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Does the Mahavishnu have the remastered/bonus cut versions of the first two albums? In general, does this set have the best versions of the albums, or just straight reissues? tracklists: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Cla...7594&sr=8-2

the first frank strozier album on the Jazzland Twofer? (! imho)

welcome unbelievable if that works ! (can't they try to, say, remember ip addresses?) (no idea of technical stuff on my side)

no evans expert here, but if i got this right one (amazon.de) is single cd live at ronnie scott's on the dreyfus label while the other is a box set live at the village vanguard... Yes, you're right. Looking more closely, I see that the £1,006 item is a 6CD set, which I suppose goes some way to explain, though not justify, the price asked! Still a tad beyond my range, though! someone should grab that 55 Euro copy however while it's there...

excited to have found this and it's not really worth a thread of its own... especially as many will already know this... if you search for something on amazon.com the search results include books that mention the search word, like a search for "Tony fruscella" yields http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_seeall_1...Ci%3Astripbooks mostly the famous kerouac quote but still a nice way to get some information together....

no evans expert here, but if i got this right one (amazon.de) is single cd live at ronnie scott's on the dreyfus label while the other is a box set live at the village vanguard...

this one? http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/198...ordings-CD.html or to make the point, if the item offered there for 55 Euro is really that thing: these extremely high prices for cds seem to be aimed at buyers who don't compare prices... compare: http://www.amazon.de/Enfin-Lou-Bennett/dp/...3476&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Enfin-Lou-Bennett/dp...3506&sr=8-1 lou bennett enfin for 200 Euro vs 84 $ on amazon.de and amazon.com marketplace (got my copy half a year ago at ebay.de for a 10 Euro buy it now price...) edit: or ist the turn out the stars cd this one? (16 Euro, 26 for new) http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B000...3814&sr=8-1

think this is my favorite of the strozier albums i've heard (followed closely by the riverside 2fer and then fantastic fs) don't miss it!

these arrived already yesterday but didn't have time to test them until now (and even now it's only 10 minutes ) Johnny Hammond Smith - Black Coffee Lucky Thompson - Modern Jazz Group

The best Italian Jazz Musician i ever saw live was definitively Rita Marcotulli with Dewey Redman in 1999

Lou Blackburn recorded more with the group Mombasa which he led, don't kknow if that's against the rules (btw i just saw it seems a second Mombasa Lp has been reissued: http://www.grooveattack.com/b2b/u_content....p;name=Sonorama

funny i had been thinking about these records too these days... when i was an exchange student in San Diego in 1996 i went to the publich workshop Daniel Jackson, the Four Souls' saxophone player, gave there once a week... in a sense i didn't learn much, even at my "peak" two or three years later i couldn't play a meaningful solo over All the Things You Are, but still, this workshop was easily among the best things that happened to me then or later and i will always be grateful for the great time i had there (not to forget that he didn't send me away ) last week i discovered that by now Jackson has for albums up on CDbaby, on of which i have already ordered but it's not yet there, the sound samples i liked a lot... http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel1 http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel2 http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel3 http://cdbaby.com/cd/jacksondaniel4 btw, he also appears as a sideman on some other records on cdbaby Chuck McPherson's Wisdom and Jason Jackson's Going Home... i guess i will make a discography some time in the near future... of Jackson's "classic" recordings with the Four Souls afaik nothing (except for a track on some compilation) has been reissued, two of his composition however appeared on James Clay's Double Dose of Soul and have been reissued... maybe he'd have gotten an album in the Cannonball Adderley Presents series on Riverside if that had continued... he has two homepages, none of which is particularly informative http://www.danieljacksonmusic.com/ (check out the nice photo of the froebel brigham group´that recorded for savoy featuring Harold Land (and Daniel Jackson's brother Fred Jackson) in the gallery section) and http://www.learningtreats.net/DanielJackson.htm there are also two extensive interviews online http://musicandculture.blogspot.com/2007/1...diego-jazz.html (with a focus on Jazz in San Diego, Harold Land...) and... (unfortunately the second one is not online anymore only this brief excerpt, hope i saved it somewhere http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20..._mz1a27ray.html there is also a clip on youtube featuring him live with singer songwriter Chuck Perrin hope its length doesn't make this post off topic...

voted for Lucky Thompson...

I've got this one. Came with the book (just about every paperback copy I've seen has had this enclosed at the back). Some very interesting things on their, not least Kenny Dorham singing on one track. thank you! (and just for the record: Jaki Byard doesn't seem to be featured on the cd; and it his encouraging to see even a native speaker confuse "there" and "their" when writing)

here is more info: 1 Intro from Randi 2 Jeepers Creepers - Sonny Clark (1954) 3 Comment from Randi 4 Jam - Basie Musicians - Ernie Wilkins, Joe Newman, Eddie Jones, Freddy Green, Plus Anthony Ortega, Tor Hultin (1954) 5 Comment from Randi 6 Interview - Ernie Wilkins (1974) 7 Comment from Randi 8 Solo from Bjarne Nerem - Basie Jam (1956) 9 Comment from Randi 10 Stuff Smith (1956) 11 Comment from Randi 12 Zoot Sims, Einar Iverson, Roy Burns, Knut Ljung, Mikkel Flagstad 13 Comment from Randi 14 Hampton Hawes (1967) 15 Comment from Randi 16 Interview - Bill Evans 17 Comment from Randi 18 Phil Woods (1968) 19 Comment from Randi 20 Randi's Rag for Eubie - Morten Gunnar Larsen 21 Comment from Randi 22 Fairweather - Kenny Dorham 23 Comment from Randi 24 Kors I Taket - Jan Johansson (comp: Osten Hedenbratt) 25 Comment from Randi 26 Tenderly - Reinhold Svensson 27 Comment from Randi 28 Jan Johansson

