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Belated best wishes, Joe!

Yesterday was the hottest day ever in April... in the sun, it was easily 30°C, and in the evening, you could walk around in a t-shirt until after midnight. Crazy. No one tell me climate is healthy and sane and climate change not happening.

Thanks for your thoughts, Jeff! I'm well aware that no one would like all tunes here (well, unless that someone would be me, I guess, but as I'm me already, who else could possibly be me? ). The whole thing was kind of an experiment... It's a soprano on "Caravan", and there's no Harriott nor Blount on here. No VAO either, Spontooneous!

WHOAH! Paal Nilssen-Love is one bad m-f! Holy shit! His playing was amazing, very, very intense, loosening up, freeing all rhythms, yet at the same time with lots of drive and momentum. Vandermark started on tenor, then they picked up for real when he went on with clarinet and baritone, then back to tenor it was... and they added an encore without losing any momentum - yet it was quiet, lyrical, with VDMK on clarinet again (the instrument I prefer hearing him on). Fantastic set! McCaslin's band... oh well... Uri Caine on fender and some cheapo stuff w/mac-book, Tim Lefebvre on electric bass, and Rudy Royston on drums. They kind of wanted to play an uninterrupted set, but applause didn't quite let them. Certainly all four of them are very good from a technical point of view, but well... McCaslin doesn't seem to know where he wants the music to go, Royston beats the sh*t out of his drums, but it's all too sly, too... you know, the youngish crowd loved how hip it was, but compared to Nilssen-Love it was super-tame and cute. Lefebvre was definitely the best of them, but he didn't get dirty that often, alas. Caine had some fine spots, but was mostly as boring as I expected (tell me off for that, if you want). McCaslin has a good sound on tenor and amazing technique, but he's not at a point where he has any direction with his own music. He has some sly ideas, does a short groove-thing, lets the band take over, then does his boring virtuoso soloing, very far removed from the original groove pattern, and often - worst in a much-too-long unaccompanied solo towards the end of the set - resembling a mix of etudes and transpositions straight out of some classical learning book. Too bad, as there was loads of musical ability up there, but no idea what to do with it. But then who am I to say so? The four seem to have enjoyed themselves, smiling at each other, happy about that clever little trick the other guy just pulled... it's just that to me, it got old before it even really started.

Sorry if I made you think there was even more newly discoverer/released Louis aroud!

The 1956 one on Columbia/Legacy... finally got around to it. Also gave the 1958 Monterey set another spin, and that one's very good as well!

Happy Birthday, and all the very best! :party:

Just having my very first listen to the Chicago 2CD set - very good! Guess that Basin Street will be mighty fine, too (besides Bigard, that is - it's mentioned on the blog that he's doing his usual aimless noodling - usual, that is, for Satchmo All Stars era playing... with Duke he was, uhm, usually, fine).

The sale is ending on April 30: http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/discolistagempreco.asp Put in one more order (the two Gayles discs, the two by Dennis González, the Russ Lossing, the Townhouse).

Tonight it will be Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark and afterwards Donny McCaslin (with Uri Caine in the band... me no like Uri, he boring humorless dude, sorry... but I guess I'll stick around for Donny!)

Well, I do know THAT... but such things might be used to keep various guitar playing Richards apart, and I'd never heard of Dick being referred to as Richie or whatever. Second mention of Bacsik!

Hilarious title, too! Is that some british saying? Mine's got a different cover from all the ones a google search seems to turn up. Ronnie in the middle, b/w pic, some writing and some red waves (probably flames, but since when are flames burning horizontally? so it must be waves...), all on white background. It's JHCD 012 from 1991 - there's lots of good music on Ronnie's label that's hardly ever mentioned... aside from some Irakere and George Coleman, I don't have anything yet, got to change that!

That blue cover is the one I know... nice album! Got the Blue Moon/Fresh Sound CD reissue. There's a nice Joe Puma one there, too, "Wild Kitten".

Richie Garcia = Dick Garcia? Another one:

I guess your name isn't Phil Schaap. False starts give him orgasms. I realize there is a place for this (maybe), but I do find it pretty annoying when some of the Verve CDs are so cluttered up with crappy false starts that you have to program your CD player around them. It definitely makes me reach less for some of these CDs to play for casual listening, which I think completely defeats the purpose of reissuing material. Similarly, my tolerance for alternate takes decreases dramatically after 3 versions of the same song. I was looking at some CD recently where there were 5 to 6 takes of each song. Blah. see here - a couple of complete takes, works for me!

