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Before I forget: this one features some very very nice Cannonball as well, and it has a great version of "Sermonette" (without Adderley, though):

Got it, but haven't had a chance to listen yet.

Lon, I'm not yet really sure about that 2CD set - I listened through it a few times, always with quite some time having passed in between, and it hasn't really really grown to me (yet?). The big band with Cannon though, has a few very nice things, for sure. It's more the other dates I'm insecure about. Then, let me again, this time with covers, add a big for thsi 2CD set: This one is awesome at least! It features the first Adderley quintet, with Nat, and Junior Mance. This very fine recent Fantasy release features the Newport '57 set by the same band, as well as Cannon & Nat sitting in on a lenghty jam tune with the Shearing group: Then, there are the even earlier "Summer of '55" recordings, with Nat as well: This set features the brothers on a Kenny Clarke album, on Cannon's first album, as well as Nat's first one, with Jerome Richardson on sax, and no Cannonball. Once again Keepnews freeked this one up, and you'll also need this Savoy/Denon release, "Discoveries", in order to have it all: The last of the very good early quintet discs: This one has been reissued in Verve's VME series, and it's awesome! It features the brothers with Silver-Chambers-Haynes, and Haynes in particular is smoking! ubu

has a much better cover, too, doesn't it? You don't know the one with Griffin? ubu

There's one in a store in Zurich, however, they want around 21-22$ per disc. Don't know if it would still be cheaper, with all the custom shit I'd have to pay ordering from the US... ubu

A new addition to my slowly growing doorbellist collection: Like it! It has a bit of a sameness, and it's all very light and easy, but it grooves! How about this one? Could be interesting with Johnny Griffin! Also, is this the one Mike, you mentioned above (the TUBA thing from Keepnews)? The Penguin only gives it two and a half... From Lytle's Muse discs I have "Fat Possum Grease" - ok, if but the best, I'd say. The 32jazz reissued two of his six Muse albums. Go through the bins, Mike, and you might find some Muse CDs... (happens here, from time to time, but I couldn't promise anything - can't calculate these things) ubu

Oh yes! A magnificient album! Cannon also guests on a Milt Jackson big band date included on this set here: ubu

Welcome, John - you frightened me with that post, as I downloaded everything, and burned right away, and yet have to listen to most of the CDRs... ubu

Thanks for posting this, Rainy! Must have been a great night! ubu

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Looks like a Swiss army band conductor: "You screwd up zis bariton saxofon part in "Lion King", private!" [deleted pic - sorry for any offense!] Now you my friend better go home - to the cold where you belong Thanks, Gokhan - the solo thing I have is a concert recording made by swiss radio. Long time I listened to it, as well as to the disc with Lovano. The Henderson-Haden-Foster is quite good. The "out" track is in the Ornette 1960 mood, so not too "out" and certainly not disorganized or chaotic. Pulse is maintained, Haden is of course great in such a setting. Foster is very good - he never fails to surprise me when I hear him in a "mainstream"-setting - he'll always be Miles' comeback drummer for me, that's how I first heard him (on "We Want Miles", to be exact). The disc ends with a fourth number, another lenghty jam, this time on Bird's "Passport". Rather nice, I must say! Now starting with the Haden-Bley-Motian disc. ubu

ah, but it's true! Hey, get yourself a decent pair of ears before you continue hijacking the rat pack! yeah yeah, I'm done already. pfff. ah, but it's true!

I heard Rubalcaba set many years ago, and I thought ti was unbearable - RUbalcaba seemed like this typical virtuoso empty-chatter type of player (think bad Oscar Peterson). Uh, that doesn't exaclty sound enthusiastic... I hardly know Rubalcaba. I like the duo record with Lovano alright, and I have a solo concert, which is quite nice, but other than that not much. Ah, yes, he's on Haden's "Nocturne", and surprisingly, I liked that quite well! ubu

ah, but it's true! Hey, get yourself a decent pair of ears before you continue hijacking the rat pack!

Exactly! I was always bemused by statements about Miles having no chops. As for Henderson - I like Henderson a lot when he plays "out" (well, "slightly out") - if you don't have it, check out his very impressive CD with Alice Coltrane called Elements (...I think) - it's on Fantasy/OJC. Thinking about it, I like Henderson even if he does not play "out"! What a monster muscian he was! I love Henderson - even when he's not "out" at all and smooth and all - he always has some sort of "edge" - don't know any of his Milestone/OJCs (as I always thought - and still do - I'll get the box some day...) What I have are the four readily available discs he did with K.D. for Blue Note, and some later stuff. I like the Montreux recording with Corea/Peacock/Haynes very very much! The Montréal disc keeps being good! Track two is an extended version of All the Things You Are (almost 20 mins), Haden and Foster solo beautifully as well, and it has a very loose feel! Haden had a very strong week back then in Montréal! I have the LMO, Bley/Motian (hardly know it - will spin right after), Allen/Motian, as well as a burn of the OOP Cherry/Blackwell, and I consider each and every one of them good to very good. I hear the Rubalcaba/Motian is maybe the best... will get that before it goes OOP. However, I can't really warm to the thought of buying the duo with Gismonti (on ECM, strangely). ubu as a PS to Henderson: I of course have "State of the Tenor"! (WOW!)

