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Hot Lips Page - You´d be frantic, too A blues that puts goose pimples on my arms And when Lucky Thompson blows his solo before HLP finishes this piece with a growl of his muted trumpet I´m knocked out!

Chet Baker dedicated a piece of music to him on his gorgeous Broken Wing album.. It´s one of a very few CB originals, over eleven minutes long and it is called "Blue Gilles" - to me it hals always been the high point of a strong outing..

Bach

Agree, that's a very fine GP album. I am a little embarassed to say that it was my first real introduction to him. I was given a mix tape back when it was released, and that contained a few tracks from Squeezing Out Sparks. I went to the store and the new release was Mona Lisa's Sister, so I picked it up. it's worth noting that it got a reissue a few years ago. They played around with the mix, and added some extra bass response. I like the newer version, although the jangly bite of the original remains a favorite. The song "Back in Time" is so good I can't begin to describe it, It raises the hairs on my neck every time I hear it. Marvellous! His two earliest recordings "Howilng Wind" and "Heat Treatment" are splendid soul drenched RnB stuff with a nod to Punks anger. IMO still the best music he ever recorded."Squeezin out sparks" is hard to disklike. From his later albums in the 1990s I´d choose "Struck by lightning"

As far as I remember in Hanks´case it´s been a volleyball called Wilson .:-)

K.D. Lang - Trail of Broken Hearts

Sorry, didn´t note this thread

Uptown records publishes previously unreleased concert LT,sextet Chicago April 1951, 14 tunes Anyone ever heard it?

Chet Baker & NDR Big Band - Last Great Concert (Enja)

Hi Daniel, thanks for your recommandations. Been just streaming your selection. Frederiksson must have listened a lot to Long Tall Dex. I hear a lot of Gordon in it. Now just listening to Staffan Abaleen Quintet. To me up til now totally obscure - but this is very good! Will come back to it again. As a big admirer of Lars Gullin I know a lot of him and got a handful of his recordings. A gentle giant and real poet. Next I will listen to Hallberg of whom I know only some pieces.. Now again my recommendations of Swedish jazz: Arne Domnerus Favourite Groups 1949-1950 (Dragon) lots of beautiful clarinet in it. Rolf Ericson Miles awaý 1950 -52 (Dragon) love his tone and phrasing

The Fools "Psycho Chicken" (Talking Heads ´"Psycho Killer") Tiny Tim doin "Stairway to Heaven" is gorgeous - although I doubt that it was supposed to be a parody, more a peculiar cover version

Dex - unforgettable. So many only with cool atitude. He w a s cool. Wonderful atmosphere, too. The French sure know how to make movies. Some scenes and moments have remained in my memory since I´ve seen the film a decade ago. Nevertheless would see this anytime again for a second time.

Chet Baker - Portrait in Black and White (from Live in Tokyo)

Such sad news. We ve been losing many of the last really great ones during a couple of years. Seems to me like the end of a whole era. And now Charlie Haden. I loved the way he played and his tone, so natural. I´d like to hint to his Soul Note with Enrico Pieranunzi, Billy Higgins and Chet Baker which is (now the more fittingly) titled. "Silence". Thank you Charlie Haden for your music.

Kenny Dorham - Grand Street

I´m at present reading about N.Y. underground in the early Fifties, Beat generation and "lost souls" like Tony Fruscella. Therefore I may be somewhat biased. But my post wasn´t meant by no means as an evaluation, sorry if it has come across that way!

Yes, Gene was called 'Jug' because he could drink anyone under the table And there was Brew Moore ... Yes, Brew and Fru and..... The list of boozers is long in early bop. Times have changed when you look at todays clean smart jazz cats

Sound: Importance of stereo system (High End, State of the Art) is overrated. Crucial is sound quality of CD. Two points in general: I´m glad there is streaming technology and services because you can discover and listen to complete recordings.. Lateley I´ve been doing more streaming.But I cherish my collection of records and still buy regularly and too much . Two reasons:They make me independent of any company and cloud service. And it´s a pleasure to leafe through booklets and study artwork, graphics, liner notes. Those things are as dear to me as my collection of books. And if want to listen intensly I do so by using my stereo.So to me it´s not either/or: I am using both: streaming service and home stereo.

Loo-Padoo - Tony Fruscella/Bill Triglia Septet (Tony´s Blues, Jazz Factory)

Good book! The exact circumstances of Chet´s death in Amsterdam have always remained a mystery. Moody knows the facts and he knows how to entertain: dialogue, atmosphere and even some suspense. Recommended!

Such a beautiful sound, indeed! And a gorgeous sampler by Fresh Sound. Discovered Wilder late but will cherish his music. Love his version of Cherokee, elegant, old-fashioned yet classic style, Love the fact that Hank Jones and Kenny Clark are on board and the color of a guitar on the latter set with Pete Brown. A precious CD and a nice way to honor this great trumpeteer!.

Jazz isn´t dead, it just smells funny. (Zappa) I don´t believe it.Modern jazz has almost always been a minority program. My experience in Germany: (Scandinavian) female singers draw the masses and soft pop fusion artists like our smart trumpet hero Til Brönner. Sometimes you have a little more interest as with bands like during jazz rock age in the Seventies or with bands like EST. But the real stuff will remain for aficionados and true believers. .

Lars Gullin - Ma

Thanks for the idea for this thread and all of its contributors. This is terrific!

The Sixties are not my dearest decade in jazz. A few exceptions:: Lucky Thompson - Everything he did during the first half of the Sixties. Art Farmer recordings with Jim Hall Carmen McRae Bittersweet