Niko

thank you for everything! (btw, i've tried with two browsers, since the change of colors the right-most 25% of each photo aren't visible anymore (even scrolling is impossible...))

since my posting of berigan's avatar was deleted (and the rest of it was thoroughly unpolitical) i assume that means berigan isn't allowed to post outside the political forum anymore, at least with that avatar?

i feel a blog suits chris much better than a thread on a board... and a lot of the deleted stuff has already come back on the blog and i hope one day the ray draper material will also reappear in expanded form... day one without seeing the political forum for me - easily recommended! when in need of a cheap joke i've said "americans treat the words liberal and leftist as synonyms" a number of times lately, everybody finds it funny, so thanks for that...

done! thanks

And who might these nefarious rednecks be? I can think of one person who might fit that description, but that's about it. So one person has taken over the entire board? That one person is confined mainly to the political forum, so if it bothers you that much, don't go in there. And if you have no self-control, then I can make it so you cannot see the political forum at all. pm sent, would somebody be so kind and tell me when bixie is banned, think i'd like to switch back then...

ok, found my notes though not the cds: you can hear griffin for only two and a half minutes (within a seven and a half minutes version of body and soul) on the cd, this seems to be the only edenville recording, zoot sims is on one tune as well (but plays longer), a second tune from the sims session is on the parisian thoroughfares cd; wilen is also featured on only one tune iirc so the rest is trio... bud on bach is indeed astonishing just listening to the xanadu album "bud in paris" (on deezer) the same type of mixed bag, with wilen, griffin, trio..., first two tunes are duetts between powell and a griffin, wow! (not from edenville though)

there were some references but the blog sure deserves a bigger one! this blog sure is among the top three or four things to happen in my life in the last few weeks...

After reading this, I looked at the disc on Amazon. The one reviewer there gives conflicting discographical information for tracks 7 - 14; I wonder which is correct: "7, 8, 10: club tracks from "Groovin at the Blue Note" (1960). Powell is better on these. 9,11,12,13: club tracks from "Cooking at St.Germain 1957-1959. Powell is on fire. 14: "Body and Soul" from "Holidays in Edenville" 1964. A terrible warbling recording and a passionate but "off" Bud." 99% sure that the amazon review is correct... (some time ago that i looked through this carefully) the cd papsrus linked to is definitely a more complicated compilation than what brad describes (including eg a lengthy track with zoot sims)... again pretty sure that pablo reissued only part of the griffin material (22 tracks...) and that what they reissued is spread over this compilation and one called Bebop (but not the third compilation Parisian Thoroughfares which has eg some Barney/Dizzy material) jazzdisco is comparatively good on bud powell, but the three compilations are only listed (without details) at the very end.... http://www.jazzdisco.org/bud-powell/discography/ guess it breaks down to you either get the mythic sound set (no idea how difficult or easy or pricey that is) or you have to live with compilations... [not that the mythic sound set was complete... no overlap with the xanadu cd?, oh my god i'm confused] to say it clearly: the material on the pablo cd comes from at least four different sessions: Trio, with Wilen, with Zoot Sims, with Griffin... edit to add: read brads piece again, he also means this cd i guess, but it is a complicated compilation; recommended btw

the reissue program from concord does have the same tendencies allthough it's not yet quite there (no keepnews collections, just three rvgs, one by coltrane, one by miles one by rollins (or the like...))

Surprisingly, in view of my liking for the sons of Lester, I wasn't taken by The Brothers, but am much happier with Perkins and Kamuca, Tenors Head On. How do you find The Brothers? just about two-thirds through... the guitar players are not featured anywhere as much as i had hoped (but i guess buying a record with three leaders to hear the sidemen is a bit stupid)... but with the selection of tunes, the solos of the three tenors, and (mostly) the overall mood i am pretty happy - but then, this is essentially my first album with kamuca and perkins (dick collins "king richard the swinghearted" has the same three tenors have that one and probably love it much more - but not so much for the tenors...)

seems like only the enthusiasts remained in the reissue market and they need your money badly just give your money to chuck nessa (or to futuramarge, or nimbuswest...)

Nice Niko! Those are on the top of my want list too blue moods is so cool! had never been too fond of melvin sparks but he's amazing here... same for john manning (compared to that one melvin sparks album he's on...) now playing the chet baker - another real fine one, never thought i could like a baker album that's so heavy on singing that much...

had one of those in my hands yesterday... so they're good?

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!