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If this is it for you, two great discovers to extensively thank Mr.Vincent Gallo for, in my humble opinion

Nice insights indeed, Late. I always loved Way Out West too, particoulary being a fan of Shelly Manne drumming. It captures a really magical freeflowing moment of music; what else is "jazz"? I find some of Rollins greatness more in relatively lesser considered things like these two Contemporary sessions and his RCA/Victor ones than in more celebrated recordings (Prestige, Blue Note which I love too). I remember an interview of Rollins a few years ago in which he said in '50s and '60s he used to play and reharsal 8 hours at day (it astonished me!) always playing with focus and energy, while recently he feels he can only play "less than three hours" each session... I always wished they have recorded more, that night in 1957, in a kind of 'all night session' mood.

My sentiment too, I really like Michael Blake on this CD and writing is very strong. Aside these two records, I'd suggest you not to forget Ben Allison part in Herbie Nichos Project, the group he founded with pianist Frank Kimbrough to celebrate an overlooked, unlucky great musician. They wrote together the notes for "The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols", 1997 cd edition (!). All the three HNP cds are very good ones, from the first "Love Is Proximity" (Soul Note 1996) to the subsequent "Dr.Cyclops Dream" (Soul Note 1999) and "Strange City" (Palmetto 2001). Allison, Kimbrough, Ted Nash, Ron Horton, Blake joining from "Dt.Cyclops" on, Wycliffe Gordon on trombone -great player!- from "Strange City", with alternating drummers Jeff Ballard, Tim Horner and Matt Wilson. These are great Allison's performances too.

I am a kind of compulsive jazz collector, maybe like many here are. I tend to buy lots of jazz cds, from my teens. New and beautiful editions and cd boxes are strong temptations to me and every month they hit my bank account (Mosaic, my costant pain). This 2006 my favourite new cds may be Nels Cline "New Monastery", maybe Ted Nash "In The Loop" or Hill's "Timelines". But somehow I'll remember this year because the very best new cd I listened through the year, the one I was more fond of, it's been downloaded (from EZT) and never sold anywhere. I have to bless and honor the north european guy who shared it with me and very few lucky ones, as much maybe I have to thank the great musicians he made me discover. I probably would not without this choice This is that great -for me- one: Mario Pavone Nu Trio - Live at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 17, 2002 (2cds). This double cd home-made by a fan is really likely an fm recording from the legendary Amsterdam's Jazz Club. The sound is overall simply magnificient, brilliant almost like an official release (less well balanced, maybe). The chemistry between the players is thrilling! Particoulary between Pavone and pianist Peter Madsen. Their music is very swinging jet free, complex. As some of the music I love more, Pavone's gives great room for improvising with open structures and still swings and shows the knowledge of classic styles of jazz. This performance really started me on Mario Pavone, a great uncompromising double bass player I already knew from his contribution in Thomas Chapin trio. I buyed some cds (very good ones are Boom, Orange, Motion Picture with M.Musillami, Totem Blues, Op.Ed, Remembering Thomas - the only "NuTrio" outing, a geat one and likely the source of the greatest part in Bimuhis' repertoire). He's a really great player I wish I have a choice to see perform live with Madsen.

I perfectly understand you. In my ears, disc 3 wasn't less than terrific too....

Nobody already had this new Mulligan Sextet box? I just received it. (Fresh Sound FSR 417, 3cd set)

(talking about 'accordianist' and keyboardist Andrea Parkins) Sure she is a good player. I heard her live and in the five Ellery Eskelin's trio cds on HatHut. She is a non-vistuosistic player, one that works on harmonies and interplay in a personal skillfull way... I'd say she's pretty interesting and unpredictable.

I tried to have some detail too. This dvd seem to be on the way to be released in 2007. No better detailed data about at the moment. On O'Day "official" website they let you see some minutes long trailer of that dvd. Pretty wonderful and unknown -at least to me- b&w video footage from her golden years, interviews etc. Sure I'm looking forward to have it, since the scarcely ten minutes of her act at Newport always left me wanting for more.

Agree. A really great hard bop session, a great album, that one. Pepper and Burrell play some wonderful melodic lines together, inspired solos; all players seem to be in top form. Misteriously enough, it's a 1957 date if I'm not wrong, I'd have to check it out, the sound of that cd is magnificent like no typical recording of the period. Some of the best Pepper Adams for me, with Mean What You Say. His Atlantic recordings with Mingus are out of any compare, since jazz history simply breathes there.

Agree. This is really a masterpiece in my humble opinion. A great trio, this music reminds me somehow Sonny Rollins' best music greatness, in a different age. 30 years ago Threadgill was already a giant

Joining the sadness for this bad new. RIP unforgettableAnita.

Another slice of West Coast Jazz greatness: Bud Shank. In the Mosaic box "The Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Recordings", the last two cds at last feature astounding music. Cd3 carries Slippery When Wet session (1959), a quartet with guitarist Billy Bean -and a great Gary Peacock! It's a first magical soundtrack for a documentary about surfing by surfer Bruce Brown. Some of the greatest flute playing I ever heard in a swinging, loose jazz contest. Great music. Still with Peacock, but with guitarist Dennis Budmir (trumpeter Carmell Jones, sax Bob Cooper and either drummer Shelly Manne or Mel Lewis) cd4 has two more lps: New Groove and Barefoot Adventure (1961). Some more of the best West Coast jazz music in my experience.

