Niko

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!

very nice article posted by a friend of Draper: http://jazztimes.com/community/articles/25890-i-never-met-john-coltrane

just stumbled across this italian article from last december it says: so "bimestrale" means every two months, i.e., they are behind schedule already... of the mentioned artists (Lacy, Lewis, Dixon, Taylor, Roach, Russell, Motian, Moye) three are in the next batch apparently (Taylor, Russell, Motian) which seems to imply that the list is old but pretty accurate (david ayres, where did you get the info re braxton, taylor, douglas you posted above?) so it looks as if Dixon, Lacy and Roach are on the horizon...! wonder what a Don Moye Set would include...

one more new boxset appeared on the website, paul motian with the albums JACK OF CLUBS MISTERIOSO THE STORY OF MARYAM ONE TIME OUT NOTES the group on the first three is Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Jim Pepper, Ed Schuller, One Time Out is a Trio with Frisell/Lovano, Notes is a duet wit Paul Bley; strangely it's billed as 6 CDs so unless one of the above is a double album, one more album might be added... the individual albums from the cecil taylor and paul motian sets can already be streamed on the labels' page, e.g. Misterioso

i'm not registered so i just post a first impression of the first half.. #1: definitely a great opening, could be the theme song of a radio show; that said, it does not really speak to me, way to upbeat, and i'd be really surprised if i knew the artists well, can't really place it, a little bit what i'd imagine a wycliffe gordon album to be like :-) #2: more up my alley, definitely don't know this since i don't have anything in the line-up trumpet/bass/drums; i like this type of trumpet playing, tomasz stanko?, don cherry?, too simplistic music for Cherry? but there's this brief singing... all in all i find it a bit too cinema-like, but the bass solo was great - and i am not a big fan of bass solos usually... #3: Romano/Sclavis/Texier? clarinet player is a bit less polished and more bluesy in a superficial way than Sclavis, would not swear it's not them, but tend to say no... again the bass playing is the best part of the track... again this is nice to have around but the final spark is missing... #4: best track so far, i really like the backing of the alto solo, flexible and arranged (?) at the same time.., also the solo itself quite a bit; trumpet solo is definitely better than on #2, much more sparkling... overall the track has a great dynamic... i also like the contrast between the two saxophone players, the relatively focused, extroverted alto player and the freer but more introverted tenor player... #5: no idea what this is, drums and bass are instruments i pay less attention to than i should usually, but since there's nothing else to be heard here... sounds good to me! have trouble even counting the bass players, two of them, right? #6: once again it's a bit to soundtrack like for me in the head... (pink panther comes very dimly to mind) but the guitar player i find really interesting, obviously not afraid of dissonances, there's a rock influence, a bit of africa, great! i like how the drummer interacts wih the rest, drummer-deaf as i am... with the saxophone player i like the reflective moments a lot, the way he tries to build up intensity in places i liked a bit less... this is not early Rypdal/Garbarek? sounds more like Rypdal/Maupin to me... but what do i know... #7 clever music... but i like it, guess it's what they call post-modern django bates? henry threadgill? no clue... #8 this is the type of jazz you always hear on the jazz radio shows, overhere at least, don't really like the overall feel of the music although i do like something about the piano player and saxophone player as soloists, saxophone player is very focused, though not a way of playing i'd enjoy a lot... with the piano player i liked the simplicity... #9 a jazz singer is involved.. that said, i found the piano solo pretty interesting, almost like a classical piano player... #10 sounds like a real deal to me... strangely, i can't really decide between archie shepp and pharoah sanders... which dimly suggests it's neither of them, like david murray... so my best guess is one of pharoah sanders theresa albums... also like the piano player who plays a good deal lighter and more volatile than most i've heard in spiritual jazz settings like this

just thought i'd give a heads up that two of the Tchangodei/Archie Shepp collaborations, Ginseng and Eagle's Flight, made it to deezer, emusic and probably some other digital places as well recently... both are from the mid-80s, made a good impression on me, the former is a quartet with Wilbur Little and Clifford Jarvis, the latter a duett...

the end of the Baker/Mulligan Band was that Mulligan came out of prison (not for alcohol) and Baker demanded equal pay claiming (rightly) that he had just won the downbeat readers poll - if that story (from devalk's book) is true it's quite a bit against the legend that baker's drug problems messed it all up...

no! it's still in print, e.g., you can order it directly from the label... (18 Euro incl shipping) http://futuramarge.free.fr/ great to see the label is going again, e.g., a meeting of Hal Singer and David Murray recorded this April is announced for September... and the sound sample for the new Alexandra Grimal Album with Konitz/Peacock/Motian makes a good impression... if all this isn't worth supporting i dunno