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There were two tours in 1981, one in May and one a bit later in summer, I think (must be mentioned in the notes to the releases). Quick search yields among other things this (David Williams indeed): http://www.cyberseekers.com/s_211039-j.htm (nothing to buy there, so I hope the link is alright) -- The Copenhagen recording - with Duke Jordan sitting on piano - comes from the second tour as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Pepper_with_Duke_Jordan_in_Copenhagen_1981

The series is generally worth getting, that's for sure! And the booklets are fun, I actually enjoy reading Laurie's reminiscences whenever I stumble over them (should finally read her book, too).

I know ... the main reason I could provide info was that I knew the recording already (a radio broadcast that did make the rounds ...) I love the series and am saddened that the pace of actual CD releases has slowed down to a drizzle (and the fact that Laurie closed the "kitchen cabinet" which was kind of a subscription, without telling subscribers, sucked, too ... I kinda stopped following all the freebies and lone tracks that kept coming for a while, it all seemed to lack a concept more and more, alas).

I still wonder about that ... actually finally bought the Stuttgart Liederhalle concert - guess it took me so long to get over the ignunce ... and searching for this thread, I see that Laurie even asked the question a second time, a few weeks later, and got the very same reply and another possible source of information to reach out to by Big Beat Steve ...

I'm one of those that isn't usually bothered with warbly cymbal sounds but reacts strongly to foogly bass sounds - part of it, in my case, is problably that I love the bass in jazz (and pop) so much that it really makes me cringe ... but yeah, the Woody Shaw on Elemental suffers from badly sounding cymbals as well (they don't even mention what hall or location it was recorded in--bet Woody III knows but dosen't want us to know as much as he does ... the main notes are by Cuscuna as well btw --- and don't forget that Elemental is the label that did the amazing Giuffre 2-CD-set a couple of years back, it seems to be a spin-off or sister-label/project of Resonance in some way, so probably about as legit as it gets) - anyway with the Shaw, it was the drunk piano that I noticed (but it doesn't keep Mulgrew Miller from playing excellently).

Picked up the Lang/Venuti at the post office today ... packaged safely and everything in excellent condition

I like it quite some! The Tokyo set (with Tootie in great form) is under 40 minutes though, so they added two bonus tracks from roughly the same time ... second one is with the "Homecoming" band, Woody taking a break ... now more by that group would be great!

Thanks Chuck, will gladly check out her website!

done ordered

Interesting, thanks! Wasn't yet aware of that one! But there's a companion release on Dutch Jazz Archive, incl. tracks with Sims: https://www.jazzarchief.nl/en/product/lee-konitz-soot-sims/ I think some of this material was out on a vinyl bootleg I once was allowed to borrow from a friend's late dad ... very good to have some of it available in decent reissues! -- The Horace Silver is nice, too, btw! And so is the Basie (which duplicates most or all of the 2-disc-set that used to be on Trema/Laserlight) And the Q, and the Nat Cole/Q,

... which is why I think doing something like that on Intakt (as opposed to, I don't know who'd actually this in the classical world) is quite a good idea. On the label's site (linked) above you can sample the new disc. I'll check out the vimeo link later, thanks!

