Niko

One Clarence Bullard is listed as producer for the English LP and the other Burns album on discogs

Thanks indeed! I usually borrow my better half's hairdryer and then heat up the stickers before/during peeling and that works reasonably well... But I wouldn't say it's like magic

good one, with box sets, I've known for quite a while that they don't work for me, with those fancy books learning is a bit slower

thanks! your conversation reminded me that yesterday I did order a book about record covers (this one, in Dutch) and that the confirmation/payment email probably landed in my spam... which it did (that book was available on archive.org for a while, maybe still is, focus is on cover art of Dutch editions in the 50s and 60s, a lot of it jazz... and what is actually nice is that it's written by someone from he cover design industry who felt like he'd participated in something special... so it's a bit like the book that Tom Hannan, Reid Miles and all those people never wrote afaik) for the record, I did get the Sun Ra book, and even though it's a wonderful object I don't think I really needed it after all ... it won't make me buy better records... the brit jazz book was a bit tempting but not quite as much as the J Jazz one... will definitely regret not getting the J Jazz book at some point down the road... the question is how much, and so far the risk seemed manageable... Good look on your job search!

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/137619 this one looks like it might have been put together by Allen Lowe (Joe Albany, piano, Jeff Fuller, bass, Sir John Godfrey, drums, Dicky Myers, alto sax)

Of course, I know Zimmer Frei but never heard about the Fanzine... I could imagine that part of the problem is that it finishes Bill Russell's unfinished Bunk Johnson book, using his research... Which may have created a psychological barrier to editing the material more radically...

the copy in the public library in Cologne that I read as a kid had a fairly self-produced feel, I do remember it was printed in Belgium (and bound with the plastic things you get at a "copy shop") so I guess that was the 1977 original edition... (nowadays I have a British edition from the early 1980s which, I guess, is the edition that most people had until recently) I got Lee Collins' autobiography "Oh didn't he ramble" and the Bunk Johnson biography by Mike Hazeldine and Barry Martyn recently at a used bookstore... the Collins' autobiography is easily recommended if you find it, an interesting life turned into a sequence of entertaining stories, most of them not from the center of jazz history - but that's not necessarily a minus. The Bunk Johnson book is nice to have but not necessarily fun to read... It feels like the authors report more or less all the information they have, leading to an incredibly uneven pace in the story. The book begins with an inconclusive chapter on whether Johnson was born in 1879 or 1889 with many arguments given in favor of both positions... Generally, not a whole lot is known about Bunk's early years and there is little the authors could do about it... For Bunk's career between, say 1920 and the time of his rediscovery around 1940, the amount of information is about right. Then, Johnson fell in with a group of fairly pedantic people who carefully documented all of his movements... And, to their credit, I can totally see why they followed Johnson so closely, after all they were fans, they did loads of stuff to advance his career and to them things unfolded in real time... The fault - if there is one - is clearly with the authors of the book... At some point around page 70 out of 250 densely printed pages, as we reach the final eight years of Bunk's long life the pace gets incredibly slow... You read where Bunk got his chicken sandwich, went on a detour for a drink, met the cousin of someone he hadn't seen in 35 years... when I first read a page like that, I expected something totally remarkable to happen next - say, he declares war on Japan - because why else would you document a particular day in such detail... but, instead, Bunk plays a concert that's not well attended and doesn't arrive at home until 8am... and no, not every day in Bunk's final eight years is documented in that much detail but many are... less than a hundred pages to go but I am not sure whether I'll be able to finish this book...

Thanks for sharing!

my three impulses for answering the original question were: 1) Eastern Man Alone, mentioned early on 2) Jacques Coursil (e.g. the BYGs), not yet mentioned as far as I can see 3) some Japanese stuff like Togashi's Guild for Human Music or Speed and Space... maybe they're slightly more low key and slightly less driven, but they have that folkish quality and I also hear similarities in the role of the drummer

Oh, didn't he ramble the autobiography of trumpeter Lee Collins, used but in good shape, even including the Flexi-Disc with an additional track from "A Night at the Victory Club"... Thought I'd show my daughter what a used bookstore looks like, allegedly the biggest English-language one on the continent no less, and take the briefest of looks at the row of jazz books... where this one stood, had been looking for it for a while without high expectations or high effort... it's a very enjoyable inside view on a live in early jazz from New Orleans to Chicago in the form of an endless stream of anecdotes

no, that must be this here https://www.discogs.com/release/9872965-Big-Band-Of-Bob-Florence-Bongos-Reeds-Brass

My internet browser made it look as if "Bob Florence died much too early. I am a big band fan and have everything he cut on records" was something you said... I was already thinking, wow, here's another facet of Gheorghe I'd never would have suspected... I guess I am somewhere in the middle, wouldn't call myself a big band fand, but I do have a Bob Florence LP which I am playing now... the album is about 8 weeks older than me, hard to say who has aged better...

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