king ubu

will your effing gubernment send me a check, too? if my salary stays put and I get no or less than last year incentive, your gubernment is partly (for quite a part, I guess) to blame, too! hell, I want some $$ to buy Mosaic boxes, too!

found this by chance: http://blackarts.peopleaggregator.net/content.php?cid=28249 (photos/scans aren't displayed below - look up the original to see them!)

The piano playing is quite wonderful. A great deal is made of Stan Tracey's Monk influence but listening to lots of Elington over the past week I can really hear his (frequently acknowledged) debt to Ellington as well. Nice and percussive. I'm not (yet) that familiar with Stan Tracey - but more great Ellington piano playing can be heard on the Ellington/Hodges "Back to Back" album (Verve, reissued on CD in the Verve Masters Edition, now I think in one of the new Universal series, Originals, Classics, whatever). The "Side By Side" isn't bad either... (but Ellington is only on half of it - same session I think as "Back to Back", with another wonderful session to fill up the album)

Hi, King Ubu, It arrived this morning - I've never even had the Fargo so it's all new to me! Looking forward to wallowing over the next couple of weeks. The Fargo date is terrific! The Blanton/Webster band in an extended concert recording - not much more you could wish for, as far as Ellington is concerned! The earlier Storyville 2CD set had a booklet almost as thick as the (filmsy - too bad they couldn't use some heavier paper at least for the front/back page!) booklet of the "Duke Box", so I'll keep that previous version. But the annotation in the "Duke Box" served me well enough, giving some selected background info and also soloist run-downs (yup, for trumpet soloits mainly I was often glad to have it... I'm not so familiar with all these guys, and during that period some new ones kept arriving and leaving again). Besides the Fargo date, the Carnegie set (you'll need the four Carnegie Hall Prestige 2CD sets, two!) and some of the radio broadcasts have been on a 2CD and 1CD set before, too, as far as I know (I only saw that in the Penguin guide, didn't check the discographies if the rest of the material has been released before).

You also ought to check out the Paul Gonsalves Impulse twofer, "Tell It Like It Was" - the first album has him with fellow Ellingtonians (plus Rolf Ericsson), and the second ("Cleopatra Feeling Jazzy") in a totally different setting, with Kenny Burrell and others (much like the Jazzland album quite a departure from Ellingtonia, but in rather different a direction). info taken from jazzdisco: Rolf Ericson (tp -1/5) Ray Nance (tp, vln -1/5) Johnny Hodges (as -2/5) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Walter Bishop Jr. (p) Ernie Shepard (b) Osie Johnson (d) NYC, September 4, 1963 1. Tell It The Way It Is Impulse A 55 2. Things Ain't What They Used To Be - 3. Duke's Place Impulse A 55, AS 9285-2 4. Impulsive Impulse A 55 5. Rapscallion In Rab's Canyon - 6. Body And Soul - * Paul Gonsalves - Tell It The Way It Is! (Impulse A 55) = Paul Gonsalves - Tell It The Way It Is!/Cleopatra-Feelin' Jazzy (Impulse 314 547 960-2) * Various Artists - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2: The Impulse Years (Impulse AS 9285-2) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Hank Jones (p) Dick Hyman (org -1/4,8) Kenny Burrell (g) George Duvivier (b) Roy Haynes (d) NYC, May 21, 1963 1. Caesar And Cleopatra Theme Impulse A 41 2. Antony And Cleopatra Theme Impulse 45-217, A 41 3. Bluz For Liz Impulse A 41 4. Cleo's Blues - 5. Action In Alexandria Impulse A 41, AS 9285-2 6. Cleo's Asp Impulse A 41 7. Cleopatra's Lament - 8. Second Chance Impulse 45-217, 314 547 960-2 * Paul Gonsalves - Cleopatra-Feelin' Jazzy (Impulse A 41) = Paul Gonsalves - Tell It The Way It Is!/Cleopatra-Feelin' Jazzy (Impulse 314 547 960-2) * Various Artists - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2: The Impulse Years (Impulse AS 9285-2) * Paul Gonsalves - Second Chance c/w Antony And Cleopatra Theme (Impulse 45-217) then there's also this one: reissued with a short Clark Terry album on this CD (US cover, European version looked very different): The Terry album is lightweight, but the Gonsalves one is fine - I haven't played it in a while though, need to dig it up again!

