Bluesnik

Saw this mentioned here... and played it. It's very nice. I like his pre-world music Eastern and African influences. Because I'm also very fond of Indian and Arab, specifically Moroccan or from the Rif, music. And also very much his flute playing. And in his tenor I can detect a very guitarlike bluesyness, I don't how he gets. And there's lots of Curtis Fuller too. At least on the first part, which is where I'm now. This is a 4 CD compilation of everything he recorded (mostly for Savoy) in 1957. The year of his debut as a leader.

Yes, I imagined she must be his daughter.

I absolutely adore Brazilian pianist Dom Salvador. I have two fantastic albums by him: one Dom Salvador, which is a simple, but very good trio affair, and the other, from his bigger band Abolicao, Dom Salvador e Abolicao - Som, sangue e raca. Both are terrific. The second with its undertones of race claims. From the early 70s. I knew Alex Malheiros must have something to do with Azymuth. And I looked it up, and actually, he was the bassist.

I'm looking for a movie by Shirley Clarke about this story. And also playing it, of course.

Yeah, when I saw this I remembered that previous thread. I even had the cover image of the suitcase in my head. And I wondered... Yes, I think I'll also get it.

With the great Freddie Hill, Lou Blackburn combination. And sorry for the Amazon ad. It was the only image I found.

One of my Mosaics I spin most. Now I'm with a beautiful trio session of Farlow with Claude Williamson and Red Mitchell. Drumless.

I have one reserved and waiting for me at Jazz Messengers. The shop, that is. In the old days I ordered straight from Mosaic, but with the mounting shipping costs and import duties sometimes on top of that, that's something I'm not doing anymore. But I thought only small orders get affected by that, but maybe it's also bigger orders as the varying amount of JM's final price shows. And for another thing, I was vary of getting it at first because I have most of the albums in it, and I hate duplication (don't have the needed shelve space and resources for that). But now I don't know anymore where they are, and having it all together is also a big lure. So I suppose I'll get it in the end.

I know what you mean

. The other day I found Ray Conniff on an early BN Hot Jazz orchestra. Specifically, Art Hodes Chicagoans. But I don't know if he's German. I suppose not. But I was very surprised... and amused.

Ah, that's very good news.

I don't know if that'll ever happen. I asked about it a while back (because that's also my preferred route) and was told they had no news from Mosaic regarding it. But that may change quickly. Though I'm also afraid if they sell out through Mosaic maybe nobody else will get their hands on them.

Found a good definition of Schlager in the liners to a krautrock and early German electronica compilation I posted here some days ago. After stressing that the bands of that current were after a redefinition of German pop music he says "Hence the coincidental groups in cities like Hamburg and Berlin, Düsseldorf and Cologne, all extremely diverse, from Kraftwerk to Can to Faust, yet all likeminded in their urge to begin again from scratch, to create new West German forms unspotted by the dreadful past, antithetical to the banal, head-in-the-sands kitsch of schlager, the German popular music to drink and forget to."

A nice compilation from that series of krautrock and early German electronica from Soul Jazz.

That's also my preferred period. His beginnings. Recently I got At Storyville, which includes At Harvard Square and Konitz from 1954 and 56 I think, both recorded for Storyville. They are excellent. But the aforementioned album, this one should also be great.

Street swingers is really good. With Hall and Raney. It's also on the Brookmeyer Select, that means he's also involved. But now I'm listening to this (forgot it before): Both leaders are great. But what I like most is when the play together, alternatively.

I really like King Tubby, specially his Meets rockers uptown.

There you are very right. And what I was speaking about was in the late 70s-early 80s.

That's my understanding as well. Even contrary. At least when I was growing up he was considered the most anticool persona out there. And he sang that horrible Schlager-music. I remember he was the aim of our bitter jokes.

It's all recorded during Nazi occupation of Paris. Including a beautiful Joseph Reinhardt Quintette.

I too had my first Pfizer shot 4 days ago and that was all I felt as far as side-effects go.

Ah, yes. True. Now I remember.

Oh, I remember that one. From when? It even had a strong soundtrack with a theme that got to be a big hit.

Rereading this fine novel I discovered and enjoyed in the early 80s. When Bertolucci made it into a film by the late 80s, I had a project of interviewing Paul Bowles in Tangiers, where he lived. It would have been a fine project which would have sold well to lifestyle or fashion magazines, like Elle or Vogue, or papers. But I never did it. But my infatuation with Bowles grew to such a degree I own nearly everything he has ever written, and by the beginning of the 90s, shortly after his death I think, I also had a biography of him brought over from NY. The movie, by the way, is very good, with John Malkovich in the leading role. I have been in Morocco and the Sahara and can assure it. If you ever get the chance to see it, don't miss it. A scene from that movie: I consider Bowles a protobeat.

That's good to know. I also haven't seen it but have it marked up.