Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons First CD Issue

[felser]

I received the Bley, Lyons, Murray, and have played the Bley - very happy with the SQ given the usual SQ of the original recordings on the BYG-Actuel label.

[romualdo]

new batch of BYG-Actuel CD releases via Solid Japan coming late March (25) - It's the next 10 from the original 52 releases (69-72)

Acting Trio, Braxton (B-Xo/N-0-1-4-7a), Cyrille (What About), Joachim Kuhn (Sounds Of Feelings), Shepp (Blase), Coursil (Way Ahead), Burrell (Echo), Moncur (New Africa), Terroade (Love Rejoice), Thornton (Ketchaoua).

Many of these have not had official/legit CD releases AFAIK. Some choice stuff in there - wondering how many of these will be released via the recent BYG reissue program - they see to be much more selective plus what is the relationship between the current BYG & Solid releases, if any - nothing on the Hoffman site regarding this.

https://diskunion.net/jazz/ct/list/0/0/137098/0/0/0/10/0/2

Thornton's Ketchaoua is also being released next month (Feb) via the official BYG site

https://bygrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ketchaoua

is it worth modifying the title of this thread to new BYG-Actuel releases or should I commence a new thread?

Edited yesterday at 05:49 AM by romualdo

[jlhoots]

I ordered the Lyons from Amazon. Supposed to come from Japan. Never showed up. Never was charged either. Received an e-mail about supply chain problems.

[T.D.]

9 hours ago, romualdo said:

new batch of BYG-Actuel CD releases via Solid Japan coming late March (25) - It's the next 10 from the original 52 releases (69-72)

Acting Trio, Braxton (B-Xo/N-0-1-4-7a), Cyrille (What About), Joachim Kuhn (Sounds Of Feelings), Shepp (Blase), Coursil (Way Ahead), Burrell (Echo), Moncur (New Africa), Terroade (Love Rejoice), Thornton (Ketchaoua).

Many of these have not had official/legit CD releases AFAIK. Some choice stuff in there - wondering how many of these will be released via the recent BYG reissue program - they see to be much more selective plus what is the relationship between the current BYG & Solid releases, if any - nothing on the Hoffman site regarding this.

https://diskunion.net/jazz/ct/list/0/0/137098/0/0/0/10/0/2

Thornton's Ketchaoua is also being released next month (Feb) via the official BYG site

https://bygrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ketchaoua

is it worth modifying the title of this thread to new BYG-Actuel releases or should I commence a new thread?

Thanks for this info.

This involves some work for me. 😁 How many of these do I want? If just a few, Dusty Groove is cheaper net of shipping; if above a certain number (which requires calculation and navigating the clunky CDjapan website), CDjapan winds up cheaper. 

[clifford_thornton]

All of those are excellent, excellent records. I think the Acting Trio is a real sleeper, though it is very "out" in a European, non-idiomatic sense.

[mjazzg]

Acting Trio scared me witless about 35 years ago, bet I'd like it today.

Coursil, Moncur and Terroade are the ones for me on that list but have LPs of each which I'll stick with

[colinmce]

Don't sleep on these if you want them. I didn't manage to get a copy of the Lyons and it looks like it's not really around anymore.

I can survive, I have pretty much all the free jazz titles save a couple. I would be very interested in the Frank Wright on CD though.

[J.A.W.]

Got the Lyons a while ago from CDJapan and hated the sound, way too loud for my liking. The old needledrop I have sounds better.

[felser]

Moncur's 'New Africa' is my pick of that label's output by a mile.  Also, Shepp's 'Yasmina, A Black Woman', the other Moncur, and the Arthur Jones are all really good.

[clifford_thornton]

12 minutes ago, J.A.W. said:

Got the Lyons a while ago from CDJapan and hated the sound, way too loud for my liking. The old needledrop I have sounds better.

huh. Wonder if they boosted it in some harsh way. I have all of the Actuels as originals and sound varies as does pressing quality, so needle drop is not exactly a guarantee here.

Kinda shocks me that no Frank Wright is currently in print on CD (though the ESP stuff, incl. Moers & Ali's Alley, is "around"). Criminally under-sung saxophonist, and both the band with Noah Howard and with Alan Silva are tremendous.

[T.D.]

Thanks for the suggestions. The March 25 batch doesn't show on CDJapan site yet. Some of the first 12 are still in stock, though.

Hard indeed to believe no Frank Wright currently in print. 😢

[colinmce]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

huh. Wonder if they boosted it in some harsh way. I have all of the Actuels as originals and sound varies as does pressing quality, so needle drop is not exactly a guarantee here.

Kinda shocks me that no Frank Wright is currently in print on CD (though the ESP stuff, incl. Moers & Ali's Alley, is "around"). Criminally under-sung saxophonist, and both the band with Noah Howard and with Alan Silva are tremendous.

Fully agree. I would love to see the enter COTW discography in a CD box set with good notation. Wouldn't end up being that large, maybe 5-6 discs.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah. The Fractal issues are even hard to find now, and did include extra tracks. There's also a bunch of very enjoyable live/radio boots kicking around.

Looks like the "Your Prayer" album is in print on vinyl, though the cover art scan is not so good. Haven't heard it so I don't know whether it is a quality pressing (have an original which sounds great).

[jlhoots]

4 hours ago, J.A.W. said:

Got the Lyons a while ago from CDJapan and hated the sound, way too loud for my liking. The old needledrop I have sounds better.

Now i'm glad my (Amazon) order never was sent to me.