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  1. What music did you buy today?

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    1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

    That's a great haul. For someone doing your job you deserve that bonus on a monthly basis. Enjoy your records, some great ones in there. I need to get the Khan Jamal.

    Now all you need to do is work out a way of sneaking them into the house, or just admit to it :)

    Thanks, can’t wait to give them a spin :) still overthinking my strategy...

  2. What music did you buy today?

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    I work as a high school teacher with kids with behavioral issues. Or kids with special educational needs. Believe it or not but we make less money than ordinary teachers. To compensate we receive some kind of bonus this month. Time to treat myself (please do not tell my wife):

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    All on brand new vinyl :) Except for the Chick that's a used one.

  4. International sublabels of Blue Note, OJC, Verve etc.

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    Digging and exploring the Discogs database I see lots of pretty affordable LP issues on weird sublabels. But the main label is mostly Blue Note, OJC or Verve for example. These issues seem to have released with magazines. There is a British one:

    https://www.discogs.com/label/956425-Jazz-At-3313-rpm

    An Italian:

    https://www.discogs.com/label/605960-Jazz-33-Giri

    A French:

    https://www.discogs.com/label/519275-Vinyles-De-Jazz

    A Spanish:

    https://www.discogs.com/label/1815605-Vinilos-Miticos-Del-Jazz

    And I saw some Portuguese too. The stuff seems legit but I am mostly wondering: how do they sound? Anyone having any experience with them? 

  9. BFT 206 is LIVE

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted · Edited by Pim

    Finally got some time now. Let's see:

    1. I love crossovers with Eastern music. Can't really identify a player but Ahmed Abdul Malik comes to mind immediatly. His music mostly remained close to the jazz tradition and that is what I am hearing here. But I do not know this record.

    2. Sounds like I should know it but I don't. Music is pretty much okay but none of the musicians make a very lasting impression. 

    3. Really not my cup of tea. Background music?

    4. That's Curtis! Pre-ordered the Tone Poet. Could not resist the temptation.

    5. All The Things You Are. But I do not know any of the musicians. Don't like the alto player. 

    6. No idea. Decent track!

    7. Don't know, don't want to either.

    8. Walkin! That's a large ensemble. Modern big band playing. Is it Quincy Jones?

    9. Some piano. Like it very much. Don't know who it is but I would like to know who it is.

     

    Thanks Dmitry. Interesting choices and for me: pretty hard to guess!

  11. Pimuins Guide to Mal Waldron Records

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    20 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

    A few stats:

    Rating #        
    5 12 60      
    4.5 25 112.5      
    4 40 160      
    3.5 32 112      
    3 19 57      
    2.5 5 12.5      
    2 7 14      
    1.5 1 1.5      
    1 4 4      
      145 533.5 3.7  Average rating

    Thanks for those stats! Interesting to see. A 3.7 seem like a reasonable outcome.

    20 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Well done on this Pim! I've learned a lot and discovered things I would not have otherwise. 

    Looking forward to the next instalment, whatever it is going to be.

    Thanks Rabshakeh it was a pleasure doing this!

  12. Pimuins Guide to Mal Waldron Records

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    Well guys: 143 albums reviewed and that's all of Mal's work as a leader, co-leader and sideman. But in no way I want to let it end here. I've got plenty of ideas to continue but I have to take a small break now. Posted the last 5 reviews and a word of thanks today. Another special thanks for the board members here. Hope I inspired you guys and that you will keep on exploring Mal's music. He really was great. 

    Read the last ones here:

    Snake Out: A Blog dedicated to the music of Mal Waldron

  14. what are you drinking right now?

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    7 hours ago, bresna said:

    A great beer that is very hard to find here in the US. Be careful with that stuff... if I remember correctly, it has very high alcohol content.

    Haha thanks for your concern Bresna. My alcohol consumption is limited to two days a week (Friday and Saturday). And with these 8.5% beers I drink a maximum of two. Part from the health benefits I am a fanatic CrossFit exerciser for 5 days a week and I have 2.5 year old son who wakes me every morning at 5.30. So can’t permit to drink more anyway haha.

    8.5 isn’t very much but you’re warning is  justly. Have three of these in the sun and you will take of your pants and start singing the French national anthem. 

  16. Pimuins Guide to Mal Waldron Records

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    Another week of sideman appereances, ranging from early seventies till the end of the eighties.

    Of course there are the two works with German etno-fusion band Embryo. Both Steig Aus as Rocksession are both very interesting records by this highly creative group. A great melting pot of jazz, rock and Eastern music without getting cliche. Enough space for all of these talented musicians to show what they were capable of and it helps that most of them were originated in the jazz scene. Two of the records that seem to be largely forgotten in Mal's discography are the works with German drummer Klaus Weiss. How unfortunate because they are great. Both the studio session Child's Prayer as the live session with the same band On Tour are highly recommendable and in line with the music that Mal himself produced. The band is composed by musicians that mostly appeared within the German jazz scene. They all play great. It's energetic, intense and exciting music.

