Niko

there is more information on these sides on the Sun Ra page at the Red Saunders foundation (since Ra played piano in this session) http://myweb.clemson.edu/~campber/sunra.html their current estimate of the line-up is "The Dozier Boys: Eugene Teague (g -1, tenor voc); Cornell Wiley (tenor, baritone voc); Benny Cotton (bass voc); Bill Minor (lead tenor voc) -2; with Eugene Wright (b, ldr); Hobart Dotson (tp); John Avant (tb -3); Frank Robinson (as); Melvin Scott (ts); Van Kelly (bars); Herman "Sonny" Blount [Sun Ra] (p, arr); Robert "Hendu" Henderson (d)." they also write "Yusef Lateef has said that he had left the band before it recorded for Aristocrat. Careful listening suggests that on the Aristocrat sides, the horns are limited to three saxes and a trumpet, with the exception of "Pork 'n Beans," where a trombone is added. Our conclusion is that Gail Brockman (tp); Roy Grant (as); and Bill Evans (ts), who later changed his name to Yusef Lateef, were regular members of the band but did not make the session" edit: just noticed that this contradicts the version stated on the Aristocrat page... will write an email... next edit: I already got answer - the information on the Aristocrat page will be updated to match that in the Sun Ra page

as I'll most likely be joining the ranks of dutch board members later this year, I've indeed already started worrying about learning the language - so far, it seems so natural, but I haven't looked into the hard stuff yet, I guess

For the moment, this seems to be the only reasonable fix and I believe it would help many users if it was implemented. That said: while the accumulated information in our database is a big mess, google covers the whole internet which is a gigantic mess. It thus has to be efficient - and it does miss quite a few things. For this reason, a decent search function for the forum would desirable - it can't be THAT hard to search all we have here. When google is better than the local search function, this is like the super market stocking more jazz albums than a "brick and mortar" shop specialized on jazz. Given that "we" actually pay for this software ... hmmm

as I said, I'd just delete the search function, maybe replace it with a link to google (provided the software is flexible enough)

imho, if you wish to proceed with Roth, I would read one of the books about the "Jewish villages in the East" next, like Tarabas, Hiob, Weight and Measure (my favorite) or Leviathan - the other "gone world" Roth knew very well ... the remaining parts of the Trotta saga (without explicit Trottas) are The String of Pearls (his last novel, set in 19th century Vienna but with a similar hero, Franz Taitinger) and The Flight without End (a relatively early novel where Franz is still called "Tunda" instead of "Trotta" and where you can still feel Roth as one of the best-paid journalists of his time) (the later works are not novels written by a journalist but rather novels where stuff just happens - the earlier ones like Hotel Savoy or Flight without End are an interesting contrast)

it hasn't worked half-properly for a long time, but since one of the last updates, it's truly silly... for instance, google turns up seven threads with Ellery Eskelin's name in the title (and many more mentions) the search function (for "eskelin") finds none of these threads, and merely 12 posts mentioning the name, some of them as old as 2005... only one of these is reasonably interesting ... (the other 11 are: 3 posts in the "For Sale" forum, 6 in "Name 3 people" , one (!) in "What are you listening..." and my mention of him in the Mitchell/Red thread yesterday) similarly, it doesn't find any of the over 20 threads with Fred Anderson's name in the title...similar picture for Gerald Wilson... imho, especially thinking of newbies, it might make sense to simply remove the search function, since it gives a highly misleading impression of the wealth of information we "have" here...

it's also included in Ellery Eskelin's list of Left Bank concerts (20 March 1966) http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/leftbank.html apparently, the Crystal Ballroom was a substitute location for about eight weeks in 1966

There are sound samples here: http://www.propermusic.com/product-details/Larry-Young-Larry-Young-in-Paris-The-ORTF-Recordings-2CD-222699 and a review including this type of information here: http://www.rte.ie/ten/reviews/music/2016/0118/761086-larry-young-in-paris/ Apparently, Young plays organ on the first nine of the ten tracks, with Jack Dieval added on piano on the last two tracks of Disc 1...

quite a few are available digitally by now, see the first link in this thread, or http://www.mps-music.com/releases/ while I am not fond of buying mp3s, I appreciate that these appear on spotify with some delay...

I don't think Roth ever lived a working class life in any narrow sense of that word - and certainly not in 1932 when Radetzkymarsch came out... His behavior was self-destructive already in the early 20s, he was in constant need of money, but this was a high income, high cost life style... he was one of the best-paid journalists of his time ... after 1933 he remained highly productive in exile (another seven novels or so ...), but there were no longer any newspapers that could/would print his work... (in fact, this explains very well why so many of his novels were written so late in his short life...). I also like Hotel Savoy a lot, maybe the best of his early work... other favorites are Flight without End, The Emperor's Tomb (in a sense Vol 2 of Radetzkymarsch), and Weights and Measures ...

