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all three mighty good, methinks ... bought "Float Upstream" at a Tim Berne gig recently (trio w/Ducret and Rainey) and was a bit hesitant, as the previous Intakt disc by the same band didn't really do it for me ... but this new one is strong! And "Asteroida" is outstanding, I think! So is, btw, another recent piano trio on Intakt: Stephan Crump's Bordlines Trio (with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson) "Uproot" probably isn't for everyone, and it took me a couple of spins to "get", but I consider it excellent as well (and had the pleasure of catching the quartet on stage a couple of weeks ago at the artacts festival in St. Johann, Austria).

Same here, plus one corner bumped (which extends to the LPs, though the visible damage looks minimal - they must have taken a hard hit somewhere along) - as usual, amazon's packing was as lousy as gets. But either way, at that price I am not going to complain about anything

Wot!? Double wot!? You guys deaf or jes dumb? Seriously, I love that album w/Hawes! Some great blues, plenty of great Mingus bass playing, and then that fantastic take on "Summertime"!

Yup ... seems the cheapest price offered during the entire pre-order period was 42 cents lower than when we ordered. Guess I could pick it up tonight, but as I'm going to a concert and don't want to carry along anything, it'll have to wait until tomorrow after work.

Cool beans, Chuck! Will order mine from Spain for once, can't wait!

Regardless of end of civilization rants (they were true at any time I guess and will remain so) ... The Shelly Manne on Contemporary was most likely one of those long-sellers that sold numbers over the course of the decades that would have pushed it into the charts if it sold those numbers within the first months?

Mine has shipped!

Was not expecting any music last night, but Ken Vandermark was sitting there with his instruments, in the midst of Petra Cvelbar's fine photographs. He did a four piece solo set, I guess around half an hour long, starting with a clarinet piece for Lee Friedlander (circular breathing, falsetto stuff, got pretty shrill and weird at times - some of the audience left after that ...), then honking on tenor, then back to clarinet for another great piece (still consider clarinet he's best on clarinet!). For closers he bunrt it up on tenor with Ayler's "Love Cry". Mette Rasmussen was in the audience, and later jaimie branch dropped by, too. Now looking forward to the first actual festival night!

Got a reply now And another couple o' for Mr T!

Sad news. Time to spin that duet disc with Fred Anderson again tonight!

Traveling there tomorrow ... artacts'18, St. Johann in Tirol, 8-11 March 2018 (the festival proper starts on Friday, but I'm in need of vacation right now ) Looking forward to hearing @Alexander Hawkins again, first time in the band with Elaine Mitchener (get rid of those prejudices against singers and get the Intakt CD!) ... also looking forward to hearing live for the first time jaimie branch, Dave Rempis, Lotte Anker ... and most of all, Susana Santos Silva! -- Donnerstag, 08. März ‘18 19.00 h Exhibition by Petra Cvelbar: SWEET ADDICTION Freitag, 09. März ‘18 ab 19.00 h Flunger / Berghammer / Vicard / Gnigler Elisabeth Flunger - metal percussion / Thomas Berghammer - trumpet / Alessandro Vicard - double bass / Jakob Gnigler - tenor saxophone followed by Branch / Rempis / Håker Flaten / Østvang Jaimie Branch - trumpet / Dave Rempis - reeds / Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten - double bass / Tollef Østvang - drums followed by Gasser / Massaria Clementine Gasser - 5-string-cello / Andrea Massaria - guitar followed by Shelter Ken Vandermark - reeds / Steve Heather - drums & crackle box / Nate Wooley - trumpet / Jasper Stadhouders - e-bass & e-guitar Samstag, 10. März ‘18 15:30 Joe Williamson solo Joe Williamson - double bass followed by Vandermark / Hessels Ken Vandermark - reeds / Terrie Hessels - e-guitars ab 19:00 h Mette Rasmussen solo Mette Rasmussen - alto saxophone followed by Life and Other Transient Storms Susana Santos Silva - trumpet/flugelhorn / Lotte Anker - tenor/soprano saxophone / Sten Sandell - piano / Torbjörn Zetterberg - double bass / Jon Fält - drums followed by Mallaun / Harnik / Poore Martin Mallaun - zither / Elisabeth Harnik - piano / Melvyn Poore - tuba followed by Oliwood feat. Trevor Dunn Oliver Steidle - drums, compositions / Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone / Kalle Kalima - e-guitar / Trevor Dunn - e-bass Sonntag, 11. März ‘18 16:00 Performance/Sound installation by Elisabeth Flunger Elisabeth Flunger - performance/sound installation ab 19:00 dieb13 / Didi Kern Dieb 13 - turntables / Didi Kern - percussion followed by Alexander Hawkins / Elaine Mitchener Quartet Elaine Mitchener - voice / Alexander Hawkins - piano, compositions / / Neil Charles - double bass / Stephen Davis - drums / followed by Castelló / Duthoit / Agnel Sophie Agnel - piano / Angélica Castelló - paetzold, tapes, electronics / Isabelle Duthoit - clarinet, voice followed by Ken Vandermark's Entr'acte Ken Vandermark - reeds / Mette Rasmussen - reeds / Nate Wooley - trumpet / Elisabeth Harnik - piano / Jasper Stadhouders - e-guitar / Terrie Hessels - e-guitar / Joe Williamson - double bass / Dieb13 - turntables / Didi Kern - drums / Steve Heather - drums http://www.artacts.at/Artacts-Programm_pid,53003,type,newsliste.html

