Niko

Re Armstrong: listen to his solos on "Potato Head Blues" by his Hot Seven. Re Mulligan: don't know what to say, as Mulligan discs make up the highest number by any artist in my collection. Re Brubeck: at least we can agree on this! mulligan - i bought quite a number of his albums; mulligan plays mulligan, the fantasy quartets with baker, one with sims and eardley, that olympia double cd bev was spinning lately... it's not that i could really find a fault in them, it's just they don't excite me ... guess i will have to give them another chance later this year...

gee! Brubeck... ok ok... but he was an idol of early Cecil Taylor (along with Tristano, of course), AND he offered Paul Demond many a chance to blow outstanding solos (one that pops up immediately: the Audrey Hepburn dedication on one of the "Time" albums, but you really can't pick one... and it doesn't sound to me like Desmond was unhappy over the situation in the Brubeck quartet - he could have left earlier, too, if he'd wanted to). in ted gioia's west coast jazz book there is this anecdote that they played in a band together and then desmond made some trick to get rid of brubeck, forgot the details (something like not wkaing him up, claiming the band would disband...), later he took quite some effort to get brubeck back... should really look up the details, desmond is great...

voted for brubeck, mulligan and armstrong... but must admit i haven't tried armstrong "seriously enough"

John Tchicai - Afrodisiaca from deezer... next week in the uk i hope can give spotify a try...

She's raiding your collection! Trying to whittle it down one duplicate at a time. This is not tolerance, it's an evil plot masquerading as some sort of indulgence. worst thing about it is that i have to make up something nice to say about those metheny cds...

more in this vein, some favorite adam green songs, bible club, pay the toll ("how many drugs does it take to find something to say?" is that a sixties quote?), i wanna die, he's the brat ("he's the brat with the sterilized pitchfork, he's the singer of the beachwood sparks")... definitely helped to lift up my spirits a bit

my girlfriend has recently discovered my doubles as a source of birthday presents for her colleagues... increased the tolerance a bit i guess (also has the consequence that her colleagues lent her their pat metheny and diana krall cds to listen to in return since at work she now has to pretend she likes jazz)...

Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground perfect soundtrack before another round of lamps, printers and waste baskets that might have escaped my attention so far...

Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (Free America)

Anne Paceo - Triphase

never would have guessedn either (though when you think of it, it's not so surprising that angola and mozambique have biggger populations than portugal's 10 millions...)

You have a point there about Blue John. It's a bit odd that it wasn't included in the Patton Select, and there wasn't really any explanation in the notes about why it was skipped over. I suppose MC might not hold it in high regard. However, in the notes to that set he calls the Green-Patton-Dixon section a "near perfect entity," so maybe there's still hope . . . funny they didn't explain it better - i mean, if the focus in the select is on sessions issued at the time but not easily available (like got a good thing goin and let em roll) they should have left along came john out and add the original accent on the blues album... guess hoping for the complete blue john sessions 2cd or more of than the one fred jackson track on the lost sessions conn is pretty hopeless, best thing that could happen realistically is a reissue of steppin out i guess...

The Wilkerson and the Donaldson are "relatively" easy to find, but I wouldn't say that about the others. Searching Amazon and CdUniverse I found that the cheapest new cd issue of the Vick was $45, the cheapest new cd issue of the Patton was $43, and the Green was only available as a CD-R (no expensive imports available). I think most of the Selects will have some material that's relatively easy to find. The Patton select including "Along Came John" is a good example. ... had a brief look... admittedly the situation with the patton and green is worse than what i remembered... (btw the curious inclusion of along came john in the patton select imho proves that cuscuna i not particularly excited about blue john, steppin out...)(which is a shame of course )

the wilen select would be a great idea, dozens (?) of hard to find albums by him... also have some doubt concerning the green/patton/dixon, maybe except for steppin out, these are still relatively easy to find, ... (started searching last year and i found blue john and blues for lou at around 10 $; good gracious and japanese copies at least of the wilkerson are relatively easy to find and not overly expansive as well... the unreleased second from the blue john sessions would be something, of course...)

I dig this album, even if it underachieves at times. Cameron's on the far right. He's also on Bill Barron's Modern Windows. is it jaspar, wilen, chautemps, cameron? gee, except for Jaspar, they all could fly... nice but pretty short session, that one!

I dig this album, even if it underachieves at times. Cameron's on the far right. He's also on Bill Barron's Modern Windows. is it jaspar, wilen, chautemps, cameron?

according to wikipedia his name is actually "louise" but since "louiss" is what it says on his albums (those i have seen at least) that's the one i'd work with...

after yesterdays success i got another miles davis disc today... Miles Davis - Boston 1955 Art Pepper/Chet Baker - Picture of Heath both surprisingly boppy, both with very fine tenor playing (by jay migliori and phil urso) and the Jazzactuel BYG 3 CD set for 8 euro... didn't expect to find another version of one of my favorite pop songs on it (hugh hopper's memories sung by robert wyatt)

on the french side of things Eddy Louiss (for instance the Jazz in Paris Bohemia after Dark, the Clarke/Louiss/Thomas album on dreyfus or the stan getz's dynasty) Lou Bennett (Amen and Enfin)

out of curiosity - where did they work together? was Lasha residing in Europe, did they travel together... ?

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue it better be good...

Tchan-tchou Vidal - La Gitane http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/44375 great post-django gypsy swing more info here (in french) http://www.djangostation.com/La-Gitane,520.html before this fine compilation of gypsy jazz guitarists mostly from the sixties... http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/45258

interesting indeed... maxine had already made the shaw gordon transition at the time? (and gordon and shaw continued to play together after said transition?) hadn't known maxine had been a musician herself btw... Gunter Hampel-People Symphony Birth 005 D LP Frankfurt, Congresshalle 3/22/70 Willem van Manen-tb; Willem Breuker-cl,sax; Gunter Hampel-bcl,vib,fl; Maxine Gregg-cel; Arjen Gorter-b; Jack Gregg-b; Jeanne Lee-voc

thanks again! recollections of gigs like yours are the things i always hope for in books and rarely find... (is there a biography on shaw, btw?) actually i haven't heard any of the very late woody shaw recordings, the last one i know is "in my own sweet way" from Switzerland February 1987 which is excellent; then come a number of american recordings in may and june 1987, one with hubbard and imagination which reportedly are not bad... then comes a year of absence from the studios until june 1988 - this is when you heard him i suppose... and afterwards three more albums two with the paris reunion band and carlos ward's lito (which i've been trying to find for quite some time now without success)... this gig looks more interesting than the one you described... __________________________ Prince Lawsha & Firebirds (France Culture radio broadcast) rec. 87.09.16 broad. 1987 6 tracks including Nuttin' Out Jones - Music Matador - Oriental Flower. Prince Lasha : baritone and alto sax. Woody Shaw : trumpet, vocals. Mark Thompson : piano. Jack Gregg : bass. Prince Lawsha Jr. : drums. Rec. at Magnetic Terrasse, Paris, France. ______________________________ and a few weeks earlier in August there had been this one Date: August 25, 1987 Location: Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, Tokyo, Japan Label: [radio broadcast] Jackie McLean (ldr), Jackie McLean (as), Woody Shaw (t), Grachan Moncur III (tb), Bobby Hutcherson (vib), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (d) _____________________________ in de valk's bio of baker it is mentioned that baker's looks/form changed dramatically from week to week, quite telling that when he died the police initial estimate was that he was aged 35...

Jean-Claude Fohrenbach - Francofeel