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A good one. I think Jimmy Forrest is terribly underrated. This is my favorite Forrest. It's interesting that Forrest rarely played "Night Train" live except this...

Do you mean this folks? https://en.thelostrecordings.store/ I have the CD version of Live in Rotterdam 1967 / Thelonious Monk and was not bad. I'm not sure whether it's legally white / gray / black or whatever...

This clip is the same tune by almost the same band (plus Joe Henderson) from the same period. Looks promising! Woody's recording "with a local rhythm section and playing standards" in 1987 reminds me of In My Own Sweet Way. I think it's quite okay, one of my favorites, but I understand Woody's life was already going downhill at that time and his playing also..Also, Bemsha Swing (1986) is not talked about much, but I think that one is quite good too. I found this clip from 1987, and Woody seems to be still in his prime...

Live at Jazzbed is a recording from a live date on Sep. 27,1970, so roughly 3 month after Kaitaiteki Kohkan. Both Live at Jazzbed and Station '70 are made from old cassette tapes recently discovered in Takayanagi's study.

I think the last album that Freddie Hubbard could really play was The Eternal Triangle (1987). After that, his tone became scruffy due to a lip ailment or something. Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991) is not bad, but it does not hide his decline.

I think the wildest of Wild Bill Davis is Doin' His Thing (1969, RCA). Funky organ, nasty sax & flute, Jymie Merritt on bass and (on some tunes) Pretty Purdie on Drums...you can find it on Spotify. "Generator" is the funkiest. It's a little known gem.

Terumasa Hino wrote film music for 1970's film "Hakuchu No Shugeki" (The raid in daylight) For those of you who are interested in 1960s Japanese popular music (and Jazz/R&B), this might be a very interesting oddity. It's officially "unissued", but it WAS actually issued in Japan.

I think the Debut box includes some recordings Mingus prepared for Shadows -- "Nostalgia In Times Square", "Alice's Wonderland", "Self-Portrait In Three Colours" and an untitled percussion ramblings with flute. The last one sounds like an early Sun Ra. Mingus might be a terrific film score composer, but I guess he would have serious issues to meet deadlines... Although it has already been completed, Bosch on Amazon Prime made good use of jazz, probably because the original author, Michael Connelly, is a jazz fan. I think it would have been good to use the Mingus music in this kind of noir detective drama with Titus Welliver as the main character. I think there was a scene that a young black detective listens to the music playing in Bosch's car and says, "I like this. Who is this?" then Bosch (middle-aged white) said, "It's a guy named Sonny Rollins," which made me laugh quite a bit.

I agree with you. Also I am kinda surprised that the audience in some jazz joint actually seems to appreciate their music. They had really good ears!

Sadao Watanabe has been very popular in Japan and a kind of "Boss Man" in the Japanese Jazz world (he was also the one who introduced the Berklee Method) , but even he tackled Fusion, Bossa Nova, African and other "world music", his style remains basically bop and did not change much from the orthodoxy (unlike Masahiko Togashi or Masayuki Takayanagi who went free). Perhaps his most adventurous work is Round Trip (with Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitouš, Jack DeJohnette), but not much else; some 1969 quartet stuff (e.g. Live at the Junk with Yoshiaki Masuo) are not bad, but his brother drummer Fumio Watanabe is nowhere near as good. At Montreux Jazz Festival is also superb but a bit dated. On a solo basis rather than an album basis, Watanabe's solo on Logical Mystery in Terumasa Hino Live In Concert, a commemorative concert live recording when Hino went to the US, is tremendous. I think that is the best of Watanabe. Recordings with The Great Jazz Trio (Hank Jones, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams) was also okay. I think that his more recent, withering works are more desirable. Watanabe is well over 80 years old, but not too bad. I think Plays Bach usually doesn't work so well for most of jazzmen, but Watanabe's rendition is pretty good. So many Watanabe's stuff are on Spotify, so you can try.

I'm not really familiar with Ben Sidran's oeuvre, but this one is pretty cool...JG's blowing too. I don't remember where, but I read somewhere that Sidran asked about Sidran/Nardis to Miles himself and Miles was quite surprised and amused (but obviously it's just a coincidence).

