Niko

Funny, didn't know about the birthday but I did play three or four of my Sullivan albums yesterday evening, they're all great...

Wanted to write the same earlier today, start with 7th Hand and not Blues Blood... Actually also for Aldana and Ross, I would recommend their previous BN albums, 12 Stars and Parable of the Poet, but that preference is less strong... Another recent BN album I liked a lot is the most recent Nduduzo Makathini album - but you do need to accept the chanting to appreciate it... Anyway, in terms of new releases by young or middle-aged artists, BN has been doing pretty well in recent years imho

I shared this quote from Denis a few weeks back about how Denis learned playing the drums on Huss's set in the early 50s...

On his excellent substack, Lewis Porter has quite a few essays about Miles the composer, including a three part series about Nardis with the bottom line being that Miles is the likely composer ... https://lewisporter.substack.com/t/miles-davis

Thanks! Even if the gig listing contained the name of a drummer, I would give more credence to what is being said on stage during the concert... Dorham worked with Roger Blank and Huss Charles... So there's a good chance he worked with Denis Charles as well.... But that doesn't mean anything... I am pretty confident that if there been a striking argument justifying the transition from Huss to Denis, the Jazz Detective would have shared it with us... Most likely, they didn't realize Huss Charles was an actual drummer and just asked themselves for a plausible name to fill into "... Charles" in such a way that it might even help sales. This is the usual crap we've come to expect from them, who needs a 20 page booklet if the most basic things (like the list of participating musicians) are lacking.

I'd say that ECM was actually quite broad in all decades ... And it always had great American artists on the label... Pretty sure the biggest seller was Köln Concert... Btw, three non-ECM albums that I played a lot recently is that trilogy of albums with Lee Konitz that Jakob Bro recorded before joining ECM... Imho, those are stronger "ECM albums" than the ones he actually recorded for the label... At least, I'd say that he had the ECM thing down before joining ECM

See, and I find myself wondering wtf Terence Blanchard and Kenny Garrett are so much higher on the list than Tyshawn Sorry and Darius Jones... And then I remember that getting hung up on the ordering of bands on a poster means you're either very young or getting very old ...

Some favorites that haven't been mentioned yet are Break Stuff by Vijay Iyer, the first Vijay Iyer Wadada Leo Smith duo (a cosmic rhythm...) and Mboko by David Virelles... Regarding the Scandinavians of our youth, Bobo Stenson Trio albums are my go-to albums now

Jazz drew greater talents in those legendary years (or, rather, in the decades before) and there were possibly more unexplored avenues... That said, I heard Alexander live a few years back and thought it was an enjoyable evening.... I also heard Lovano and fell asleep mid-set, no judgement beyond that... (And I saw Julian Lage with his trio and thought it was possibly the best live act I've ever seen)

Curious about that one as well... everyone around me seems to love it - despite the cover art which has more to do with "Grey's Anatomy" than with Reid Miles

it's an interesting credit "photo: Tom Jungman". first, I never would have thought that this is a photo (of what? not the British coastline) and second, this is Tom Jungman's only trace in the album cover scene...

their previous duo album, A cosmic rhythm with each stroke, is my favorite album by Iyer... Defiant Life I liked as well, but I still need to get into it more - it's quite different actually

The Brahem album even has an experiment with a different font

did you see my first post of February 17? Frank was the one who first owned a trap set and until 1957 Denis always practiced on Frank's set... Denis started playing with Cecil Taylor in 1954 (according to wiki) so Frank had a set at least from, say, 1953 onwards... and the fact that he ended up recording as a percussionist with Ed Blackwell, Sonny Rollins and others suggests to me that he was possibly sufficiently talented as a drumming musician to show up playing with Kenny Dorham on a local live gig nobody ever expected to appear as an album...

Denis played with Cecil Taylor since the mid-fifties... And since he was the younger brother, using Frank's drum set...

I had a brief look at Steven Isoardi's The Dark Tree: Tom Albach was living in Santa Barbara when he got involved in 1977/78, recorded the early sessions in LA but the solos with Tapscott at the Lobero in Santa Barbara. Whether he and the label moved to Los Angeles at some point I don't know (in 1989, they left California for Amsterdam…)

thanks! that it's not on discogs suggests that it must be pretty rare... (that bsnpubs doc is pretty misleading in this particular case because it gives a completely wrong tracklist...)

Can someone help me figure out what the second Bobby Henderson album is? I can only find one...

Wow, that is some crazy luck! (my own new records of this week are Jazz behind the Dikes Volume 3 and a Japanese reissue of Tony Fruscella's Atlantic album... the closest I came to a bargain recently was the debut album of Bert Joris for 2 Euro last week... it's been good weeks for buying used records)

I saw that duo and it was definitely worth going even though their records may not be my go-to Brötzmann... But what was totally amazing was a trio with Leigh and Toshinori Kondo added on tp and electronics... It's been a while and I forgot the details but Kondo somehow managed to organize the sounds and had a great interaction with Leigh in a way that made it all come together even better

You're missing my favorite album (Crystal Bells on LDH / Igloo) but other than that I agree

That's a nice album, I like it a lot

Marvin Cabell - Dream Images a few years ago, I walked into a record store in Rennes, France, and after browsing through a few bins, I asked the owner what was going on... turned out, he'd recently bough a record store in Chicago and resurrected it in Northern France... I walked home with this and albums by Tommy Jones, E Parker McDougal and the MJT+3...

that's a good tip, I've had that book lying around for ages... maybe I should just start with those 45 pages...

language is one thing, cultural differences are another... obviously, we meet here because we have some common interests... and obviously, that includes an interest in American culture in the case of this board (and, for example, soulpope has loads of interests like that from Edward Hopper to some of those American sports)... but there are some conversation on this board that you can only understand if you've grown up knowing which type of highly processed sauce goes with what type of meat in which region of the US... and that's something they don't teach us in school and that's ok. But it does lead to things being lost in translation.