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Your Royal Highness: A big thank you for posting those pics with the discographical information for the Benny Goodman set. For family reasons, I practically haven't accessed this board (or the internet) for a couple of weeks and couldn't see this thread. Yours truly, The sinner I didn't mean you, actually... your request was pretty old, in the meantime someone else asked for it and disappeared. But I'm glad I could help you, too! I had no idea if you were still looking at all!

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One of my favourite strings albums, plus a great album with Jaki Byard. The third date (mostly unreleased before) is the weakest, I think. Do a search, I'm quite sure there have been previous discussions of McIntyre here!

Wow, your Rava right up is pretty harsh, indeed... I haven't heard any of these studio releases, but a few live shows I heard on radio sounded pretty fine to me. Of course there you don't have ECM sound, but main thing is I thought the tunes were different enough, stuff like "Art Deco", originals like "Sand" and "Happiness is to win the big prize" or the standard, "Nature Boy"... seems like it's wiser to stick with those live shows I know!

last thing I bought in a store: Tom Harrell - Stories (Contemporary)

Oh, so I should have played that Pilc disc earlier (still haven't heard it...)! I am a tiny bit familiar with Borstlap (from radio shows only) and I even thought of dropping his name, but then didn't... He seems to be considered one of the leading (or the leading?) dutch jazz pianist of recent years.

I prefer brunettes or blacks... does that keep me from behaving like a gentleman? Oh, but then there's her... they don't do 'em like that any longer... and she ain't too bad, either, no sir!

I finally got started really digging into the chubby Mildred box... great stuff! I'm only halfway into disc 2 but this looks like a great box. One of the most thorough booklets I've yet seen, not just documenting/annotating the sessions but filling in the gaps and actually providing a timeline of all those years. About time I come to listen to it, I picked it up when it went OOP...

ahem, which blonde? relevant jazz connection:

There are more interesting/jazz-related photos on the other photo pages (50s): Kippie unknown trombone player in Sophiatown

This is one of my favourites: Miriam Makeba 1955

Alright, I kicked my lazy ass and did a tiny bit of googling: Jürgen Schadeberg (born 1931) is the photographer I was referring to. Here's a nice page with a few photos: http://galerie-herrmann.com/arts/schadeberg/index_eng.htm There's one jazz related photo there, titled "The Three Jazzolomos": And one more, Dolly Rathebe at the opening of that exhibition, in front of her portrait: And here's his homepage, with contact detail: http://www.jurgenschadeberg.com/ It has many of his photographs, including a page of beautiful jazz photos, check it out! He might indeed be interesting to talk to on this subject!

Pratt, right (as opposed to the usual drummer of that group, Chuck Flores). Please check again, I was pretty sure he was on a cut or two! If not my memory is playing bad tricks with me... Too bad I can't locate my own copy (but the original CD is my dad's - he live in SA in the late 60s, but had no interest in jazz back then, or not that much, as far as I know).

RVG matters more than the musicians, too, to many folks... he's "the messenger", you know, without the messenger, no message from the musicians...

What about John Mehegan's visit and recordings? (To be found on the "Jazz in Africa Vol. 1 - The Jazz Epistles" disc on Kaz/Camden, which mentions only hte Epistles, but actually the disc consists of two sessions...) That was in the 50s, too, wasn't it? That photographer chap who participated in a (fiction) film a year or so ago might be another person to try and get in touch with. I think he's german (Schadeberg or something?) and he was around in the 50s, too. I don't have the disc here, but I sent a copy at least to Garth, a few years back, of a disc where he was somehow involved, too, called "South African Jazz & Jive". There's a tune or two on that where the Shank drummer from that visit in the 50s sits in with SA musicians. I'll have to look up his name.

Chesney?

Herbie Nichols Thelonious Monk Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Jelly Roll been there, done that... and I don't think Rumsey's overrated, he's mostly just referred to as an organizer, not as a musician (though I do like some of those Contemporary discs quite a lot, but never because of his presence... he just happens to play unintrusive bass on them...)

The Melford is ok in my memory, but it's been quite some time since I have played it. I have the old jewel case edition, but I think that's one where no new remastering was done for the digipack hatOLOGY version. "Six Little Pieces for Quintet", btw, is pretty nice. Old-fashined free jazz, some may think that's boring, but with Johannson in charge and fine sidemen such as the great Axel Doerner, it's pretty good, I think. I have a friend who cherishes the Doerner/Neumann/Johansson Barcelona thingie very very much. I got it in a previous sale but haven't had a chance to play it yet...

