1969. same, funk band on two tracks)

    - Mwandishi (Warner, 1970. Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Buster Williams, Billy Hart; guitar & perc. added)

    - Crossings (Warner, 1971. same, voices, perc and synths added)

    - Sextant (Columbia, 1972. same, synths & perc added)

    In my opinion, these are all killer albums. Maybe The Prisoner is the one I like most - the sound of that band is such a beautiful one, Coles, Brown and Hernderson play one great solo after the other...

    Sextant, then, to me, seems the most forward-looking album of these, incredible textures and sounds!

    What are your opinions? Let's not stick to "what should I play in my show" only - rather I'd like to start a general discussion of these albums.

    Is there any comparable music around, by the way?

    ubu

  11. Miles Davis' "Aura"-where do you rate it?

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    then, I might have to add that I am a fan of at least some of the late Miles - Tutu, Amandla and also Siesta (besides the pre-Miller stuff, or the albums Miller was on as a sideman, as opposed to arranger/composer/mastermind).

    The track "Portia" from Tutu is, in my opinion, one of the highlights of Miles' comeback years.

    ubu

  13. Lyrics Added To Jazz Tunes

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by king ubu

    Anyone in for Lambert Hendricks & Bavan at Newport '63?

    Of course also "Sing a Song of Basie" - a classic.

    Re. writing lyrics for songs (not vocalese): anyone heard Susanne Abbuehl? For her ECM debut "April" she wrote lyrics to some Carla Bley compositions (and music to some e.e.cummings poems). A very beautiful, very slow and moody album. I also saw her life once. She started out solo, in a quite big hall. She's got a presence that really grabs you. Somehow she succeeds in keeping up suspense without doing anything fast. And her band (clarinet/bass clarinet, piano/harmonium, drums/percussion) does the soloing in pretty the same fashion - not minimalistic at all, but much textures and colours. Beautiful stuff, highly recommended!

    ubu

  14. Miles Davis' "Aura"-where do you rate it?

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    Chiming in a little late...

    I like Aura, and I think the comparison with the Music for Brass recordings are useful. The writing of Mikkelborg is quite special (I don't have anything else by him, cannot compare), and the soloing is fine, too. The whole album, in my opinion, stands as one of the high points of late Miles.

    Then, to add a little more spice to the discussion: the Evans link was not revived by Aura, but rather by Tutu. With this, I mean to say that Miller, with all his electronics and programming was somehow able to provide very similar backgrounds for Miles' still beautiful sound and improvations - of course these backgrounds (as was always Miles' want) were of a contemporary form (the Quincy Jones Evans re-creation is a rather drab affair, if you ask me - not the kind of nostalgia to fit Miles' image), and the musical connection was achieved by totally different means.

    But Miller somehow read Miles' mind - as in the late fifties did Gil Evans.

    Does this make sense to anyone else, here?

    ubu

  15. Monk sessionography

    in Discography

    Posted

    I think I've saved that other discography in my home computer. Anyone interested drop me a PM, don't forget your emai-address, then I'll mail it (it's a huge word-file)

    ubu

    this should be the link: www.achilles.net/~howardm/tsmonk/tsmonk2.php - maybe it comes back...

  21. Herbie Hancok

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    many more good suggestions! gotta stop now, coz otherwise it will need like 15 or 20 shows... :D

    Also thought about Moncur's Some Other Stuff yesterday. Truly outstanding album, in my opinion.

    Search for the New Land - hellyeah! I love that album. Maybe it's my favorite Lee Morgan date, but how to fit those 20 minutes in a 60 minute show (which has time for 45-50 minutes of music) ?

    EKE: thanks for your suggestions. Yesterday I listened to quite some of those on your list. All good or great of course. don't have the Bird Verve album - was that the one attached to the Grant Green Majesty King Funk CD? Will have to look for that.

    (I emailed my friend in Madrid, by the way!)

    mikeweil: duly taken note -_- . Don't have any CTI album with/by Herbie - are they available in nice Legacy reissues? Will have to look.

    About Rivers I forgot completely. But as I have made some choices, it won't fit in anymore. Because what I'll want to spin to give an idea of the adventurous music Herbie was playing, is some track from Tony Williams' Life Time (the trio track with Hutch-Herbie-Tony). Then I'll give them Watermelon (alt - coz I love that Dexter solo on that one!), something from Inventions & Dimensions (which I absolutely love!), then the Happenings take on Maiden Voyage, and some more... Can't tell everything, otherwise our german friends won't listen B)

    thanks again everybody,

    ubu

  22. Benny Bailey @ 78

    in Artists

    Posted

    Big fan of Benny. In addition to the Candid, one of the nicest places to hear his gorgeous and BIG tone is on an album called THE MUSIC OF QUINCY JONES PLAYED BY BENNY BAILEY... (there's more people then listed - one of the longer album titles ever, I think) on Argo. Both his lead playing and soloing are well represented. I think this is still available as a Japanese LP-sleeve reissue, came out late last year/early this year some time.

    C'mon, now bring us that "Complete Argo Jazz Sessions" Mosaic!

    We could then just take that out of the shelf and spin, say, disc 23 holding that Bailey session, and could stop caring for Japanese, original vinyl, vinyl reissues or some few strange Keepnews CDs...

    :g

    ubu

  24. Mel Tormé Bethlehem questions...

    in Discography

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    thanks for clarifying, brownie!

    sorry, PDEE!

    the strange thing is: in the new liners of the Avenue/Rhino reissue of "Songs For Any Taste", it's stated that

    During an engagement at the Crescendo in February of 1957, Bethlehem captured enough live material to fill out two separate albums. The first release was entitled simply "Live at the Crescendo". The follow-up, gathering the remaining tracks, was "Songs For Any Taste", the collection you are holding now.

    But as those (otherwise very nice) Avenue/Rhino reissues of Bethlehem stuff do not have any recording dates included, this seem to be wrong, I guess! The personnel, however is: Don Fagerquist, t; Marty Paich, p; Max Bennett, b; Larry Bunker, acc/vib/bgo; Mel Lewis, d.

    I do have the CD reissue (with quite a lot of additional material) of the Gene Norman album, too.

    Thanks again.

  25. Ron Carter

    in Artists

    Posted

    Like him. He gets a very nice, woody sound (on bass I mean - I don't need the other piccolo stuff) and has much drive. And somehow, if he was as bad as some among think, it just seems a little unlikely to me he got all the jobs he had (beginning with Miles, where he really was the anchor man).

    ubu

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