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I have just gotten Harris' "For Bird and Bags" and do really enjoy that album!
There is not Harris thread here, so I thought we could start discuss his music here.
One of my favorite 32jazz releases was the 2CD set by Harris including "The In Sound", "Mean Greens", "Tender Storm" and "Silver Cycles".
There is a lot of very good music to be found on these dates! Harris' sound is unique by all means. He was truly his own man.
What's your opinion about him? Which are your favorite albums? Let's start some discussion of the man and his music here!
ubu
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A great album!
It's been some time since I heard it first, but it's a very good one!
Is there any catalogue (online) of available Koch Jazz releases/reissues?
ubu
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I like it just right. It's a little rough (mainly the playing of Morgan and McLean), but it's true, bluesy, and yes, thoughtful, maybe.
ubu
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I like the Jacquet very much. It was among the first 10 of my Mosaics. I never did care about the sound, but it might be as good as possible with existing sources etc etc. It's from the forties, so no one expects something pristine.
The music often is quite r'n'b influenced, sometimes with vocals, some jump stuff, one big band session, and (this has been mentioned) there are many ballad masterpieces.
Get it while it's around!
ubu
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I got the CD last week. Have only had time to listen to the first 15 or 20 minutes, but my first impression is positive. Sounds like an interesting disc!
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You're right, Jim! I'd buy such a box myself, too! Hell, that would be a GREAT one!
Here is the information on the Mingus Europe tour of 1964 (the links don't function here, click the source for that):
(source: http://webusers.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/1964.html)
B) actually means b )
In April 1964 Mingus went to Europe with one of his greatest bands featuring Eric Dolphy on alto sax, bass clarinet and flute, Johnny Coles on trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor sax, Jaki Byard on piano and Dannie Richmond on drums. Part of the repertoire was first "rehearsed" in front of the Town Hall audience in New York before the band left the United States to play their first concert in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. After a week of touring the sextet was suddenly reduced to quintet when Coles collapsed on stage during the performance of 'So Long Eric' on April 17 in Paris.This part of the discography is primarily based on Arjan Koning's original version and Lindenmaier/Salewski's Mingus discography (1983) with all corrections given in JazzRealities magazines 1-10 till summer 1989 (information provided by Gerd Fink, thanks!) This has been complemented and corrected by the information received from the contributors to this discography. I'm going to check the concerts I've on CD very carefully for edits and correct timings. The timings represent the length of the actual performance without applauses, introductions or other speeches - from the very first note to the very last decay of an instrument. The second length is the timing given by the CD player. I haven't used liner notes timings at all, because they're usually unreliable.
You might also want to visit the following pages:
Late Dolphy part of Alan Saul's Eric Dolphy Discography
Advanced Recordings, Mingus Tour from Albrecht Heeffer's Eric Dolphy Material (e.g. cover pictures, Belgian mirror of Alan Saul's Dolphy discography)
The Charles Mingus Tour of April 1964 by Arjan Koning
Due to varying naming practices for certain compositions ('Meditations' and 'Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress', for example), I've basically sticked to the most common and shortest names for clarity. Here are some of the alternate titles and variations you may encounter:
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
So Long Eric is sometimes mistitled as 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat', as in case of "The Great Concert, Paris 1964" on Musidisc and "Paris 1964, Vol 2" on Le Jazz
Meditations
Meditations For A Pair Of Wire Cutters
Meditations On Integration
Meditations For Intergration
Praying With Eric
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue
Parkeriana
Ow
Dedicated To A Genius
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April 4
Town Hall, NYC, USA Praying With Eric 17:48 a
So Long Eric 27:31 a
Sophisticated Lady unissued
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress unissued
A.T.F.W.Y.O.U.U.S.A. unissued
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a) Jazz Workshop OJCCD-042-2
April 10
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Parkeriana (Ow) 20:42 a,c
So Long Eric 21:42 a,c
AT FW USA 4:00 a,c,d
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 13:47 a,c
Meditations 22:50 b,c
Fables Of Faubus 30:45 b,d
Sophisticated Lady 5:25 b,d
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a) Ulysse AROC CD 1001
B) Ulysse AROC CD 1002
c) Ulysse AROC LP 50506/507 (2LP)
d) Ulysse AROC LP 50608 (LP)
April 11
Hilversum, The Netherlands no further details
April 12
Oslo, Norway So Long Eric 22:20 a,b
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 14:10/14:17 a,b,c
Parkeriana (false depart) 2:35 a,b
Take The "A" Train 12:46 a*,b
Meditations 19:18/19:25 d
Parkeriana 18:28/18:38 d
Fables Of Faubus 27:37/27:43 c
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Notes: *) a faded-out version of 'Take The "A" Train' (9:42)
a) JazzUp JU-307
B) VIDJAZZ 15 (video) or KJazz KJ 127 (video)
c) Landscape LS2-913
d) Landscape LS2-919
April 13
(first concert)
Stockholm,
Sweden Peggy's Blue Skylight 10:44/11:06 a,b
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 11:00/11:35? a
Fables Of Faubus 17:09/17:40 a,b,c(?)