Same here ... but yes, it's a wonderful book indeed, and most helpful (I've got the Blue Note one, too, eventually, but it's still sealed I think, after 2-3 years ... rarely happens, usually I open everything right away ... but then we all know so much about BN, and comparatively so little about Granz and all his activities. That's what makes the book so interesting, I guess: it starts out early, with his concerts in LA (those jam sessions where Nat Cole and Lester and Lee Young would appear), then JATP, then his releases on Mercury, the start of Norgran/Clef, the evolvement into Verve, the big JATP and later package tours (that still ran under the JATP moniker) ... excellent documentation, and lots of photos and stuff (flyers, posters etc.)

I sent a "hello" yesterday and realized my initial mail dates back to late December ... time flies! New job, new life, kinda ... and less present on the interwebs these days, but still dropping by here, every now and then, often just to read though. Either way, it does somehow feel a bit as if the Mosaic era may come to an end (they started doing reissues before that got big, they keep on doing it for a longer time than most did ...) - though I certainly hope to be proven wrong!

No clue ... wrote about combining my pre-order with a pre-order for the Savory ... no reply. Either trouble is so that they're gone or they're so far outta trouble that they no longer need my money ... Definitely not Mosaic-like

They don't answer mails by customers anymore, do they?

The Nocturne box doesn't count as it was legit to begin with ... and of course you have a point, even official release sometimes are produced by cheats

and one more that looks good:

I could hook you up with someone who speaks little english (perfect French though, but I doubt that helps ... he travles to ZA regularly and knows lots of folks, including some musicians) but should be able to provide some information ... drop me a private message, best with an email so we can continue in private (you can still post findings here later on, of course, but I won't disclose private stuff here, so ...)

Also listed here (in 1961): http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Blakey/chron.htm

Rev B. (Rev'rand B.) - real person? He wrote lyrics to some songs performed by Les McCann (I'm currently playing "Second Movement" and there's "Carry on Brother", a partial follow-up to "Compared to What" that morphs into a funky thing with choir and gets boring ... it was written by Harris and "Rev'rand B." according to the info provided). There's a Discogs site that calls him a songwriter (and thus suggests real person I'd tend to assume) but that may just be the result of the credits culled together? https://www.discogs.com/artist/2183706-Rev-B

Some piano ... first rather minimal, but gorgeously played (Henck on ECM prob. remains favourite though), then some crazily virtuoso stuff à la Cziffra or Horowitz (transcriptions/adaptations of various kinds, including a couple that Volodos put together himself) - guess that'll do as far as Volodos goes, but there's definitely nothing wrong about either disc. Then: My parents got my season ticket (and bought an additional seat) in October, with Trevor Pinnock conducting - they were enthusiastic (and my dad doesn't even like the violin much, in general) ... I got her recent encores disc (I think it's pretty good indeed) and added a few concerto discs. Can't say I'm fully convinced by this, but I could do with a Nielsen more recent than the Telmanyi recording ... will have to revisit soon. Now: Nice!

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: