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same opinion. on seeing it i thought "this is something to order (not at their website)" but when i saw the prize i thought "no!".

sorry for the mixup (that can happen if you write off the top of your head, as i always do). the cd i actually have and was referring to is called new conceptions of artistry in rythm, which was kenton's breakthrough as to new concepts in the big band idiom. there is a cuban fire but it wasn't reissued as a mini-lp. at least not in 2002. i actually don't know when and if it ever was reissued. it's high in my wants list. it's kenton's exploration of those cuban rythms he liked so much. so from what you say the track you heard must belong to some collaboration between the two. i know kenton "discovered" almeida and he worked with him as he liked brazilian music. i just don't know exactly when. you'll have to find out in a discography. the album from almeida i talked about is called featuring bud shank, and he plays, apart from with bud shank, with roy harte and harry babasin. so it's a mix of brazilian with a jazz sensibility. it was recorded for pacific jazz, that's perhaps where the (wrong) connection with chet baker originated. in brazil you've got bossa nova and what's called samba jazz, and is the dance music of the sixties in brazil and was played by trios or quartets in a jazzical mood but with a brazilian undercurrent. so there was a cross fertilization between jazz and brazilian music (be it pre bossa nova or samba) when the two camps started acknowledging each other. and one of the first to do it was almeida together with bud shank. later it developed into a crosscurrent between the two countries but it started (on the american side) with people like bud shank and kenton.

i have a laurindo almeida cd, i think from 54, of which i can't remember the title right now, as i'm writing from the top of my head. it's one of those japanese mini-lps and i think it's part of the super bit jazz classics, a 24 bit edition which is quite good, but also expensive. it's from 2002 or something like that. in the same edition is cuban fire (i think it's called) from stan kenton. this is in a very good edition and it's very good, with a lot of guest musicians from the west coast and that mambo (or cuban) influence kenton liked so much. it's pretty reccomendable and it's one of his major oeuvres. i'd also like to have city of glass (or i don't know how it's called right now). when i see them i'll tell you who plays on them, but i'm sure they're good. the almeida album is quite interesting, with me also liking brazilian music. there's much guitar playing on it. and i'm sure it's the start of something. i just don't know (or remember) what. i remember something with chet baker, although that might be a false memory (i haven't heard it in a while). almeida is the guy who did the braziliance albums with bud shank later on. he was one of the pioneers of brazilian guitar and of the crossover with american artists.

i found the two titles i was looking for in a jazz specialized shop, as rvgs, and they're solid piano trio sessions (red garland's piano and groovy). i can only reccomend them to anyone who likes piano trios. plus they're with paul chambers and art taylor, so a good piano trio...

i forgot that on the other post. i know miles also exists as a prestige rvg from concord, which i think should be ok. i think one can stay whith that. had i found it i think i would have kept it over the mini-lp, given the price tag. but the mini-lp's price was also ok (it was a 2200 yen edition) and i love mini-lps. so although a little bit expensive it was not bad after all. it's a dsd and the sound is great. but i think the rvgd reissue must also be good. and i know several red garland albums have also been rvgd. i'm actually looking out for those.

"garland is an ex-boxer (he fought sugar ray robinson in the 40s)". from the liner notes for miles' miles album, PRLP 7014. i didn't know that. i found out today! i bought myself that album on a mini-lp japanese version (UCCO 9264, from i think the 100 best jazz albums) and i read that. it's very good. it's his first album with his classic first quintette. you can hear miles and coltrane playing together. sometimes in unison! i don't know much about garland. just about him as a sideman with miles and coltrane. but i sure would like to hear from him as a leader. so groovy and red garland's piano are on my list. but today i couldn't find them in the few remaining shops. from him the liner notes say that miles had different bands in 55, the year the album was recorded, but he had a working rythm section with paul chambers and philly joe jones, and to that he added garland and coltrane to form what was to become his basic quintette.

yes, i particularly like that one by marc myers. i find it has the right tone. i remember a recent and very interesting interview with howard rumsey, which i enjoyed a lot.

i have that. and all the images are thumbnail sized. so it's not bad having them at full page size. i looked into that eastcoasting, which i think also covered atlantic and everything non west coast, and it was not bad but it's better having prestige alone. i think they've been a bit neglected. there's been to much exposition to the blue note stuff. but i mirror your thoughts. it could be good but... but i think i'll order it!

