king ubu

Flurin, the thread was started more than a year ago! oops, I am not yet fully in 2008, didn't notice

Bela Bartok, Bela Balazs?

And what's the great news about the Cohn/Newman/Green? That one's been on the website for so long, hasn't it been out yet? The Jamal is good news, that's for sure!

Hey, there's a DJ in Gainesville with a handle of Jazzbo! MG now lets all go there and be really hostile! (btw: why are these words all so closely related/taken from the same latin word - host, hostage, hostile?! is that all just shades of one thing, really, if you take someone hostage, be hostile or be a good host?)

The other things I mentioned are all radio broadcasts that I've collected (partly I heard them live on the air myself) - good stuff, in my opinion!

ordered mine here, unbeatable prize for us yurpeens: http://www.amazon.fr/Mosaic-Select-Vol-31-...5727&sr=8-1

Is that on Rhoda's album "Very saxy"? MG Not quite sure what you refer to, but "Very Saxy" has Ricky Ford on one disc, Houston Person on the other, and Lucien Dobat (drums) and Melvin Sparks (guitar) on both. It's from 2005, though. And just in case, though not related to Ricky Ford, there's another recent and mighty fine Scott disc out, "From C to Shining C" (available on cdbaby.com), with Red Holloway and Plas Johnson on tenors, plus Carl Lockett (g) and Lucien Dobat.

Good one, with Tony Scott! Yes, I'm enjoying this one quite a bit! Is that Tony Scott? Maybe playing under a different name? The name on the back says A.J. Sciacca. Tony Scott, born Anthony Sciacca. Thanks for clearing that up! I had no idea. Upon first listen, I was saying man this cat has a way with the clarinet...now I know why! Sorry for the confusion and not following up myself! Scott appeared as Sciacca on some early recordings, also on the "Modern Jazz Society" album on Verve (on CD in the VEE series - great one, but much OOP I'm afraid). No prob King Ubu. By some stroke of luck, some guy sold a bunch of VEE's at my local used cd shop and one of those (of which I bought virtually all but two of them) was the Modern Jazz Society disk, which I got for $7! I really like this album a lot and like the Hinton, had no idea that was Scott!! Glad to hear that! I love it a lot, and for 7$ it's just a plain steal (any VEE is a steal at that prize!) You should've seen my face in the store. There was like 5 or 6 VEE's on the shelves and I think I yelled out no way! in the store. Along with the Modern Jazz Society, which is an excellent album, I picked up the Blakey, Bellson, Brown, Farmer (Listen to...) among others! I was tripping! quite a haul! The Brown is great, so is the Farmer (but just in case, it's also in the Jazztet Mosaic), the Bellson and Baleky are good as well - the Blakey of course mainly being the Joe Gordon album! I bought the Quincy Jones Mosaic today, at a local store, for an ok prize (about as much as the Mosaic prize or a bit less, but no shipping and taxes!), and also ordered the Woody Herman Select yesterday, which French Amazon has for a great prize right now: Woody Herman Select @ Amazon.fr (via Org-link) edit: direct link to the Herman (I assume this still gives a share to Org?) http://www.amazon.fr/Mosaic-Select-Vol-31-...5727&sr=8-1

If you dig "Play The Blues" & "Back To Back" (who doesn't?), you will LOVE this set. It is without question one of my top five Mosaics. FYI, The "Blues-A-Plenty" session from the twofer you speak of is included in the Mosaic. I missed your reply, brute, sorry. I *know* I'll love the Hodges, the order will be sent in tomorrow or Wednesday! I've heard plenty of Hodges from the earlier 50s, as well as many many hours of Hodges with Ellington (all decades). And yeah, I know the "Blues-A-Plenty" album is included, but I'll keep that one anyway, for the two alternates and the two fine albums by Edison and Webster!

Gee, I definitely need more Tjader! I have "Black Orchid" with Silva on some titles, but more wouldn't be a bad thing!

so it's an adult bastard, really?

nice'n'friendly, huh?

I'm afraid not: Silver 'n' Brass (ca. 41') Silver 'n' Wood (ca. 47') Silver 'n' Voices (ca. 43') Silver 'n' Percussion (ca. 39') Silver 'n' Strings play Music of the Spheres (2 LPs - don't have it) The first 4 add up to 170' - if you add 80' more for the Strings double, that's 250' - too much for three CDs. I'd prefer these as individual Connoisseurs ... are they good? Mike, I think I'd rather prefer Conns, too, but then I think that's a ruther unlikely thing to happen... and how is that Conn, United States of Mind or what's it called? I have some catching up to do as far as Conns go (I have the Blackburn, Evans and Ilori discs, but nothing after that, and I miss some earlier ones, too)

saw Benson and Al Jarreau on tv this weekend - yuck! all the girls had their boobs out because this was so adulter... ahm, adultary?

no definitely not - he couldn't play like Satchmo, like Little Jazz, like Diz, Fats, Brownie, Miles, Hubbard, Woody... but hell, there's one reason he couldn't: he played just like Kirk, and that's good enough for me!