Tom, got your discs, thanks! ubu

Don't know too many discs with Bernstein, but I saw the Goldings-Bernstein-Stewart trio live once, some years back, and they definitively smoked! This one's most highly recommended: ubu

thank you for posting these links, ubu! I'll listen to the Miles once I get home from the gym tonight. I enjoyed the live Prince shows a lot more than I expected to. I downloaded them for a friend who is a Prince fanatic and gave the San Jose show a listen before giving him the cdrs. Great stuff! Haven't listened to a lot of the Prince shows yet, but what I've heard so far sounded REAL good and REAL FUNKY! Finished the Miles half way, irritated by the timings given on the Losin-page linked from darkfunk.com - same thing with the last Miles show on the darkfunk site: either the speed of those MP3s is wrong, or it's not from the date linked to... don't know the answer, myself, but I'll enjoy the music once I'm in the mood for it. While I have to be in the mood for almost any seventies Miles, I do enjoy it a lot, when I'm in taht mood, and I hope for more from the Fillmore as well, that 2CD thingie is some of best Miles ever made! Also, he's on fire there! Some of the greatest trumpet playing he ever delivered! Spinning now: First listen, starts off with a beautiful rendition of my all time favourite monk ballad, 'Round Midnight. Foster on brushes, Henderson terriffic, and Haden less Haden than often, and for the good of it! Wonder what "In The Moment" will be like - the CD liners by Haden mention Henderson coming to him before the concert, telling him he wanted to play "something free like [he] did with Ornette"... ubu

Never heard of Luther Thomas... There's a free downloadable track available from this CD via the Atavistic website - sort of free funk, with both the Bowie's involved, as well as J.D. Parran and Charles "Bobo" Shaw. here 'tis

could have gotten some more discs, but I picked up around a third of the jazz discs from all the bins I went through... far too much, of course, but at 70 CHF (+/-50$) it's quite alright... And I only went into that shop by chance... Now listening: some live miles from the seventies ubu

Never heard of Luther Thomas... Let me know how this Ornette is. I think it's OOP, so I am thinking whether it's worth searching for it or not. There's a free downloadable track available from this CD via the Atavistic website - sort of free funk, with both the Bowie's involved, as well as J.D. Parran and Charles "Bobo" Shaw. Will tell you about the Ornette (still haven't listened to the Björk, by the way). ubu

Here are the more or less rat-related items I picked up, all for the prize of 5 swiss franks: There are some more... Jimmie Lunceford, Dusko Goykovich, that Lytle doorbellist... ubu

Listening to this one right now - finally got it, and got it cheap. There's a sale going on, discs for around 3.5 bucks, and me just got a pile... among them this one. The line up is: Michael Wertmüller - drums Alex Buess - reeds & electronics Peter Brötzmann - reeds Stephan Wittwer - guitar William Parker - bass The label the disc was released on is Trost, Austrian, and, as far as I know, not involved with any other free jazz/improv releases. Buess is a swiss saxophonist and clarinetist, and it was him who produced the whole thing. Wittwer, of course, is the guitar player I mentioned several times by now, Brötzel must be known to all of you, and Wertmüller, a fantastic drummer, might be known by some of you as well, as he appeared on a recent Brötzel trio disc (don't own it), which, I think, also featured the other well-known of the above players, William Parker. First impression while not even yet halfway through is that this is quite a noisy affair, sort of what you expect when you hear the name of Brotz, and what I expected also knowing Wittwer was involved. Wertmüller does his incredible things, the reeds squeak and squeel, Wittwer and Parker provide a wall of sound, blending with the bass drum, and me likes... ubu

I'm a huge fan of Cannonball's! He was among the first musicians I "got" when I started exploring jazz - among a pile of Cannon discs I was allowed to borrow from a friend of my parents when I was fifteen or something were the famous San Francisco Jazz Workshop disc, Nippon Soul, Something Else, the big band date on Riverside, and several of the Landmark discs (now being reissued by Blue Note). Let's hope they'll bring us this GREAT one soon: I do own the Landmark LP, and hell, Lateef is blowing some BAD blues on "Trouble in Mind", and the band is on fire! Other favourites are "Them Dirty Blues," "Nippon Soul," and all of the earlier sides for Savoy, as well as the Emarcy dates I know. The Sophisticated something 2CD set is fantastic! ubu