Niko

felt like a good day but i haven't heard most of them yet... and all between 4 and 8 euro... (and in real stores where i could just take them with me...) two from the very top of my want list Reuben Wilson - Blue Moods (the one i've already heard - so much better than love bug upon first impression) Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison - Illumination plus Chet Baker in Bologna (Dreyfus with my favorite Baker band Catherine/Rassinfosse) Lucky Thompson (the Fresh Sound Twofer with Tommy Flannagan) Cohn/Kamuca/Perkins - The Brothers

funny i heard "i want to see the bright lights tonight" by richard and linda thompson for the first time two days ago and also definitely want to do some more listening in that direction...

just thought i'd mention this briefly after the grant green tv disappointment, i found it interesting but i guess that's disputable... in that thesis on patton it's mentioned he was a songwriter/session musician/otherwise involved for dionne warwick (?) and for the shirelles on scepter records... now according to this credit listing (similar also at the library of congress data base...) http://www.discogs.com/Shirelles-Will-You-.../release/664249 patton is the composer of "voice of experience", "big john" ( ) and "putty (in your hands)" , the latter being somewhat of a standard actually (covered by the yardbirds, you can hear it here http://www.lastfm.de/music/The+Yardbirds/_...n+Your+Hands%29 )

48 hours into it, so much more difficult than last time... hope i can sleep again tonight...

why does it say release date 28-9-2009 for the batch? pretty sure i saw them earlier today... http://hmv.com/hmvweb/advancedSearch.do?ct...p;tertiaryID=-1

bobby jaspar... pelzer and jaspar recorded a version of oop bob shbam together as early as february 1947... arguably Liege was the local scene that contributed most to european jazz in that generation (in addition to the guys already mentioned there were francy boland and fats sadi)

pelzer had a lenghty recording career without baker as well (eg he recorded with rene thomas many times between 1952 and 1974, i like his playing on the thomas jazz in paris cd "meeting mr thomas"), but i would agree that he was a bit inconsistent... his gigi gryce tribute album "salute to the band box" with philip catherine is nice.... and, of course, since his day job was owning a pharmacy baker probably would have allowed him to enter the stage from time to time even if he hadn't had any talent (same for pelzer's daughter micheline and her husband michel graillier... but then micheline also recorded with wayne shorter, graillier with steve lacy, all three with barney wilen - a pharmacy in the Belgian countryside doesn't explain all this) two samples from pelzer's own albums, not trying to prove he was the greatest of them all, just trying to prove that he was much more than a guy with a pharmacy (minority, but not from the gryce tribute album; iirc this was recorded when pelzer was on an italian tour with baker but baker went to prison for over a year after just a few days so pelzer was stranded in italy, but i might misremember this, this album was recently reissued by rearward) (the pelzer families' 1974 fusion band open sky unit... i am really no expert on this but i haven't heard a more soul based fusion band from europe..., steve houben, another family member who would work with baker later on is the second alto player, cd reissue from whatmusic)

!happy birthday!

and azar lawrence right between badly drawn boy and lionel ritchie...

but charges like 2$ additional shipping on each cd (plus a higher ground price, or something) no matter how many you take...

also have that feeling, that deezer have cut back what's available from universal (or the other way round) now playing Zoot Sims with Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall - Two Jims & Zoot (deezer) [why didn't they call it "two jims and a sims"...] edit to add: ignorant as i am i wasn't aware this is something of a rarity... highly recommended, rest of the quintet are steve swallow and osie johnson, originally on mainstream (?) which somehow poses the question which other mainstream titles are online... to answer my question partially: buddy terry - awareness nightblooming jazzmen harold land - damisi charles mcpherson - siku ya bibi clark terry and bobby brookmeyer quintet curtis fuller crankin six blue mitchell albums... frank foster - loud minority nice!

well, there are still nessa and futura/marge...

found this an interesting cotrast, two versions of bye bye blackbird (no singing) from 1964 and 1985 (the older version does little for me, at least concerning chet) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Bw2w5pCp8

especially with that plant in graillier's background (i like his solo though...)... just makes me smile so much, the idea of a guy looking so worn out, with that pullover, having seen so much in his life stepping to the front and then singing these completely nonsense lyrics

