Guy Berger

RIP. She had an impressive legacy - I wish more great artists had such dedicated, relentless advocates.

RIP. I feel very fortunate to have seen him live twice - once at Dizzys and once at SFJazz - two of the best jazz concerts that I’ve attended. It’s ironic that he got labeled as having an ugly sound. I’d say it’s one of the most beautiful I’ve ever heard. As far as the mid 60s stuff I prefer his work with Don Cherry to that with John Coltrane. My fave of the Impulse albums is Deaf Dumb Blind - especially that cosmic interpretation of “Let Us Go into the House of the Lord”. Of his later sideman appearances, gotta call out Franklin Kiermyer’s Solomon’s Daughter.

Had this lying around for a long time, this weekend was the first time I actually listened to it. (Only the first disc thus far.) Very good music. Out of the late 60s / early 70s Coltrane acolytes, Liebman has always been one of the most engaging to my ears - less academic, more open minded than many of his peers. (Despite his negative comments about some avant-garde musicians…) This kind of aggressive rock-infused jazz is something I really like about that period.

I’ve made it through most of the box set at this point - am about halfway through disc 6. Spectacularly good music. I wasn’t that into the chamber music (solo piano, string quartet) and the vocal work was tough going, but otherwise I think this is one of my best acquisitions of the past 1-2 years.

What is this - a YouTube video or a new release?

Is this surprising? Musicians who didn’t like it would be far less likely to play with him

Disagree… everything I’ve heard by this 1957 band is at least very good and often excellent. Better than either the 1965 or early 1970s bands.

Yea! Love this one

imho the Detroit set is stronger than the Ronnie Scott set, largely due to the presence of Pullen and Stubblefield who add some needed heft to the band. The Ronnie Scott ensemble feels a little too light for my tastes. Is this a good thing or a bad thing to you

Really sad about Joey D but very overjoyed to have Soulstation back!!!

Much less expensive on bandcamp!

Don’t love everything he was involved with (indeed, I ignore a lot of it) but he left a big mark on the world of music and jazz in particular

So sad…. She was only 39

Nicely stated.

I'm trying to think of a less extreme way of saying this but: jazz listeners and musicians are much more comfortable butchering Monk's music than Mingus's music.

I’d rewrite as “unfortunate that they couldn’t stop harassing women”

I think I’m only familiar with his collaborations with Muhal Richard Abrams, Julius Hemphill and Arthur Blythe, but that’s a lot of amazing music. Probably the most significant cellist in the history of jazz.

Listening to this. It’s excellent!!! A nice complement to their other collaborations.

Tough but fair! Really digging into Not One, Not Two this week. There are a lot of ECM piano trios that sound like this and make me doze off, but these guys are so locked in, it’s amazing. LOL!!!!!, https://ethaniverson.com/service-for-paul-bley/

He was the core of Davis’s 1970-75 live bands both musically and conceptually.

If I’m understanding JSngry right - I think he’s saying that we shouldn’t view Gato’s uncompromising avant-garde period just as a weird prelude to his “accessible but challenging” early 1970s music. It was interesting and valuable in its own right.

Yes - can be listened to on Spotify without interruptions. I’m on an older thread bashing this album… But I changed my mind, it isn’t that bad! Agreed that “Bali Hai” is good. Counter-but: unless you are an Eric Dolphy fanatic, you aren’t missing that much if you ignore Chico Hamilton records between the departure of Buddy Collette and Jim Hall, and the Charles Lloyd / Gabor Szabo incarnation of the band.

Why not Albert Ayler or Ornette Coleman? Both huge influences on Coltrane and this music.

Spending a lot of time with this fantastic album. Its interesting that Pharoah’s playing on this album harks back more to 1965 Coltrane than to 1965 Pharoah.

There was no deep thinking involved beyond “all star band”, “Eddie Henderson in both”, and “ ‘-ers’ in the name”