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress* 12:42/12:59 a,b
How sizes China from Mississippi
So Long Eric
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Notes: *) Lindenmaier/Salewski's length is 16:30, but assuming that the Bandstand is from Stockholm, the correct timings are listed above
a) Royal Jazz RJD 518
B) Bandstand BDCD 1524
c) Frequenz 044-011
April 13
(second concert)
Stockholm,
Sweden So Long Eric (take 1) 2:38 a
Meditations (false depart) 2:06* a
Meditations 16:40 a
So Long Eric 7:20/6:54? a, b(?)
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Notes: *) 0:33 according to Lindenmaier/Salewski
a) Royal Jazz RJD 518
B) Frequenz 044-011
April 14
Old Fellow Palaet's Store Sal, Copenhagen, Denmark So Long Eric 28:15
A.T.F.W.Y.O.U.U.S.A.* 4:00/4:13 b
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 14:13/14:18 b
Fables Of Faubus 33:34/34:11 a,b
Parkeriana 24:48
Meditations 22:19/22:29 a,b,c
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Notes: *) Byard only
a) Moon MCD 016-2
B) Landscape LS2-905
c) Bandstand BDCD 1524
April 16
Bremen, Germany AT FW USA* 4:24 a,d
Sophisticated Lady 3:45 a,d,e(?)
Meditations 24:45 c
Fables Of Faubus 33:00 b
Parkeriana 21:15 c
So Long Eric 25:00 a
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Notes: *) Byard only
a) Ingo ten (LP)
B) Ingo thirteen (LP)
c) Ingo fifteen (LP)
d) Unique Jazz UJ23 (LP)
e) Frequenz 044-011
April 17
Salle Wagram, Paris, France Sophisticated Lady 3:20 f
So Long Eric* 28:23/28:51 b,d,e
Meditations 22:30 a,c,e
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 11:35 a,e
Fables Of Faubus 24:53 a,c,e
Parkeriana 24:04/24:12 b,d,e
Peggy's Blue Skylight 12:50 a,c,e
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Notes:
'Fables Of Faubus' is edited from the full length of 35:00 (according to Lindenmaier/Salewski)
The timings for 'So Long Eric' and 'Parkeriana' come from d (they're wrong in liner notes)
*) During this performance of 'So Long Eric', Johnny Coles collapsed due to a perforated gastric ulcer; he was hospitalized at the American Clinic at Neuilly, France, for the remainder of the Charles Mingus European Tour 1964,
Musidisc 500072 MU 763 and America AM 003-004-005 (3LP) contain an edited version of 'So Long Eric' (see April 19 for more information),
'So Long Eric' is mistitled 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' on d and e
a) Le Jazz CD 19
B) Le Jazz CD 38
c) France's Concert FCD 102
d) France's Concert FCD 110
e) Revenge 32002
f) France's Concert FC 102 (LP)
April 19
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France Sophisticated Lady 5:52/6:12 a,b
Fables Of Faubus 27:30/27:47 a,b
Parkeriana 23:25/23:35 a,b
Meditations 21:47/23:04 a,b*
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 14:05/16:00 a
So Long Eric (edited) 5:40 b
I Can't Get Started unissued
Notes:
The concert started 0.10 a.m. and ended 2.45 a.m. (according to Musidisc liner notes) - therefore this is under April 19, not April 18
*) 'Meditations' lasts 27:30 on America 3LP-set
'So Long Eric' (23:21/27:10) on Musidisc (mistitled 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat'), which features Coles, is actually an edited version from Salle Wagram and it fades in the end of Dolphy's alto sax solo before Richmond's drum solo. Therefore 'Introduction et Presentation' (1:33) is probably also from Salle Wagram, especially when Mingus mentions Coles during the introduction of the band
'Sophisticated Lady' is a duet featuring Byard and Mingus
Was 'I Can't Get Started' played at all? Although Mingus mentions it before he starts 'Sophisticated Lady', he probably chose to play 'Sophisticated Lady' instead of 'I Can't Get Started'. Just a guess.
