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Billy Mitchell - A Little Juicy
Mitchell's second album on Smash is one that is still waiting for cd-release. I'm not familiar with the record but with Thad Jones, Kenny Burrell and Richard Wyands offering support one cannot help but feeling it should be out there.
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Really sad to learn that Steve Eliovson died earlier this year in his native South-Africa. He was only 66.
Ever since I picked up his sole ECM-effort album I've wondered how and why he dropped out of sight so quickly after its release in 1982. Dawn Dance is every bit as great as the epochal solo- (and duo)-albums by Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie. At least in my book. How deeply tragic that this record will remain the only testament to his talent.
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I love absolutely everything he ever did. If some of it is considered syrupy, so be it.
In fact, I love McFarland's music so much that I recently ordered the cd-editions of two Verve-records that had eluded me so far: Soft Samba Strings and Scorpio. I paid way too much for these oop Japanese editions but I've been spinning them for the past few days and these too I find absolutely great - pitch-problems and all. What a stunning talent this guy was. And what a crime that so much of is work is virtually impossible to find.
BTW: picking my cd's up at Concerto Recordstore in Amsterdam I found a copy of Quincy Jones' 'Plays for Pussycats' - another cd I had been trying to add to my collection for ages - and two pretty rare albums by Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta. Great haul!
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There is so much obscure stuff that still has not made it to cd but what about the following mainstream-ish Verve/Mercury-titles:
Jimmy Smith - Monster
Cannonball Adderley - In the Land of HiFi
Cal Tjader - Warm Wave
Jerome Richardson - Groove Merchant
All these soId pretty well on Vinyl and I do not understand what has kept the Japanese from reissuing them. Or the Andorrans.
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Going through the sales-bins at The Hague's Jazz Center (that will sadly close its doors in November) I came across a cd-edition of 'Marcel Marceau prasentiert Swing im Bahnhoff' - a record I was unaware of but decided to buy on account of the line-up and recording date: it features the Francy Boland Kenny Clarke Sextet in a live-performance in Rolandseck, Germany on September 25 1965.
The cd is on Rearward/Schema and may be a useful purchase for fans of Francy Boland-Kenny Clarke. Informal and laid-back (the performance took place at a fundraiser with high profile guests) it is still a thoroughly enjoyable record. Excellent production (by Gigi Campi) and sound-quality as well.
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Probably the only rock-god of Dutch origin. His band making it big in the US filled the nation with pride. I like what they did.
RIP
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Cassandranite is pretty hard to find but almost the entire session is collected in the 32Jazz 2cd-compilation Dark Journey which is not so rare. The tracks included there are:
2-3 Tetragon
2-4 Baloo Baloo
2-5 Cassandranite
2-6 Obsequious
Hence, only 'Three Muses' is missing from the original 1965-session. I remain on the lookout for an affordable copy of the Muse-cd but until I find it, this offers some consolation.
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One can only speculate as to what the issues with this release actually were but over the last month I've come across several cd copies in record-shops in Delft, Leiden and Amsterdam. Universal claimed they did their utmost to have copies that slipped through pulled off the shelves whilst a solution with Sony was being worked out, but it's my impression that no such thing happened. Most retailers that carried it were even unaware of the fact that its official release had been postponed.
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Bought the Japanese reissue on account of of rave reviews here and gave it a few spins. In all honesty, I do not quite understand the fuss. It's a fine record but not the unequivocal masterpiece it's claimed to be. At least not to my ears.
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Yes, all sets have this mistake. I contacted Mosaic and got an answer that they were 'painfully aware' of it and had corrected it in the discographical data on their site. As to my request for a replacement disk if they were to put this right in a future pressing, Scott informed me that all runs were manufactured and a repressing was just too costly. So it is what it is.
BTW, this error got me studying the booklet(s) and I noticed that session E is printed in its entirety in the booklet to cd's 5-6 whereas the only track from that session to be found on these cd's is 'Just Squeeze Me'. The other (six) tracks are on cd's 3-4 (and listed in the accompanying booklet)
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Don Thompson was there - he should know how the sets/playlists were put together. If he claims that he chose for this presentation of the available material to approach the feel of the actual concerts, who are we to disagree?
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3 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
Huh? The domestic reissue with all the extra tunes had at least one CD pressing of something else entirely? I guess I am enormously lucky that I didn't get the wrong one. If you still have the CD inserts I'd suggest buying the MP3 album from Amazon and call it a day. It's a great record made even better by all the unissued tracks.
On one of the first pages of this thread @mikeweil claimed to have encountered the same problem, so yes, I guess that something went wrong with at least one domestic pressing. The (very, very) few copies that I have managed to dig up from second hand-bins here in The Netherlands had the same problem.
