Niko

The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon

Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation can only shake my head about people saying nobody would listen to pete doherty without the attention he gets for the wrong reasons (indeed i loved his music before he met kate moss and entered mass media big time, still do...)

indeed that may be another one (i had assumed that was probably the same as 1) - but you're right, that was pretty arbitrary)

The Two Sides of Jack Wilson

where the name comes from people thought it rhymed with leaf i guess... (i've seen some funny german names from the US spelled with "ie" in a place where a "ei" belonged so that people pronounced it like "eye", such as "pfiefer" instead of the original german "pfeifer" (=piper), so that the pronouniation remains pf-eye-fer; but i wouldn't think zieff is such a name...) of course all this doesn't say anything about how he wants it to be pronounced... (quick google search: the name zeiff does exist in germany but it's rare, zieff is fairly common but mostly in the US - so maybe the name doesn't come from germany after all...)

guess this is not exactly the right thread - but does anyone know the details about the drummers named george brown? i mean there are probably hundreds of drummers with that name, i am wondering about 1) the guy who recorded with gene ammons between 1955 and 1961 2) the guy who plays on john patton's boogaloo 3) the guy who recorded with jean-jacques avanel and sonny simmons (also with avenel and steve lacy) are these three different persons? (possibly there is also the guy who played in that unrecorded trio with john patton and pharoah sanders... guess that is the same as 2), maybe the liner notes to boogaloo also say so, don't have them here...) there's also george brown, drummer with kool and the gang...

at least that's not what i was trying to say, had just read earlier today that it ws recorded June 16, 1959 and thought i'd mention it...

that session crosses the 50 year line today, actually

Jack Wilson Quartet featuring Roy Ayers Jack Wilson - Easterly Winds

what do you mean by later "advanced" big bands? raeburn, thornhill? or really the fifties (kenton, gil evans, something i just forget...)? i was a bit irritated when i first heard george handy (on the zoot sims riverside album, and to a lesser degree burns) expecting something remotely avantgarde... settled the issue for me by thinking that they were not early fifties avantgarde but forties avantgarde... (that said, i know way too little about all these things to contribute anything meaningful...)

two albums which i'd consider swing to bop and which i like a lot are ralph burns bijou (a twofer cd of two 10 inch albums for period, quartet with tal farlow) and with a larger band burns jazz studio album... but these are from the fifties...

coincidentally i played that too yesterday for the same reason but didn't get beyond the first ten minutes... (nothing wrong with it, just didn't grab me)

think the person was talking about sales potential (but please don't take that to seriously )

Earl Anderza - Outa Sight of all those great obscure classic i checked out in the last few months this is the one i return to most often...

Bobby Hutcherson - Head On Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge Donald Byrd/Doug Watkins - Transition Sessions

a label discography can be found here... http://web.archive.org/web/19991005054004/...m/jazzprojekte/ "carmell jones returns" looks good to me, or the dennis budimir with alber stinson..., or the john carter/bobby bradford quintet...

that's one i read when i was 17 (one of only two or three conrad books i was able to finish) and i remember it as really really great - guess i should have a second look sometime...

finally got my new (first) credit card working... glad i have someone to blame for this now... more next months if we don't get enough together...

quoting chuck nessa who has mostly been right with this type of stuff... (from last year)

definitely not mariano i'd say, he's a much rounder guy... blake could be (though on other pictures he looks both older and healthier...) http://www.ranblake.com/discography.html

Hank Mobley - Messages (the second album with kenny dorham and walter bishop jr)

Lamont Johnson - New York Exile (deezer has six lamont johnson albums, no idea how they got there, they should be playable in the US too btw)

Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring

I imagine it's going to stay that way for a looooong time, too! indeed...

I was searching to see if someone already started a thread about his passing. There was none so I just added to an existing thread. I expected the person who made the original post would take the opportunity to update the subject. So sorry to make a ripple in the pond. I should have changed the title, sorry. no problem, i was for the most part making an example, guess it wouldn't have taken much sadness out of this