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listening today to “The Early Bird Gets” which is Rempis with Brandon Lopez & Ryan Packard. This is the trio I saw this summer. Recorded mostly on March 2nd, 2018 @ Elastic - last track June 28th, 2018.

honestly this performance is a bit stronger than when I saw them live which doesn’t happen much to me. Usually I might tend to be overly impressed with an up-close viewing/hearing of a great improvising group. Maybe a couple of you Chicago guys saw one or both of these shows. Great new trio of Dave's. 

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This month:

Mars Williams/Tollef Østvang - Painted Pillars

Jack DeJohnette - Irresistible Forces

Joe Lovano - From the Soul 

Jonah Jones - Jumpin' with Jonah

Drew Gress - 7 Black Butterflies

Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (replacing a battered copy that is MIA)

Ralph Alessi - Imaginary Friends

 

 

 

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Back to the thread topic - here are some/most of my most recent buys:

Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity Live in Europe

3 CD set - trio on the first disc, augmented by others on discs 2 & 3

I normality avoid Clean Feed but reviews on this were strong. In the Que by this weekend

Anthony Braxton Quartet (New Haven) 2014 - 4 CD set

with Taylor Ho Bynum, Nels Cline & Greg Saunier

Momentum 3: quartet of small form improvisation on Leo records

Fire! Trio plus Jim O’Rourke: Unreleased?

ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba 

Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Justin V said:

This month:

Mars Williams/Tollef Østvang - Painted Pillars

Jack DeJohnette - Irresistible Forces

Joe Lovano - From the Soul 

Jonah Jones - Jumpin' with Jonah

Drew Gress - 7 Black Butterflies

Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (replacing a battered copy that is MIA)

Ralph Alessi - Imaginary Friends

 

 

 

Did you get the DeJohnette off discogs?

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36 minutes ago, Justin V said:

No, I found it for $3 at a store in my hometown.  Why?

Just wondering. I gotta get a copy sometime.  Good to know, Amazon copies seemed not so cheap last I looked but discogs has quite a few

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5 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Back to the thread topic - here are some/most of my most recent buys:

Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity Live in Europe

3 CD set - trio on the first disc, augmented by others on discs 2 & 3

I normality avoid Clean Feed but reviews on this were strong. In the Que by this weekend

Anthony Braxton Quartet (New Haven) 2014 - 4 CD set

with Taylor Ho Bynum, Nels Cline & Greg Saunier

Momentum 3: quartet of small form improvisation on Leo records

Fire! Trio plus Jim O’Rourke: Unreleased?

ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba 

Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye

 

 

 

 

I lke Ubatuba.

Waiting to open New Haven 2014.

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42 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

I lke Ubatuba.

Waiting to open New Haven 2014.

Me too. Only quibble is not quite enough low brass and not enough Ben Gerstein

that will be remedied tomorrow night as Gerstein will be in Matt Mitchell’s group I’m seeing @ The Stone. I havn’t seen him play in maybe two years, I think.

Great expressive very unique trombonist.

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Just out on Pi. Ordered from Bandcamp rather than Pi b/c (unless I missed something) the CD also comes with all the jizzy DL-Streamy functionalities. Best of both worlds for the same price.

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The 2-CD "Kiity Kallen Story" (Sony). Previously just a name to me, but what a lovely singer -- warm distinctive voice, much feeling, great time. Not a jazz singer per se, but she sang with the bands of Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, and Artie Shaw. ("The greatest guy I ever worked for was Harry James. He was THE most talented. An orchestration would be submitted at rehearsal, and he would decide if he was going to keep it in the book. He would read the score once. That night if we were doing a remote, and we usually were, hd would have the score there and never again. I never, never heard him warm up. He could play great drums..." "Jimmy [Dorsey] was a very hostile man, and he lived in a constant state of envy of Tommy. I did not enjoy working with Jimmy. And when he drank, he was a different person. He had to have a bodyguard with him all  the time." On one of her favorite recordings, "If Someone Had Told Me," she was accompanied only by the trio of Jim Hall, Richard Davis, and Mel Lewis.

