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Good question! I was approached by Carpenter about a year ago to contribute to the project. He was supposed to call back. Haven't heard from him since

Went to a record convention today. Wanted to keep the purchases to a minimum but could not resist the following finds: - Joe Albany 'This Is For Friends' (Musica), - Jazz At Massey Hall (the Danish Debut LP in mint condition), - Ran Blake 'Rapport' (Novus), - Tete Montoliu 'Temas Brasilenos' (Ensayo), - Warne Marsh 'Ne Plus Ultra' (Revelation), - Ted Easton 'Salute to Duke Ellington' with Cootie Williams, Bud Freeman, Buddy Tate, Eddie Vinson and others featured (Riff), - Muhal Richard Abrams 'Blues Forever' (Black Saint), - Willie The Lion Smith and Jo Jones 'The Lion and the Tiger' (Jazz Odyssey), - Phil Woods Quartet 'The Birth of the ERM' (a Philology double LP) with George Gruntz, Henri Texier and Daniel Humair in 1968 concerts. Prices ranged from €2 (for the Willie The Lion Smith) to €15 for the Danish Debut! Kept away from the (much) more expensive items like original Blue Notes, Actuel, Shandar, etc...

Albert Ayler 'Swing Low, Sweet Spiritual' (also issued as 'Goin' Home') Give this a try, Dan...

I bought two dozen of Saturn original vinyls from Sun Ra himself at his East Village house back in the mid-sixties. The one that really floored me was 'The Magic City'! I continued buying his albums later. Also have a number of the new material on CDs.

Disc 1 (Portrait of a Silk Thread) has no vocals. Disc 2 (You Go To My Head) has vocals on: - Where or When, - Lover Man, - Skylark, - Yesterdays, Disc 3 (So This Is Love) has vocal on the title tune only, Disc 4 (Something To Live For) has vocals on: - A Penthouse on Shady Avenue, - Let Nature Take Its Course, - Day Dream, - The Flowers Die of Love, - Love, Love, - On the Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks

Dan, you should check 'Roots' by the Prestige All Stars that has been reissued on OJC. People like Idrees Sulieman, Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Rehak, Pepper Adams, Bill Evans, etc. playing three spirituals: 'Roots', 'Down By The Riverside' and 'M Very inspiring!otherless Child'.

I have two JazzLabs (1 and 2) both by John Graas. Were there more? The first one was very good, the Jazz Lab 2 was even better. With 3 tracks featuring Graas with Bill Perkins and/or Jack Montrose plus a rhythm section of Paul Moer, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones.

The box is home. A real nice one. I am enjoying this right now. The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is just fine. What a great idea to concentrate on the music of Billy Strayhorn!

This album is just as good as the rest of the Maeght Foundation concerts. The original BluJazz CD was not sold in record stores. It was attached to an issue of an Italian jazz magazine. I was lucky enough to be in Italy when the magazine was published and was pretty sure to be disappointed with the CD which I expected to be some kind of a ripoff until I returned to Paris and played the CD. Another album with Ayler that needs to be reissued is the Sonny Murray 'Sonny's Time Now' on Jihad. DIW reissued this in Japan (with one additional track). A classic 1965 session!

It's even much better than sshhhhhweeeet! A masterpiece! Superb writing, beautiful solos. One of the most underrated jazz album ever. You'll LOVE this!

Pilc, in Funny Rat?!? Don't think he belongs in this thread... Uh, we've had Coleman Hawkins, even Jelly Roll Morton... why not Pilc? How is he, anyway? No chance to listen yet. The announcer compares him to Solal (who's been in the rat undeservedly, as well, but then what is deserved and waht not?). ubu OK he's in good company then. Everything you care to know about Pilc is here

Great fan of Thomas Bernhardt who should have had a Nobel Prize in his time and would probably have done a Jean-Paul Sartre of that. I have not read anything by Elfriede Jelinek. Plan to correct that soon. I am surprised by her resemblance to French actress Isabelle Huppert who played the main part in the film 'The Piano Teacher' that was made from one of her novels.

Don't you remember this? http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=12390&hl=gish Guess your mind is messed up by too much listening to Braxton B-)

I relistened to the Duke Ellington RCA Centennial Box and fell in love with the singing of Ivie Anderson Always had a soft spot for her but now it's real love Kept going back to the Duke sides where she appears...

Pilc, in Funny Rat?!? Don't think he belongs in this thread... Enjoying now the album from Bright Moments (Jarman, Kalaparusha, El'Zabar, Favors and Steve Colson) 'Return of the Lost Tribe' on Delmark and will follow that with another from a Chicago musician 'It's Krunch Time' the Roy Campbell Quartet (with Khan Jamal) on Thirsty Ear!

My favorite is the solo version by my beloved Clifford Brown from the Brown/Roach Quintet concert performance courtesy of Gene Norman. But I have to admit that 'Tenderly' does belong to the divine Sarah Vaughan

The Marc Chaloin essay on Albert Ayler in Europe that is on the Revenant site is more complete than the one which appears on the 'Holy Ghost' book. Thanks for providing the link!

Not yet. Would rather smoke havanas first... Might plant the seeds to see what comes out of those. Ay Ayler tree?

My question about the box. What are the happy purchasers of the 'Holy Ghost' doing (or going to do) with the dry flower that comes inside the box?

Is that one for real? Picasso's signature was very different from the scribbling here...

He was still alive (and kicking) in 2001. Found this on the Launch Music News site: Interesting character that Guercio! He directed a couple of good films.

Thanks Lon, your word is good enough for me! Hope the set is still around when I go shopping.

Quincy Jones 'This Is How I Feel About Jazz' (ABC-Paramount) So many superb solos in that album (Phil Woods, Charles Mingus on 'A Sleepin' Bee', Zoot Sims, Art Farmer, Milt Jackson on 'Evening in Paris', Paul Chambers and Lucky Thompson on 'Walkin''. All Lucky Thompson solos on that album are outstanding. So are Quincy Jones' arrangements.

There is this 4CD box set of The Dutch Jazz Orchestra Plays the Music of Billy Strayhorn. Any recommendation for this? I saw a brand new box of this at an unmentionable price. No need to say how much I love the music of Strayhorn but I would hate to add another 4CD set to the pile of rarely played CDs I already have. Also does the Dutch Jazz Orchestra has any connection with the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra? Have a couple of NMO albums (with Lee Konitz and Bob Cooper) which I enjoyed.

Bought vinyl from Iceland! 'Fascinating Voyage' by Iceland bass player Arni Egilsson. He plays with a trio of masters: Pete Jolly, Ray Brown and Jimmie Smith. 1985 session made in LA and pressed on pure vinyl by the Reykjavik label Arnaeus. The album was later issued on CD as 'Basses Loaded' on Cambria. Plus another vinyl, my first BN in years: the double LP issue of Al Green 'I Can't Stop'! No RVG stamp on the inside vinyl space. And to remain in an eclectic mood: Peter Brotzmann's 'Nipples' on Atavistik. Grand total for all three items: €20 ($24)! The later two were brand-new 'special offers'. Love those offers...