His German wikipedia entry lists Warne Marsh, Art Pepper, June Christy and the Lighthouse Allstars as groups Westbrook played with... guess we just have to wait - I would expect that they again put a bigger name on the cover, and I guess chances are high that the next release will be more typical "West Coast Jazz" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Westbrook concerning Castro, I just found this old review of the Sims/Castro CD which has an interesting comments section: http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/000497.html mentioned are the following Stan Getz-Zoot Sims-Gerry Mulligan-Oscar Pettiford (amazing) *Billy Higgins-Teddy Edwards-Lucky Thompson-Leroy Vinnegar- Teddy Wilson-Dexter Gordon-Anita O'Day-Chico Hamilton- *Zoot Sims w/ Teddy Wilson *Stan Getz w/ Teddy Wilson Buddy Colette-Red Mitchell-Jimmy Gourley-Chuck Wayne- Lou Levy-Ron Jefferson-Mel Lewis-Jack Sheldon-Buddy Jones- Allen Eager-Philly Joe Jones-Paul Chambers-Vernon Alley- Monte Budwig-Paul Motian-Sonny Truitt-Gary Frommer-George Handy. *Oscar Pettiford-Lucky Thompson-Zoot Sims- *A 50-minute ‘avant garde’ piece by Chico Hamilton that mixes classical & jazz. where I have added stars for stuff in the current box... (no idea how to properly interpret the middle portion of that list) and Castro Jr. informs us what the next Fantasy/Concord CD would have been a Stan Getz album which has some overlap with the present set: "Actually the Fantasy/Concord merger didn't effect any releasing of the other material. I decided not to sell anymore Masters at the current time. They wanted to Release the Stan Getz Teddy Wilson, Doris Duke, Joe Castro, and Beverly Getz (on one track) the only recording of Stan and his Wife and it's beautiful. It's Stan with Teddy on 3 tracks (They never played together or recorded except this date) It’s a very strange Mix of Old Stride meets Cool School quite interesting. One With Doris Duke and Stan (She played piano very well I might add), and was taught by Teddy Wilson before my Father began teaching her."

I suppose it just means more Westbrook (since the Carmell Jones' CD is rather short?) (the info i have is what Westbrook's daughter posted six weeks ago on the FW facebook page "Jordi Pujol of Fresh Sound Records will be in the room soon! Arriving from Barcelona the day after Thanksgiving to discuss the next CD! Stay tuned! (and stay in tune...)")

Started listening yesterday and am now in the middle of disc 6. I agree about the first disc - it sure is interesting and it must have been a fun evening for those involved, but it's not something I need to hear on a regular basis (the trio track worked a bit better though). Disc 2, Teddy Wilson with Getz and Sims, is fantastic, and so is Disc 4 with the classical Edwards/Castro/Vinegar/Higgins Quartet. The jams with Lucky Thompson and Oscar Pettiford on Disc 3 are great but I don't think they are better than my (very high) expectations... DIsc 5, the Joe Castro Big Band with Edwards is nice - although others (G. Wilson) have recorded (imho) recorded Big Band albums featuring Edwards that sound similarly (and a bit less smooth)... Disc 6 makes an excellent first impressions ... so: I'd say the middle discs are the highlight - but it's beyond doubt a marvellous set. Both the Westbrook and Castro estates have announced further releases (J. Pujol visited around Thanksgiving...) - let's hope that at least some of those materialize...

Please keep us informed about the CD! Don't know how I could miss that link yesterday ... Concerning Hill's presence on Conflict: I believe this was the time when Hill briefly lived in Los Angeles - which doesn't explain everything but might be all the explanation there is...

just reread this page: http://www.mtaonline.net/~midnight/abouttheband.htm and stumbled over the following sentence "All it takes is one listen to our live recording at the Organic Oasis to realize what a treasure this guy is." the CD is apparently available here: http://www.mtaonline.net/~midnight/cds.htm at some point, the page had more information on Woods... (but there's still a link to a review of Conflict etc, it's definitely him)... can't find any traces of gigs in the past 10 years, but I dimly remember he's a realtor in Anchorage, so possibly he's this guy: http://www.brokercloud.org/real-property-services-anchorage-ak/

based on the one track I've heard, that is an excellent suggestion imho

Alto, Flute and Soprano, actually... there's a long interview (in French) on youtube with Robert Jeanne, the tenor player in Thomas' Belgian working band from the 60s who proudly recalls everybody's day jobs - they were an educated bunch... Many of the best European musicians in that generation were proud not to be professional musicians, thus not having to play odd gigs. Jeanne was an architect, Jean Lerusse, the bass player in that band, was a medical doctor, only Felix Simtaine, the drummer, turned professional at some point around 1970 (hope I remember all this correctly)...

here's the more comprehensive list by board member Holger Schrick... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz-Nekrolog_2015

apparently, another lineup is more likely for Ljubljana, at least, this is stated by people who possess the tape / the LP that contains one track of the gig. The alternative is Henderson / Waldron / Wayne Darling / Doug Hammond links: http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/Tapes.aspx?s=19790615 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Jazz-Na-Koncertnom-Podiju-Vol-4/release/3107244

using the trick erwbol mentioned above, i.e. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22rat+race%22+site%3Aorganissimo.org

pretty sure that this is the same disease with the search function we have had for the past few years... does anybody know how to find, say, this Mike Reed thread from 8 weeks ago: using the search function?

here are some threads

the band Joe Henderson (ts), Joanne Brackeen (p), John Lockwood (b), Danny Spencer (d) apparently evelved from Joe Henderson (ts), Steve Erquiaga (g), Ratzo Harris (b), Mike Hyman (d) via Joe Henderson (ts), Joanne Brackeen (p), Ratzo Harris (b), Danny Spencer (d) (that said: some details in the discography do not really make sense but we have some more people in there Lockwood, Spencer, Hyman... which are not exactly household names)

Did you check this discography? http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Henderson/JoeHenderson.php There are two German concerts and a Dutch in late 1978 with the following band: Joe Henderson (ts), Joanne Brackeen (p), John Lockwood (b), Danny Spencer (d) no info on Velden 1979 but two weeks earlier and three days later (Ljubljana and Lugano), the band was Joe Henderson (ts), Mal Waldron (p), John Lockwood (b), Makaya Ntoshko in early 1981 in Vienna, the band was Joe Henderson (ts), Tete Montoliu (p), John Lockwood (b), Mike Hyman (d) while Velden 1981 had Joe Henderson (ts), Chick Corea (p), Gary Peacock (b), Roy Haynes (d)

Bumping to test the search function