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I think I'd love it much better if Iggy were on all tracks! Seriously! It's nice but last year was such a great year, it ranked towards the bottom of my very long list ...

Julian Lage Trio - Moods, Zurich - 11 Jan 2018 Julian Lage (g), Jorge Roeder (b), Eric Doob (d) Heard Julian Lage with his trio last night - terrific show! How they melt together all kinds of americana (lots of jazz, some blues, folk, country, and some glossy pop and bits of loungy stuff, too, and then they throw in some old-timey tunes) into a very coherent mix that is quite amazing. The main show is Lage on guitar, spinning endless lines with a flow of ideas that often is miraculous indeed (and a few times actually had me think of Sonny Rollins) ... the way they deal with dynamics, being able to change from cathartic, powerful fff to the most glowingly intense pianissimo is fantastic. You don't get too many jazz musicians paying attention to dynamics, alas ... Roeder and Doob proved excellent sidemen, the three form a tightly-knit unit, and the two sidemen also had their solo spots and made excellent use of them, too. Lage plays his telecaster (Springsteen's favoured guitar for ages) with no twitchings of the sound at all, but he gets quite some stuff out of it, making good use of its twang and playing his very clear, singing lines (Jim Hall was the master, right?) with a sound that is totally his own and creates a wonderful contrast to the stuff he actually plays - sometimes you'd rather expect a woosh à la Bill Frisell or a real country twang often - but he gives you neither, instead offering his own stuff, which, after all, is just what jazz is about. Crappy smartphone pics (despite the club being full and the queue long, we got lovely front row seats)

I went for the LP eventually ... if you like the band (I do!) it's a wonderful album! Never digitized it or got a copy of that CD that has most of it (wasn't even aware of that) so I'm afraid I can't help.

Not to my knowledge ... some informative previous thread (first one I remembered, second one is linked there) on Hamp:

Can't say I'm familiar ... but his website is available in english, too, it contains a bio and a list of his recordings (I know very few sideman appearances only, I think): http://www.schaerlimusic.ch/en/ Guess I should change that and try to catch him live and listen to some of his CDs ...

I like the album quite some. It's "Jaimie" btw, and usually all in small caps - maybe the thread title could be fixed?

Great news! Still miss the previous one on which he's not playing.

Not really familiar with his music ... but the solo he plays on "The Chicken" on Jaco's "Birthday Concert" was one of my earliest WHOAH-moments in jazz!

Me too ... I kinda like the idea of that list and would volunteer to be on it as well. If it helps to make things plannable, it's a good idea - if it just creates extra work, dropping reminders and all, it's not, though.

Well yeah, crazy years! Three trips to Italy: Novara-Milano-Torino in Jan/Feb with a visit to La Scala, jazz in Novara (Vinnie Golia Trio - should have been the Bradford-Golia Quartet but Bradford had to cancel the tour) and classical and Roscoe Mitchell in Milano and Torino ... most of it spontaneous actually, I was just lucky with my schedule! Novara and La Scala were planned, Torino I found out when there, the two other concerts in Milan were organized by a friend there) ... Novara and Firenze in June - no music in Florence, but several fine concerts in Novara (Moholo being the trigger for that trip ... Florence I'd not visited since just after finishing high school and it was time to go there again ... though future visits will only be done in winter when it's cold and tourists are only thousands and not gazillions!) Mantova and Ferrara (and a day trip to Milan, La Scala again, the new Sciarrino opera) in November ... the concert in Mantova I found out again while being there, the same theatre hosted Brad Mehldau the night before but it was sold out and impossible to get a ticket ... in Ferrara I wanted to attend a concert at the local jazz club but in the end skipped it and went to that free concert with modern stuff (including some really interesting Stockhausen) Other than that, all the Météo concerts were festival sets, same goes for the Taktlos sets, the Willisau ones in summer, and the many London sets in April (that was another trip triggered by the Intakt festival, and another place I'd not visited for 15 or more years and felt overdue to see again) ... then we spent a few days in Munich in summer, so I found an opera I wanted to catch there, but that was more by chance again actually, though organised well in advance, wouldn't have been possible to get in otherwise I think. I'm not really comfortable with listening those festival sets separately, but pulling together whole nights and then rating them as one would be nonsense, too (although actually those programming the festivals do pay attention of course to sequence and all that, and at Météo they're really good at it, too). Similarly as in the past two years, I mostly combined some concerts with vacation ... enjoying this a lot. As I kinda started a new life (new job after over 15 years, started in December) I also took a time off in October/November (accumulated vacation, continuous contribution extra vacation, overtime ...) and travelled South India for around four weeks then. No live music there, alas, other than the occasional bit in a temple (actually once I was lucky and some dudes really did play some ... one of those double-reed instruments with drum accompaniment). So, very eventful year, and in many respects looking back at it, it feels as if I started a new life in December - which is great! Of course though the musical stream continues to flow without major upheavals, other than the professional life that kinda runs along ... we all have to eat, right? And now, the new job, really seems to turn out to be more than just that, so I'm quite happy indeed (just laying low since I'll be on probation for another two months, so that has to get done over with first, and then we're talkin' )

