Niko

they are getting more and more, http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/search?fastsearch=original%20album%20series&pd_orderby=preisdesc&page=1 http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/search?fastsearch=original%20album%20classics&pd_orderby=datedesc some are only three cds though! hadn't been aware of the bireli lagrene and richard galliano box sets; and there's a putte wickmann! [and aztec camera!]

read here, mike reed is his own (and not only his own) booking agent... link

no. but it's interesting to see Art Simmons' enthusiasm for the new music...

from Jet, 8 January 1970 "Another freedom group, L'Art Ensemble performed at the American Students Center here. In the group are musicians Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors, Leslie Bowie, Larry Jarman and Grachan Moncur III" (there's a second mention from July 1970, where they're called Art Ensemble of Chicago and all the names a spelled right...) http://books.google.com/books?id=SDkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33&dq=%22grachan+moncur%22&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&hl=de&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22grachan%20moncur%22&f=false

french and german amazon still have reasonably priced copies... amazon.fr has many of the americans swinging in paris cds on sale for 9,45 Euro actually... the Lucky Thompson from that series is a big favorite (no overlap with the vogue and jazz in paris cds which are also great, but i like this on best)

This link doesn't work!!!! works for me...

ah, thanks (that's all the translation i wanted...); and if Fridhemmet is as peaceful as i imagine it to be, i hope it's only Netz's work place ...

this looks like a more recent trace... (what does it say? looks like trouble but my swedish is almost non-existent and google translate isn't quite up to the task) http://blogs.myspace.com/popochstropp

LA Times Obit RIP Johnny Griffin's Grab this with Bryant and Joe Pass was my most played album for quite some time...

tried to buy a copy a few months ago but it had already become rather pricey.... http://www.amazon.com/Death-Bebop-Wife-Grange-Rutan/dp/1881993426/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263389302&sr=8-2

don't have time to compare, listen.. right now, but this is one of the tracks from Joe Pass' appearance on Frank Evans' Frankly Jazz show, there are two tracks the audio is at least different and the announcements are still there so maybe Evans mentions the lineup (so far i only heard Gary Peacock on bass metioned - seems like that's all); read somewhere it's from 1962; seems like we need someone with sharp eyes and a good memory here!

seconded, i am really not following German jazz much, but this is a great record!

think i read four jazz books in the past year, Ashley Kahn's books on Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme I found cheap; both perfectly ok, the A Love Supreme a bit better, the Kind of Blue a bit worse... then I read John Szwed's Miles bio, which was great, favorite Miles book so far (i.e. compared to Nisenson, Troupe and Kahn); and then i did my best reading San Quentin Jazz Band although it was in French..., it's a weird book, relying mostly on criminal records; it's basically an endless story of jail, stole a piece of meat at the grocery store while out on parole, back to jail, released, driving without a license while out on parole, back to jail... some more interviews with contemporaries, discussion of records... would have made the picture a great deal more complete... but then, getting a collection of new biographical details for artists like Earl Anderza and Dupree Bolton was great....

happy birthday, clifford!

one trace from 1966 http://books.google.de/books?id=s1k1RsGvFwwC&pg=PA47&dq=%22roz+croney%22&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22roz%20croney%22&f=false (appearance in the movie "Assignment Female") couldn't find anything later (there's also an article in JET from 1960...)

another minor progress... found these bits on the net: by E.S.: and the second bit is significant since it relates the middle name Edward of the guy who played with Patton in the 60s and again in the 80s to the guy who moved to France... so unless somebody made a mistake or there are two drummers named George Edward Brown, they are all the same except possibly the guy who played with Stitt and Ammons [but since that guy played with Ammons (on and off?) from 1952 to 1961 he might very well be a different one...] ah, from an Ammons related Cadence interview in 1994, "a drummer named George Brown. They called him "Dude" Brown because there's a drummer from Indianapolis named George Brown. "Dude" Brown is from Washington, D.C." and here Dude Brown was 79 when he died so he was born in about 1920.

with an mp3 player or ipod you don't only get around carrying cds, but the device itself is luch lighter than your discman, too...

ok, my own question, still, found this info http://mpeter.chez-alice.fr/english/george.htm guess this implies that the guy who recorded with montgomery is the same who's on those chet baker and sonny simmons albums... and if he played with those, then why not also with ammons and patton... so for the moment it looks as if they're all the same talented person

François Postif, indeed! François and I cowrote a series of articles in the late '50s. I was even supposed to be along when he interviewed Lester Young at the Hotel d'Angleterre on the Rue de la Boétie (off the Champs-Elysées avenue) but could not make it because I had to complete work on some damn highschool studies

Discography by Armin Buettner

could be german... if it is than it's a bit difficult to describe... sounds are as in "lee-teets" but both "ee" are short like the "y" in syllable... (ie, i would not break the word in the middle, rather speak it fast so that it rhymes with a quick "Brad wins")... hope this helps...

might stilll be available here: http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/2009/08/hank-mobley-copenhagen-1968.html

didn't see a mention of the two fine Sleet articles on Jazzwax... http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/11/don-sleet-all-members.html http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/11/david-sleet-on-don-sleet.html

he plays on the recent Dupree Bolton Uptown CD, just on two tunes but makes a fine impression; some info in the liner notes there (don't have them here), iirc, he died in the early seventies and besides the Riverside session recorded some Blues singles in the 50s... would also be interested to find out more... i played a lot last year the following recommendation from King Ubu: Colin Vallon Trio - Ailleurs (hatology)

don't know where else in the world these work, but i can stream the land album for free here on deezer and lastfm (both sites have most of the lonehill catalogue (and at least for deezer also gambit)