    The session with Charlie Parker's stepdaughter isn't very good. The band is great (Waldron, Eckinger and Ed Thigpen) but Kim Parker's voice is very limited if not a little out of tune here and there. One of the pleasant surprises in both Mal's as in Anthony Braxton's discography is their collaboration: Six Monk's Compositions. Their pairing doesn't seem very logical at first hand but this is a pretty great combination. They both really complement each other in a positive way. It's also one of Braxton's more accessible recordings. The recording with Marty Cook is the final recording of this week. Though the group has lots of potential, including Jim Pepper, Mal, Ed Schuller and John Betsch, it fails to make up to that very potential. It's a little dull and most of the musicians sound a little uninspired. 

    Thanks again and have a great weekend!

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  19. Native American Jazz

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Thanks for all the replies. Interesting stuff to dig out. Bit what I expected: crossovers with this kind of music are way less common in jazz than crossovers with Eastern-Asian, Middle-Eastern, Sub-Saharan or latin music. Funny for it's so much closer geographically.

  20. Pimuins Guide to Mal Waldron Records

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    2 hours ago, Clunky said:

    The Soul Eyes set is outstanding , no idea why this has seen such limited availability even in Japan.

    PIm, I've said it before but it bears repeating , thank you for this. It's a really great piece of work you have done.

     

    Thank you for reading!

  21. Native American Jazz

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    1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

    Pim,

    You might want to look into Don Pullen's final recording, Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note, 1994).  The music features a seven-voice Native American group, the Chief Cliff Singers.

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    That sounds like the stuff I am looking for. Thanks!

  22. Pimuins Guide to Mal Waldron Records

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    1 hour ago, corto maltese said:

    Pim, the album was recorded at the concert hall of the Schola Cantorum, a private music school in in Paris. In the late 60s Nathan Davis taught jazz history and improvisation there. The concert hall is the former church of the Benedictines’ Convent, dating from the 17th century.

    I see, thanks for that information! I will add it to my blog :) 

    On 25-4-2021 at 10:08 AM, Rabshakeh said:

    It's gone by incredibly quickly. I've enjoyed trading it throughout.

     

    1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

    Pim - Excellent work, as always!  :tup 

     

    Thanks guys. it's a pleasure doing this !

  23. Native American Jazz

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    Listening to Jim Pepper it strikes me that this is a combination I have almost never heard though the combination doesn't sound bad or weird at all. Is there more jazz to be found that was influenced by Native American music or that even blends with it. First that comes to my mind is Don Cherry. More, anyone?

  25. Pimuins Guide to Mal Waldron Records

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    Last 2 albums as a leader this week and starting with his appearances as a sideman. It was raining stars this week with only one exception.

    Mal really kept some of his best works for his last records. The Mal you hear here is again a little different. His style is more basic and subdued yet deeply emotional. His last work with Steve Lacy (and Jean-Jacques Avenel) is one of absolute beauty. It's pretty structured but has it's free moments. Beautiful music with topnotch interaction with both Lacy as Avenel. Mal's last recording before his death with Archie Shepp remains a favorite of mine. They had played together multiple times before but it was never recorded and released officially. Shepp's raw and bluesy tone matches hand in glove to Mal's warm and deep voicings in the background. A beautiful, bluesy tribute to Lady Day. Mal past away at the end of that year.

    Traveling back in time to the year 1966: the year of Mal's definitive return on the scene in Europe. When he lived in Cologne and Munich in Germany he gigged with so many visiting and residing artists. One of the artists he played with on a regular basis was Yugoslavian trumpeter Dusko Goykovich. The recording Swinging Macedonia is a very nice blend with the Balkan music from Dusko's homeland. Some of those tracks are really interesting, the more straightahead compositions are bit dull here and there. The Nada Jovic record which also includes Dusko (and pretty much the same band of that other recording) is just plain awful. I thinks it's the worst in Mal's discography. Oldfashioned cabaret like non music which you could easily live without. No idea why Cosmic Sounds decided to release it. Mal's first recordings with what was to become Embryo were a pretty pleasant surprise. The music really does not have much to do with rock or Embryo's later music. But the jazzy music performed here is excellent and pretty advanced. A nice look into the German jazz scene of those days and a interesting listen for this was recorded not long before Embryo was formed. It was released on PD label Disconforme but with permission of Christian Burchard. 

    This weekend was one with some of Mal's best sideman performances. The Benny Bailey disc with it's killer line-up including Nathan Davis, Jimmy Woode and Makaya Nthoko is enjoyable from the first to the last minute. A steaming live session, advanced and very exciting bop with a delicious live atmosphere. Closing record for this week is the pretty rare Jazz Concert in a Benedictine Monastery. I have a really, really soft spot for Nathan Davis and I love this record. Perhaps it's obscurity contributes a little but this whole record feels like little treasure. That tone man, that tone! Backing support by Mal, Woode and Taylor is superb, great record. Anyone knows where this was recorded? All kinds of sources say something different: some say it was recorded at some religious monk school in Paris (including the cover), other sources say a Benedictine Monastery in Switzerland.

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