Niko

good call, i just watched like a minute of it and thought it was a bit weird, but then again, that's also what I would expect by now https://www.beboptv.com/

the same website had some earlier articles on the topic that I thought were a bit more accessible... my main takeaway was that in order to buy and dismantle JazzTimes, the Royals needed to buy an entire ecosystem of niche magazines and websites... Plane & Pilot they managed to sell to new owners, with others, all concerned parties were less lucky... here is another more accessible article, this time from the perspective of the founder of the "Women Create" magazine (which was also sold on to a compassionate buyer after a few months of chaos)...

Blues Groove a Dutch Fontana compilation of Pacific Jazz material...

interesting... so this is the 15 volume series "Jazz West Coast" that contains the five volumes called "Jazz West Coast Vol. X"

For Bennink I was specifically thinking of this here https://www.discogs.com/release/3377971-The-Stork-Town-Dixie-Kids-The-Stork-Town-Dixie-Kids recorded in the summer of 1967 and thus remarkably late.... For Mangelsdorff I was also thinking of something like this https://www.discogs.com/master/1028857-Two-Beat-Stompers-Thats-Dixieland What I find remarkable is that Mangelsdorff and his circle (like Joki Freund) really recorded in three quite separate genres in the 50s, Dixieland, Swing (with his brother, Albert M sometimes on guitar) and Cool (e.g. with Hans Koller) This also looks interesting, Mangelsdorff again on guitar https://www.discogs.com/master/2884543-Benno-Walldorf-Blues-Combo-Wailin-The-Blues I don't know all this music I should say...

That fairly busy electric bass sounds indeed funny in that setting... I also like those 50s recordings of progressive Dixieland from that Freshsound Twofer... Music from back when at least some people believed that the great unification of music in third stream would not just encompass classical and modern jazz but also dixieland (and obviously that's very different music than Novy Tradicional)

a distant cousin of this genre classic

Amateur dixieland bands are one thing i wouldn't blame the Nazis for - at least, they existed in many European countries as well as in Australia, the US etc... And, for instance, in the Netherlands people clearly had exposure to swing e.g. via Coleman Hawkins who spent quite some here in the 50s... And still, young aircraft engineers and the like founded the Dutch Swing College... Or, in the US you have the ivy league dixieland scene etc etc And I guess it's also fairly common that part of the first generation of free jazz musicians didn't come from the professional modern jazz scene of the 50s and early 60s... There are some nice interviews from the Dutch scène who Bennink had to choose between the proper musicians who wore suits and appeared on tv (like the Jacobs brothers) and other scenes like the Dixieland and the Free Jazz Scene

Albert Mangelsdorff's discography has quite a few entries like that (but also swing and cool jazz) similar for Han Bennink who recorded with Dixieland bands well into the late 60s... I think it's really quite common Here, Track B4 has the combination of Schoof and Jaki Liebezeit playing Taps Miller in 1959 (and there are more names that became famous later on across those lineups, Süverkrüp, Olaf Kübler, Jack van Poll...)

Teis Semey - Midnight Mess Vol 1 a very fresh release from one of the young guitar wonders of the Dutch scene, a unique lineup with four female singers (wordless vocals + some Danish chorals), organ (Kit Downes) and the leader on acoustic guitar... there will never be a lofi indie version of Astrud Gilberto meets Ralph Towner but this here may well be the next best thing

so you didn't know about Dave Brubeck and Take Five?

I was thinking the same... but what can you do...

That discography looks pretty good to me.... Down Home Reunion by the Young Men from Memphis seems to be missing and it's interesting, don't know anymore how much he contributes though

Yes, indeed!

I guess it's kind of obvious but when I was in a similar situation recently, I googled Buchbinder Buchrestaurator and the name of the city (boekbinder boekrestaurator, actually) and identified a person who seemed to be up for the task... Not a cheap solution but it also diminshes the risk of further damages when reading etc

looks like they called secret service to get the artists' names as given in their passports

this is my copy, don't know what the yellow vs blue labels mean... the sleeve seems at least partly selfmade, i.e., the red insert in the middle looks rather selfmade... but the words Zopot, Muza, Live as well as the album's catalogue number seem to be printed at least - so the design seems generic (even though I haven't seen it elsewhere) but the sleeve itself isn't... a previous owner wrote his name and "1959" on the sleeve, suggesting an early issue...

Yes, i really didn't know what I was buying but did read up on them yesterday evening ... A very long lived band even though Robin "Bob" Hodes was its leader only for a relatively short time... https://syncopatedtimes.com/the-red-onion-jazz-band-a-hot-time-in-new-york-city/ From the same stack of 10in albums, mine has a different cover that may or may not be selfmade... A 1957 live recording from Poland, the first concert by west German Jazz bands since the war... I got this for the band on the b side which has a Frontline if Emil and Albert Mangelsdorff as well as Joki Freund ... Or so i thought... Turned out that for this part of the concert Emil switched to clarinet, Joki to piano and Albert to rhythm guitar for three tracks a la Benny Goodman...

Bob Hodes & the Red Onion Jazz Band lunch break find, an original RIverside 10in LP in excellent condition for 3Euro... guess it helps that it's dixieland and that even the biggest name in the group, Joe Muranyi, is not that big...

Afaik not in his own lifetime though - which i guess is what counted the most for himself

Sonny Cox

Also spent quite a bit of time in Amsterdam record stores this week, favorite finds include Buddy's Best by Buddy Collette, On the Waterfront with Burt Bales and two Red Callender albums (Speaks Low and The Lowest)...

Al Beldini is how I read the story

Simply the best?

people with memory's like that... around the birth of our daughter, when the midwife came to our apartment, she looked around, identified some jazz related items and said something like "it's a pity you didn't live here in 1980s, I saw Chet Baker every few months back then..." George Bohanon Quartet – Boss:Bossa Nova it's a quintet actually, Joe Messina (g), Kirk Lightsey (p), Cecil McBee (b) and George Goldsmith (dr), maybe some additional percussion on some tracks...