king ubu

very much for Tapscott, Carter/Bradford and Daley ... and I'll definitely have to get the Fischer and the Steig, too!

Totally second the mention of the great James Brown album! And also this one that I just played again whilst commuting to work: Truly a monster! Has it ever been reissued?

Happy birthday and all the best, Hans!

I mentioned them among many others - can't help it, love KB!

Guess I better get that CTI while it's still around!

Huh, thought it was Bird who met that hi-hat!

See my last post and Larry's post above yours. It can now be accessed again. I know, saw them, have been typing my lengthy post all that time and missed the "action" Got "Round Midnight" last year, but don't think I've listened before losing track of where the CD might be ... will have to do some digging!

That topic doesn't seem to exist, Hans, no matter how I'm playing around with the URL or try a google search: no luck in getting there! Anyway, Burrell is one of my favourite guitarists, and quite likely the first one I really *heard*. That was when I got Jimmy Smith's "Back at the Chicken Shack", one of my first dozen or so jazz albums. Then again on "The Cats", the great Prestige album with Coltrane, Idrees Sulieman, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes. Caught him live around 1999 or so, with an all star package that should have included Milt Jackson - not sure any more if he was dead by then or just too weak to do the tour, Bobby Hutcherson who was booked as his replacement did his very best to appear bored and totally without any interest in what the others on stage played ... those others were besides Burell: Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Mickey Roker. Roker didn't have his best night (he seemed to rush the beat again and again), but it was terrific to hear Jones and Burrell do their thing, Brown lay out the bottom, and well, Booby... he was just completely not happening that night. Too bad as I never had a chance to catch him since. Burrell albums I enjoy include "Midnight Blue", the Savoy date available as "Monday Stroll" or "Jazzmen Detroit", "Guitar Forms", the early Blue Note sessions on the Connoisseur 2CD set (plus Doug Watkins' "Watkins at Large", which fits nicely with the third date on the KB Conn set!), the live album from the Five Spot, "Blue Bash" with Jimmy Smith, the album with Coltrane, "A Night at the Village Vanguard", "12-15-78" (the 2CD reissue of his Muse live session), and also some of those jams, "Blue Lights", "All Night Long", "All Day Long", his contributions to some of those Gene Ammons dates, "Motor City Scene" with Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams, his playing on "Whims of Chambers" (another one I had since my teens), then the great Kenny Dorham live material on Blue Note, where KB sits in with the Jazz Prophets, his contribution to "The Individualism of Gil Evans", Coleman Hawkins' "Soul", Jimmy Heath's "On the Trail", Thad Jones' first Blue Note album, that Taft Jordan Moodsville album, the Prestige dates with Jack McDuff, Ike Quebec's "Bossa Nova Soul Samba", his various other albums with Jimmy Smith, Ed Thigpen's "Out of the Storm", the albums he made with Stanley Turrentine, etc. etc. He was really all over the place ... and he's quite clearly my favourite hardbop guitarist (which Grant Green is not ... it would be a real hard choice for me between KB and GG, love both, but they're so different).

Into disc four ... the overlong Hairy Bones track is the first one I don't like (not sure about Haino, that's just not my world, I can't say I dislike it) ... I guess the Full Blast (luckily only a third of the duration of the Hairy Bones one, some 7 minutes) will be the other. Don't get that concept of pressure and standstill. That's music that doesn't go anywhere, doesn't develop anything, but nearly explodes (maybe because it can't go anyplace else?). Might work live now and then, but doesn't translate to disc. But other than that, I'm really enjoying this set, most of the tracks are amazing! The long (50 minutes) groove orgy by Brötzmann, Laswell, Gania and Drake on disc three took me a while to get into, but after twenty or so minutes, it was just plain amazing! Disc four opens with a great track by Bishop, McPhee, Mars Williams, Jason Adasciewicz, Kent Kessler and Tamaya Honda, then after the Bones there's fine a ten minute piano solo by Masahiko Satoh, and to top things off, you get the Chicago Tentet for the second time: after a great track with John Tchicai on disc one, here Michiyo Yagi on koto is the special guest in what was titled "Concert for Fukushima". Great! Now looking forward to disc five (Brötz/Revis/Nastheet Waits trio, DKV with Gustafsson, Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love, Full Blast, and Caspar Brötzmann Massaker to top things off (there might be another track not too close to my tastes, but we'll see).

disc two ... great stuff, wow!

Finally had it in the mail - and disc one is spinning now, great! That's Tchicai's voice in #2, yes?

just got it out of the mail box - finalement! disc one went straight into the player

that's my assumption, too - strike a deal with the musician and that's fine - doesn't, to my knowledge, work that simply anymore, as lawyers have taken over the world, at least the corporate part of it ... by now, the dutch (or swiss ot swedish or danish...) radios as those who own the tapes (but not necessarily the music in them) don't have to mind too much any more and can, correctly to dome extent in some cases, I guess, act as if they were the kegit owners nit just of the container but also of its contents ... and with amazon a willing complice, they even are able to sell on the US market ....

I think it's somewhat more complicated, Hans. Not sure the radio station actually owns what's ON the tapes or if they just bought the right to broadcast once (or any number of times). It is my understanding that all these radio releases are legally very complicated - that is, as long as the recordings in question are not in the public domain yet. oops, plenty of new posts in the meantime, I'm darn slow posting from the smartphone.

So you did get it before me ... I already wondered if you get mail on Sundays, but I guess it was Monday morning already? The parcel post hasn't passed (working at home today), so there's still hope I catch up

Yep, John Tchicai must get lots of money from this release

big on the Waldron/Lacy though!

Somewhat hesitant about Mingus Birdland - sketchy, bad sound, no room for the music to really go places ... but the entire 1964 tour would nicely fit, though it has to be compiled from several labels' releases as well as unreleased material.

happy birthday!

you better!

Bill Evans - The Secret Sessions Bill Evans - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Sessions Shelly Manne - At the Black Hawk (five single volumes) and At the Manne-Hole (two single volumes) (there's a shady box of the Black Hawk, too) Count Basie - The Complete Roulette Live Recordings (Mosaic) (okay, that's a mean recommendation, but luck may strike or you may have a thick bank account ...) Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 - 3 Nights in Oslo (different line-ups including various combinations of "bands within the band", details here) Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (another big one, not sure of it's price range, you get extended recordings from Seattle) John Coltrane - Live in Japan (the 4CD edition) and I fully endorse a whole lot of the previous recommendations (the other Evans sets, the Jarretts - you might want to throw in the 1973/74 Impulse box, which has lots of extende live material -, Ella in Hollywood, Trane 1961, the Petersons, the Mogie, also the sublime "People Time").

Thanks, Jonathan! Crossing my fingers re: Daley! And I'll happily buy the Carter/Bradford reissues once they're out!

Happy birthday!