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Don Ayler - In Florence 1981 - The sleevenotes (taken from here): “It is not at all strange to see in Jazz lesser known musicians who, even if they have a decisive voice in groups or schools of great importance, find their own road continuously blocked by the all pervading influence of top-class musicians and therefore they are inclined to take the expressive idea and the same artistry, transforming both into their own individual voice. The case of Don Ayler, a musician from Cleveland, is a typical example. Don was born Oct. 5, 1942, brother and faithful partner of the famous Albert, with whom he collaborated from March '65 to February '68. His formative years were conditioned and in a certain sense dominated by Albert, so that he even changed his first instrument, alto sax, into cornet, and finally trumpet. But the influence went beyond the choice of the instrument; the innovative power and the strong expressive voice of Albert transformed completely the psychic and emotive personality of Don. When Albert died under mysterious circumstances Don was silent for many years, and only very recently his painful and emotional voice is heard again. This voice gives sound to the authentic and original music of Don Ayler, lyrical and with the full authority of a jazz-tradition, firmly anchored in the styles of a Roy Eldridge or a Frankie Newton, wedging itself into the bop and post-bop era of a Dizzie Gillespie or a Clifford Brown. In Don we can always feel the presence of the old traditions; whereas Albert expresses himself in an angry shout, Don turns towards a subtle, melancholy gasp, often motivated more by feeling than by formal technique. The drama lived by Don in his music has no longer the tragical connotation of the free jazz of the sixties. His approach is a more personal emotion whose drama results from bad experiences in life, without probing for the cosmic and omnipresent expansion that sought expression in his brother's music. Don Ayler expresses in a smaller and more personal world his painful and suffering notes, insinuating with deep feeling the soundtrack of the problems of life, that are the problems of a man segregated in a ghetto where he represents the loser and not the winner. Hence also the need for a solid anchorage to the common origins and backgrounds, the primeval need to find oneself back in history, even in a ghetto, and not an outcast even there. Accepting this reality costs pain and suffering, but substitutes the desperate cry of free jazz with a feeling of hope, however weak. The music presented here was recorded in Florence, Italy, on July 18, 1981. We find Don Ayler active after a prolonged period of silence because of personal problems, a silence that lasted for twelve years, interrupted only by sporadic appearances in the Cleveland area. It should be noted that up to now no record has ever been published under his name; this record therefore is the discographical debut of a famous and well-trained musician, who however lost contact with the recent and not so recent jazz expressions. The free of Don Ayler and his six musicians who surround him in this performance in Florence is like a veil covering the genuine and substantial black expression found in that great melting pot that is to-days Great Black Music. It is hard to label music, but the musicians themselves give the answers on this record: an emotive and emotional climax, where they enter in polemics with those musical forms that are too lucidly cerebral, forms that are victims of their own cold and suicidal introversion. Brother Albert followed a vastly different musical path, and vastly different are also the most recent jazz-expressions, but of Don Ayler we can state without fear of contradiction that he is the echo of a sound that never existed, a sound risen from deep oblivion... GIANFRANCO CASCELLA *** DONALD AYLER: Interview taken by Gianfranco CASCELLA. Transcribed by Francesco MAINO. Florence, Italy, July 24, 1981. CASCELLA: We know about your life in the period when you played with your brother Albert, from 1965 to 1968, a span of four years. How was your life before then, and how has it been since then? AYLER: My father and my brother used to play in the church. My father played the violin and the tenor sax, professionally, and my brother played the alto. We would go to church: my father would have us dressed up every Sunday to go to church and to Sunday school, and after I would go to the theatre, to the show, moving picture, but we would be in church most of time. Back when I was about sixteen I started out on the alto, then, my brother was playing the alto, and my father said that's enough alto in the house, so I picked up the trumpet: I had a natural ability to learn it, I had a natural ability on the trumpet, so next thing I know I was playing the trumpet and I practiced for three months, nine hours a day. C.: When did you begin playing professionally? A.: Well, we got together both me and my brother. I had saved up enough money and I went to Sweden in 1964, I went to Stockholm and I stayed in Stockholm for two and half, three months. I hitchiked to the North Pole, and to Yuk Muck Rock, yeah... We come up to New York in 1965, and at the same time we practiced two hours a day. It was very rough there, life was very tough, I mean, I suffered from malnutrition: one time we played a job, five dollars for six hours. The first thing I ever did was the one with John Coltrane: "NEW WAVE IN JAZZ", you remember that, that was the first one. The second was "BELLS" at Town Hall, we