king ubu

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

tightly woven

sheesh, this is MY thread, stop peeing on it!

And Carla Bley for dinner music, right?

I think I've first heard him with Bennie Wallace on the air ... missed his one terrific Zurich concert, around 1999/2000, I think. Wallace, Danton Boller, Queen - mighty fine band. Queen's indeed on some European productions, with Dusko for instance, but also with Swiss piano great Marc Hemmeler. I think Queen's been based in Switzerland for many years (as was Jimmy Woode), but I still haven't yet managed to catch him live. (Just wondered if it was him on drums when I heard Benny Bailey/Joe Haider's quintet, but it was John Engels - the others were Andy Scherrer on tenor and Isla Eckinger on bass - fine band, good concert, great experience to have caught Benny live!)

Discovered Bobby Wellins big time lately (also wrote an article about him for the next number of get happy!? - which alas is in German) - love his Lady Day homage on "The Satin Album" and "Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing"... the above-mentioned "Snapshot" is also very good, but "When the Sun Comes Out" (also recorded live) is even better! The most recent one I got so far is "Time Gentlemen, Please", which is a bit more restrained (recorded studio) and features a new band (save for Andy Cleyndert on bass) with John Critchinson on piano and Mark Taylor on drums. It's very good as well though, even if it's a little less lively. Seems Wellins does benefit quite some from the live situation.

Same with me as with Mike - slowly, over the years. Other recordings I remember include Miles' "Amandla" (which, I mentioned it before, my mom loved), several by Ella (most notably "Ella Swings Lightly" with a great band directed by Marty Paich - another one mom loved). Then there were some of my dad's LPs, such as "This Here is Bobby Timmons" and Art Blakey's glorious "Free for All" (which remains to this day my Blakey favorite). I don't quite remember which (very few) jazz titles the local library had (back then a village of around 8000 inhabitants, it grew a bit, library must have made some advances, too), but one they had was a cheapo bootleg of The Giants of Jazz live somewhere in Scandinavia (at least the disc said so ... it was on that label with the dotted covers, Jazz Up or something). I didn't get that. Then dad bought Diana Krall's second disc, which quickly took permanent residence in my room. .. I loved her Nat homage and the follow-up "Love Scenes" when in highschool, but by then I went in all kinds of directions, checking out stuff from Miles ("Workin'" and "Kind of Blue" were the titles at the library) to Coltrane (my dad's LP of "A Love Supreme", the library's "Master Works of Coltrane", which took me a long time to get). Around that time I started collecting, got the Atlantic Trane box for x-mas when I was out fairly new, then soon ordered my first Mosaic (the TKM set about which I'd read a very favorable review in some newspaper, and I just had to get that one, no matter what a nuisance it was, back in the days of money order and slow but cheaper surface shipping). Anyway, when I was 17 or 18 I had plenty of Mingus (1955-1964), Miles (all eras), Coltrane (most of the OJCCDs, lots of Impulses), Monk (the Blue Notes, several prestige and Riversides), Bill Evans (several Riversides), Cannonball (several Riversides, Somethin' Else, the Landmark LP edition of "In Europe"), Dolphy, plenty of classic Blue Note (JOS, Blakey, Mobley, Morgan ...), and more than a dozen Mosaic boxes, too - and from there I just went on and on

I don't need defined briefs just yet, but who knows, that day may come

I guess I'll live happily everafter without knowing "Forms & Sounds" then ... this thread was the first time I've heard of it, anyway. Got "Skies" on vinyl not that long ago (seems legit, but probably I wouldn't know if it was a counterfeit).

Okay, thanks J.A.W. - that's what I thought. They did more (and it seems better) with the catalogue than ZYX did, for sure!

Still waiting for the huuuuuuuuuuge fifties JATP Verve box, alas (I know, I know, Mr. Ayers )

frequently played on Sunday mornings - I must have been hooked to it when I was like ... four?

Hey, I hadn't the slightest of intentions to make the Ace reissue sound shady! I was just wondering. And me being young and a child of the CD era, I tend to think of many of those labels as "Fantasy", even more so when talking of compilations/reissues on CD (it took me many years to make a difference between Prestige, Riverside and others - I simply didn't bother at first, when I got into jazz as a teenager ... no one told me about it).

Guess I'll grab that one then, if it's still around at the used bookstore nearby!

Yes, this is the label that sets the standard for how re-issues SHOULD be done. If there's an artist or genre that you like AND it's available on Ace, then you should get it there. How did they end up getting/doing some Fantasy material? I recently got the great two discs by Percy Mayfield, one from Fantasy, the other from Ace - seems in that case they're identical (except for course for the logo and some minor differences in layout). In others, they made their own Fantasy twofers. Was that one of those licensing deals, just like ZYX had in Germany?

(as long as nobody mentions the namesake of a certain princess, please!)

I wondered about that post/neo thing... the really interesting folks (Roberts, Laubrock, Grimal, Laurent) go beyond that. Irabagon, btw, is also part of the uber-hip "Mostly Other People Do the Killing" (of which I got tired quickly).

Géraldine Laurent Sophie Alour though I guess both are better heard live than on CD

It had great press here, it just started its theatrical run, will try and catch it! Btw, no matter where the Jamaican mix of "Catch a Fire" on the Deluxe edition came from - it might be my favorite Marley album!

Happy Birthday, Chuck! :party:

Hellyeah!

Yes, wonderful music - beginning to end! But I think I'm in that Basie camp as far as favorites go!

just make sure he leaves the e-c(m)oli at home

Courvoisier is married to/partner of Marc Feldman, and I think at least partly NY based. And Carla Bley, I should assume, is fluent in english, too. Btw, the mention of Jelly Roll as desert is somewhat... shall we say slippery?