Niko

some late de arango can be heard here http://hooksgems.blogspot.de/2010/04/bill-dearango-live-barkin-spider.html

i like some of christian escoudé's albums (e.g. In LA, with Lou Levy and Billy Higgins) (but he did record quite a bit... )

the last track apparently is a duo with bassist Al Stauffer (nice article)

thank you! think there's some more info in the blurb below e.g. the sentence i put into boldface seems to say that the 8 bonus tracks are live recordings? the last track has "(Live From Glassboro State University/1976)" in the title so... "Plus de 35 ans après sa disparition, l'oeuvre de Bernard Peiffer reste sans doute l'une des plus méconnues du jazz moderne. Doté d'un talent hors norme, Peiffer n'aura de cesse de faire évoluer son art dans la recherche d'une fusion parfaite entre musique classique et jazz. Une expression qu'il s'applique à développer en concert comme en attestent les 8 titres totalement inédits présentés dans cette réédition. Peiffer y démontre une maîtrise et une imagination sans limites au cours d'interprétations de standards cf. L'introduction de 6 minutes de Lullaby of Birdland et de compositions complètement débridées, lorsqu'il ne s'agit pas de pièces improvisées de bout en bout (Perfect Storm). Enregistré à son arrivée sur le sol américain en 1956, l'album Bernie's Tune voit le pianiste entouré d'accompagnateurs de premier plan (Oscar Pettiford, Joe Puma). Un album en guise d'introduction au public américain qui ne laissera pas indifférent le critique Leonard Feather : "Bernard Peiffer est incroyable. Art Tatum mis à part, je ne connais pas d'autre pianiste de jazz aussi virtuose." Malheureusement, le pianiste français aura peu l'occasion de retourner en studio. On ne peut que le regretter à l'écoute du très rare Modern Jazz for People Who Like Original Music, paru sur le label Laurie en 1965, son album le plus personnel et le plus abouti.Sans doute trop en avance sur son temps, Bernard Peiffer n'aura de son vivant pu recueillir la reconnaissance qu'il mérite."

Sean Levitt

as something of an aside, i often wondered about how we all would get to hear the contents of the Tapscott collection at UCLA http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt187019m6/dsc/#c02-1.2.8.2.2 no idea about an details, but there is - among others - a lot of material by the Giant Is Awawkened band listed...

whatever it means but with the joe alexander out i am pretty certain that fresh sound have reissued everything i ever asked for in bulletin board like this one...

Happy Birthday, Allen!

apparently guest star Bennie Green with a local house band... (though the recording is from a Monday night) from here

here's more info, including sound samples: http://diskunion.net/jazz/ct/detail/JZ120403-54 HANK MOBLEY(ts) BENNIE GREEN(tb) WALTER DAVIS JR(p) JIMMY SCHENCK(b) CHARLI PERSIP(ds) THE PICADILLY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28, 1953, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Disc 1 1. OW 2. THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL 3. BALLAD MEDLEY(DARN THAT DREAN, WHERE OR WHEN, IN LOVE IN VAIN, D.STARDUST) 4. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE 5. JUMPIN' WITH SYMPHONY SID Disc 2 1. ANNOUNCEMENT 2. LULLABY OF BIRDLAND 3. EMBRACEABLE YOU 4. KEEN AND PEACHY 5. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 6. BLUES IS GREEN 7. 'S WONDERFUL

happy birthday!

dimly remember reading about someone trying to reissue that one and not getting past either wadud or phillips who was against a reissue for some reason or other... (Ubu?) (clips on youtube sound pretty great to me though... on page 60 here is more on this band

That was one helluva LP & one even more helluva CD. Thanks Jim, that's helps a lot;-) just looked it up, got it for 2,21 Euro early in 2008, hope that helps ;-)

I haven't seen it either. I thought doing this kindle thing would allow for full-text searching? it does - and Pullman really doesn't mention the session...

concerning the neologisms my problem with afram and euram is that they're particularly ugly new words... i mean no person is literally black or white (ie take a black/white sheet of paper, hold it to your face, not the same color), everybody knows that - if he had chosen african-american and european-american (not much difference in an ebook) or yellow and green (much prettier words) that would have improved the reading experience for me, but after all i don't really care (plus, this whole thing is most evident on the first few pages when pullman tells the social history of powell's ancestors)... concerning the academic writing, it could have been a bit more academic for me, ie, when it says something like Johnny Griffin visited Powell every day in October plus a footnote to a Griffin interview, i would have preferred the statement that Griffin said he visited Powell every day, but then the footnote is there so i can add that myself... can't say I am 300% impressed by the book but i have read about half of it so far, learned a lot, bought the complete verve box for 6 euros (pure luck) and am a totally happy customer of peter pullman...

not quite convinced of that... the one thing which i took home from rosenthal's book was that hard bop was something along the lines of: while bebop was the music of a small bunch of people, the hard boppers developped similar ideas along many more trajectories, some of which may have incorporated thoroughly filtered versions of more "black roots" (horace silver, bobby timmons) while others didn't (art farmer, gigi gryce, frank strozier)... don't think you can simply say hard bop is bebop plus spirituals... and i think it's deeply misguided to see any bit of "protest" in horace silver that wasn't already present in bird... and i have often wondered how it influenced the music as a whole that so many hard boppers (Griffin, Mobley, Coltrane, virtually anyone) played R&B in the early fifties, and whether that was the only music they played (or just the only music they recorded) and how it influenced their later music... more "homie" liner notes for a hard bop album by leroi jones are those to groove street by larry young

i heard the stream of about half the album (on the german site simfy but i guess it's also available on other similar sites) and it made an excellent first impression (including some great playing by Donald Byrd)

the internet is full of musicians who studied with sean levitt at the taller de musics in barcelona and elsewhere, random example http://alfonsenjuanes.com/ i would email some of those if i really wanted to know...

i really like Minimal Brass, as described above, it's just layers of overdubbed trumpets and thus hard to compare to pretty much anything but i play it quite often, here's a track

thanks for that link (didn't even know there was an Art Farmer/Wayne Shorter edition of Horace Silver's Quintet (1957))

iirc it stands for "Modern Jazz Two +3" meaning that in addition to the two leaders, Perkins and Cranshaw, the "Modern Jazz Two", there were three additional musicians

which is weird because i always thought amazon.com shipped internationally...

there's a lot of fluctuation in what's available apparently (a year ago i ordered the raymond boni solo album and ted curson's pop wine - both of which are gone by now as is, e.g., that philly joe jones octet album - on the other hand, i am certain i'd have ordered the reece then if it had been available... (got it now and it's great)

if you google a bit you'll find that zieff took his chamber jazz ensemble to a concert in a vienna only a few years ago (2008?), there's also a nice piece on zieff by chambers here: http://langtech.dickinson.edu/Sirena/Issue2/Chambers.pdf @colinmce: for much more info on ortega, including the sixties and seventies, see the much longer interview clifford linked to above

have also happily ordered directly from the label before; actually, prices have been lowered recently for a lot of stuff including all the futura reissues (11 Euro for a single cd including international shipping...)