Got to love the title of the one on the right! Mine has a different cover though... and I see it's been paired with another album - might be smarter to go for the 2CD version. The other one's lengthy jams with guests - some nice stuff (there's a Tubby 2CD set that's pretty similar).

Great news! Don't have it on pre-order (and want several others first), but it's very good to see it's finally cleared!

Which JLH doesn't do. If you get this impression, it's the murmur of us normal people who do enjoy his reissues an awful lot and keep saying so.

Tried figuring out the details: #8 - Rhoda Scott - Paris-New York CD1#1-7: Take a Ladder (Barclay 1968 - Daniel Humair) CD1#8-13: Mach II (Barclay 1971 - Joe Thomas, Cees Kranenburg) CD2: Rhoda Scott in New York: Rhoda Scott with Thad Jones & Mel Lewis #9 - Ivan Jullien - Complete Riviera Recordings CD1: Paris Point Zero (Riviera 1966 - Big Band u.a. mit Roger Guérin, Bernard Vitet, Michel Portal, Eddie Louiss, Gilbert Rovère, Charles Bellonzi, Bernard Lubat) CD2#1-12: Big Jullien and his All Stars (Riviera 1968 - Big Bands mit Guérin, Raymond Katarzynski, Maurice Vander, Louiss etc.) CD2#13-20: Secret Service (Riviera 1971 - Big Band u.a. mit Jean-Louis Chautemps, Michel Graillier, Jacky Samson, André Ceccarelli) note: another of Jullien's Riviera albums, "Porgy & Bess" (co-led by Eddie Louiss) is missing - it was part of the original Jazz in Paris series #10 - Boulou & Elios Ferré - Complete Barclay Recordings Boulou's complete 1962-1966 recordings, with bands known and unknown, sidemen incl. Maurice Vander, Dany Doriz, Pierre Gossez, Pierre Michelot, Georges Arvanitas, Rogér Guerin, Michel Portal... #11 - Cravic/Roussin/Varis - Cordes et Lames CD1: "Ju Ju – Doudou" (A & R 1985 - incl. Steve Lacy-ss, Bobby Rangell-as, Dominique Pifarély-v, Cravic, Roussin-g, Yves Torchinsky-b, Jean-Max Davis-d a.o.) CD2#1-7: from "Cordes et lames" (missing: "La Danse du Chat" and "Sans Salvador") (Jamuz 1983 - Varis-acc, Pifarély-v, Cravic-g, Torchinsky-b, Jean-Claude Jouy-d) CD2#8-13: from "Accordion Madness" (missing: "Lament", "Frank's Tune", "Country Trane" and "Varis de Paris") (EPM 1988 - Kenny Kotwitz, Varis-acc, Cravic, Roussin-g, Pierre Maingourd-b, Jean-Claude Jouy, Jean-Michel Davis-d, Sonia Queiroz, Coaty de Oliveira-perc) Conclusion: they all look good to me! But I'll be all over the Scott and Peiffer as soon as I can get them!

Rhoda Scott - wow! Thanks! Great to see they're still going on! correct link for Cravic/Roussin/Varis: http://www.amazon.fr/Cordes-Dominique-Cravic-Francis-Roussin/dp/B007JNN1U2/ never heard of these guys... and know very little by the Ferrés and very little about Jullien - but this looks like a very nice batch!

Yeah, well... you might be right. Still wish I had a real copy of it!

Thanks! Being too excited to even read blurbs That makes it a package to look forward to very much!

Just heard from a friend... coming up next week: Bernard Peiffer - Improvision (hors série 07) CD1 #1-10 "Bernie's Tunes" (EmArcy MG36080), rec. NYC, April 11, 1956 w/Joe Puma & Oscar Pettiford (#1-5) and Puma, Chuck Andrus & Ed Thigpen (#6-10) CD2 #1-6 "Modern Jazz for People Who Like Original Music" (Laurie LLP1006; also: Heliodor (G)474011, Laurie (Jap)20EL-5046 and CD (Jap)32ED-5077), rec. NYC 1959 w/Gus Nemeth & Jerry Segal No idea where the bonus tracks come from... but will get this very soon!

Great line into EMI? Then how about this one: Your comments on Fischer are much appreciated. I don't know Fischer well yet (actually all I have is the Pacific Trios from the Mosaic Select - I enjoy those a whole lot) but you certainly make me want to check out your reissue very soon!