Joe

I believe the offending Post may have been gostwritten.

Jimmy Woods: (Joe Gordon, LOOKIN' GOOD)

Urgent affairs of state called Breshnev away from Duke's Moscow performance. He did, however, send his eyebrows to the concert in the spirit of goodwill ambassador-ship... yet they were seen making a polite exit before Ellignton brought the band back for it's encore.

Skip Spence's OAR. The recent Pavement reissues have added tonz o' "album-era" performances otherwise only available as B-sides, on EPs, if you happened to tape John Peel's program that night, etc. SLANTED AND ENCHANTED benefits greatly from this approach. The trick is to put out a release that is genuinely expansive without being drily exhaustive.

Curioser and curioser...

Jim -- I've never heard Davis' name associated with Knopf's. Any more info?

Nabatov is indeed a fantastic player. Also: Yosuke Yamashita and Sergey Kuryokhin.

I've found Ronnie Ball's playing often interesting. There's the audible Tristano influence, especially on the Savoy date with Ted Brown and Willie Dennis, but also something else. Can't quite pin it down, but it is there. Steve Colson has led some fine bands (hear NO RESERVATION on Black Saint) and contributed fine work to a number of relatively overlooked recordings (Bright Moments, RETURN OF THE LOST TRIBE; Oliver Lake's MY FRIEND LOUIS; Andrew Cyrille's ODE TO THE LIVING TREE). John Dennis -- not a lot to hear, but what exists is some pretty advanced, Tatum-derived stuff

Well, there's that whole Sonny Red / Sylvester Kyner / Red Kyner situation to consider...

And he throws a mean sucker-punch. That is, "with blistering understatement".

This pianist / composer is mentioned admiringly if en passant by Francis Davis in an essay ("Circles, Whirls and Eights", 1987) about Borah Bergman, but I've never heard any other critic stand up and be counted on Knopf's work. Davis references "three excellent but overlooked albums [dating from] the late fifties". I'm just wondering if anyone here has heard these records -- I believe they were made for the Playback label, a label about which information is just as scarce -- and can discuss them. And, lo and behold, a Google search reveals that Knopf appears to still be active in the music... http://www.wsumc.org/Staff/paulknopf.html Thanks in advance.

Good news; I think these are scheduled for the Mulligan SONGBOOKS Mosaic Select...

Yep, he's a excellent player too. Kinda lost him in the ECM mists, though...

Oh, yes, that Tony Argo date looks quite fascinating. Is it really available for download at MP3.com?

Richard Galliano? If so, yes, amazing musician. If not, I want to know more. Please.

I would be all for this. Some of the best Zoot on record, IMHO. And, yes, adding the CALIFORNIA CONCERTS material would be most welcome. Wonder what shape the masters are in, though.

http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/

Miles Davis' lone Debut session, BLUE MOODS. Mingus, Teddy Charles, Britt Woodman, and Elvin Jones. App. 27 minutes, but a fascinating 27 minutes all the same.

Reggie Lucas, who also made important contributions to the overall sound of those mid-70's Miles ensembles.

Is OUP reprinting or publishing an entirely new edition of this in '05?

Mr. Lowe, Mr. Kart -- Mr. Abbey will see you now.

Bern Nix

John Purcell, Arthur Blythe, Eric Person and James Spaulding have also logged time in the WSQ. Although they remain a fine group, I'm not so keen on their employment of African percussion, et. al. I find it telling that perhaps their finest latter-day recording is the REQUIEM FOR JULIUS. Hemphill was, in a lot of ways, the real guts and intelligence of the group. And if you're going to own any Hemphill, you simply must own: http://www.screwgunrecords.com/records.php...ecord=Blue_Boye And here's a fine recent record by Oliver Lake that seems to have been unjustly overlooked... http://www.passinthru.org/catalog.html#stick

I'd sure love to know.

Interesting. Isn't the SHADOWS score -- as used by Cassavetes; I seem to recall that maybe Mingus never actually got around to writing any music per se for the film -- mostly Shafi Hadi tenor solos?