Yes, I've been considering buying the big red Coltrane box too, The Prestige Recordings. True Blue Music still has it, but kind of pricey even considering their recent sale price. Who can recommend the red box over the two smaller boxes, Interplay and Fearless Leader? The latter are remastered whereas the red box hails from the early 1990's. I have the Complete Riverside Thelonious Monk from that period and have no qualms about sound quality. we must have discussed this several times (indeed, here for instance http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry809459 ) in short: interplay contains co-led and all-star sessions, it is highly doubtful whether an initially planned third box that would have contained the sideman appearances will ever appear; that box would have contained recordings led by elmo hope, tadd dameron, mal waldron, gene ammons, ray draper (and probably some more ...))

while i also tend to skip the tracks where he sings (or even worse, scats,), i do find this clip quite powerful as if late in his life baker learned to truly live the creepiness that had always been in his voice... ( )

most detailed account is in javier gonzalez thesis on patton, found on the patton myspace page http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseact...endId=188414859 (you have to scroll down quite a bit or just search for alexander...) this quote of alexander might explain some of his invisibility

honestly, looking at the guy's blog http://www.therealscooponbuyingdiamonds.blogspot.com/ i am glad he just came here to spam - no need for another of these guys here's an offer: being (willing to turn into) the most leftist poster here - i'll give up my ability to post in the political forum (but still would like to read it) if bixie loses his ability to post there, too

here's the list of dedicated compositions from the text (no claim on completeness on my part thus, might have missed some monks, also) Thelonious Monk: Pannonica Sonny Clark: Nica; My Dream of Nica Kenny Dorham: Tonica Kenny Drew: Thelonica Horace Silver: Nica's Dream Gigi Gryce: Nica's Tempo Duke Jordan: Pannonica Freddie Redd: Nica Steps Out Ray Draper: A Waltz for the Baroness Matthew Gee: Here Nica Samir Safwat: Pannonica's Nocturne James Spaulding: Inca Eddie Thompson: Nica; Tune for Nica Barry Harris: Inca; Nicaragua Bliss Bowman: My Nica, the Girl I Love; Nica and I; Nica, Love and Bliss; Nica is the Girl for Me; Nica Drums of Love our own Donald Clarke also has a fine chapter on Nica btw (with almost the same list...) http://www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/encycl...tail.php?s=3914

I think you're both right. Too bad I just bought two rings, a bunch of fucking cake and a white dress before I realized it. Anyone want to buy a couple of rings and some cake? why don't you wait until the bunch of fucking cake has some offspring... nobody will object to you selling it here...

leonard feathers encyclopedia has some more details at least until the mid seventies. (not all of this is from feather) inactive from 1959-64, band with philly joe jones in 1964 in LA, with Hadley Caliman 1965, with Big Black in 1966/67, then started red beans and rice in 1968 and recorded the album, went to europe (london) in 1969 and played with a group named Sweetwater Canal that also included future Procol Harum bass player Alan Cartwright, played at the famous Actuel festival in Amougies with Don Cherry's Quartet, recorded with Dr John in 1970 and then went back to NY, worked with Jack McDuff (and still with Dr John until 72 and again in 1975); had his own band in NY in the early seventies and stayed there at least until 1975, was with Howard Johnson's Gravity and Horace Tapscott in 1977/78 (west coast again i guess), led a big band at small's in 1978 (?), was with sun ra for about a year around 1980, joined lionel hampton's band in 1981 or 1982 and was shot in NY (on a visit) in late 1982 at age 42... a more productive career than i would have thought...

the text is in german (which is fine with me but...) here you can see a good bunch of the photos from the book... http://www.reclam.de/data/blickinsbuch/978-3-15-010653-2.pdf

i guess so, in this history of kaleidoscope (paul lagos band after leaving draper; four of the rest of the draper band resurface on buddy miles "chapter vii" in 1972 btw) http://www.pulsatingdream.com/kaleidoscope..._part_four.html it says "Jackie Mills, a veteran jazz drummer and R&B producer", so it should be the guy who recorded with dodo marmarosa...

how is it? while i have huge respect for isoardi's work and am really thankful that he does what he does i found myself enjoying the oral histories on the web much more than the two books i've read (the buddy collette and the dark tree), don't know, somehow those books were rather dry, had a tendency to repeat themselves and i was also missing some hard information added to the information from the oral histories (like yesterday when i tried to find out how long tommy trujillo was with tapscott, all the book says he moved in when he was 18 but not when he was born or which year that was or how long he stayed, where he went from there...)... could have said this better, i guess - simply, while i find the subjects real interesting, the books bored me quite a bit (though at least i could finish them...)