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I'm in the very same situation as Epithet - knowing Expansions will be in, I guess I'll need this! ubu

up! and just to make it clear: I'm talking of my BFT *itself* - not of any additional discs! grab the chance!

The Westbrooks will perform their latest programme, "Art Wolf", here in Zürich on March 8. I'm not sure if I should try and catch it. The band is: K.W. (voc,tenor-horn), M.W. (p,euphonium), Peter Whyman (ss), Chris Biscoe (as). I guess I'd prefer seing a larger band... ubu

Most of them look like the second generation of digipacks (the first being the "Atlantic Original Sound" ones, with a note by Claude Nobs). Can't tell about the sound, but to me the best ones seem to be the Rhino jewel case reissues, but then these are album-only reissues, no complete sessions, no bonus materials (as the older Rhinos from the US had). Also the "Great Ray Charles" includes a wrong track (there's a separate thread I started about that). ubu

Sorry I got the engineer wrong... I even prefer Pearson, usually, so... No more ratty listening after that Guy/Parker set, but some early sixties Coltrane (with Dolphy - shoot, David!) live stuff. Need to return to Coltrane more often in the weeks to come! Won't be even close to Paris, but I'll look for broadcasts on France Musiques (last year they had a few Banlieues Bleues concerts, but that festival is so big... we can only hope they pick some interesting ones). ubu

...and for those who don't check that part of the forum and still would be interested in hearing two discs full of rare stuff. Nuff said! Drop a PM and I'll organise you a disc! ubu

Please post here once you get your discs, so that I can update the second post in this thread! ubu

Wow, I didn't know he played left handed. Live and learn. Uh, I saw him in concert twice and didn't notice... but then I'm no trombone player (I know I know, bad excuse). Now why did I think this thread was about Sergey Letov? Will have to listen to "Porgy & Bess" again, been a long time, but I thought of wishing away the dust from that set and give it a spin again soon, anyway. Now on Banks: he's great on the Foster/Wallington 10" Blue Note Conn! Sol Schlinger anyone?

As was 'Friends & Neighbours' by Ornette. Yup, and all of them were reissued twice, first in jewel cases (93 or so?) and later as part of the RCA Victor Gold Series (digipacks) or at least made up the same way as the Victor Gold series releases. Don't know how the remasters compare, have only old ones, so far (three Gatos and the Ornette). Those older ones were BMG/RCA releases. ubu

Great to see that much new stuff here! Jeff: I love those Hutch/Land covers! I will definitely use the one for the EZtree show! John/deus: some great ones! I've got a soft spot for the "Kulturpalast" - also it would fit nicely next to the GDR comp, but then the most recent cover is nice, too. Then - without yet having heard all the music, I love the general idea of deus' too dark cover! Keep it coming! And John: that Cirrus Waiting is indeed feghing great!!! ubu

Thanks! I think everybody has them now, yes?

Definitely a good one! The live disc, I think, is even better! Much good tenor by Parker, and as far as I can tell (I don't know him really), not only his typical circular soprano. Great recording, too (Peter Pfister)! I guess I should've been there when they did the live disc in Zürich, back in 2001... I'm not sure about Guy here. I mean he is good, they play together etc, but I didn't listen close/concentrated enough to really hear all that's going on. However, Guy seemed a bit, say, less virtuosic, more "normal" bass player, than he was on two recent occasions when I saw him live. That's not a bad thing, but still, he's able to create marvellous landscapes on his bass (partially with help of some effects, which is ok with me, his sound can't be killed by any effect, it's so beautiful), and he obviously chose not to do this in this duo. Will have to dig out the trio recording I have from the trio with Lytton (a live recording from Germany, the exact date of which I don't have, but it's recent). ubu

The European discs should start dropping in in a week or so, the US distributors have mostly gotten the discs and promised to send copies on soon, so I guess the discussion should start in a week to ten days from now. Still: IF ANYONE HAS SO FAR MISSED THIS THREAD, DROP ME A PM!!! ubu

Cary mentioned answers will follow during the first days of March. I tried to make my discs arrive by then... I'll open the discussion around March 2-5, I guess, if the answers to BFT 23 are up by then, otherwise I'll just wait a bit longer - no need to keep the almost frantic pace of recent BFTs, in my humble opinion.

Started giving disc 1 (the studio half) of this 2CD set a listen: Sounds great so far! I wonder how the live recording on disc 2 will compare! ubu

Recently got a copy of this 2CD set from a very kind board member: This Steeplechase set contains two Debut albums (not of the foot-patting kind Universal is now reissuing...). Very nice stuff! Disc 1 is Ornette kind of music, but more fragmented, more, shall I say, cerebral (you know, 12 tone things etc, getting rid of melody bla bla bla). Sunny Murray is the drummer on that first album, in addition to Danish trumpet, alto and bass player. Disc two is quite different, and, I think, even better. Danish drummer here, tenor added, both saxophonists playing electric saxes, bass electric, too, and musically this is somewhere between typical power music of the sixties - which the first album somehow succeeds in not getting too close, by being what I called cerebral - and and the stuff Miles' band did a couple of years later. Very interesting! Cerebral may be the wrong word for what I want to say. I don't mean "intellectual" or "cold" or "depressing", none of that. Just that Ornette is a blues player and has that gutsy thing going on, and these Danes certainly don't have that... don't need it either, as they have their own thing going on. ****************** Now spinning the most recent addition to my CD collection: Was interrupted while posting, have now finished listening to the Rivers, and love it! A very joyful set, upbeat feeling, great playing by Rivers (tenor, soprano, flute). ubu

I say we demand them to finally reissue Money Jungle's "Back to Cuscanoa" first...

