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I played White Rabbit by George Benson recently and also had that reaction of "this may be a version of Sketches of Spain that actually works for me", as much as I love the conventional Sketches of Spain

Both excellent records I would not have known about without this board!

Poems that Coltrane was writing, not reading (p. 247 in the Porter book). Regarding the Lonnie Johnson theory, the fact that the song is preceded by "Bessie's blues" on Crescent sure is some relevant context...

Enrico Rava - Edizione Speciale I remember standing outside in the crowd in Antwerp, drinking La Chouffe from a plastic cup, it was a sunny afternoon and the music was just right... pretty strange to think that, at the same time, they were recording an ECM album right there...

I have those 40CDs and must say I am happy with them, the documentation is excellent and I know I will never have to buy anything by Django again... Can't say I've played all of them yet though... Before that I used to have the Django CDs from the Jazz in Paris series... They give a really nice overview of his career as a whole... There was also a box set collecting those Jazz in Paris CDs but that one seems to be rare... Here is an old thread about Django boxsets

Recently found two obscure albums that were recommended in the glory days of this board: Al Francis - Jazz Bohemia Revisited Spotlight on Jacy Parker

Thanks for the heads-up! I'm a big Kikuchi fan, but would have been inclined to skip these because of Aurora... But if it's better than Aurora... Will need to listen...

Doug Sides - Perseverance whenever I buy an album like this, I am worried I might only play it once... but here I am playing it a second time a few years later... several lines of my collecting met on this one, it has pianist Ron Wilson (who is great on the recently reissued "Open Sky Unit" with Jacques and Micheline Pelzer), the pair of saxophonist Gijs Hendriks and Bert van Erk (whose many LPs I all own by now), and three Americans with interesting discographies (Roger Cooke, Doug Sides and Steve Galloway)

Thanks! Erker is just like Grimal a student of John Ruocco, one of the greats who left us in 2025... The album is a reflection on growing up in the north of Tilburg in the 1970s and 80s, discovering jazz via Albert Ayler, Charlie Haden's liberation music orchestra... I used to live in that city for quite a while - even though not in it's particularly rough northern part until recently so that album felt close to home for me... but I do think it's objectively very very good! I rarely hear so warm music coming out of that general direction... At this point, it's streaming only but there will be an extended edition on vinyl later this year...

Re Uli, I read about it here

You click on your name to get to your profile page... In your case, it's 17 July 2003, what we consider second generation of posters

Indeed, it's such a nicely made reissue coming from a small private company who really care about their products... It's not like anyone has to buy this particular edition if they don't want to...

Nothing to do with Bley, but Vidal is the pianist on one of my favorite albums, the sole quartet Album of guitarist Sean Levitt

It's some of my favorite music, too, glad to hear you like it as well... Good luck finding an alternative source, Peter Valente!

Most likely, pglbook tried to resell it here and then sold it on eBay due to "lack of interest" (PLEASE: "lack of demand", not "lack of interest") ... Which also means: maybe writing a PM to pglbook about that set is worth it

I may have liked last year better actually... My two favorites, both without much press were Tilburg Noord by Meter Erker Shakkei by Alexandra Grimal and Giovanni di Domenico Of the somewhat more high-profile stuff, I liked the Amina Claudine Myers solo and the new Masabumi Kikuchi solo on Red Hook, Sullivan Fortner Trio (Southern Nights) and the duo record of Wadada Leo Smith and Sylvie Courvoisier...

One album that I like quite a bit and that almost fits the bill is Echoes of Chicago by Art Hodes... It's from 1978 though and it's not Hodes' working band (it is a full dixieland band though, the usual Atlanta crew found on GHB Productions of that era)

You should really listen to that solo album (Challenge), the Evans influence is suddenly absent again in a curious way... I'm one of the people who say that Hawes' post-imprisonment trio albums like Here and Now or I'm all smiles are the peak... Regarding discographical mysteries, Bird Song is another east west record with guest Paul Chambers... and here there are some reasonable doubts about the lineup as given (e.g.: the session with Big Foot has some curious overlap with a largely unreleased session of the trio with Mitchell and Thompson)

and in 60 years, historians may read this post and speculate whether it was one of the triggers for the miserable documentation of discographical data in the 2030s but, yes, the hobby historian in me also only comes out for the old stuff, it's what hobby historians do

When I see people at a record store who are getting so excited they can buy, say, Led Zeppelin albums on CD for only 3 or 4 Euro, these are usually people under 25... People above 50 own these albums already if they wish to and they can also afford them on LP... And I do see these young people with some regularity... But I doubt that selling CDs to this demographic is by itself profitable enough to keep the shop open ... And there's a good chance that they will switch to LPs (or stop boycotting spotify) when they are over 30... What drives these people to CDs is only the price..

Clyde Lucas, Ted Fiorito, Johnny Blowers, Randy Brooks, Bill Heathcock are obscure to me... Also the Curtis Bay Coast Guard Training Station Dance band and the other military bands... Yet others like Mal Hallett or Tony Pastor do ring bells, but I don't know anything about their music... To be fair, most of the more obscure bands are only covered with relatively few tracks...

For a second, you had me imagining Teddy Wilson with Duke Jordan... Might be really nice, if it worked out but quite risky ... NP: Lawrence Brown - Inspired Abandon

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I think it's too late to delete, and the question how to deal with the fact that so much great music and documentation came to us via Cadence remains important... we just need to return to Tyler and his music soon because, yes, it's his thread...

Thank you Peter and Hutch an for those nice lists!