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Wow, that Daley is amazing news! Looking forward very, very much to that!

The beauty of the trombone is that it covers a wide stylistic spectrum. "Rough" is one approach, but not necessarily the default option. My preference is "smooth"(as in Fontana). Fortunately there's room for everyone. Except for the back of the head of the sax player sitting in front of you

*VERY* cool that one, with some mean tenor by Lockjaw and Ray Abrams! As for Bill Harris... call me funny or tell me to get my ears fixed, but to me he's more on the smooth side, really. The rough thing... well yes, maybe, but not if you start listening more closely. Compare for instance Lawrence Brown with Tricky Sam and then tell us again!

Oh well, not that I have all the Parker (I think - I long stopped finding out... what a mess!), but there's enough other stuff that's of interest there, and I have not a single one (I think). As for Parker, someone should really try to compile all the live material into some kind of series... too bad Fremeaux didn't make an attempt, I'd have loved it!

Talking of Leo, there's also solo saxophone music by James Fei and by Joachim Gies.

I understood that! And I enjoy reading your stories and memories, too! Green is definitively slippery... if you feel like hearing more, try finding his one Time album (on CD from Spain, around on various LP issues, too... I've got it on Bainbridge) and his fine Prestige albums, too (one with Farmer, for instance, another one with Griffin... plenty of nice additions to the Blue Notes. I prefer older styles of trombone if I want it rough and direct... Dicky Wells, Vic Dickenson, Jack Teagarden (though he's smooth as hell!) and many others. My issue with Winding isn't really all that much, it's just that Johnson always seems way superior, in a class very much of his own, on most recordings from the late 40s to the early 50s. But I guess I will have to revisit some discs first and maybe reconsider my opinion, it's been a while that I played any Jay & Kai! Giants of Jazz... well, ambivalent at best. Sometimes great bebop, sometimes it's more like a well-oiled machinery, Dizzy doing his gimmicks, Stitt his smooth auto-pilot thing... the one sad thing about the band is Monk, to me. He had somehow lost himself by that time, the piano player with the Giants of Jazz mostly doesn't sound like Monk that much. (This may be coloured somewhat by personal experience, too, as a crappy Giants of Jazz boot was my initial encounter with Monk... bad sound, crappy presentation, lacklustre music... took me a while to find my way back to Monk after that, but hey, I was 11 or 12 when I got that Giants of Jazz in my hands from the local library in my village... now don't ask me why they ended up having that lousy boot among their 30 or 40 jazz CDs). From what I gather about your tastes and likings, you should really enjoy these two: I'm not too big on Ventura (he's fine, but not that nuanced a player, or I haven't noticed those nuances yet, who knows), but I very much enjoy those discs (and some of his studio sessions, too... love that Ventura/Phillips Mosaic box!)

That's what I thought - but I still don't get Mr. Deeley's posts...

Yeah, I've seen the box listed a couple of weeks ago and I'm much interested!

it's a boot anyway and shouldn't be linked here

Kai Winding, too? While I do enjoy the Jay & Kai duo, on the early sides (the RCA X album, for instance), Jay is way, way better than Kai who sounds very rough - and not rough in a good way (which I enjoy a lot from trombone players). There are others from that time - Bennie Green comes to mind - that I prefer over Winding. I did enjoy hearing for the first time the Winding Impulse album within the Creed Taylor Impulse box, though... he certainly was a fine musician, it's just that to me on those early sides with Jay, he can't hold up comparison (the Bethlehem though is mighty fine and they're good in the band behind Chris Connor, too!)

r.i.p. Kay Davis

Thanks Jeff for confirming! I'm not sure Giuffre really had any comfort zone at all, JETman... he does seem to me to be among the few (Konitz is another one, and Wayne Shorter much of the time, too) that seems to get along without that for most of the time. The WSQ box is fine... I found two great Elektra LPs a few months before, and heard some more of their stuff already and love the sound.

That website hurts the eyes... what does that all mean (including John L's post)? That the Horo reissues aren't boots ("fake")?

You do know about Steve Lacy, don't you? Some of his solo Monk would certainly fit your bill! Also maybe Gianni Gebbia, from his "Arcana Major"?

Me, I ordered the second French 10LP box a couple of days ago! Got the first one in November, now hoping the copy of the second one I scored will be in similarly fine condition! These should've really been reissued in 2004 by Mosaic... Now I still want a "real" copy of the RCA material... was there ever a good LP release there? A box? Or several of these Jazz Tribune thingies?

Not at home, hence can't check the discographies... took the Giuffre box to work and just noticed the date of "Dragonfly". The generic CD back-cover gives Jan. 14 & 15, 1989, but the disc is located first within the box (dates given for "Quasar" are May 3 & 5, 1985 and for "Liquid Dancers" - LP back-cover - it gives April 24, 1989). Allmusic gives Jan. 14 & 15, 1983 and so does Discogs... I assume the Giuffre box hence is in correct sequence but the date on the back-cover of "Dragonfly" is printed wrongly?

use this to soothe your pain if it won't come out in time:

Don't know any of that stuff myself yet... but the CD from Rearward will slip into some online shopping cart some day! There's vinyl, too, for those who prefer (I actually do in some cases but never bought any from Rearward so far).

couple more:

I enjoy those two albums a lot, too! He's got a website which includes a biography: http://www.amedeotommasi.com/en/biography.html And in the discography section, it mentions an Italian record from 1960, "Zamboni 22" (with Cicci Santucci, Enzo Scoppa, Giovanni Tommaso and Franco Mondini). This one was reissued by Rearward (and is listed on amazon.com, among others): Amazon Italy has some more recent discs on offer: http://www.amazon.it/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=popular&field-artist=Amedeo%20Tommasi Youtube has some tracks as well (including ones from those disc on offer at Italian amazon):

Yeah, welcome back, AB!

So the Ayler already sold what, 2000 or 3000 units?!

"Nan Madol" is the earliest I have, and also "Twet" - both mighty fine! Also got one of his Leos, "Heavy Life", and a few later ECMs, "Lumi", "Ode to the Death of Jazz" and "Invisible Storm". Though I feel like I barely scratched the surface...

Very nice, thanks for linking!