Niko

You can also read most of the material that ended up in those Lees books online for free here (link fixed) in its original version published in Gene Lees' Jazz Letter... this edition contains an index of all articles from 1981 to 1997... in the early years, months are counted 1-12 from August to July, later from January to December... there's also some interesting stuff from other authors in there like Mike Zwerin's legendary article about touring with Claude Thornhill in the 1950s

yes... then again, they collaborated quite a bit, there's a duo album, two Hino-Kikuchi Quintet albums with Osby and also some (two?) Paul Motian albums with both of them... still, it remains an unlikely pair (and I also don't like the duo album and the quintet album I know (Acoustic Boogie) too much even though I'm a big Kikuchi fan)

I would begin with the earlier Pacific Jazz albums that were in the Mosaic, like Portraits

You certainly don't want to read Bebop by Thomas Owens then... I thought deVeaux had a fairly decent balance between history and musical analysis, while Owens rarely fills a page without at least some notated music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezHDtrAOW70 Horace Tapscott & the P.A.P.A. at the Geronimo Pratt National Black Human Rights Coalition (1980)

thinking about what I wrote in the Baker thread, Baker's working bands and late albums, Köln concerts and me not being around... this album was recorded at a concert in Köln in 1981, four weeks after I had been born there... and in fact, we were living less than 3 kilometers from where the concert took place - so in a way, I kind of was around... the rhythm section is badly recorded and barely audible unless the horns lay out... what makes the album kind of work is that it combines three horn players with a really beautiful sound, Baker, Jon Eardley as second trumpeter (can't tell them apart) and Bob Mover on alto

I wasn't around but it seems he was fairly low profile from the mid-60s to the mid-70s, with him being in bad shape and his music not fitting into the times that well either... in 1974 came the CTI album, and from there it took a few more years until he started to constantly tour Europe with surprisingly good bands, recording dozen of albums, many of which are great... and somehow, it's also not hard to see how Baker's brand of chamber jazz could work in a market where Jarrett's 1975 Köln Concert was a really big deal... (while Baker didn't really have an answer to, say, Bitches Brew). It's not so clear where to put the beginning of that late Baker phase but the 1978 band with Phil Markowitz feels like one logical starting date to me...

still kind of on the hunt for Volume 3... should play the other two again, I remember this as a really nice hard bop jam session but it's been a while

https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2022/01/gale-madden-randy-l-smith.html?m=1 No time to read this now myself but it looks interesting

envy you a bit for that Bechet record... last spring, I happened to walk into a really great record store, bought way too much, I thought (including most of my gaps in the Riverside New Orleans Living Legends Series), but also left quite a few records there that I really should have taken as well... including that Bechet album

That's the return of the LP... (Didn't like this album too much, even though I like most of the participants, but I didn't try hard)

thanks for posting!

the secret tricks of those who want make sure they escape those types of lists in both 2021 and 2022... guess they can afford it

Text is in German but in between are two of those drawings https://www.melodiva.de/reports/the-art-and-life-of-jutta-hipp/ and here is one more of Horace Silver https://www.melodiva.de/reports/jutta-hipp-pianistin-poetin-und-malerin/ In there's also a photo of Hipp in the 1980s ... Can't say that I like those drawings much, think I prefer the music by far

guess in retrospect it's not too surprising that the vaccine against Covid is more like a flu shot that has to be repeated regularly than like a polio vaccine... it's not "just the flu" because it's worse, but in some other ways, it seems to behave like it's distant cousin the flu... nobody can really blame it for that... I just hope that in the medium run we can go down to yearly shots...

Mostly still drinking regular beer, but also some nonalcoholic here and there... Some of the classic Belgian breweries (Leffe, Cornet, Brugse Zot...) have started to offer nonalcoholic versions... I especially like the Affligem Blonde in the nonalcoholic version... Another nonalcoholic beer that I like quite a bit is the nonalcoholic Guiness

I guess a key piece of evidence is this album https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-cleopatra-record which features Maneri together with Hrant in an early 60s incarnation as ethnic clarinet virtuoso...

there's a Quentin Warren Solo around 7:30

Indeed, Moran didn't belong into the list... and besides ECM, ACT deserves some recognition in your trend... regarding Nick Drake, holding the original against Mehldau's version of River Man was a defining moment in my own very short career as an aspiring artist

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