Niko

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!

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...

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 )

On the plus side, they did break into the worldwide top five of labels to watch for archival jazz releases during the pandemic... also learned that the hard way after some stuff was sold out but now I've subscribed their newsletter so I don't miss anything...

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)

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

I for one am a big fan of Jouney into Nigritia...

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...

thanks, I just ordered... would like to add something to the jazz detective's new years' resolution...

As a very very minor comment, one thing I learned in the pandemic is that everybody should have an app like camscanner on their phone... Makes it super easy to produce an easy to read pdf document rather than a sequence of photos...

I am a fairly big fan of Ruud Brink and have his three cds on Blue Jack two of which are now reissued in Japan including the one you mention... he's something like the Dutch Zoot Sims or Stan Getz, so if you like those two he might be interesting... unlike them his discography is much smaller (basically just one slightly commercial album in his lifetime, very little nice small group stuff). I think the album under bassist Jacques Schols name is the strongest, cdjapan it's from the 60s when all concerned were in great shape + it's a great rhythm section... But I do think that the Agerbeek Brink album is a really nice one as well... everyone is great spirits that night with Brink imitating popular singers on one or two tracks and playing a really nice clarinet solo a la Goodman on one track (while exhibiting is trademark tenor playing everywhere else). Btw, former board member bluerein is selling off his stock of Blue Jack Jazz Cds on discogs and has very fair prices on some of them (the original issues, not the new reissues) including the Agerbeek / Brink one... https://www.discogs.com/Rob-Agerbeek-Ruud-Brink-Pardon-My-Bop/release/10644509?ev=item-vc

familysearch.org it's quite amazing what you can find out in a few minutes on your couch from thousands of miles away... here is a summary of what I found about Our Miss Brooks Ellen Davene Brooks, born 8 March 1937, and John Eugene Patton, born 12 July 1935 married 11 Jan 1964. Ellen Davene Brooks (and twin sister Evelyne mentioned in the liner notes to Pattons Oh Baby) born in Cross Creek to Roscoe Conklin Brooks Roscoe Conklin Brooks (b 1907 d 1990) was the son of Ellis Walter Brooks (*1881) and Delvie Mitchell (*1888), they married 1 Sept 1906, Ellis died 4 Oct 1941, was a Teacher, born 2 October 1880 in Woodsdale, Person County NC, his parents: Alex Brooks & Mary E Woods and about the saxophone playing Brooks brothers: Tina Brooks (Harold Floyd, born 7 June 1932), son of David W Brooks Parents of Bubba/Tina Brooks: father David W Brooks, born in Robeson County (Red Springs, North Carolina), age at Bubba's birth 29 (= born ca 1893), mother Cornelia McAlister b Fayetteville 1894, Address: 908 Robeson Street Grandparents: William H Brooks (* Dec 1853 in NC, parents already born in NC) & Christian Brooks in Red Springs NC

just to clear up the mystery I started there, I quickly looked throuh the ancestors of both Bubba / Tina Brooks and "Our Miss Brooks" and even though they come from similar parts of North Carolina, their parents and grandparents are distinct so if they are close cousins it's not via the Brooks side of the family...

I looked a bit in that thesis on John Patton http://andybleaden.blogspot.com/2007/07/thesis-on-john-patton-by-javier.html but didn't see anything particularly relevant... I did make an unrelated observation though while reading here and there: The Harold Vick tune "Our Miss Brooks" is dedicated to John Patton's wife Ellen Brooks, "a fine pianist and artist" who was originally from Fayetteville NC... Now I just realized that Fayetteville NC is a less obscure place to come from than I thought... but still there's the possibility that she was related to Tina and Bubba who were also from Fayetteville... in other news, Patton does play keyboard rather than organ on that 1977 Johnny Lytle album

thanks, had been impatient and read up already yesterday but I see there's again a new one... re promotion, a tiny thing that would have helped me yesterday: Maybe you could put the link to your blog into your signature (like HutchFan has it)? Don't know if that fools search engines... but at the very least it makes it easier for us to remember and find it with almost no effort

that one is a big favorite over here... another one I like a lot is Masabumi Kikuchi's Sunrise - but I guess that is an acquired taste