My favorite is Woody Shaw with Tone Jansa Quartet. It has a slight, distinctive (eastern European?) flavor we can't find in any other Woody's works. And Woody's trumpet shines as always.

Yeah, for example the so-called 1972 "On The Corner" band's only official live recording, In Concert , is IMHO the most uninspired...there are several crazy, chaotic, but tremendously powerful live bootlegs from this particular period e.g. From Paul's Mall, Boston, Sep. 14, 1972.

Yes, and Moon's Double Image is quite incomplete. Here's a still incomplete, but almost complete version:

Masahiko Sato's Palladium is a piano trio masterpiece. It is also a rare occasion Masahiko Togashi could play a full drum set (he become paraplegic soon after). Yousuke Yamashita's Montreux Afterglow and Hot Menu are also his career-defining works. Kazunori Takeda might be little known outside Japan, but his Gentle November is a deep ballad album. Yamashita played the piano.

I kinda like So Near, So Far, but I think the sound of Scofield works better in Porgy & Bess. Also, I think Scofield shines when he plays the acoustic guitar.

Seems to be UK-based. https://www.discogs.com/ja/label/599879-Sounds-Of-Yester-Year BTW, "Gunslinging Bird" from 1959 and "Pithecanthropus Erectus" from 1971 Newport are the very best renditions of these tunes (better than studio recordings). I hope someday they are released officially...

Wikipedia suggests that OP gained wider public attention after the 1943 recording of "The Man I Love" with Hawk. Young OP (21 year old?) 's hard breathing solo is surely incredible . Overall, it sounds very modern -- might strictly not be bebop, but almost proto-bop.

I recently realized that this was more valuable than I thought. Jackie McLean's "Hipnosis", which I love very much, is only available on CD here after all.

My very narrow-minded definition of "Neo-bop" or "Young Lions" is. * Recorded during the 80s - 90s * By young blacks of the time (born in the 1960s or 70s, got high musical education, generation who "learned" jazz) * Conservative but highly sophisticated playing (based on hard bop, somewhat "cold", employs very complex rhythm) * Supposed to "purify" jazz (moving away from fusion) And I still listen to: * Marsalis Standard Time Vol. 1 (1987): I think it's a typical "neo bop". Wynton Marsalis was born in 1961. * African Exchange Student (1990): Kenny Garrett was born in 1960. * Children Of The Light (1996) : I think it's a good example of Young Lion's "interpretation" of old tunes. Rodney Whitaker was born in 1968. * V (1988): Ralph Peterson was born in 1962. There are many Young Lion stuff on Blue Note/Somethin' Else at that time.

SteepleChase's "Dexter in Radioland" series continues after "Billie's Bounce". AFAIK: Vol. 8 Wee Dot (SCCD-36031) Jun. 10, 1965 Vol. 9 Loose Walk (SCCD-36032) Jun. 24, 1965 Vol. 10 Misty (SCCD-36033) Jul. 8, 1965 Vol. 11 Heartaches (SCCD-36034) Aug. 5, 1965 Vol. 12 Ladybird (SCCD-36035) Aug. 19, 1965 Vol. 13 Stella By Starlight (SCCD-36036) Jan. 6, 1966 Vol. 14 Satin Doll (SCCD-36038) Jun. 29, 1967 There are some non-SteepleChase releases from Cafe Montmartre such as the recent "Montmartre 1964" (Storyville).

They really should release "The Bootleg Series Vol. X: Live in Japan 1973 & 1975". There are at least 4 shows from 1973 and 6 shows (including Agharta/Pangaea) from 1975 survived in some way. I guess it makes a really good 10 CD box or such. The sound quality of most of them are pretty good and the quality of music is mind-boggling.

My favorite Dave Burns on Vanguard is "Warming Up!". I hope Fresh Sound would reissue it someday...(well, it's already available on Spotify, but anyway)

I'm too young for being there in person, but I guess Dex was popular in Japan in the 70s since he was a spearhead of "Hardbop Revival". His fame was revived with the "'Round Midnight" movie and his last visit to Japan was 1988. The capacity of the Youbin Chokin Hall is 1600 people or such, so I guess Dex was still quite popular at the time. And his playing is still quite good (well, a bit feeble on uptempo tunes, I should say).