does anyone have more info on what's on the cd than this bit here: Randi Hultin: Born Under the Sign of Jazz (London, Sanctuary Publishing Ltd, 1998, 399 p. + CD, ill., hb, autobiographical account by Norway's first lady in jazz; CD features unreleased material by Sonny Clark, Zoot Sims, Jaki Byard, Hampton Hawes, Stuff Smith, Phil Woods, Kenny Dorham, recorded at Hultin’s home

trying to find out i stumbled across this odd article (peculiarly self-centered but then it is 11 pages on KD) http://ecommons.txstate.edu/cgi/viewconten...mp;context=jtmh Dave Oliphant. Kenny Dorham & Leo Wright: Texas Bebop Messengers to the World, Journal of Texas Music History 2001 footnote 21: someone with a credit card should get the book for 55 cent: http://www.amazon.com/Born-Under-Sign-Jazz...1449&sr=8-1 (don't think all editions have the cd but this one apparently has)

had to really use my english for the first time in quite some time last year when i was in England for a few days... in many respects my English is as good as i could wish (especially given that i have never been able to learn any other foreign language to a half-decent degree) but still buying a bus ticket wasn't as easy as it should have been and more than once i found myself ordering food that was easy to order to avoid complications (if you ask me there isn't an "o" sound in "color" either?)

Oh...change the subject eh? Well, I did say I was done on the other subject.... welcome then!

i don't think i know aaj (in fact i didn't even read most of this thread...) my point was rather, if i want the info i can get it elsewhere, you're invited to disagree; besides that one of your posts was a relatively direct personal attack on Chris A (imho and given that with my bad english i maybe didn't quite get it) not censorship in my book to complain about that (and i was half joking)

another refugee? (kinda reminds me of how Gandalf and the dwarves approach Beorn... only very gradually it becomes apparent that the whole board with all its issues is swapping over) Nope, someone who lurks here and there, and sees the problem as being more complex than either clave-bashing OR AAJ bashing. My only issue is one of looking for balance. what balance? if i want to know what aaj is like i lurk overthere (i sometimes do)... we don't need an accurate picture of aaj in this thread (especially since you guys are giving each other a hard time these days) (just my opinion) (i mean just from the fact that there are "refugees" one could infer that there was some dispute over there and that their opinions probably wouldn't give a complete description of feelings involved... thanks anyway, maybe i was a bit harsh)

Funny, that's what AAJ said about you. Moderators, where are you this guy is only here to insult us

thank you! (besides that: don't think i will need those links) (is this really the next batch of Keepnews reissues ? some new strategy?) (it says "Fantasy" on the cduniverse page...?)

another refugee? (kinda reminds me of how Gandalf and the dwarves approach Beorn... only very gradually it becomes apparent that the whole board with all its issues is swapping over)

Yes, Kaloum Star is the real stuff. It was the main Federal band for Conakry, the capital of Guinea Conakry. The band recorded first for Syliphone records in 1973. Made several singles which appeared on compilation LPs. I have one of their singles, "Maliba" on the "Discotheque '74" CD. It was one of only five of the Mandinke big bands to survive the death in 1983 of Sekou Toure (Guinean president), who had used these bands to foster a climate of opinion in which the Mandinke maintained a hegemony over the other tribes in Guinea. I don't have that album "Felenko". If you like that band, you'll probably enjoy most of the other Mandinke big bands of the era. The big names are: Bembeya Jazz National (later Bembeya Jazz) Orchestre de la Pailote (later Keletigui et ses Tambourins) Orchestre du Jardin de Guinee (later Balla et ses Balladins) The Horoya Band Camayenne Sofa (later Camayenne Sofa International) Syli Authentic Les Amazones de Guinee All of these bands recorded for Syliphone, which was the Government record company. They were generally paid by the Government, too, and expected to promote the Party (PDG), which they did. In Germany, I imagine it might not be impossible to find original Syliphone LPs. They are VERY sought after by collectors. Quite a few have been reissued on CD - one or two in Germany on the Popular African Music label. Syliphone records aren't sought after for their Deep Grooves but because the music was THE most innovative and the best that was being done anywhere in Africa at that time. Anything of anyone (with the exception of Mirim Makeba) on Syliphone is worth buying, whether it's a big band or a solo singer or whatever. Here's a Syliphone discography. Graeme Counsel, the author, is doing a good deal of work with Sterns lately getting this stuff reissued (on compilations, unfortunately - no equivalents of OJC ). http://www.radioafrica.com.au/Discographies/Syliphone.html The Government of Mali also sponsored big bands. The best known Mandinke big band from Mali is Rail band. An offshoot, in Cote d'Ivoire, was les Ambassadeurs. But there are Bambara big bands that are just as good - Super Biton de Segou and Kene Star Sikasso are two I play a fair bit. The main label for this material, and it's small compared with Syliphone because the Malian Government doesn't seem to have had the same kind of agenda as Sekou Toure, is Mali Kunkan. Here's Graeme's discography of that label. http://www.radioafrica.com.au/Discographies/Kunkan.html MG wow thank you so much, this is the priceless answer i had hoped for! will do some exploring in the near future! (that kaloum star record i got when we still had a world music shop in town, i just said what i wanted and they had it in stock... but the internet has its advantages, too..)