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Yeah, start with Monk' Dream, that will get you hooked. Right now it's nearly possible to buy them in the order they were recorded. But a priority should the the 2 CDs from Linclon Center, Big Band and Quartet in Concert, a high point in Monk's career, is this still in print?
I looked it up, it is, and even AMG's Scott Yanow considers it essential: GET IT!!!
Anyone knows if this is coming out soon in a new (restored/remastered) version?
I always kept my hand off of it in hope of a new reissue.
ubu
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Thanks, Pepe! Somehow, this all does make sense. Haden-Bley (A.I.R.)-Gato-Cherry, there are connection between all of them, yet without clear knowledge of connections to Garbarek, somehow this comes out of the music on "Witchi-Tai-To".
ubu
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I just received Jazz In Africa Volume Two (in its Kaz incarnation from 1992). It's a very nice CD, containing a Kippie Moeketsi album called "Tshona", also featuring Basil Coetze, and Pat Matshikiza on piano. The most famous track, of course is the title-track, which also features Dennis Phillips on alto. This album has a playing time of only little more than half an hour. The CD then has a 17 minutes long track featuring Barney Rachabane, Basil Coetzee and Duke Makasi, as well as a 23 minute Dollar Brand track with Robbie Jansen, Coetzee and Arthur Jacobs.
Very good music, indeed! I got the CD from jazzhouserecords.co.uk. They still list it, so it's yours for 5£ + shipping (Paypal), and very fast service, indeed!
ubu
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RIP.
Just listened to the Ventura stuff in that Mosaic set. Jackson does a fine job. Also like the Big Band sides he led featuring Gerry Mulligan (on CD from Fantasy together with some Mulligan Quartet sides).
ubu
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Well, as I will be off on vacation tomorrow, some thoughts on this album, though its week has not yet started.
Garbarek is blowing really hard and hot on these tunes. There is an underlying mood to much of the music reminding me (!) of the Coltrane quartet - some of Garbarek's lines bringing up Trane, and also some of Stenson's playing bringing up Tyner.
I found some resemblace to Gato Barbieri (!) in Garbarek's playing here.
Neither the Trane not the Gate thing are sort of audible through all the music, also he's certainly not trying to emulate them, but yes, I can (or at least think I can) hear some similarities (not to speak of influences, which might stretch things).
Well, I do not like the mixing of Christensen very much, but he and Palle Danielsson (sure one of the very best bassists around in the last decades) have a very strong influence on where the music goes. Danielsson's bass-vamps strike me as particularly strong, driving the music with quite much force, while Christensen rather has the "embellishing" part.
The tunes are a very fine bunch. One might call it ecclectisist, but I think things melt together just fine, creating a musical style/world/mood quite of its own.
While I don't know anything about Don Cherry and his stay in Scandinavia, it is certainly evident that these four musicians have huge open ears and succeed in melting together influences from several different musical cultures and styles.
The Carlos Puebla track really is in a Haden/Liberation Orchestra mood (did he do it, too?), and is marvellous.
In short I think this a hauntingly beautiful and at the same time very strong record. Thanks very much SEK for chosing it! I will return to it many times in the future, I hope!
ubu
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This happens tom me mostly with vocal stuff, such as Sinatra's wonderful "Songs for Swingin' Lovers", or some of Diana Krall's albums (up to "Love Scenes" - confession time: I like them
)Another played out album for me is Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". I have not listened to that one since I got the Deluxe edition. (Well, only a couple of months before that, I got the single CD for the second time, having sold the one I had after having acquired the Classic Quartet box... so I seem to like that one)
From the list of Noj, I don't think I have outheard anything.
But by somehow trying to regulate what you're listening to when (and with all the new stuff coming in all the time), I don't find it difficult not to out play my stuff. And then, I'm into jazz only for some 10 years, and still young...
ubu
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I only have one disc from the Tzadik label, Marc Ribot's "Yo! I Killed Your God". Quite a noisy affair!
I have enjoyed everything I have heard yet by Zorn's Masada outfit. Then I heard some broadcast of Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Soul project, which I like very much, judging from that.