recorded for Bernard Stollman at Town Hall, a one-side, I guess you could say, hit, "BELLS", and then in the Fall of the year we did "SPIRITS REJOICE" and it was a nice recording, pretty fair I guess you can say. After that I got in contact with John Coltrane: talked with him on the New Year, 1966, and he helped set up a recording date for me and my brother, that was the album "LIVE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE", at the Village Vanguard and the Village Gate, yeah... After that we went to Europe, in November of 1966 and we recorded and played on TV all over Europe, and then we came back, and John Coltrane helped us get together, like... C.: Was your brother together with you and John Coltrane? A.: Oh, we played the thing... February 1966. We played "MY FAVOURITE THINGS", we all played, you know, they booed us because they were not ready for the music at that time, they booed us, you know. This was recorded in Czekoslovakia, yeah, yeah, then from that period on, 1967, we did another recording, I'm not sure if it is 1968, it is 1968, the name of the record was "LOVE CRY", yeah, we played "LOVE CRY". C.: Did you compose or arrange any tune for "LOVE CRY"? A.: No, "LOVE CRY" is all by Albert... C.: Did you compose or arrange any other tune? Possibly "JESUS". A.: No, my tune was "OUR PRAYER", that was my recording, my composition too. "LOVE CRY" is all by Albert. During a period when I came back from Europe in 1964 I came over the ideas of "OUR PRAYER", that was first, and then "THE TRUTH IS MARCHING IN" came later. They wrote in the album that "THE TRUTH IS MARCHING IN" was first, but "OUR PRAYER" was first. C.: How do you feel about the mysticism of your brother? About his interest in God, in the church, in the spirit? Do you agree with his ideas? A.: Oh, basically we had... we were brothers so we have a lot of ideas that was close to each other, you know... C.: You were with your brother at the funeral of John Coltrane. What do you remember about that? How many people were there, thousands of people? Black, white? A.: At the funeral I was present, right, everyone was there, yes, I mean, not only musicians, but people from all lots of life, all colors from all nations, because people understood what John Coltrane stood for. I remember seeing Stockeley Carmichael, Rapp Brown... Yes, I remember, my brother and Ornette Coleman were supposed to play, and we played at funeral in St. Peter's Church. I think that everybody cried when they heard that he had died, you know, and I cried when I heard about it, I cried when I heard that he had died, but after a while I realized you couldn't bring him back in the world, so, you know, I just played the best I could, I think I played some of the best music of my life at old John's funeral, yeah, the music was recorded, we heard it, very spiritual music, very spiritual. C.: There are so many different versions about the terrible death of your brother. Can you tell us something about it? How did you learn that your brother was dead? A.: I was not in New York at the time, I was in Cleveland. We found out about it in Cleveland. They said that they had his body in the morgue, so my father, my mother and me, we went up there and we claimed the body. C.: But what did the police have to say about it? A.: They say it is mysterious, and that's all they can say... yes, it is hardly impossible... no, nothing, nothing... C.: After the death of your brother you seem to have stopped playing for about ten years. What was your experience of the music since then? A.: I didn't play for about two and half years. Then Mustafa and Al Rollins got me interested in playing again... C.: Who is Al Rollins, a relative of Sonny Rollins? A.: No, he is a guy in Cleveland who plays tenor, he is not a relative of Sonny... he is not with us now, he didn't come over to Europe because I didn't feel he was ready. At the beginning I would be just practicing, me and Mustafa and Al Rollins, we practiced every Tuesday, we were doing the same songs that we are doing now, and that's the reason why Mustafa knows most of the songs that we are playing now, because we have practiced for years. In the last four years I played the Cleveland State and I played the Peabody's Cafe, and I played another bar where I have been working, work this space, several times. During the period that we were practicing together, Mustafa and Al, I played with Tony Smith... Tony came to town and we played together during that period of time... C.: Where was that, just around Cleveland, or elsewhere in the States, New York, California? A.: Well, right now my mother had a stroke, and I am trying to be around to give her support, yeah, and without that, I'll try and move my base probably up to New York, you know... C.: Are you happy with your present group? A.: Well, I think that all we need to do is to get more work, that is all we need, just more work... C.: Of the tunes you play, which is the one you prefer?A.: I like "CHANGES COME", where I go up on the trumpet, real high, yeah. C.: Do you feel you are still in the jazz scene? Do people remember your name, ask you for interviews and the like? A.: Oh, I made one interview with, the one that, what's his name, let's see, what is the name of that... CADENCE, yes, it is Bob Rusch, yeah. C.: What are your plans for the future? A.: I hope to come back in the Fall of the year and travel all around Europe, and do festivals, club dates and everything. I Plan to go to Paris, Stockholm, Germany, Finland, Copenhagen, Denmark, and, let me see, maybe England. C.: We all wish you good luck.”

