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  1. Mel Tormé Bethlehem questions...

    in Discography

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    Anyone can help me with some of the following?

    - It's a Blue World: date(s) of recording? Any info available concerning personnel?

    - At the Crescendo/Songs for any Taste: were they both recorded on one and the same evening?

    Then "Songs of NY" (Atlantic): anyone knows the year or date of recording? And personnel?

    thanks for any help!

    ubu

  5. Bill Perkins RIP

    in Artists

    Posted

    Give 2 Degrees East, 3 Degrees West a spin in memoriam.

    His playing is just gorgeous on it.

    A nice reissue of that one could be a nice tribute to the man... never heard it, read how good it is again and again.

    sad news! rip

    ubu

  6. Joshua Redman recommendations: have any?

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Another vote for Yaya3, MoodSwing and Wish. I like the recording on "Spirit of the Moment" very much too.

    I'm a little less enthusiasti about Elastic - it's all done very tasteful but all in all, the CD seems to be a little too leightweight.

    I have not heard Passage, but it's predecessor, Beyond, is another nice one, though it only grabbed me after several listens.

    Wish and Moodswing might be his best albums to date.

    ubu

  7. Who have you seen perform live?

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    Not too many, as I'm not too old... I'm into jazz since I'm 13 or 14, which means some ten or eleven years only.

    Kenny Burrell/Ray Brown/Bobby Hutcherson/Mickey Roker/Hank Jones

    Max Roach (twice, with the Beijing trio; with Abdullah Ibrahim)

    Abdullah Ibrahim (solo, trio and with Roach)

    Brad Mehldau (solo & trio)

    Kenny Barron/Mulgrew Miller

    Benny Green/Eric Reid

    Johnny Griffin/Martial Solal/NHOP

    Dewey Redman (with John Betsch & Rita Marcotulli)

    Tomasz Stanko (with the "Soul of Things" band)

    Italian Instabile Orchestra

    Vienna Art Orchestra

    Ahmad Jamal (trio with Idris Muhammad and guest George Coleman)

    Bernstein/Goldings/Stewart

    Lee Konitz (with Steve Swallow and Paul Motian)

    Joe Lovano

    Paul Motian (with Chris Potter)

    Steve Swallow (with Chris Potter & Adam Nussbaum)

    Bobby Previte (with Marty Ehrlich & Steve Swallow)

    Benny Bailey

    Marc Copland/John Abercrombie

    John Abercrombie/Mark Feldman/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron

    Charles Lloyd (with Abercrombie, Johnson, Hart)

    Bobo Stenson (with Jormin & Hart)

    Shirley Horn

    Annette Peacock

    Jacky Terrasson (with Leon Parker)

    Dave Douglas (with Chris Speed, Jamie Saft, Craig Taborn)

    ...

    not too impressive, I know :(

    ubu

  10. Paul Chambers

    in Artists

    Posted

    We sure will all get the scheduled Chambers Select :)

    He was one of the very best, in my opinion. The Kelly/Chambers/Cobb unit was great. But let's not forget the Garland/Chambers/Philly Joe and Garland/Chambers/Taylor rhythm sections.

    Each time I decide to hear some early Coltrane (like say Traneing In or Soultrane or Settin' the Pace) these guys amaze me, and Chambers certainly delivers quite a lot of highlights on these albums.

    How good are the Wynton Kelly Trio Verve albums? I only have the one that was reissued in the VEE series?

    ubu

  11. Cecil Taylor, Bennie Wallace...

    in New Releases

    Posted

    What's coming up?

    Rabih Abou-Khalil recorded what he/we already consider as his best album to date: he went into the studio for 10 days and recorded his current group (RAK oud, compositions, Gabriele Mirabassi cl, Luciano Biondini accordion, Michel Godard tuba, Jarrod Cagwin drums and new member vocalist Gavino Murgia from Sardinia).

    After a 20 day concert tour the group was so at ease with the new material that they all contributed on a level rarely achieved interpreting Rabih's complex compositions.

    Bassist/composer Renaud Garcia-Fons is working on his next recording which will give a strong nod to flamenco music. The core unit is a trio of Renaud on bass, Antonio"Kiko" Ruiz flamenco guitar, Josè "El Negrito" Trasante drums, with guests on several tracks. We will release this production as a 2-CD set, the complimentary CD 2 will feature new compositions for solo bass.

    Cecil Taylor has written a 60 minute composition for the Italian Instabile Orchestra and himself which was so far performed twice, at the Ruvo Di Puglia festival in Italy and at the Banlieue Festival in Paris (Le Monde dedicated nearly a full page to the concert's glowing review).We recorded the breathtaking performance in Ruvo, it will be a classic of Cecil Taylor's music for sure.

    Long time associate Bennie Wallace did a most beautiful album in trio, with Kenny Barron on piano and Eddie Gomez on bass. An audiophile recording produced by famed Joe Harley.

    Now this is good news! The Wallace sounds nice, and the Taylor/Instabile one sounds at least exciting!

    Copied it out of the latest Enja newsletter.

    ubu

  13. LF: "Africaine", "Solid", "The Kicker"

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted

    Not to hijack the thread but I also saw a JRVG of Griffin's The Congregation FOR $20!! How is the session and the sound of the JRVG? I'm thinkin' of pulling the trigger for this.

