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Nathen Page Plays Pretty For The People

Same here, fascinating material, thanks for the link!

like most of the Matsuli catalogue, these are also on spotify... the Molelekwa album is very much of it's time (late 90s) but definitely interesting... tragic life story...

around the time of Peace Treaty, I wrote some emails with the owner... memory fades a bit, but pretty sure it's the same guy who now does Sam Records, and that he mentioned he would not do CDs again... talking CDs and Nathan Davis, I got the recent reissue of pianist Scott Bradford's Rock Slides this weekend and thoroughly enjoy it... it's a little bit on the heavily produced side but definitely a fun record with strong contributions from Nathan Davis...

I found this 2013 article about both the reissue label and Strata pretty interesting... played some of these planned but unreleased Strata albums on Spotify yesterday (Ron English, Sam Sanders) and really liked them... surprised that this program didn't get more discussion here until now...

on spotify... the reed section is pretty good on paper (Danny Turner and Charles Davis), the trumpet section is insane on paper (Blue Mitchell, Howard McGhee, Eddie Preston, Dizzy Reece)... otherwise it's what you would expect from the cover...

Philly Joe Jones - Round Midnight live 1969 with Dizzy Reece, Bent Jaedig, Larry Vuckovich, Isla Eckinger...

it's this one https://www.discogs.com/Jon-Eardley-Jazz-From-The-States/release/3178918 a Jon Eardley album produced in the Netherlands with a mostly Belgian band... some of the tunes are actually new interpretations/titles for old Jon Eardley compositions from 1950s prestige albums (forgot the details), the producer reused some of the song titles (but not the music) on this record here https://www.discogs.com/Walt-Lemon-Und-Rhythmusgruppe-Dreamin-Piano/master/1204392 There is also a Finnish record, this one, https://www.discogs.com/Suurorkesteri-Tanssin-Iloa-Suurorkesterin-Tahdissa/release/1395897 that combines tracks from the Eardley album with tracks from another Dutch/Belgian production https://www.discogs.com/The-St-Tropez-Jazz-Octett-Jazz-Goes-Swinging/release/2688989 I wouldn't consider these hoaxes but rather a business model that seems strange to us nowadays...

this one has Serrano and Nicky Hill, it's the second album on the Serrano Freshsound twofer (the other, Serrano's Blues Holiday, has Bunky Green)... discogs also shows previous Japanese issues...

Another amazing collection of Kenton radio recordings is found here http://allthingskenton.com/table_of_contents/radio_broadcasts/ many more and including discographical info etc

Lips first six probably refers to this box set... https://www.discogs.com/The-Flaming-Lips-Seeing-The-Unseeable-The-Complete-Studio-Recordings-Of-The-Flaming-Lips-1986-1990/release/12199546

seems like you can listen to 30 minutes (out of 5 CDs!) at the bottom of this link http://www.bbemusic.com/downloads/mingus-jazz-in-detroit/ have to work and can't listen properly but this sounds good to me!

Gary Peacock lived in Japan for a while and recorded both as sideman and leader... some great stuff... Joe Henderson has several nice albums with Japanese bands, Helen Merrill, too... there's Gil Evans with Kikuchi, Jack Dr Johnette has a fine album with Maupin Peacock and a Japanese pianist... I would just look at the discographies of Kikuchi, Togashi, Hino, Sato... to find collaborations...

Ah, that's yours! I've actually used it at least twice in the past few weeks... have been waiting for those revisions for a long time on jazzlists.com there many artist and label discographies with the level of detail varying a little from list to list - nevertheless I find this a very useful tool Musicians: http://www.jazzlists.com/index.html Labels: http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Labels.htm and one more, Michael Frohne has posted quite a few discographies on his blog (Booker Ervin, Hans Koller... loads of interesting stuff) http://jazzrealities.blogspot.com/ see the list on the right for some guidance

what was funny was that the festival is in that trade fair type complex where everything is named after rivers and other places (Congo, Nile, Madeira, Mekong, Maas ...) and the band really played in "Hudson". I haven't heard the album but am definitely curious - the concert had its moments but did not seem completely coherent/tight - and the sound was pretty bad, too. Organ+Bass+Guitar is not easy. The one concert that really exceeded expectations was Mathias Eick - expected the kitschiest, most relaxing side of ECM and got it but: I had a good time and, after the train ride, the metro and walking through thousands of people, I was amazed to hear music that restored me to calm and collected within five minutes max. Plus: This was not a "cool" band but a playful one, even though the music is what it is.

Yesterday a rare meeting with the world of jazz mainstream at the North Sea Jazz festival, 75 minute sets are a definite plus - and I enjoyed what I heard, sometimes unexpectedly: Mathias Eick Quintet, Hudson (deJohnette, Scofield, Medeski, Colley), Mulatu Astatke (including our own Alexander Hawkins), Vijay Iyer Sextet (and before parts of a bft with Iyer)... not a bad package at all

Team Green here, sorry, but thanks for the headsup!

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.