#1 - Nice opener! Like what the pianist does with his left hand. Some late sixties Silver? Good tenor and trumpet solos. #2 - Second Miles quintet? Some Miles Trees stuff? Still have to dig into the 67 tree... #3 - Bobby Hutcherson? "Stick Up"? ... Sounds more like "Dialogue", on second thought, but it's been quite a while since I last heard any of Hutch's Blue Notes. I'll stick with "Dialogue". #4 - More sixties Blue Note. Grant Green with Larry Young? More Booby, so this is from "Street of Dreams"? As much as I try to like the Green-Young-Jones recordings, they have never been even close to my favourite Green (or Young) albums... I'll keep trying, It gets better when at Green's return Elvin starts loosening, and of course Green's sound and lines are as beautiful as they always were, yet the whole thing is somehow too laidback, too easy for me... #5 - Definitely not my favourite, but it works nice as a segue into the following... #6 - which is another fantastic track I know or have. That sound on trumpet is so hauntingly beautiful! Love that band! The trombonist (who had trouble with some of his teeth after this gig) is among my favourites! Great alto solo, too. I guess it's from "East Coasting", but I didn't check. #7 - This sounds very familiar, too! Back to Blue Note territory... As I said, I don't have my collection here, and I can't tell where this is from, but I'm quite sure I have it. Jackie Mac. Blakey-influenced drummer (Art Taylor?), can't tell trumpet player and pianist after one listen. #8 - Sounds slightly familiar. Like it, but can't say what it is. Second go. Very nice arrangement! I like a lot what the drummer plays during the first chorus. Not Herbie Nichols, I think. #9 - This is Nichols now? Or is it just my frame of mind that expects him? Blakey? Beautiful one! Need to get that Blue Note set out of the shelf again! #10 - Nice organ sound! Smith? Sounds familiar, to be honest, but... I have no clue as to which album this comes from. #11 - Woody? Sounds a lot like mid-Sixties Blue Note music, and it sounds familiar, too... Oh, wait, is this from Hutcherson's BN live disc recorded at Montreux? Long time no listen, need to dig that out, too! #12 - Not sure who this is, but it sounds lot like something I have on some CD, but don't ask me on which or by whom... Might be from the trio-only disc of Green-Young-Jones? But that doesn't sound exactly like Elvin (but then the fact that Elvin is "Elvin in disguise" on those albums might be one of the reasons I don't love them more, another might be the sound of them). #13 - So to end we leave Blue Note-land... very nice trumpet sound! Sounds like a European production. A lovely closer to a very enjoyable test! Disc 2 showed me how long it has been since I listened to any Blue Note discs! Time to dig them out again... thanks a lot Cary, for this great compilation! ubu

Continuing disc 1: #11 - Very nice one! No idea, but this ins one of my favorite cuts so far! #12 - Wow! Things get even better! Love this one, great big tenor sound, nice deep bass, and yet another drummer who knows how to handle them brushes! #13 - Yesterdays... great! #14 - I guess I stop my comments now, I don't know sh*t... I really really enjoy this last bunch of tunes! #15 - Oh wow! This one sounds very familiar, for a change! Love the Booger, love the bass trombone here, love the tune, and love its composer! A great CD this is from! What a pity it's OOP... #16 - Greaze... if it's not the late master himself it's one fo those who learnded a lot from him. Late sixties or seventies? Kenny Burrell or Phil Upchurch? Don't like the drummer that much, but organ and guitar are so good, it doesn't really matter. Don't have any post '65 Smith (except for "Root Down" and the Eddie Harris live album), so I can't really tell. more guesses coming in a few minutes in the other thread. ubu

Me fan of HUM, too, Garth another... I enjoy the live set that starts things off a lot more than you do, it seems, but I'll have to give those discs another spin soon. I think there was a thread dedicated to it some time back, do a search if you're interested. I might have posted some thoughts there (or not). ubu

funny rat calling in... welcome Martin, to funny rat internet forum here's the way to go: ubu

No, the blow was towards ubu - some fun exchange. "darstardly" is too harsh a word to use. But each to his own taste. and obviously it took me two months to notice...

And on topic: why not get the European longbox release ("Spiegel Edition" or what is it called)? I spent a couple of days with this box when I was in hospital last year (pretty exactly a year back now) and love it! The jazz violin session is great, and I have to admit I liked a lot of the "pop" numbers - I mean, they're not just pop numbers, they got the Ducal or - in many cases even better - Strayhorn treatment, creating many a jewel out of dubious origins. The Paris concert I think is still available in its 2CD Atlantic incarnation, no? That was not part of the Reprise box anyway. ubu

Yup! They should use the standards of Koch, as far as reissuing Atlantics goes.

I wasn't sure if you might come in with "he hasn't really got his changes together" or something, but from recent evidence (I heard him live a few years ago and also heard a recent concert broadcast) I think he's got his bag together pretty well - although he seems to have weak days/nights more often than one would wish...