Niko

That anthropology video is available at the INA website (just like a few more w Thompson... Some videos there are behind a paywall but most are not) Link

re complaining about the weather, today looks like a wonderful day to start... re Ben Webster managing to record in NL: true, upon a quick inspection (= I might have made mistakes) there are four Dutch Webster albums from the 60s, and "For the Guv'nor" is exactly the type of rare "top production" Byas didn't get (liner notes by de Ruyter, production by Joop Visser, a rhythm section with Schols/Engels, similar to e.g. the Ann Burton albums), but for instance "At his best" is a special production for the AH super markets - a small niche - and "At The Haarlemse Jazzclub" is a production for CAT - whom I forgot in my list of labels above, they started a bit earlier than Timeless and Criss Cross but not by much... Clare Fischer - Easy Livin'

that probably played a role as well, but I also think that "real jazz" from the Netherlands is not terribly well-documented before the advent of Timeless and Criss Cross between 1975 and 1980... production of jazz records in the Netherlands was quite limited between, say 1960 and 1975 (jazz on tv is another story - and there Byas is indeed curiously absent...). as a native Dutchman, Pim has at least the right to complain about the weather while immigrants like Byas or me have to stay silent about all the grey because we could have moved anywhere else in the world, if we don't like it... Hal Singer - Blues in the Night one of the perks of living in Amsterdam are the record stores... got this one this afternoon after realizing that it's the Hal Singer album with Valdo Williams on piano... (no Hal SInger with Kenny Drew and NHOP either... and I don't believe Singer was an unpleasant individual)

in a manner of speaking, yes... just like you and me, he was stuck in the Netherlands

bought earlier today, no major finds here (and quite modest expenses) but I am happy

a long-time favorite... played Tony Bennett's Cloud 7 yesterday which also features Wayne, Schildkraut and the elusive trumpeter Charles Panelly...

I guess a lot of traditional easy listening was using 50 piece string orchestras and the like... while nowadays it seems crazy to hire 50 people or more if you're just after a quick buck... So, I'd expect that the new easy listening is some form of electronic music made by people sitting behind their laptops... and that changes the character of the music. I thought that new Pharoah Sanders Floating Points album had a 1950s sophisticated easy listening vibe to it, partly.

thanks for scanning this! can't say I am a fan of that article though (remember complaining to my saxophone teacher about Jazz Podium as a kid in the late 90s, the pretentious writing style, the outdated design... he said he perfectly understood, but had to read it himself because you can't be part of the German jazz scene if you don't...)

Merry christmas! And yes, your father is fondly remembered in a place like this one here, even though none of us "knew" him in any meaningful way...

when I was a much younger jazz fan, say as an 18 year old in 1999, I was always uncomfortable at jazz concerts with everyone being so much older, even the occasional university student being a decade older and the majority being elderly gentleman with beards... I'd say it was like that at most jazz venues, not just avantgarde (in my case back then usually the Loft in Cologne), the major exception being festivals, especially Moers (which always drew thousands of younger people who were just hanging out, smoking and living in their tents without bothering too much about the music...). Now that I am myself a middle-aged gentleman with a slowly whitening beard, I feel like I fit in much better... but yes, those audiences tend to be old... The only real exceptions I see now is when it's artists the jazz students from the nearby convervatories want to see (like Ambrose Akinmusire or Julian Lage)...

http://jazzwestcoastresearch.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-first-lighthouse-all-stars.html?m=1 Fwiw, she was married to Arvin Garrison, trombonist Dick Taylor and Giuffre...

It's a good album... A few months ago, i added his birth and death dates to discogs, then there's a few more credits on discogs, sgcim occasionally mentioning him here, and that's about it...

Thanks for that link, playing the Brennan album now... The only one from that list I'd played before was the Tyshawn Sorey album with Greg Osby which i liked a lot

guess you could read Mike Zwerin's autobigraphies as meditations over this observation... what do you with the rest of your life if your claim to fame is Birth of the Cool and you still have 60 years to live after it happened?

Thanks for looking up the lineups! Some of those volumes are well over 2 hours btw, so in total all 8 volumes are about 15 hours of music...

I'd definitely be in...

On the topic of this thread, I've met King Ubu several times, Olivier and, once for 10 seconds, Larry Kart...

Amsterdam actually, since this summer, I've even sneaked in ten minutes at Concerto this afternoon, it's close to here, a fresh look at letters L-P, bought the Hapless Child by Michael Mantler... Happy to hear from anyone who's around...

Quite a bit of info on the Cry of Jazz is found here: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/sunra.html No indications of anything being recorded in Europe, and trumpet might be Art Hoyle

Lennie Felix

The altoist for Let's Go has been listed as possibly Kirtland Bradford, e.g. here https://attictoys.com/lucky-thompson-discography-1943-1950/ (but that's not where that info comes from). Bradford was lead altoist with Jimmie Lunceford around that time and much later a teacher of Arthur Blythe. Typical Bradford features w Lunceford were not heavy on improvisation, The Jimmies was discussed in another thread earlier, another one is Meditation from a Jubilee show One session where Bradford plays a few jazzier solos is with the Joe Thomas Sextet on Melodisc, (Frontline of Bradford, Thomas and Russell Green on trumpet plus the Lunceford rhythm section) I am no expert but my hunch would be that it could be him on Let's Go, trying to make sense of stuff he heard the last few nights in New York or so...

I don't know... he was something like a rising jazz star 30 years ago, recorded with Sonny SImmons (also on American Jungle), had a leader album on Columbia (link), a quartet with Bunky Green, Ira Coleman and Tony Williams... a friend pointed him out to me a few months ago, that's how I remembered... Definitely a more successful career so far than Zarak Simmons who had a similar start in a similar place... but I don't think it's embarassing not to know the name... anyway, playing this album now, thanks for the heads-up... it's nice but I do miss Tina a bit...

the pianist is also playing on that last Barbara Donald / Sonny Simmons album on Arhoolie from the early 90s...

here is a picture of young Azar Lawrence (left) together with colleague Ray Straughter, from here (same picture is also in the Dark Tree book)

Bill Perkins - Peaceful Moments that music room looks really cool - and after moving to Amsterdam a few weeks ago, it's even kind of in the neighborhood can't compete w that room but the possibilities for record shopping after work are a definite plus, listening to one of the results from earlier today... (also brought home some Belgian craft beer with me actually, but that's gone already, records stay... Noblesse by Dochter van de Korenaar in the Belgian part of Baarle)