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"Innovation en jazz N°2" Jacques Pelzer Modern Jazz  6tet(Belgium, 1955) Label : Innovations (B)   Serial number : ILP2  This rare 10” was released in 1955 as part of the “Innovation en Jazz” series, a series sponsored by the department store “A l’Innovation”.  Jacques Pelzer (1924-1994) was one of the most important figures in Belgian jazz history.He was born in Liège and played the harmonica

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BABS ROBERT & THE LOVE PLANET (BELGIUM, 1970) Often quoted or referred to by cratediggers and collectors but seldom seen and rarely heard. Here it is again, the Holy Grail of Belgium Jazz! Please refer to the original post for info,(this time the tracks are separated).

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I'm in the process of re-posting some rare OOP LP.For the links, check in the comments of the original post. Please be patient, re-uploading these albums takes time.   These five albums have been re-posted. Check 'em ! 1 André Condouant:  Brother Meeting 2. Moe Koffman : Live @Expo 67 (Montreal) 3. Bert Dahlander - Jazz with a Swedish Accent 4. Steve Houben + strings 5.

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RONALD MULDROW – FACING WES (USA, 1996)  I have re-posted Ronald Muldrow’s Yesterdays at the request of a friend (new link in the comments of the original post).  By the same occasion I’m posting another Muldrow’s album: Facing Wes.  He is a much under-rated guitarist who left us too early (he was not even 58 when he died) and whose albums are almost all OOP.  Here is what Scott Yanow at

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I often go for a stroll thru’ the souks over the week end. I like the atmosphere and always come back with fresh fruits, vegetables, spices, DVD of obscure foreign movies, old books … and sometimes old records. Today was such a day.  The harvest was not bad: Joe Sample “Fancy Dance”, an old favorite. I already have it on CD but it’s always nice to have the vinyl.   Stanley Turrentine “Use

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Since all the Multiupload links are dead, I'll start re-posting here the rarest posts (Rarity Series). It will probably take a few days. REPOSTED Rarity #1 : Brussels Art Quartet  (here)   (Belgium) Rarity #2 : Free Form Sextet  (here)  (Belgium) Rarity #3 : Zoot Meets Hans (here) (Austria/ US)  Rarity #4:  Shake Keane - In my condition (here) (UK, West Indies) Rarity # 5: Alex Scorier (here)

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It seems that MULTIUPLOAD is gone for good and that means that most of my links are dead!  I  am willing to repost some if there is a demand. I shall probably use MEDIAFIRE or UPLOAD MIRRORS. Any sugggestion is welcome.

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JAZZ IN LITTLE BELGIUM(10” DECCA, Belgium, 1958) A legendary 10” from Paul D.’s treasure trove, the almost mythic “JAZZ in LITTLE BELGIUM” which was released in 1958, the year of the famous Brussels World Fair , Expo ’58 (which gave us the Atomium). The sleeve notes put it clearly in context:In the historic year of Brussels’ World Fair, at the same time when commerce, industry, education and

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U. SRINIVAS – MANDOLIN ALL THE WAY (INDIA, 1991)  Time for some Carnatic Grooves! Probably not the most popular style of music considering that my previous carnatic post (the remarkable Silk World Music Group) generated only three comments!I don’t expect any more this time. Too bad because this music is absolutely riveting."I thought that it's common to hear people playing classical music on

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L'ALPHABET Vendredi / Vrijdag / Friday24 février / February - 20h30 Mr JAY   -  LOOS  -  Dr ROBUR Dr ROBUR & Mr JAY (BLUES mais pas que ...) 1387 chée de Wavre 1160 Bruxelles – tél: 02.660.43.00. www.lalphabet.be Station Son Particulier – Votre Radio!www.stationsonparticulier.be stationsonparticulier@gmail.com

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Arkadi Figlin - Parts of a Whole - (Jazz Portrait, Russia, 1992)  Another fairly obscure record gathered from a discount bin, this post will probably appeal more to fans of classical piano music, especially of the Russian school of piano, than to the usual jazz heads.  Beautiful music though!Arkadiy Figlin had been shifting between classical and jazz piano since his early childhood until

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DOCTOR FEELGOODSOMETHING TO TAKE UP TIME (US, 1971)(rare US bluesy prog). This one is not for the Jazzers but should please the Prog Heads / psychedelic blues freaks.  As you may have noted I have pretty catholic tastes.  This album was for a long time a mystery to me.  I remember hearing one track on the radio, probably on José Arthur’s Pop Club.  I enquired around, in specialised record shops

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FREDDIE DERONDE (Sept.20, 1938 - Jan.6, 2012) From JAZZHOT A sad news fell earlier this week.  Belgian double bass & electric bass player Freddie Deronde has left us on Jan.6.  Perhaps not well known outside of Belgian and European jazz circles, Freddie was nevertheless a great musician who played with the biggest European and US names. He had a long association with Rene Thomas, Chet Baker

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FATS SADI ‘S COMBO (VOGUE, 25 cm, 1953).  1.      The Man"Fats" Sadi was for some six decades Belgium’s most popular jazzman. He was born in Andenne on 23 October 1927 and died in Huy on 20 Februaryr 2009. He was among Europe’s best vibraphonists – if not The best of his generation – but was also a master percussionist, a competent piano player and a singer excelling in scat.  In addition he was

