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It would be nice if Mosaic or somewhere else put out The Complete Bud Powell RCA/Roulette/Impulse!/Fontana Recordings or something. These recordings are seriously underrated. At any rate, the RCA recording has one previously unreleased song (Lullaby to a Believer) and the tape is extant (a short, cute lullaby).

Reading the discussion reminded me of this. This AI learns Coltrane's Intersteller Space and endlessly generates "free jazz" that sounds like it, an experiment from 2019 (long before the recent ChatGPT and other stuff!). So it can probably play even better now. What do you think? I actually quite like it.

And also quite easily obtainable one by one. I am still wondering if Mosaic will release Bobby Hutcherson's BN set, because it is hard to get some of single CDs, such as Total Eclipse, Heads On, Knuclebean, etc.

Many may disagree, but I have a feeling that Sonny Clark's Blue Note recordings were not the pinnacle of his career. Of course, they are not bad things, and I like them, but I personally prefer the trio recordings on the Time label and the private recordings made when he was much younger (more Bud-ish). In terms of Blue Note recordings, his solo on "Deep Night" in Cool Struttin' is really great.

The similar lineup made one studio recording, but remain unissued. From Noal Cohen's disco https://attictoys.com/elmo-hope-discography/#sess-year_1963 Date: ca. September 1963 Location: New York City Label: Dauntless Philly Joe Jones Sextet Philly Joe Jones (ldr), Tommy Turrentine (t), Charlie Greenlee (tb), John Gilmore (ts), Elmo Hope (p), Larry Ridley (b), Philly Joe Jones (d) a.Unknown Titles Dauntless LP 12"??? This session was never issued. The Dauntless label is run by Tom Wilson, and seems Fresh Sound had some access to the tape vault. But I don't know this particular session master survives...

It's interesting that 2023 is the centennial for Red Garland and Elmo Hope (and the next year is Bud's). Is there any other big name born in 1923?

Somehow "The Clown" outtakes (take 24 to 47 I assume) survived. I hope Rhino issued this instead of lengthy interviews...

I am shocked as I have coincidentally been re-listening to Brotzmann's old work for the past few days. For Adolphe Sax, Machine Gun...incredible music. RIP.

My personal favorite is Little Benny Harris' "Little Benny" (aka Crazeology).

For some reason, "Longing/Love" from George Winston's album Autumn is very (I mean VERY) popular in Japan, and used to be played at least once a day on various programs on TV. It surely is a good song. RIP. https://youtu.be/BiDZeo017Gs

On a recently unearthed alternate take, Coltrane chants A soft taco supreme... A crunchy taco supreme... A taco supreme... “Where's the beer opener?" (the recording aborted)

Moriyama is still alive and well, playing drums with great energy. I think Moriyama (and Yosuke Yamashita)'s masterpiece in free jazz is Dancing Kojiki, but it may not be well known outside Japan. Starting with a fierce agitation (they recorded in the midst of the student movement demonstrations at Waseda University), an equally fierce performance follows. But my personal favorite is Hush-A-Bye.

RIP. When I first heard this lovely song a long time ago, I thought it was by Burt Bacharach or someone, but it seems to be Reuben's own composition. What a talented dude.

Earl Bostic was a monster. After a tough tenor duel (I guess by Arnett Cobb & Al Sears), the tough alto start blowing... Of the relatively younger generation that I have heard live, Bruce Williams and Abraham Burton seem to have an amazingly fat alto sound (when they were in good form). I don't know if that's the case these days.

I agree. All the songs are good, but I will never forget how excited I was when I heard "872" for the first time. On Mapleshade, Live at Ethell's is also good. If I happened to drop by a local jazz club playing this kind of music, I'd be willing to die on the spot. A Sweet Night Music. However, for some reason, the CD I have is missing one song, "Cal Massey".

Glad to see George Coleman is still alive and well. When I was in New York a few years ago, I had the chance to see his long time sidekick Harold Mabern at Smoke or somewhere, but I didn't go, thinking I'd just have another chance. Mabe passed away shortly after that and I still regret it. By the way, a live recording of Shirley Scott's performance at Left Bank was unearthed this year, and George blows a lot in it!

I believe this is a video from the same period as "Copenhagen Coda", but I had never seen it. The performance is not so bad, but he looks distressed and in bad shape.

Masahiko Togashi was actually a pretty good painter. Some of his jacket designs were done by himself, and a retrospective exhibition was held in 2004. I find it interesting that many excellent drummers are painters. https://twitter.com/parusminor33/status/1492372955372081154?s=20

It may lack a bit of authenticity, but I like James Hunter a lot.

Arrived on Spotify. Very good LBJS live as always.

This would be out of scope, but when I think of weird blues, this is what comes to mind. It even has Pete Cosey in it.

I have a lot of Mose Allison CDs. I like him, but I am not really an avid fan of his music. But somehow his records accumlated.

Others missing from this list as of 1970 but influential today include Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, and perhaps Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett (too young, perhaps). In a sense, they are all composers.

Come to think of it, this album made me realize how much I like Dolo Coker...Dolo was not a piano virtuoso, but he had a unique power. His Xanadu albums are all good.

AFAIK, there are more than 2 takes of Mingus solo piano recordings of "Wedding March/Slow Waltz" (11 min altogether). Each take is quite different. There are also fragments of the bass and guitar (Scofield?) practicing. If they call it "complete", I wish they would have released those as well.