Johnny Coles did not play in this concert, although some of the liner notes claim otherwise
a) Musidisc 500072 MU 763
B) America AM 003-004-005 (3LP)
April 19
Palais de Congres, Liege, Belgium So Long Eric 5:45 a
Peggy's Blue Skylight 6:59 a
Meditations 24:27 a
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a) RTB(B)-radio/tv-recording
April 20
Marseille, France So Long Eric a
Parkeriana a
Meditations a
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a) ORTF(F)-tv-broadcast
April 21
Lyon, France no further details
April 22
Limmathaus, Zurich, Switzerland no further details
April 23
Biel-Bienne, Switzerland AT FW USA
So Long Eric
Fables Of Faubus
April 24
Bologna, Italy no further details
April 25
Milano, Italy no further details
April 26
Town Hall, Wuppertal, Germany AT FW USA 5:09 b
Fables Of Faubus 36:12/37:36 a
Starting 4:55/5:27 a
Peggy's Blue Skylight 11:32 b
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 17:00 b
Sophisticated Lady 3:44 b
So Long Eric 22:51 b
Meditations 21:36/22:24 a
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Note: 'Starting' (aka 'I Can't Get Started') is a duet featuring Mingus and Dolphy
a) Enja CD-3049-45
B) Enja R2 79612 or Enja CD 3077-38
April 27
Frankfurt, Germany no further details
April 28
Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany A.T.F.W.Y.O.U.U.S.A.* 3:45/4:15 a,c
Fables Of Faubus 40:07 a,c
Sophisticated Lady 3:55/4:01 a,c
Peggy's Blue Skylight 19:04 b
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 16:00 b
So Long Eric 29:16 b
Meditations 28:12 b
These Foolish Things 3:00 b
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Notes: *) Jaki Byard piano solo
a) Unique Jazz UJ009 (LP)
B) Unique Jazz UJ007/008 (2LP)
c) Unique Jazz RKO1038 (CD)
April 29
Hamburg, Germany no further details
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Bandstand BDCD 1524 Meditations On Integration
Enja CD 3049-45
Enja R2 79612 Mingus In Europe, Volume One
Mingus In Europe, Vol. 2
France's Concert FCD 102
France's Concert FCD 110 Meditation
Vol. 2: Live In Paris, 1964
Frequenz 044-011 Charles Mingus
Ingo ten
Ingo thirteen
Ingo fifteen "Hope so Eric" Vol. 1
"Fables of Faubus" Vol. 2
"Parkeriana" Vol. 3
JazzUp JU-307 Live in Oslo 1964 featuring Eric Dolphy
Jazz Time 64036-2 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Jazz Workshop OJCCD-042-2 Town Hall Concert
KJazz KJ 127 Charles Mingus Sextet (video)
Landscape LS2-905
Landscape LS2-913
Landscape LS2-919 Live In Copenhagen 1964
Live In Oslo - Vol. 1
Live In Oslo - Vol. 2
Le Jazz CD 19
Le Jazz CD 38 Paris 1964
Paris 1964, Vol 2
Moon MCD 016-2 Astral Weeks
Musidisc 500072 MU 763 The Great Concert, Paris 1964
Revenge 32002 Revenge!