Got this new release by Intakt yesterday and gave it a first spin right away. I remember how, travelling to Willisau by train last year, I met Patrik Landolt (Intakt producer) and how he almost wouldn't stop talking of this piano quartet and their performances of music by Julius Eastman. I had never heard the name of Eastman before but my curiosity was piqued for sure! The concert that took place in Zurich in November I couldn't attend alas (I was between jobs and taking some time off to travel, thus missed the entire Unerhört festival, including a re-union of sorts of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, which was in fact a mixture of Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band, adding some of the old cohorts--but I bet it was amazing!). The CD was recorded a few weeks after that concert, but the quartet has been together for a few years and has played many concerts--right now they're doing a series of "guerilla concerts" and I hope to catch one next week, on a worday afternoon at an arts gallery ... I guess they will bring their battered uprights, not use concert grands like they did in the studio. Details on the CD can be found here: http://www.intaktrec.ch/306-a.htm The music, I canno't really describe, it's minimal of sorts, it's very intense ... sometimes, the pianos are prepared, sometimes they're not, structures keep evolving, tension keeps building, sometimes almost to the point of becoming unbearably intense. Blurb from the Intakt website: The Kukuruz Quartet was first seen and heard making their contribution to a production at the Zurich Schauspielhaus. Kukuruz was engaged with notated classical music, advanced new music, with jazz and improvisation. 2014 Kukuruz started their involvement with Julius Eastman and his musical works. In 2017, their performance at documenta 14 in the Megaro Mousikis concert hall in Athens earned a standing ovation. They performed works by Julius Eastman: 'Evil Nigger', 'Gay Guerrilla', 'Buddha' and 'Fugue No. 7'. The recording of these compositions followed in November 2017 on four Steinway D pianos in the main hall of the historic Radiostudio Zürich. Composer, trombonist and scholar George E. Lewis, who knew Eastman personally and played with him, writes in the liner notes: "This brilliant recording by the Kukuruz Quartet constitutes an important new contribution to the growing corpus of performances of music by the composer, pianist, and singer Julius Eastman (1940-1990), who came to prominence in the experimental music scene of the 1970s and 1980s ... On this recording, the Kukuruz Quartet renders Eastman's spirit of adventure audible and sensuous, exemplifying a new, creolized formation of contemporary classical music that is able to embrace a multicultural, multi-ethnic usable past and thinkable future that can affirm our common humanity in the pursuit of new music." -- There's stuff on youtube which I still need to check out myself--maybe this for starters (the piece is on the Intakt disc as well): If you go over to YT to play it (be aware, they'll track you! but so they do when you play the above in this window), you'll be directed to more. New World has a three-disc release titled "Unjust Malaise" as well as a release of "The Zurich Concert" from 1980--guess these would be fine additions to the new one on Intakt. Does anybody know them? http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=94885 http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=15097 Julius Eastman in 1974 (photo: Christine Rusiniak) Some more stuff to read (I borrowed the photo from the first of these): https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/02/hammered-into-clouds-nine-beginnings-for-julius-eastman/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/14/julius-eastman-american-composer-pianist-femenine https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/the-genius-and-the-tragedy-of-julius-eastman

Haven't listened to it yet ... but enjoy the Ray Charles and the Les McCann bigtime! The Monk and Ellington seem to overlap (with the "Monk in France" and "Alhambra 1958" releases respectively, but info provided is slim ... on purpose surely, which is lousy for a generally serious label like Frémeaux ... but we know the record biz by now, don't we? They have other measurements of decency and thoroughness than honest people). The Getz is quite good for sure though, a most welcome addition to the series! Gourley btw is not present on the three studio tracks at the end (which make up around 21 of the 78/79 minutes). But I guess for me the best is how heavily featured Solal is throughout. He has several trio tracks in the concerts and his soloing and accompaniment are both highlights of the disc. Getz on the other hand, around that time, is somehow not a real favourite. I dearly love his Roost sessions and other early leader stuff, I enjoy the band with Brookmeyer (and later for just a couple of cuts Fruscella), I love the West Coast sessions on Verve ... but late 50s/earliest 60s are a bit less favoured in my house and I guess that's the case here (but I took some of the mentioned 1958-60 recordings off the shelves to give them another spin soon - "at Large" on Storyville and the Dragon set). Later in the sixties, Getz has done stuff I love again, starting with some of the solos on the bossa albums, then "Focus" and "Mickey One" (not as ingenuously charted as "Focus", but listen to Getz ripping it up!), the band with Burton, the album with Corea, then the late 60s date with Stanley Cowell ... he was really exploring stuff then! Same later with Joanne Brackeen (the two Resonance discs are terrific!)

Much too cumbersome to try and find any general Stan Getz thread (I think there's none or it was closed - there's a multi-page-thread on "where's the Stan Getz thread", so there's that) ... either way, this came out as part of the on-going "Live in Paris" collection by Frémeaux. Great series with releases by, among others, Duke Ellington, Les McCann, JATP, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk etc. - there's also a website that includes a few additional, DL only items (Lou Bennett Trio w/Klook and guest Barney Wilen - how's that for cool?!): http://www.live-in-paris.fr Latest in the series is a generously filled disc by Stan Getz, recorded mostly (#1-9) on January 3, 1959 at the Olympia Theater in Paris, the rest (#10-12) originating from a radio studio session ("probably first week of January 1959"). The band may be the best Getz had during his extended European sojourn of that time (he got married in Sweden, among other things, releases from the period include "Stan Getz at Large", "In Sweden 1958-60", "Live in Zurich", "Stan Getz at Nalen", "Stan Getz at Nalen - Featuring Jan Johansson", and "Polish Radio Jazz Archives 01 - Stan Getz & Andrzej Trzawskowski Trio"). Stan Getz (ts), Jimmy Gourley (g), Martial Solal (p), Pierre Michelot (b), Kenny Clarke (d) Solal gets several trio features, Gourley is providing some fine solos, so does the leader ... Klook, Michelot and Solal keep things very, very lively. Sound is pretty okay, some phasing issues on the cymbals here and there, but generally it's very listenable. And on top of all that, the French stage presenter announces "Miss Stan Getz" on tenor sax at the end of the opening "Cherokee" Repertoire is fairly standard, with Bop classics (Cherokee, 'Round Midnight, The Squirrel, Yardbird Suite) standards (All the Things You Are, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Tenderly, Too Marvelous for Words, Over the Rainbow) and a few other classics (Lover Man, Topsy).