I always think of chicks with their boobs out when I hear of "adult contemporary"... by the way, I am smooth, too, so to say, a smooth operating blue blood, we might add

He was with J.J. Johnson for a while (80s, too, I think? or into the 90s?) but those Universal (Gitanes/Universal France/EmArcy/whatever sub-label it was) are rather hard to find by now. He's on the fine "Let's Hang Out" (also featuring Jimmy Heath, Stanley Cowell, Lewis Nash and Terence Blanchard, in addition to the working group of Renee Rosnes, Rufus Reid and Victor Lewis). And then he's on the live recording "Quintergy" (reissued last year or the year before in one of the Universal France series with those glossy digipacks), of which exists a companion volume, "Standards", which I own and like quite some. That one I have in its old Antilles CD incarnation, I'm not sure it has been reissued since.

What a sorry assed thread... sorry to derail it even further, BM - I have no clue who these other acts are (ok, ok, I've certainly heard the Staple Singers here and there) and even less of an idea how you could locate any tapes. I share your love for Rahsaan, though, that's for sure! And I have to look up that Wolfgang's Vault thread now, I'm clueless what that is...

oi oi oi... too many things I have and didn't get right - Nat Adderley, the Mitchell... The Williams I have but not played it yet, and the Smith I do not yet have... I stood away from the CD reissues, figuring I'd eventually get the Mosaic... (all I have is the session with Getz, hence my misguided guess). Thanks again, looking at the replies, I can see that most of what's on this disc should be rather more to my liking than I thought while listening...

Good one, with Tony Scott! Yes, I'm enjoying this one quite a bit! Is that Tony Scott? Maybe playing under a different name? The name on the back says A.J. Sciacca. Tony Scott, born Anthony Sciacca. Thanks for clearing that up! I had no idea. Upon first listen, I was saying man this cat has a way with the clarinet...now I know why! Sorry for the confusion and not following up myself! Scott appeared as Sciacca on some early recordings, also on the "Modern Jazz Society" album on Verve (on CD in the VEE series - great one, but much OOP I'm afraid). No prob King Ubu. By some stroke of luck, some guy sold a bunch of VEE's at my local used cd shop and one of those (of which I bought virtually all but two of them) was the Modern Jazz Society disk, which I got for $7! I really like this album a lot and like the Hinton, had no idea that was Scott!! Glad to hear that! I love it a lot, and for 7$ it's just a plain steal (any VEE is a steal at that prize!)

Ford pops up on the european scene now and then. In January 2006 he appeared in Paris (one night was broadcasted on French radio) with the following band: Rasul Siddik (t), Ricky Ford (ts), Tom McClung (p), James Lewis (b), Doug Sides (d), and before that, in May 2005 he played an Austrian festival with a co-led band with Kirk Lightsey (Tibor Elekes on bass, Sides on drums) The most recent thing I have is from July 2006 with Rhoda Scott (and Lucien Dobat, who's on some of Scott's CDs, too), from the French Vienne jazz festival, and an October 2006 appearance with Bennie Wallace and Joey De Francsesco at the Leipziger Jazztage in Germany. No idea what he's been up to in 2007, but 2006 seems to have been quite a busy year! And his playing on these shows is marvellous!

In the end, who really cares? Su is great (one of the very few who searched his path in the footsetps of Konitz and not took the Charlier Parker freeway), and as with guys like Mark Turner or Kurt Rosenwinkel, whom I feel a bit ambivalent about, I'd not consider their music revivalist.

Found this one on sale two weeks ago and finally had time to give it a freaking loud and joyful spin - great one! Many of the usual suspects are on hand to turn in the "jazz" solos, the whole thing being another of those Banda affairs. Soloists include Enrico Rava, Gabriele Mirabassi, Battista Lena himself on guitar, Gianni Coscia on accordion. It's on Label Bleu, as is the previously mentioned Lena disc.

Good one, with Tony Scott! Yes, I'm enjoying this one quite a bit! Is that Tony Scott? Maybe playing under a different name? The name on the back says A.J. Sciacca. Tony Scott, born Anthony Sciacca. Thanks for clearing that up! I had no idea. Upon first listen, I was saying man this cat has a way with the clarinet...now I know why! Sorry for the confusion and not following up myself! Scott appeared as Sciacca on some early recordings, also on the "Modern Jazz Society" album on Verve (on CD in the VEE series - great one, but much OOP I'm afraid).

and to make a positive contribution (to the bad - and ugly in VDMK's case - but that of course is in the eye of be behearer), I'd add Roy Campbell as a "good" one - lots of blues, lots of emotion and sincerity in his playing, and to me at least it felt like he had truly absorbed the tradition and paid his dues, not like some of those fake guys (Shipp to me is somewhere in between, sometimes I like him, sometimes I don't). Now William Parker would be another one... I'm no fan, so... but maybe he's just about old enough not to be considered a re-goer? And of course he played with a huge number of important avantgarde musicians, no denying that. Hamid Drake, too (again I'm no fan). And also somehow but different, Brötzmann. Different because I give the benefit of doubt to the european improv scene of the mid/late 60s, meaning I don't just consider that a derival of black american free jazz - guys like Bennink, Mengelberg, Schlippenbach, Parker etc. are also older than most of those others like Shipp, Ware, or Campbell.