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    Gil Evans & Ten

    The original liner notes speak about "grand old veteran Jo Jones" so if there is an error, it must have happened internally at Prestige back in the day...
  2. Ah, I'd forgotten he was behind "I remember bebop" as well ... That 10in LP is indeed one of those sessions, with Milt Jackson, Al Cohn, JJ Johnson.... There's a track where Milt Jackson sings that's been missing on most later reissues (and I can kind of see why)
  3. I am pretty sure I read somewhere that they were married.... Will try to remember where... maybe I just remembered what I considered most plausible
  4. I don't know the book so don't know what's in it.... I recently stumbled upon this webpage which has among others "An Annotated Tentative Personnelo - Discography" of Henderson's bands in several volumes... https://www.harlem-fuss.com/bands.html
  5. yes, I love that cover, too... it was one of those moments that make you love record stores, you walk in and then right by the door is this beautiful record you've never even heard of, with a lineup composed from some of your favorite scenes (Belgium: Quersin, Netherlands: Ilcken, didn't record much, France: Solal, Bay Area: Dickie Mills...) in half-decent condition for a really nice price... I actually had another experience like that recently, quite a similar record, in a way... playing that now
  6. Jazz on the Left Bank a recent lunchtime find, Martial Solal is by far the biggest name in the group, it's nice cool jazz album... 20 years later the same designer would make the cover art for Keith Jarrett's Birth
  7. never even heard of him - I started following jazz only in the second half of the 1990s when his and Klatt's stars had almost faded ... and then left Germany before his comeback...
  8. Iirc this is not one of my two Extra Ball albums but yes, they were a really good band
  9. Klatt is pretty much forgotten even home in Germany, I discovered him by accident a few years ago and have really liked everything I heard, I have four of his albums by now and some more sideman work, one of the very few people in German jazz of the 80s and 90s that interest me... there's a nice documentary about him but even native English speakers Marty Cook and Paul Grabowsky are forced to speak German in there (which they do extremely well) edit/ps: around the 1:00 mark of the movie (not this youtube video), you can hear a frustrated Peter Wiessmueller (Enja/Tutu) present some of the Klatt records he was involved with including Elephantrombones but especially the last one, a digipack CD where Klatt insisted on a non-rectangular shape and on putting a different little artwork on every single copy...
  10. Those three LPs are favorites over here!
  11. https://jazz.fm/verve-records-announces-new-charlie-parker-album/ some more info here, Phil Baxter is apparently a Kansas city friend of Charlie Parker. According to the track list given there, the first seven tracks were recorded at Baxter's home, just alto with bass and drums, the other six are as mhatta writes above
  12. Wim Overgaauw - Blue Guitar a concept album, the concept being that all songs have the word "blue" in the title, Blues in the night, When Sunny gets blue, Blue in Green etc
  13. Revisiting an old favorite from the 1990s Label Bleu catalogue... Not sure how well it has aged, but I did get into it after a while + remembered that this is one of those albums that work better if you skip the first track
  14. Yes, indeed (even though I prefer the Sclavis Trio you played).... Back then, I also liked the Bojan Z albums like Yopla, will need to revisit, it's been a while.... (Ah, and there are also some nice Christian Escoude albums on Gitanes from that decade)
  15. That Sclavis album is a great one ... I also really like Henri Texier's series from that time (An Indian's week, for instance)...
  16. Europe is similar to America in the sense that there's a lot of heterogeneity... I live in a not-so-hip but central part of a big city and have three great vegetarian restaurants in walking distance, one of which is hardcore vegan + gluten-free... finding a restaurant that is not prepared for vegetarian customers would be a challenge but I guess it's possible... if you go to some hipster area in Berlin or so, there might be even more variety of vegan stuff, if you go to the wrong rural place in the middle of nowhere, they will think that bacon and chicken are vegetarian and still put no meal that they would consider vegetarian on the menu... to fix ideas, here's the current menu of the Bimhuis https://www.bimhuis.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/V03-BIMHUIS-EN-Menukaart-Juni-1.pdf starters are 8 to 14 Euro (which is about the same as Dollar), main courses 17 to 25, and the guiding idea is that there should be one meat, one fish and one vegetarian option available which is quite common in the Netherlands... (and I guess the Miso soup and the curry are vegan while the second vegetarian starter, the halloumi, obviously isn't). At the Bimhuis, there are, of course, no minimum thresholds, the dinner is an option you can add to the concert evening (and then you eat before the concert, in a different room). For me, a concert evening is usual a ticket plus two Orval at 21+5.50+5.50=32 Euro...
  17. and Charles WIlliams is also in it, thanks for the heads-up! forum member Joel Fass also shows up on a few shows... since this thread is up again, let me just shout once again that there's a pretty nice session with John Patton in there as well https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133113
  18. Thanks for the explanation! I followed it up with wikipedia ("In the United States, the fee averages approximately 2% of transaction value. In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards, while there is no cap for corporate cards.") and then it does make sense... Over here, when I read something like this, the subtext would be "hey, let's avoid taxes and split the difference"...
  19. I saw those items but they're labelled as "Entrees" so for me as a foreigner that sounds as if it's not a proper meal... I do agree that the prices are less outrageous than I expected from the posts above... What I do find suspect is +4% if you don't pay cash... But again, that may be cultures clashing....
  20. https://smokejazz.com/food-menu/ No vegetarian main courses it seems but you will find ways to spend your money without buying meat
  21. the reference librarian apparently also fixed the other show that seemed to be restricted, a Mickey Bass Quartet with Carter Jefferson, John Hicks and Michael Carvin... https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133112
  22. Wow thank you so much, playing it right now!!
  23. Thanks for all those tips, Dan, it's super helpful... Any idea what the problem with this entry is? https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133113 the lineup of Charles Sullivan (tp), Bill Saxton (ts, leader), John Patton (org) and Eddie Gladden (dr) sounds pretty amazing but I can't seem to play it...
  24. Ron Horton - A Prayer for Andrew an Andrew Hill tribute recorded 2016 with Frank Kimbrough at the piano and a similar sextet lineup as on Andrew Hill's Dusk (with Horton on trumpet and also Marty Ehrlich on alto) playing some Hill compositions and dedications
  25. I am just trying to wrap my head around the new Louis Cole album Nothing, featuring the Metropole Orkest... Big tent but also a very large ensemble
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