MG, the Ellington Meets Hawkins is magnificient! Definitely one of the most marvellous small group sessions ever made by the Duke, and up there with the best Hawkins albums... that Limbo Jazz and the Riccitic or whatever it's called, these two alone are woth the prize of admission for me! (One of them was just a rehearsal take, you can hear some chatter etc, added to the CD reissue)

Hey Bev, good to see you around! I gave the Duke Box a first listen in December and loved most of it! (I was lucky not to have owned anything but the Fargo set before, so 6 CDs of 8 were new to me.)

Well, another of those great Fantasy twofers would have done the job... but wiht Concord even dropping Ellington titles from the catalogue, this won't happen, alas. I guess we'd have to break in at the Iron Mountain storage facility, 24-like or something, and steal all those masters, in order to not just freeze it all up for good!

Apparently not, but I can't identify an LP by him called "African moods". The only ones listed in the Ruppli Prestige discography are The music of A A-M NJ8266 (23 May 1961) Sounds of Africa NJ8282 (23 May 1961 (1 track) & 22 Aug 1962 (rest)) Eastern moods PR16003 (13 Jun 1963) Spellbound NJ8303 (12 Mar 1964) In addition, there were a couple of sideman dates. MG Jazz Sahara (Riverside RLP 12-287) - October 1958 East Meets West (RCA Victor LPM 2015) - March 16 & 31, 1959 The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz NJLP 8266 + 1 tune on NJLP 8282, see next session) - May 23, 1961 Sounds of Africa (New Jazz NJLP 8282) - August 22, 1962 Eastern Moods (Prestige PR 16003) - June 13, 1963 [announced but not released as New Jazz NJLP 8298] Spellbound (Status ST 8303) - March 12, 1964 I'm a big fand of the three albums I own (the first three for Riverside & Prestige, don't have the RCA). Would like to hear the rest, particularly "Eastern Moods", which is just a trio: Bilal Abdurrahman, cl,as,fl,perc; Ahmed Abdul-Malik, b,oud; William Allen, b,perc. Guess I should look for the RCA album for the time being!

Thanks, and yeah, I think you are right about that. Let this thread get away whilst moving and just now getting back to reading the replies. Thanks to all; Nessa offered to burn the material for my GF, as my burn capabilities went out with my burner biting the dust. Nessa the pirate!

Yes, that's correct - I can't vouch for the info, I merely posted it for the less-initiated ones... no idea about Feza, and in fact it's been a while since I played it at all. Not sure I could tell the three trumpet players apart anyway... It's great that there will be an official release of this one!

I don't have a setlist, but here's the rest of the info: Chris McGreger & Brotherhood of Breath JazzFest Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany November 4, 1971 Harry Beckett - trumpet Marc Charig - trumpet Nick Evans - trombone Malcolm Griffiths - trombone Dudu Pukwana - alto sax Mike Osborne - alto sax Alan Skidmore - tenor sax Gary Windo - tenor sax Chris McGregor - piano Harry Miller - bass Louis Moholo - drums

I decided to for the first time really dig deep into Ellingtonia before x-mas... started with the early sessions: the first volume of the Masters of Jazz Ellington (early stuff, the band and the Duke still searching, mostly), then the Columbai "OKeh Ellington" 2CD set, the GRP "Early Ellington" 3CD set and the first 6 or 7 CDs of the Centennial RCA box (I was too lazy to sort my listening in chronological order, just went label by label). Then I continued with the Storyville "Duke Box" and the corresponding mid-forties discs of the RCA box plus the Carnegie Hall sets (Prestige). Then the Blanton/Webster parts from the RCA box (much more than 3CDs there, by the way - what did they leave out of the 3CD set? All the small band dates? Is that enough to fit the rest onto 3 CDs?) In the meantime I ordered plenty of Classics to try and cover the missing years, roughly 1932-1939 (Brunswick and Vocalion dates), and that's where I am currently (around 1936). Some of the later ones are OOP and impossible to find (38-39, where there are about three volumes per year). I'm enjoying it tremendously, even the very early sessions I loved more than ever before. What strikes me is how excellent the music is - it's not just the Blanton/Webster band that's so great, I think some of the 30s material is just as great, and the 44-46 sessions (studio for RCA and live on the "Duke Box") are almost up there, too, in general! Oh, and Betty Roché to me was one of the very best singers Ellington ever employed - hearing her at greater lenght is one of the joys of the Storyville box - her period with the band would have been covered by RCA if not for the recording ban... 43/44, roughly - I think the RCA box only has one date with her returning shortly after she'd left the band.

Didn't know about this - sounds great, even more so with Louis Smith! The 1960 Newport show is around, too... in not so great sound - of course that band is much more common (Mitchell-Cook-Taylor-Brooks).

yeah, but then I guess Britney found it terribly important to be seriously commercial in our rotten US (and yurpeen dependencies firmly in hand of US corporations) mainstream music world...