Will see singer Susanne Abbuehl in a couple of hours, with her band plus special guest Michel Portal (I only realized he's playing, too, a couple of days ago!) She's got two CDs out on ECM, the first of which I own, "April". She studied with Jeanne Lee and her approach to (jazz) singing is rather special, mostly or exclusively slow music (she calls it "rubato music" in an announcement from an October '06 concert recording I've heard). Songs either consist of jazz compositions she adds words to (by the likes of Carla Bley or Sun Ra), or of texts/poems/lines by the likes of e.e. cummings or James Joyce (it seems most of her second disc, "Compass", is built on "Finnnegan's Wake", but I don't have that disc yet), to which she adds the music. http://www.susanneabbuehl.com/ I've seen here live at the same festival six years ago, when her career was just about to take off, the first ECM album just having been released. I'm quite happy to be able to catch her again! Teatro Ponchielli - Cremona - 11.06.2006 - photo by Danilo Codazzi

I've heard some of it, I found sound clips online once but I'm not there any available now. It's appears to be mostly jazz in semi-symfonic settings; big band or larger ensembles, choirs etc. There are improvised solos, but the works have very "composed" settings and occasionally seem a bit stiff. Ah, I see... I wasn't interested really in that one, now I'm even less interested... the only Gulda I have is that early album with Idrees Sulieman, Jimmy Cleveland, Phil Woods and others, "Gulda at Birdland", from 1956, and even that I got for the band, not for Gulda himself... and I found it in a sale, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it at all...

