Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy (Decca Records) — With vocals by The Haden Triplets, Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Rosanne Cash, Josh, Rachel, Tanya & Petra Haden, Dan Tyminski, Ruth Cameron, Ricky Skaggs, Jack Black, and Charlie Haden and playing by Pat Metheny, Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skaggs, Stuart Duncan, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, etc.; country tunes (mostly) from Haden's youth
I think this is the only Atlantic album by Jack Wilson that I don't have. I do have two albums with Roy Ayers and they are really nice. Someday I might find a copy. Instead I'm spinning The Prestige Blues Swingers featuring Coleman Hawkins (Prestige/Swingville) red label mono.
On the TT! Joe McPhee -Nation Time! Original pressing on the CJR label. Definitely one of my Holy Grail Records. Worth every penny.
The Art Ensemble: 1967/68 (no Chicago yet) Collective personnel including, on collective instruments: Roscoe Mitchell Joseph Jarman Lester Bowie Malachi Favors Moghustut Philip Wilson Thurman Barker Robert Crowder Charles Clark I'm in for the long-haul. Nessa 5 disc set of early Art Ensemble recordings, many from the basements of Lester Bowie and Pete Bishop (I guess these are the AE Basement Tapes) as well as some from Roscoe Mitchell's apartment and Sound Studios and Tel-Mar (Chess) studios. While that sounds like a recipe for sonic disaster it's really not. Certainly not great sounding but more than listenable with no sonic anomalies, I've heard much worse formal studio recordings. Tracks from their earliest albums "Numbers 1 & 2", "Congliption" and "Old/Quartet" are included but it's the intimacy of these almost voyeuristic peeks into the creative process that are the most interesting.
In the last few years Chuck Nessa reissued all the material on separate, remastered CDs: Lester Bowie - All the Numbers Roscoe Mitchell/Art Ensemble - Congliptious Roscoe Mitchell/Art Ensemble - Complete Old/Quartet Sessions Art Ensemble - Early Combinations http://www.nessarecords.com/about/ http://www.nessarecords.com/shop/
Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley - "Portrait of Cannonball" (1958) with Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Bill Evans (piano), Sam Jones (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums). (OJC CD 1989)
Billy Harper - "Capra Black" (1973) with Jimmy Owens (trumpet), Julian Priester(trombone), Dick Griffin (trombone), George Cables (piano), Reggie Workman (bass), Warren Smith & Billy Cobham (drums) and Voices and special guest Elvin Jones (drums) (Strata-East/Bomba CD 2010)
On the TT, Roy Haynes - Cymbalism (New Jazz) orig. DG purple mono pressing. W/Frank Strozier on alto sax and flute.
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone McCoy Tyner – piano Jimmy Garrison – double bass Elvin Jones – drums Not a big fan of this edition taken from The Impulse Box Set Vol. 2. It's harsh sounding
Boy am I excited for the closing set at this year's Chicago Jazz Fest that reunites Muhal's Experimental Big Band. Threadgill, Roscoe et al.
Color me jealous. I have a feeling, based on how the participants have been playing, that it will be excellent. Hopefully there will be "tape" running. (?)
John Coltrane - The Major Works of John Coltrane Disc 1: "Ascension - Edition I" — 38:37 "Om" — 28:49 Disc 2: "Ascension - Edition II" — 40:31 "Kulu Se Mama" — 18:57 "Selflessness" — 15:09 John Coltrane — tenor saxophone Pharoah Sanders — tenor saxophone Archie Shepp — tenor saxophone (disc 1: track 1, disc 2: track 1) Marion Brown — alto saxophone (disc 1: track 1, disc 2: track 1) John Tchicai — alto saxophone (disc 1: track 1, disc 2: track 1) Freddie Hubbard — trumpet (disc 1: track 1, disc 2: track 1) Dewey Johnson — trumpet (disc 1: track 1, disc 2: track 1) Joe Brazil — flute (disc 1: track 2) Donald Garrett — bass clarinet (disc 1: track 2, disc 2: tracks 2,3) McCoy Tyner — piano Jimmy Garrison — bass Art Davis — bass (disc 1: track 1, disc 2: track 1) Elvin Jones — drums Frank Butler — drums (disc 2: tracks 2,3) Juno Lewis — percussion/vocals (disc 2: tracks 2,3)
CDJapan recently lowered the price on the SHM-CD from Japan of this and a few other Trane titles; they don't sound harsh to me.