The Lloyd has been chosen by two members I think in the "1 album 1 artist" thread. I don't know much of his music (just one more on Leo) so I couldn't vote for any of his albums. Just definitely don't miss "New Dance" - here's another highly individual alto that you shall enjoy, even more so since you're into Sonny Simmons (not that they're too similar, but similarly unique, rather...) The Mehta/Lovens is boring, I think. Only had an earful of it at a store, and Penguin gives it 2 or 1.5 stars only... from my impressions that's about correct.

Gourley has a very fine quartet disc with Barney Wilen, I think that's the best playing I heard of him! Jimmy Gourley & Barney Wilen / Double Action (Elabeth ELA621032) Jimmy Gourley(g), Barney Wilen(sax), Dominique Lemerle(b), Philippe Combelle(dr) '87/12/23 Theatre Jean-Marie Serraut, Paris GOODBYE ; BLUES FOR GENE ; FOUR ON SIX ; SUMERTIME ; C.T.A. ; DENZIL'S BEST ; EMBRACEABLE YOU ; BODY AND SOUL ; TAFIRA ALTA ; AUTUMN LEAVES ; BLUE LESTER But then he's fine on Eddy Louiss' entry in the Jazz in Paris series:

did someone request the goodman, did someone care to drop a thank you? was quite a bit of work, cropping and uploading all those pics!

here's the order I put in: 1 IN 505599 Eskelin, Ellery VANISHING POINT 4,99 € 4,99 € 1 IN 501521 Jörgensmann Quartet, Theo SNIJBLOEMEN 4,99 € 4,99 € 1 IN 505595 Koglmann, Franz L'HEURE BLEUE 4,99 € 4,99 € 1 IN 505594 Law Quartet, John ABACUS 4,99 € 4,99 € 1 IN 505600 McPhee Po Music, Joe OLEO 4,99 € 4,99 € 1 IN 505597 Nagl Ensemble, Max RAMASURI 4,99 € 4,99 € 1 IN 505592 Shipp String Trio, Matthew EXPANSION, power, release. I have most of the other things I am interested in... Of Nagl I've got "Flamingos" and like it, and I also heard a live broadcast of the Ramasuri project, so this should be good. Shipp is someone I'm not sure about - his ThirstyEar stuff I'm not really interested it (the Spooky thing was so boring!), but some of his hats are quite ok. Law has a good review in Penguin, I think? All or most of the items available are NOT part of the mid-prize thing, by the way! But then, it's all together a rather mediocre offering, not containing many great items (except the Lloyd and mainly the first of the Ortegas).

Wow, cool! Don't miss Ortega's "New Dance"! "Scattered Clouds" is fine, too. Also the Jon Lloyd is great! The Joe Maneri would open the way into a total new territory (micro-tonal music, he's got several discs out on ECM, too, and Mat Maneri is his son and deeply involved, too, although his own hats are not that terrific, mostly, rather just ok stuff, though I do like "So What" and the duo with Matt Shipp, whcih is OOP I think).

quite skinny that... let me add her, divided through two that would make...

How does Joe Malinga and his marvellous album ("Tears for the Children of Soweto") fit in the larger picture? I am aware that the LP was recorded in a small village nearby where I grew up, and it seems like half of the musicians are swiss or german, but does anyone have any background info? I'm much too young to know... Zurich was, way before Malinga, one of the havens for ZA musicians. There was a club where Dollar Brand used to play. I think the saga goes that Sathima Bea Benjamin dragged Duke Ellington there, after he gave a concert in Zurich, and he was impressed enough to hire Abdullah for a US tour, and the first record also was called "Ellington Presents..." The site of the local club "Bazillus" (founded by trumpet player Beat Kennel in the early 60s, longtime as an illegal cellar club, now completely legal with a funny website - check the "lookingBack" link) has some history bits, including one about that legendary club which was called "Africana", I copy some of the images from there (http://www.bazillusclub.ch/): Early sixties THE BLUE NOTES Concert at Africana ON PICT:CHRIS MacGREGOR’S BLUE NOTES from Southafrica f.l.t.r. Nikele Moyakhe,ts Chris MacGregor,p Johnny Dyani,b Louis Moholo,dr FOTO BY: ART RINGGER Early sixties THE BLUE NOTES Concert at club Africana ON PICT:DUDU PUKWANA as FOTO BY:ART RINGGER YEAR. Early sixties THE BLUE NOTES Concert at club Africana ON PICT: Nikele Moyakhe,ts FOTO BY: ART RINGGER and somewhat related, since Ibrahim was her initial main influence (to be suprassed by CT later): mid-sixties IRENE SCHWEIZER QUINTET IRENE SCHWEIZER,p WALTI LEUTENEGGER,fl behind MANI NEUMEIER,dr ALEX ROHR, ts and behind ULI TREPTE,b IRENE belongs to those musicians, who started all that free-style jazz and became very known all over Europe.