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Thanks so much! I'll definitely check out that Toshiko recording you posted. Shame to hear about the situation with the Joe Pass bootleg and your liner notes

I'm very glad you saved this one! In such great quality, too. Do you recall any other groups that played in the Four Queens broadcasts? I'm using the term "bootleg" to refer to the fact that this recording is currently only available through an unofficial digital page, basically what I was asking is if you'd be able to attach an image, like the one I sent of Horace above, for instance, to the archive.org page to replace the generic photo that's on there at the moment which I've attached. I can't upload an image to the rateyourmusic page as a cover unless the source I'm pulling the recording from was distributed with cover art, which an image uploaded to the archive.org page would fix. Apologies if this is a bizarre request, and if you're not able to edit the page at this point, then it's no big deal. Thank you again for sharing this!

Old thread, but I just stumbled upon your archive.org upload, and I'm incredibly grateful for it! It's always great to hear new Tapscott, and this recording is pretty amazing. Quick question, I wanted to add this bootleg to rateyourmusic, and they don't allow me to attach cover art to the release page unless there's one in the original source (which in this case would be your archive.org link), so I was wondering if you might be able to upload an image to the archive.org page for the recording, if possible. If there's no way to add an image to the page, then no worries, thank you! Here's a nice picture of him from around the same period: Apologies for bumping an old thread.

Thanks for these! Gonna track down all of these that I haven't heard yet, Blood and Guts looks amazing, I think Mal's live recordings tend to be my favorites from him, so I'm definitely excited to hear this one. Your blog looks like a great resource as well, definitely will mine some recommendations from there; just downloaded that Middelheim Jazz Festival bootleg you have in the five-star tag, looks tremendous. Also, I was glad to see you had the 1981 Dreher, Paris Steve Lacy duo compilation listed in your favorites, that's some of the very best music ever recorded IMO.

Thought I recognized the drummer's name – he's on some fantastic records with Theo Loevendie. Any recommendations for other Mal recordings with European musicians? Off the top of my head, I recall some of his 70s quintet records having some great European players on them (Moods, Hard Talk, etc.) and I'm certainly interested in hearing more from that period, especially sessions that are on the more obscure side like Number Nineteen seems to be. Harry Miller's leader stuff is SO good in my opinion, really underappreciated I feel, that's a fantastic record with some of the best UK players of the era, hard to ever go wrong with Mike Osborne!

Probably some of the best Mal I've heard, drummer is on fire here

I wholeheartedly recommend the 1979 I.U.C.C. recording, it's probably my very favorite of Tapscott's big band recordings, which is saying a lot because I really love every single one of them. The track McKowsky's First Fifth (which was cut from the original LP, either because of space limitations or maybe because of a brief section where the band loses sync with each other) includes a spoken word section BTW, which is in tribute to Eric Dolphy, and it's wonderful. I'm really curious about the recording quality on this upcoming CD; Nimbus West likened the quality of some of Albach's documentations of the I.U.C.C. performances to field recordings, but I'm not sure about this recording specifically. Wish Nimbus included samples on their store page.

Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra recordings from this era are almost entirely instrumental for the most part, vocals are most prominent on Tapscott's recordings with Dwight Trible, who started collaborating with him in the early 90s I believe. If I'm remembering correctly, the vocal sections in the recordings from the 70s (Live at I.U.C.C., The Call, Flight 17, Ancestral Echoes, and Century City Playhouse) are mostly very brief relative to the length of the tunes (Some of these don't even contain tracks with singing, just spoken word). The big band sets from Tapscott where vocals are most prominent are "Moers 1995" (bootleg) and "Why Don't You Listen? LACMA 1998" (PAPA augmented with a choir). Most likely, the only vocals on this new CD will be present on "Lift Every Voice" and probably some spoken word sections here and there.

Excellent (mostly) chordless free jazz trio session; the group is augmented with a pianist and an alto saxophonist on two tracks where they take on standards in a manner that is very delicate while still retaining the outside feel of the rest of the session. Oki is quite brilliant IMO and it's a shame that most of his recordings have languished in obscurity.

I like one of his other sessions on Bethlehem, "Musically Yours" very much, will have to hear this one

A few that come to mind are Wadada Leo Smith's "Golden Hearts Remembrance" which features some beautiful tuba playing in a sort of comping role courtesy of William Roper, Joe Daley's "The Tuba Trio Chronicles," and Bill Cole's albums with The Untempered Ensemble usually feature Joe Daley on tuba or some other low brass as well. My favorite of the Bill Cole albums I've heard are Greenfield Massachusetts 1999, Proverbs for Sam, and Music for Yoruba Proverbs, beautiful free jazz with very prominent use of non-western instrumentation and interplay that resembles Sam Rivers' 70s small group work.

Based on the credits from Fresh Sound, it seems to be a pseudonym for Phil Woods, contractual obligations to Prestige I guess?

Some criminally underheard mid 50s cool jazz, wonderful arrangements and the original compositions are pretty fantastic.