Jazz Modernism outside the Americas - Recommendations and recollections

[Big Beat Steve]

I thought so too - about someone just becoming interested in the area. (Which in itself is a good thing.) Maybe I'm too perfectionist or just too finicky, but is this reason enough not to check your facts sufficiently before you expose your "facts" publicly?  

[Rabshakeh]

9 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said:

I thought so too - about someone just becoming interested in the area. (Which in itself is a good thing.) Maybe I'm too perfectionist or just too finicky, but is this reason enough not to check your facts sufficiently before you expose your "facts" publicly?  

The Jutta Hipp one is a stinker because she has a level of fame in the US and she is the one person the author was interested in at the start.

But nice to see the others mentioned. This is such a dead zone for commentary and it is good to see that amateurs are interested. 

What struck me as strangest about it was the idea that this was just a French thing. Clearly, there were parallel scenes in Germany, Italy, Britain and Sweden, not to mention Eastern Europe, and the French scene itself was at times Belgian. 

[Big Beat Steve]

The "French thing" did not strike me as that odd. Everyone has his own preferences or areas of interest that keep them occupied. Some who take a look at the "Eurojazz" corner of my collection would probably shake their heads in puzzlement at the comparatively large amount of Swedish jazz I have accumulated. The author of the page you linked, for example, might just as much have enthused about early post-war jazz from a different country once he has been exposed to it and found something that kindled his interest. You just never know ...

[mjazzg]

32 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

The Jutta Hipp one is a stinker because she has a level of fame in the US and she is the one person the author was interested in at the start.

But nice to see the others mentioned. This is such a dead zone for commentary and it is good to see that amateurs are interested. 

What struck me as strangest about it was the idea that this was just a French thing. Clearly, there were parallel scenes in Germany, Italy, Britain and Sweden, not to mention Eastern Europe, and the French scene itself was at times Belgian. 

Talking of Eastern Europe, have you seen the two new Jazzman compilations? 

https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Spiritual_Jazz/release/18_Behind_the_Iron_Curtain_Part_1

https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Spiritual_Jazz/release/18_Behind_the_Iron_Curtain_Part_2

 

Lovely production values, liners are quite lengthy.

I only managed to listen to vol. 1 at the weekend, some groups/albums I knew already but enough I didn't to make it an interesting listen.

Vol.2 today if I'm lucky