As a result, I have been reluctant to buy it online. But maybe I will give it a try with a seller on Ebay or so. MP-3 is really not an option. i want a bona fide full-pressing - I'm a stickler for that.
But thanks for your reply. I wasn't aware of the bonus-material. It makes it even more desirable to find a copy.
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My copy of Bobby Hutcherson's 'Oblique' (2005 RvG-edition) has Herbie Hancock misspelled as 'Herbie Handcock' on the cover.
Most annoying 'mistake' that I have come across is the misprint of the 'Live at the Lighthouse'-album by The Three Sounds. My copy is labelled correctly but contains altogether different music. In my search to replace it I have come across a few (European) copies but they all had the same problem. As a result, it's one of a few classic Blue Note-titles that's still missing from my collection.
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Liner notes to the Jazz-Icons DVD-release with this material were written by Pat Metheny and can be found on his website.
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julian Priester - Love, Love
John Abercrombie - Animato
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Bobo Stenson Trio - Serenity
Kenny Wheeler - The Widow in the Window
Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
Haden/Garbarek/Gismonti - Magico
Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus
Ralph Towner - Solstice
Abercrombie/Johnson/Erskine
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Great footage! The session with the Dutch trio was supposedly taped on April 2 1965 in a studio in Bussum (near Amsterdam) - in preperation to two concerts Wes played in The Netherlands on April 2-3.
The first of these was a 45-minute radio-concert with Clark Terry (who was to perform with Duke Ellington in Amsterdam later that night) recorded in nearby Hilversum for the public broadcasting organization VARA .That material was made available on cd by VARA Radio ages ago and is excellent as well.
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'Laura' by David Raksin was the title-song to Otto Preminger's 1944 movie - a classic in the noir-genre. it quickly became a standard thereafter and there have been numerous great jazz-interpretations, but none (i feel) as gorgeous as Clifford Brown's version on his 'With Strings'-album.
For noir -aficionados who just cannot get enough (and aren't aware of the record) - Bob Belden's imaginary soundtrack 'Black Dahlia' captures the mood (cliche's and all) to a t.
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31 minutes ago, Justin V said:
What is the CD packaging like?
It's a mini-lp gate-fold album with liner-notes on the inside of the sleeve that continue on the inside wallet that contains the actual cd. As far as non-Japanese 'mini-lp's' go, it's quite nice. I like the new cover as well. Great picture by Francis Wolff.
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I found a copy today as well. Collectors in The Netherlands may be well-advised to try a Mediamarkt-outlet. I bought mine in Rotterdam but it may have found its way to some of the other branches also. There's one near Amsterdam Central Station - but there are some 50 stores in all.
I just checked their internet-site and it's not available there.
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Much as I would love to see this album appear, I do not see any pettiness in the actions of Sony. If UMG did not do its homework properly they are fully justified to block its release.
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I bought this immediately after its release. Great music and sound-quality but packaging is woeful. No liner notes, no booklet, poor photography - It has the look and feel of a glued-in promo-cd.
i find that a remarkable trend anyway. it's almost as if even some of the legit companies out there have given up on the format.
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One of the owners of the Jazzcenter-recordshop in The Hague (that sadly will go out of business this fall) claims to be have contacted Michael Cuscuna on this and supposedly a release is not on the cards for this year. Maybe next.
Whether it will contain any unreleased material is unclear. Most likely not. it's just not deemed fit for release. Or so I was told.
O well, i wasn't too optimistic there anyway. But one always has hope.
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On 16-7-2020 at 8:53 AM, king ubu said:
Is there anything in the booklet about why they re-arranged track order (not going by chronology)?
Couldn't find it by skipping through, haven't had time yet to really sit down and read it all.
Hi. I'm new here. Well sort of. I've been visiting to this forum quite regularly over the past year or so and have found it most informative. So i decided to sign up.
With regard to the track order on the Desmond-set; I contacted Scott at Mosaic Records because it puzzled me as well and he sent me the following reply:
As for the chronology of tunes, it was the choice of bassist-recording engineer-producer Don Thompson who wanted to create the material in the same flow as the sets that they played in the club. We bow to his infinite contribution and expertise.
A remarkable choice and not one that every producer would consider, but it works very well. The pacing of the set is just fantastic.
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Sonny Rollins "Rollins In Holland: 1967 Studio And Live Recordings"
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The organizer of the Persepolis-concert, Jaap van de Klomp, was interviewed by journalist Gijsbert Kamer of De Volkskrant recently and made no mention of any (radio-) recording taking place at his club. And he expressed no regrets either, referring to the Utrecht-concert as a disastrous event, with pianist Misha Mengelberg, who sat in -, spoiling the proceedings: 'Nobody was happy about that,'
The 'unknown source' of the Arnhem-tapes apparently was at the right concert.