Niko

another fan of the horace silver tribute here... (wouldn't call this an informed opinion though)

nice! i'd say three pages about the history of the label and then discussion of artists and session, going from memory i'd say three sessions per page (50% text, 50% pictures), photos of most performers, reproductions of all the original covers (all on two pages, so they're tiny...)... it's not uptown records but besides that it's really fine... here's an old article on alonzo levister btw http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0O0QA...alonzo-levister

looks like a completely different album to me...

Sean Levitt - Sean Levitt Sean Levitt - Unreleased Recordings (4 CDs) for 43 euro including shipping from some spanish site i could hardly understand... hope it works!

yuck, muehl on org... maybe bebop with all it's linear clarity and clean beauty helps him getting rid of his father complex? well, according to this biography http://www.archivesmuehl.org/bio.html muehl concentrated his efforts after his release from prison in 1997 on inspiring/forcing/whatever the kids of his new commune to become jazz muscians... this is a remarkable output for a community of 35 people i'd say... http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl http://www.myspace.com/olympiajensenquartet http://www.myspace.com/emesemuehlquintett http://www.myspace.com/lizapflaumquartet http://www.myspace.com/wenzlmcgowenquartet http://www.myspace.com/eddiejensenquartett http://www.myspace.com/giottoroussies http://www.myspace.com/charlyrousselband here's also an article by a former follower of muehl claiming that after attila's birth in 1985 it all went downhill in the commune... (sorry, both articles in german) http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/6/6154/2.html (funny how muehl is so much of what bruno leichts stalker claims about leicht...)

the teo stuff didn't make it to the set (though it's mentioned in the booklet as if it was) due to some legal conflicts... that alonzo levister track is cool, you get most of the teddy charles/miles davis album if you don't have it anyway, a john dennis solo track which is nice (also a trio one), a surprisingly good clarinet piece by sam most (?), some john laporta... plus a bunch of mingus, some of that shafi hadi/gene shaw session and that jimmy knepper/joe maini/bill triglia session... mostly only two tracks of a thing but good ones... it's a nicely done box set... thinking about it, of all the compilations i have this is the one that made me buy the most individual albums afterwards (dorham, knepper/maini, john dennis, shafi hadi, pettiford... and i'm not yet done, still missing at least the thad jones, maybe the mingus/nadi qamar, the ada moore...))

finally figured out that clarinetist oliver leicht and trumpeter bruno leicht aren't the same persons... (always thought i'd misremembered the instrument when reading about either of them...) so let me say once more that sean levitt - best remembered for the esp album he participated in at age 13 - is a real fine post bop guitar player, late in his life (he died in 2002 at age 48 or so) he recorded five albums in france and spain, four are on lastfm, one's on deezer, will order them soon... (also on emusic...) and there's a myspace sean levitt tribute page with some sound samples http://www.myspace.com/seanlevitt and a google search for "clifford brown" "sean levitt" leads to the fine 24 year old guitar player attila muehl, say about 24 year old boppers what you want... he has soul imho , worth checking out... http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl an albums worth of organ trio featuring muehl is here http://www.myspace.com/maxblumentrath son of this guy (there's a great tradition of sons of artists becoming guitar players...?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Muehl edit to add, here you can play (i believe) the one album levitt issued during his lifetime (rest is posthumous) http://www-v3.deezer.com/de/#music/sean-le...n-levitt-140009

"The webpage cannot be found" I tried searching the forum, but I can't figure out which thread you mean. just a guess: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=23493

happy birthday!!

They can still get in even with the new question new members need to ask. I guess it stops the bots but not the actual people who are spammers. this story apparently made national tv overhere (rare thing for anything jazz related, a documentary about stalkers on the web; the guy who comes in around 1:30 is a private detective; the thing started as a conflict on a jazz message board...) http://brunoleicht.blogspot.com/2009/05/br...spiegel-tv.html (so i guess the attacker knows his jazz well enough to get in)

I am just discovering a guitar player named Sean Levitt. I like him but I think he died a few years ago.

cool, thanks!

imho the next elmo hope you need is home-coming (which is also on the all-star sessions twofer but without alternate takes and with one master take exchanged for a slightly shorter alternate... excellent cd anyway) bought some used cds Philly Joe Jones - Mean What You Say (Sonet) Gene Shaw - Breakthrough Chris Woods with Georges Arvanitas - Chris Meets Paris Meets Chris

at one of my two favorite used cd shops they just got a new guy who actually knows his jazz... you can already see it from prices which have gotten much more reasonable in both directions

As far as railway is concerned, this must be a typically british obsession. i know these guys as well (more accurately, i know these crowds of men standing at the train stations on weekends trying to take photos of (ordinary-looking) trains...)

there's this theory that the majors use these companies to press money out of venture capital funds (because these free music websites generate lots of traffic and are successful in a sense but don't make enough money to survive...) so if you're concerned about venture capital funds...

!!Happy Birthday!!

There is one entry in Bruyninckx for 1989 which mentions Jimmy Woods. It's an album by Januscz Carmeillo called 'Portrait' on the Hep label. Jimmy plays on one track, 'Daydream'. It was recorded on June 3, 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland. why couldn't they make it three tracks... thanks!! been playing these albums quite a lot recently... imho awakening is a good deal better than the rest... (and it's one of my ten favorite hard bop albums), back to avalon has really grown on me though... (but more for the package as a whole and for teddy edwards contributions) (only recent news item i could find, posted this before i guess http://www.mtaonline.net/~midnight/james.html )

just wondering, i don't have the lord discography but their webpage says he participated in 11 sessions between 1960 and 1989... i am aware of eight sessions (possibly some of these are more than one session..., actually in the case of awakening i am almost certain) Jimmy Woods - Awakening Jimmy Woods - Conflict Teddy Edwards - Back to Avalon Joe Gordon - Lookin' Good Chico Hamilton - chic chic chico Gerald Wilson - three sessions in the mosaic plus studio work with nancy wilson - so there isn't much left? but i'm wondering about the 1989 entry... would anybody be so kind to look up for me what else is in lord? (just the titles...) there's also one session with joe gordon and horace tapscott in the tapscott collection at ucla which i guess isn't in lord...

mentioned this before, deezer has a beta version of their new website up for using here http://www-v3.deezer.com last time i looked they didn't have country restrictions yet (more accurately they had the french restrictions for anyone) and no registering so that you can stream the stuff of the four majors (their european programs including many ojcs) and many mostly french smaller companies as well... (edit to add: as often as you like)

it's hank mobley's birthday!

somehow although i can see the importance of those columbia albums there are relatively few that i actually listen to... current top 5 Mingus Ah Um Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man Bob Dylan - Desire Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Miles Davis - Round Midnight

happy birthday

!!happy birthday!!