Sonet reissues

[king ubu]

Gave the Art Farmer and Benny Carter discs a spin this weekend. The Farmer is very fine, Art being in a lyrical mood. There is no fusion guitar (someone was wondering, I think ), but on one tune, "Art for Lunch", the guitarist does some funky licks etc. Otherwise he's playing in a very nice, strictly jazz style. The mostly scandinavian band is very fine, and Sabu Martinez adds some colour, too.

One small question: two drummers are mentioned on the front and in all personnel listings, yet the liner notes only mention one of them, and to my ears if two drummers were playing on these sessions, I suppose they were not playing on the same tracks. Anyone knows for sure?

Then the Carter: very nice one! Mainstream, but very nicely performed by Carter, Nat Adderley, Red Norvo and Horace Parlan. There are three bonus live cuts (one of the originally released tunes is from that same live date, too) which add quite some. Again there is a small goof on the cover (not referring to the Farmer, as I don't know if there's a goof or not, but referring to the Braff): the last tune is not mentioned on teh back of the traycard, but only inside the booklet.

Seems they could have done a little bit better proof-reading. Also one liner is said to be from Samuel Charters (title on top of the liners) and Red Mitchell (listed at the end of the same notes). However, as Red is mentioned ("Red Mitchell", "he"), I guess the notes are not from him, but from Charters. This is in the Farmer booklet, I think.

ubu

[Tony Pusey]

Had both the Don Cherry Sonets on a twofer some time back but since I let them go pretty quickly I must assume I didnt find them too earth shaking.The Live in Ankara looked appealing but i think I found it appall ing!