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And Herbie Nichols of course! He and Max Roach ... not too shabby

Couldn't say I'm a fan but yes, fine bass player for sure.From an Ethan Iverson interview with Charlie Haden: EI: Is there another 50’s bassist you want to mention? CH: Teddy Kotick. EI: Oh? I’ve never really listened to him carefully. CH: You’ve got to listen to “Kim” with Bird, Hank Jones and Max Roach. Also, he’s on the first Bill Evans album with Paul Motian, New Jazz Conceptions. Great intonation, great sound, gut strings. He died too young. https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-charlie-haden/

Thanks! Goes straight onto the CDjapan wishlist!

Interesting, thanks - never saw the "other" one before, was completely unaware of it!

This here seems to be the most active thread on Woody Shaw ... so two questions: 1) what's this (just announced by CDJapan, there is a 1975 Dexter Gordon item, too)? http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/KKJ-1029 2) are there two albums w/Tone Jansa, or how does this relate to the rather well-known "Dr. Chi"? http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/CDSOL-6359

No news as far as I am aware of ... The Ellington may have been surplused by the Fremeaux set, but I've been unable to determine how exactly they (in my case the Pablo and the Fremeaux, I skipped the JiP one) relate. Rather superficial info, surely on purpose. Pablo/Fantasy: JiP is identical I think. Fremeaux: Some info here: https://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=64&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=1819&option=com_virtuemart Also saw this one on Laserlight for the first time ... the SACD editions sometimes (always?) where shortened editions on one disc from two disc CD editions as far as I know (bought an SACD by mistake once and was pissed): The CD listing on aFR doesn't have a tracklist, doesn't even tell if its a double (someone not on vacation an restricted to dumbophone can certainly figure out that part) Ok, two ... earlier CD edition: https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-Alhambra-29-Octobre-1958-Part-1/release/11087005 https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-Alhambra-29-Octobre-1958-Part-2/release/11087092 Same as Fremeaux? (Not doing that myself on phone) Fantasy/Pablo/JiP fully included? (Note: Fremeaux says it covers multiple nights ... so: different versions?)

I'd like to know that too! The one digit volumes most likely ... but I wonder where the "switch" is these days.

The problem is: early volumes are CD-Rs by now (and obviously/crookedly not sold as such) by now ... else I'd have them all, but as it is, that's depressing, I didn't have the funds or enough interest in Ducal sounds whe the series started ... I think I'm up to Vol. 22 with the recent ones and will definitely get the following volunes but am not yet sure what to do about the missing earlier ones ... -- Duke Box 3 though, I'd be all for it if there is still enough material around!

Sad news. Was he actually still performing? Took me quite a while to get his qualities ... but yes, fine player. The Prestiges are herewith officially delegated to Fresh Sound for reissue (or are they too late for that? Fegh Disney fehg The Beatles fegh the Jacko heirs fegh el tupé!)

Hm, okay ... one thing: most of the CDs bought from Trueblue back in the day *did* have a particular smell actually, not a bad one but a weird one ... I think I noticed the same on other discs delivered from the US, but never with ol'yurpeen ones ... must be that smell Dvořák had in mind when he wrote that symphony (or not )

Maybe that's why he writes "one of the last"? - for a career that went on for five more decades, I think that's a sound way of putting it. After all, up to that point, Taylor had recorded plenty of standards ... and "This Nearly Was Mine" is a standout! Regarding the apocryphal stories and episodes, I wouldn't mind Shatz mentioning them, but the insistence on them being true is indeed problematic. But obviously, the grown-up reader will still harbour his/her doubts ...

Spread reading over two days .... excellent article indeed. One tiny gaffe that is weird as it seems the research and/or fact checking was done thoroughly: Taylor's contribution to "Into the Hot" can't be considered "big band".

And I saw Ed Partyka conducting a Big Band and backing up Sheila Jordan last night ... first time I saw Ms Jordan was back when we met in Vienna. She still has it at 89! Weber ... so far not really a musician whose stuff I got into much. Maybe time to give it another try. @mikeweil off topic here, but Aynur will soon play Zurich. Won't make it though, way too many concerts all the time ...

Yup, I have a copy of the other TOCJ actually and I like it! But somehow, in all these years, I just never managed to find it for sale.

Thanks, excellent reading!

And some by Gil Mellé, right? @Rooster_Ties Thanks, however there's not "buy it now" price and I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow ... bad timing

Thanks ... but great: the only sane offer on discogs (30$ sans shipping) is unavailable for me in Switzerland ...

I know, but *I* don't have it ... and I don't think there are offers for sane prices (US offers are not game, with the crazy shipping costs added), hardly any offer under 100€ that I can see ... is the TOJC okay or should the later one be hunted (which seems a pretty impossible mission anyways).

Hoping to catch Sheila Jordan again tomorrow night ... and then off for Padova for a short vacation, including catching Chicago London Underground while there. Too bad that Randy Weston is playing the same night nearby ... but I've seen him twice and Mazurek is never around here, plus I made my decision long before took note of the Weston gig (which hopefully has long ago sold out anyway), so ...

Still missing Tyrone W. ... and was quite shocked recently when I realized "Unit Structures" had its last "big" reissue in ... 1988?

You're giving away the Stuff Smith/Dizzy Gillespie too cheaply ... glorious music!

Well, I would assume they did consider that option when the destruction of CD masters happened ... and they nixed it. And back then, sales probably still were quite a bit better, so I really don't see this as an option. Also, wouldn't all those sets have "timed out" by now? My understanding is that only the EMI-held sets (such as the Mobley) would not time out after such and such number of years. Third, if amassing pre-orders before re-pressing is the way to go nowadays (Bee Hive set), do you think they'd get enough of these to bring back old sets that many do have? And finally, printing booklets and stuff is probably about as expensive or more expensive compared having CDs pressed ... there has been quite some change/fluctuation in paper/printing quality in the past 10 or so years it seems, some were high gloss, some were sturdy paper, some were rather filmsy, some had cover pages printed on paper of the same weight as the rest (thus they have no real "cover") ... this doesn't inlfuence the whole idea of bringing back sets, but still still would have to be part of considerations I assume.

Yup, sorry to say

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio (w/Drew Gress & Kenny Wollesen) last night - was fantastic! Their recent Intakt disc is mighty good, but live the same tunes got much longer and I guess more intense/dynamic ... first set was a whopping 90 minutes, second another hour, for an encore they had to do a free impro as they'd ran out of tunes it sempt.

I came to know the same day that Météo festival announced its 2018 line-up - which includes a solo concert by Tippett on opening night. No one told them about it?