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sad news, r.i.p.

okay, so what now? 1) is this legit? 2) are others than Grant Green Jr. making profit/earning royalties from this (uhm: is this legit)? 3) are solos by the others cut out? 4) has this been dl-ed from youtube or is it actually in good quality (sorry, I was too late to catch it on youtube, it might have been decent quality there, too, I wouldn't know) 5) is this legit?

can't remember, it was but a stream

Good news indeed! Though, if that's the final curtain for that band, it's with a laughing and a crying eye - does anyone actually know if Zooid has been ended?

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Michael!

Not sure what bad shipping is - throwing stuff in the ocean and hope it will drift ashore on the right place? Ordered me some ... forgot the Dick Morissey, but then I don't really know him anyway - worth putting on the wantlist?

Thx everyone - I guess it's really too rich for me, all things considered.

... including a fine duo album with Charles "Bobo" Shaw!

Any more opinions by now? I'm still tempted and it's still available (and pay is better right now, or rather: I'm working more than I used to in the past years).

Don't know the SABA I'm afraid ... it's the Schoof Quintet (w/Dudek, Schlippenbach etc), the Brötzmann Trio plus more horns ... pretty wild stuff, just one track. B-Side is half (or a third) of Bley's terrific 1979 set (which is in circulation in its entirety and I'd love to see it all on a CD, but I guess this overpriced LP is the best we're gonna get, so I went for it).

Very sad news! I was in touch with him a few years back about some live recordings by Monk with Ray Copeland and other stuff - he came across as an enthusiast and warm person. Not sure anymore, but I think I even sent him a CD-R of some rare stuff with his dad on it.

Happy Birthday Hans!

Happy Birthday John!

50 Jahre Jazzfest Berlin - Alexander von Schlippenbach "Globe Unity" (1966) / The Carla Bley Band "Boo To You Too" (1979)

Info on the Spotlite (as given above) contradicts the actual announcer heard on the LP. He gives Blakey on the date with Eldridge and Kay on the date with McGhee.

If they hadn't used such a loud LP, it would really sound pretty darn good for a vinyl rip. At the beginning of "I Remember Clfford", there seem to be speed issues, too - that sound as if they might have been caused by slight tape warble or something ... I wonder if the LP ever sounded really good in the first place. There's an annoying grating sound behind the bass solo on the final track, too - as if they'd pushed the volume knob a bit too much and the hiss went up in volume, too.

Finally spinning "The Camel" ... the title track is amazing and the album as a whole seems to be pretty good - but, I guess you sensed it, big BUT: it's a vinyl rip and it's NOISY! There are crackles and pops and stuff. Not nice for such an expensive reissue. They could have at least tracked down a collector with a mint copy.

Don't have the BN one, but had the Verve one given to me for x-mas and while it's certainly not a thrilling read or anything, I find it quite interesting, regarding the entire story of JATP, Clef, Norgran etc. The Granz book might be a better read, who knows, but the photos and stuff in the Verve book is pretty amazing, too - and different from BN, there were so many Verve covers around (so much stuff got re-packaged and re-compiled) that I really feel like I don't even know half of 'em. "I want to fight against racism, to give listeners a good product, and to earn money from good music." Fair enough, I'd think. I have both (though I am only partially through the books by now), and I think they complement each other well. I agree that the Verve coffee-table book is not the best read in the world but it is quite OK anyway IMO. I have seen others that were written much more badly yet had much higher pretenses. The capsule bios in the Verve book are quite OK for the primary target audience, and the illustrations (and their layout) and sheer amount of data are stimulating enough, though I would have appreciated a bit more detail on the often-overlooked artists (who also were part of the Verve LABLE history) outside the trodden paths of the biggies but then I suppose you could not have marketed that book that easily to the more casual listeners who have a handful of Ella and Oscar records and now want to get something to look at while listening ... As for the Granz bio, I agree about the fair enough "making money from a good cause" angle, and in the way he acted on numerous occasions Granz certainly proved that he did stand up for the rights of the artists he worked with. Remember the times most of this took place in. Like or face it or not, but from today's state of society a lot of this was the "dark age" and those who did not live through those times sometimes are a bit rash in faulting people like Granz for not going farther than they did or for not being more radical in their actions. And I have a feeling any bio of Granz by necessity falls short on what it could have accomplished simply due to the fact that Normal Granz went out of his way to destroy documents and evidence from his life and his business so a lot that would have been of immense interested for the evaluation by historians just isn't there anymore. What I don't like about the Verve coffee-table book, though, is that tendency (by THIS author??) to milk over and over again those William Gottlieb photo files at the LOC. The Gottlieb pictures ARE geat but as they have been used before in many cases and are publicly accessible on the LOC site they must be pretty well-known to anyone seriously interested in the music from that era by now, and besides, how many devades of jazz can you illustrate with photos from 1947 exclusively?? IMO this way of rounding up pictures from the same source over and over again is an wasy way out for the author and editor to save them the effort of doing some real searching for views from that era not seen too often before (which no doubt MUST be out there ...). Fair point re: Gottlieb's photos - indeed the fat booklet for the forties JATP box contained plenty of Time/Life photos by Gjon Mili that don't seem to be as widely known and while you can watch some of them on the internets, they're not part of the LOC's collection and come with watermarks and stuff like that ... And those photos are as wonderful and atmospheric, I'd say, as the ones Gottlieb took. Some examples here (not JATP ones but ones taken at Mili's studio): http://time.com/3689431/giants-at-play-life-with-jazz-legends/

Don't have the BN one, but had the Verve one given to me for x-mas and while it's certainly not a thrilling read or anything, I find it quite interesting, regarding the entire story of JATP, Clef, Norgran etc. The Granz book might be a better read, who knows, but the photos and stuff in the Verve book is pretty amazing, too - and different from BN, there were so many Verve covers around (so much stuff got re-packaged and re-compiled) that I really feel like I don't even know half of 'em. "I want to fight against racism, to give listeners a good product, and to earn money from good music." Fair enough, I'd think.

(maybe some moderator could amend the thread title, since this has by now turned into a recommendations discussion equally?)

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Crossroads-Legacies-Baltimore-Aperio/dp/1934074527/ http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-08-07/entertainment/bs-ae-jazz-loyola-20100807_1_baltimore-jazz-apprentice-house-loyola-students

Pres: Buchmann-Moller?

Seen her live a few times, in different settings - and indeed, the trio with Hébert/Smith was the one I enjoyed most. Alas, she doesn't seem to travel with her regular gear (instead using smaller, probably less valuable/dear-to-her guitars). But nonetheless, I'd strongly suggest to check her out in concert!