Niko

Yes, American based in the Netherlands... I've read that comparison often but I wouldn't know of an interview where he says this himself.... Btw Lewis Porter has an interesting pair of posts on why Brubeck has not been much of an influence on other pianist https://lewisporter.substack.com/t/brubeckdave

Michael Moore was the first name that came to my mind

played a bit more of it and read up on the sidemen... apparently pianist Chris Gage was some sort of unrecorded local hero https://www.jazzstreetvancouver.ca/artists/44/ https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chris-gage-emc and even though some tapes featuring him have appeared before (e.g. an archival release with Fraser McPherson), four CDs with Art Pepper is fairly massive for his legacy... that said, while all four players are clearly audible, the focus was apparently on capturing Pepper well - which worked out nicely...

Not that I am aware of, there are various things from the early 50s (e.g. on Xanadu) but I wouldn't know of other live Pepper from the late 50s when he recorded his famous Contemporary albums

streaming it myself now... I like it much better than I expected, recording quality is not amazing in general but Art is captured really well... like: there are not many Charlie Parker bootlegs with this fidelity... and these days I am much more interested in early or middle Pepper than in late Pepper...

a lot (or all) of the set is on youtube...

I was in Odense in 2024 which I turned into twice 2 hours in Copenhagen to and from the airport. There are loads of record stores. The two best ones I saw are Jazz Cup and Sound Station (even though the latter had somewhat ambitious and erratic pricing... I am the rare customer who might buy a Burt Bales LP for 12 Euro... but not for 30...), the two stores are in fairly different parts of the city so in each case, it's super easy to find three or four others stores in the area which may or may not be hit or miss... Anyway, it was a fun city for record shopping and I confidently recommend building your hunts around either of those two stores...

Not what I'd been looking for, not from the 60s and 70s... But some footage of the two

there was a nice reissue of The Cry in the recent Contemporary series on Craft Recordings https://craftrecordings.com/products/the-cry-contemporary-records-acoustic-sounds-series-180g-lp

Melissa Aldana - Filin Out today, Aldana plays Cuban ballads from the 40s to 60s... On my fourth spin, quite happy with this

Heard them a lot as a kid growing up in Cologne where they had a weekly radio show... Can't say that I grew into a fan but one album I remember liking is this one with Charlie Mariano and a fusion of jazz and Indian music https://www.discogs.com/release/4008349-WDR-Big-Band-Köln-Charlie-Mariano-Karnataka-College-Of-Percussion-Mike-Herting-Sketches-Of-Bangalor but I may be biased since I was in the audience that day... They have regular programs which they play for the radio and in concerts in the region, only some of which make it into albums ... This week it's probably carnival music, but in other weeks they have quite nice and diverse projects

Some wonderful stuff in there, some classics like the Texier albums or Angel Song, loads that I don't know of course... But also some that I didn't expect anyone else would know (like that Eric van der Westen record, he recorded some nice stuff in those years)

I also have that impression that pre-1950 Jazz sells hardly at all, and that the 1950s used to do better a decade ago while the 1970s are comparatively popular at the moment (as shown also by things like the Jazz Dispensary reissue series which has its focus there)... And yes, that could be a pattern of aging generations but I believe it's simply a matter of fluctuations in taste... At least when it comes to vinyl sales rather than CDs since those older generations seem to care mostly about CDs...

I'd say those are "treasure chest" not "boutique"

when I was about 39, I once met Mr Fleischhammer at a record fair... somewhere in a corner, he'd hidden the box with all his CDs, including that Brew Moore incredibly cheap, memory says 3 Euro... I bought quite a few of those CDs and said something like "why do you price them like this?" because I would have thought, there's no good reason to go below 5 or 6... the number of additional buyers you gain by reducing the price of an amazing Brew Moore cd from, say, 5 to 3 must be negligible... the ones who know, know, they may not be large in number, but... and he said something like "I wasn't even sure that whether it made sense to bring CDs to an LP-centric fair like this one"... I must have looked at him, like he came from the moon [which was probably not fair]... I am sure selling the stuff is not as much fun as it should be given the quality... but I don't quite trust his skills in assessing the market... the people who are now buying all those tonepoets are not from the "corresponding generation"

Re Rodby, he was in the houseband at the Jazz Showcase where he played with Art Pepper... In July 1977, Art Pepper took him with him to NY for that famous run at the Village Vanguard... Rodby played the Tuesday and Wednesday nights (not included in the box set) until he was replaced by George Mraz who appears on the recordings... According to the liner notes of the box, it was Elvin Jones who insisted on a different bassist...

A lot of crime ficition has been moved to the second row in the bookcase by now, but, besides Chandler and Hammett, Ross Thomas is still displayed with all his 25 novels in the front row... somewhere between thriller and crime I'd say... I also love Lawrence Block, especially but not only, the Bernie Rhodenbarr series and Charles Willeford... incidentally, Ethan Iverson has written loads of great posts about people like Thomas, Block and Willeford... (I discovered Thomas via Jörg Fauser and then the other two via Iverson) for example, this is the Thomas post https://ethaniverson.com/newgate-callendar/ah-treachery-ross-thomas/

What's interesting is that the newly announced Giant Steps and Satellite are quite a bit longer than the versions mentioned in the Coltrane reference... So if it's the same gig, it's a better, more complete tape... (If you think about it, it's actually strange that all tracks mentioned in that entry are marked incomplete, maybe this is some sort of edited version that made it into the reference)

that's also what I think... the way I understand it, the Tiberi tapes cover different visits of Coltrane to Philly (or Tiberi to NY) so it could also be an option to have different releases for the different occasions... for instance, the preview belongs to a visit to Philly in July 1960 of Coltrane with Tyner/Davis/La Roca from which there are about 3-4 hours the way I read the Coltrane Reference... so that could be a nice set of 2/3/4 CDs... and then there could be 1961 set, 1962 set etc... something like that would make me happier than a download option for 86 CDs.

I've been dealing with members of older generations for quite a few years by now, the vast majority of older people sucks at discographical research, or any type of research for that matter - which is fine I guess..., still I don't think that there's much of a downwards trend in the quality of research that is being produced... Listening to Prestige was born in 1940 btw

Same experience over here, the Roulettes and Capitols seem much easier to find...

This one definitely doesn't disappoint!

Love that Gary Peacock album...

Indeed, regarding visibility in Europe, there could be a big difference... But just because Tyler was in Europe... many Europeans missed him, and just because Logan was in Tompkins Square Park, many New Yorkers... I am currently reading the autobiography of Sonny Simmons, it's bleak in almost every aspect, certainly including pay from ESP even when including what could be extorted from Stollman's mother...