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that's the strange thing, Draper was just a year older than Howard Johnson... and there must have been something incredibly convincing about him, just going by his credits, the jobs and opportunities he had - so many people thinking "this is the guy I want in my band". Born in 1940, McLean, Coltrane, Max Roach, then addiction problems stopped his career for the first time from 59 to 64, age 19 to 24, then a band with Philly Joe Jones, Horace Tapscott (he's on the Sonny Criss album), played the Amougies festival as part of a Don Cherry quartet, worked with Archie Shepp, with Jack McDuff, with Dr John, with the Sun Ra arkestra in the 80s ... before being murdered at age 42... that list of credits is pretty hard to beat and on some of those albums he contributes quite significantly (with the McDuff and Dr John albums being particular favorites)... but by that time he'd somehow rethought his role, being more of an arranger / band leader who also plays the tuba and sings a bit rather than a horn player in the front line... I'd like to hear that Don Cherry quartet one day, it's his only small group recording from later years... Draper's only leader work from later years, 1969, sound quite different
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I like that album... it was such a weird idea to let a 16 year old tuba player record his own album... many 16 year olds would have done so much worse... then again it's really not easy to look good next to McLean, Waldron, Young when your instrument is a tuba...
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Yes, thank you very much!!
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Thanks, Onxidlib, I'd been counting on you a bit... let me ask a few specific questions then either for someone here or for Winckelmann - I read a few times what you both wrote above, the name Tutu is a reference to the Miles Davis album... but how is the reference meant? I mean, both the label and the album have to do with jazz and they're from the late 80s... but otherwise the music seems fairly unconnected if I look at the catalogue ... there must be something I'm missing - Would it be fair to say that, at least initially, Horst Weber was involved in two labels but at some point others took over so that by, say, the late 90s Tutu was effectively Peter Wiessmueller's label while Enja Weber was Werner Aldinger's? When we see Mal Waldron record for both Tutu and Enja around 2002, is that more of a rebranding within the Enja-Weber empire, or is it more a switch Wiessmueller's independent label to Aldinger's?
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Another nice package of reviews, thanks! One thing I'd been wondering about for a while is the relation between Enja and Tutu... Formally, Mal didn't record for Enja in all those years, but he did record quite a bit for a label that belonged to the same family, somehow... But it's not so easy to figure this all out with the two Enjas from the mid80s, and then also other people like Werner Aldinger and Peter Wießmüller being involved in (different parts of?) Enja Weber / Tutu. It doesn't seem that Tutu is a straight sublabel/product line of Enja Weber, but it certainly is something like it.
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what are you drinking right now?
Niko replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
another Dutch IPA from Haarlem is introducing the weekend here... -
in terms of likely bass players, I'd say Trigger Alpert (pictured) is more likely than Bob Haggart or Artie Bernstein among the logical candidates... but I'm not really convinced
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Big News - Wolfgang's Vaults Acquires Newport Jazz Audio Library
Niko replied to Mark Stryker's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Just a shot in the dark but since I'm curious: could it be that Bertrand talks about Horace Silver and Jim talks about Maynard Ferguson? Or is the claim really that it's Clifford Jordan w Ferguson? -
Thanks!
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good question about Breuer, the only other small-groupish thing I own is an early Barbara Dennerlein album where he is indeed one of three horns, this one (fwiw Allan Praskin is also in that frontline), it's a nice album but I don't remember the trombone... He is on a few of his daughter's albums, she's an alto player, this one is co-led with no other horns besides her ... on paper, I also thought that this here looked ok...
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Couldn't wait and read it already an hour ago - always looking forward to new posts... (as a very minor comment: Klaus Weiss was a drummer... and while I'm at it, there was one place where I disagreed a few weeks back: Kosuke Mine is not "at the top of his abilities" on that 4321 record. He's not great on that one but he's really good elsewhere, eg on that Joe Henderson and Kikuchi Hino record, link )
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9QWNMgogo playing Teddy Edwards Back to Avalon... Just in case anyone wants to help: What instrument is played in the solo that starts around 1:39 of Sweet Georgia Brown... going by the lineup, it should be Jimmy Woods on alto... and there are moments when it sounds like an alto... but there are also moments where feels much more like a clarinet... or a bass clarinet (especially, it sounds a bit like Eric Dolphy)
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I'd argue he's at most moderately obscure... there were even newspaper obits when he died... https://lasvegassun.com/news/2003/jul/01/jazz-musician-lv-performer-leslie-dies/ was ordering stuff from Sweden yesterday and could add the Freda Payne album without extra shipping... so that's what I did
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fwiw I was mainly thinking of the possible additional material for an expanded reissue of that album when I made my proposal.... (Larry Kart mentioned something along those lines iirc)... that said, I don't really see this Mosaic set happen either - even though it would be great, and I have a sealed spare copy of the Joseph LP...
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I'd be surprised if there wasn't a lengthy list of half-finished projects which are way more interesting than Joe Henderson on BN...issues between the kids doesn't sound good - so maybe it would be easiest for all concerned if a third party was brought in... just imagine a "Sunenblick Mosaic" (like the Savory Mosaic) - hard to imagine a nicer memory for your father plus: I could imagine that these children have realistic expectations regarding the money that can be made with archival jazz records...
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Importing/exporting UK/Europe after Brexit
Niko replied to David Ayers's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Um... I did read your link when you posted it... But legal english isn't my first language so I stopped reading before I'd processed it... (Makes me wonder about those who are supposed to read this) -
for the moment, that is my expectation as well (JH as a leader + the KDJH Quintet on BN, nothing new...)... after all those years, I read this set as Michael Cuscuna's way of saying "mission accomplished, goodbye", he reissues a chunk of prime BN albums - and it turns out that none of it is rare and sought after anymore... due to his years of putting in the good work at Mosaic and BN... if there's 80 minutes of extra music, I haven't said anything except for the following: here's a proposal for a grand finale to this era of jazz archival releases: Mosaic come in and sort out the legacy of Robert Sunenblick MD with one or two sets of everything he was still planning to release but didn't get around to...
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I'll be there when the time comes but for the moment it's "what vaccine" and I don't expect that to change before very late summer
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Brits planning to buy from JazzMessengers?
Niko replied to BillF's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
the guy who runs the beer shop in town said it's become much easier for him to offer beers from outside Europe now, he started a small series... I missed the one from Korea but later there was one from Leeds which I thought was excellent -
memories... most of these names you don't read too often... Pospiech was conducting the university big band where I studied (Bonn) so his name was often on posters around campus, Bartelt was my saxophone teacher in those years... and, of course, I remember Oliver Leicht concerts and so on...
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Indeed! I miss jeffcrom, learned a lot from him, both from his posts here and from his blog... and yes, it took a while until I saw a copy of this album, and without this board I would never have known that this something I must have ...
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I for one am a big fan of Jouney into Nigritia...
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indeed, not the same anymore... unless they have found some additional material ... in fact a box containing just Mode for Joe, Inner Urge and the three albums with Dorham would be such an uninspired choice that I am refusing to believe that this is what Mosaic is planning... I mean, for one thing many people will have this material already, but for another, none of this material is hard to get, at least on cd...
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George Coleman In Baltimore 1971 (Left Bank) out Nov 27/Dec 11
Niko replied to ghost of miles's topic in New Releases
thanks, I just ordered... would like to add something to the jazz detective's new years' resolution...