Olie Brice

I'm far from an Oscar Peterson fan, but I do love the Ben Webster album with the OP trio. Webster on sublime form, some of the best Ray Brown on record and OP at his least obtrusive...

Can anyone recommend a good history of this period of music? Who's the Renaissance / Baroque equivalent of Charles Rosen, say? I'm more interested in musical analysis than biography, although a bit of that is fine too!

That Huelgas Ensemble Dufay is sublime, really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

An old thread but wanted to thank Larry & Mark for this - been having my mind blown by these Juilliard recordings in recent days, after coming across this looking for something else... astonishing playing! Even listening via crappy youtube compression I'm hearing things I've never heard before in pieces I know well, as well as having to completely re-evaluate stuff I wasn't previously into - thanks! Will definitely pick up the Testament CDs

Yes! Can't believe I forgot that one

There's so many great albums on Steeplechase! Some of my absolute favourites: Johnny Dyani - Song for Biko, Witchdoctor's Son, Angolian Cry Shirley Horn - Lazy Afternoon (this album is a complete masterpiece, easily Horn's greatest work and v under recognised) Lee Konitz & Paul Bley - Out of Nowhere (lots more great Konitz and Bley seperately too) Also loads of great Dexter Gordon, Walt Dickerson, Buck Hill, Kahn Jamal, Rich Perry... I need to get more of the Walt Dickersons, some great looking lineups

That photo is from Poole, not the Lescar! Agree about Tim Giles, one of the very best drummers of his generation

Thanks - bought the Takac CD with both Janaceks and the 1st Smetana - wonderful!

Been quite obsessed with the two Janacek string quartets recently. The version I've got is wonderfully played by the Janacek Quartet (who should know what they're doing with this music...) but on a quite noisy old LP, would like to add a good CD version to my collection. Any recommendations?

That was the first album I discovered that turned me on to this stuff. I saw them quite a few times as well - some of the loudest gigs I've ever been at. For some reason they haven't aged as well to my ears as some of the other stuff, but they were an important part of that scene.

yep, and is still their best album imo

Slightly tangentially related - but Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham and his various aliases) kind of overlaps with that scene and is wonderful. 'Ease Down the Road' is my favourite of his albums. And he took the photo that's on the cover of Spiderland. This thread has just sent me back listening to 'Spiderland' - still a classic! Kind of links Minutemen/Fugazi to the post-rock bands listed above... Djed is amazing - I wish Tortoise had reached those heights more often

Clifford already mentioned it, but Slint's Spiderland is pretty much the source of all this stuff, and in my opinion was never really bettered in the genre. if you don't know that album Scott, I highly recommend it. Also, if you're getting into Godspeed, some of the off-shoot projects were pretty cool. I've not really listened to this kind of stuff much for years, but at one point Godspeed / Silver Mount Zion / Set Fire to Flames were massively important to me.

Sad news. Don't know that many of his recordings, but his contributions to Lowe's 'the flam' and the live Braxton Quintet from Basel are wonderful

"Hear Me Talkin' to Ya" is wonderful. And via Candid he played a major role in making some of the greatest albums in the history of the music happen - "charles mingus presents charles mingus", "out from", "freedom now", vital early Cecil Taylor and Steve Lacy... massive contribution

also a brilliant composer

a masterpiece

wish there were more recordings of the trio with Buster Williams and Billy Hart...

It's amazing

The ICP!

Don't really know any of these albums, Blythe has been on my 'must check out properly' list for ages - but that much reissued Fred Hopkins is exciting!

The biggest regret for me - Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron played duo near where I lived as a teenager, but you needed a credit card to book and by the time I got a parent to do so for me it was sold out... Never heard either live Missed Andrew Hill on his UK big band tour too - was unemployed and decided I couldn't afford it, wish I'd prioritised differently!

Other than as a wonderfully compositional improviser? I've never come across any written music by him, would be v interested to hear some

Paul Motian was one of the all time great jazz composers, in my opinion

wow! this will be amazing