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the new Tone Poet. Didn’t own a vinyl copy yet so this was a pretty logical buy

I’ll save a place for you

It’s my ‘music room’. Very small but there’s no place I’d rather be after a busy day. Still can’t believe my wife agreed with it but won’t give it up anymore now all my records and my vinyl player are safe here in this room. I wouldn’t dare to keep them downstairs because of my two sons with their greedy hands… they are 3 and 1 years old and especially the youngest is of great danger for all my precious stuff…. When I am a single moment out of the room he gets his hands on my cd’s to ‘play with them’. Downstairs I still play a lot of jazz. My boys don’t really respond to it in a negative nor positive way. It’s mostly the wife who complains about this terrible loud unstructured madness I dare to play. But I am the one who gets up early with the kids and then it’s time for some jazz! You drink scotch, Belgian craft beers, wine or water?

I’ve always had a feeling that if we might ever cross paths, get snowed in in some Austrian mountain hut with a huge jazz collection at our disposal, we wouldn’t really have to fight about what to play

Theres really nothing like coming out of a busy day at work, taking a nice Belgian blonde beer and spin a record like this. No better medicine against a busy mind than Paul Desmond playing his alto saxophone.

not a huge Jarrett fan but this remains an outstanding record. Also quite a lot trough the contributions by Redman, Haden and Motian.

Well I hope it dies soon but probably not . Some people have to repeat a thousand times about how they hate a musician. I cannot believe one actually could be offended by someone’s playing. There’s a lot musicians I don’t particularly like, both jazz and non-jazz but no one offends me. And if their music is a joy and pleasure to others, everything’s fine with me.

Great to hear. Looking forward to it anyway. I’ve got pretty old parents (relatively) and always do these gigs with them. Will have a nice diner before. Always greatful I am still able to do these kind of things with them.

Great to hear that. Must say I like his India Navigation stuff the most. Indeed the ‘70’s/80’s stuff. With these guys I always feel happy to be able to see them perform live. As a 31 year old, I’ve missed a lot of my idols You’ll here from me

Yeah he did. Essentially a ballad album but a very good one he will be performing at the Bimhuis coming Sunday performing Coltrane tunes. Curious to see if he still has that tone.

You got a better record player…. And more space I always like it when people share these shots

Looking forward to his gig Sunday the 18th at the Bimhuis!

Great stuff when they released this one I had the idea there was way much more to come from the archives. But to my knowing there have been only two releases so far.

Nice!

This…. And I also would not know why I would buy material I already own in a better (and original) form. Never liked their packaging too either so if I don’t have to buy a Hat release I don’t and get it on another original and more legal label.

oh yes… Dark Tree does it again. Excellent record

this is Mal 1970 in Paris. The upcoming session from Sam records is 1970 Paris. If that session is just as good as Blood and Guts….

I am a SH visitor as well and this is very recognizable. Blue Note has the the status of a catholic saint, a communist leader over there. You can’t say anything bad about them. The new Wayne Shorter is missing a spine text on all the pressings. I thinks that’s a little messy for a company asking 30 euros for a piece of vinyl. But no one agreed with me, nobody even liked my remark. The people who reacted said they didn’t understand what I was complaining about and Blue Note should ignore customers like me. These are the same guys that send a record back 4 times because it gives one pop at the end. This leads to another weird Hoffman Blue Note thing. It’s the total obsession by so many board members with…. Blue Note. Most people there don’t know shit about any other jazz artists unless he has brought out his music on Blue Note. The only jazz they listen to is on Blue Note. I dare to say that to them jazz = Blue Note. And they like every single record on the label. Every new Tone Poet, every new Classic: it’s always the same story. ‘Wow this must be one of the best jazz records I’ve ever heard’. ‘Oh my god I love this record’. Blablablabla. No serious music listening or analyzing at all. No sincere opinions. Weird guys they are/

That’s sad news. Great guitar player. I love her contributions to the Sounds of Liberation records.

I read the discussion on the Hoffman board and agree with you Bresna but hope the Tone Poet LP will be okay as that’s the one I am picking up