Niko

I'll prefer an orchestra over a quartet that's being called a trio any time... Now playing, one of today's finds:

thanks for sharing!

I have the limited edition of Lester Young Vol 1, the number is somewhere in the 1200s iirc... good to know it also exists in an unlimited version in case I lose it

I remember when the entire series was on display at the big Saturn store in Cologne, as a group they actually looked kind of nice... that label made some pretty weird choices for cover art... here's more (often you need to click on the record to find the cover in this design) https://www.discogs.com/label/59478-Jazz-View

That CD is an exact copy of Ambrosia 010 I believe... One big plus of those Ambrosia LPs is that on the back cover there is a nice overview of the contents of about 20 different bootleg LPs of this type (Ambrosia, Session Disc, CP records, ESP Disk, Session Disc, Queen Disc etc etc). Unfortunately, that list does not come with lineups... So those must have been added later and with possible mistakes

That was one of my very first CDs as a kid 30 years ago, back then I didn't get it... But following our recent discussion, I bought a handful of those Boris Rose LPs and it didn't set me back by much (except shelf space)

Thanks! Will stick to my Ambrosia LPs then...

Brownie's photos are here https://www.ayler.co.uk/html/judsonhall.html The photographer in the pictures is W Eugene Smith whose pictures from the session could include brownie but I don't think such pictures are known...

Yes, he did, I've bought quite a few albums with him in recent years, often because of him, and many were excellent... RIP

Just play the first seconds of "My name is Albert Ayler"...

That album has been reissued by Freshsound on a twofer CD, at least over here it's also on Spotify... https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/juanita-cruse-jeri-jorden-albums/47602-juanita-easy-living-2-lp-on-1-cd.html

Fwiw, Steinmann mentions that such a set is in the works and that he's kind of involved here https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a-swing-concert-for-joe-sullivan-april-18-1937-congress-hotel-chicago/

Hampton Hawes with Denny Diaz, Sonship Theus and an unidentified bass player...

Indeed, I got my first Tonepoet recently (Picture of Heath) and while a lot of it sounded great, there were those spots that taught me that I better stick to old-time vinyl until the next major upgrade of my system which is not planned for the foreseeable future...

Yes... Vinyl24 and Plaatboef are super close to each other on Oude Gracht and both worth a visit (we combined it with visits to Nijntje Museum or Speelklok Museum which are close...). Plaatboef is similar to their shop in Rotterdam, not spectacular but very decent (think of Recordmania maybe), Vinyl24 is a strange one, compared to 10 weeks ago, they had sold most of their stuff and replaced it, it's mostly priced to go... You can follow them on insta and see what their recent acquisitions are... The Hines was from Dig It, in a different part of the city center, it's a small store but I found cool stuff at great prices like this and the Asch Recordings of Mary Lou Williams .... Will go again....

No, that was Mary Lois... that Msc thesis is really quite amazing in its comprehensiveness, making it, e.g., quite clear that Ellen Brooks was neither the one who shot him nor the trigger for Mary Lois shooting him

The beer I know very well, one of the most easily drinkable Belgian style tripels but I do admire the glass.... One of the results of going to Utrecht with my daughter today and sneaking in some time for record shopping...

I've been buying loads of Hampton Hawes in the last few days (At the piano, Art Farmer's On the road, Art Pepper's Early Show, Dexter Gordon's Blues a la Suisse) and replayed what's in my collection.... that one is still missing...

regarding Donald MacDonald, the one thing I could find out easily is that he was dead by the time his wife, the violin player Betty MacDonald died in 2010... https://web.archive.org/web/20180817035122/http://macdeemusic.com/index.html there it says that he left the family at some point... the fact that they were still married decades later suggests that he may have died not too long after leaving his family... for instance, I can find one Donald MacDonald from Massachusetts born 10 August 1940 who died in August 1979... that might be him but without a birth date it's impossible to confirm edit: Actually, there was an obit in Downbeat back in 1979, Drummer Donald MacDonald died March 21 in New York City at age 41. Ill health had forced him to retire from performing, and he was residing in Woodstock, New York, at the time of his death. First studying percussion at Fredonia State Teachers' College, he played in Florida for several years. MacDonald worked and recorded with Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens and Gary McFarland, but was probably best known for his membership in Jeremy Steig's early jazzrock band the Satyrs, which included Warren Bernhardt, Eddie Gomez and Adrian Guillary; he was also in the White Elephant Band led by Mike Mainieri. MacDonald is survived by four children and his wife, who wrote db that a Final Bar "seemed the most fitting way for me to let all the musicians that he played with over the years know that he has passed on."

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It was written for John Patton's wife Ellen Brooks who was also from NC but apparently not related to Tina as I wrote here

I knew it sounded weird but it was supposed to be a compliment, yes!

Sometimes, I wonder what it means that, at least on this board, my interests regarding new releases seem to be closest to someone who is exactly 40 years and a month older than me... I guess it means that great taste skips generations at times.... (my favorite releases this year so far are the Amina Claudine Myers solo album, Shakkei by Alexandra Grimal and Giovanni di Domenico as well as Tilburg Noord by Mete Erker but that's all more lowkey/local stuff compared to Fieldwork) what I bought these days: My first "Tonepoet", heavily discounted, Picture of Heath, and At the Piano by Hampton Hawes

I have a friend who used to always have his entire collection for sale on discogs at the prices he was willing to part with things ... which led to prices that were completely disconnected from the market for the stuff he really wanted to keep... that Ayler box sure is a prized possession in this household...