Late

You're right. I've been concentrating so heavily on picking up various Lacy, Braxton, and Taylor recordings recently that I haven't even considered buying DVD's of films.

To find out, I guess all any one of us has to do is e-mail Michael. Man, I'd love it if this mystery Rivers RVG were Contours. To me, this session has always been Rivers best effort on Blue Note, and (again, to me) contains Freddie Hubbard's best playing from any Blue Note session.

Sal, I love this film, too. I've never seen the Criterion edition (though want to), but have rented the VHS edition from my local video store about 25 times. (I guess I should have just bought a copy.) I don't know what the Criterion edition offers as far as an English translation, but, for a long time, the dubbed version strangely had a more comprehensive (English) translation than the subtitled version. I own a copy of the screenplay, and noted some relatively large omissions of monologue (usually the film critic's) in the original subtitled version. As an undergraduate, I had an English professor who had the class watch this film. (A number of students actually got up and left in the middle of the film!) Afterward, we were assigned a paper with the essay question of: What does it mean to be? I had a ball writing that paper. Look for La Dolce Vita. I'm no Fellini expert, however, so other films might be "next" in the classic list. Oh yes, Nino Rota's soundtrack to this film is wonderful. It's out on disc, and copies can usually be found for relatively cheap. Highly recommended, and great fun. My wife and I like to play it for cocktail parties (well, when we have them, which really isn't often), and we always get some raised eyebrows. Expressions like: — What the f-?

Damn is right. My local store has a sealed copy of this disc: ... which I'd gladly pick up in order to offer as trade for the Santa Cruz disc. latoncarter@hotmail.com Thanks, Late

Hi All, I'm looking for a new/used clean copy of this disc. Willing to purchase or trade. Any leads warmly accepted. Thanks! Late

• Charles Mingus: Mingus at Monterey (VICJ 60044) K2 remastering; jewel case; $16 Disc and inserts in excellent condition. Cash, checks from regulars, PayPal (please add $1) OK. You can contact me directly at: latoncarter@hotmail.com Thanks!

Does anyone have Guillermo Gregorio's or Mike Westbrook's work on Hat? If so, I'd love to hear your thoughts on/recommendations for certain albums. ______________________________ Listened to the Vienna Art Orchestra's The Minimalism of Erik Satie and From No Time to Rag Time, both on hat, just yesterday. Gorgeous stuff. Roman Schwaller is a hugely under-remarked tenor player. Great sound, great chops, inside/outside ideas ... sheez. So many of the younger American tenor players today, in my opinion, could learn a lot from listening to tenor players like Schwaller.

Edward Kennedy Ellington (Black, Brown & Beige), Check out this search. These discs are both PAL and NTSC compatible, and often contain three Jazz Casual episodes. The most essential of all Jazz Casual episodes, in my opinion, is the John Coltrane episode. Amazing, unrestrained playing on "Impressions" there. (And, Coltrane opted not to partake in Gleason's standard "interview" for the show, thus allowing the quartet more playing time. Wise!) Other shows from this series that I'd recommend: • the Sonny Rollins episode • the Art Farmer episode (jump on this one fast — before legal entanglements possibly hinder its distribution) • the Art Pepper episode (Pepper struggles some, but his new mode of playing is a treat to hear) I don't think one could lose with any of the shows actually, but on no account should the Coltrane be missed. The Idem packaging and distribution of these DVD's, I'm thinking, will soon be very scarce in the U.S. (but not so much a worry in the EU?) due to potential estate disputes. Just a guess, but better to have these little gems in your collection before the dark and ambiguous cloud of copyright law rears its Darth Vader face. (For U.S. jazz-on-DVD collectors, the single episode "Jazz Casual" releases are readily available, and always a safe route.) You'll also want to check out the Jazz Scene, U.S.A. DVD's. The Shorty Rogers (good) and Teddy Edwards (great) shows top my list. As discussed on another thread, this DVD is perhaps the most valuable of all jazz-on-DVD collections. Just seeing Bird with Coleman Hawkins (— who cares if they're "finger sync-ing") sends chills down me every time.

David, do you mean Braxton's 1991 Willisau performance (with Marilyn Crispell), or his 1979 performance (with Ray Anderson)? Either way, I'd love to see those concerts reissued on hatOLOGY. Who's heard Daunik Lazro? Joe McPhee has pointed to him as an inspiration, and I don't know a thing about the guy.

Hat Hut's catalog of recordings, most of them now unfortunately out-of-print, makes up a great label — (usually) pristine sound, adventurous music, and tasteful artwork and packaging. What albums on this label do you recommend? And what albums, still LP-only, would you like to see make it onto compact disc? One note that many of you are already aware of: Hat Hut has been running monthly sales on select titles, which sell for $8.50 through Cadence (or $11.99 through Jazz Loft). Cadence is currently listing the Vienna Art Orchestra's Erik Satie disc on sale — when initially it was reported out-of-print! This is one to pick up if you haven't already. Have any of you tried the hat(now)ART titles, or the hatNOIR titles? Which ones, and which ones do you recommend?

