relyles

Thanks for the info.

Since last night I have already listened to this one a couple of times and I am really enjoying it. I agree that Another Place is excellent as well. A few of the tunes from that recording are also featured on the new disc and it is interesting to hear how they are developed in a live context.

I just received this one in the mail today. It is a recording of Bunky's performance at the 2007 JazzBaltica with Carsten Daerr on piano, bassist Eva Kruse and drummer Nasheet Waits. I previously had a DVDR of the German television broadcast and was immediately impressed with Daerr and Kruse - both of whom I was unfamiliar with. It has recently been released on the German Traumton Records label and it sounds great!. This band stretches a little further than some of the other groups Green had toured with in the past couple of years. Worth searching out. I ordered it direct from the label and received it within a week. The charge to my credit card including shipping was about $26.00 (19.55 euros).

Why can't I see where I can order that CD?

Renowned jazz musician Bheki Mseleku has died at the age of 53 after a long battle with diabetes, Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan said on Wednesday. Famous SA jazz man mourned by musicians

I have often been frustrated by the sound quality at some live performances I have attended. Most of the venues in my area that I have attended concerts have less than ideal sound. Most of the time it has to do with the room, but very often the amplification system is poor as well.

I am probably a wannabe audiophille. For years I have had some level of interest and have on occassion even subscribed to the high end magazines such as The Absolute Sound and Stereophille. My budget, however, has never allowed me to pursue it and now with three children under the age of ten I doubt I will be able to really check it out any time soon. In any event, I have never really been disappointed in my NAD 314 ntegrated amp and NAD 522 CD Player, Kenwood KD-500 turntable with a Profile II arm and Grado cartridge and KEF bookshelf speakers. The speakers are not actually connected to the system right now because of space reasons in our living room, but the truth is that over the past few years I have rarely had the opprtunity to have the ideal listening experience on my system as I have to be considerate of all the other people that seem to always be in my home - another reason not to get into high end audio at this time. No sense in spending all that money on equipment that I will hardly get to hear. For now, when I do listen to my system it is pretty much done with my Grado SR-60 headphones.

I believe he is.

Related note: Lightcap is in metro Detroit for the next three nights with Gerald Cleaver's Violet Hour, also with two reeds, J.D. Allen and Andrew Bishop. Tonight in Ann Arbor at the Kerrytown Concert House and Friday and Saturday at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit. The band also played at last weekend's jazz festival here in Detroit, where they were smokin.' Heard them at The Hungry Brain in Chicago last Saturday night. A good deal of talent onstand (Bishop in particular IMO, though an aquaintance found him too slick), but after a few pieces Allen and Cleaver gave me a headache. Cleaver is f------- loud, while Allen's lines have a difficult-to-evade forcefulness but a good deal less rhythmic/melodic variety than I would wish. At times I felt like he was laying down strips of asphalt. How old is Allen? If he's no longer in his 20s, I'm not optimistic about future growth. I heard Cleaver's group this summer and had a more positive response. Cleaver is also known for his associations with many of the "cutting edge" musicians in NYC, but his own group is surprisingly much more low key. Pelt was not there the night I heard them either - instead Duane Eubanks (who arrived late) played with the group. I agree that Bishop did seem to be the highlighted musician in the group, but overall I thought everyone played well.

McHenry is a solid player. I heard him live a couple of weeks ago in a group he colead with trumpeter John McNeil. Impressive performance.

I read this interview of Steve Coleman today that I thought was interesting: http://innerviews.org/inner/coleman.html

Click on the Live link on the Pullen website and there's a mouthwatering listing of unreleased Mingus concert recordings with Pullen. Unreleased maybe, but not all unavailable. In deed. I have most of them in my collection.

I have been on a Pullen kick the past couple of days since reading a well done "Ode" to Pullen at AAJ. I pulled out my CDR burns of the sadly OOP Horo and Palcoscenico LPs and this morning my drive time listening was the Adams-Pullen quartet recording, City Gates. By coincidene a couple of weeks ago I borrowed the Sackville solo recording from the public library and enjoyed it significantly. I have also spent a considerable amount of time at this informative Don Pullen website - http://www.donpullen.de/index.htm. Now as I really get into my deeper investigation of Pullen I am trying to determine which holes in my collection to fill. Time to spend some money.

