Niko

I'd be tempted to say yes but maybe you can stream a few tracks first... it's interesting for the jazz reception in Europe (did you see the letter from the Johnson band's manager I posted over there?), for understanding the swing to bop transition... and it's just a nice group to listen to imho.... (and to connect back to Byas, Johnson is also one of the candidates for the alto solos in the Rosenkrantz archive... which seem to be all assigned to Kirtland Bradford in the Mosaic discography... but I think there's more than one alto player from what I heard)

I've played "Those Barcelona Days" quite a bit a few weeks ago... historically super interesting, musically about half the Byas tracks are ok and the others not so much... those George Johnson tracks on the CD are the highlight imho, much better than the Byas ones because they show a great working band playing their working repertoire... and Johnson is a fine alto player who's not overdocumented... (I wrote a bit more about this here in German, in contrast to what I write there, the tenor soloist on the Johnson tracks is clearly one Jimmy Adams [from Philadelphia according to Downbeat, that's all I know])

Just apologize for bothering them and tell them you'll find a way to sort out the issue without their assistance... I'm sure they'll be happy to hear that ... At least, that's the case for the employee in charge of answering annoying emails

Admittedly bought this mostly for the cover but there's not much wrong with the music either

Also ordered that Lover Man CD recently.... surprisingly, despite the ugly cover, it's by far the most reasonable way to acquire some prime Don Byas sessions, including some w Martial Solal... Somehow the later Vogue Reissue series forgot most of this music... I bought quite a bit of Byas in the past few months but the rest will be in the Mosaic...

First to come to mind are two late Rene Urtreger albums, Onirica and Tentatives... The latter is what I mostly play when I'm a solo piano mood (which doesn't happen too often)

I am driving down that skyline several times per week right now (the problem of finding daycare in Amsterdam...), it's beautiful and the Bimhuis looks beautiful right in it's middle... But the photos from inside the old Bimhuis also give the impression of a nice location indeed... And yes, depending on what was recorded this could become an incredible reissue series Regarding Waldron, there was apparently a trio gig but also one where the limited information suggested Tolliver/Jordan/Waldron in the same band... Which is hard to beat on paper.

As a side note, many of those legendary sites in jazz history look like nothing special at best if you're unaware of their historical significance (first one to come to mind is the Bohemia Jazz Club here in Amsterdam which is nowadays a hair salon). But the Paradiso is actually quite an impressive and sturdy building

added some more names... I'm hoping for JR Monterose, there was a quartet with Wim Overgaauw that was supposedly really good w Overgaauw channelling Sonny Sherrock... or a duet w Han Bennink... there was also a Ben Webster concert with great solo work by Bennink the paper said...

I looked a bit for jazz concerts at Paradiso in 1968-70 in the old newspapers... Hans Dulfer's own music may not be your favorite, but if you look at the bands he got to play at the Paradiso you'll have to admit that any jazz fan should have found something in there... it's not all free jazz. I have no clue whatsoever what was recorded but the list of names I came up with is this: Phil Woods, Dexter Gordon (some released but not all I think), Ben Webster, Hal Singer, J.R. Monterose (one gig released but there were several more), Philly Joe Jones, Lucky Thompson, Clifford Jordan (more than once), Mal Waldron, Charles Tolliver (more than once), Rene Thomas (w JR Monterose), Harold Land / Bobby Hutcherson, Frank Wright, Noah Howard, Junior Cook, Freddie Hubbard, Paul Bley, Sun Ra, Corea/Braxton/Holland/Altschul ... and more, plus many Dutch / European groups

Here's one more track in addition to what's in the Lord discography

Chet is Back has Amedeo Tommasi on piano (who also contributed his own composition Ballata in forma di blues)... fwiw, Mussolini mostly recorded as a leader. Here he can be seen with Baker and Lars Gullin:

Thanks! La Dame Blanche i'd indeed forgotten about ... Crocojazz was great while it lasted... I've been wondering/hoping that the regular Crocodisc store in the same area might have taken over some of the stock/role... PJC I've never visited so that's definitely on the list of possibilities as well even though prices must be high (judging from their online prices)

Sorry, I cannot help with any of those... but I have a question myself: Paris? I won't have a lot of time, just two hours or so some Wednesday afternoon around the city center... where would I go for used LPs? (not necessarily the high-end stuff, always happy to find, say, a Ruby Braff, Don Ewell or Bud Freeman album I don't own yet) or for CDs?

Curious about the Lund album... I didn't like Terrible Animals that much but apparently Melissa Aldiana liked it so much she got Lund/Fortner to play on her own 2022 album to recreate the sound... And that album I like a lot, one of my most played recent jazz albums....

1970... it's a crazy lineup w Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Howard McGhee, Lee Konitz and many Chicago musicians https://www.discogs.com/release/4811344-Various-Charlie-Parker-Memorial-Concert

Paul Ruys - Lover Come Swing With Me what catches your attention about this album from 1966 are either her weird shoes or that surprisingly modern shirt, or the name "Han Bennink" - or, at least it was like this for me

Also, especially that "Mild Davis" joke is much funnier when you're in the mood than when you're not...

my wild guess (based on reading her name here and there) would be that this program is what they play at a street corner just like the one on the cover, hoping for tourists to give them some cash, maybe even in exchange for the CD...

It's a fine book but the focus is more the societal background - as a guide to the most essential albums its not terribly helpful... there was more discussion of this book in another thread

Jazz Intersession is also good, I believe Rooster Ties posted about it some more at some point, never found a copy I wanted to afford though...

Masao Yagi plays Monk and The Ginparis Compilation are the first two that come to my mind... and those joint Sadao Watanabe / Charlie Mariano records... Bossa Nova in Japan was clearly the domain of Watanabe it seems, quite a few albums there...

yes

Attempts at professionalization in those old professions usually go together with a downgrading of the importance of attitude... of course, attitude is not everything, music is not nothing... but once you forget about attitude, you've most likely lost the essence

Trying to take all those different references across albums together, my hunch is that Zorn's chosen role is that of the wizard/illusionist, a profession that has spent centuries improvising ad hoc over wisdoms that look ancient to the untrained eye... personally, I am fairly relaxed and say: great, now let's hear the music... maybe it helps that I am not particularly close to any of the traditions that are being exploited here (except for those weird moments a few times every year when I morph back into a practising mathematician... but those moments feel 200% unrelated to anything JZ might possibly do, except for the attitude, maybe... and maybe attitude is everything)