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Here is a nice review of the Dixon/Shepp disc: http://www.jazzweekly.com/reviews/bdixon_savoy.htm They do NOT appear together, by the way, in case this was misunderstood. First side is Bill Dixon (with Ken McIntyre, George Barrow, Howard Johnson a.o.), second side is Archie Shepp (with Don Cherry or Ted Curson). The CD has some good liners, too. Then I did a casual in the background listen again to the Attica Blues Big Band live 2CD set, and this one is BAAD! It really blew me! Alright, some of the vocals are not really necessary, but there's much fine work, much groove, maybe Shepp's most fully successful mix of Great Black Music. Funky, groovy, soulful, free vibes... a real winner! Nice Cal Massey tunes, a good take on one of Randy Weston's most famous compositions (Hi-Fly), good solos from the likes of Eddie Preston, Charles Greenlee, Shepp himself. Then Avery Sharpe (often on electric bass) and Clifford Jarvis make a great rhythm team, Art Mathews on piano is cool, too... Here comes the AMG review: (It's five stars, by the way, as if you didn't guess that after reading...) Grab this baby when you get a chance! ubu

Thanks Chuck, I think the guy I'm doing the feature with has the New Worlds on LP. I check them out! ubu

Have a gander at this site and scroll down. now this record would be a cool one to have! ubu It is. OH HELL! SOMEONE SEND ME SOME $$$ AND I'LL GONNA PICK UP ALMOST EVERY ALBUM FROM YOU F#?&ING BLINDFOLD TEST! I'm heading directly for bankruptcy! ubu

thanks, brownie and Joe, I will keep my eyes open for these! ubu

Holy shit, no Kenny G included?!? Can't be any good then!

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uh, so that's the thing you got to take away first when you get, err, a kimono (or a tocj...) ubu B)

Thanks Mike! Appreciated. I only could identify Silver, but none of the sidemen. I don't have any of the Silveto albums (though I sure would like to hear Eddie who with Horace!). Ralph Moore I have heard, but not enough to recognise him. And I do indeed hope the man on trumpet is NOT Woody Shaw! The sound would just not be at all like him, in my opinion (though it's been some time since I last listened to any record with Woody). ubu

Reviving this one... I'm looking for recommendations on *essential* CT records after "Nefertiti". What I do have: - the BN (UA, Transition) CDs (Jazz Advance, Love for Sale, the one with Trane) - the five Candid CDs - Mixed (Impulse) - Nefertiti (Revenant 2CDs) - Unit Structures & Conquistador - Jazz View CD of Town Hall concert (see details below) - the recent HatOLOGY disc (It Is In The Brewing Luminous) - the 10CD Codanza Feel Trio Box - the Willisau Concert (Intakt) - Embraced (with Mary Lou Williams) - the Enja CD called "Dark To Themselves" - the new Taylor/Instabile disc (enja) What I'd like to find: the concert recordings with Lyons AND Sam Rivers, maybe some important solo discs. Keep some recommendations coming, please! Spring of Two Blue-J's: I will do a radio show on Taylor on Dec.21, and we might begin with some early stuff (up to the Nefertiti recording), and then continue with some late sixties and seventies stuff. What I don't know, and did not explore more thoroughly yet, are the years from around 1966 onwards. And please don't tell me I have to buy all the FMP stuff - I cannot afford that stuff now! thanks, ubu

I've got the two CDs in a cheap cardboard box, subtitled "the complete RCA Victor recording". It has both "Barney" (with additional material), and the "More From Barney..." CDs. Both clock in at more than 70 minutes, and it's a fantastic set! I love Wilen, and Dorham and Duke Jordan turn in some good solos, too. Daniel Humair was (and still is!) one of Europe's foremost drummers. (He is swiss, ain't he? Or am I mixing something up?) (Mike, as we've got an open exchange, tell me if you'd like to get a copy. Has anything arrived yet, by the way?) ubu

More interesting comments on Disc 1 track 1 - Horace Silver seems to be the one... could well be, I think, I don't know any of his seventies or later stuff. Anyone has a guess what recording/tune it could be? ubu

Have a gander at this site and scroll down. now this record would be a cool one to have! ubu

on my last post: there were two albums holding the Shepp/Roach material. EKE, I read a little fast through your list, and did not see you missed some of the early Impulse material. All of them have been mentioned already, now, but I like to stress how good they are: Fire Music, Live In San Francisco, and The Way Ahead. Chris, I did mention Steam - a beautiful record indeed! Paul, I tried to get the Contemporary 5 disc you mention recently, and did not find one... seems to be OOP! However I got the Savoy Dixon/Shepp CD JohnS mentioned, and this is a keeper! Although I even like the Dixon stuff better, the three Shepp/Contemporary 5 tracks are good, too! Then I also recently found the Attica Blues Big Band 2CD set. AMG gives it a rave review. I like it, but it's sort of a bag full of several, stylistically very different, things. What's others opinion on this? Joe, could you elaborate on the recent Waldron/Shepp CD? I thought about picking it up, but did not do so yet. ubu

Love these two! ubu

As if I didn't know! Seriously, I'm working to change to red wine, this being one of the reasons... and as a French expat in Poland, this is also a question of style! ubu

shit, you had me laughing out loud, John! But it's the other way round: since march, I've gained weight, and the picture you see as my avatar is actually the goal... You know, I want to have a belly as big that my tenor looks as small in front of it as Cannonball's alto looked in front of his belly (I mean, he might be the better saxophone player, no doubt about that, but belly-wise, he was a mere beginner ) ubu

Cool choice! I LOVE this! It's the greatest Dolphy album, and one of the best albums of them all, in my opinion! However, I do not know if I can say in words what exactly it is that makes me love it like I do. I'll try if I find the time to listen to it. ubu

and another one, same night. I play with the bass player since we were at high school together.