just for the sake of completeness, here's the info on the other boxes done by Universal Germany in recent years: Klaus Doldinger - Early Doldinger - The Complete Philips Sessions (CD) 2006 Boutique | CD 060249877999 CD 1 [1.] Bluesy Toosy 4:49 [2.] Be-bop 4:13 [3.] Delilah 5:08 [4.] Well You Needn't 5:40 [5.] Blues For George 6:48 [6.] Solar 4:12 [7.] Stars Fell On Alabama 4:40 [8.] Signal 3:45 [9.] I Didn't Know What Time It Was 3:12 [10.] Woody'n You 5:27 [11.] Recado Bossa Nova 2:43 [12.] Copacabana 2:05 [13.] Chega De Saudade 4:49 CD 2 [1.] Waltz Of The Jive Cats 8:09 [2.] Blue Note Samba 5:39 [3.] Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 5:40 [4.] Groovin' In Berlin 3:44 [5.] Minor Kick 4:27 [6.] Careless Love 8:54 [7.] Ack, Värmeland du sköna 2:15 [8.] Two Getting Together 7:27 [9.] Fiesta 4:48 [10.] Viva Brasilia 3:35 [11.] Insensatez 4:18 [12.] Subo 3:14 [13.] Malaguena 4:01 CD 3 [1.] Negra Sin Sandalia 5:00 [2.] Recado 3:22 [3.] Argentinia 3:45 [4.] Guachi Guaro 4:43 [5.] Praeludium Nr. 3 3:22 [6.] Shakin The Blues 4:57 [7.] Quartenwalzer 4:55 [8.] That Bluesy Sound 5:34 [9.] Tears 4:52 [10.] Five For You 5:51 [11.] Run Baby Run 4:23 [12.] Watch It 4:50 [13.] Just A Little Bit Of Soul 4:16 CD 4 [1.] The Surrey With The Fringe On Top 6:42 [2.] What's New? 3:59 [3.] Midnight Session 3:34 [4.] For Two Only 5:24 [5.] Sweetie's Bounce 5:50 [6.] Joe's Blues 3:39 [7.] Like Someone In Love 15:15 [8.] The Night Time 2:46 [9.] Pavana 'The Earl of Salisbury' 4:16 [10.] Ciacona in F minor 5:24 [11.] Waltz Of The Jive Cats 3:11 [12.] Quartenwalzer 9:26 Art van Damme - Art van Damme - Swinging The Accordion On MPS (CD) CD 1 [1.] That Old Black Magic 2:10 [2.] Parla Nova 2:54 [3.] Runnin' Wild 2:27 [4.] Here's That Rainy Day 3:41 [5.] Tonga 3:01 [6.] Robbins Nest 4:40 [7.] Topsy 2:38 [8.] Amoureux 3:09 [9.] Tangerine 3:51 [10.] Soon It's Gonna Rain 2:16 [11.] Ode To Cleavage Or The Camel 4:00 [12.] Playing Around With The Blues 2:15 [13.] Satin Doll 3:07 [14.] Autumn In New York 2:51 [15.] Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair 2:16 [16.] Blue Light And Shadows 2:44 [17.] Love Walked In 2:52 [18.] It Could Happen To You 3:32 [19.] Ecstasy 2:36 [20.] Swanee 2:22 [21.] Since I Fell For You 4:21 [22.] Easy Swing 2:25 [23.] Nancy (With The Laughing Face) 4:03 CD 2 [1.] Cute 2:47 [2.] One Morning In May 2:53 [3.] Gentle Art Of Love 3:43 [4.] Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 2:54 [5.] I Wished On The Moon 2:25 [6.] I Concentrate On You 2:21 [7.] Chicago 2:50 [8.] Moxi 3:29 [9.] Just In Time 2:19 [10.] It's Over 2:50 [11.] Speak Low 3:01 [12.] I Cover The Waterfront 3:15 [13.] Cherokee 3:39 [14.] Love For Sale 2:32 [15.] You Don't Know What Love Is 3:11 [16.] I Get A Kick Out Of You 2:34 [17.] Happy Moments 2:13 [18.] After You've Gone 2:57 [19.] Summerwind 2:54 [20.] My Romance 2:26 [21.] Lullaby In Rhythm 2:37 [22.] At Last 3:36 [23.] Andy 3:16 [24.] Darktown Strutter's Ball 2:18 CD 3 [1.] I Got Rhythm 3:11 [2.] Give Me The Simple Life 2:40 [3.] All The Things You Are 3:34 [4.] Pandora 2:13 [5.] Love Me Or Leave Me 2:36 [6.] Pennies From Heaven 3:32 [7.] Don't Get Around Much Anymore 3:07 [8.] Lover Man 3:26 [9.] If I Had You 2:12 [10.] Avalon 2:20 [11.] Day In Day Out 2:53 [12.] For Sale 2:32 [13.] The Way You Look Tonight 2:41 [14.] Yellow Days 3:59 [15.] The Lonesome Road 3:09 [16.] Wave 2:51 [17.] I'm Beginning To See The Light 2:46 [18.] Sweet Georgia Brown 2:37 [19.] Undecided 1:57 [20.] Doree's Tune 2:13 [21.] Bernie's Tune 3:19 [22.] Watch What Happens 2:19 [23.] Stars Fell On Alabama 3:29 [24.] 'S Wonderful 2:43 CD 4 [1.] Easy To Love 2:06 [2.] Shiny Stockings 2:53 [3.] Lush Life 3:11 [4.] Sunny 2:52 [5.] Love Is Here To Stay 2:16 [6.] Snowfall 3:26 [7.] Four Brothers 2:38 [8.] O Barquinho 3:12 [9.] On A Wonderful Day Like Today 2:41 [10.] Love Is Blue 2:38 [11.] What The World Needs Now 1:38 [12.] Poor Butterfly 2:48 [13.] Cheers 2:55 [14.] Deep Night 3:17 [15.] Hot Action 2:48 [16.] Viniette 3:32 [17.] Patou 2:37 [18.] I Only Have Eyes For You 3:06 [19.] Pick Yourself Up 2:08 [20.] Paco 2:35 [21.] Your Turn 3:00 [22.] How Will I Forget 4:28 [23.] A Foggy Day 3:00 [24.] The Best Thing For You 3:02 CD 5 [1.] Turnabout 2:19 [2.] Sunday Kind Of Love 2:05 [3.] I Want To Be Happy 2:13 [4.] Tenderly 3:19 [5.] Gone With The Wind 3:24 [6.] Everything I've Got 2:21 [7.] Let Yourself Down 2:00 [8.] On Green Dolphin Street 3:41 [9.] I Saw Stars 2:19 [10.] Small World 2:14 [11.] It's Easy To Remember 3:04 [12.] The Man I Love 2:09 [13.] Blue Lou 2:35 [14.] It's A Blue World 3:09 [15.] My Kind A Love 2:29 [16.] Laura 3:37 [17.] Too Close For Comfort 2:28 [18.] When Your Lover Has Gone 3:12 [19.] The Song Is You 2:17 [20.] The Things We Did Last Summer 3:37 [21.] Cheek To Cheek 2:40 [22.] On The Alamo 3:41 [23.] Jim 3:10 [24.] Diane 2:59 thread about this here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=30594 Eugen Cicero - Swinging The Classics On MPS (CD) 2006 MPS-Records | CD 002894762788 CD 1 [1.] Solfeggio in C minor 5:39 [2.] Sonata in C 3:55 [3.] L'adolescente 5:25 [4.] Bach's Softly Sunrise 6:13 [5.] Fantasia in D minor (Andante, Adagio, Allegretto) 5:23 [6.] Erbarme dich, mein Gott (from the St Matthew Passion) 5:54 [7.] Grande Valse brillante in E flat, Op. 18 4:12 [8.] Prélude in A, Op. 28, No. 7 8:29 [9.] Valse in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 5:40 [10.] Prélude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 20 3:33 [11.] Etude in E, Op.10, No.3 5:38 [12.] Prélude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 7:10 CD 2 [1.] Introduction from Swan Lake, Act I, Op. 20 6:28 [2.] Più mosso from Swan Lake, Act II, Op. 20 4:39 [3.] Andante and Theme from Swan Lake, Act II, Op. 20 7:36 [4.] Ouverture Miniature from The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a 5:08 [5.] Mélodie antique française 8:02 [6.] Chanson napolitaine 5:35 [7.] Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 8:03 [8.] Etude No. 2 in E flat 5:57 [9.] Etude in G sharp minor (La Campanella) 2:50 [10.] Liebestraum 5:11 [11.] Etude in A minor (La Chasse) 4:57 [12.] Consolations No. 1 4:45 [13.] Sogni d'amore 3:50 CD 3 [1.] Dir gehört mein ganzes Leben 4:47 [2.] Seltener Weizen, seltene Gerste, seltenes Korn 4:50 [3.] Memories Of Clausenburg 4:10 [4.] Süßer Klang ertönt 4:36 [5.] Nur ein Mädel gibt es auf der Welt 4:16 [6.] Dort in der Ferne 4:16 [7.] Im Mondenschein 4:54 [8.] Der Schlitten eilt 4:38 [9.] Und Bach? (after Prélude in C minor) 4:01 [10.] Rumänische Volksweisen 4:59 [11.] Rumänisches Volkslied 3:53 then there's this box by Friedrich Gulda, no clue what it actually contains - well, it's stated in the track listings, but I have no clue if that's in some way jazz-related or not... Friedrich Gulda, Friedrich Gulda - Midlife Harvest (CD) CD 1 Sieben Galgenlieder nach Texten von Christian Morgenstern Original Version [1.] Vorspiel 3:10 [2.] Galgenberg 1:37 [3.] Bundeslied der Galgenbrüder 2:12 [4.] Der Hecht 2:27 [5.] Der Seufzer 2:00 [6.] Mondendinge 2:40 [7.] Der Zwölf-Elf 3:54 [8.] Galgenbruders Frühlingslied 1:14 [9.] Nachspiel 1:49 Concertino For Players And Singers Original Version [10.] 1. Movement 7:09 [11.] 2. Movement 7:14 [12.] 3. Movement (Finale For Ludwig) 5:23 [13.] Little Suite 17:10 Piano Concerto No. 1 Original Version [14.] 1. Movement 8:15 [15.] 2. And 3. Movement 13:00 CD 2 Sieben Golowin-Lieder Original Version [1.] Wann i geh 11:07 [2.] Du und i 3:36 [3.] Wenn du mi einmal loswerd'n willst 3:03 [4.] Auf Visit' 4:13 [5.] Die schöne Musi 9:12 [6.] Selbstgespräch im Kasgraben 6:39 [7.] Andrerseits 4:28 Play Piano Play Original Version [8.] 1. Part 1:54 [9.] 2. Part 3:35 [10.] 3. Part 4:02 [11.] 4. Part 4:01 [12.] 5. Part 2:29 [13.] 6. Part 1:48 [14.] 7. Part 4:37 [15.] 8. Part 3:31 [16.] 9. Part 1:54 [17.] 10. Part 3:04 CD 3 [1.] Variationen über "Light My Fire" 13:11 [2.] Variations 12:18 Piano Concerto No. 2 Original Version [3.] 1. Movement 13:08 [4.] 2. And 3. Movement 16:22 Music For Four Soloists And Band Original Version [5.] 1. Movement 9:40 [6.] 2. Movement 8:26 [7.] 3. Movement 6:46 CD 4 [1.] Fantasy For Four Soloists And Band 18:03 Suite For Piano, E-Piano And Drums Original Version [2.] Ouvertüre 4:03 [3.] Bossa Nova 4:30 [4.] Aria 4:35 [5.] Finale 3:46 [6.] Prelude And Fugue 4:05 Sonatine Original Version [7.] 1. Movement - Entrée 5:30 [8.] 2. Movement - Ballad 6:38 [9.] 3. Movement - Shuffle 4:16 [10.] Variations For Two Pianos And Band 17:28 CD 5 [1.] Blues Fantasy 10:27 [2.] Meditation (nach einem Motiv von Fritz Pauer) 11:55 [3.] Duo 19:09 [4.] Poem für Friedrich Gulda 9:42 [5.] Anima in Heidelberg 1972 11:10

and for a change an interesting new single disc is out in the cheapo series from German Unversal, Clark Terry's "Clark After Dark - The Ballad Album": 2007 MPS-Records | CD 060251744144 [1.] Misty 5:31 [2.] Nature Boy 4:24 [3.] Georgia On My Mind 5:23 [4.] November Song 5:06 [5.] Clark After Dark 6:14 [6.] Willow Weep For Me 5:48 [7.] Yesterdays 4:25 [8.] Emily 4:29 [9.] Angel Eyes 5:32 [10.] Girl Talk 5:05 Too bad they stopped their great MPS series of a couple of years ago only to replace that with these cheapo "Jazz Club" albums (most of those are just compilations, mostly falling under "stoopid music", rather than "jazz"... a notable exceptions is Dizzy Gillespie's 1968 Berlin concert album, as well as the Bond album by Ingfried Hoffmann, the hammond organ player of the Doldinger quartet - two fine albums!)

Searching around the jazzecho.de site I found these two new MPS/Universal box-sets - I've got no further infos, but at lest the Shearing looks somewhat interesting (but then I ought to get the Van Damme and Cicero first... the only of these I have is the Doldinger, which is very good!) George Shearing, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Louis Stewart - The MPS Trio Sessions (CD) 2007 MPS-Records | CD 060251745068 CD 1 [1.] Tricotism 2:51 [2.] Windows 4:22 [3.] No Moon At All 5:19 [4.] Some Other Spring 2:47 [5.] Wait Till You See Her 4:10 [6.] Tune Up 3:34 [7.] The Party's Over 5:20 [8.] The Lamp Is Low 3:41 [9.] Lazy Afternoon 5:30 [10.] Cowboy Samba 4:51 [11.] Cheryl 2:51 [12.] 500 Miles High 4:48 [13.] I Wished On The Moon 5:30 [14.] Old Folks 4:34 CD 2 [1.] Jordu 5:14 [2.] P.S. I Love You 7:34 [3.] Everything Happens To Me 3:54 [4.] Here's That Rainy Day 5:40 [5.] Invitation 3:03 [6.] In Your Own Sweet Way 6:12 [7.] Alice In Wonderland 6:15 [8.] All This And Heaven Too 7:04 [9.] No Greater Love 5:16 [10.] Con Alma 5:57 CD 3 [1.] The Fourth Deuce 5:33 [2.] The Wine Of May 4:37 [3.] Don't Get Around Much Anymore 6:18 [4.] Consternation 5:12 [5.] Sweet And Lovely 7:06 [6.] My Little Anna 3:47 [7.] Sweet Lorraine 3:59 [8.] Lois Ann 2:57 [9.] G & G 5:51 [10.] Poinciana 3:18 [11.] This Can't Be Love 6:27 CD 4 [1.] Fjärlins Vingor 5:00 [2.] Last Night When We Were Young 4:48 [3.] Amaryllis 3:46 [4.] Strange Enchantement 5:08 [5.] Look At That Face 4:11 [6.] Portrait Of Jennie 5:20 [7.] Song Bird 5:28 [8.] This Is All I Ask 5:42 [9.] A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 4:55 Monty Alexander - Alexander The Great! - Monty Swings On MPS (CD) 2007 MPS-Records | CD 060251745062 CD 1 [1.] Montevideo 4:23 [2.] Where Is Love 5:03 [3.] Here Comes The Sun 4:52 [4.] Love Walked In 6:19 [5.] Brown Skin Girl 4:37 [6.] This Dream Of Mine 4:05 [7.] So What 10:26 [8.] It Could Happen To You 13:21 [9.] Theme From Summer Of '42 4:28 [10.] Monticello 3:53 CD 2 [1.] We've Only Just Begun 5:51 [2.] I've Never Been In Love Before 7:24 [3.] Theme From Love Story 6:19 [4.] Concerto D'Aranjuez 7:17 [5.] Ben 6:47 [6.] Battle Hymn Of The Republic 5:00 [7.] Carnival In Jamaica 5:29 [8.] For All We Know 7:00 [9.] Rude Old Man 3:30 [10.] Theme From Shaft 8:20 [11.] Theme From Shaft 8:20 CD 3 [1.] S.K.J. 7:17 [2.] Theme From Summer Of '42 6:51 [3.] Now Is The Time 4:50 [4.] You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 8:21 [5.] Feel Like Making Love 7:01 [6.] On A Clear Day You Can See Forever 6:52 [7.] Green Dolphin Street 7:46 [8.] Emily 7:55 [9.] Alypso 3:47 [10.] The Entertainer 8:34 CD 4 [1.] Chameleon 7:01 [2.] Sweet Lady 6:44 [3.] People Make The World Go Round 11:23 [4.] What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life 6:35 [5.] Bluesology 4:49 [6.] Soft Winds 4:19 [7.] Come Sunday 8:28 [8.] That's The Way It Is 5:09 [9.] Bossa Nova Do Marilla 5:19 [10.] You're My Everything 5:53 [11.] Estate 6:39 [12.] Got To Go 4:35 edited to have the other mentioned boxes in the title, too (2008-03-23)