Crap, back in May?? I've been this close to buying two or three discs from them (over eBay), and your report isn't getting my trigger finger any closer to sealing that deal. Maybe it is different ordering from eBay as opposed to the Black Jazz web site. I just left another voice mail message. I will let you know what response I get.

Seeing this thread reminds me that I still have not received the two CDs I ordered from the Black Jazz site in May. I called them two weeks ago to inquire about the status and someone told me they would look into it, but I have not heard back again. Time for another call.

Just a couple of names that come to mind very quickly that I have enjoyed - although I can not cite any specific recordings. Jeb Bishop Steve Davis Craig Harris Isaiah Jackson Frank Lacy George Lewis Bill Lowe Grachan Moncur III Christophe Schweizer Nils Wogram

Try the board search engine. . I had never noticed the "show results as posts" option before. Good to keep in mind for future investigations.

This morning I was listening to The Great Divide by Dunmall's cctet, which I borrrowed from the public library. Although I have heard and enjoyed several radio broadcasts and other live recordings featuring Dunmall this is the first "official" release by Dunmall that I have heard. He has a fairly decent sized discography listed on his website, including many which I believe are self released. I have not followed the funny rat thread and don't have the time to sift through it looking for comments about Dunmall. Is there a way to do a search and only pull up the specific posts where Dunmall is mentioned? Anyway, if anyone has any additional recommendations or thoughts on Dunmall, I am very interested in digging digging into his discography.

This morning I located this in a box in the basement with a bunch of other stuff that I have yet to listen to. I started listening to it in the car on my way to make the various children drop offs and to work. Very solid straight-ahead playing. Positive first impression.

I actually have a copy of this at home which I have never listened to. Maybe I will pull it out, give it a listen a report back.

PM sent regarding: Dizzy Reece, Soundin' Off (TOCJ) $12 Dizzy Reece, Star Bright (TOCJ) $12

Greg Osby has a new project that is scheduled to be released the first week of August titled 9 Levels. It is the first release on his own Inner Circle Music label and features an entirely new band of young musicians including Greg Osby (alto and soprano saxophones), Sara Serpa (Voice), Adam Birnbaum (piano), Nir Felder (guitar), Joseph Lepore (bass) and Hamir Atwal (drums). I was able to hear a promotional copy of the new recording. Based on my listening thus far Osby's music is as fresh and original as one would expect. I will try to post a more detailed response to the music once I have a chance to listen closer. He will also be at the Village Vanguard with the new group for the CD release Aug. 5 - 10. It has been a while since Osby's last recording as a leader for Blue Note. Information regarding 9 Levels and the other artists and future releases on Inner Circle Music can be found here Inner Circle Music

I am hoping to make it on Saturday uptown. There is something about the concerts at Tompkins Square park which I do not find as comfortable, unless you are there super early and get a seat in front. I heard Gonzales years ago at Town Hall I believe. Definately worth hearing live.

The past couple of days I have been listening to the Ben Riley 1993 recording, Weaver Of Dreams, with Moore and Buster Williams. Good stuff.

I have made of pointing at least a couple of the concerts in the Monday Night Jazz series each year for about the last ten years. The lineup this year is a definate change of direction from the year's that I have attended in the past which have featured primarily straight ahead artists such as George Coleman, David Fathead Newman, Lew Donaldson and Sonny Fortune. I was very interested to observe the audience reaction to the new direction because the majority of people who have attended the concerts have been more interested in a night out in the park with some music in the background as opposed to actually listening to the music. Unfortunately, since the last night's concerts were moved indoors due to threatened storms I could not conduct my investigation. In any event, other than the fact that the venue had no air conditioning in the hall where the music was played, the music was pretty good. Campbell's group overall was very accessible and featured decent compositions. Because of the change of venue at the beginning of the concert there were only a handful of people in the audience, but by the end the room was pretty full and everyone seemed to enjoy Campbell's group. Shipp, on the other hand was a little more dense and about half the audience had left by the end of his approximately 90 minute continuous performance. I am not sure Joe Morris should be playing bass, but if you like Shipp's playing in general, this was a decent performance.