Niko

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from michael fitzgerald's list of tolliver's leader dates... http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/Tol...Charles-ldr.htm Date: November 1977 Location: Paris, France Label: Baystate Charles Tolliver (ldr), Charles Tolliver (t), Nathen Page (g), Steve Novosel (b), Alvin Queen (d) a. a-01 Earl's World - 13:10 (Charles Tolliver) b. a-02 Impact - 5:33 (Charles Tolliver) c. b-01 Compassion - 10:50 (Charles Tolliver) d. b-02 Truth - 9:42 (Charles Tolliver) All titles on: Strata-East LP 12": SES 8001 — Compassion (1980) fine album!

i find it hard to say what to make of the first article i posted... naively, to me it reads as if the guy overdoes it with contradicting everything in russell's book; makes me feel like the truth is somewhere in the middle between the article and russell... but then this may be a bias i have built up since i've known the book for so long....

and these two texts do not substitute the 48 page booklet, but still... http://jazzinchicago.org/educates/journal/...-dean-benedetti http://jazzinchicago.org/educates/journal/...-charlie-parker btw, what really surprised me was this bit from the first article "Benedetti recorded Bird early in 1947 during a two week engagement at the Hi-De-Ho Club. In 1948, like so many other musicians, Dean (and Knepper) headed to New York and lived a desperate hand-to-mouth existence. While in New York, Dean recorded Parker on March 31, 1948, and on July 7, 10, 11, 1948. That is the extent of the archive. He did not follow Bird around the country. " Benedetti recorded Parker only on like 5 nights? (assuming that most of the Benedetti tapes are not lost) this isn't any more obsessive than most of us here... just ahead of his time i'd say...

related question... what is this? http://www.jazzbeat.com/html/Dizzyreece.html

just listened to these one minute sound samples of messiaen playing his organ works... http://www.amazon.de/Orgelwerke/dp/B000002...380&s=music WOW, thanks for the hint!

Now we're getting somewhere. This means the elephant is superior to the giraffe. I figured they were more or less equal (long neck offsets long nose). i am inbetween (27%) and will be a Rhino...

two more amazon.de orders, if these things actually arrive they might fit into the great finds thread Jazz in Paris "From Belgium with Love" 5 CD set, already have two, but still at 8 euro a pretty good buy Joe Henderson Complete Milestone Years 8 CD set for 15 euro

filled some gaps in my jazz in paris collection at a local sale Donald Byrd - Parisian Thoroughfare Django Rheinhardt - Nuits de Saint Germain des-Prés Toots Thielemans - Blues pour Flirter Barney Wilen - Jazz Sur Seine (decided to buy this one again and not try to get it back from my friend who had my copy for four years now) Clarinettes à Saint Germain des-Prés (playing this one right now, was a bit hesitant, don't really know why, fearing something "too old-fashioned" or these medium sized ensembles which i somewhat dislike on many of these 50s Paris recordings; glad i bought it, very nice, swinging music, don't know much about clarinet players (although this is "my" instrument actually) this is a twofer of two complete LPs one by Hubert Rostaing with Martial Solal, some larger ensembles but mostly just clarinet with vibes (Michel Hausser) and rhythm, one by Maurice Meunier, this one is quartet or quintet (with William Boucaya on baritone) and Rene Urtreger or Raymond Fol on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass... very much recommended!) plus a great cheap find from ebay which arrived yesterday, more Paris recordings Mal Waldron/Marion Brown - Much More

happy birthday!

this is the guy pictures taken from his nicely done posthumous (?) homepage http://www.siegfriedkessler.com

apparently there is the beginning of a new line of reissues in the cheapo "jazz club" series from german universal, apparently one with complete albums and (almost) the original cover art, at least two such cds are announced for mid october, don ellis mps album "soaring" and Mark Murphy's A singin' swingin' affair not really more information, but i got this from here http://www.jazzecho.de/jazz_club_114603.jsp

just wanted to post the link again edit to add: neither link works anymore, but the interview and track is still found here http://www.dizzyreece.com/ scroll down a bit to the february 13 2005 post... guess it's still track 14

well i didn't say "am i blue" is a better record than "blue train"... i just said to me blue train doesn't quite live up to what you read about it, haven't played it in a while though... concerning idle moments, i do hear a certain "laid-back perfection" in it which i guess is related to what people rave about, i like it but i reach for am i blue more often (my favorite grant green blue note is feelin' the spirit btw)

each for 4 euro plus shipping on amazon.de... hope they will actually arrive Freddie Roach - Brown Sugar The rockin' tenor saxophone of eddie chamblee

once at the cologne opera house we heard some guy apparently singing along with the music... turned out a few days later it was a friend's friend's dad who was having a heart attack

played am i blue a lot a few months ago and for me it was just what i wanted to hear much more often than not... of course it does not suit all situations equally well, but this is (though maybe often to a lesser degree) true for pretty much any record... i like it! one that i do find overrated is blue train... and while i like johnny griffin's blue note quartet albums i don't think they hold up against the argo and riverside quartet albums...

iirc i saw johnston's name more than once on recent cds... for now all i can add is that he's on one trackj of daniel jackson's cd "life is but a dream" http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel3 (fine cd though i wouldn't get it just for four minutes of johnston's drumming (in a trio with jackson on tenor and art hillary on organ)) a similar surprise (at least for me) recently was this dan fogel cd on cdbaby which has billy james on drums http://cdbaby.com/cd/fogel3 some more surprising names on this one http://cdbaby.com/cd/clarence including johnston and horace tapscott veterans ed pleasant and ike williams...

funny i never would have guessed that actress to be alive... this speaks very much in favor of the films naturalistic qualities i'd say

just in case other fanatics are around, just ordered the (youth) autobiography of the son of Fruscella's last girlfrined artist stella waitzkin fred waitzkin - the last marlin http://www.amazon.com/Last-Marlin-Story-Fa...6920&sr=8-3 the book has only 10 pages about fruscella, but then it is cheaply available and offers a rare glimpse at tony in the mid-sixites (he doesn't come across too charming, personally i find the part about killing a cat horrible and the thing with robbing a church amusing, non-vegetarians may see this differently, no offense intended) (actually the book doesn't look too bad, haven't read the rest yet, very well-written... it's mostly about fishing though...)

sorry, looks plausible, don't know what i saw there... welcome!

first time this thread appeared i thought it was ok because of the nice photos the one thing i have a problem with is that he deleted his original thread and posted it again the next day... would have been ok with me with new pictures though

first time i see bill green on a list that doesn't contain buddy collette

haven't heard them yet, just saw, zenon has several hours of free live mp3s on his webpage http://www.miguelzenon.com/live.htm

what's that thing in your pocket?