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ummmm... I'm afraid I don't get what's so funny about this...

That explains why Black Lion did an extensive Candid CD reissue series several years ago. I suppose he leased them to that US company? What US company? Black Lion is Bates, too, no? He also did some Freedom reissues (CD and LP, I have some Randy Weston... great stuff! Also that Andrew Hill one with Lee Konitz and Ted Curson).

Saw Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori live last year or the year before... Zeena was terrific! Here's their disc, which comes recommended to anyone inclined to look a wee bit further than yer ole Blue Note hardbop grandpa stuff: This *great* third stream album (starring John Lewis, Stan Getz, Tony Scott, Aaron Sachs, Lucky Thompson and others) includes some very effective harp comping: This thread indeed is fascinating and makes me want to buy some more CDs... as if I didn't have more than enough already. But I'll definitely want to check out "Afro Harping" and the twofer by Dorothy Ashby.

Your city is just a wee bit more beautiful than mine. Sometimes I really hate Michigan. But I'd prefer your weather! I was in the mountains for 3 days and had actually enough of that white stuff they call snow, but just when we returned, it started snowing like crazy down here! There must be around half a meter of snow, which I have never seen in Zurich in all my (young) life!

and two more - the one on the right taken by a live webcam five minutes ago!

Here are a few photos of Zurich - absolutely crazy! On Sunday people were skiing or boarding down the streets!

Belated best wishes, Al!

Many best wishes, Garth! Been away for a few days, thus the delay... party on! PS: I hope them playmates enjoyed that Hal McKusick disc you had continuously spinning!

To answer the question above, I have this one: and just recently played it and found it excellent. I have never heard (of) Steve Gorn before, but he's very good on clarinet (and saxophones, but I like his clarinet playing better), and Baikida Carroll is someone I'm not all that familiar with, either - very good player. On drums is the great Susie Ibarra (I'm sure some rats could tell some stories about someone having a crush on her...). So even though the band looks somewhat less interesting than the one on "A Tree Frog Tonality", the disc is just as fine, in my opinion.

Shaw has replaced Marcus Strickland in Roy Haynes' "Fountain of Youth". I heard him live with the Mingus Big Band and on a radio broadcast with Haynes and both times he was great! Of course the quartet setting with Haynes left much more space for him to blow, and he made good use of it, for sure!

There are several "series" of Candid CDs, as far as I understand. The ZYX ones are prob. the oldest ones around. Then there are different looking UK editions (Candid is owned by a UK company, no? There's this website here: http://www.candidrecords.com/). I think among my five Taylor and four Mingus discs, there are at least three different runs of CDs covered. Some have *very* badly photocopied/scanned covers, too. Anyone knows if there's a difference in sound or not? My guess is not, but I haven't really tried to find out. And for all those inclined to buy any of these Candids: big for the Booker Ervin - probably Felix Krull's only post-mortal appearance on a jazz recording... a great disc, Krull being Parlan, the rhythm team being Parlan's crew of that time (Tucker-Harewood). Fits in nicely with the Parlan Blue Note sessions and the Savoy disc (which adds Richard Williams on trumpet to the same crew).

(Bainbridge version with different cover)

Lovely album! Fine work by Triglia and Kotick, but I'm not so sure about Mardigan... probably it's just the "not exactly hi-fi" sound but his cymbals sound like some kiddie tambourine.

It reminded me of some of those projects by the likes of Dave Douglas, incorporating eastern european sounds (harmonies, melodies), like the "Tiny Bell Trio", for instance, or his "Charms of the Night Sky". Not just because of the instrumentation (with accordion). Speed is very good, in my opinion! Might be one of the most interesting of that bunch of tenorists that came up virtually at the same time (Cheek, Potter, Turner, Redman... ok, Turner is great as well, if only because he sounds so differently...)

Happy birthday, Wes!

Randy, it may be of interest that Intakt will release a new Trio 3 disc, Time Being, on April 2. Intakt CD 106

I just heard them for the very first time on a 2-part radio broadcast of a recent (2005-11 I think) concert from Germany. Very *very* nice! I don't think any of this is aimless, the Reich comparison may be a good one, or maybe Riley? The grooves they set up are very nice, and Speed is great on clarinet (and on tenor, too). The instrumentation I like a lot, too: ts/cl - acc - vib - b - d. There's not much similar music around, for sure!

for "Bangception" (Some of my favourite Charles there! And you know I am not his greatest fan in other contexts...), and also for "Coon Bid'ness"! Oh, and for "Tree Frog Tonality", too (my only Lindberg, except that I just also got the successor on between the lines, but haven't played it yet.

Happy Birthday, Jon!

Just go for his music! Now you've read the thread three times, it's time to check out some CDs! If you want to get an impression of his African trip, check out "Moshi", if you want some mainstream jazz, go for "New York Romance", if you want some fun, go for "Wild Dogs of the Ruwenzori" or "La Note Bleue"... and if you juast want a good fix, get his Jazz in Paris disc "Jazz sur Seine"... or read the thread a fourth time and get all you can find...

You would have gotten it without asking Oh wait, I don't want it, really! Now that you said that I was to get it anyway, it lost all its attraction! Plus, you listen to bad music only, anyway!

Maybe 'coz he has a Mosaic still out? And what a great one that is! Duke Jordan's "Flight of Jordan" is a great album, in my opinion!

I'm in brownie! You got my address!

Please show this ignorant fellow how this can be done. The way Uptown tried (for the Mingus cd) was a series of "legal" letters from lawyers to retail establishments and the "distributors" we could track down. The legal costs were about equal to the "profit" one would expect from a very"successful" historical release. Maybe we should just let the US justice dept know someone is sending in cds we don't want here 'cause of unfair competition. Then they'd protect us. Right? I guarantee Uptown spent more money trying to protect their work/investment on the Mingus project than Jazz Factory spent on their entire product. Get a grip and show me the way to go home. Do you have any idea how many worthwhile projects are "on hold" because of this crap? And now Sue sues you? Or rather Sunenblick? Pathetic mail in Downbeat... about how critics/reviewers give those bootleggers (Uptown, in this case...) legitimacy by telling everybody how great the music was... has Sue ever heard about the Definitive version? Probably to her it's all the same, yes?