When she joined Dorsey, he told the band that there would be no more four-letter words on the bus because now there was a young lady [age 20] here. Wanting to be accepted as one of the boys, Kallen felt this wasn't going to work. The next day she got on the bus and announced, "The next guy who uses a four-letter word, "I'm going to cut his balls off." That definitely broke the ice.  

 She was pretty darn cute too.

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A fine date, all (Bags, Hawkins, Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Jones, Connie Kay) on very good form. And very well recorded, at least in its Koch incarnation -- I say that because some Atlantics of that vintage (1959) were a bit on the dead side IIRC. Wonder who put together/shaped this date in the musical sense -- many nice touches there, e.g, the intro to "Stuffy." Bags? Bean? Neither man is someone I think of as imposing his will in the studio, as someone seems to have done here. Nesuhi? He was there for a lot of excellent recordings, but was he that type? BTW, anyone who doubts Hawkins prowess on the blues should listen to the next to the last track on this one (see post below).
 

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Some recent buys:

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This disc is on sale now on the Dutton/Vocalion site for £1.99 -- just $7.50 USD postpaid to the US. (Garrick's outstanding Cold Mountain is also available at the same bargain price, but I already own that one.)

 

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Looking forward to hearing this one.

 

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I've been digging into and really enjoying Marty Ehrlich's music lately.

 

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2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Some recent buys:

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This disc is on sale now on the Dutton/Vocalion site for £1.99 -- just $7.50 USD postpaid to the US. (Garrick's outstanding Cold Mountain is also available at the same bargain price, but I already own that one.

 

What a giveaway - that one is an absolute corker. Along with ‘Troppo’, one of his best.

Kings Cross Station impromptu photo session in uniform - apparently one of them was spat at by an old lady walking across the platform.

Platform 9 3/4 to Hogwarts ?

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7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

What a giveaway - that one is an absolute corker. Along with ‘Troppo’, one of his best.

Absolutely!  I've been listening to Home Stretch Blues on YT. It'll be nice to have a "real" copy -- especially at that price.

 

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4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Absolutely!  I've been listening to Home Stretch Blues on YT. It'll be nice to have a "real" copy -- especially at that price.

 

All of those Garrick Argos have been expertly transferred to CD by Vocalion. Not to be missed, considering that this was their first time on CD from master tapes (I think) and that the original LPs sold less than 1000 each in many cases. I read that ‘The Heart is a Lotus’ was the biggest seller at not much more than 1000 copies.

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2 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

All of those Garrick Argos have been expertly transferred to CD by Vocalion. Not to be missed, considering that this was their first time on CD from master tapes (I think) and that the original LPs sold less than 1000 each in many cases. I read that ‘The Heart is a Lotus’ was the biggest seller at not much more than 1000 copies.

It's a shame that so many people have missed the boat on Garrick's music. I only discovered it a couple years ago, but he's quickly become one of my favorite musicians. 

And I love how Garrick makes jazz that is unmistakably English. It's one of the things that makes his music so distinctive.

John Surman sometimes plows a similar furrow -- but Garrick's focus on words and the voice makes his English-ness even more pronounced (pun fully intended!).  ;) 

 

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Yes, like Ian Carr he used his English degree very creatively in the music mix - plus adding unique influences from the English Chorale tradition, folk, madrigals and Far-East exotica. Too bad he wasn’t more recognised in his homeland !

Not to be missed on those Argos is his use of Norma Winstone’s voice - inspired. Glad to say that I caught the lineup with Lowther/Themen/Winstone/Green/Tomkins and Don Rendell during the early 2000s on a very rare reunion. They did a follow up at the BBC Maida Vale studio not long after but I missed that. :(

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