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What makes this particular case potentially tricky is that it's a Polish name, Garbarek's father was Polish ... So unless the pronunciations in the two languages coincide, it also depends on Jan's preferences which of the two pronunciations he prefers for his name...

In Iverson's list, it's completely subjective, if you pull it out to listen to piano, it's a piano record... Like, for me, Up in Volly's Room by Art Hodes is clearly a piano record despite the horns, just like Tales of Another by Gary Peacock despite the leader... But the typical piano record is solo or trio and the pianist is the leader...

Nice, thanks for letting us know!

Tizian Jost's claim to fame is that he was the last pianist of Günther Klatt, one of Germany's greatest talents on tenor... here you can see a nice documentary on Klatt, including remembrances by Marty Cook and people from Enja... https://olatv.de/film-serie/film-der-woche-guenther-klatt-maler-und-musiker/

one of the more surprising things in Iverson's fine post is the claim that Masabumi Kikuchi was only really good after 2000... so much of his work in the 90s is magnificient imho... but there's also awesome stuff from the 60s, especially the 70s, and the 80s... such as this album here

I have a copy where someone combined the American 1980s reissue with the beautiful original French cover Btw, regarding Parallel a Stitt, that one looks similar on paper but in fact the large band is only on a few tracks and most of it is a small group with Don Patterson... (Even though it's not their finest collaboration)

I bought the Booker Pitman record with the same cover as the book, so that one is smiling at me... "The World's Soprano Sax Nr 1" or something like that, released a few months after Bechet's death ... From what I know, it's a fascinating biography...

It's a pretty wonderful thesis though, based on the author's own interviews with Patton, Harold Alexander, Marvin Cabell, Leroy Williams, Grachan Moncur III and others and with loads of detail on things that are barely documented otherwise... There's always room for more research...

I don't know much about the Black Muslim organization Patton was a part of and the thesis is also not very precise on what exactly offended him... But, in the broader picture, there are Islamic traditions prohibiting pictures of all living things... Even though interacting with living things is completely ok... And practice looks more complex a lot of the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

I have that tone poet of Picture of Heath as well, my only tone poet so far, the price was good... And I do hear a good portion of the problems described on the Hoffman board... Ultimately, it affects about five or six seconds of the record, spread over three or four places... Otherwise the record sounds great, so I am not complaining too much... But the tone of their reply didn't impress me... Seriously considering some of the newly announced ones like the Washington and the Jackson which I never found on CD...

I've been wondering whether the thesis is a bit inaccurate here and Patton would have been offended by any woman on his album cover regardless of color... That would be more consistent with what I know about islam

The passage is in this thesis here, just search for "white woman" https://andybleaden.blogspot.com/2007/07/thesis-on-john-patton-by-javier.html?m=1 It says clearly that Patton was offended by the cover of That Certain Feeling...(It's even implied that the cover made him so bitter he left the music scene for a while)

I was just rereading that passage from the thesis about Patton, how he was offended by Blue Note putting white women on his album covers, apparently becoming increasingly bitter about this in later years... Apparently, he was still ok with this at the time of Got a good thing goin' (which is also the much better cover) but That certain feeling came out after his conversion to islam and he felt having a white woman on the cover was at odds with that... So when the time comes for a Tonepoet of That Certain Feeling, they might redo that cover as well, since they're redoing so many covers anyway... That said: that certain feeling is my favorite Patton album... NP: Jakob Bro - Montclair Sessions (with Wadada Leo Smith among others)

It's been 30 years when I read the Nisenson book from the public library but I distinctly remember thinking back then that this was a particularly weak biography... My only comparison regarding Miles biographies is the Szwed which I think is very good, similar to his Ra book in this regard...

I've wondered about Alex Foster on those albums... His best moments are amazing... But he also comes across as someone who know exactly how to respond to "let's play this as a slow bounce with a samba backdrop in sixth"... And in many ways it's great that he knows his craft... But maybe, from time to time, it would have been even better if he would have said "I don't know how to do this" with the subtext of "I know exactly how to do this but what an awful idea"

I'm fairly proud of my "Ken Peplowski for Lovers" playlist on Spotify... Not saying it's better than his regular albums, only saying it works better for me...

I think Cosmic Chicken is invaluable listening in order to place the (old) Directions albums on ECM in time and space... it's even less consistent but it gives you a sense of what is Eicher and what is DeJohnette on those later albums...

I know 26 from the list, some better than others, my favorites are Low Flame and You talk that talk.... Regarding Patterson's People, the tracks are not used on Shangri-la, are they? (Patterson's People got ***** in Downbeat Back in the day, I have a Dutch Jazz magazine from back then which starts out with the question how that could happen)

I played Jackie McLean's Demon Dance these days, it's another McLean favorite with great DeJohnette...

It's 6 CDs, not 4... The Tracklist can be seen here at Bandcamp https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/the-bottle-tapes Thanks for the hint!

Earl Hines - Blues in Thirds radio broadcasts of a 1967 big band with Budd Johnson, Vic Dickenson, Snooky Young and others...

Donald Bailey with Hampton Hawes

I've been wondering quite a bit about Coltrane as an artist who plans and records albums... In some cases he obviously did this, like A Love Supreme or Giant Steps... For things like the Prestige recordings or some of the Atlantic albums he clearly didn't .... With the majority of the Impulse material, the case is less clear but my feeling is that often he mainly wanted to document his art but that he did not really plan the step from sessions to albums... In which case compilations are fair game...

Except for that legendary TV show where had to represent real jazz as opposed to Brötzmann's version, that was a bit embarrassing... Will think of him every Sunday when Tatort starts with his famous theme song (which we also played in the school orchestra back in the day)... And I agree that his 60s albums are nice...

You convinced me, I need the Brooks as well...