Niko

that's what a guy who turned down the job and left the music business for a, well, criminal career (link, video) said... somewhere in the book, he points out that a turning point for him was the humbling realization that from a purely financial viewpoint being Miles Davis is fine but being Charles Mingus is not any more attractive than many, many other non-musical careers out there... but the Rollins job really didn't sound too attractive financially, also compared to other music jobs he had... I guess he had this expectation that playing with Sonny Rollins was the big time, which it was in some ways, but not in others

what I found illuminating was the passage about the Sonny Rollins tryout and the very modest salary offer in Charles Farrell's autobiography (not that much jazz content in the book because there wasn't a lot of money to be made)

happy to subscribe as well but I would strongly advise against making this anything more than a voluntary option... registering here is already quite an achievement these days it seems - so we shouldn't add a second hurdle of having to pay 50$ after making it through the registration before one can start posting... at the very least, I would give people the first 100 posts for free (wonder who the last newbie was to make it past 100 posts... I bet it was some time ago)

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Thanks!

agreed about Revelation, I tend to buy them when I see them... That Frank Strazzeri album is a nice one

Time for detective Zev Feldman to enter the picture...

Just playing this Thornhill album and rereading Mike Zwerin's memories of touring with Thornhill against it (here, starting with "Claude Thornhill loved confusion.") In particular, Zwerin remembers that "Arrangements written for full sections were being played by only one trombone, two trumpets, four saxophones, and a now guitarless rhythm section, plus the essential French horn". But for this album, there's a full big band again with some studio pros like Frank Rehak, Urbie Green, Barry Galbraith...

there must have been hundreds all over Europe... recently, I read a nice newspaper article about the Dutch village of Velsen placing a memorial for its former citizen altoist George Johnson (who'd played with Buck Clayton, Don Byas etc)... here's a nice article about drummer Al Jones I found recently https://jazztimeeurope.wordpress.com/2019/06/12/profile-al-jones/ mentioned in there is Lou Bennett, which reminds me of Rhoda Scott... and so the list goes on...

That shop has the most frustrating opening hours... I do get to Paris for work from time to time but so far it never overlapped with the days the shop is open... (That said, I can choose between at least two shops in walking distance that stock Sam Records which I guess is quite a luxury)

not a very informed opinion, but I am really happy with this Jack McVea compilation, it runs through like an album and has a nice gatefold cover with good liner notes and pictures

for me not, as others said: this is a chance to hear some spectacular Joe Henderson and Jack deJohnette, and to hear them really well; I'm not someone who pays a whole lot of attention to the bass, guess my biggest quibble is that I'd want to hear the piano at bit better at times... but the sound quality is still better to my ears than on any Charlie Parker bootleg I can recall... I wouldn't use it to test a new stereo system.

listened via spotify yesterday and agree, during the bass solos it's good, otherwise, I could mainly feel it but not that much more...

That was one of my first three or four CDs, not sure if I still have it... A good compilation fwiw

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