Generally, these albums are extremely expensive over here (almost 30$ !!). Anyone knows a good place to buy them online with not too much shipping cost to Europe?
ubu
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I love the Monterey album and Electric Bath. The other recent BN/Pacific reissue was a little disappointing, in my opinion, too. The early Candid album, which I have in its recent Past Perfect incarnation (it has been mentioned in the Past Perfect thread in the reissues forum), is quite interesting, too. Byard (also on alto), Carter & Persip make for a very good rhythm section.
ubu
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Been more and more impressed of Shim after having heard his CD several times. Certainly was (is? - guess my chances over here are small to hear anything new, unless he makes a new CD) one of the most interesting of all those young tenors. And he's a master of his instrument.
ubu
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One of the advantages of being in bed with some fever and a hell of cold: I started listening to my Ventura / Phillips Mosaic! I head none of the Phillips stuff before, the Ventura maybe two or three times.
Generally, I like him well. He get's a nice sound on all his horns, the bands are playing some good arrangements. I would not need the vocal-backing on that one session, Ms McCall, though, is good for my ears.
My favorite sessions would be the quartet dates with Napoleon and Hank Jones, as well as the last date in the box, the one featuring a larger band and some very good playing by all.
I would not say I like the music for the sidemen only - though many of them do deliver very good work. I enjoy the way Ventura handles the material on hand. Maybe he is a little bit vulgar from time to time, but, so is life... Seriously, I like it a lot!
ubu
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Yes, it is the Jim Pepper song.
And Stenson is very good on Lloyd's "Canto". Anybody looking for more fine Stenson sideman dates would be well-served with Tomasz Stanko's "Litania". Another very good record!
ubu
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I also have a Clark Terry CD called "Flutin' And Fluglin'", featuring Jimmy Knepper, Julius Watkins, Seldon Powell, Yusef Lateef, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Benjamin and Ed Shaughnessy. Budd Johnson plays piano on one track. Another very fine album!
ubu
That was a Candid album too. Colours, I believe.
Yes, that IS a Candid date. They did license it, as they did the Ellis, Hawkins/Russell, Dolphy, etc.
ubu
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Hey! Today I just found a used copy of the Harry Edison "Swinger/Mr. Swing" for a reasonable $12.50!! Maybe they didn't know it was a double CD. Wah-hoo!!! Now I only have about 16 or 17 more to go before I have all the ones I want.
You will sure have many hours of listening pleasure with the Edison! Hope more of his music of that time would be available!
ubu
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I also have a Clark Terry CD called "Flutin' And Fluglin'", featuring Jimmy Knepper, Julius Watkins, Seldon Powell, Yusef Lateef, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Benjamin and Ed Shaughnessy. Budd Johnson plays piano on one track. Another very fine album!
ubu
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I do enjoy it very much! And "Delilah" is an opening of the sort you want to listen and listen again, and never actually make it to the end of the album.
There are some good moments from everyone included, yet generally, these musicians seem to be still quite deep in their formative years (Kippie maybe being the exeption - his take on "Body & Soul" might be an indication). This seemed to be the feelings of Dollar Brand who stayed behind woodshedding when all the others left for London with the "King Kong" play (I find Ibrahim's playing on these tracks to be very far away from his "signature style" he was to develop soon after that). Masekela, Gwangwa & Kippie all became part of that tory of success. (It's LP GALP 1040 I have, never heard of this label). That LP is has no date, but it must have been after 1957 for sure, as the story of "the real King Kong" (as it is printed on the backcover of the LP), ended in February 1957.
A date of September 1957 would make sense, September 1958 would be possible, too. The CD liners state the month of recording being September, and also states that after spring 1959, the Epistles were "a legend without a sound".