Royal Jazz RJD 518 Live In Stockholm 1964
Ulysse AROC CD 1001
Ulysse AROC CD 1002 Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vol. 1
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vol. 2
Unique Jazz 007-009
Unique Jazz UJ23
Unique Jazz RKO1038 Mingus In Stuttgart
Mingus Sextet Live In Europe
Live in Stuttgart! 1946
ubu
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A couple of thoughts on my (not so popular, alas!) album of the week, after another thorough listen:
I love the opening Part I! That xylophone thing Russell plays has sort of a circus-quality, slapstick.
The beginning of Part II ("Krupa") shows him to be a swing expert (an expert at both that thing so hard to describe in words and the style/era).
"Blasé" (and "Gloomy Sunday", too) is a highly effective, very individualistic take on a quite seldom heard (at least these days) standard. Russell's soprano playing is marvellous!
With "Dark Rapture" we enter groove territory. I love the sound of the bass saxophone (wish I had one myself!). Another groovy tune comes at the end ("Oh Well").
Much of the music on this album is dense, textural music, often the horns play rhythm parts, too (as on "My Little Grass Shack").
"For M" then, has some real good trumpet playing by Russell. It's fun how he jumps from cool directly to electric. He succeeds to make this a clear musical hommage to MD (you'd recognize that without knowing the title and narration), yet somehow it's still very much Hal Russell there!
Another general observation is that this is group music. While the NRG Ensemble sometimes defies its name, on Part V (Birth of the Free) they really live up to their name! And Mars Williams has quite an energetic thing to say throughout on his tenor.
The Ayler hommage is another of my favorite tracks on this disc. First you get the very effective coupled double basses, then the two tenors enter. They emulate Ayler, but if only for the duplication of tenor saxophone, it is something else than just a replica. (And that line in the narration "Then along came Ayler / Holy shit!" is another favorite moment of mine!).
And after the Free part comes the rise of NRG. That passage where Russell plays over a didgeridoo-backdrop is great!
They can produce so many sounds! That's one of the best things about this band (and this album in particular - in my opinion the still very good Finnish/Swiss album has a little bit more of a sameness, and more rock-influence in general, I think).
A listing of the instruments played may help to get an image of the sound part:
Russell: ts, ss, tpt, dr, xylophone, perc, gong, narration, vox
Williams: ts, as, bass-sax, toy horns, wood flute, didgeridoo, bells, sounds, narration
Brian Sandstrom: b, g, tpt, toy horns, perc
Kent Kessler: b, tb
Steve Hunt: d, vib, tympani, perc
Hunt and the two bassists, by the way, do a great job on the whole album. From dance-inflected swing beats up to free colouring, funky grooves, rock to free pulse playing...
The two encores are a nice (but actually not extremely necessary) addition. A lyrical tune, and another groove thing, they show the spectrum of NRG very well.
Now once again, what strikes me most is that out of all these sometimes rather disparate influences, styles, components, comes a really great sound/band concept - and NOT a ecclecticism merging and melting together on a superficial level the parts of the puzzle.
In some way, this is a post-modern album in the best sense. Not a "great narration" (although it is that, too, of course!), but a quizzical, comical, earnest, happy, sad, joyous, jumping, grooving, loud and often funny piece.
ubu
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I love the Nat Cole disc. Very hard to recall today, when she has become such a huge commercial success (and inevitably a target for jazz 'insiders'), just how fresh that sounded.
I bought two more after that but found the strings and emphasis on ballads lost my interest. The crisp 'All for You' suited her better to my mind.
I've never had any problem with her voice.
This sums it up pretty well...
... though I picked up all her discs...
I did like "Love scenes" when it came out, but it has been a long time since I last heard it.
Then her first two records (the ones before the Cole) are quite good in my opinion.
And
I have to confess I do like some things on the one following Love scenes (can't remember the title of that), the first "diva" one.The strings one is pretty lame (though she does a pretty "Cry me a river"), but the live disc is another quite good one.
ubu
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quite good at least, I'd say!