a quick search didn't help... what's on that twofer? "Kirk's Work" and "Jaki Byard Experience"? Or is there anything else by Rahsaan that's part of the Fantasy holdings?

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Just speaking for myself, of course, but to me, while I've had some Henderson albums (Blue Note and later stuff, 80s and 90s, MPS, Verve, State of the Tenor etc.), I never owned any of the Milestone albums. I knew two of the early ones and recently got the Lighthouse Fantasy CD, but had nothing else, so yes, it's indeed new. This was always a very expensive set and to many (not to you, though, I assume!) the late 60s and 70s aren't their favourite era of jazz, so I guess a lot did similar to me and only now went for this box when it was available for such a good prize... Anyway, I started listening to the first two albums, I think the first is good (the Penguin guys say the tunes are too short... not a problem to me) and the second (the quartet dates with Kenny Barron and - rather unexpectedly - Don Friedman - are mighty fine! Looking forward to get into this set slowly.

Proper used to have discos up on their website... seems not any longer. I assume the box covers mostly what was on the mosaic, but I know that it goes beyond that, including some of the first Verve dates of Jacquet's from 1951 (with wrong personnel info given, if I remember correctly). The Mosaic is a magnificient collection, and I guess for all those who were too late, the Proper would be a good way to catch up with some of music that was included. But what about the Verve sessions? Is there anything out, besides "The Kid and the Brute"? (long OOP by now, I guess.) I'll have to check what there is, from those years, but I'm just wondering about CD reissues for the moment! The second 10 inch album on "The Kid...", by the way, continues where the Mosaic ended, with the RCA sessions on disc four - very similar in style, Illinois' "little big band" - pretty good stuff! And wasn't James Moody's band in the 50s a similar but more boppish thing, three or four horns (usually Moody w/tp/tb/bari) and rhythm, doing these arrangements that sound like small big bands, and playing rather accessible music, touring etc.?

:party: all the best to both of you!

