Niko

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

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

+1

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