Niko

no bass and one or two guitars and an organ too many, but what about those Groove Holmes/Jimmy McGriff Giants of The Organ albums? (especially the live one)

He's listed on the other three I have - 'Storm of Light', 'Stella Marina' and 'Inner City Blues'. The only Working Week albim with Keith Tippett on that I know was the later 'Fire in the Mountain'. Not sure if he's on that. The last time I saw him he was playing in the band that recorded this: had totally forgotten about it, but I saw him with that fine band, too IIRC (in Moers) really discovered him only in the last few weeks through those great Collier albums ... RIP

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afaik it's not literally the same label though it is the same people... i've spent hours listening to the Smalls Live Jazz archive online... (we had a thread about that); for instance the trio of guitarist William Ash and the quintet of trumpeter Dwayne Clemons featuring Sacha Perry on piano are two groups i like which have dozens of sets in that archive... (like this one) http://www.smallsjazzclub.com

naturally, i wasn't an American (though obviously a Western tourist) but i travelled Poland in the late 90s and it always felt reasonably save... nothing I've heard speaks for singling out just those two countries out of the old East... (Russia for instance sounded much more troublesome to me than Poland from all I've heard...)

hmmm... saying that Isoardi wrote The Dark Tree I find slightly misleading - essentially it's a collection of long quotes from interviews - which he of course guided by asking the questions... plus text in between to add the missing facts... long time since I looked at the Tapscott auto-bio, but about the Buddy Collette autobiography it's definitely the same... can't find a clever way to say this, but to me it's not about the music enough, i would have hoped for a bit more argumentation, more musical comparisons, whatever, something that goes beyond remembrances of buying a new book pressing machine (even though this type of thing may well have been a big deal back then); put differently The Dark Tree is essentially a collective autobiography of Tapscott and the people around him whereas Song of the Unsung is an autobiography constructed with the same method... if you like TDT very much or if you think the Tapscott's snippets are the best thing about it, then move on asap...

would definitely wait and see, since it's the same author and as i wrote above (didn't i?) that the Dark Tree book while fine has tendencies towards being a little dry, too interview-based, i would read DT first and see how you get along with it... another chance to mention that at the Nimbus West homepage quite a few Tapscott CDs can be had for very reasonable money http://www.nimbuswest.com/

here is a poster for the Third annual CP Memorial Jazz Concert from 1957feat Ira Sullivan, Johnny Griffin, Frank Strozier and the Norman Simmons Band here's a blurp about 1962

the one with Rodney, Gordon etc is available on cd here (couldn't find it on amazon.com, strangely, but prices are low...) This is a most valuable archive link to the Jazz Institute of Chicago's former webpage containing loads of stuff not yet (?) on the new page (last time i looked) such as the Bronzeville Conversations (link on the right); right in the middle of the page there's a bit about the 1963 memorial concert...

Amina Claudine Myers played with Ammons in the 60s... see the interview here: http://bombsite.com/issues/97/articles/2857

yes, that's weird, french amazon has prices of 16,95 18,95 19,95 30,45 which is similar (but a good deal nicer), similar relations at amazon.de (but add 15-20 Euro to the price...) still waiting for grooves-inc prices (Threadgill set is labeled sold out on the label's hompage btw)

most of the rest of his discography should be on deezer

yes, of course, different personalities lead them to different perceptions of what was going on around them and to writing a totally different book... Lucky Thompson's autobiography would have been something... (Collette is still around btw as far as i can see)

some of the unreleased passages are read on Hal Willner's Mingus Project "Weird Nightmare"... (an enjoyable CD though I would not get it for those texts alone..) I must listen to this again. I like Wilner's albums and have this (just the disc, no liners) so if its all on the CD I should be fine. Thanks for the prompt. someone typed most of the liner notes into German wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Nightmare:_Meditations_on_Mingus apparently, the spoken word passages on tracks 8 and 10 are from the unreleased parts of Beneath the Underdog ("aus unveröffentlichten Teilen von Beneath the Underdog") though I'm pretty sure I read about the Coconut Grove incident elsewhere... (or why should I otherwise know the bass player in that story was Jack Lesberg) btw, if you want to see how to turn (almost) the same youth into a rather boring book look no further than Buddy Collette's autobiography, mostly interesting as a contrast to Beneath the Underdog imho

some of the unreleased passages are read on Hal Willner's Mingus Project "Weird Nightmare"... (an enjoyable CD though I would not get it for those texts alone..)

no time to look it up now but in Billboard editions from the era (google books) there's some coverage of the label which was run by toots camarata and had some other artists as well (marv or merv jenkins?)

a bunch of mainstream albums (eg most of blue mitchell's) were reissued as downloads apparently, they're on deezer.com, iirc emusic ...

Vitor Assis Brasil - Trajeto fine brazillian hard bop from the late sixties, bought for the cool cover (and despite the presence of claudio roditi)

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...