yes, they are very nice. in a way a bit like some blue notes.

same here. i am continually rediscovering things i already heard in jazz. and it doesn't happen in rock. not rediscovering. sometimes i listen to something again, and think how great it is. but it's not that feeling of discovering it anew. by the way, i'm just discovering hampton hawes' all night session which i hadn't done before. it was always on my list but i never got around to listen to it. and it's very, very good. with hawes in top form and jim hall...

i didn't like 70's jazz. for me it stood for watered-down jazz trying to accommodate to the fusion template. to me the best before-date was early end of the sixties or midsixties, after that it was all just a mess. but today i've listened to bobby hutcherson's montara from 75 and all that has changed. i'd heard it before but today i realized it is outstanding. although the musicianship is also high i really like that 70's laidback groove. are there more albums on the same quality level as this i'm missing on? i imagine, yes. i also have that clifford jordan record on strata east i just don't remember the title right now. i think it's called glass bead games, from 73.

i have a recording of an essay by him speaking about either the beginning of bebop or the meaning of bebop. it's very good and in typical Kerouac fashion very intense and fast.

same here. i have SOME of them, but i've heard them in other incarnations. some i prefer. some of them started appearing as RVGs some years back. so...

wow, i didn't know Nostalgia 77 had done something with Keith Tippett and Julie Driscoll. but i must admit i dind't know what they've been doing lately. i have their first album or mini lp and that's it. by the way, the label on which it's released, Tru Thoughts, a very interesting label which carries everything by Quantic and Quantic Soul Orchestra, also is releasing in a few days Will Holland's latest effort, Quantic & his Combo Barbaro's "Tradition in Transition", recorded in Cali. this man, who is the label boss and also a big fan of latin music, has recorded in Colombia together with older musicians from there. you can view the trailer here.

yeah, Something Cool is a good album. i really like it...

Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music Of Mexico And Brazil i have seen that as a Verve by Request and thought i would never see it again. glad it's being reissued!

this is a nice 1000 yen series. but i couldn't say if they are BN Works or JRVGs. it looks like the last...

that reflects my way of looking at it. CTI is not one of my favourite labels and i don't understand all the fuss about it. will have to keep on the lookout for that number of Wax Poetics.

i think i have a different (auto)biography about Mingus. i still haven't read it, but i think it's good. i'd have to look it up, but it has the word underdog in the title. so much i remember.

i just changed the location of ITunes from one computer to another one and i lost all my playlists and the music. the new ITunes would be empty. i think the reason for this is that i didn't use the old Library. I tried copying it over and telling ITunes where it's supposed to be, but to no awail. i guess, and my conversations with heavy users of the program confirm it, that you have to fight hard with ITunes to achieve it. same with the playlists.i intend on ebilding them rescuing all my previous ones to the new location. i just reimported my whole music into the new. and i intend doing it via the Library even if i have to lose my present import. the thing will be that then i will need a tool to edit the Library to change the drive letter from that of the former internal disc to that of th enew and bigger external disc.

i have it (high time it got published!) but still haven't read it. i'll let you know when i do.

oh, that's unknown news to me. i liked and still do Bud Shank a lot. i got a lot of his early PJ sessions and i like them all. especially the Bud Shank Quartet and the other SBJC issued albums. also the two that got issued by Freshsound called Bud Shank and Flutes and Bud Shank plus Bob Brookmeyer. I also have a compilation of his brazilian material.

i have the computer attached to the stereo via an external soundcard which i think is linked to the computer through USB. so i can play the stuff which is on an internal 250 Gb disc, my archive. and it is linked to the stereo through the Aux entry. but computer crashes sometimes get in the way of hearing music that way. i still have to work out the cause but it may be a processor or motherboard overload. i have to update the processor/motherboard.

i can only say the same. i like Wilen a lot too. as well as Jaspar. i have the Tilt album, the Jazz in Paris and i don't know right now if something else. the bandini album was reissued in Japan some time ago. i remember when it was. now i remember an African album that was a soundtrack or had strong african influences, but i don't know its title nor when it was recorded.