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  2. BN album cover "negatives" on eBay

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Head Man

    It looks like this stuff was found next to a dumpster in San Diego. It appears to be from a bunch of boxes of stuff from when they cleaned out Ruth Lion's apartment when she died.

    Michael Cuscuna is negotiating with the seller to see what he can do to get this stuff.

    Oh, right.

    Does she not have any relatives or was it them who cleared out her apartment?

  4. BN album cover "negatives" on eBay

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Is it just me or does anyone else find the selling of personal effects like passports etc on ebay, rather distasteful? Surely that's the sort of thing that should be kept as a memento by family members and not sold to the highest bidder.

    I guess I'm assuming that the person selling the stuff is NOT a family member

  7. Tommy Watt with Tubby Hayes on Bethlehem

    in Discography

    Posted

    PS While still not answering your question, the catalogue sent via forementioned order (unfortunately only in japanese) has this item not as part of the CDSOL 6001-6150 numbering systen, but it`s release number is CDSOL-6000S5 (it`s marketed on the back side of the catalogue together with The Australian Jazz Quintet "Three Penny Opera" CDSOL 60000S6) - are these possibly "bonus" CD`s for japanese customers ??

    PS2 Can`t find both CD`s neither on HMV.jp nor on CDJapan`s website.......

    Ah, perhaps that's the answer then. .... a "freebie". That might also answer my query as to how good it is!

  8. Tommy Watt with Tubby Hayes on Bethlehem

    in Discography

    Posted

    I noticed on the back of one of the OBI strips that came with some Bethlehem releases I received recently that there's a release in the current series called "Watt's Cooking" by Tommy Watts with Tubby Hayes. When I looked at Amazon I see the same(?) album is available from Vocalion.

    A couple of questions:

    1) Anyone know how this album came to be released on Bethlehem? I believe it was originally released on Parlaphone in the UK.

    2) More importantly....what's it like?

    Unfortunately can`t help with the info - nevertheless worth mentioning, after ordering a batch of Bethlehem CD`s from Japan I received as "Bonus" a sort of Beermat (!!) graced with the Cover of "Watt`s Cooking" :o

    Does it play at 45 or 33 1/3 rpm? :)

  10. Tommy Watt with Tubby Hayes on Bethlehem

    in Discography

    Posted

    I noticed on the back of one of the OBI strips that came with some Bethlehem releases I received recently that there's a release in the current series called "Watt's Cooking" by Tommy Watts with Tubby Hayes. When I looked at Amazon I see the same(?) album is available from Vocalion.

    A couple of questions:

    1) Anyone know how this album came to be released on Bethlehem? I believe it was originally released on Parlaphone in the UK.

    2) More importantly....what's it like?

  12. Booker Little

    in Artists

    Posted

    Can anyone tell me is "Status Seeking" is from the Five Spot records by Booker Little and Eric Dolphy? It absolutely is the same group, though in browsing around I don't see this tune listed as from those famous records. I discovered it on the Prestige sampler of Dolphy's work. The track runs 13:19, which sounds right for these performances. The first version appeared on Waldron's The Quest, with Dolphy but no Little.

    It's on the Dolphy album " Here and There" but was recorded at the Five Spot on July 16, 1961.

  16. Art Farmer

    in Artists

    Posted

    My favorite Farmer quartet date (nice painting of him on the cover, too):

    Art Farmer Quartet Art Farmer (trumpet) Tommy Flanagan (piano) Tommy Williams (bass) Albert Heath (drums)
    Nola's Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, September 21, 22 & 23, 1960 (Argo 678)

    I'm A Fool To Want You

    Out Of The Past

    That Old Devil Called Love

    The Best Thing For You Is Me

    So Beats My Heart For You

    Goodbye, Old Girl

    Younger Than Springtime

    Who Cares

    Very tasty choice of standards, plus Golson's "Out of the Past."

