Joe

Yes, it does. Been wondering what Saft has been up to.

THE HUB OF HUBBARD is the one to get, IMO. Though I do like the collaboration with Mimaroğlu (SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY).

Sad news. Lost the thread with him sometime after THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO MY HEART. Recommendations as to where to start with his later recordings are most welcome.

Not sure if it's "over the top," but I've always loved the exaggerations to which Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins subjected "Dearly Beloved" (Kern / Mercer). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrmxAHVOk0

Wayne Shorter, Cullen Theater, Houston TX. Been waiting a long time for an opportunity to see Wayne perform.

I've always been fond of the Smithsonian CLASSIC JAZZ PIANO box. The selection and sequencing of material by Martin Williams is very good, as are the notes provided by Williams, Dick Katz and Francis Davis. I also seem to recall that it include some tracks that were otherwise not easy to track down, e.g., Avery Parrish's "After Hours." I certainly would never have known about Herbie Nichols' music if not for this set. Looks like it has since gone out of print, but that relatively cheap copies are available second-hand via Amazon. I think this set has been mentioned on this board before... Fewer household names here, but, as a document, plenty enjoyable and increasingly significant, I think. Finally, not all of these tracks come off, but the ones that do (Konitz "meets" Zorn) are quite memorable.

A whole lot more Bill Hardman, here with Blakey's Messengers in 1976. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vgvJLuloCn0

I helped fund the Kickstarter for this... very much looking forward to receiving my "reward"...

A good example of Hardman's "running trumpet"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esMpCaLSMIs Hardman with Horace Silver, 1968 (I'd not previously known of this association) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1CilMzT55M

I'll be at the Beef Haus in Dallas as well.

Booker can also be heard to fine effect on Max Roach's PERCUSSION BITTER SWEET, again in the company of Dolphy. Urgent, intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPb5a1NjI8

That's that gunslinger mentality that was essential to survival back in the day but that can get you killed nowadays. I have mixed emotions about the change, to put it mildly. Let me put it this way - if the guy didn't fight back in some manner (preferably by playing better) then he deserved the disrespect he got, and should have learned from it for the next time. Stitt would not have pulled that shit if he really respected they guy (and no matter how good the guy was, was he REALLY up to the job of sitting in with Sonny Stitt? Was Sonny Stitt his idea of a Benevolent Negro Grandfather who was there to share the love and the bandstand and make everybody feel good that Jazz Will Survive, All God's Children Got Rhythm And Can Play Changes!!! ? There's a rather...serious degree of Disrespectful Cluelessness inherent in the notion of sitting in with Sonny Stitt unless you're ready to BRING IT, ya' know?)) and/or if he knew that he couldn't have gotten by with it. Wrong place/wrong time, blood would have been spilled (or at least drawn), and perhaps rightfully so (depending on time/place). But times have changed, and we make room for everybody these days, because we are such nice and evolved people and everybody's beautiful in their own way. So MANY people play the music now, and it has thrived and improved as a result! Or something. Sonny Stitt is dead now. Funny how hip-hop has followed a rather similar trajectory.

Brialliant sleeve design (for New Order's BLUE MONDAY 12-inch), but, from the perspective of 2014, the computer imagery employed here by Peter Saville and Brett Wickens is absolutely dated.

Sad to hear this. Most familiar with his work with Don Friedman; always an intriguing player whose name I'm happy to see pop up on a session.

It is possible that this release does contain Maggie's Dial recordings. That is the most likely source / origin of the four tracks Dan linked to on this Fresh Sounds release. I have these tracks in the collection of Dial recordings issued as TRUMPET AT TEMPO by the Jazz Classics label. I presume it was a legitimate release (I am also assuming it is OOP, as is their Dodo Marmarosa collection), as it contains a slew of alternate takes. http://www.allmusic.com/album/trumpet-at-tempo-mw0000091020

Makes a certain amount of sense to me. Trane knew Heath from his Philly days, and Heath was among the first tenors (Bill Barron being another) to really understand Trane's music. Oh, and Miles had recorded with Jimmy and Percy Heath at his April 20, 1953 session for Blue Note ("C.T.A.").

I wasn't there, but, based on other evidence*, it seems like the big buzz at the time was more focused on Miles' collaborations with Gil Evans. *Like, the the CBS television broadcast of April 1959.

Toni Basil and Davy Jones; her choreography as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNfnNBDatY Bob Rafelson must have really liked her, as he also gave her a part in EASY RIDER (she's one of the girls who does acid with our heroes in the NO graveyard).

ICMC also used to put on concert at the DMA (Horchow Auditorium). Was lucky enough to see guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya there in the early aughts. Glad to know they are still active; seems like they had to curtail their activities significantly after 9/11, partly as a result of it becoming more difficult for individuals from "that part of the world" (specifically, Pakistan) to gain entry into the US.

Whoa...

Perhaps some of you know author Fred Moten for his wonderful study IN THE BREAK: THE AESTHETICS OF THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION? Mr. Moten is also a poet of some accomplishment, and his latest, THE FEEL TRIO, is just out from Letter Machine Editions. While not quite an ekphrasis on Cecil Taylor's music, it is a book indebted that draws ideas of rhythm and "cellular organization" from Taylor (IMO at least). But there's a lot more going on here as well. Please allow me to recommend. http://www.lettermachine.org/feeltrio.html An excerpt:

Same reservations as Jim, but also fully prepared to carpe on this one.

Bradford's Quartet will feature Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Frode Gjerstad & Frank Rosaly.

Monday, March 24, 8pm Beefhaus, 885 Exposition Ave. 75226 Bobby Bradford 4 & Yells At Eels http://yellsateels.blogspot.com/2013/09/c-o-m-i-n-g-p-tuesday-october-1-730-pm.html !

Another vote for this one; the most interesting of his big band dates (at least as far as I have heard).