Niko

there's not only the Monk... http://www.johannadenzinger.com/gallery_coolcats.html

I am pretty sure that the album title comes from a card Hank Mobley wrote in Holland. In that radio show I linked to earlier in this thread (see above), Frank Jochemsen tells about finding the tapes, and the way I understand it (my Dutch is almost non-existent), the radio show was deleted by the radio station, but he found a copy of the tape together with a card from Hank with the text from the album cover on it in the private archives of the club owner

here's a two-part interview with MG published last November. To me, it doesn't read like the book is near completion... http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/4429-memories-of-dexter-maxine-gordon-talks-to-sjf-about-her-jazz-legend-husband-whos-the-subject-of-her-forthcoming-biography.html http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/4463-midnight-musings-maxine-gordon-interview-part-two-.html

Recently noticed that the "official" Dexter Gordon homepage run by Moontrane Media (aka Woody III I guess) is the most corporate looking homepage I've seen in a long time - the usual stuff like a discography, sound samples, videos ... seem to be missing - instead one can buy shirts, watches, mugs, phone cases... and donate money... https://dextergordon.com/ DEXTERGORDON.COM is the official business website representing the legacy of late tenor saxophone legend, composer, and Academy Award nominated actor Dexter Gordon™ (1923-1990). DEXTERGORDON.COM is the exclusive property of DEX MUSIC LLC.

I really liked the book by Tommy James mentioned in the last paragraph - certainly light reading (and the music I still don't get) but many more details on Levy

I linked to that concert review from Groningen somewhere above where the reviewer seemed rather unhappy about Pim Jacobs and claimed that the music finally clicked in the one set where de Graaff played behind Mobley (at least that's what I extracted from the Dutch text - that Dutch newspaper archive is amazing! and "Ruud Jacobs was de enige die niveau had" seems hard to misunderstand)

I didn't think it was shown at the same time, I was only saying that (very much like Jack Dieval in France) Jacobs was the one pianist who over a few decades had the chance of jamming with dozens travelling jazz stars on TV?

slightly different band but still the same TV show, right? (stuff I learned when catching up on Dutch jazz in the last few days, after Wessel Ilcken, the drummer/leader/husband of Rita Reys died, pianist Pim Jacobs married Rita but the drummers in the band kept fluctuating - but at least he had his own TV show). The online catalogue of the Dutch Jazz Archive only lists a CD-R with the session coming from an audiotape (KO121) that also contains sessions with Maynard Ferguson in Mobley's/Montgomery's place, and a recording of Art Farmer/Jimmy Heath/Mal Waldron/Jimmy Woode/Steve McCall http://catalogusmcn.nl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=ko121 find of the day was this collection of photographs though, among many others, watch out for Dexter Gordon in the lower right corner of #27 https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/inventaris/30785.nl.html#

after reading a bit more here and there (finally practising my dutch a little) it seems fairly clear that the first session with the Jacobs brothers is indeed extracted from the same TV show that gave us the Montgomery video.

here is a photograph of Hank Mobley with the leaders of the Hobby Orkest (if you scroll a bit to the upper left), the text mentions a broadcast by "Nederlandse Radio Unie" which I take to be radio - but who knows. (For the Rotterdam session, the guy from the jazz archive mentions in that radio interview how lucky he was to stumble upon the tape in the archives of the B14 club - so in this case I wouldn't be optimistic). Without Mobley, the Hobby Orkest was filmed, and it sounds pretty good (a full tune is heard at 5:40).

Thanks! Can't find the full line-ups for Amsterdam and Hilversum, but I would expect different rhythm sections - the one in Rotterdam seemed to be a one-off (even though pianist Rob Agerbeck claims he was scheduled to appear on The Flip), and on all other dates I could find, the pianist was indeed Pim Jacobs (except for this report from Groningen which claims that the music got so much better when Rein de Graaf sat in for a set). Both clips are great imho so there's definitely something to look forward to

as I wrote above, it seems like the CD will be from a different concert with a different band - not the one from the youtube clip in the first post (unless several concerts are combined on one CD, of course). Hank Mobley was apparently quite active in the Netherlands in March and April 1968, as can be seen here.