I like it a lot!
The line up of this date and yes, Lon, the sound, is quite unique.
Then, the whole vibe is not as commercial as on the (wonderful, in my opinion) Fat Albert Rotunda. And Johnny Coles, Garnett Brown and Joe Henderson are a great frontline, too!
ubu
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I think "lost her mind" might be more to the point.
Yeah! And besides I might add that her liner notes to the Revenge set really deserve an award!
A box of all that material would sure be great. But this would be some 15 or 20 discs, I think!
ubu
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I was fairly sure that I saw a volume 2 in Europe. But I could be wrong. I own the Charly myself. Note: the Cafe Society tracks are not on the Charly Birdland box, but they can be found on quite a number of other reissues.
John, the 4CD box "At Birdland 1950-1951 Volume 1" (got it recently) was also released as two 2CD sets, as far as I know. So maybe you saw volume two of this?
ubu
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Thanks for this, PDEE!
I will have to get a closer look at that Savoy set and compare with your list!
ubu
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What's the best deal to get the box in Europe? Amazon France has it for 60 Euros. Cheaper than that anywhere?
ubu
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Claude, SWR2 usually has bi-weekly jazz live broadcasts on thursdays.
Usually they broadcast stuff they recorded themselves (the so-called "SWR Jazz Sessions"), but now they have started a series called something like "From the SWR (actually SWF and SDR) Archives". The first in the series was an hommage to Albert Mangelsdorff, then came a Brubeck quartet date from the eighties (with Bill Smith) and now comes Mingus. In between they feature some new stuff. I think you get archivals once a month and new stuff once a month.
Find more here: http://www.swr.de/swr2/sendungen/jazz/index.html
ubu
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Yes, I do have several recordings of this tour (the two Enjas, the 3LP thing from Amsterdam, a very cheap CD from Oslo, the Revenge set... and the "Great Concert" has recently been reissued, too).
This is what I found on the Stuttgard concert:
April 28Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany A.T.F.W.Y.O.U.U.S.A.* 3:45/4:15 a,c
Fables Of Faubus 40:07 a,c
Sophisticated Lady 3:55/4:01 a,c
Peggy's Blue Skylight 19:04 b
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress 16:00 b
So Long Eric 29:16 b
Meditations 28:12 b
These Foolish Things 3:00 b
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Notes: *) Jaki Byard piano solo
a) Unique Jazz UJ009 (LP)
B) Unique Jazz UJ007/008 (2LP)
c) Unique Jazz RKO1038 (CD)
Source: http://webusers.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/1964.html
So the upcoming broadcast will contain maximum half of what was recorded that night... And poor king ubu will have to hunt down those LPs nevertheless...
ubu
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Well, I looked at the Savoy 3CD issue (Odyssey or something), and at the Proper box. This raises some questions. I do own the RCA 2CD set (and consider it essential), and the Bird 8CD Savoy/Dial etc. box.
Now: are the Dizzy sessions included in the Savoy box complete? Or are there tracks missing? As I get it, the Proper does not have any of the DeeGee stuff of the Savoy. Is this music worthwile?
The Musicraft dates are also in the Savoy box? (The May 15, June 10, and July 9, 1946 dates)
Somehow it seems I could pick up the Savoy thing and disregard the Properbox, but the Proper does include the Manor date (Jan 9, 1945) and the Dial session (Feb 6, 46) as well as two tracks released on Phoenix and Guild respectively (Feb 9, 1945).
