Olie Brice

Thanks! Scottish gigs are hard to come by, pretty much every time I've booked a tour I've tried and failed to include Scotland... A Hebridean tour is my real dream...

Hello, hope this level of self-promotion is acceptable from someone who only posts here very rarely... Thought some of you might be interest in a tour I'm doing with my quintet, starting next Tuesday. The band features Alex Bonney (cornet), Mike Fletcher (alto), George Crowley (tenor) and Jeff Williams (drums), as well as me on double bass... We'll be playing the following dates: 24/05/16 – The Spotted Dog, Birmingham 25/05/26 – Dempsey’s, Cardiff 26/05/16 – Soundcellar, Poole 27/05/16 – Fusebox, Leeds 29/05/16 – Future Inn, Bristol (afternoon gig, 4.30pm) 30/05/16 – The Wonder Inn, Manchester 31/05/16 – Jazz Café, Newcastle 01/06/16 – The Lescar, Sheffield 02/06/16 – The Vortex, London and recording a new album a few days after the tour

A sad loss, great trombonist and lovely bloke. I did a really fun tour with him a few years ago with Mark Sanders and Mikolaj Trzaska, was a joy to play with.

Great review! That's very much been my experience of both Pardon To Tu in particular, and touring in Poland in general - an incredibly emotional audience response, it's a really special experience

Curious about the Frank Butler - anyone know it?

'An Evening with Joe Henderson', trio with Haden and Al Foster from 1985 is incredible. I think that might be my favourite period for Henderson, there's loads of great trio recordings, generally with Al Foster, official and bootlegs. 'The Standard Joe', with Rufus Reid and Foster in 1991 is another good one, as is the classic 'State of the tenor' on Blue Note (Foster and Ron Carter, 1985). There's some great 70s Joe as well - 'at the lighthouse' and 'tetragon' are 2 I love - Invitation on tetragon is one of the all-time great Joe Henderson solos and this, of course:

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The last two tracks of this incredible box set feature a band with Tatum, Pettiford, Catlett, Eldridge and Bigard. Unless I'm going mad, there's someone playing guitar as well, but they aren't credited... anyone know who it is?

I'm a massive Buster Williams fan - one classic not mentioned here is Shirley Horn's 'Lazy Afternoon', a gorgeous trio album. Anything with Buster and Billy Hart together is essential listening in my book...

I love 'Compositions', on Japo. Quite atypical, the calmest GUO I've heard, very beautiful album

There's a Roscoe Mitchell Black Saint box just out - definitely the best xmas present I got... 9 albums (including one led by Muhal and one by George Lewis) - nice timing for me as Roscoe's work as a leader is a recent obsession and I didn't have any of these

Heard them last night - astonishing! really incredible gig

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Very excited about this! had no idea that it had been released, glad I happened to wander on to this forum... The tracks on youtube are completely incredible