king ubu

That's one of the most special studios where they recorded! All or most Sketch discs were done there. Very nice sound, not at all ECM like, not cool... I wonder if they screwed that up later on, though? Will have to get this one soon!

Funny thread here... I wonder has Chuck bitten l p or what was the later's problem? And can anyone answer Aric's question?

Sounds good! I wasn't aware of this new album. I have both of the quartet's earlier albums, seen them live twice and have amassed some nice live recordings, too... they went places since 2001 or 2002! I assume it's best to see them live - they are not at all ECM-ish live... I saw them twice in the same club in Zurich, about two years apart (2002 and 2004, I think) and that second concert was terrific.

Kenny G? Ahem... Prez?

Thanks again Dan, I enjoyed this disc more than disc one - a splendid compilation! Here's some thoughts... #1 WHOAH! Very nice. Some Hawkish tenor, but a bit more modern. Basie-like rhythm secion, but again a bit more modern. Very nice oen! #2 Uh yeah! Sounds like a groove the Jones-Lewis band could play... not sure though. Enjoy this a lot! #3 More hawky tenors... nice, almost a jump tune, but not quite. Enjoy this one, too! I assume I won't be surprised to hear who's playing on these opening cuts, but I have no clue really - not familiar enough and not spending lots of time with this kind of music of late, so I won't take any chances and embarass myself with unlearned guesses... #4 All the Things You Are... I have heard this arrangement before, but I'm not sure if I have heard this very recording. Funny how streamlined this sounds after the more honking tunes before! Sounds slightly Konitz/Marsh like (only the arrangement, that is, not the performance) #5 What's that tune again? From Miles' second quintet, but I can't pin it down right now. Nice tune. Alto sounds a tiny bit too fluent/noodling at some spots, not digging into the tune too deeply. But the solo builds nicely, too. Then he quotes "Poinciana"... at least that one I can pin down... nice piano, but again I have the impression that the tune is played rather on the surface... wouldn't be a problem, but since the bass is constantly playing that vamp the actual melody remains very present and thus the solos not digging into that melody do bug me a bit. Uh, another quote... Dear Old Stockholm? I've heard Antonio Hart doing Miles tunes, but I guess he'd be a bit more intense (not sure if deeper, but louder, fuller sound...) that this player. #6 "Moanin'" - like this tune a lot. This alto sounds great! I like the vibrato and the sound a lot! Could this be from James Williams and Bobby Watson? I don't know Williams at all and Watson not that well, but this sounds nice! (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jwbw) #7 Very nice. Love the low-fi jaunty guitar at the beginning! Pretty basic horn arrangement, very nice. Reminds me of B.B. King's Louis Jordan hommage disc, for whatever reason (there's only three horns there...). I preferred the opening mood of this tune, but it's still nice, all of it. #8 Nice one, not more to say... #9 Big band - for some reason already the drum break at the beginning makes it clear that this is a big band recording. Driving drummer here! Piano slightly Basie-ish first, but then going places... nice fat tenor! Dizzy-ish trumpet... The trombone entry is hilarious! I like the alto quite some, too! Trombone sounds older than Dizzy (Roy? but there's a lick in his solo that sounds exaclty like Dizzy... #10 Slightly harmless? Ah, some trumpet, too... Clark Terry? Is this OP on piano? Sorry to say this doesn't do a lot for me. #11 Uuuuuh, yeah! Sounds like a modern band doing Jimmie Lunceford... I prefer the original, but this is nice enough. What's that tune? Or is it just reminiscent of a Lunceford tune? Ah, yes, just reminds me of "Tain't What You (It's the Way That You Do It)", but obviously it ain't... I don't like this one too much, but I love the groove it builds upon - I love what it refers to (Lunceford)! #12 "Since I Fell for You". Very nice! From the fifties? Stands in the same line that the "Blues Boogie & Bop" Mercury box explores, I assume. I like this one a lot! Nice drummer again here! #13 Hm, what's that again? Like these tenors!

I may put sugar in my coke, but never on tomatoes... pu-leeaze, Sirs!

I agree... but there's still an Urtreger disc and an announced Oliva disc! Both fine with me!

pm sent on above (less what ubu snatched up before me! ) ubu snatched Ptaszyn and Namyslowski, he hopes and is confident about... he should have mentioned the Trzaskowski as well, but that's what happens when he's in a hurry

So Sketch discs will be reissued on Minium, as well as new projects recorded? Same layout, it seems, same packaging - that's nice, since I enjoyed that with Sketch! The director of the feu label Sketch Philippe Ghilmetti has found new partners and is back on business and from what i saw it's basically the same style, same musicians. http://www.miniummusic.fr/ Carrothers, Viret etc. Too bad they are out of my price range Ah, sorry, I thought you were somehow involved with the label, that's why I asked that question. But does someone know if Sketch discs will be back in print, too, and under what label (Sketch or Minium, or that Japanese label linked to above - or isn't that a label but just a distributor? My Japanese isn't that great... )

Thanks! I hope once at home tonight I'll be able to use my email again!

Sent you a PM about Wroblewski and Namyslowsky about an hour ago - still can't access my email...

Happy birthday!