ubu
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Here we go:
01 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 1
02 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 2
03 Miles Davis ascenseur pour l’echafaud
04 Donald Byrd byrd in paris (live)
05 Donald Byrd parisian thoroughfare (live)
06 Holland/Clayton/Singleton club Session
07 Bill Coleman from boogie to funk
08 Chet Baker broken wing
09 Dizzy Gillespie the giant
10 Slide Hampton exodus
11 Django Reinhard django et compagnie
12 Django Reinhard swing from paris
13 Django Reinhard swing 39
14 Mary Lou Williams I made love you paris
15 Elek Bacsik guitar conceptions
16 René Thomas the real cat
17 Toots Thielemans blues pour flirter
18 Buddy Banks jazz de chambre
Bobby Jaspar quartet barclay
19 Henri Salvador pardon my english – plays the blues
20 Various Chanteurs/Chanteuses
21 Don Byas laura
22 Sidney Bechet/Claude Luter self-titled
23 Sonny Criss mr. Blues pour flirter
24 Guy Lafitte blue and sentimental
25 Henri Renaud New sound at “the boeuf sur le toit” (live)
Zoot Sims quintet barclay
26 Barney Wilen jazz sur seine
27 Bobby Jaspar modern jazz au club st.-germain
28 Lucky Thompson modern jazz group
29 Pierre Michelot round about a bass
30 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 1
31 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 2
32 Michel Legrand paris jazz piano
33 Claude Bolling plays the original piano greats
34 Rhoda Scott / Kenny Clarke self titled
35 Eddie Louiss bohemia after dark
36 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon aux trios mailletz
37 Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson paris blues live
38 Earl Hines paris one night stand
39 Kenny Clarke plays andré hodéir
40 Art Blakey paris jam session live
41 Eddie Louiss/Yvan Julien porgy & bess
42 Stéphane Grappelli improvisations
43 Jean-Luc Ponty jazz long playing
44 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 1 live
45 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 2 live
46 Lionel Hampton ring dem vibes
47 Various classic jazz à saint-germain-des-prés
48 Various modern jazz à saint-germain-des-prés
49 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 1 (Barney Wilen, Alain Goraguer)
50 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 2 (Art Blakey, Jazz at the Philharmonic, George Arvanitas)
51 Louis Armstrong and friends
52 Dizzy Gillespie cognac blues
53 Chet Baker quartet plays standards
54 Various clarinettes à saint-germain-des-prés
55 Various saxophones à saint-germain-des-prés
56 Stéphane Grappelli plays cole porter
57 René Thomas meeting mister Thomas
58 Django Reinhardt swing 48
59 Django Reinhardt django’s blues
60 Henri Crolla notre ami django
61 Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright piano aux champs-elysées
62 Lou Bennett pentecostal feeling
63 Rhoda Scott live at the olympia
64 Willie « The Lion » Smith music on my mind
65 Bernard Pfeiffer la vie en rose
66 Raymond Fol les 4 saisons
67 René Urtréger joue bud powell
68 Lionel Hampton mai 1956
69 Art Blakey 1958 paris olympia (live)
70 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir
71 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 3 (Goraguer/Jazz Groupe de Paris/Humair Soultette)
72 Don Byas ree-boppers
Don Byas/Tyree Glenn orchestra
Howard McGhee sextet
James Moody quintet
73 Lucky Thompson with Dave Pochonet all stars
74 Alain Goraguer go-go-goraguer
75 Earl Hines in paris
76 Various danse à saint-germain-des-prés
77 Lester Young Le dernier message
78 Don Byas en ce temps-là
79 Stan Getz quartet in paris (live)
80 Henri Criolla begin the beguine
81 Elek Bacsik nuages
82 Stéphane Grappelli/Stuff Smith stuff and steff
83 Sarah Vaughan & violins
84 Dizzy Gillespie & his operatic strings orchestra
85 Bobby Jaspar jeux de quartes
86 Gerard Badini the swing machine
87 Stéphane Grappelli django
88 Gus Viseur de clinchy à broadway
89 Henri Crolla quand refleuriront les lilas blancs?
90 Django Reinhard nuit de saint-germain-des-prés
91 Django Reinhard nuages
92 Jack Diéval jazz au champs-elysées
93 Bernard Pfeiffer plays standards
94 Blossom Dearie the pianist
Les Blue Stars
95 Sammy Price/Price & Doc Cheatham play gershwin
96 Max Roach parisian sketches
97 André Hodeir jazz et jazz
98 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 4
99 Various harlem piano in montmartre
100 Various jazz sous l’occupation
101 Joe Newman/Cootie Williams jazz at midnight
102 Django Reinhardt place de brouckère
103 Buck Clayton and Friends (with Hal Singer)
104 Kid Ory at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées
105 Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
106 Guy Lafitte Blues...
107 Stan Getz/Michel Legrand 'Communications '72
108 Sammy Price Good Paree
109 George Wein Midnight Concert at the Olympia
110 Raymond Fol Echoes of Harlem
111 Maurice Vander Piano Jazz
112 Jazz et Cinéma Volume 5, (Henri Crolla, Hubert Rostang, André Hodeir)
"Hors-série" (2CD sets):
01 Sacha Distel Jazz Guitarist
02 Bill Coleman The Complete Philips Recordings
03 Jean-Claude Fohrenbach Fohrenbach French Sound
[edited to add #102 / edited to add hors série #2 and #3 / edited to add 103-112]
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Well, Garth & jazz1, thanks a lot for sharing these memories!