It was great meeting you too! Took much too long! If it's a glass of wine o you, it's going to be from a Chateau Cantemerle 1998 Selected that one to celebrate our son's presence today. He is going to pursue (and hopefully end soon) his studies very near that Chateau outside Bordeaux! Only drawback to the day is that I won't be able to honor an invitation from Andrew Cyrille to attend his concert tonight at the Sunset club with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman You could still always come to Zurich and catch them in a couple of weeks... Workman will also do a solo concert, Cyrille a duo with a Swiss drummer (Lucas Niggli, pupil and now collaborator of Pierre Favre and leader of his own band Zoom which is pretty good), and Lake will do a trio concert with a Zurich rhythm section... this will all be on several days with other concerts in between - definitely too much (and much too costly) for me to catch all of it, alas.

Happy Birthday, Guy! I hope you have a great day, and have a glass of wine on me! It was a pleasure meeting you in October, and I am very grateful still for the great time I could spend in Paris! :party:

some vinyl again today... earlier today: Woody Shaw - Stepping Stones (Columbia) just finished: Chico Hamiltn - Passin' Through (mono, some Euro HMW/EMI edition - great one!) next: Philip Wilson - Live at Moers Festival (Moers Music)

Congratulations, Daniel! Have one on me! :party:

on second thought, ordering from a marketplace seller for 55€ plus 6€ international shipping (assuming US is the same as Europe, I don't know about that) might make it a rather attractive option again...

Oh, and shipping is free for Swiss orders that are 20 or more € - that's great! (And I tend to think somehow fair, as there's no Swiss Amazon... Marketplace orders cost 6€ shipping, even if it's just for one CD, now that's rather crazy, on the other hand, but Amazon.de themselves are pretty attractive for Swiss customers... you have to try and order for 20-30€, so there are no shipping costs and no custom/taxes, either... that's not possible for the Miles box, but that I have to live with... let's just hope them douaniers are sleepy when that particular package passes by!)

Where did you find that price, Flurin? I checked, and Amazon Germany shows €59,95 for me, plus shipping costs of €14,00. That works out to $105.85 for me. My Amazon UK order totalled £45.62, which equals $93.55. So it's still cheaper. That's because for me it's minus German VAT... not sure how they handle that with US orders... JPC or zweitausendeins.de don't deduct VAT, but Amazon always does for me!

Just cancelled the Amazon UK pre-order (44.5 £) in favour or Amazon Germany (50 €, roughly 10 € less than with UK amazon)! Still hoping to get this one soon!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Snetberger may be familiar from his work with Markus Stockhausen (Karlheinz' son, a fine trumpet player - I once saw him in concert with Dhafer Youssef). It's really special to have that much purer guitar sound (I assume it's some kind of acoustic-electric guitar he plays, a plugged in acoustic guitar, or otherwise he's very closely miked, it's nothing like "spanish" or "classical" guitar, but nothing like your usual electric guitar, either). There's a follow-up album called "Samba Tzigane", Dusko's latest. I haven't heard it, but I shall try and get an earful at a store some day: DUSKO GOYKOVICH SAMBA TZIGANE ORDER NO. ENJ-9489 2 Dusko Goykovich trumpet, flugelhorn Ferenc Snétberger guitar Márcio Tubino flutes Céline Rudolph vocal Martin Gjakonovski bass Jarrod Cagwin drums, percussion 1. Samba Tzigane 06:54 | 2. Melodia Sentimental 04:59 | 3. Menina Moça 07:08 | 4. O Grande Amor 06:16 | 5. A Descoberta De Lentidao 03:43 | 6. Trio Loco 03:04 | 7. Samba Triste 04:13 | 8. Coraçao Do Sul 03:31 | 9. Five O'clock In The Morning 05:13 | 10. Éste Seu Olhar 03:42 | 11. Every Day And Every Night I Dream Of You 07:30 Total time: 56'13

some more info: http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9473 and here

giving this one a spin again: you'll love this, BM - get yourself a copy! it's a collection of latin tracks, dusko often muted, his mellow sound and lyrical delivery perfectly backed by Ferenc Snetberger on acoustic guitar (a Hungarian born into a Sinti/Roma family), Martin Gjakonovski (from Macedonia, I know him from Antonio Farao's trio, mainly) on double bass, and Jarrod Cagwin (member of Rabih Abou-Khalil's badn for quite some years now) on drums. The quartet plays compositions by Jobim, Mihanovich, one by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and some Dusko originals.

Thanks for the additional links and mentionings - will let my friend know about it again!

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