Niko

Oh, didn't he ramble the autobiography of trumpeter Lee Collins, used but in good shape, even including the Flexi-Disc with an additional track from "A Night at the Victory Club"... Thought I'd show my daughter what a used bookstore looks like, allegedly the biggest English-language one on the continent no less, and take the briefest of looks at the row of jazz books... where this one stood, had been looking for it for a while without high expectations or high effort... it's a very enjoyable inside view on a live in early jazz from New Orleans to Chicago in the form of an endless stream of anecdotes

no, that must be this here https://www.discogs.com/release/9872965-Big-Band-Of-Bob-Florence-Bongos-Reeds-Brass

My internet browser made it look as if "Bob Florence died much too early. I am a big band fan and have everything he cut on records" was something you said... I was already thinking, wow, here's another facet of Gheorghe I'd never would have suspected... I guess I am somewhere in the middle, wouldn't call myself a big band fand, but I do have a Bob Florence LP which I am playing now... the album is about 8 weeks older than me, hard to say who has aged better...

Eddie Shu - I only have eyes for Shu

a typo for Steve Schaeffer I'd say after quickly comparing two photos taken at different ages...

have mixed feelings about that record but I really like Ruud Brink

music from where I grew up, Cologne in the 1990s; and I remember that band being advertised here and there back then but my priorities were different... of course, we listened to Tom Waits a lot, and - through carnival - music in the local dialect [which I never learned to speak] was something we played at least once a year [music in proper German I only discovered in my 20s even though that is my native language]... I guess Tom Waits covers in the dialect you grew up with is a type of music for people over 40... which is fine, it sounds glorious once you're there.

I have one of the Bill Henderson albums, Live at the Times, it's an intriguing line-up I thought with her on piano and former Don Ellis sideman Dave Mackay on Fender Rhodes plus bass, drums and, of course, Henderson's singing... haven't played it in a while but remember it as a special album and quite a good one.

Yes... He has some piano trio credentials e.g. with Michel Graillier

the Soul Jazz book must be Bob Porter's book of the same name... (which I started reading but somehow never finished... so I'll wait with this new book until then)

I agree, it was better hidden than usual...

we've been discussing this release for a while now in this thread here: The track list is In 'N Out; We'll Be Together Again; Taking Off; The Believer; Isotope. in there is more information over in that thread

The third record is formally leaderless... So, in particular, there's no attempt whatsoever to market it as a Coltrane record