The Newport PERFORMANCE will live in time! These less than 10 minutes in Jazz On A Summer's Day... A good sample of her great Verve/Cleft recordings. Requested in the late '60 of comparing her skills with those of Ella and Sarah, Anita replied: "I know I did not have the chops, but I had a lot of heart". :-) Gett well soon, old young Anita

I had this cd box when it come out in 1996 too -very soon OOP. Then I remember I was already looking for "original" Mulligan quartet with Chet Baker's music, but had no hope to find all the original issues nor the Mosaic box. I fell in love with this music -and still I am. Remember the annoyed expression of my back-then-girlfriend when I used to listen to this music in the car... I had all the Mulligan classic recordings I could find after these cds. This music -even if I am a Big Band music lover and love Mulligan's CJB too- is timeless and like someone already said this group was more of the sum of its already great members. I love ALL the first three cds tracks; a very favourite for me may be "Nights At The Turntable"

Back in November 1981, I attended the evening concert at Columbia University which was titled "Interpretations of Monk". Everybody kind of knew that Monk was in his last days (he died the following February) and various tributes were being performed or played on radio during that time. Between the afternoon and evening concerts, four sets of Monk music were performed, a total of 23 Monk compositions with no duplication of any Monk tune, save for "Epistrophy". Four different pianists were featured, Muhal Richard Abrams on the opening afternoon set, Barry Harris on the closing afternoon set, Anthony Davis on the opening evening set, and Mal Waldron on the final and closing evening set. The front line for all four sets consisted of Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, Roswell Rudd and Don Cherry. So that was the only time I got to see Steve and Mal together although I had caught them several times previously and subsequently with their own groups. Anyway, during that final set, Mal and Steve performed excellent duets on "Let's Call This" and "Reflections". Some fifteen years later or thereabouts, Japanese DIW Columbia released the entire day's worth of concerts on a four CD package. a release I highly recommend if it can still be obtained. The music was and remains, sublime. It's amazing to think you were there! It's more than ten years I am listening to this concert. It's a really superb recording for Lacy and Roswell Rudd, mainly, while has to be said that Don Cherry gives a costantly awful performance. My favourite Lacy/Waldron is Sempre Amore (italian for love always) and this wonderful HatOLOGY 4cd box (well, being Hat's let's call this a quadruple envelope). I missed that hystorical "Interpretations of Monk" night, but I've been lucky enough to see Waldron and Lacy perform some times -even for free- at festivals. Unforgettable music

Check out Jon Jang. Guy Agree. I like this pianist's Two Flowers On A Stem (if I remember the title correctly). Another really strong "oriental fusion" jazz player is baritonist Fred Ho (or Houn). Check his "The Underground Railroad To My Heart", "We Refuse To Be Used And Abused", "Tomorrow Is Now". A sure Mingus influence is very present in these american/oriental musicians

I agree with you. It's a nice book. For those who may care, it's a biography in the same stream of Art and Laurie Pepper's "Straight Life". The narration deals more with the character of the artist, his/her problems and dangerous ways to live than with music. Art remains in the background; the artist does not seem able to talk about art much, in these books. A little dirty and "bad"; and jet sincere, direct. Sometimes, as in the banal Mosaic box's notes, writers tend to exaggerate and make bad journalism, gossip, about some "scandalous" facts in the life of artists. To read the artist himself choosing to present his/her life in that way opens a direct comprehension of the human being. And with such great musicians I think this is saying a lot

I think you should buy first his Last Date dvd (a doumentary by Hans Wilkema with music from "Last Date", Interakt 2004), which seemed to me better and richer than this. I already had that MIngus performance in VHS and Divx, anyway

My vol. I (1956 -1949) copy only has english notes booklet and no lyric booklet. "1987, Manufactured by Nippon Phonogram Co.LTD. Tokyo.", I think I remember I had it new and sealed. I spent years to put together all seven volumes too. Wonderful collection; a kind of artist's creative parabola

Indeed, after all that damned dope... like Lou Reed. Indestructible. That Mosaic box back in 1999 was one of the best buy in my life, like I'll never forget those few minutes of Jazz In A Summer's Day I discovered with the dvd remastering. Recently I had her new dvd "Live At Ronnie Scott's", 1986. It's pretty good, for these years. Maybe one of the last sets in which she acted a shadow of her greatness.

Yes, a great record. If you want to hear this band in same or even better mood, without the singer, you can try Sahib Shihab's "And All Those Cats" (Rearward/Schema cd 1997); Johnny Griffin &Clarke Boland Group "Griff'n'Bags" (Rearward/Schema cd 1977); Kenny Clarke- Francy Boland "The Golden Eight" (Blue Note 1961); The Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland Big Band "Two Originals" (MPS cd 1994); "All Smiles" and More Smiles" (MPS cds 2004).

The three Humes' Contemporary cds are some of the finest jazz singing I ever heard. I love them very much, and Humes maybe never expressed her skills better than this -with such musicians!- in my knowledge. I think the overall Contemporary sound is pretty good, the best being maybe in "'Tis Nobody's Business If I Do", with Benny Carter and A.Previn, in my opinion.