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I have a copy of the Smith that's signed by Mitchell... but not the Mitchell either VA - Jazz on the Left Bank no time to eat in today's lunch break... but I did find this
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Great albums from the classic jazz and Dixieland revival (1939 onwards)
Niko replied to Rabshakeh's topic in Recommendations
since you're a "one album per artist" man, I stay to that convention with one exception (Kid Thomas)... generally, I've been following the pianists when exploring, Art Hodes, Don Ewell and - more recently - Earl Hines (who I left out here because he's too modern)... also spent quite a bit of time learning about this music in the past three years or so, our generation was not properly informed about it... American Music By Emile Barnes (e.g. Storyville) Marty Grosz And His Honoris Causa Jazz Band – Hooray For Bix! (Riverside) Kid Thomas And His Algiers Stompers Featuring Emile Barnes (Riverside) Billie And DeDe Pierce – Blues And Tonks From The Delta (Riverside) Don Ewell Quartet – Free 'N Easy! (Good Time Jazz) Joe Sullivan – Mr. Piano Man (Down Homes) Luckey & The Lion: Harlem Piano Solos By Luckey Roberts & Willie 'The Lion' Smith (Good Time Jazz) Barbara Lea With The Johnny Windhurst Quintets Art Hodes With Volly DeFaut – Up In Volly's Room (Delmark CD) Raymond Burke, Pinky Vidacovich – Clarinet New Orleans Style (Southland) Armand Hug and His New Orleans Dixielanders / Eddie Miller and His New Orleans Rhythm Pals (Southland, actually, the Southland Label was one of my starting points but I haven't found the perfect albums yet) Kid Thomas At Kohlman's Tavern (New Orleans) Lee Collins – A Night At The Victory Club (New Orleans) Burt Bales And Paul Lingle – They Tore My Playhouse Down... (Good Time Jazz) Revival musicians playing other music Bud Freeman Esq (Fontana) Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers (Folkways, the first track was my most played track in 2023 according to spotify)- 93 replies
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Horace Tapscott & Pan Afrikan People Arkestra - Live at IUCC 11/2678 2CD
Niko replied to jcam_44's topic in New Releases
Reading those reviews from DMG I was wondering: could it be that the info that comes with these recordings is rather minimal (i.e. lineups, composers and dates but e.g. no soloists) -
Yes, i'd understood that after some research... I also like the new Lage album, it might become one of my favorites by him, but "no rough edges, no clinkers" seemed fair nevertheless...
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Thought you were talking about the new Julian Lage album
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What is Your Favorite Tommy Flanagan Trumpet Quartet Record?
Niko replied to Stevie Mclean's topic in Artists
Team Harden here... -
Herbie Mann - Cherry Point interesting how this cover corresponds to the James Newton cover above it
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Humphrey Lyttelton And His Band – Jazz At The Royal Festival Hall BillF's first jazz album purchase iirc (not this copy though, I have some of his CDs but I guess the LP collection went earlier)
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Read Rosenthal's book a bit later in the early or mid 2000s and had the same reaction, it was totally ok but also not great - in sharp contrast to Gioia's much better book which I had read slightly earlier ... Wonder how I would like it upon rereading... Expectations are more realistic now but I guess my need for a generic book about hard bop is even less than it was then...
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NJA has done some reissues (like Herman Schonderwalt's The Winner) but I somehow doubt the Dex which is relatively widely available (on LP) is their thing... In my post from November 1 above, I collected some names I could find in old newspapers (including "more Dexter")... one not mentioned there (and also not in the same concert series) is Freddie Redd who apparently played a solo concert there in the late 60s.... that one's near the top of my wish list
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to add a few things: first, it's coming out on March 29. second, here is a combined list of performers... for the last three tracks, the lineup is found on Noal Cohen's site. For the 1969 gig, that leaves Ruud Jacobs (b), Han Bennink (dr), Steve Boston (cga) and possibly again Slinger on piano... Date: June 3, 1970 Location: Club Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Label: [radio broadcast] Clifford Jordan live in Amsterdam Clifford Jordan (ldr), Clifford Jordan (ts), Cees Slinger (p), Jaques Schols (b), Martin van Duynhoven (d) a. Girl, You Got a Home(Cecil Payne) - 11:06 b. The Girl from Ipanema(Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel) - 11:32 c. I Can't Get Started(Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) - 7:36
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The second album in the series, Clifford Jordan - Beyond Paradiso with recordings from 1969/1970 will come out in the coming weeks it seems....
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RIP, missing him.
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What live music are you going to see tonight?
Niko replied to mikeweil's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
Just to avoid embarrassment tonight, it's "das Palast-Orchester" not "der Palast-Orchester" (Palast = Palace is male but Orchester is neutral and in such a combined noun the last word determines the gender ) -
I'd add Hiroshi Murakami to that group, he often replaced or augmented Togashi... Also, Don Patterson + Billy James
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I really like this one...
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Germans as well, and I am sure more European countries... there is no real christmas without watching at least two or three of those Lindgren movies... I only made the connection between Riedel and Johansen the jazz musicians and Riedel and Johansen as names in the credits of those movies a decade ago or so...
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I think Don Was is doing a great job with Blue Note. He has a small roster of amazing young artists whose music is much closer to the spirit of the original BN than a lot of what happened under the label's name in the 80s, 90s and 00s. Plus, with the Tone Poets he found a way of marketing the magic of the classical BN albums to another generation of buyers. I am not in the market for highend vinyl reissues either. Yet the population of elderly cd buyers who've been into BN since the 90s or longer has really had ample opportunity to collect whatever classics they needed on the label. So, unless you dig deeper and deeper into the vaults, there really isn't much Don Was can offer to this demographic. And, afaik, whenever there was an interesting vault reissue by BN (like the recent Lee Morgan set for instance), cd buyers were not forgotten.
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RIP his soundtracks for the movies about Emil from Lonneberga are formative memories...
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Freddie Redd - Everybody Loves A Winner
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Loads of admiration here for people who really master three or four languages... For me Dutch as a third language has completely overwritten the little French I had, at least when it comes to speaking, and I also notice how my English, the second language, is constantly messing up the Dutch - a bit like the Romanian that occasionally shines through in your english... And these phrases where words don't have their usual meaning... Die sind schon ein Brett
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Reminds me to spin this one again, one of my most played "recent" albums actually... With Houben's son Greg playing the Chet-inspired trumpet.... Since uncle Jacques Pelzer was already playing this type of music, the album is kind of a celebration of three generations in the family business (and the two also made a cute but silly promo video that's on YouTube)
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The former German taxpayer in me thinks that it's pretty outrageous that WDR apparently has some employee answer pretty much all the YouTube comments (as can be seen under those videos)... It's not as if this was promotion for some underlying physical product or so... There's no product and they're a public institution (largest broadcasting entity in Europe after only the BBC). So from that perspective I am relieved that, at least, they seem to be relying on relatively cheap labor for this task, some poor soul who has to reply to hundreds of YouTube comments day in day out... What can you expect...
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that's autocorrect for CD