I finally landed a copy of Blinks, and am really enjoying it. I've never been a huge fan of Steve Potts, largely due to his intonation and sense of rhythm, but this record might just now have changed my view of his playing. His solo on "Blinks" is indeed fine. I'm still looking for a copy of The Way. If anybody knows where I might locate a copy, or if you're interested in some kind of trade, fire off a PM to me, and hopefully we can work something out! Oh yes — the more I hear Aëbi on cello, the more I like her playing. Certainly not Abdul Wadud, but her work blends nicely with Avenel's bass playing.

I'll start this thread by listing an out-of-print McPhee disc that Tower currently is carrying. (I'll have to edit this when it gets snatched up!) Quite a lot of McPhee out there. What titles do you find yourself returning to most? I've really been enjoying McPhee's CjR recordings, reissued by Atavistic. ____________________ Edit (2/8/05): I left the link up for Sweet Freedom above, as at least you can still access sound samples (even though the disc is long gone). Good album!

I'll second the vote for a DVD release of Let's Get Lost. Though I've always found the film more a self-portrait (of Weber) than a portrait of Baker, I still love it. Why it couldn't have come out the same time as the recent biography ... I guess we can only speculate. Has Paris, Texas come out on DVD? I'd like to own that. Love Harry Dean Stanton. And I wish Straight, No Chaser would have been released with extras. Wasn't that documentary culled from 17 hours of footage? Good gracious!

Mike, what did the original edit look like? Does the new "edit" actually give more time to the proceedings (meaning, the time in between tunes)? Trying to figure out what you're meaning. These Idem DVD's look to be a pretty good deal, even if they're priced just a bit high. I wouldn't be surprised if, in a short time, they become very scarce — at least in America, where estates and existing copyright laws may eventually prohibit their distribution. Just a guess, but that's what happened to the Art Farmer Jazz Casual set. For more jazz on DVD shopping fun, Tower is currently having a 25%-off DVD sale. Good time to pick up those Jazz Scene USA and Jazz Casual discs, and Sun Ra's A Joyful Noise — all for a pretty reasonable price. If you haven't seen/heard the Teddy Edwards/Cannonball Adderley Jazz Scene USA DVD, you're in a for a treat. Sound is certainly not the best, but the music (especially Edwards' group) is .

Dusty Groove has this in stock again, along with a DVD that includes performances by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Art Pepper Quartet, and rare footage ("rare" because it was withdrawn from American distribution) of Art Farmer's quartet with Jim Hall.

I have the first TOCJ and the 2-disc RVG. The TOCJ sounds very fine, but the RVG, to me, is just as good if not, at times, "better" (more presence, air, etc.). The RVG gets the vote from me due, strangely enough, to the included stage banter and the not-ridiculous price. Case closed: Buy the RVG and enter into the debate over Kiss Me Kate, no, Finnian's Rainbow, no, West Side Story, no, Star Trek. I love Theodore "Uncle Don" Rollins' playing on this whole set.

Thanks for posting that, Larry. Could you point me to any other articles/interviews that further discuss Blake's approach to ear-training? I find this aspect of his role as an educator the most intriguing.

1984. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. That they came to my (relatively) small hometown at all now seems fairly amazing. Somewhere between 60-80 people crammed into this small performance hall, and the band were crammed on the stage. The messengers at that time were: Donald Harrison Terence Blanchard Mulgrew Miller Lonnie Plaxico I was 14 and missed the second set because of my curfew. I didn't know exactly what I was hearing, but I did know that the musicians up there had paid some dues. It would take about 2 more years before I finally got it and started buying records.

I thought Gilmore also briefly played with Mingus, c. 1965, the year he took a sabbatical from Ra's band. I think that's Gilmore on tenor, along with Charles McPherson and Lonnie Hilyer on the bandstand, in some of the live footage in the Mingus, 1968 documentary. How is that Blakey Limelight record (S'Make It)? I've thought about picking that one up from time to time.

Images Gallery.

Little did you know — Mr. Braxton is actually 2'3". The horn pictured is an alto saxophone. (Neck placement modified.)

Some good discussion here on Gilmore, courtesy of AAJ. I know others here are fans, too. Favorite appearances, solos?

What a wonderful, and at times wonderfully odd, record. Discussion-wise, it seems to largely get ignored in favor of albums like Let Freedom Ring or It's Time. Some of the most "out" Jackie on record, with — such a great choice here — Rashied Ali stirring the hell out of the drums behind him. Admission: I almost always start this disc with Track 2. Just never had enough "soul" to take in Barbara Simmons' recitation (... and I'm on record as liking Irene Aëbi). I wish Alfred had decided to record an all-instrumental version of the title tune, and then left the vocal version off for a 45 rpm release. Ah well.

I moved to Texas to go to school, and missed this concert: Luckily, it was recorded. Great saxophone section here, even if they've largely been restricted to that sometimes derogatory phrase local talent.