Niko

Lost Sessions and Consequence on hold for me, please! and Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

i would guess that whenever there is useful info in the textfile, it's already given on the page when ou scroll down (like on the one i linked to it says Melvin Sparks - guitar Jerry Z - Hammond B3 organ Justin Tomsovic - drums iirc i once looked through them all and didn't spot big names - but then i guess in your soul jazz book there are more big names than in mine guess you have to rely on annoucements for the early shows...

you can choose between different formats, at least on this one http://www.archive.org/details/msb2005-06-19.flac i just looked at... if you just want low quality mp3s for instance, you can take the files from column "64Kbps MP3" which are only about 5MB each; next level is "VBR MP3" and so on; if you download msb2005-06-19.flac_vbr_mp3.zip you have just one file in the higher mp3 quality; don't think you need those additional files (you certainly won't if you go for mp3) if you don't want to bother with downloading you can also just play them online in the upper right corner... just saw some of the older shows don't have that many choices... no idea about shn files, i doubt you need the little ones though!

thank you, guess i'll buy this in any case! there's some duplication though, as far as i can see, the two distel/fol tracks are also on the distel hors serie cd, one of the two Chevalier Tracks is in the St Germain des Pres Boxset (Le Calife), same for one of the Michelot tracks (Devil's dream); but it's great to hear more from players like Fol and Hulin!

happy birthday!

the first young lion to turn 50...? happy birthday!

more melvin sparks than you'd ever want to hear is to be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/MelvinSparksBand greg osby used to have a lot but apparently it's gone... on andrew hill's posthumous page is a solo concert and spiral on arista freedom, don't overlook the Smalls Jazz Archive though it's streaming only, no download...

Happy Birthday, Chuck!

this site: http://blog-shinjuku-jazz.diskunion.net/Page/2/ lists some more, i.e. ART BLAKEY / PARIS JAM SESSION BILL COLEMAN / FROM BOOGIE TO FUNK BOBBY JASPER / MODERN JAZZ AU CLUB SAINT GERMAIN CHET BAKER / AND HIS QUINTET WITH BOBBY JASPER DONALD BYRD / BYRD IN PARIS DONALD BYRD / PARISIAN THROUGHFARE ELEK BACSIK / GUITAR CONCEPTIONS GUY LAFITTE / BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL JAZZ AT THE PHILHAMONIC / LES TRICHUERS BOF LIONEL HAMPTON / AND HIS FRENCH NEW SOUND VOL.1 LIONEL HAMPTON / AND HIS FRENCH NEW SOUND VOL.2 MICHEL LEGRAND / PARIS JAZZ PIANO PIERRE MICHELOT / ROUND ABOUT A BASS QUINCY JONES / I DIG DANCERS RONNELL BRIGHT / THE RONNELL BRIGHT TRIO SLIDE HAMPTON / EXODUS SONNY CRISS / MR BLUES POUR FLIRTER STEPHANE GRAPPELLI / DJANGO is the Quincy Jones new? http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/quincy-jones/i-dig-dancers-557228 and having the Donald Byrd albums out with their original covers is pretty cool! otherwise, the tendency is that these cds contain less music, not more...

here are more details, pictures under the deezer links should work - for seeing the new art work - even where you can't play them... Toots Thielemans http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/toots-thielemans/blues-pour-flirter-543846 Maurice Meunier http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/maurice-meunier/and-his-orchestra-543845 Rene Thomas http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/rene-thomas/and-his-orchestra-543848 Vaughan http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/sarah-vaughan/sarah-vaughan-a-paris-543853 Willie The Lion http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/willie-smith/willie-the-lion-smith-543843 Max Roach http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/max-roach/parisian-sketches-543854 Lucky Thompson http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/lucky-thompson/modern-jazz-group-543850 Urtreger http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/rene-urtreger/joue-bud-powell-543849 Peiffer http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/bernard-peiffer/piano-et-rythmes-543842 Ponty http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/jean-luc-ponty/jazz-long-playing-543851 Django (Blue Star again) http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/django-reinhardt/the-great-artistry-of-django-reinhardt-543844 Jazz Boom No 1 http://www.deezer.com/de/#music/multi-interpretes/jazz-boom-n-1-543847 can't really say what the last one is, not even album or compilation, but it easily seems to be the most exciting of the bunch and it contains predominantly new music afai can see

