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Nabatov on hatOLOGY is so-so - fairly regular, way-too-many notes (from Nabatov and from the drummer) muscular hard-bop stuff. What amazed me so much was how more thoughtful (and much less voluble) he is on Chat Room than anywhere else I've heard him. ← I would say the disc (Sneak Preview) is more of an eclectic mix of a number of strands of contemporary jazz, and though I think David's criticisms are fair, I certainly like this disc more than he does (I have way fewer problems with Nabatov's too many notes than I have with those of many other musicians). I think I rate it just a notch below 4 stars to D.D.'s 3, I assume. ← Thanks for chiming in, Gokhan! I guess if I see it for a good prize somewhere, I'll pick it up!

I'll try to ask - will see how the interview goes and if I think asking for new releases/reissues will not be problematic in any kind... seems he's in a good mood, though, judging from his emails to us! Adam, is the above mail a new one? I didn't get it, and I think I deleted all earlier hat mailings... (which is why I couldn't quite the one I was paraphrasing above). ← Hi, I got it last week forwarded to me by my friend George Schmid. He produced The Dark Tree and is in regular contact with Werner. At a jazz listening + dinner session last week, he implied that Werner is at the point where if anyone just had the time to take over the Hat label, he would be open to passing it on. best regards, Adam ← Thanks for sharing this, Adam. I guess it's also a question of age. Hat is now 30 and WXU was not exaclty a youngster when he got the label started... all the more big for keeping it going! I certainly hope he'll find a good solution whenever he'll decide to stop - but then that's possibly not the nicest thing to ask him about, either...

How about the classic CD/Compact Disc logo being there or not? Is it only the cactus system EMI is using that is not allowed to carry that logo, or does that apply to all copycrap discs? But then I think Sony has stopped using that logo anyway...

I'll see if I think asking these kinds of questions is ok or not, but I don't promise I'll ask them! I did the same with the CT, but the friend in question has picked up the new version soon after it came out - in a perfect world everybody who has burns of the old set would do the same. Not sure how it came, but all of a sudden Liebman and Marc Copland were all over the new hat releases... maybe that would be a more positive question to ask, rather than asking why Eskelins releases got fewer (or stopped?)...

omigod! I couldn't remember that I posted this here! I thought you might have gotten "official" info - I think, but as I can't even remember posting it anymore..., I think my post was just an elaborate guess - I can't recall where I took that info from! Hmmmm, getting old?

I'll try to ask - will see how the interview goes and if I think asking for new releases/reissues will not be problematic in any kind... seems he's in a good mood, though, judging from his emails to us! Adam, is the above mail a new one? I didn't get it, and I think I deleted all earlier hat mailings... (which is why I couldn't quite the one I was paraphrasing above).

Just in case: those who got my BFT have heard guitarist Flo Stoffner on the Ayler track finishing the second disc. A pretty interesting young musician, I should think. I am not familiar with the horns, nor the bassist. Friedli plays with ... well, future BFT material

I've heard the Liebman (on radio - there are live broadcasts and later re-broadcasts from Willisau every year - so yes, I've heard the Braxton, too). Great set of music! Liebman plays tenor, soprano, flutes (I think wooden ones, but maybe also the regular?), and drums. A masterly display of musicianship! There's an annual solo set in Willisau, that often was taken up by pianists (Andrew Hill, Matt Shipp, Cecil Taylor - released on Intakt as "The Willisau Concert", a great GREAT set), and in the year before Liebman by Anthony Braxton.

Thanks Chuck, will do so! I can't seem to find Uehlinger's latest mailing - he sounded not that confident, stating that the future release schedule was dependent entirely on the financial states of his business - also it seems he does suffer from wars like the Dubya feghing shitte in Iraq - fegh it even more, then!!! - since the US is one of his biggest sale areas, and sales seem to go notably slower in war times. There still seems to be hope, though, and I like to stick with that. Would be too sad to see hat dying, so let's hope he'll manage - and let's support him by buying his releases, not just bitching around about what he holds back, for whatever reason that may be (again, I assume he'd be able to do more reissues AND more new relesases IF sales went better...)

