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Just took that off the shelf to play later. Sad news.

Very sad news. "Funky Drummer" btw is not a solo, in fact it's the pure opposite, and Stubblefield in interviews was most ambiguous about it ... JB ushered them into a studio to record, as was his wont, after a gig, everybody was exhausted, so Stubblefield just played that barest of beats and kinda refused to do more ... I guess that's the secret behind it and why it was sampled so often. Anyway, terrific drummer!

Same here, and it indeed is!

@JSngry assuming your're aware this is the second two-disc set of Kremer's dedicated to Weinberg, right?

Actually I think in terms of recent (i.e. 2000 and later) releases, I'm a much bigger fan generally speaking of New Series than ECM's jazz releases. All those Keller, Kurtág, Holliger, Zehetmair discs, Kremer doing Weinberg, Kopatchinskaja ... The listing here actually shows that the catalogue numbers are on-going, "New Series" being added where applicable/called for (including the Reich albums of course): https://ecmreviews.com/catalogue/

... and the rest of the "Hard Bop" disc was on "Bebop in Paris Vol. 2" from the "Original Vogue Masters" series (including an alternate take of one of the four tracks and some other related tracks), admittedly not easy to find. Will definitely get the Arvanitas, probably the Barclay, not sure about any others. Very odd batch. Anyone has checked what's on the Bechet and on the Django?

how does this compare to this nice Hip-O-Select release?

Oh no! That is sad ... I'll be in Novara anyway, but I dont quite feel like going then. Hope Bradford is doing okay! This is from the Lille link above: Bobby Bradford ne pourra malheureusement venir en Europe pour des raisons de santé mais ses 3 partenaires maintiennent la tournée. Le concert aura donc bien lieu en trio avec Vinny Golia (sax), Bernard Santacruz (bass), Cristiano Calcagnile (drums).

Oh, 2017 > 1967 ... slow to pick up. But then ROVA has been running Coltrane programmes for a while. Roscoe plays Coltrane in Milan was more a marketing angle ... the fun part was actually that the (big) crowd really thinks he's one of jazz big stars ... would be cool if that were so, and he IS in my house ...

Quite similar here ... the "Countdown" opening had me go "huh? seriously now?" for a moment but what followed was very convincing, though sound (in Silvio Berlustrumpy's Teatro Manzoni in Milan) wasn't great and I had a hard time telling the three ladies apart often, while Paul (wearing as trousers what looked like ladies winter stockings, and a cool hat - a great sight for sure!) was mostly plucking away wihh tons of power. Swift sang the last tune (a catchy little ditty), and I think in the tune before, Paul and Bolognesi ended up playing forceful pizzicato simultaneously, which had a great effect indeed. How the music - and Roscoe in his solos - built up was amazing! The posh audience pretended to like being blown into the chairs, though moreso than a year ago when I heard the quintet of Muhal Richard Abrams in the same venue (which runs a series of Sunday matinée concerts) the atmosphere didn't feel right at all. Roscoe and his kin (they could all be his kids! - some even his grandchildren I assume?) didn't let that bother them for a second. They did their one hour set and then (after the tune with vocals) returned for a take-no-prisoners-encore. Here's a couple of bad smartphone snapshots:

Sorry, was posting away while tending to other things in town and couldn't check the exact length again ... 51 minutes then. I guess that's already 10 minutes more than what today's high-end-vinyl-hipsters can take, but I assume the fact that Resonance put this out on vinyl as well had a part in the decision of how much music would be included. Btw, the recent Sarah Vaughan release mentioned above (and the Shirley Horn one, too) is recommended!

Not a big fan of the group ... they seem to work best in a live setting for me. Snd my first impression of this new disc is quite favourable indeed! As it's been culled from three different occasions I would have enjoyed some further music (as it is it's in the 40-45 minutes range ... even in concert I'd find that a bit on the short side).

Region of OK I guess .... it's just not that they give any relevant input as far I noticed so far. But I'm still very happy to have this release of so much Warne & Art - definitely a worthwhile release!

Mine is on the way. Not familiar with Eric Mingus really but the blurb had me interested indeed. All the better to hear of your positive impression.

Sax playing is amazing ... but the rhythm section just okay-ish, I found. But I only gave it one spin so far.

