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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...

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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.

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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...)

now I am really curious... Was there a Charles Mills album to listen to in 1959? And relatedly, what is the record Amram mentions here: "Charles Mills used to come to Mat [Matthews]'s apartment and bring a copy of his `Crazy Horse Symphony' which the Cincinnati Symphony had recorded." The fact that Rosemary Leary was at that time still living with accordionist Mat Matthews dates the story before 1965... The Cincinnati Symphony premiered the Crazy Horse symphony in 1958 but I can't find any traces of a recording... (which reminds me that it might just have been a tape or something...)

and here is an oral history by David Amram http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/pdf/Amram_DavidOralHistoryFinalWebsite.pdf which has a pretty amazing story involving Charles Mills that actually starts out with listening to a Charles Mills record on p.32-34. (At the top of p.32 is a Tony Fruscella anecdote I had never read btw).

must have seen this short documentary before - but only now do I appreciate that it is Charles Mills who composed the music and plays the flute ...

Jack Dieval Quartet - 30 Years of Jazz as seen on the cover, this quartet is actually a quintet with trumpeters Roger Guerin and Benny Bailey...

I'm teaching this stuff far too much, and what I say like at least twice a week is, "back in the 80s when there was interest, people thought that with a principle of X you could achieve whatever ..."

I really miss Josh Benko, a former mainstay on the SmallsLive broadcasts... nobody needs anything other than bop in principle

Somewhat unexpectedly spent all morning listening to Kenton broadcasts at the great AllThingsKenton webpage http://allthingskenton.com/table_of_contents/radio_broadcasts/ dozens of broadcasts, mostly from the early 50s, nicely documented with line-ups, arrangers and soloists... started out looking for the Dave Schildkraut solos and then went on and on... highly recommended!