    Yet another reason for getting the Mosaic boxset........ :tup

  20. Andrew Hill, Point of Departure - 50 years ago ago

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    NorthSea sounds like totally the wrong venue for Andrew Hill's music - although when I saw him in Bath back in 2003/4-ish with a big band it sounded a bit under-rehearsed with with badly compromised stage sound. The solo piano and Archie Shepp duo performances at the QEH London a few years earlier were better/more coherent (especially the solo set).

    The only time I saw him live was at The Irish Centre in Leeds in May 2003 with an Anglo-American Big Band. The band was obviously a bit under-rehearsed and Andrew looked rather frail. Although the band was billed as the Andrew Hill Big Band I seem to recall that it was lead on stage by another member of the band. An enjoyable evening but I'd loved to have seen him leading a small group in his heyday.

  22. Bill Hardman

    in Artists

    Posted

    I too was wondering recently why there seems to be so little currently available by Bill. As well as the album mentioned by soulpope above, he can be heard to good effect on this recently re-issued session by Art Blakey:

    MI0002110616.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

    which also contains some, but not all, of the tracks from his Savoy album.

    Like others I agree his Muse albums should all be re-issued......they contain some of his best playing.

  23. I dare hardly say what this thread is about

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    I don't know how long they'll take to get here from Spain.

    I'm not an audiophile, but I'll report back once I've listened & looked (at the packaging).

    How long to get to the US?

    I received a shipping notice on Mar. 7.

    Still not here.

    I have a tracking number from Jazz Messengers which shows still in transit.

    Anybody else??

    only took 7 days for my order to get to Australia (can't comment on the US)

    will post some pics of the labels/covers when I get a chance

    Happy with the SQ - definitely not needle drops but I still think these are boots -> the CD labels are too plain (all black) - don't the Japanese usually do a facsimile of the original LP label (or similar)

    What were the original Japanese CD labels like?

    The original CD labels are pretty uninteresting, actually. Predominantly silver with black lettering and showing the Fontana logo surrounded by intersecting black lines. Oh yes, and the usual "copying prohibited etc" wording around the outside edge.

  25. Evan Parker

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by Head Man

    Just booked a ticket for this:

    Music / Saturday, 5 April 2014 - 8:00pm / Hall One: King's Place London

    • Evan Parker saxophones
    • Phillipp Wachsmann, Alison Blunt, Sylvia Hallett, Dylan Bates violin
    • Aleksander Kolkowski viola, stroh viola, wax cylinder recorder
    • Benedict Taylor viola
    • Hannah Marshall, Alice Eldrich, Marcio Mattos cello
    • John Russell guitar
    • John Edwards, David Leahy bass
    • Adam Linson double bass
    • Django Bates piano, peck horn
    • Percy Pursglove trumpet
    • John Rangecroft clarinet
    • Neil Metcalfe flute
    With the help of some very special big-band guests, Evan Parker celebrates his 70th birthday – on the day – here at Kings Place.

    Evan Parker has been playing sax since he was 14. Over his long, innovative and sometimes controversial career, he has collaborated and formed long-term associations with many jazz greats, explored the use of 'noise', experimented with home-made instruments, co-founded the ground-breaking and hugely influential Incus label, and embraced sound processing and electronica.

    He is perhaps most recognized as the creator of a new solo saxophone language, extending the techniques and experiments started by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, taking them into the realm of abstraction. His use of circular breathing techniques to create extended, complex, overlapping, repetitive and beautiful soundscapes is generally seen as the apex of saxophone virtuosity.

    This is sure to be a unique and very special occasion. Don't miss out – book early.

    I'm already booked into a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in Oxford the following day so this linked in nicely.
    Not seen Evan Parker since the last Appleby wash-out (weather, not music, wise). And I've never been to King's Place so that will be interesting.

    Thanks for the heads-up, I must try to get down for that.

    Update:

    Damn, it clashes with a Joe Lovano concert I've already booked for at The Sage.

    I'll try and make his 80th!

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