I found some pics in some forgotten corner of my harddisk, and as I did make stupid comments here already, I'll post them... That's me and my lady:

continuing... Disc 2 8. this does irritate me! I don't know early/prime Basie at all, but this is at least basie-ite, yet I don't think it's Prez... 9. Dexterity, Sonny Rollins. Probably with Henry Grimes and Pete La Roca, live in 1959 or in the early sixties. GREAT! Absolutely love it! Never heard it before. Maybe my personal highlight of these two discs, together with Disc 1 #12. 10. Never heard, no idea, but like it very much! 11. again no idea. Cool groove! ubu

continuing my thoughts: Disc 2 2. Cool! Very cool! These instruments sound very good together! Like it a lot! 3. Again, not much to say on this one, but I do like it. 4. Very laid back, chill out stuff, very groovy! Like this a lot. 5. First thought: some hot jazz on Blue Note 40ies stuff - but sound's much too clean for that. Whatever this is, me likee! 6. Solid big band, good solos, no idea... 7. Similar... Jones-Lewis? Pepper Adams? Like it! But then, who could be the alto soloist? getting tired, comments getting shorter... I will need another listen to this one, but I do really enjoy it, Jim! ubu

Well, I received my disc today (thanks, Tom!), and post without having read much more than Jim's initial post... Thanks, Jim! I'm right now listening to #8 from disc 1, and there's some stuff I heard already I'd sure like to have! I'll come back to this post and edit for more. So, now let's begin: Disc 1 1. Very nice piano intro, beautiful tune, I know it, I think, but can't come up with a title or composer. Some kinda dukish playing by the pianist in the intro. The man on tenor has a meaty sound I like. No-nonsense stuff, either late sixties/early seventies or some nineties retro stuff? Great pianist, cool drummer. Reminds me of some stuff Blakey did in the fifties, then the vamp thing could be from Horace. Could it be him? Trumpet mellow, but good. Like this one a lot! 2. Hey that's almost good, indeed! Easy stuff, but I like it. Nice rhythm going. Second half of the fifties? One of those rare prestige afro/drum dates? 3. Another one I like a lot. Like the alto solo. Who's he? Cool! 4. A Creed Taylor/Oliver Nelson production? No? Like it alright. Surprising (and cool!) to hear a clarinet in this context! Favorite moment: trombone solo. 5. J.B.? One of his early ones. Nice tenor. Pee Wee Ellis already? I guess not. 6. More non-jazz. This a man or a woman? I like it, but the strings are a little bit too sweet for my taste. I don't know much about this kind of music, however. 7. Quite a change! A Monk tune. I know it, but cannot come up with the title, too lacy to check right now. Quite abstract at some moments - almost reminds me of the Giuffre/Swallow/Bley recordings at some moments. Like it! 8. "Secret Love". Good one! They hit the right groove right from the start. I would need another listen to try to identify the tenor man. Solid stuff! The electric bass would make me guess it's not a very old recording, but I have no idea. Sort of the thing Dexter could have done with organ? But it's not him. 9. No idea what this could be, not the kind of stuff I know much about. Like it alright, though. 10. Cool, but again no idea what it could be. A drummer imitating a tap dancer or really a tap dance and a drummer? Either way an old one. I guess the (hard)bop generation would not have done something like this anymore. 11. No idea. A little sweet? 12. Good one! Hal? Yes? Love it! Would like to hear more of that! Some passages made me think of Mingus - the horn arrangements, not the bass playing. Great! 13. Very nice sax playing here! Easy stuff, not untouched by bop but some older influences clearly coming through. 14. Getz? Or another of those Prez disciples. Nice and easy, like it! Another standard I know, but can't come up with its title. 15. Hamp? Nicely building performance. What's that tune again? Disc 2 1. Nature Boy? Cool performance! Would like to hear more of this! Good they're not falling in some too simple back-beat groove, the drummer's keeping things interesting. more to come... Jim, thanks a lot! I really enjoy the discs! ubu

I do have pretty much the same discs as you. One you could check out is STEAM (enja), a live date with Cameron Brown and Beaver Harris. The other Enja I have is pretty disappointing (it's called Soul Song, if I remember right), and the recent HatOLOGY reissue seems to be pretty similar (at least going from the line up). ubu

Maybe we could raise some funds for a "Poor Students In Terrible Neverending Need Of Free Music CDs" (PSITNNOFM - that's perfectly easy to remember ) non-profit organisation?! I know perfectly well what you are speaking of ubu