Niko

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!

blue is the new red...

regarding that other bass player "Robert Budd": A man named "Robert Rudd" is typically listed as the bass player for some of Wilson's earlier Exelsior sessions, see here or here https://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Dotson/hd-disc.php and here for another reference to the guy in another context https://archive.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/archive/journals/jazz-music/vol4-no4-1950/18684 which (imho) rules out that this is just a pseudonym

Well, I wasn't there but from all I heard about the US of the 1950s and 1960s, it did make a difference for the artists (and for most people actually) whether they were perceived as Black, White, etc. And this suffices to make the question valid. Don't really know about the US today... of course, things have changed, but I still think that most Americans would understand something like this: "If you look at the cover of the first Kenny Cox album you see four black guys and one white guy - Drummer Danny Spencer. From the way Spencer is standing in the picture, it is easy to mistake him for the leader and this probably lead felser to the wrong conclusion of Cox being white." Regarding white people contributing to the Blue Note Sound: no this cannot be the question because there were white sidemen like Pepper Adams who contributed a lot...

actually, that discography on discogs doesn't do a particularly good job at keeping John Thomas Williams and John Towner Williams apart...Luckily, there is a relatively clear cut-off year of 1958. Most of what's listed after that is a reissue or by John Towner Williams. There are some later recordings by the other John Williams such as this one https://www.discogs.com/The-Lon-Norman-Sextet-Gold-Coast-Jazz/release/9659978 this https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-cts-session-spike-robinson-hep-records-review-by-samuel-chell.php or this http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MYCJ-30061 (where the band is posing around a park named after JW in honor of his services as IIRC city commissioner)

Here is a set list for the Monk concert from a review which you can compare with your tape: Jackieing, Crepuscule with Nellie, Straight No Chaser, Rhythm-A-Ning, Epistrophy, Well you needn't and Body and Soul. (In that text, you also find the five tunes for the Blakey part)

"Saturday 29 April" clearly places the announcement in 1961, not 1960. This is line with the detailed Monk chronology in Robin Kelley's book and with dozens of articles you can find in the National Jazz Archive such as this one: https://archive.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/archive/journals/jazz-news/volume5-no14/159061-jazz-news-volume5-no14-0010?q=monk+blakey