Niko

the secret tricks of those who want make sure they escape those types of lists in both 2021 and 2022... guess they can afford it

Text is in German but in between are two of those drawings https://www.melodiva.de/reports/the-art-and-life-of-jutta-hipp/ and here is one more of Horace Silver https://www.melodiva.de/reports/jutta-hipp-pianistin-poetin-und-malerin/ In there's also a photo of Hipp in the 1980s ... Can't say that I like those drawings much, think I prefer the music by far

guess in retrospect it's not too surprising that the vaccine against Covid is more like a flu shot that has to be repeated regularly than like a polio vaccine... it's not "just the flu" because it's worse, but in some other ways, it seems to behave like it's distant cousin the flu... nobody can really blame it for that... I just hope that in the medium run we can go down to yearly shots...

Mostly still drinking regular beer, but also some nonalcoholic here and there... Some of the classic Belgian breweries (Leffe, Cornet, Brugse Zot...) have started to offer nonalcoholic versions... I especially like the Affligem Blonde in the nonalcoholic version... Another nonalcoholic beer that I like quite a bit is the nonalcoholic Guiness

I guess a key piece of evidence is this album https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-cleopatra-record which features Maneri together with Hrant in an early 60s incarnation as ethnic clarinet virtuoso...

there's a Quentin Warren Solo around 7:30

Indeed, Moran didn't belong into the list... and besides ECM, ACT deserves some recognition in your trend... regarding Nick Drake, holding the original against Mehldau's version of River Man was a defining moment in my own very short career as an aspiring artist

always have to think about Mike Zwerin's MF chapter when I see the name... after half a page of talking about Frank Sinatra and Buddy Rich at the beginning of the chapter, MZ writes: "You may consider Frank Sinatra and Buddy Rich oblique leads into a chapter on Maynard Ferguson. Like Buddy, with some taste and humbleness, Maynard would have been a genius. And both of them have basically never forgiven the Creator for not creating them as Frank Sinatra."

earlier today, while cycling on an abandoned train line past the remains of a fake airport (that the nazis had built to trick the allies), my two companions (one heavily invested in toy robots, the other a connoisseur of model trains) came to the conclusion that from an investment point of view Lego is the future for the coming decades

it's excellent, you can find it on spotify I guess... Harris later recordings are only on bandcamp, no physical format... East Axis I should check out as well, right now playing this:

ordered it (from amazon.de which has a similar price)

I wasn't really intending to put Stenson in the same category, just wondering whether he deserves some of Jarrett's credit here for developing that formula for piano trio music...

Sam Harris - Interludes thinking about modern moody piano and the Andrew Hill Radiohead connection reminded me of this... one of those Freshsound productions with young artists, a quintet with two altos (doubling on other reeds), Harris is probably best known as the pianist with Ambrose Akinmusire... I rarely listen to newer jazz but this one really works for me

my thought exactly... other examples of the described style come from Scandinavia... EST was hugely popular for a while... people where trying to do stuff like this in the early 90s, and, indeed, everyone was listening to Radiohead at the time... Reflections by Bobo Stenson is an excellent album in that style from 1993... there were also those ECM trio albums of Peter Erskine with John Taylor... I find it plausible that people where aiming at a niche between Jarrett Standard Trio and Radiohead there...

interesting questions... just imagine Bird would have lived for 10 years more and ended up with a discography like Monk's, a series of nice albums for Riverside and then another series for Columbia or Impulse, maybe with a single Blue Note album like Blue Train or Something Else thrown in... would there be much of a market for something like Bird in LA, i.e., would we value early live material in dubious sound quality as much as we do (provided that we do)? Re Benedetti, I find it easy to imagine Bird not minding at all... but: I don't think Bird saw the Benedetti Mosaic coming when he allowed Benedetti to sit in a corner with his recording equipment...

must admit I was slightly disappointed in this one... but I guess it needs more time and attention... the other Iyer/Smith collaborations I know (Tabligh and the ECM Duo) got to me more quickly... as did this one which I played earlier today (same content as Touch the Earth on FMP, this is the East German edition)

oh yes, much better... I've been catching up on Wadada Leo Smith from zero recently, quite a project and I haven't decided how ambitious I want to be... after getting Sacred Ceremonies a few weeks ago, I now got the two new releases on TUM (w Iyer/DeJohnette + Chicago Symphonies), the Great Lakes 2CD, the Kabell Years box, Divine Love, Tabligh, Ten Freedom Summers, the ECM duo with Vijay Iyer and the NoBusiness Duo w Sabu Toyozumi... more to come...

he's great... when I was a kid in Cologne in the 90s, I once recognized him on the street... he wasn't used to being recognized on the street by 17 year old fans...

Kriegel and Baumeister are half the Dave Pike set from that video above, but a bit earlier... the live recordings in the bonus material of that album are quite nice actually, some of them... I guess Kriegel's best known album is the one after this one, Spectrum

just playing this for the first time on spotify, the band that would turn into the Dave Pike Set a bit later... hard to say whether there's Proto-Fusion on here... and indeed, there was Krautrock, where many people had some jazz connections (also e.g. Jaki Liebezeit who was one of the founders of Can around 1968)

oh yes

The band that comes to mind here is the Dave Pike Set... More as a plausible inspiration for Burton though than as Proto-Fusion

a recent discovery from a fairly productive designer of awful covers https://www.discogs.com/artist/1896952-Steffan-B%C3%B6hle

reading your list, I have to add Soul Stirrin by Bennie Green... also like his other BN albums a lot - an underraed bunch of albums

The number one new purchase with the biggest impact this year was Kid Thomas And His Algiers Stompers Featuring Emile Barnes from the New Orleans Living Legends series on Riverside... afterwards, I got most records in that series, and also further records by clarinetist Emile Barnes like his 1951 sessions on American Music... generally, I got a bit further into old jazz... I also started buying those great Savoy double LPs (e.g. Black California and the Changing Face of Harlem) and got my Jimmy Lunceford collection in order... a surprising winner was Bob Cooper's Michel Legrand Tribute album featuring Mike Wofford from the 80s... There were some great new (to me) Horace Tapscott and Masabumi Kikuchi albums... and I discovered two relatively recent albums by jazz musicians younger than me that I really like Sam Harris - Interludes (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2014) David Virelles - Ḿbọ̀kọ́ (ECM, 2014) for both pianists, I also like various other (sideman) records but these two are the favorites