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Thanks! I had reserved Harry Potter for reading something highly familiar in Dutch but Behrendt will do as well (and right now I can easily get all the old editions before 1989 at the library which still holds many treasures from back when we still had "jazz education" around here - luckily, the folks back then were smart enough to keep all the old versions). (And I knew that Orkester Journalen is not Dutch - just wanted to highlight that you seem to read many of the European languages from what you write here) @Cyril: thanks, order placed!

@big beat steve: remembering your knowledge of ancient issues of orkester journalen etc, I thought of you when I wrote "others are invited as well"... will drop you a line (of course, I know the book, grew up with 1989 edition but only have an edition from around 1970 at this point...) - and thanks for "Eddy Determeyer"

@cyril: thanks - this is exactly what I was asking for... it leads me into a related question: Where do I buy used Dutch books (online)?

I hope that some of the Dutch board members can help me here (others are invited as well !)... I will be moving to the Netherlands (Tilburg) in August and don't know the language yet... I will certainly take classes when the time comes and don't really have to learn it for my job, but ... earlier today I remembered that I basically learned English from reading Jazz books (assisted by more formal classes) and that this method really worked out for me back then... similarly, the only thing I do to keep up my French is the occasional Jazz book which is not available otherwise (San Quentin Jazz Band, or more recently Jean-Pol Schroeder's books on jazz in and around Liège)... Thus I wondered: Can you recommend any books on Jazz which are only available in Dutch? I am more interested in history or biographies than in "the technical side", preferably with a focus on the period between about 1940 and 1990, either in Europe or in the US... The only Dutch jazz books I know are the Baker and Webster biographies by Jeroen de Valk - I know the English translation, otherwise those would be exactly what I am looking for...

Thanks a lot to all of you!!

I would guess that a double LP is possible for the Thompson ... if they just want to use half the music, they have to select heavily (the title shows that they use material from both sessions - could of course also be the case that they reissue the first and add some of the second as bonus tracks...) With the Gordon/Gullin/Shihab Session, it seems likely that this is connected to this documentary (music starting around minute 5, before that you just see how the rhythm section picks up Gullin at the train station etc) in case anyone wonders about Dexter's date, she is apparently a well-known Danish actress who would in 1965 marry the pianist in the band Harold Goldberg, who was one of the managers of the Montmartre for a short time around 1962... more info here http://www.danskefilm.dk/index2.html and here http://dvm.nu/files/musik_forskning/1996/mf1996_08.pdf

well, Hamburg and "Michael Naura Trio" is news, even though it only confirms my above guess... We just have to wait, which tracks they pick, but even this is relatively clear: The two sessions seem to have between 80 and 90 minutes each, but the tracks with Thompson are about 30 minutes in the first session and 40 minutes in the second, so they fit onto a single CD

Thanks! This finally answers the question whether jsngry saw Vandy Harris or Ari Brown in 1981...

just noticed the trumpet playing as well, and also that the timings didn't match... there's an explanation on discogs: The current "reissue" couples Side A of Hadley Caliman with Side A of Iapetus, his second mainstream album, thus leaving out half of the self-titled album https://www.discogs.com/de/Hadley-Caliman-Hadley-Caliman/release/6403264 While I admit that I'd have preferred a reissue of Iapetus to a reissue of Hadley Caliman, I am nevertheless rather pissed - especially since this is apparently just an error...

here's a notice from the 7 June 1969 Billboard "Douglas Repackaging Jazz Albums for Spanish Market" where it says: "Douglas' initial tie with Gema [the Spanish label] covers about 12 albums including "new jazz" product by artists such as Eric Dolphy, Dave Burrell, Elvin Jones, Paul Bley and Ric Colbeck, [...]". Is there anything else by Jones that could have been meant here?

given that Sonorama has access to the NDR archives, the 1959/1960 range and the title Bop & Ballads, I suspect that we will see material from these two sessions: Date: April 17, 1959 Location: Funkhaus des NDR, Studio 10, Hamburg, Germany Label: NDR (Ger.) NDR Jazz Workshop No. 6 Lucky Thompson (ss, ts), Klaus Marmulla (as), Georges Grenu (ts), Hans Koller (ts, bar), Helmut Reinhardt (bar), Wolfgang Schlüter (vib), Michael Naura (p), Hajo Lange (b), Heinz von Moisy (d) Date: April 22, 1960 Location: Funkhaus des NDR, Studio 10, Hamburg, Germany Label: NDR (Ger.) NDR Jazz Workshop No. 13 Lucky Thompson (ss, ts), Klaus Marmulla (as), Wolfgang Schlüter (vib), Jimmy Gourley (g), Michael Naura (p, cel, or), Hajo Lange (b), Heinz von Moisy (d), Helen Merrill (v) Noal Cohen's discography gives a detailed overview of these sessions: http://www.attictoys.com/LuckyThompson/Lucky_Thompson_discography3.php

near the end of a newspaper interview, a scientist friend was recently asked the following: "How come the stuff you're saying is so much more balanced and less flashy than what I've read in previous articles about your work?" The journalist then quickly answered the question for himself...

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...