Thanks for sharing this. Sounds good (and from what I've heard the LPs are fine indeed - though I don't have any of them). I would still, as a rule, expect that people don't pay for something if there's no need ... so we may end up with the somewhat absurd notion that those owning the master tapes, the cover designers and photographers, as well as the composers are reimbursed, but not the musicians. But I wouldn't really know of course.

Yes, but when some of the band members sing (there's that trio) or when they all sing, I usually quite enjoy it.

They had initially listed PNL at least for the Novara gig ... Merci @OliverM, and please do let us know how the Paris concert will be!

Re: Vocals on the Lunceford ... most of 'em are pretty fun I'd say. Essential music fersure!

Oh, I understand ... the question is also if you generally enjoy the label's mainstays, as you're likely to get most of their releases. So if you're not into Irène Schweizer and Ingrid Laubrock for instance, I would not consider. (Also, I have a friend working there, and he knows a few possible candidates I dislike, so I guess I can take some influence if I see something on the upcoming page that may worry me )

No, it means you're being sent six new releases per year. They around twice as many, I guess (and you're not able to pick, though I guess you can actually reach out to them, which in my case is fairly easy as I see them at concerts every other month or so). The price they ask for in Switzerland is on the high end, but they do consider their subscribers as sponsors in the sense that they have a certain number of guaranteed sales that allow them to plan in a different manner. I shied away from joining the ranks for a looooong time, also due to the asking price (which is at the level of CDs in the nineties, in CHF it's 25, in Euro I think it's 15, based on the fact that salaries in Switzerland are higher than elsewhere, and so are production costs ... in a globalized western/northern world, that may be of little relevance, but it's part of my experience: going on vacation even within the EU is rather cheap for me, importing/buying stuff like music or books just as well etc. But of course people are greedy - to some extent also just making sure to look after their finances, I guess - and are dumbfounded by this ... but then the cost of this Intakt subscription is just a part of what I spend on music every month and I really am in a position that I can afford it, and I do like the idea of being a sponsor of this label I've admired for many years.)

Sad indeed. First encounter was "Bugle Bop Boy", the Muse duo album with Lester Bowie that was part of one of those cheapo UK double disc Muse reissue packages ... still have that Lester Bowie set, still love some of the music it contains. And yeah, "Junk Trap" is wonderful!

Oh, I hope so, too! I have given it three spins since December, it's surely nice. Do so! I'm not sure if it would have clicked right away without the amazing concert I attended in November (that's where I bought the CD, official release is now, but they already sold it), but it went high up on my 2016 best albums list.

That sounds really interesting - thanks for the alert!

Shipp seems to release a monthly album ... no way I can keep up, I have actually given up. Re: Eisenstadt, I found his recent Clean Feed a bit ... tame, very nice for sure, but I guess a concert by the same band would have been more interesting (and that is actually a thought that more and more often crosses my mind when I listen to discs that are on topic here). Anyway, I finally joined the ranks of Intakt subscribers and got my first delivery yesterday ... it was to be Aki Takase/David Murray and Ellery Eskelin/Christian Weber/Michael Griener - the later I had already bought at the trio's gig in town in November, and it's very good (though again, the concert was amazing, the disc is a bit pale by comparison, but still in my top 10 of the last year ... official release is just about now, I think): It mixes old tunes (Basie, Jelly Roll, Waller) with free originals that attempt to capture places of the trio's common NYC sojourn. They did the same in concert, always switching between the old tunes and their own stuff - and it works pretty nicely indeed! The discs I did get yesterday and gave a first spin to are these: The colour of the Takase/Murray is much nicer in real ... more towards orange ... but we're in it for the music, right? I enjoyed both, the Takase/Murray surprisingly much. The played a concert in town around the time of the recording and I was a bit disappointed by it, Murray sounding a bit tame, though it had been his wish to play with Takase, who seemed to be reading most of what she played for the entire set (and that inhibited her music to making to the point that her faux-stride sounded awkwardly off-beat sometimes). On CD though, Murray sounds absolutely gorgeous and the combination works rather well indeed. So positive surprise! The Crump/Laubrock/Smythe was both more captivating and more difficult to approach, I found ... I will need to sit down and listen to it a few times, I assume, but the first impression is very favourable indeed.