going from what can be seen here there's indeed little new, just a bunch of reissues http://www.lastfm.de/label/Universal+Music+Division+Classics+Jazz/albums?page=3 the vaughan has alternate takes, the meunier is just half of the clarinettes a st germain des pres cd; this compilation looks new to me http://www.lastfm.de/music/Multi+Interpr%C3%A8tes/Jazz+Boom+N%C2%B01 will look more carefully later...

just found one of the new ones, apparently a straight reissue of René Thomas - The Real Cat under the name "René Thomas and his orchestra" - maybe someone else has more luck finding a list?

Feelin' the Spirit is my favorite Green album besides Talkin' About; i don't really hear it as a concept album - meaning, unlike with The Latin Bit i wouldn't notice a concept if i didn't know, also one of my favorite Hancock performances ... haven't heard Goin' West yet; the Latin Bit took me some getting used to but by now i greatly enjoy it, Green plays great on it, the setting doesn't really bother me anymore and if he liked having it around...

just a heads up, that there's finally a new Alonzo Levister Album out on CDbaby more info sample Track more Levister "After years of hustling to get funding for his theater projects, he’d decided the time was nigh to put together a CD with an eye towards accessibility. He wanted to make a record that would reach people, ála Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On," ... from what i've heard so far it's better than this description implies but i'm still unsure - actually i'd be very interested in comments...

as an aside, the (?) other singer on these early Ammons sides from Chicago is Marcel Daniels who would later appear together with Colleman on Elmo Hope's Rikers Island album; Cannonball Adderley recorded a tune by Daniels (Casa de Marcel) and he sings on a Howard McGhee session - that's all i could infd out about him (besides a brief note from a Chicago newspaper in the early 50s "Musician arrested for dope possession" or the like... arranger on a good deal of the Ammons sessions with Gail Brockman is AK Salim who would later record for Savoy and Prestige...

Three tunes are on the 32Jazz Compilation "Hey Chood" (which also contains material from three different Muse LPs), The Red Tornado, For Dizzy and I can't get started; sp at least 4 out of 6 tunes made it to cd...

Happy Birthday, Larry!

naive question, never having seen facebook - in order to not get emails anymore can't you just change the email address in your profile to a bunch of letters? maybe a bunch of letters that dimly looks like an email address?

this sounds like Doug Sides to me... ;-)

Happy Birthday!

the grossman set has (not surprisingly) three albums: Do it, with Barry Harris/Reggie Johnson/Art Taylor Small Hotel with Cedar Walton/David Williams/Billy Higgins Quartet with Petrucciani, with Michel Petrucciani/Andy McKee/Joe Farnsworth looks good to me...

we wondered about that as well in the other thread... looks like some sort of distribution deal (since at least the marcus miller mixes dreyfus and non-dreyfus albums iirc)

since it says three cds - unless there is a mistake, these should differ drom the existing Lagrene and Petruciani sets... wonder what the Steve Grossman will be...

i always drink the "coffee of the week" since i wouldn't want anything that has milk in it anyway, don't go often enough to remember the price and i can't say that it tastes especially splendid but the price is definitely right... ( something like 1.60 to 2.80 Euro depending on the size with the smallest being still substantial, it's more on the cheap than on the expensive side, definitely...)

i like the anonymity of Starbucks.. unlike in an ordinary cafe where you have to talk to the waiter every once in a while you can go to starbucks spend a little on a decent and huge black coffee and then they let you mind your own business for a few hours, and usually the seats are much better than at mcdonalds... i often go there when i need a place to work in a foreign city... the music varies widely, sometimes they indeed play a hard bop compilation, last few times i wasn't very lucky and they played compilations that varied far to widely between genres for my taste with lots of not so nice music in between...