One thing I forgot about the pictures above: I took them from the website of a club in Zurich, the "Bazillus" (a semi-legendary illegal club in its early days that has now re-opened legally again). The "Club Africana" where these photos were taken was a small bar/lounge in a hotel here in Zurich - the hotel's still there, but where the Africana used to be, there's a flower shop now (and ever since I've knewn it). The Africana was the home of Abdullah Ibrahim in his first months of exile, in Zurich, and as far as I know it was there where Sathima (his wife) dragged the Duke to hear him play, after Ellington played a concert (probably at the Kongresshaus in Zurich - not sure of the year, 1961?). Anyway, the Africana helped Swiss jazz getting a mighty dose of ZA "feeling" - you can still hear it in some of the playing of our most important free pianist, Irene Schweizer, who heard Ibrahim back in those days.

That one? Chris McGregor & The Blue Notes Eindhoven Netherlands June 21, 1979 Dudu Pukwana - reeds Rev Frank Wright - reeds Chris McGregor - piano Johnny Dyani - bass Louis Moholo - drums others unknown CD1/42:15 CD2/45:36 TT: 87:51 Sound: A-/B+ Lineage: unknown source > cass > Peak > Xact Note: A free-blowing late-period session from The Blue Notes. Anyone know the complete line-up Got better documentation abou it? This is not "classic" Blue Note stuff, as far as I can tell, but it's a nice one! They had lost some of their ZA jive feel and soaked in a lot of US blacknuss vibes by then (who wonders, with Rev. Wright in there), still I like this recording!

What's the duration? The most most recent Lee Morgan Conn ("Sonic Boom") was not copy-crapped due to long duration - seems that discs of a certain lenght (76? 77 minutes?) cannot be released in crappy versions for lack of space on the disc.

The Teagarden is highly recommended! I love that disc! Beautiful songs (mostly or exclusively by Willard Robinson)!

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

Bringing this thread up again... (I have in the meantime heard Irene Schweizer perform, btw...) Below are some photos of Chris McGregor and the Blue Notes I found on the www and thought would be nice to share here! ********************* 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

I'm a little biased because I was there, but have since listened to the BBC broadcast several times, but: the Braxton is phenomenal. Everyone in the UK who's into this stuff has been talking about it. The whole band plays an absolute blinder (Taylor Ho Bynum in particular!) ← I've heard the Braxton set (on a webcast-sourced CDR, I think). Good one, yes! Would be interested to hear more about the Nabatov if anyone gets it! The Nabotov/Bennink (OOP now?) that I picked up upon David's recommendation is fabulous! How's the Nabotov on hatOLOGY?

Just picked this one up used: A beautiful disc, highly recommended!

Sorry folks, as usual the interview will be conducted in Swiss German... Exactly in two weeks time we'll meet Uehlinger! Anyone in with any questions?

Happy birthday, Chris!

Someone posted on the Dime Jazz Email List that Amazon sent him a cancellation mail for his order, since the release of the set was cancelled. I didn't post that here, since I don't know that guy, but now that another source seems to seed this same rumour, I thought I'd share it here. How ridiculous this all is!

It's a bit more mellow, istn't it? If one wants to hear Trane going nuts, Paris is the choice, but I *love* All Blues on the Zurich set!

Probably the single disc digipacks? I have the older Trema 4CD set. I have no issues with sound, but then I'm no audiophile. The plus of that version is a very nice booklet with material documenting the controversis that arose after the Paris crowd/critics/musicians were more or less shocked by that angry man on tenor... interesting stuff, that I assume you will neither have in the cheapo laserlight edition nor in the digipack edition. This is what I have: And this is how the (single disc) digipacks look: Trane, March 1960: Stitt from October 1960: There seems to be a new version of the 4CD box-set, too: Then here's the Laserlight cheapo edition: And here's the Zurich release on Jazz Unlimited (I like this one a lot - am I alone here?):

Hey, would you post what you have, please? I only have some "elaborated guesses" I put up with help of Losin's site... If anyone needs the cover are for the HSHB Forensic, drop me a PM, I got it somewhere (I think from dime, when the tree was seeded, recently).

I have a couple of these but forgot to ask William Claxton to sign them. This would have suited him better than the very heavy copy of the book he signed! He had a bit of a trouble lifting it and opening it to the first page to sign my copy! The book is quite astonishing. One of the very best jazz photos book ever! ← This book is astonishing! No way I can buy it now, though! Saw it in a shop this week... it's almost as big as the Taschen Newton ("Sumo") and Araki books! (Not *that* expensive, though...)