I am just not long enough around here to have come through these sort of things...
I am listening to the Jazz Epistles disc (waiting for Jazz in Africa Vol.2 to arrive), and the "Blues for a Hip King" CD from Dollar Brand right now. Love them both. On the later one, there's a version of Blue Monk with Kippie. Great! The other tracks do not feature him.
Regarding the Jazz Epistles, here goes my question on the line up again:
Is the following correct?
Hugh Masekela t
Jonas Gwangwa tb
Kippie Moeketsi as
Dollar Brand p
Johnny Gertze b
Makaya Ntshoko d
And does anyone know the date/year of recording?
thanks,
ubu
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I have seen Stenson live about a year ago (with Jormin and Hart) in an intimate club setting. Quite impressive what these three achieved.
Long flowing and building tracks, they really seemed to breath together.
And by the way, just because we're entering ECM territory here: THEY DO SWING!
I hope I can pick this album up before leaving for vacation.
ubu
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Here's the cover:
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There are some good items in those Past Perfect singles.
They sem to have reissued some of the Candids
The Benny Bailey " Hard Sock Dance" was the Candid " Big Brass"
The Eric Dolphy Quiet Please" seems to be a culled from
Candids Abbey Lincoln, Booker Litte and Mingus
The Don Ellis is his Candid Quartet recording
The Eldridge seems to have the Newport Rebels sides
Others are taken from early Verves
These seem worth investigating further to determine just what is on them.
PDEE, the Dolphy is probably the "Candid Dolphy" disc. It has alternates not on the Candid Booker Little disc, "Stormy Weather" (same take as "Mingus", but GREAT track!!), and some tracks from Abbey Lincoln (I don't have that original album).
I have gotten the Don Ellis, and the Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell discs. The last one has the Jazz Reunion Candid album, with Bob Brookmeyer, Emmett Berry, Nat Pierce. That's another wonderful Candid album.
The others (Bailey, Eldridge, and the "Osmosis" or whatever Dorham/Flanagan/actually Dave Bailey's "Bash", which is also available from Past Perfect) I have in their original CD releases.
There was also a nice Buddy De Franco disc (though that's probably one where they've "stolen" the recordings) with some of the Verve quartet sides with Sonny Clark (this was discussed in the Discography section some time ago).
The Candid releases are licensed, it seems, so no rip off. But with releasing the early Mingus stuff, they make up for that again
ubu
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And this series in general ... ... I would not hesitate a second to pick up:
• Lucky Thompson: Modern Jazz Group — brilliant Lucky here.
• Don Byas: En ce temps-là
• Don Byas: Laura
(I like Byas's European work from this period a lot more than his American sides)
Also fine are:
• Le Jazz Groupe de Paris: Joue André Hodeir
• Kenny Clarke: Plays André Hodeir
These albums go well together, as the tracks not only are all penned by Hodeir, but are performed by a number of the same players.
Yes, these are all very good albums! I listed the Thompson already.
The two Byas discs are great, indeed!
And all the Hodeir-related stuff is at least very interesting!
Don't forget the Hodeir led "Jazz et jazz" album. There is some great music on that one, too!
And there was a Hodeir disc in the "Original Vogue Masters" series. Maybe still around on amazon France.
ubu
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great site ubu, thanks.
That's the site with which I keep a little bit updated on US/International/english newspapers. They won some prize, were shut down (no money) soon after that, and are back now again.
The scope of what they scan and read and select, is quite impressive!
ubu
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Interesting indeedd! Thanks for posting this link, tony!
ubu
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ahem, and one thing I forgot...
that guy far right is us, if you don't mind.
Need some Columbia Monk
in Re-issues
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Let's hope so!
Some of it was on the box, but the box covered nearly everything Monk did in his Columbia years. It's a real nice box, in my opinion, even if you have all the single reissues.
Generally, I love the Legacy reissues of the Monk material very much (even though I'm far from having all of them yet).
ubu