    Thanks guys!!

    I think it's a killer session. I found the Conn LP a couple of years ago. It's only 30 minutes, but I think the CD has an additional track (alternate take?). I hardly get beyond the first track without having heard that one at least two or three times. If you dig Clark and the usual (not dismissing anything) BN sound ot that time, you'll like it.

    Nice cover, too, by the way!

    ubu

  14. Charlie Haden

    in Artists

    Posted

    What I like a lot about the Quartet West albums is that they give us a chance to hear the great Larance Marable!

    Otherwise, I like Haden a lot, and I, too, prefer his Ornette/-eish stuff, the duos (particularly "As long as there is music") and the Liberation Music Orchestra over the Quartet West.

    And his Montréal Tapes are an incredible run! Nice the one with Henderson/Foster will finally come!

    ubu

  16. Sacha Distel

    in Artists

    Posted

    John: thanks, didn't know about that one. Will keep my eyes open!

    Anyone interested in this music: there's a wonderful disc by Jimmy Gourley & Barney Wilen, "Double Action", recorded in 87, wich Dominique Lemerle on bass and Philippe Combelle (related to Alix C.??) on drums. It was releases in 1999 on a label called Elabeth.

    Highlights include a great version of Gordon Jenkins' "Goodbye" (this starts the record), "Embraceable You" and "Body & Soul" - very very nice to hear Barney Wilen do such tunes!

    Indeed, as Lon said someplace else on this board, we can't have enough Wilen!

    ubu

  17. Sacha Distel

    in Artists

    Posted

    In the reissues forum we recently discussed Sacha Distel's "Jazz guitarist" (Jazz in Paris hors série 01):

    (see thread here)

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    This is a very nice package. It includes two early live tracks by the Hubert Fol-Sacha Distel group, also including René Urtreger, then several very good tracks by the Sacha Distel-Bobby Jaspar group (again it's Urtreger on piano). The Jaspar tracks include a very fine, deeply felt version of "Everything Happens To Me" - one of Bobby Jaspars best recordings, I think.

    Then you get two albums, a nice one from the fifties with a small group arranged by Billy Byers, and one from '68 with arrangements by the suave, sophisticated Slide Hampton - very much of sixties vintage but it includes some very fine playing by Distel.

    What strikes me most, is Distel's clear, singing sound on the guitar. Then the manner in which he constructs his perfectly logical solos.

    Another, even better (imo) record by Distel, with John Lewis as co-leader, was reissued on Koch:

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    This one features Barney Wilen and the rhythm sections of Percy Heath/Connie Kay and Pierre Michelot/Kenny Clarke respectively. Wilen turns in some astonishing solos on "Dear Old Stockholm" and "Bags Groove", while Distel is very good, too. And it seems I can't get enough John Lewis recently.

    Anyone who's interested in Distel should also consider Bobby Jaspar "& His Modern Jazz" which has a nice piano-less quartet date featuring Distel, and "Modern Jazz Au Club St. Germain" (Jazz in Paris) which features Distel and again René Urtreger.

    ubu

  21. Marty Ehrlich

    in New Releases

    Posted

    This came out last year on German label enja. Recorded in April 2002, it's a large-scale work featuring some extremely fine playing and good writing.

    Personnel includes Bobby Previte, Pheroan Aklaff and Michael Sarin on drums, Mark Helias and Mark Dresser on bass, Wayne Horvitz on piano, Eddie Allen and James Zollar on trumpet, John Clark on french horn, Ray Anderson and Clark Gayton on trombone, Marcus Rojas on tuba, Mark Feldman on violin, Erik Friedlander on cello and many more.

    I gave it a spin yesterday, for the very first time, and I have to spread word about this!

    The following comes from the enja records website (http://www.enjarecords.com/Cat-frame2.htm

    Now Ehrlich comes up with his "opus magnum", "The Long View", that features him and his music along with his finest colleagues in various ensemble sizes including duet, quartet, septet and a 14-piece "big band." The complete work was composed for a collaboration with the painter Oliver Jackson and also works in interaction with his paintings in exhibition. An inspiration to Ehrlich's music for decades, Oliver Jackson's visual art has also been featured on earlier CD cover sleeves. Commissioned by the Harvard University Art Museum, Ehrlich conceived "The Long View" utilizing a saxophone sextet, a brass quintet, a string ensemble and varied small groups. "I began working backwards and forwards in composing the musical images, much as I had observed Oliver paint," says Ehrlich. "The Long View" proves to be a marvellous musical manifesto - giving the artistic essence of Ehrlich's three decades of musical adventure and a creative balance of the New York Downtown musicians' community. A stroke of luck and genius.

    I don't know if this has been released in the US, however it's well worth looking for!

    ubu

  22. Ike Quebec

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    How about a Quebec Select? This could include all his albums that were not in either of the earlier Mosaics. I only have the old CD version of Blue & Sentimental and the Conns of It Might As Well Be Spring and Soul Samba. Love all this stuff! What else was there? And are there more tracks where Ike guests other than the one on Grant Green's Born to be Blue and Sonny Clark's Leapin' and Lopin'?

    ubu

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