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what about Maria Schneider - she's got lots of ideas and a great deal of passion for the music

Well Mr Parma has succeeded in getting us to talk about him even if it's not exactly complimentary. All publicity is good publicity as the cliche goes. So now when we see him signed for Blue Note we will know who is and what he stands for....

much better like this

what about Sal Salvador, what i've heard seems quite close to the Raney school not as fluent as Farlow (but then who is). His session with Costa (on the 10" BN reissue) on board makes a nice comparison with Farlow's. Recently picked up Sal's "Juicy Lucy" on Beehive, a pleasant enough set with Billy Taylor Rene Thomas seems pretty hot on Getz'z Dynasty album. Worth a spin or two.

rain here too.

I've got the M A set and have really enjoyed over the last 10 years or so. In fact it's my preferred Tatum , ahead of the Websterr session, the Capitol sessions, V discs and sound wise it's way better than some of the Decca stuff I have. the sound quality is perectly good and I see no reason to upgrade to the Storyville. Just sprung for the 20th cenry genius set and it's mighty fine.

I haven't heard Peter Janson at all but Ingebrit is a monster player and isn't at all tame live or on any of the recordings I've heard him on. His technique is stunning and always gives his bass a real physical work out. Check his work with Atomic, The Thing, Schooldays or Petter Wetre Trio

The Frank Hewitt review is by Barry Witherden, all reviews carry track names, personnel and date of recording information and the CD finder index lists the Small's record website.

The "Smalls" label is a new one which spun out of the night club of the same name in New York. Let's hope the label has a better fate than the club which is now (temporarily?) closed. (I was once in there and heard Roy Hargrove jamming with a seemingly endless change of pianists, drummers and bassists. The club only sold coffee to drink - and I had so much I didn't sleep for weeks.) Of that enough, what of the album under review? It's a post-bop quintet with a trombone/tenor front line, and I like that. Mosca is the first new trombone player I've heard on disc since David Gibson, although he's a veteran in the New York scene with a very good pedigree and a style somewhere near Curtis Fuller. Byars, another new one to me is, like all the band, a new Yorker who has been around for some time, a post- bop player but with influences which imply some free associations, technically superb and with a rich dark tone. But it's not just the ability of the players here which impresses, it's the writing and arrangements. There is nary a standard on view and every tune is a band original which take Monk, Mingus and Andrew Hill as role models. Each one is an adventurous exercise in harmonic structure and they just don't go where a listener might expect them to. In so doing they stretch the technique of the players to the full. Unusually too there are twelve tracks here, the longest being seven minutes long, the rest about four or just over, so there is no chance to get bored with overblown solos nor any insistence on the usual theme, solos, theme model. Bassist Roland, a good backing player, takes his solos exclusively with bowed bass and this lends an unusual and effective difference to the solo work. Try any track to sample things but "Need I Say More?" would be a good one to get the flavour of this cracking album. If this is the standard which Smalls keep up they will be a welcome addition to the roster of burgeoning independent labels who are telling the unfolding story of contemporary US jazz. Mike Rogers

I'll try tonight when I'm home. I'll check the name of the Hewitt reviewer too.

I really like these artists, isn't there a new Ben Allison on Palmetto on the way, any details known ?

I don't really want to immerse this thread further into the doo-doo but what under the European laws would be the standing of recordings from over 50 years ago but not released until now (I'm thinking specifically of the hopefully upcoming Bird/Diz concert on Uptown) Will that release have any more protection than previously issued material. I share Chuck's concerns re. the potential loss of heritage if there's no incentive to look after it ( metal parts, acetates) . Perhaps Columbia's hotch potch America's No1 Band :Count Basie set is indicative of this approach. ( ie it's too expensive to release the whole thing properly and we'll just get ripped off) These last 15 years may be seen as the hey day of pre-tape reissues in best sound as everything else from now will just be a digital copy.

I dont know this one but Basie's "I told you so" Pablo set is excellent with amazing sound. The Pablo LPs that I've come across ( all UK pressings) all seem very nicely recorded and super quiet vinyl. Visually these releases lost a lot in the down sizing to the CD format.

Enjoy now , write later....

my bad...it is of course. P.O.V and it's pretty good, strikes me as jazz through and through...

Cozy is ok, for sure my latest trawl of LPs includes some performances I'd never heard of Cozy Cole/Pete Johnson- All star sing Savoy Sessions- 2LPs 1944- plenty of Webster, Hawkins and many others- really surprised that this isn't better known Shelly Manne- Geant de Jazz Vol 3 -Barclay - 1940's sessions with Hodges and Bigard !!!! Earl Hines - Paris Session- Ducret- 1965 solo set, wonderful John Lewis - P.O.V.- Columbia Forrest westbrook a.o - This is their time- Revelation 11- freeish west coast date from 1969 and few others beside...all £2.50 each LP

well done, she will bring joy and happiness I'm sure..

is this the same material as on the single CD JiP "Cognac Blues", this is a decent if pretty low-fi disc, the alternates are in much better sound

Well, themusicresource.com is predictably unpredictable: TAYLOR,CECIL NEFERTITI,BEAUTIFUL ONE H Compact Discs $25.95 Unavailable But at the same time: BROTZMANN,PETER & GUEST DARE DEVIL Compact Discs $18.50 Invoiced OK, I'll try CD COnnection for Nefertiti... try cduniverse that's where I got mine in double quick time, sound quality is significantly better than I was expecting ( apart from the alternate takes)

I was wondering about that one, too. I don't have it. Is it a good one? And how's the Max/Dizzy? AMG gives it one (1!) star... ubu It's years since I've listened to it , it's about 90 mins long as I recall and would IMO have been better if it had been severely edited down to half an hour tops. Sketches of ideas only from two past masters.

picked up the RCA France ( B&W)double LP 1940/1 yesterday - lovely stuff and only £5 in mint condition

Sal Salvador -Juicy Lucy (Beehive) - sealed copy ( or was until last night)- very nice Edmond Hall- Rompin '44- (circle), sedate small group swing both £3 I'm loving vinyl all over again....

this thread has me warne out, I'm off to bed ......

any more ,obscure KD recommendations?