What's the best way to get all this music? Chronological Classics?
thanks for clarifications / recommendations!
ubu
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This might be of interest to our german (and swiss - hell, I love talking to myself...) friends:
Donnerstag, 6. November 2003 um 19.05 UhrSWR2 Abendkonzert
SWR Jazz Session: Aus dem Archiv
Charlie Mingus, Eric Dolphy und Jaki Byard
1964 live in Stuttgart
Von Gudrun Endress
Der Kontrabassist und Komponist Charles Mingus war eine gespaltene Persönlichkeit. In seiner klangfarbenreichen Musik sprach er von Liebe und Schönheit. In krassem Gegensatz dazu stand seine Verbitterung über das Unrecht, das den Schwarzen in den USA tagtäglich zugefügt wird. Bei den turbulenten Auftritten 1964 in Europa spielte Mingus Stücke, die die Rassen Segregation zum Inhalt hatten, etwa sein "Fables of Faubus". Kongeniale Partner von Mingus waren der Pianist Jaki Byard, ein Kaleidoskop der Piano-Spielweisen im Jazz, sowie der Altsaxophonist Eric Dolphy. Seine Saxophonstimme verfügte über einen unnachahmlichen "human cry".
70 min.
This concert is available on some bootleg, but it's certainly nice to hear it again (or, as in my case, hear it for the very first time), in what might be the best possible sound quality. It seems they play LPs in their recently started "Archives"-series, but usually, it's in quite good quality!
ubu
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is "Redds Blues" worth bothering about to get extra Tina ?
I cannot tell you, but I know I'll have it before it goes OOP!
ubu
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TEE NAH! TEE NAH! TEE NAH! TEE NAH! TEE NAH! ...
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NAH NAH NAH NAH!
BUY THEM ALL!
P.S. I've happily owned the Mosaic for years.
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Another lucky owner of the Mosaic!
(Found one two or three years ago, not too expansive. Is that discography inside really including ALL there is from TEE NAH!?)
The Hubbard is a real good one. Then the stuff he made with Kenny Burrell, and also don't forget the Freddie Redd date and all the stuff he made with Jimmy Smith!
ubu
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For me it's Miles Smiles, with The Sorcerer, ESP and the Berlin concert close behind.
Though I do not know any broadcasts of the second quintet - I would certainly love to hear some of it!
The mood on the Berlin tracks is great if you ask me.
Plugged Nickel is beyond category, for me. And I have to admit that I don't know the music on those 8 CDs very well. I could hardly tell the different sets... gotta listen again!
ubu
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I know there was no Miles-Moreau story, but I love those pictures nevertheless! You don't get photos taken from one of your favorite jazz musician with one of your favorite film star that often, do you?
ubu
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... It is, at turns, wry, funky, romantic, iconoclastic, swinging, wild, poignant, nostalgic, and kind of visionary - sometimes all at once. This episodic work evokes for me, in music and words, a sequence of impressions from a jazz life, the life of Hal Russell. I am taken on a journey through time, from the Swing Era to Billy Holiday,..., from Miles Davis to Albert Ayler, culminating in Russell's NRG Ensemble performing in Europe, all the time fueled by an abiding need to improvise/survive and move towards expressive freedom. This recording ends with two appealing "encores"; the second is a rousing version of Peter Green's "Oh Well" (from back when Fleetwood Mac was a decent band) ...
Very well said, SEK!
I never had a problem getting access to Russell's music. It strikes me as some of the funniest, weirdest, grooviest stuff around!
Hope you have fun with the Finnish/Swiss album, as well! I have that one, too. Somehow though I prefer Story - I think it's the more rock-like stuff on Finnish/Swiss which makes me like it a little less (I never could relate to rock that much - with exceptions of course; going to see Bob Dylan next week once again...)
What strikes me most about Russell is that he does not care about "genres" of "styles", and yet his music still never get ecclectic. It's more like he collects all his influences, the re-shapes everything along his own premises, and the outgrowth of this is a highly individualistic, and completely "new" musical universe.
And then he's quite a player, too!
Gary, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Keep the comments coming! Matthew, John B?
I have very little time to listen right now, but I hope to give some more personal comments on the weekend.
ubu
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I don't care about the sound that much, as none of this music was readily available before...
Can anyone comment on the Brook Benton and Frank D'rone releases? Never heard of these two (men & albums)!
ubu
Jazz In Paris
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I love it! It's quite modern small group stuff. Not in the Grappelli vein.
Some very able sidemen. Michel Portal makes his recording debut there.
Would have to listen again to make more elaborate comments.
ubu