Niko

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...)

the red mitchell recording was a private recording which was made available here, just click on "The Art Of Vocalese – Playlist"

thanks so much to the three of you, then the first session is clear... for the Triglia-arranged session, the jazz-archeology entry gives the label als Progressive (unissued at the time; and if the date is right and if Rudy van Gelder was indeed the engineer on that one as it says in Fitzgerald's discography, it was a remarkably early van Gelder session I guess, February 1952)

i am just writing a small text about fruscella and stumbled upon the following question (again?): fruscella lead four studio sessions (the quintet with chick maures, the band with herb geller and phil urso, the two atlantic sessions) - is it really true that - except for the atlantic album that was released - we don't know how these recordings made their way from the studio to the companies who released them (respectively, Spotlite, Xanadu and Freshsound); I can imagine what happened in the case of the Fresh Sound/Atlantic album, but does anybody have a clue about the sessions which first appeared on the Spotlite LP "Debut" (Fitzgerald's discography gives the label who recorded it as "Century" - never heard of that, he doesn't list an issue earlier than Spotlite) and on the Xanadu compilation "Bebop Revisited Vol 3" (Fitzgerald says RVG and private recording, no prior issues) does anybody know anything about who recorded those sessions etc or can look at those LPs and see whether they specify the origins of the recordings? thank you!

i really like that winding session

there's the family album on ESP-Disk which is in the first place weird but it's easy to get on cd and has its moments... then there are four cds by sean, an album called "sean levitt quartet" which was released and recorded in the nineties with a spanish rhythm section and a four cd box from shortly after his death which contains this album and three more which were previously unreleased, (1) a collection of trio recordings from the 80s with ze eduardo and jorge rossy among others (2) a trio with John Betsch and Gilles Naturel from 2002 (3) a co-led album by sean and stella with Naturel/Betsch plus Alain Jean Marie also from 2002 (this is where the version of When Sunny Gets Blue comes from) the two items are listed here as #9 and #32 (and as i said, 9 is contained in 32) http://www.tallerdemusics.com/management-y-producciones/sello-discografico/ but the site where i ordered them does not seem to exist anymore... i think this is an excellent box well worth seeking out... otherwise, (legal) mp3s are fairly easy to find (for instance, if www.deezer.com still works in belgium you can listen to them there)

discovered the family (especially the four albums bei sean) about a year ago... still missing stella's own albums ... also think she's wonderful