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Well yes, I have to agree on Ornette. The man is playing beautifully these days (have you heard any of his current quartet's live recordings?), and he hasn't even got a recent disc out... I suppose he's still drawing audiences at concerts, but then an artist of his calibre should be documented the way someone like Cecil Taylor has been documented since the Eighties.

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Listened to the quartet Braxton Free America disc, "Donna Lee", and I love it! The title tune, starting the disc off, is at breakneck tempo, so fast it's in fact almost a caricature of bop. Braxton is on fire, the band builds up steam, sounding at times like a noisy mid-sixties free jazz group, but ending smoothly in a final reading of the tune itself. The second tune is pure beauty, a Braxton composition (No. 23L + some of his strange symbols). This leaves lots of room for the music to breathe, and in a sense may be the least conventional (yup, the rest is actually rather conventional at first sight) track on the disc. Michael Smith (p - I never heard him before), Peter Warren (b - same for him; he seems to have been more at home in "classical" music than jazz), and Oliver Johnson (d - he is known to all of us, I suppose, as one of Lacy's late drummers, together with John Betsch) get to play some, though this is always group music. Not sure how much of it is actually written, and how much is freely improvised (and how free, IF it's improvised), but the results are hauntingly beautiful. Follows the first of two successive versions of a standard, "You Go To My Head", dedicated to Dinah Washington. Braxton displays his post-bop abilities, yet he sounds like none of the boppers and hardboppers, adding a big vibrato to his full sound. The second version of "You Go To My Head" is dedicated to one of Braxton's heroes, Lee Konitz, and is a slight bit more on the noisy side again, a bit more powerful, though Braxton plays some stuff that indeed reminds of Konitz' tight clean sound and cliché-free lines. Braxton's Composition 23K stands as the closer, the shortest of all tracks (a bit more than 5 minutes) and ends the disc on a reflective anti-climax (I don't mean that negative at all). Another quite, restrained composition, much more organised than 23L I think, providing a closer and narrower frame for the musicians to act in. ***************** So much for my lousy reviewing skills. This is all out of my head AFTER having given the disc ONE (but a concentrated) listen, so don't shoot me if... ubu

Up for Garth! ubu

I FORGOT TO SAY THAT HENRIE TEXIR WAS ALSO PLAYING WIT BOOBY HUTHCERSON AND HE WAS THE UNCREDITED BASSPLAYER OF TRACK 3 AND 19 OF MONEY JUNLGE!

hope your boss enjoys hearing some nice music! Couldn't listen at work, either!

Welcome! I like the group quite some!

Garth, it's on hatOLOGY (www.hathut.com). I'm not sure it'd fit your taste, as it's on the verge of freer sounds... (not offending you, but I just never saw you appear in such threads so far). Also it should go for the prize of a single (hat) disc (which is almost enough for a 2CD set, anyway). ubu

HENRI TEXEIR WAS GREAT BLUNOTE RECORDING ARTIST PLAIYNG WITH SAM REEVERS AND ANDRWE HILL AND GRENAT GREEN AND WANYNE SHORHTER BACK WHEN JAZZ WAS STILL GREAT MUSIC... WARNE MARSH WAS HIS FAVROTIE TENOR SAXOPHON PLAYER AND HE IS SO GREAT! I GO NOW AN JIZZ ALL OVR MYSLEFL!

As there seems to be no or little interest where I posted this, let me add a link here: Henri Texier "Strada Sextet" - webcast available on France Musiques website ubu

and now back to the music, folks!

So it's now: get: - Slim Gaillard - Lalo Schifrin - Cal Tjader skip: - Tharpe - Clooney - Whiting - O.P. So how about Mendes? Again thanks to everybody!

No interest in Texier, or does the link not work, or should I have put Texier in the title of the thread? ubu

Nope, but as I said, I listened to his London Jazz Fest 04 concert (or parts of it, 55 or 60 minutes), and I like that well enough to consider getting into Braxton a bit... will spin them soon! If you decide to start exploring Braxton a few of his Hat's (Basel and Dortmund) are mid-priced now and excellent starting points. The quartet sets on Leo (Coventry, Birmingham, London) are also fantastic. Dortmund I have, for the Basel I'd be happy for pointers, seems gone... ubu

So this is how my list looks now: get: - Slim - Schifrin (I want it) - Tjader skip: - Whiting - Tharpe not sure, but probably get: - Rosemarie Clooney not sure, but probably skip: - Mendes - Peterson Thanks Lon & Tjobbe! ubu

Considering some of those have now been around for quite some time... how about the following discs? Anyone can give opinions, short reviews? These are the ones up to 2002 that I still miss out on. Thanks! ubu

Here's a nice webcast of Henri Texier's "Strada Sextet" recorded August 29, 2004 at Austria's Jazzfestival Saalfelden: http://www.radiofrance.fr/listen.php?pr=rt...telenum/jazz.rm (Can't check the link myself, if it doesn't work, go here and click "Ecouter") The band consists of: Henri Texier - bass Sébastien Texier - as,cl François Corneloup - ss,bari Gueorgui Kornazov - tb Manu Codjia - guitar Christophe Marguet - drums The webcast includes three tunes, two of them running 17 minutes, plus a 7 minute one to start of. The titles are "Lady Bertrand" (dedicated to Bertrand Tavernier), "Sacrifice", and "Old Delhi". All music written by Texier. This is what I think about half of their Saalfelden concert, I have some more from a different broadcast. Very nice music, check it out! As with BBC3 webcasts, these "Le jazz probablement" webcasts are available till the next one comes up. Air-time is Sunday midnight-Monday 1 a.m. Paris time. Usually at least one track from a new CD starts off the show, before they get to the live part, which usually takes up 30-45 minutes. The Texier live tracks start around 4 or 5 minutes into the show. ubu

Oh, and I'm sure they made a remake of the Eisenstein film, right?

Do they have a replication of this in Odessa, Texas?

TEXAS RULES!

Don't know much of/about Swedish jazz, but this one's recommended: The trio stuff on disc 2 is great! ubu

I'm sure Dewey would agree on that!

my money's on the odds that batitista's not even aware of that recording... Or Sadao Watanabe's 1985 release, Parker's Mood. That would have been Blue Note's business, I guess?

That's Phase One, which is the best of these three AEoC reissues. Excellent sound quality as well. I wish there was more material available from these sessions. Flurin, you listened to Braxton yet? Nope, but as I said, I listened to his London Jazz Fest 04 concert (or parts of it, 55 or 60 minutes), and I like that well enough to consider getting into Braxton a bit... will spin them soon!