My list, end of year: * * * * * Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi, L’Orfeo – Lucerne Festival, KKL, Luzern – 22.8. M.-A. Charpentier: Médée (d’Oustrac, Van Mechelen; Christie; Homoki) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 18.2. Grigory Sokolov: Mozart, Beethoven – Zürich, Tonhalle – 26.2 Malcolm Braff Trio – Zürich, Moods – 7.1. Massenet: Werther (Juan Diego Flórez, Anna Stéphany; Cornelius Meister; Tatjana Gürbaca) – Zürich, Opernhaus, 11.4. Donizetti: La Fille du régiment (Devieilhe, Barbera; Scapucci) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 22.12. Manfred Trojahn: Orest (Erik Nielsen; Hans Neuenfels) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 12.3. Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh/Toshinori Kondo – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 26.8. Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Tonhalle Orchester, Teodor Currentzis (Berg Violinkonzert, Schostakowitsch 5) – Zürich, Tonhalle Maag – 30.11 Sheila Jordan – Zürich, Moods – 19.9. Nicolas Altstaedt/Alexander Lonquich (Beethoven: Cellosonaten 1-5) – Zürich, Tonhalle Maag -18.11. Maria João Pires, Tonhalle Orchester, Bernard Haitink (Mozart KV 595, Bruckner 4) – Zürich Tonhalle Maag – 21.12. Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Barre Phillips & Thomas Lehn – Jazzfestival, Festhalle, Willisau – 2.9. Schlippenbach Trio – London, Vortex – 21.4. Evan Parker/Barry Guy – Zürich, Theater Neumarkt – 30.4. Carate Urio Orchestra – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 6.5. The Pere Ubu Moon Unit – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 26.8. Aly Keïta/Jan Galega Brönnimann/Lucas Niggli – London, Vortex – 17.4. Milesdavisquintet! – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 23.8. Elina Duni/Erik Truffaz/Bugge Wesseltoft – Moods, Zürich – 5.5. Evan Parker/Barry Guy – London, Vortex – 16.4. Händel: Alcina (Bartoli, Jaroussky, Fuchs, Abrahamyan; Antonini; Loy) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 4.1. Tonhalle Orchester, Herbert Blomstedt (Beethoven 7 & 8) – Zürich, Tonhalle – 17.5. Omri Ziegele/John Edwards/Mark Sanders – London, Vortex – 20.4. * * * *1/2 Verdi: Macbeth (Serjan, Jenis; Noseda; Kosky) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 26.5. Takács Quartet: Haydn, Ravel, Beethoven – Mailand, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi – 31.1. Puccini: La fanciulla del west (Naglestad, Jovanovich, Hendricks; Armiliato; Kofsky) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 30.12. * * * *1/2 Tonhalle Orchester, Franz Welster-Möst (Bruckner 8) – Zürich, Tonhalle Maag -17.11. Lucerne Festival Academy Orchester, Heinz Holliger, Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Debussy, Koechlin, Holliger – Lucerne Festival, Luzern, KKL – 20.8. The Rolling Stones – Zürich, Letzigrund – 20.9. (ein paar Eindrücke) Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Spyres, Brower, Damrau, Testé; Trinks; Jones) – München, Staatsoper – 30. Juli Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Jay Campbell/Polina Leschenko: Enescu, Kodály, Ravel – Lucerne Festival, Kunstmuseum, Luzern – 27.8. Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief – Zürich, Theater Neumarkt – 30.4. Igor Levit: Schostakowitsch – Preludes & Fugues Op. 87 – Zürich, Tonhalle – 8.6. The Turbine! feat. Toshinori Kondo – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 25.8. Incertum Principium (Edward Perraud, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Benjamin Dousteyssier, Aymeric Avice) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 24.8. