Niko

what I strongly dislike about downloads is this need to organize and store files on a computer, make backups, whatever... streaming takes that task out of my hands, CDs and LPs can stay on a shelf for years... occasionally I rediscover the music that's on my harddrive, some real cool stuff in there, but that happens maybe once every two years... if I have to keep files in good order for work, I can do that, there are people whose jobs depend on software I've written and I won't let them down.. it's just not something I enjoy doing.

heard this spanish freshsound reissue in a store when I came through Paris last week https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/ricard-roda-albums/5463-asteriscs.html?search_query=montoliu&results=54 Ricard Roda - Asteriscs I thought it is was excellent.

Tommy Jones - Bow Legs featuring the legendary Chicago pianist Willie Jones in one of his last recording sessions from the 70s... and before MJT+3 - Make Everybody Happy both recent acquisitions among quite a few others from Groove Rennes in Rennes, France. Didn't have clear expectations when I walked in from the street and was mildly shocked to find a Chicago used record store transplanted into Northern France. Definitely one of the top soul/organ jazz stores in Europe - and very nice prices, too.

Haynes is only on the first three tracks, about 30 minutes, see also the enthusiastic summary here http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/frank_haynes.pdf

I found this LP with Haynes recently - also highly recommended... https://www.discogs.com/Walter-Bishop-Jr-Bish-Bash/master/764019

if you scroll down to approximately the middle of this page http://www.barrykernfeld.com/aop.htm you'll find a more detailed description starting with "Unissued session of March 6, 1963". This contains among other things the details on soprano vs tenor...

before: Walter Bishop Jr - Bish Bash (Xanadu) now: Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet (Silkheart) that Ahmed Abdullah album is such a nice surprise - took it with me recently because you just can't let a Silheart CD lie around for 2 Euros... forgot about it for a few months and now had the hunch that this might just be the perfect music for, well, right now - and it is... wish that would happen more often.

Benny Waters featuring Art Taylor - Ziging and Zaging my copy is signed by Waters and dated 23 May 1971 which was the Saturday evening of the first edition of the Breda Old Jazz Festival where Waters was one of the headliners (besides Jabbo Smith). Given that this is 15 minutes from where I found the record, I guess Waters signed it after the concert... (That's Waters on 23 May 1971.) I guess, starting a new "Old jazz Festival" was kind of anachronistic already in 1971... incidentally, I was at the festival's 47th edition yesterday afternoon, it's not only Dixieland but also some Swing, Western Swing, Blues, Rock'n'Roll... still amazed that even after more than 45 years they can still invite fresh "Old Jazz" bands from the UK etc to meet at a festival like this...

Happy Birthday!

really don't know how Steve could be misunderstood... in my view, the Savory set is far more attractive: Savory: this is core material to pretty much any jazz fan. Some of it was previously available in a format nobody prefers. Don't think there is a "download generation". There was only a short moment in history when record companies tried to get high-priced downloads to work before streaming took over. Beehive: I like what I've heard. What I've heard, I've heard from the original LPs which are usually available in the 2-6 Euro range (huge difference to the Tina Brooks BNs). Wouldn't even say that original LPs are my preferred format, but I do like to get to know the individual albums one by one. Plus: From what I can tell, these are nice albums but they're not Lester with Basie. They're not even Sam Noto Xanadus.

Thanks guys!

there's more discussion of this series in this thread

Maybe Giuffre with Django Reinhardt in place of Jim Hall? You can still hear a few tracks from the Spotlite album on Mike Zwerin's homepage (http://mikezwerin.com/) if you click on Music and scroll to the bottom...

read Zwerin's two autobiographies in the past few weeks - an amazing life story indeed - and was then very happy to stumble upon that album, being a big fan of Christian Escoude anyway ... actually, I maybe should have bought the other one with the Stockhausen piece, too, when I saw it on Friday... but Zwerin wrote that the Polish LP of the trio was the better one...

uploaded by Al Francis himself it seems... he also uploaded a few live videos on the same channel https://www.youtube.com/user/jazzbohemia/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd and on another one https://www.youtube.com/user/jazzvibes251/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=2 sound quality is mixed (including cases where the sound is missing altogether) but sidemen include Cecil McBee or (here) Jack Walrath:

some Sunday afternoon detective work led me to the conclusion that it's "Boccaccio '70" behind Booker Ervin in that clip... just went down this list... it's Nr 15 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls025731885/

And now more Richard Raux, "Feel Good At Last", with Alain-Jean Marie, Alby Cullaz and George Brown...

In this household, Jay Migliori's "The Courage" has been in heavy rotation recently...

Richard Raux - Hamsa Music

Not Much Noise, a trio of Mike Zwerin (bass trumpet), Christian Escoude (guitar) and Gus Nemeth (bass), live in Warsaw 1978

Herzlichen Glueckwunsch!!!

the assessment report (bottom of p.9) claims that it's only four big names (called "the four jazz masters"). These are the four you mention... http://media.kansascity.com/livegraphics/2018/pdf/AJM-AssessmentReportDRAFT3.31.18.pdf

here is one that I bought that day, Niko Langenhuijsen - Hypo (VaraJazz), from 1984, one of the local (Tilburg) modern Jazz LPs I was still missing... an interesting line-up (trumpet, trombone, violin, cello (Ernst Reijseger) plus rhythm section including Langenhuijsen on piano rather than bass). More boppish than expected - and I am not a big fan of the violin solos... but it does have nice moments. will first have to see what next Saturday in Utrecht does to the music budget... (will anybody else be there?)

Ha, I saw Chicken Song stand at Concerto in Amsterdam last Thursday on my own first visit there... guess it's gone now... had been contemplating getting it next week when I return (along with a few others I left standing there...)