Niko

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

wish i'd know where i've put my books of lovecraft short stories...

This, too, will result in a purchase - via US amazon for £22 new, incl. p&p. (Amazon.uk's best was £111 used!) saw a used copy of that one for eight euro last week, kicking myself...

Blue Mitchell - The Cup Bearers

happy birthday!

what i find depressing is posting rip-content in non-rip threads like the recent hugh hopper thread... (though admittedly that one was an illness thread)

played grant green's version on grantstand yesterday

Charles Earland - Black Talk