Niko

my first Art Farmer record was the Lonehill edition of Modern Art, remember that purchase well because I wasn't really into jazz at the time and was just looking for some nice 50s bop album with lyrical trumpet... i saw those bins which had most of the ojcs for 3 euro a piece but didn't consider it worth looking through them... that was bound to change in the next few weeks...

don't think it will be easily available there, otherwise it would be on amazon.fr, priceminister (only one copy for 10 Euro),... it's on emusic, deezer,... though

happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

another thing found on google yesterday was from an instructions book by tenorist Jerry Coker where considers Sing Sing Sing as the most prominent predecessor of modal jazz/kind of blue

same story told by Joe's brother has long been on this fine Maini website... finally, here's a discography; best about the jazzwax piece are the new photos; jazzwax had some pretty good stuff recently, a two part interview with David Amram remembering Bobby Jaspar, an interview with trumpeter Dick Collins...

fwiw, googling reveals that Allen is not at all alone with this assessment, e.g. here and here; doesn't quite proof prime influence, but still...

luckily just the second! so my findings here should be taken with two or three grains of salt...

just learned that i can hardly read these things anymore.. that said, my feeling is, that those ten bars on the back of the cd indeed contain most (!) of the information needed to play "Impact" (the tune) and the size is large enough to read it with some concentration; in the inlay with the blue ground is Stanley Cowell's "Prayer For Peace", harder to read, doubt that photoshop will help, rather making an own copy and that filling gaps by ear... most of the notes can be read and having the meter changes will sure be helpful; less sure whether this is complete since its hard to follow with all the repetitions but 80% sure it's the whole theme played by Tolliver with chords

Pullen, Roach, Bang, Dixon, Hemphill, Braxton... all the stuff that was hard to get, maybe out of fashion, when i started listening to jazz

as an aside, I just noticed that the alphabetically first albums of the four new sets come after the alphabetically first albums of the four old sets in the list on the camjazz homepage (on this somewhat unorthodox list which is alphabetical by album title); chance of this happening randomly is about 1.4% if i am not mistaken... hope this doesn't mean, that artists whose alphabetically first album comes before "Out here like this" by the Leaders are excluded from the Box Set Thing...

you can see the backcover here: http://www.amazon.de/Impact-Enja24bit-Charles-Tolliver/dp/B000FGGBJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1276639446&sr=8-1

should we have missed the Mariano-Akiyoshi-Michirus so-far?

pm sent re: Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford -- Spark! (palmetto) Clusone 3 -- Rara Avis (hatology) ... (lowest used price at amazon = $30) FIght the big bull - Dying will be easy Charlie Parker -- Charlie Parker at Birdland, Vol. 1 (ember) (2 CDs) ... (lowest used price at amazon = $35) Charlie Shavers & Coleman Hawkins -- A Famous Jazz Party 1958 (Jazz Factory) (2 CD)

i often wonder whether the number of famous sons and daughters in jazz has increased in recent years is due to the fact that only people who more or less grew up in jazzy surroundings seriously consider becoming jazz musicians, that it is a sign of degeneration... Ravi Coltrane and Joshua Redman...

some i like better than others, some i've tried harder with than with others, anyway, here's my big band of artists i've never really liked Clark Terry Freddie Hubbard Miles Davis Bob Brookmeyer Nils Landgren George Lewis Gary Bartz James Moody Dexter Gordon Joe Lovano Gerry Mulligan Pat Metheny Dave Brubeck Eddie Gomez Peter Erskine

I like to think that to some extent Jazz happened because the possibilities for the black population were so limited at the time; many of those who might have become great, say, rocket scientists or dozens of other things, more or less involuntarily chose music and then jazz as the way to express their talents... and that they wouldn't become musicians today...

he's Jimmy's son and a pianist, see here or here (under the first link there's a nice show in the Smalls Jazz Club Archive with Jon Raney as the pianist of an Elliot Zigmund Quartet with Rich Perry...) MG, who are Fred Jackson Sr and Jr (ie which one is the one who recorded with Grant Green, who is the other?) Cohran, Phil, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble O'Neil, Swing Lee and Ra, Avreeayl Bauer, Conny and Johannes

Lasha, Prince and Lawsha, Prince Henderson, Joe and Leon Henderson, Fletcher and Horace Massey, Cal and Zane (Bill was a cousin...?)

Raney, Jimmy, Jon & Doug Levitt, Al, Stella & Sean (where I wonder why Sean apparently went by the name of Idris Sean O'Rourke later in his life, not his mother's maiden name) Mangelsdorff, Emil and Albert Kühn, Rolf and Joachim Moncur, Grachan II & III Wright, Lamar Sr, Lamar Jr, Elmon

planned release date is 3 September http://www.camscores.com/site/?site=&path=cd_press&idcd=1686

no time to pm right now but i want them! will write tommoroorw

WTF!!!!??? Never heard of this one. Some more details would be terribly helpful, please. MG haven't checked anything, but i guess it's "jimmy heath", not "jimmy forrest" in this case (good album though)

now The Cry of My People is an album i would definitely sample before buying (spotify...) since it has Ray Draper on it i've been wondering: How is "Trumpet in My Soul"?

maybe the wrong thread to ask.. but which Coltrane biographies do you recommend? after some searching to me it looks like a decision between Lewis Porter's and Cuthbert Simpkins' books... so opinions between these two are especially appreciated, but also hints at other books... thank you!