crispi

That's not Pam Grier on the Ornette cover. In fact, it could be a photo montage, but more likely that's a pair of twins. Probably models.

Isn't that Coleman Hawkins on the cover?

I love Kraftwerk. I used to have "The Mix" on cassette when I was a kid and listening to it all day long! Now that I've discovered their "regular" albums, I have to say for me (and I know not everyone agrees) their best-crafted and most atmospheric album must be "Computerwelt".

There's a guy over at the Hoffman forums looking for them. Maybe you two should work something out. http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=282479

Almost certainly they were worked out beforehand. Maybe pre-composed solos would be a good topic for a thread. Don't know if this has been discussed here before.

Oliver Nelson. In fact, he sometimes plays so few, but well chosen notes, that I have to suspect that some of his solos are pre-composed! Most notably, his solo on "Stolen Moments".

Haha. Good call. (I guess you're refering to slide_advantage_redoux' post.)

Picked up a few Blue Notes today... John Patton - Understanding {U.S. Liberty sleeve and 1968 German pressing with VAN GELDER in the deadwax} Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch {70's Liberty blue label reissue} Baby Face Willette - Stop and Listen {90's Connoisseur vinyl} All sound very nice (the Connoisseur being the best of them, what a surprise) and were under 20€ each.

What inscriptions are there in the deadwax of your vinyl? I've heard that some of these Applause reissues even used the original RVG-cut stampers. Maybe that's why it sounds so good?

I have the feeling that's just SOME picture of Miles that they happened to get a clearence on for the online article. Not sure it's the actual stamp. Also, that photo of Miles from the Don Cheadle article is definitely not from 1977. It's from the same session as the cover of the Mosaic Bitches Brew set. 1969, probably. These people should get their stuff right. Just sayin...

Kenny Dorham - Jazz Contemporary 1960 mono pressing. Found yesterday in a shop in Berlin.

Thanks for ansking that question. I was looking for it myself some time ago, to no avail. Has anybody ever seen the movie? Would be interesting to see how Miles music integrates with the images.

Mal's 1971 album "The Call" is one of my favorites. He plays electric piano and there's also an organ on the date played by Jimmy Jackson (with a very distinct sound, I'd say more rock than jazz, but not a Deep Purple kind of rock). Eberhard Weber is on bass and Fred Braceful on drums. This is on JAPO records, but practically an ECM recording. I also recommend Mal Waldron's German recordings with Dusko Goykovich from 1967, some of which are available on the (great) European compilations "Forum West: Modern Jazz from West Germany 1962-1968) and "Focus Jazz: More Modern Jazz from the Wewerka Archives 1966-1969".

Thanks very much. I'll use that and report back.

Hello all, I'm glad to have found this place on the Internet full with discussions on my favorite topic: jazz. But there's one thing that has kept me from enjoying this forum, and it's the fact that it has way too many sub-forums. I don't even know where to look. I appreciate the fact that the many categories seem to keep the place tidy and nice looking, but this keeps me from discovering new things and going outside of my known realm. For instance, I'm pretty young myself, but I'm not very interested in new jazz, I prefer stuff from the 50's and 60's. So I never go to the New Releases subforum, but what if I'm missing something that would have interested me if I had discovered it on this forum? Other times I just want to browse, but I spend most of the time clicking onto a subforums, finding out there's nothing new in there, clicking back, going into a new subforum and so on... Shouldn't there be an easier way to see what's new under a glance, rather than having all of these topics buried? Is there any option I've overlooked that enables me to watch all topics collected under one roof? Also, from the perspective of a poster, sometimes I really don't know in what category to put my post? Is a newly discovered side by Charlie Parker a new issue? Well technically it is, but all the people looking for Charlie Parker will be in browsing the re-issue subcategory. There's a thread at the moment in the "Artist" subforum about recordings which were not released under the leader's name but under a different name. Shouldn't that be in the Discography section? Where do we draw the line? Also, why shouldn't be the vinyl people also be allowed to speak to the others? Why the separate room? etc etc. Well, all I know is that I'm so confused that I'm subconsciously not visiting this forum as often as I would like to. All I'm seeing is trees, but I can't see the forest. Thanks for listening, crispi

Thanks very much for the tip!

Because it gives you a sense of when people first heard it and could be influenced by it. Although many musicians began adding numbers to their live repertoires immediately after (or even before) they recorded them, some didn't do so until their records were released. Exactly. I didn't really give release dates much thought before, but if you are studying the effect that certain recordings had on the rest of the scene, it's important to know when it actually happened. It doesn't really count if an important record was recorded in (say) 1961, if in fact it was released (and heard for the first time) many years later. To answer your other question, medjuck, it was plain old Wikipedia that has the release dates, and I think they're correct, as Prestige sought out to slowly release those sessions in order to cash in on Miles' popularity on Columbia Records.

This here, found in a records store in Berlin, Germany. A 1967 Riverside ABC reissue of "Boss Guitar" entitled "This is Wes Montgomery". Promo, great sounding MONO mix. "Re-mastering supervised by Bob Thiele".

Hi fellow jazzers I've been watching this forum for a while and this is my first post here. I'll get right to the topic. I'm interested in finding out the release dates of jazz labels such as Riverside, Prestige and Blue Note. Nowadays it sometimes seems pretty hard to find info, especially since a lot of records are erroneously listed on the internet as having been released the year they were recorded, which is often false especially in the case of Prestige. For instance Miles Davis' classic quintet recordings from 1956 were released in 1957 (Cookin'), 1958 (Relaxin'), 1959 (Workin') and 1961 (Steamin'), which is very interesting from a historical point of view (at least for me.) In the case of Blue Note this is an easier task, because you can guess by the catalog number, although I'm pretty sure they didn't release their stuff in that same order, because sometimes they would assign numbers and issue the records later. I'm especially baffled by Riverside, where Bill Evans seems to have released a lot of records in 1961-1962, and judging by the catalog numbers, there were more than 200 (!?!) releases from the record company these two years. Can this be true? Or did the stuff get released later, along the way? (On the other hand, Riverside went bankrupt in 1964 I guess, so maybe they did in fact release so much stuff...) Any links from the 'net would be helpful. I've already searched in the usual places like Discogs or Wikipedia but they often have incomplete information. I'm particularly interested about the release dates of Coltrane's Prestige albums and Bill Evans I've already mentioned. Thanks a lot, crispi