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Listening to the Redman right now. It's good. Geri Allen at the piano, Cameron Brown on bass and Eddie Moore on drums. All in all it's quite mainstream-ish, solid, not too adventurous. I've got much the same impression of Redman as when I saw him live two years ago (and this disc is from 1989): he does not really seems to have his thing together. I sometimes loose interest in his solos rather quickly, while there are moments where he is spell-binding (at that concert I saw he played "Second Balcony Jump" and it started out GREAT, really swinging, and his solo was really good until half way, and then he somehow lost it, and I was just waiting for him to turn it over to Ms. Marcotulli at the piano - who was excellent all through the two sets). I don't want to be too hard on Redman - I do like him. I love his Impulse album (Ear of the Behearer - reissued on CD in the late nineties), and I love his work on "Playing" with Old & New Dreams, as well as a few other dates I have with him as sideman. Do others here have the same impression of Redman? Or similar opinions? That Crazy Wisdom label could well be Gustafsson's. It's distributed by Verve/Universal, and listed in their catalogue, too. The trio album is CW001, the one with McPhee added is 006. Both dated 2001. ubu

Thanks for these culinaria, Jim! Think I gotta get it some fine day! ubu

Thanks for all the details and the Ocium link! These look like pretty solid releases! Only I really should cut down my CD expenses... and they sell them far too expansive here (some 25 Euros they want for them!). ubu

Maybe he's got no money left to buy books, since he gives it to Mr. L. Ron Hubbard or whatshisnameagain... No sympathies for this from me, either - but I guess we're much more severe about these issues here in Europe (anyway, I'm glad we are). How's "Echoes of an Era"? I saw it in stores several times. Anyone cares to comment? ubu

C'mon guys! Still waiting for the eloquent Sangrey review... ubu

brownie, thanks! But I think this would kill my poor-students-bank-account... And I also just bought some discs yesterday, all half prize, in some store cleaning out a bit: - Joe McPhee, Trinity (Atavistic Unheard) - Dewey Redman, Living on the Edge (Black Saint) - The Ganelin Trio, Strictly for our Friends (Leo Golden Years) - Westbrook-Rossini (Impetus) - Witches & Devils, At The Empty Bottle (Knitting Factory) - Gustafsson/Flaten/Nilssen-Love, The Thing (Crazy Wisdom) - The Thing & Joe McPhee, She Knows (Crazy Wisdom) - Kühn/Humair/Jenny-Clark, Triple Entente (Polygram France) Having only recently gotten acquainted with McPhee (his solo hatOLOGY, Tenor & Fallen Angels), I'm pretty excited about the new discs! Also, this is my very first Ganelin disc. As far as The Thing (Gustafsson/Flaten/Nilssen-Love) are concerned, I heard a broadcast (Berlin 2002, I think) of theirs with McPhee guesting - one of the most beautiful Albert Ayler tributes I heard! Anyone cares to comment about any of these albums? I guess I won't make it through all of them until earliest next week... ubu

Uh, spoiling couw's post count? Happy birthday, Joe Christmas (where's that alias coming from, anyway?) and Free For All! Spin some J.J. today! ubu

Wow, thanks for posting that great Hill cover! Will have to check that site again! ubu

I could do the other nine - couw's pretty far ahead anyway... ubu

Congratulations!!! ubu

Someone better get that Mellé FAST! ubu

Ditto. B)

Love Erik Friedlander's "Maldoror" - solo cello improvisations based on excerpts of that infamous book. I ordered it together with the Organissimo disc, thinking they'd charge less shipping per disc if I order two. ubu

That does make sense, Rooster. I know it was a demo, but I did not think about Woody's possible aim to record some rather conventional stuff. I'm glad he did record that music, however! ubu

Young's on piano on half of Woody's first self-produced album, too (reissued on a 32jazz Shaw 2CD set, the title of which escapes me at the moment). Wonder why? Recording in Germany, it could be simply for lack of a decent hammond organ, but why on Shaw's record? Did Woody dislike the organ? ubu

EKE, try "Song of Singing", that's another great trio record, with Holland and Altschul, this time. Also, seeing that you listen to lots of hat these days, "Circle" might interest you, a great 2CD set by the collective of Braxton, Corea, Holland and Altschul. If you're into more hardbop kind of sound, try "Tones for Joan' Bones", that's a good one, featuring Joe Farrell and Woody Shaw. ubu

so do I. ubu

good move, marcus! Sorry I was too late to add my in time, but you did the right thing without my voice, anyway. Enjoy! The first date is fantastic, the second is very good, too. Davis is quite an original, in my opinion, with a very nice sound. ubu

Mike, I saw these Ocium discs in some store here. They look alright, compared to other european rip-off labels. Are they complete? Do they have all takes (I did not look that close, obviously...)? A Mosaic of the first run at Verve would HAVE to include the Williams sides, they are among the best NT Basie, if you ask me! And hey, Mosaic did the Reprise Duke, why shouldn't they give us the Reprise Basie? That would make for three new Basie Mosaics: - Complete Fifties Verve Basie - Complete Reprise Basie - Complete Sixties Verve Basie as well as the obvious one: - Complete Forties (and earliest fifties?) Columbia/Vocalion/Okeh Basie (and add: - Complete Columbia 20s-40s Ellington for all those of us who like to dream...) ubu

Yes indeed!! ubu

Yes, there is. I just slept longer than usually. Happy birthday to me , happy birthday to meeeeee Cheers! sleep as long as you wish! creation is finished for a looong time now, and besides, it's your birthday, isn't it? ubu

Well, my namesake of course: ubu

These are the Peacock ECMs I have: "Voice From The Past - Paradigm" (Stanko, Garbarek, DeJohnette) This here is recommended, too: I have not heard "December Poems" (also on ECM) - how is that one? ubu

David, you have to know that the US Impulse reissue has the two "straight jazz" tracks from "Kwanza" (non-informative AMG-link) added. I like "The Way Ahead", too, by the way. ubu

Penguin Guide to Jazz Diffs, 5th vs. 6th Editions Thanks, Claude. I know that I should not give them away (they're much too dear to me anyway, I cannot give books away, generally never do it!). The 6th is under 20$ now on US Amazon, and 10£ on UK, so I might get this one and wait for the 7th till it is on sale later... I guess I'm sort of a completist. ubu