king ubu

Well, I saw Taborn's trio w/Cleaver a month ago - in sync indeed!

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Disc 3 by now... guess I'll play it all today, love it!

Larry -- would this be Joseph's Uptown session? Looking forward to it, whatever it may be. yes Fabulous news. Wonderful session. That's indeed good news! Got the LP but if there'll be some additional music on the CD, I'll go for it!

fun album!

Just decided to squeeze in one more concert before the year ends... Schlippenbach 3, Moods, Dec. 14, 2011 Saw Parker and saw Schlippenbach, but never together and never in that group (not sure if I've seen Lovens yet)

The extra one is a live take of "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" from a concert in Munich in April of '69. More from that concert is included as extra tracks on other discs in the set. Thanks! Looking forward a lot to x-mas when I'll get mine, then

concerts, roughly grouped by rating (Dylan was on top with Brötzmann, but I took him out since we're talking jazz here... and Sex Mob in Cologne in November wasn't quite good enough in the end, to enter the best concerts listing): ***** Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 - 17.4. - Rote Fabrik, Zürich ****1/2 Matana Roberts - Coin Coin "Gens de Couleur Libre" - 24.2. - Rote Fabrik, Zürich Henry Threadgill Zooid - 16.11. - Bimhuis, Amsterdam Co Streiff / Russ Johnson / Gerry Hemingway "Eric Dolphy Project" - 25.11. - Unerhört Festival, Rote Fabrik, Zürich Craig Taborn Trio - 18.11. - Stadtgarten, Köln Irene Schweizer & Pierre Favre - 21.5. - Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, Kammgarn McCoy Tyner Quartet (w/Gary Bartz) - 15.7. - Festival da Jazz, St. Moritz **** George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band - 25.10. - Moods, Zürich Oliver Lake / Christian Weber / Dieter Ulrich feat. Nils Wogram - 25.11. - Unerhört Festival, Rote Fabrik, Zürich Malcolm Braff "Voltage" - 21.5. - Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, Kammgarn Colin Vallon Trio - 22.2. - Moods, Zürich Araxi Karnusian "Miniatur Orchester" - 21.5. - Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, Kammgarn Christoph Grab's Raw Vision w/Ronny Graupe - 25.11. - Unerhört Festival, Rote Fabrik, Zürich Ingrid Laubrock Oktett - 10.12. - Rote Fabrik, Zürich ("New Jazz Meeting 2011")

Okay, that's one more then... the bonus cuts on the previous CD are: 11 - Music for Lovers 12 - In Love in Vain 13 - I'll Look Around 14 - The Man with the Horn

Are the bonus tracks from "Nina Simone and Piano" included?

Sounds great, thanks for that report!

Just been perusing MG's helpful list again - as I've done several times before. Belated thanks!

Well, then, here goes my report... good but not great concert. The music - all composed by Laubrock, though both set-openers were fully improvised, it seems - left me a bit puzzled. Some of it was good, some of it was a bit on the cute side, some of it just seemed to go nowhere and left me hoping for more improvisational parts. Those improvisational parts were too few, I found. There were plenty of interesting combinations of sound, that's for sure. Mary Halvorson's guitar, Ted Reichman's accordion, Liam Noble's piano (all three had fine solo spots), Ben Davis' cello and Rainey switching to what seemed to be a vibraphone but without the motor turned on (maybe it was a marimba or a large xylophone, I couldn't see it was it was back on stage) - that all made for large sonic and textural possibilities. There were parts when the music made good use of them, but other parts just seemed like lose sketches (and then one of those cutesy melodies would turn up, picked by the cello) and the whole effect was lost again. However, what was great was how different instrumental pairs emerged time and again to form duos within the band for sometimes quite lengthy bits. Needless to say that Laubrock's tenor and soprano and Tom Arthur's trumpet as the only horns were front and center a bit more often than most others - and both did very well and had some mighty fine spots. Laubrock on tenor has a slightly shady sound - reminded me a bit of Joe Henderson (whom alas I've never heard live). Arthurs went from chopsy highnote stuff that was always lyrical and melodic to harmon mute, plunger, and just producing air sounds and whimsical noises. And Drew Gress - he was a bit low-fi and low in the mix, too - and Tom Rainey both did a great job anchoring the music. Gress' bass and Davis' cello often merged together to form a bottom that was quite strong, and every now and then the presence of the one allowed the other to do some flageolet playing. Rainey was a bit subdued, too, but had many great moments and in the second set really came to live! The music was presented in two gap-less sets of roughly 50 minutes, I guess (didn't watch the clock). Reinhard Kager from SWR2 was there to present the band and the music and talked a bit too long and explained a bit more that what I found appropriate for an audience that most likely was much more "in the know" as he thought. The concert was the final (I think) stop of this year's SWR "New Jazz Meeting 2011" tour - bits of the three concerts will be broadcast in February and a CD will be released on Intakt as well. Guess it will be interesting to revisit the music and check if the cutesy bits still sound cutesy if you listen on your hifi rather than live. Can make a big difference with music of this kind (also the other way 'round, that great concerts don't work at all on CD). All in all, I'd have enjoyed it more if there'd been: a) more solo space for individual voices, and b) more tightly-knit (and less rumbatious) ensemble parts. But it was still interesting and often pretty good. And it's always a thrill to hear Mary Halvorson, at least for me... and agreed: Rainey is great! First time I caught him live.

tonight: Fabrikjazz Sa, 10. Dezember 2011 Ingrid Laubrock Oktett +++ Ingrid Laubrock, tenor-/sopranosax/composition; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Tom Arthurs, trumpet/flügelhorn; Ted Reichman, accordion; Liam Noble, piano; Ben Davis, cello; Drew Gress, bass; Tom Rainey, drums/percussion +++

thanks. not surprising that this label wouldn't be able to get unissued material from the verve vaults. i'm still hoping for a verve and a&m box sets without the overdubbed orchestras. Who else would be able to? It is my understanding that Hip-O-Select is Universal's boutique label, took over most of the Universal boxes/reissues that Mosaic had been doing for too few years... and now that there's a Wes box, I don't really see any legit other Wes Verve box, even if they throw in the A&Ms (which I don't know yet).

disc 5 What a woman! And one HELL of a Mosaic set. Such variety, great sound, and of course Anita O'Day swingin' and doin' her thing. Disc 9 is somewhat lame by comparison though... Nnow disc 6 and maybe I'll add discs 7 and 8, too!

I'm not a huge fan of vocal music. I like Sam Cooke but I feel that 4 CDs are quite enough for me. Okay, fair enough then... me, I've got the old 4CD set and will skip the new albums set (which is fairly cheap though).

guess you'd better get the RCA box now, Bentsy... or else you'll roast in hell

disc 5

Anita O'Day - disc 4

From what you hear, BYG has always been a rather shady affair in general. Too bad... I'd really love to see some reissues, but I guess the big reissues days have indeed come to an end a while ago, anyway. Would have loved to see more of the Free America series, too!

Happy Birthday, David!

Best wishes to Mr. Jarman!

It may have been one of the moderators who did that that would of been kind of a lame thing to do, though...

Yes! "Scorpio" is a fantastic album! Would love to get a reissue of that one! The only vinyl I could have bought so far was so battered I left it behind... (and it's a boot anyway, so...)

That one ranks among my favorite Rivers albums!