Late

Just saw a BBC documentary (on YouTube) on The Specials and the Coventry Two Tone scene. Pretty good. I didn't know The Selecter were only together for 10 months. (Well, I barely know that band as it is.)

👍 Almost time to celebrate this disc's 25th anniversary. 🙃

Anyone here heard the Helsinki tracks before?

Interesting, especially as Johansson died just as ECM became a label. I admit to not knowing his work.

Good for one's health! 👍 This edition of the album is apparently its first stereo issue—"in association with" Contemporary Records, who released the album in mono. I always forget it's Gerald Wilson on trumpet on this record. 🤭 Original Australian cover. I've often wondered why different markets decide to alter the original cover art (or use different artwork altogether).

👍 Yes, that's the copy I have. Discogs lists this particular U.S. edition as the only compact disc issue of the album. I was wondering if it was ever reissued on the Japanese market. My cursory internet searches tell me no. But maybe someone here has proof otherwise?

Leroy Walks Again Good album for the post-holiday comedown.

Blues In G!!! Did this album ever come out in Japan on compact disc?

I love this album. But did it inadvertently set the mold for all future ECM piano trios?

Turbulent Flow

1. Jimmy Shirley: Jimmy’s Blues 2. Edmond Hall: Profoundly Blue 3. John Hardee: Hardee’s Partee 4. Sonny Rollins: Decision 5. John Coltrane: Blue Train 6. Fred Jackson: Southern Exposure 7. Fats Navarro & Howard McGhee: Boperation 8. Miles Davis: Weirdo 9. Clifford Brown: Cherokee 10. Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford 11. Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones 12. Hank Mobley: Funk In Deep Freeze 13. Horace Silver: Sister Sadie 14. Art Blakey: Dat Dere 15. Jimmy Smith: The Jumpin’ Blues 16. Larry Young: Monk’s Dream 17. Thelonious Monk: Who Knows 18. Thelonious Monk: Skippy 19. Herbie Nichols: The Gig 20. Andrew Hill: New Monastery 21. Art Blakey: Mosaic 22. Joe Henderson: Mode For Joe 23. Sam Rivers: Luminous Monolith 24. Herbie Hancock: Cantaloupe Island 25.Wayne Shorter: Adam’s Apple 26.Tony Williams: Red Mask 27. Dianne Reeves: I Got It Bad 28. Don Pullen: Song From The Old Country 29. John Scofield: Big Fan 30. Joe Lovano: 26-2 31. Mark Shim: Dumplin’ 32.Cassandra Wilson: Right Here Right Now

Listen to the whole album here. I think this is the first time the Helsinki concert is receiving a digital issue. The whole disc sounds great.

Recorded live at The Trident, Sausalito, California.

2X2

It's not good for one's health to go too long without listening to a Ben Webster record.

I was listening to that album when I made my post above. 👍 That one would be close for me, but it feels like I'm not remembering another title...

If you could only take one Gene Ammons album to your desert island, what would it be?

Whoa—24 cities. I wonder if/how many tapes exist.

A huge missed opportunity, for those Half Note recordings, to include the track "Creation," the best solo Coltrane ever recorded.

Received a parcel from CD Japan this week that contained three of the above-mentioned Elvin Jones titles. The sound on two of the three is really, really good—which leads me to believe/guess that these are new remasters. Those two titles are The Prime Element and Merry Go Round. These new Japanese reissues, to my ears, sound better than their Mosaic counterparts. The title that doesn't sound like it's received a new remaster is Mr. Jones. Great album, but this Japanese reissue not only uses all the paper inserts of a previous (TOCJ) reissue, its sound is fairly boxed in. For this title, the Mosaic sounds better to me. Merry Go Round has a fairly wide stereo spread, and the saxophones sound great. I've always loved this album for its first three tracks. (Jan Hammer and Chick Corea go at it on "Lungs." Hammer holds his own.) And Frank Foster, on the last track, lays down what has got to be one of the best alto clarinet solos in jazz (if only perhaps because there are so few). Very happy to have this album on a single disc in great sound.

Yes, I know. 😉 I was responding to your question: "What do you want Hat Hut to release?"

Because Giuffre played the cornet:

Good point. The first ezz-thetics release, Jimmy Giuffre's 1961 Graz concert, had never seen a digital release; I was grateful for that one. I'd like to see Hat go that route—finding live concerts that have never seen a digital release. There's an even rarer Giuffre concert from 1961, recorded in Tübingen. The vinyl sounds awful. A cleaned up digital version would be very welcome.

Paul Bley Trios Play Annette Peacock 3/6 tracks from Ramblin’ (BYG) 5/10 tracks from Blood (Fontana) 6/8 tracks from Mr. Joy (Limelight)