Niko

did you see my first post of February 17? Frank was the one who first owned a trap set and until 1957 Denis always practiced on Frank's set... Denis started playing with Cecil Taylor in 1954 (according to wiki) so Frank had a set at least from, say, 1953 onwards... and the fact that he ended up recording as a percussionist with Ed Blackwell, Sonny Rollins and others suggests to me that he was possibly sufficiently talented as a drumming musician to show up playing with Kenny Dorham on a local live gig nobody ever expected to appear as an album...

Denis played with Cecil Taylor since the mid-fifties... And since he was the younger brother, using Frank's drum set...

I had a brief look at Steven Isoardi's The Dark Tree: Tom Albach was living in Santa Barbara when he got involved in 1977/78, recorded the early sessions in LA but the solos with Tapscott at the Lobero in Santa Barbara. Whether he and the label moved to Los Angeles at some point I don't know (in 1989, they left California for Amsterdam…)

thanks! that it's not on discogs suggests that it must be pretty rare... (that bsnpubs doc is pretty misleading in this particular case because it gives a completely wrong tracklist...)

Can someone help me figure out what the second Bobby Henderson album is? I can only find one...

Wow, that is some crazy luck! (my own new records of this week are Jazz behind the Dikes Volume 3 and a Japanese reissue of Tony Fruscella's Atlantic album... the closest I came to a bargain recently was the debut album of Bert Joris for 2 Euro last week... it's been good weeks for buying used records)

I saw that duo and it was definitely worth going even though their records may not be my go-to Brötzmann... But what was totally amazing was a trio with Leigh and Toshinori Kondo added on tp and electronics... It's been a while and I forgot the details but Kondo somehow managed to organize the sounds and had a great interaction with Leigh in a way that made it all come together even better

You're missing my favorite album (Crystal Bells on LDH / Igloo) but other than that I agree

That's a nice album, I like it a lot

Marvin Cabell - Dream Images a few years ago, I walked into a record store in Rennes, France, and after browsing through a few bins, I asked the owner what was going on... turned out, he'd recently bough a record store in Chicago and resurrected it in Northern France... I walked home with this and albums by Tommy Jones, E Parker McDougal and the MJT+3...

that's a good tip, I've had that book lying around for ages... maybe I should just start with those 45 pages...

language is one thing, cultural differences are another... obviously, we meet here because we have some common interests... and obviously, that includes an interest in American culture in the case of this board (and, for example, soulpope has loads of interests like that from Edward Hopper to some of those American sports)... but there are some conversation on this board that you can only understand if you've grown up knowing which type of highly processed sauce goes with what type of meat in which region of the US... and that's something they don't teach us in school and that's ok. But it does lead to things being lost in translation.

Indeed... I recently talked to someone who was studying to switch from being a German doctor to being a Dutch doctor.... The main difference is that for a large number of diseases the official guideline is "please come back in a week, if the issue persists... If the pain gets to much you may switch from paracetamol to ibuprofen." rather than doing something just to give the patient the feeling that something has been done.... I do like the Dutch system actually, but still I always have to smile when the doctor starts talking about Paracetamol and waiting for a week...

If I didn't know you lived in the Netherlands, this would have given it away: "according to the doctor it should go away by itself." This really sounds awful, hope you get better soon!

I'd say the Kenny Barron album on that label looks tastier

I actually bought the CD after streaming it quite a bit... doesn't come with any liner notes... Giovanni di Domenico has recorded quite a bit with Akira Sakata - but that doesn't quite explain the Japanese song titles...

I really liked the new Alexandra Grimal / Giovanni di Domenico record... I knew some of their earlier work but this is better imho (much broader, also, with organs, electronics and things... )

Woody Herman... there's this overview of the Four Brothers Sax Sections by Alun Morgan and Joe Urso... here's the information on the end of 1954 and 1955: JERRY COKER DICK HAFER BILL TRUJILLO JACK NIMITZ PART OF 1954 DAVE MADDEN DICK HAFER BILL PERKINS JACK NIMITZ PART OF 1954 RICHIE KAMUCA DICK HAFER BILL PERKINS JACK NIMITZ PART OF 1955 RICHIE KAMUCA DICK HAFER SANDY MOSSE JACK NIMITZ PART OF 1955 RICHIE KAMUCA DICK HAFER ART PIRIE JACK NIMITZ JUN 1955 RICHIE KAMUCA SPENCER SINATRA ART PIRIE JACK NIMITZ PART OF 1955 RICHIE KAMUCA BOB HARDAWAY ARNO MARSH JACK NIMITZ PART OF 1955 RICHIE KAMUCA TED NASH EDDIE MILLER CHUCK GENTRY NOV 1955 BOB NEWMAN BOB HARDAWAY ARNO MARSH JAY CAMERON PART OF 1955 JIMMIE COOKE BOB HARDAWAY DANNY PETERIS HAROLD WILEY PART OF 1955 now, unfortunately, this doesn't give a whole lot of information - but it seems plausible that Kamuca and Nimitz were with Herman in February 1955 btw, the liner notes of the Urbie Green album on Vanguard mention that Flory was at the time of writing a member of the Tommy Tucker band... which reminded me to look at the liner notes of the Pierce album... the concept is super simple: Combine a group of horn players associated with Woody Herman with Basie's rhythm section and have Nat Pierce connect it all...

Flory probably hadn't moved to the West Coast yet in early 1955 (can't find a precise date for his move, some sources say 55, some 56), Nimitz was probably still with Woody Herman...

yes, that Brookmeyer album is great...

Good one... One album I bought this month and can strongly recommend is the new Alexandra Grimal / Giovanni di Domenico album Shakkei...

John Lewis - The Wonderful World of Jazz

how the Urbie Green is too progressive is beyond me as well, it has a rhythm section built around Freddie Green and Sir Charles Thompson, Ruby Braff on trumpet...

I want this, too, had read about it but seeing it increases the appeal for some stupid reason... will have to keep my eyes open...

Alexandra Grimal & Giovanni di Domenico - Shakkei I also liked the new Sullivan Fortner album but this sax/keys duo album is my favorite new release of 2025 so far https://alexandragrimal.bandcamp.com/album/shakkei