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, Sandrine Piau: Haydn, Mozart – Zürich, Tonhalle – 6.2. Tonhalle Orchester, David Zinman: Mahler 6 – Zürich, Tonhalle – 4.3. RAI Orchstra, Ingo Metzmacher, Frank Peter Zimmermann (Lindberg, Grisey, Varèse) – Turin, Auditorium „Toscanini“ della RAI – 3.2. Magmatic Quartet (Louis Moholo, Alexander Hawkins, Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Petrella) – Novara Jazz, Il Broletto – 2.6. Nils Wogram „Root 70“ – Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 19.5. Maya Homburger/Barry Guy (w/Lucas Niggli) – London, Vortex – 16.4 Salvatore Sciarrino: Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo (Maxime Pascal; Jürgen Flimm) – Mailand, Teatro alla Scala – 26.11. Nasheet Waits Equality Quartet – Zürich, Moods – 7.1. Vinny Golia Trio – Novara, Istituto Civico Musicale Brera – 4.2. Julie Fuchs, La Scintilla, Raphaël Pichon: Rameau, Gluck – Zürich, Opernhaus – 20.2. Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (Olga Kulchynska, Juan Francisco Gatell, Nello Santi; Grischa Asagaroff) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 7.4. Alexander von Schlippenbach – London, Vortex – 20.4. Thomas Stronen/Marco Colonna/Alessandro Giachero – Novara Jazz, Canonica del Duomo – 2.6. Julia Fischer, Tonhalle Orchester, Charles Dutoit: Bartók, Tschaikovsky – Zürich, Tonhalle – 24.2. Enrico Rava/Louis Moholo – Novara Jazz, Il Broletto – 1.6. THReNSeMBle/Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation – Zürich, Tonhalle (Kleiner Saal) – 26.6. Oren Ambarchi – Météo, L’Entrepôt, Mulhouse – 25.8. Shabaka & The Ancestors – Moods, Zürich – 20.3. Kristóf Baráti, Tonhalle Orchester, Lionel Bringuier: Eötvös, Stravinsky, Shostakovich – Zürich, Tonhalle – 15.6. Irène Schweizer/Maggie Nicols – London, Vortex – 19.4. Omri Ziegele Noisy Minority feat. Percy Pursglove – London, Vortex – 20.4. Urs Leimgruber/Pascal Marzan – Zürich, WIM – 30.6. BIC (Julien Desprez, Mette Rasmussen, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Mads Försby) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 23.8. * * * * Tonhalle Orchester, Pablo Heras-Casado: Schubert, Bartók – Zürich, Tonhalle – 13.1. Kris Davis/Angelica Sanchez – Jazzfestival, Festhalle, Willisau – 2.9. Howard Riley Trio – London, Vortex – 16.4. Isabelle Faust, Tonhalle Orchester, Jakub Hrusa: Bartók, Schumann, Janácek – Tonhalle – 23.6. Doric String Quartet: Haydn, Schubert – Zürich, Kirche St. Peter – 10.9. Camilla Tilling, Tonhalle Orchester, Pablo Heras-Casado (Dutilleux, Debussy, Brahms) – Zürich, Tonhalle Maag – 8.12. * * * * Ligeti: Le Grand macabre (Luzerner Sinfonieorchester; Clemens Heil; Herbert Fritsch) – Luzerner Theater – 7.10. Ensemble der Lucerne Festival Academy, Frédérique Cambreling: Bartók, Holliger, Veress – Lucerne Festival, Kunstmuseum, Luzern – 27.8. Ricercare Ensemble, Accademia degli Invaghiti, Federico Maria Sardelli (Hàndel, Alexanders‘ Feast) – Teatro Bibiena, Mantua, 22.11. The Necks – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 23.8. Swapan Chaudhuri – Zürich, Museum Rietberg – 12.11. Swanky Mothers – Zürich, WIM – 10.6. Der gemischte Chor Zürich, Tonhalle Orchester, Joachim Krause (Frank Martin: Golgotha) – Zürich, Tonhalle – 14.4. Prokofiev: Der feurige Engel (Stundyte, Melrose; Noseda; Bieto) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 31.5. Haydn: Orlando Paladino (Jane Archibald, Ruben Drole, Michael Spyres, Mauro Peter; Riccardo Minasi; Jetske Mijnssen) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 18.5. Roscoe Mitchell Plays John Coltrane – Mailand, Teatro Manzoni – 29.1. Kaja Draksler Octet – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 4.5. Hans Koch/Manuel Troller – Jazzfestival, Rathaus, Willisau – 2.9. Bill Orcutt – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 24.8. Julia Lezhneva, Basler Kammerorchester (Julia Schröder): Händel, Graun – Zürich, Tonhalle – 1.5. Trevor Watts/Dieter Ulrich – London, Vortex – 17.4. Verdi: Don Carlo (Meli, Stoyanova, Semenchuk, Chung; Stein) – Mailand, Teatro alla Scala – 1.2. Xavier de Maistre, Mojca Erdmann, Katharina Konradi, Christian Elsner, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Tonhalle-Orchester, Lionel Bringuier: Saariaho, Mendelssohn – Zürich, Tonhalle – 7.5. Katia & Marielle Labèque, Clara Mouriz, Tonhalle Orchester, Michel Tabachnik: Glass, Poulenc, Falla – Zürich, Tonhalle – 10.2. Oren Ambarchi/Will Guthrie – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 24.8. Les Flamboyants & Cantica Symphonia: Heinrich Isaac – Festival Alte Musik Zürich – Zürich, St. Peter – 24.3. Jürg Wickihalder Trio Beyond – London, Vortex – 16.4. Julie Kjaer 3 – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 6.5. Street Corner Talking – Zürich, Ziegel oh Lac – 27.1. Regula Mühlemann, Capella Gabetta (Händel, Vivaldi, Mozart etc.) – Zürich, Tonhalle Maag – 5.12. Laura Cannell – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 25.8. Devin Gray/Eve Risser/Miles Perkin – Zürich, WIM – 30.6. * * *1/2 Franz Hautzinger – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 26.8. Joe Lovano Classic Quartet – Moods, Zürich – 13.3. Onceim/Frédéric Blondy – Météo, La Filature, Mulhouse – 26.8. Isabelle Faust, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado: Mendelssohn – Zürich, Tonhalle – 26.3. Eve Risser – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 23.8. Omri Ziegele Where’s Africa (w/Irène Schweizer & Louis Moholo) – London, Vortex – 19.4. Lucas Debargue: Scarlatti, Ravel, Listz – Mailand, Conservatorio – 30.1. Tonhalle Orchester, Barbara Hannigan: Ligeti, Berg, Debussy, Stravinsky – Zürich, Tonhalle – 1.4. * * * L’Ocelle Mare (Thomas Bonvalet) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 26.8. Anna Karenina – Ballett Zürich (Christian Spuck)/Philharmonia Zürich (Paul Connelly) – Zürich, Opernhaus – 18.1. Musica Astrale (Stockhausen, Morricone, Purcell etc.) – Ferrara, Castello Estense – 25.11. Irène Schweizer/Louis Moholo-Moholo – London, Vortex – 18.4. Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 25.8. Amok Amor – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 4.5. Camerata Zürich, Thomas Demenga, Thomas Sarbacher: Suk, Dvorák, Janácek – Lucerne Festival, Luzern, MaiHof – 20.8. Anna Högberg Attack – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 6.5. Kinsella/Marshall/Edwards/Buechi: Wood & Bones – London, Vortex – 21.4. SPILL (Tony Buck, Magda Mayas) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 24.8. * *1/2 Studenten des Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi (Honegger, Poulenc, Milhaud) – Mailand, Museo del Novecento – 31.1. Alvin Curran – Météo, Temple Saint-Etienne, Mulhouse – 23.8. Bill Orcutt/Chris Corsano/Guro Skumsnes Moe – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 25.8. * * Onceim/Frédéric Blondy/John Tilbury – Météo, La Filature, Mulhouse – 25.8. Beams (Alvin Curran Workshop) – La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse – 24.8. ----- same list, but jazz (and related) only: (can someone stop that merge posts function please? sucks! and the the edit wouldn't save either!) * * * * * Malcolm Braff Trio – Zürich, Moods – 7.1. Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh/Toshinori Kondo – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 26.8. Sheila Jordan – Zürich, Moods – 19.9. Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Barre Phillips & Thomas Lehn – Jazzfestival, Festhalle, Willisau – 2.9. Schlippenbach Trio – London, Vortex – 21.4. Evan Parker/Barry Guy – Zürich, Theater Neumarkt – 30.4. Carate Urio Orchestra – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 6.5. The Pere Ubu Moon Unit – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 26.8. Aly Keïta/Jan Galega Brönnimann/Lucas Niggli – London, Vortex – 17.4. Milesdavisquintet! – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 23.8. Elina Duni/Erik Truffaz/Bugge Wesseltoft – Moods, Zürich – 5.5. Evan Parker/Barry Guy – London, Vortex – 16.4. Omri Ziegele/John Edwards/Mark Sanders – London, Vortex – 20.4. * * * *1/2 Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief – Zürich, Theater Neumarkt – 30.4. The Turbine! feat. Toshinori Kondo – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 25.8. Incertum Principium (Edward Perraud, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Benjamin Dousteyssier, Aymeric Avice) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 24.8. Magmatic Quartet (Louis Moholo, Alexander Hawkins, Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Petrella) – Novara Jazz, Il Broletto – 2.6. Nils Wogram „Root 70“ – Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 19.5. Maya Homburger/Barry Guy (w/Lucas Niggli) – London, Vortex – 16.4 Nasheet Waits Equality Quartet – Zürich, Moods – 7.1. Vinny Golia Trio – Novara, Istituto Civico Musicale Brera – 4.2. Alexander von Schlippenbach – London, Vortex – 20.4. Thomas Stronen/Marco Colonna/Alessandro Giachero – Novara Jazz, Canonica del Duomo – 2.6. Enrico Rava/Louis Moholo – Novara Jazz, Il Broletto – 1.6. Oren Ambarchi – Météo, L’Entrepôt, Mulhouse – 25.8. Shabaka & The Ancestors – Moods, Zürich – 20.3. Irène Schweizer/Maggie Nicols – London, Vortex – 19.4. Omri Ziegele Noisy Minority feat. Percy Pursglove – London, Vortex – 20.4. Urs Leimgruber/Pascal Marzan – Zürich, WIM – 30.6. BIC (Julien Desprez, Mette Rasmussen, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Mads Försby) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 23.8. * * * * Kris Davis/Angelica Sanchez – Jazzfestival, Festhalle, Willisau – 2.9. Howard Riley Trio – London, Vortex – 16.4. The Necks – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 23.8. Swanky Mothers – Zürich, WIM – 10.6. Roscoe Mitchell Plays John Coltrane – Mailand, Teatro Manzoni – 29.1. Kaja Draksler Octet – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 4.5. Hans Koch/Manuel Troller – Jazzfestival, Rathaus, Willisau – 2.9. Bill Orcutt – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 24.8. Trevor Watts/Dieter Ulrich – London, Vortex – 17.4. Oren Ambarchi/Will Guthrie – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 24.8. Jürg Wickihalder Trio Beyond – London, Vortex – 16.4. Julie Kjaer 3 – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 6.5. Laura Cannell – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 25.8. Devin Gray/Eve Risser/Miles Perkin – Zürich, WIM – 30.6. * * *1/2 Franz Hautzinger – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 26.8. Joe Lovano Classic Quartet – Moods, Zürich – 13.3. Onceim/Frédéric Blondy – Météo, La Filature, Mulhouse – 26.8. Eve Risser – Météo, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse – 23.8. Omri Ziegele Where’s Africa (w/Irène Schweizer & Louis Moholo) – London, Vortex – 19.4. * * * L’Ocelle Mare (Thomas Bonvalet) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 26.8. Irène Schweizer/Louis Moholo-Moholo – London, Vortex – 18.4. Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 25.8. Amok Amor – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 4.5. Anna Högberg Attack – Taktlos, Rote Zürich, Rote Fabrik – 6.5. Kinsella/Marshall/Edwards/Buechi: Wood & Bones – London, Vortex – 21.4. SPILL (Tony Buck, Magda Mayas) – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 24.8. * *1/2 Alvin Curran – Météo, Temple Saint-Etienne, Mulhouse – 23.8. Bill Orcutt/Chris Corsano/Guro Skumsnes Moe – Météo, Noumatrouff, Mulhouse – 25.8. * * Onceim/Frédéric Blondy/John Tilbury – Météo, La Filature, Mulhouse – 25.8. Beams (Alvin Curran Workshop) – La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse – 24.8

