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a bit mixed, my mother had to go to the hospital so someone of the children had to go home to look after a few things... but there is not that much to be done here either and visiting hours are limited... here's what I got: Chet Baker - Hallucinations (bootleg CD with Rene Thomas) and the rest are LPs, including some fairly oldtime stuff and some local things Warne Marsh meets Gary Foster (Eastworld, 1982) Fletcher Henderson Sextet 1950 (one of those bootleg LPs, with Lucky Thompson) Horace Tapscott - Flight 17 (that recent reissue) Omer Simeon Trio - Clarinet A La Creole (10in LP) The Missourians 1929-1930 (RCA) Paul Barnes and his Polo Players - The Viol, the Violet and the Vine (Jazzology) Wilbur de Paris at Symphony Hall (Atlantic) Vaalbleek - Caoutchouc (Eksakt) Duo Unkrodt/Zerbe (Amiga) Noodband - Shopping Around (Swingmaster) this last album, I got partly for the cover which shows the band leaving a favorite record store (Swingmaster in Groningen)

if you want to feel better, I got 11 on Friday and Saturday, the thing that happens when you suddenly end up in a different city with too much time

What I love about this new release is that it gives listeners a new way of viewing later Coltrane from the perspective of A Love Supreme... (And I fully agree that the first 70percent or so of the piano solo on Pursuance are the highlight)

I must have mentioned him... a name that shows up in European Big Band lineups starting in the early 40s with Django... this is his only jazz album as a leader of a small group (tp./p/b/dr) and imho it's a great album I just had a careful look at my Belgian issue of the album on Selection Records, including the "extensive liner notes" (mostly a biography of Morales in English and in French)... no recording date is given and it's a bit unclear from the notes whether Morales is still alive... but the liner notes do mention that Morales participated in the album "Brussels Big Band (1980, Vogue)" (this one) which places the present album in the 1980s as well... the "Dictionnaire du jazz a Bruxelles et en Wallonie" places the album in 1983 - which makes sense, also optically... of course it was recorded earlier because Morales died indeed in 1981... the same book mentions that pianist Gus Decock toured with Morales in 1977 after retiring from years of studio work... but in fact, that doesn't say much because recording library albums like this one may well have been part of the studio work... so: I tend to believe in the recording date of 1974 (given in Pernets discography - Pernet also wrote the liner notes on the album), or at least mid-seventies... I heavily doubt that this Belgian edition from the 80s is the original even though I don't have a date for the French edition

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if you compare catalogue numbers on discogs, it looks like both appeared in the mid-70s... the French edition is clearly marketed as library music while the Selection release has the name of the artist on the cover... which seems typical of Selection who were somehow straddling the boundary between library music and normal music in those years https://www.discogs.com/label/101653-Selection-Records hard to say who was earlier, I would have guessed the other way round... the liner notes are indeed extensive, starting, IIRC with a meeting of Paul Dubois and Janot Morales in Brussels in 1941 with Janot telling Paul about the birth of his son Garcia... who grew up to become the drummer on this album... and so it goes on - I would almost be surprised if something as mundane as a recording date is mentioned between all those stories

such a great album! the Belgian Jazz discography here http://jazzerfgoed.be/ says 1974... I have the issue on Selection at home and can check whether any info is given there... but I don't even know which edition is the earlier one edit to add: that online discography is based on Pernet's book so it's probably the best info that's out there... discogs claims that my edition is the earlier one

Zundert is a Dutch beer actually, not Belgian... also had it a few days ago and thought it was pretty good...

the second half of the second video has some footage of Salim with Bennett...

thanks for posting! some great people in that band he's putting together like Jesse Sharps and Fuasi Abdu Khaliq from Horace Tapscott's bands

Nat Pierce Quintet Featuring Anthony Ortega ‎– Chamber Music For Moderns

nothing wrong with reading those 150 pages - but I thought you'd just use the search function to find the phrase "arthur lee" right in the middle of the document on p.75... I'd even say that this particular passage is a bit confusing and a casual reader could get the impression that Arthur Lee is Hamilton's son - even though this is clearly not what it says... so, while I didn't have any particular expectations, I did have the suspicion that maybe you'd read it before

found the other Schoenfeld (split) LP earlier today and have it lined up for later this evening... Houston Person - Stolen Sweets now playing another of today's acquisitions... the cover is, well, very much of its time but with an organ band built around Sonny Philipps and Jimmy Ponder what could go wrong I thought...

are you sure that Hamilton was Lee's uncle? For instance, here https://www.si.edu/media/NMAH/NMAH-AC0808_Hamilton_Chico_Transcript.pdf it would have been quite logical for Hamilton to mention this, when he's discussing how his son Forestorn Hamilton Jr was the manager of Love and the name Arthur Lee pops up...

Sven Regner, singer and guitar player and front figure with a highly respected German indie rock bands of the 90s (Element of Crime), their German language albums starting with Damals hinterm Mond form one of the most impressive bodies of work within postwar German language popular music or something like that... just like most of my friends, I have heard their most popular songs hundreds of times and can easily sing along with something like this just like we could sing along with many Tom Waits songs... I guess the two have similar fan bases in Germany... at some point, Regner started to write novels, people were skeptical as usual but at least the first one turned into a bestseller, Herr Lehman, that was celebrated for it's portrayal of Berlin ca 1990... he also wrote a script for the movie version of that book, which was a highly successful movie over here... and like I wrote above, after all those movies, novels, audiobooks, rock albums, many of which were both brilliant and huge sellers... he had built up enough of a standing with his major label that he could release an awful album of jazz standards featuring himself on trumpet...

Have you heard + Plugged Nickel John Abercrombie or Ralph Towner?

Thanks, Mike!

Is this one good / what's it like? I've seen this many times but never knew what to make of it

Thanks Mike! I really like the album with Griffin which was my introduction but also the two in the Amy Select and Something's Happening... still looking for the rest...

Duane Tatro

Gétatchèw Mèkurya is another of those legendary names, I think he's amazing... here you can also read a scan of the liner notes to his issue in the Ethiopiques series

The Duke John McLaughlin or Stanley Clarke?

Bassist Gary Mapp who recorded with Monk was also a police man (it's in Kelley's book) ... I like Oliver Nelson's playing a lot on some of his early recordings like the two Prestige albums with Dolphy (especially Straight Ahead) and also "Meet Oliver Nelson" with Kenny Dorham and Ray Bryant Don Patterson - Mellow Soul

I'd been wondering what I could play to commemorate 60 years of the Berlin wall today... Might also go with Brandt later, right now I'm still in the Patterson Stitt orbit

have played most of my records with Don Patterson in the last few days, including of course those with Weeden... Feelin's is fine (and indeed not hard to track down on LP) but my favorites are Boss Tenors in Orbit (with Ammons and Stitt) and Low Flame (with Stitt) on Jazzland... I have Low Flame on a twofer which combines it with another favorite Stitt album of mine, Shangri-La by Stitt/Patterson/James without Weeden