So Sketch discs will be reissued on Minium, as well as new projects recorded? Same layout, it seems, same packaging - that's nice, since I enjoyed that with Sketch!

This is very sad news.

Anyone has the T-Bone Walker discography and could post it here?

Never mind - got the info from the satchography website. If someone has the Mosaic discography saved in word-format and can copy/paste it here, I'd still like to see it, though!

Can anyone come up with the Louis Armstrong Decca link?

I don't think that's so fair a statement... Bill Stewart's "Telepathy" or guys like Sherman Irby or Mark Shim and many other younger musicians did some fine albums for Blue Note. And what about the Tony Williams albums (I know about the Select, but no Select if the stuff was around) or the albums from Hill's second Blue Note stay? My main point is rather that it would be nice for these musicians to have at least some of their stuff still in print (I think Geri Allen's albums are all gone, too, and too many of Renee Rosnes' are a bitch to find - even Jackie Mac's "Nature Boy" came and went quickly). I don't see why smaller and less financially strong labels can hold stuff in print longer than EMI's jazz department, really. My point thus was not to state that all of revamped BN's albums should be in print and are great works of arts, although I would see things a bit more positive than you, I guess. As for Criss Cross, they cost too much and have almost no distribution over here, so I'm afraid to say I don't have many. They look too much run of the mill for me to pay 25$ per disc.... (I only have three or four...) But then I assume this is different tastes, in the end.

The RVG has been out here for a looong time - still not out in the US? Ha!

As usual, I haven't read anything before, have played the disc once at work, thus no CD collection at hand to do any comparisons... #1 Sounds like Booker T. & the MGs a bit? Nice how piano and organ get along! I think I should know that tune, but I rarely play the few Stax/Booker T./Otis Redding etc. discs I have. (I need more, and more time to play them...) Formulaic stuff, but I like it. #2 Alto has heard some Cannonball? #3 Fun start! Retro stuff? Piano lacks the finesse of say, Teddy Wilson, but he and Fats (Sheik of Araby) are who this reminds me of... #4 Hawai guitars playing four brothers with a capetown jive groove? No clue once again, but this sounds pretty old, maybe Les Paul involved? Late forties or early fifties? #5 I can imagine a cheesy soundie to go with this... tenor isn't that bad at all... some Hawk disciple? Byas? #6 Now this one I know... but hell, what is it again? Very catchy tune that I like quite some! Early Milt Jackson? Is this on the quartet album with Horace Silver? Seems not, no timing matches, says AMG... hm, still, enjoy this one a lot! #7 Another tune I know but can't pin down. Ray Anderson? Great trombone playing! Camp meeting tune... nice, but no idea! #8 Similar stuff, nice tenor here, but nothing earth-shaking... Griffin? One or two of the last phrases of the tenor solo reminded me of him. #9 More soul meeting music... nice one, but a bit too easy for me. Gene Harris? Or would that be too easy to find out? #10 Alright, finally a tune I can pin down, "In a Mellotone" (what's the original title, Mellow Tone, Mellotone?). Nice, but again nothing that really grabs me... #11 Nice enough... hard-boppish big band. Clueless who this could be, but the solos are good. Sounds a bit muted to me. Tenor builds up nicely, not showing off at all, nice linear improvisation. #12 Sounds like a Billy Strayhorn tune at the beginning... wow! Ah, that's the tune I also included on my BFT and everybody jumped at me stating only Rabbit is supposed to play this one? Mike will tell me if I think of the right tune, I won't make a fool and mention the title... it's that bloody one... Beautiful performance! Made me think of Joe Hen's Strayhorn album, but it's not from that one. Haunting! #13 Good sequencing here! "Angel Eyes" - lovely tune! Very nice arrangement with the barisax, brushes etc. #14 Very nice one! Again pretty clueless, but the sax does sound somewhat familiar... #15 "Blue and Senti..." oh wait, Mike, am I making a fool again? Lovely! A good run here, from #12 onwards! Huh, what's that guy's name? Very nice one, for sure! #16-18 A few short tunes to end things... The first one is Basie-ish, but not Bill himself, I assume... Second another standard I know and Mike will mention its name Third is a nice, a soft and easy closer. An enjoyable disc you put together, Dan. Nothing here that really jumped in my face and grabbed me, but some very good things, mainly #12-14, as you will have noticed from my comments, with #12 being my favourite.

Did he beat someone up? Can we hear it on the disc?

Nate, have you heard the fellow I mentioned, Gallio? If not, try some!

Larry, the "Trio/Quintet" came out also on Savoy, yes? That's the same one? I played it last night, and "Summertime" is terrific! Moody, almost impressionist, pure beauty! The tune for his wife and daughter is also very nice. Plus the line up with tb/bari is not one heard that often, so the quintet does sound different from most comparable albums of the time... and Bert is a fine musician, not heard as often as he would deserve!

Yes King Ubu - I was thinking of his soprano playing on the Rendell/Carr LPs, which is very fine indeed. Lovely clear tone he gets. He plays some soprano on that Carr/Rendell/someone else Universal reissue as well, doesn't he? "Greek Variations" is the title, can't remember who the headliners are.