Thanks a lot, will have to do some viewing there!

hey, could you direct me to the thread these interviews were linked in? or just post the links here? I must have missed that, and google was of no help... sounds like worth reading! as for Nat, in all the various Concord sales, I got a few more of his albums (I had "Work Song" and the 1955 Savoy one before, also the Cannon 1956 EmArcy package with Junior Mance - one of those was under Nat's leadership, I think... and of course the VME "Introducing" album) - to make it short: the brass one is fun, the saxes one ("That's Right") is fine, but the one that I really love is "Branching Out", a funky quintet album with Johnny Griffin at the top of his game! (the rest of the band is as the cover states, the 3 Sounds, and for once they're not just there and ok to the point of not bothering me, but they really hit a groove behind Nat and the little giant!)

I bought a few, and with one it had the new non-CC design but the CD itself actually had CC - I only found out at home when I wanted to put it on my ipod - that sucked, but I didn't bother to bring it back... (it was the Freddie Hubbard Sextet/Septet disc, can't remember its title). Titles I bought are: the Cecil Taylor disc, also Smith's Turning Point, and another Hubbard that I think was CC (Here To Stay). Also Blue Train was a CC disc, no? Not sure, but I think I got a few more, but I'm too lazy to check.

Hm, I only have "Turning Point" so far... And I'm oh so sympathetic about that annoying behaviour in brick and mortar stores... ever more so if they have what they call "sales" (meaning they're actually not totally beyond competition in terms of prices)... there are days where I can't leave without picking up a dozen discs, no matter how common and how much in print these may be (RVGs, Universal stuff... sometimes they also have SteepleChase or Leo sales... though usually it's just BN, Universal, and earlier on also Fantasy/OJC now and then... too bad I wasn't all over those when they were more common!)

I have the Atlantic NO set, the Blue Note CD (from their 60th b-day series which was made up of six very good trad-jazz/swing releases: BN Jazzmen 2CD, BN Swingtets, Edmond Hall, Sidney Bechet "Runnin' Wild" - or was it just five, I can't recall another one...), and this one on Jazzology/American Music, which is my favourite: http://www.jazzology.com/item_detail.php?id=AMCD-4

Bonne anniversaire!

I only just ordered some more Heath. Got a japanese edition of The Quota sometime last summer when the US version was gone (seems it was there again for the Concord sale? Not so "Swamp Seed", that one's impossible to find...). Anyway, I liked "The Quota" a lot, looking forward to hearing "The Thumper", "Triple Threat" and "On the Trail" (no hurry on the big band one, that should be around for a while...) Other than that so far I only have one Heath album, a disc on Prevue, "Picture of Heath" - a very fine quartet album with Barry Harris, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins. Heath has a notably beautiful and controlled sound on soprano as well! Is he actually still performing?

oh, and I still think this DVD looks like a weird over-ambitious thing... the film's from 2006, here's the cast list lifted off the IMDB entry: looks a bit better, but then again... it seems more or less limited to mainstream (incl. ECM, but then that turned maisntream long time ago), however with Sclavis, Rava, Urtreger, Kühn, Minafra, Salis etc. there are some interesting musicians in there, it seems. (edited for crappy original editing)

Yeah, sort of, I guess... tough weeks, rather - sorry -_-

for those who only read the big print, soo... If there wasn't a smiley there, my short reply would be eff-off... I don't like being compared to Wynetone, and I don't think my posting activities here give you any reason to do that, so please don't do that again, thanks for understanding. The Amazon blurb mentions how Benedict travelled through all of Europe to collect material... and if the all-encompassing aspect of this project gets stressed like it is in that blurb, I can't but oppose to that, even more so with the few mentioned names. Of course it didn't escape me that most of the names on the DVD cover are Americans - all the weirder. However, even if it's about expats in Europe and/or defining concert on European soil (yuck, Blut & Boden anyone? Is "soil" a harmless word in Engish/American?), the list would be different, including, for instance, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Clarke, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, or in case of concerts, the Miles 1960 tour, the first bop concerts after WWII, or the Fondation Maeght concerts by Taylor and Ayler, or the Antibes concert by Coltrane. Wot - no Tubby Hayes and Joe Harriott? or Martial Solal. As you might well know, I love Solal, you might know less about my love for Harriott, and as for Tubby, I'm not so well-versed yet... but I liked the four or five albums I've heard (including the great first one by Dizzy Reece on Blue Note).