The final clip on this site (Frank Jochemsen aan tafel) seems to discuss this upcoming jazzarchief release (the clip is from last December and apparently matters were still more uncertain then). http://www.nposoulenjazz.nl/colive/uitzending/389411 importantly, starting at minute 6 there is a track of about 9 minutes from the concert (Like someone in love). This is apparently not the recording from the youtube clip but rather from 29 March 1968 at the B14 club in Rotterdam with Hank Mobley Rob Agerbeek (p) Hans van Rossum (b) Cees See (dr) apparently, van Rossum was substituting for Jimmy Woode who is in the newspaper announcements... but still!

amazon.fr has the track lists and cover photographs so one can reverse-engineer the contents. "Hard Bop" contains two sessions, the Roger Guerin Session which is on Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (no Art Farmer) and 4 tracks from the Vogue Sessions by Hampton's sidemen featuring Art Farmer, see here: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01N2REH1O/ the Arvanitas is a 1960 Quintet Album with Bernard Vitet and Francois Jeanneau... and the cover of Afternoon in Paris is really quite weak compared to the original

reminds me of the earlier days of this board....

@l p: Do you mean something like this Barney Wilen-tenorsax, Henri Tichet-?, Sean Levitt-gitaar, Al Levitt-drums. which tells us that "Henri Tichet" most likely played bass, and that there might be a typo in his name (might even be Henri Texier)? That the listing might not include last minute corrections to the line-up (or sit-ins)? Or some more systematic issues?

I know it's off-topic, but as a small remark in case you didn't know: The Bimhuis in Amsterdam has a relatively complete database of groups that played there from some point in the 70s on (?), which might also be handy for ruling out things as unplausible etc (just use the search window at the top of the page). This gives http://bimhuis.com/gigs/tete-montoliu-trio Tete Montoliu-piano, Herbie Lewis-bass, Billy Higgins-drums on Jan 20 1990 Joe Henderson-tenorsax, Tete Montoliu-piano, John Lockwood-bass, Mike Hyman-drums on Feb 14 1981 for UK magazines, there's the National Jazz Archive, but this doesn't have much about Montoliu (quite a bit about Roland Kirk's stay after the tour with Montoliu though) http://archive.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/

there are quite a few pictures on twitter, e.g. see here for more

No - the liner notes contain a longer essay by Lancaster about his place in the world, and a memory of drummer JR Mitchell written by his wife but virtually nothing about the music beyond the (incomplete) discographical info...

the 1966 broadcast has been more or less around for a time, it's about 40 minutes of music... Date: February 25, 1966 Location: Half Note, New York City Label: [radio broadcast] Kenny Dorham (ldr), Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner (as), Kenny Dorham (t), Cedar Walton (p), John Ore (b), Hugh Walker (d) a. 01 Jung Fu - 12:21 (Kenny Dorham) b. 02 Spring Is Here - 8:12 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) c. 03 Somewhere In The Night - 6:30 (Joseph Myrow, Mack Gordon) d. 04 The Shadow Of Your Smile - 7:21 (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) e. 05 Straight Ahead - 8:36 (Kenny Dorham) Sylvester 'Sonny Red' Kyner (as) on a-c, e; Kenny Dorham (t) on a-b, d-e. Broadcast on WABC-FM program "Portraits In Jazz" hosted by Alan Grant. Spoken comments by Alan Grant and Kenny Dorham precede b (1:17) and c (0:49). Recording of broadcast ends slightly before end of performance. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/DorhamKenny-ldr.php

the facts that both were sons of Albert Ammons (as written in the wikipedia article) and that his daughter Lila is said to be the niece of GA (in her wiki article) is almost as good as wikipedia claiming the two were brother imho

My impression was that since a few weeks ago the search function works properly again?

thanks for the link! I skipped some passages but have made it to chapter 16 by now - didn't notice anything unusual around chapter 12...

"books about Dutch jazz and or musicians or books in Dutch about general jazz subjects" both actually... thank you all for the further ideas - I will definitely try used bookstores once I am there (only three months left), and also the public library! And special thanks to Big Beat Steve for the first edition of the Jazz Book in Dutch! Some things are familiar from later editions but this competition between "blanke" and "zwarte" musicians was not laid out that clearly later on ...

With Dutch, I have the suspicion that actually speaking it will be the biggest challenge (followed by writing) while reading texts in Dutch without any formal training or much exposure works out surprisingly well... my musical interests are fairly broad - and I especially like reading stories about bands (even beyond what I actually listen to) so any good music book is welcome advice. (In this case, there's a further appeal since both my parents and grandparents spent several years in Indonesia)... Thanks!