I actually scored real CDs of several of the lower numbers, too (and I haven't forgot your help with several of these @brownie ) - but about four or five I've not (yet) attempted to find real ones (via Discogs would indeed be the best chance, I guess ... but then you'd have to rely on vendors being honest and knowledgeable enough). Two of the ones I've got are really weird, they look like a mix of CD and CD-R - the colour is less bluish/greenish than with the clearly-CD-R ones, and on the inner ring, there is the usual black serial number (CD-R), but then there is also printed stuff like the catalogue number (which would indicate CD) - I wonder if CD-R printers have become so good that they can reproduce all of that stuff (label, catalogue numbers etc.) by now?

First one seems to be more the bebop classics (mostly Bird-related), second one standards ... guess that could have been programmed differently, but I don't really mind. But the two takes of "Un poco loco" have me wonder if more material (alternate takes) have survived? There would have been plenty of additional space between the two CDs. One detail/inconsistency: in his liners, Pujol mentions the recordings being made on three consecutive days (July 19-21, 1966), but the info gives them as three days with the break of one day in between (July 18, 19 & 21, 1966). Either way: a major find!

Gave Vol. 2 a first spin last night ... it's as wonderful as Vol. 1 had me hope

('xept that Rava made most of his finest albums elsewhere ... and that ECM for Stanko and Wheeler is only half the story - but yeah, all three made wonderful - Stanko and Wheeler some outstanding - albums for the label)

Congrats! Good catch! The Lang/Venuti will be delivered tomorrow, I hope (or else picked up Wednesday at the post office as possibly no one will be home)!

Totally not how @Gheorghe describes it around here ... maybe the posh places that had Griffin and Foster and Moody while I was in my teens would have hosted elegantly dressed audiences - but I could not afford paying ~50€ per set in the mid/late 90s ... and to this day when I end up in such surroundings, I have a hunch that at least half of the crowd is there for the social event and/or for distinction - to be seen by whom they desire to be their kin. Real, dedicated jazz crowds frequenting the not-so-posh places too, will dress like Tony Makaby does on stage

Mosaic left this off a box they did (one of the Columbias ... Condon Mob?) because it was readily available when they put that set together. Well, by the point I got it, the CD was OOP and it took me a few attempts to get it, but it's gorgeous indeed! I could certainly do with a few more of his albums, though I have him as a soloist/sideman on countless earlier sessions (Condon et al.), so thanks for the recommendations!

He was a great musician ... love his existentialist trumpet stylings. Played "Leosia" last night in memory. Was lucky enough to catch the polish quartet in concert twice, and then saw him perform with Globe Unity at Jazzfest Berlin in November 2016 - he looked quite frail at that time, actually, and I was worrying ... but it seems he was touring again this spring? Not sure what the one favourite album would be, need I pick one. "Litania", his Komeda album discussed above, was my point of entrance when it came out (1997 I think), later on I started exploring his early stuff, too. There is "Astigmatic" of course, then the two first ones of his own albums on Muza, and there is the glorious Calig albu, too (not on CD as far as I know). Not too fond of the electric stuff that followed, but the long run on ECM is indeed pretty awesome, right down to "December Avenue", his last release.

Yes indeed, it's very good (though the "Frère Jacques" thingie is a bit of a strain on my nerves ... but the ole sir is enjoying himself, which is fine with me). He has an upcoming gig in Vienna in September it seems ... would love to catch him live, but I can't make that one. Too bad, really!

And myself, after chatting with @Alexander Hawkins a few months ago, I decided to check out Martha Argerich some more ... and indeed, even if some of that I hear is not exactly how I'd envision it or how I prefer to hear it from experience with other recordings, I'm quite stunned again and again! Played some Chopin first, including the 24 (plus 2) Préludes and the third sonata, and now the disc below.

No, it doesn't ... I've read only parts of it so far, but it's definitely worth it!