Niko

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

hope you enjoy it! and i should have mentioned that on the label website the current price for this album (most albums) is 10 Euro including international shipping - which seems almost too cheap to me

Slightly off topic, Simmons' Mixolydis which had been unavailable for a few years has been reissued (even with slightly improved artwork) by Futura/Marge... Heard it for the first two times yesterday and found that it exceeded my expectations... it's almost a classical Hard Bop album and Simmons fits in nicely (the rest of the band is Eddie Henderson, John Hicks, Curtis Lundy, Victor Lewis) http://futuramarge.free.fr/

"[update: Apparently not white, sorry Mr. Herbert!] " guess he read this thread but wasn't really interested... (my first reaction to this correction was "herbert died before I was born so it sounds a bit disrespectful", but my english isn't good enough for this type of judgement after all)

Ortega is the featured soloist on Sunset Eyes and that appears to be his only solo. Most solos are by Castro and Edwards, followed by Bob Cooper... on the Edwards Tentett album, there are also several Freddie Hill solos amazingly, they list soloists for all tunes where one might wonder (ie for the Zoot Sims/Lucky Thompson disc, the Big Band and the Teddy Edwards Tentett album): http://www.joecastrojazz.com/discography if the rightmost column is empty, it's not included in the set, second colum from right is soloists. For the big band album, this info is also here http://sunnysidezone.com/album/joe-castro-lush-life-a-musical-journey

it's not a complete Castro discography actually (which would include his two Atlantic albums, as well as his album called "Lush Life" which appeared on Clover records but does not seem to have any overlap with this release) but rather a complete listing of the sessions related to this box - making clear what was left off, and what appeared earlier on Metrojazz and the Sims CD (ie making clear there is no overlap with the latter two releases - everything appears to be new except for two tracks from the Big Band album which appeared as a promo single at the time)

Same here!

just in case: while many of the threads here are RIP threads, this one isn't...

Concerning "John Pierce", he's slightly less obscure under the other (probably correct) spelling "John Peirce"... at least, there is a memorial album which is reviewed here http://www.cadencejazzmagazine.com/membersonly/admin/assets/CadenceOctober2013double.pdf there's also an informative review here: http://www.amazon.com/Memorial-Album-John-Peirce/dp/B00HAWAT98

tried to google John Pierce earlier today and didn't get far, but apparently there's a prominent clarinet mouthpiece bearing his name, the best clarinet mouthpiece for playing Dixieland some argue - so that appears to check...

Steve Griggs (see above) has posted a directory of the Joe Brazil Tape Collection on his Joe Brazil blog last year... one tape (not included in the list) was discussed in this previous thread ... would be nice if the rest became available and sounded better... http://joebrazilproject.blogspot.de/2014/05/joe-brazil-audio-tapes-from-detroit.html

Have you been to that area again? I have travelled that part of Germany (Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Eisenach...) quite a bit recently and it's amazing how prosperous and posh it has become, even compared to 2001, and most certainly compared to the 1980s... (the big thing there at the moment is Sushi, a relatively recent invention in these parts, with several restaurants in each city)

RIP recently I have listened a lot to the above album from 2003, the Robert Jeanne Quartet with Michel Herr, Felix Simtaine and Warland...

thanks! that article number 4014704020109 is also found on the official German distributor's webpage, in the entry for the original box, suggesting though, of course, not proving that this is the genuine article...