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My avatar has been Thomas Chapin for pretty much all of my time on this board. It's a photograph I took of him when his trio appeared at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival in 1994 (I think). Itwas was one of the finest concerts I've ever attended ever if the audience wasn't large. The concert was broadcast on BBC with Brian Morton hosting. I recorded the audio FM broadcast to VHS tape and have since transferred to minidisc. It's just as well I did as my VHS player no longer works. Several years ago I was astonished when I bought Alive to find that Raise Four from the Menagerie Dreams CD was in fact recorded at the Glasgow gig. If you listen carefully you can just about hear the starling that was trapped in the auditorium and trying to escape. It was as if the bird was Chapin's soul trying to escape mirroring the music , which of course so sadly happened only a few years later. I emailed some of the photos to Chapin's widow but got no reply - probably as they didn't add much but they remain special to me.

No, it's the same one. The solo recordings on Crops were later issued on CD, along with the rest of the concert they came from, as Hooky (Emanem 4042). The Woe suite was then paired on CD with the Avignon concert as Weal and Woe. Now that Mr. Davidson has found more solo material to add to the Avignon concert, "The Woe" has now been reissued on The Sun. I think Emanem is vying with Prestige to confuse us with varying issues of the same material. Actually, I'm glad that Mr. Davidson keeps finding more music to issue and trying to pair it in the most logical way possible. Thanks, moving on from Lacy to some more jazz from Sweden Claes- Goran Fagerstedt Stone Free Odeon, funky vocal take on the Hendrix tune C-G F with the Bernt Rosengren Orchestra on this track only , the rest is piano solo or trio and one single track with strings. Inessential IMO

More Lacy lined up High, Low and Order- Claxon and next Clangs Ictus

Getting my Steve Lacy records mixed up, this one must have a different Woe than the Weal and Woe Steve Lacy Crops and The Woe ( 1976 and 1973)

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thanks for the reminder

I see that these 78s are to be played back using an LP needle !! Are they shellac or vinyl ?

Andrew Hill Nefertiti Test of Time , noticed the other day that the disc itself incorrectly states Art Farmer - Nerfertiti, everything else is correct and Art is nowhere to be heard on the disc. I assume ToT must have an Art Farmer session on their books.

I was listening to those two discs earlier in the week. I won't pretend to even begin to understand it but it was certainly fascinating. Which other discs did you order? I am mentally preparing my order and had wondered if this was a good place to start with the SME ?

prompted by the Contrasts thread spun disc 5, forgotten how good this session is , I even enjoyed the vocal number which I recall detesting in the past.

the arranging here reminds me of the Sam Rivers band in some ways especially the use of the saxes ( 2 tenors, 1 alto and 1 baritone)

Per Henrik Wallin Tentet Knalledonia Dragon , Mingus like ensemble play some dark melodies. Good

Thad Jones conducts the Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra feat. Mel Lewis - Thad and Aura- Thad swings and Aura sings. Nice enough voice but really too sweet for me.

missed this posting, it's this sort of find that I love about picking up 78s. Nice one

played my mini haul from yesterday. Stan Getz 'S Cool Boy/Standanavian- Esquire 10-198 rec 1951 with Swedes Bengt Hallberg, Gunnar Johnson and Jack Noren Stan Getz Night and Day/Prelude to a kiss Esquire 10-168 rec 1951 Kenny Graham's afro Cubists- Chloe/Over the rainbow Esquire - rec 1951 Kenny Graham's afro Cubists Jump for Joe/I'll remember April - rec 1953 Kenny Graham's afro Cubists Pig Squeak/ Mike Fright rec 1952 Ronnie Scott Boptet- Coquette/ Wee Dot Esquire- live 1949 recording Lee Konitz Quintet-You go to my head/ Palo Alto- Esquire - ex Prestige rec 1950 Lee Konitz Quintet Fishin around/ Marshmallow- Melodisc - with Salvatore Mosca ex New Jazz The real revelation here is the quality of the Kenny Graham's afro Cubists sides. Cool school but with some Cuban feeling, very effective and not entirely like any American recordings I can think of. I had this material on LP but the transfers did the music little justice. The Getz material is predictable excellent also. Pleased with these

Nice line up for Willis on that session. What I've heard by him has been pretty good quality soul jazz but with few banal tracks. Mainly pretty hard swinging.probably need some more Willis

Is this quite obscure, and how is it? It's from 1976, on a Polish label, and it does seem to be pretty obscure. I found it in a little record store in Malmo, Sweden a couple of years ago - a nicer copy than the one pictured here. Musically, it's excellent - one of my favorite of Michael's recordings. Michael's frequent partner in those days, Laurence Cook, is on drums; there are two bassists, Kent Carter (doubling on cello) and Jacek Bednarek, and two alto saxists, Claude Bernard and the outstanding Zbigniew Namyslowski. The cover reverses the instrument credits for Bernard and Cook. I'd describe it as pretty intense free jazz with some nice passages of lyricism. Geomusic 111 -PL _Pronit, no leader named Confusingly titled this is a different recording to the above, Zbigniew Namyslowski on alto/ flute. , Michael J Smith piano and Jacek Bednarek (bass), pretty intense free jazz with melodic passages. My copy has this cover. I've got that one, too. It's definitely Michael's record - he has a whole series of compositions in the "Geomusic" series. My copy has the same cover, but has the title ("Geomusic" 111-PL) written in blue ink in the upper left hand corner. I've not come across Michael Smith before this. I bought this on the strength of Zbigniew Namyslowsk's appearance on Astigmatic. This music is of course nothing like that album but interesting none the less.

Is this quite obscure, and how is it? It's from 1976, on a Polish label, and it does seem to be pretty obscure. I found it in a little record store in Malmo, Sweden a couple of years ago - a nicer copy than the one pictured here. Musically, it's excellent - one of my favorite of Michael's recordings. Michael's frequent partner in those days, Laurence Cook, is on drums; there are two bassists, Kent Carter (doubling on cello) and Jacek Bednarek, and two alto saxists, Claude Bernard and the outstanding Zbigniew Namyslowski. The cover reverses the instrument credits for Bernard and Cook. I'd describe it as pretty intense free jazz with some nice passages of lyricism. Geomusic 111 -PL _Pronit, no leader named Confusingly titled this is a different recording to the above, Zbigniew Namyslowski on alto/ flute. , Michael J Smith piano and Jacek Bednarek (bass), pretty intense free jazz with melodic passages. My copy has this cover.

Lars Gullin Deep Purple/ All Yours-Esquire rec. 1951, my first Lars on 78 and very nice it is too.

received this yesterday Stanko/Vesala Live at Remont Helicon , LP appears unplayed, can't think why given the excellence of the music. I wish Stanko would record something this muscular. Not that I don't like his current output but this is quite different. Great cover art !!!

French pressings of the 70/80s are a mixed bag in my experience. These Carrere pressings are better than French Polydor Verve pressings but not as good as French Muse

I have only a few Carrère LPs and they are fine, generally i've avoided them as I used to consider their CDs a byword for cheap and nasty. That was until I came across the Bernhard Mikulski versions which are dog awful.

I thought MM had reached the end of the run. i.e no more reissues beyond May 2012. Agree any more LY would be good. Pity though that they've bypassed Big John Patton entirely.

I have a real problem with landfill that binning a working printer equals. It cannot be good for the environment. I've had a generic cart flood the print head ruining a machine just once but the cost saving still is tilted in favour of the cheapo generics iMO,

nice one, got my copy in Paris a year or two ago , it was one of a very few LPs that didn't seem incredibly expensive. It was some place near the University.