Niko

Indian's Week certainly is a nice one!

let me bump this thread in connection with the Byas Mosaic having come out... I am still wondering about the mystery altoist who is identified as "Kirk" Bradford in the Mosaic liner notes (it should be "Kirt" since his real name is "Kirtland", almost certainly named after US senator Kirtland I Perky). So far, there were only two tracks available, Rose Room on the Caete LP and "Let's Go" here... and based on those two tracks, my tentative guess (not written above and not well-substantiated) was that the altoists on the two tracks may well be two different people (with Bradford a more likely candidate on Rose Room than on Let's Go). Now in the Mosaic there are three sessions and quite a few more tracks... I am wondering what others think... do you hear a single altoist in those three sessions?

That looks indeed as if it fills a gap in the book market we'd discussed before...

I'm not a native speaker but to me "not for sale in the US" just means you can't walk into the Tower Records on Times Square (or some other American icon) and hope to score a copy... Also, maybe better not resell it in the US. It doesn't say "not for sale to the US".

This one also has two organs that help balance the three guitars Best cover in the three guitars genre? Escoudé has various other albums that fit the bill... Here the guitar trio is extended by two more guest guitarists plus accordeon...

Same here, I've been playing and enjoying this one quite a bit

Syzygys – The Complete Studio Recordings I used to play this one a lot when Tzadik was on Spotify a decade or so ago ... when Tzadik came back recently, I tried several times to find it but just couldn't remember the names of the artists or anything (plus I misremembered the color of the cover) ... now resdicovered due the Tzadik posts on the Free Jazz Blog

Yeah, that Jazztone album seems to have quite a few different colors (as seen already e.g. on Discogs). I guess PJC is more interesting for stuff that always costs at least 30€ or so... But with things that would normally cost like 5-8, it's weird to see them for 20-30... (Their webpage is great if you want to feel good about the value of your collection though...) That said, I guess these days I am spoiled from having good and frequent access to all the Amsterdam stores ...

Back from Paris... Superfly Records near Centre Pompidou was by far the most productive visit (20€ for everything in the picture except the 10in which is from Dame Blanche), Dame Blanche is a nice shop and I could have found more under different circumstances... Paris Jazz Corner is a beautiful place but with a pricing rule that seems to be "Discogs + 15" or so I may not be the ideal client

An awesome list... If I can add one more: Masabumi Kikuchi - Hanamichi (if you can tolerate some singing along a la Jarrett)

This is a really good collection!

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?