Kaja Draksler Eve Risser Matana Roberts Ada Rave Susana Santos Silva Alexandra Grimal Angelica Sanchez more inside/mainstream: Sophie Alour Géraldine Laurent Indeed, the thought had crossed my mind already, too ...

His new one on Intakt - a live recording with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson - is mighty good! http://www.intaktrec.ch/295-a.htm

Very sad news indeed - maybe my favourite 'bone player if I had to name one.

Or rather I assume it's one of thse cases where they made a mistake ... however, the price is not crazy cheap in a way that they might cancel all orders (which sometimes they do - or they pretend the item is unavailable, cancel orders, and a few days later the item is back with a new, much higher price). If it's 70-80$, I guess it should be in the 50-60€ range ...

Seems so, though with amazon's lack in database managing skills you never really know ... the label is a sub of Concord's though, that's clear: http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/labels/craft-recordings/

Alright, thanks to the feedback on sonics re: Basie on Decca! Now gotta pre-order that Savory set

just in case, pre-order price at amazon.fr is at 27.99€ - giving it a shot: https://www.amazon.fr/Way-Out-West-LP-Deluxe/dp/B0742VSHG9

It's not amongst my top favourites of what was quite an incredible year (I have the Sampson/Bach, which I like quite a lot, too ... the Trifonov and the new "Troyens" are still on the pile, unplayed as of yet, the Roscoe and the Currentzis Tchaiko still need to be ordered, th Müllerin is on its way by now ...) But the Hannigan ... it's very nice for sure, but somehow I'm not sure she really gets the Berg right. I heard her do it in concert, too, and it was certainly worth attending. The Berio (opening the programme) is amazing, the Gershwin (closing the disc) is very interesting - it's a kinda Bergian reworking of some songs, and it works quite well indeed! However, this one here is among my favourites - unexpectedly so, to be honest, as I'm not always big on Immerseel ... but this is highly recommended indeed:

Yes it does. Did you do any comparison with the Mosaic? Bet there's a thread on that set somewhere but I wasn't on Org too often in recent times.

True dat! My mistake, put that one on the shelf after playing the Shoe Shine Boy session right when it arrived ... hardly any new music from me and so much other good stuff that came out this year that I simply didn't yet go through it all and thus forgot again

This one: https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-Quintet-Zurich-1960/release/6359128 Ugly covers in that series, but loads of great music in good sound (they collaborate with Swiss radio and have access to their archives).

Oh well ... Stitt even when phoning in has the occasional brilliant Moment, and his sound on tenor is just so good ... but I don't feel like he's just phoning in with Miles. Don't feel that about Mobley or George Coleman either (and sure, the later had the advantage of a mind-blowing, or rather: arse-kicking rhythm section, so he *had* to react). Yet still None of them were the inspiring presence that Coltrane was, or that Shorter would later become.

Okay, finally played this ... the opening banter by André Francis is ... ridicule - he asks a first question that Monk can indeed fully answer with a "oui", second gets a "très, très", and then the Music starts ... not sure what you guys mean, I've not compared the Sound to the older Vogue Masters CD, is it the sound that has you hear with new ears or the mere fact that so far the album hasn't really gotten its due in your house? (For me, it has always been my favourite Monk solo rekkid, since, I guess, my mid-teens, so I've kinda lived with it for over 20 years.) Anyway, the live material is indeed pretty good and makes the reissue more than worthwhile! The rhythm sections aren't anything to talk about, from what it says in the liner notes, they simply didn't have enough time to learn the Music, which at that time would have been brand new to anyone over in Europe, I assume? But Monk's playing is good, and reading the track-by-track account of that concert (or rather: very short festival set - if the liners are correct, #11-15 is the full set of that day, while #16 is prob. from one of the consecutive nights) is hilarious (I heard the Schlippenbach Trio last night and when they went into "Rhythm-a-Ning" Paul Lytton was so bored and so totally unswinging that I'm sure Monk would have gotten up and pointed his finger at him, too ) - however, it's Alain Jean-Marie who wrote them? He would have been a kid at that time, so I wonder where these stories/observations really originate from?

Agreed on all points (some already made in my own post above) -- but, BUT: I just love the recordings from the fall tour with Stitt - I only have those three that are/were readily available (Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam), would love to hear more! Miles is playing hard (he is not with Coltrane, he just gets out of the way many times), Kelly is playing great, too ... I guess the lack of a sidekick that kicked his ass regularly made Miles play better, try some new stuff or just stick to it harder than he had to with Coltrane still around. And it works. Also works at Carnegie Hall with Mobley, I feel (less so on the Black Hawk sets, which I took quite a while to warm to, and they're still not favourites -- but then "Someday My Prince Will Come" is wonderful, and it's a disgrace that Mosaic/Sony/MD clan failed to collect the Mobley period into a box in that great series ... that was really a postumous finger for Mobley, and that's totally not deserved).