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FRA FRA SOUND - KALINHA'S SERENADE (NL, SURINAM, NL ANTILLES, US - 1992-94) First album  by Holland-based FRA FRA SOUND, an International  little big band composed of musicians from Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, Mexico (tenor sax Efraim Trujillo) and the US (trumpet/ fluegelhorn player Charles Green). What does FRA FRA mean? There is no literal translation for the concept of "Fra Fra

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GLEN TERRY – CYCLONIC WOMAN (Mauritius, 1998) In December last year, I posted an album by Mauritian saxophonist and band leader, Ernest Wiehe.Today we’re revisiting Mauritius but this time for a blues / funk album.  The leader, Glen Terry, is originally from India (or is it Sri Lanka?) but he resided and worked in Mauritius during the late Nineties.  This album was recorded with the cream of

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I wish you all a wonderful Xmas& lotsa good things for 2012

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RICHARD RAUX – THE INTERVAL (France, 2000) If you check the French « Dictionnaire du Jazz » you won’t even find the name of Richard Raux.  A most deplorable – not to say scandalous - oversight considering this guy has been blowing his horn for over forty years, with everybody from Memphis Slim to Marion Brown, from Magma to Sonny Murray.  OK, you’ve got the message: Richard Raux is no smooth

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ANDRE CONDOUANT - BROTHER MEETING (Disque DEBS HDD 523, 1971, France)  To celebrate the first anniversary of the blog, a rare vinyl from the vault of the Boogieman, ripped and cleaned by Vinyl Wizard Paul D..  I bought this album on a small “brocante" (flea market) when I was working in Brussels, in the mid-nineties.  I found it in a crate  with another fairly rare Debs album, Blue Sunset by

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MOE KOFFMAN QUARTET - Live at Expo 67 (Transcription Radio Canada LP, 1967) Over the years, I've found LPs in some unlikely places. For instance, this LP was salvaged from the trash can of Radio Comores - a small archipelago in the South West Indian Ocean - in the late Nineties. It is a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Cortporation) transcription of a concert given by the Moe Koffman Quartet at the

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ROBBIE JANSEN – VASTRAP ISLAND (1991, South Africa)  In the comments of a previous South African Jazz post (Cape Jazz – 24 Sept. 2011), a visitor (thejazzmd) wrote “Love SA Jazz, and there is so little Robbie Jansen out there- so thank you!”Well, mate, this one is for you! Hope you’ll enjoy it.It is Robbie Jansen’s first album as a leader and I reckon it is a bit of a mixed bag of afro-rock /

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ERROL PARKER TENTET - A NIGHT IN TUNISIA (Sahara Records, 1991)  Algeria-born pianist/drummer /composer and arranger Ralph Schecroun (aka Errol Parker) ranks among the most underrated modern jazz creators.  He was a true original like Sun Ra and a few others, musicians who cannot be easily categorized and pigeonholed. Mostly self-taught on piano, he moved to Paris in 1947 to study sculpture

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BERT DAHLANDERJAZZ WITH A SWEDISH ACCENT(Everyday, 1976)  Another very rare album from Paul D.'s mythical treasure vault. This time an LP recorded in 1971, in Sweden, by Swedish-born / US resident drummer Bert Dahlander. The album was posted briefly on the FJD blog in non-downloadable format.  I copy its introduction to the album, I wouldn't write it better (I hope the FJD blog owner won’t mind)

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O TRIO (Maurício Carrilho, Paulo Sérgio Santos and Pedro Amorim, Brasil, 1993) It's amazing what one could find in discounted bin. Some of the best music I have comes straight from the 1 € CD bin.  And this OOP CD is a case in point. Absolutely delightful music! I forgot to scan the sleeve notes but here is what AMG has to say about this group: O Trio is a choro group which has been giving

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Maestro OLEG PLOTNIKOV (of the Uralsky All Stars) My Little Rolly (Timeless, NL, 1996) Another CD found in a discount bin for about one euro.  Two things attracted me to this album: the photo of Oleg Plotnkov on the cover, he looked so square he had to be good!  ... and then there were a couple of numbers with "boogie" in the title. I’m a sucker for boogie woogie  esp. cheesy ones.  I have a

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Steve Houben + strings featuring Guy Cabay / Michel Herr / Dennis Luxion (Belgium, 1982)  For many years Belgian saxophonist / flautist Steve Houben had a dream: that one day he’d  set up a big band associating a jazz ensemble and a string section.  In 1983, the dream became reality ! It was a première in the fairly rich history of Belgian Jazz.  This first experiment in Belgium met a real

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A NEW SOUND FROM ITALYBasso – Valdambrini Octet (Italy, 1959) Paul D, who is a fine connaisseur of Italian Jazz, suggested we post something Italian this month.  There are already a few excellent blogs devoted to Transalpine Jazz and we did not want to duplicate any post already available.  We decided to start with one of the most famous partnerships in the history of Italian / European Jazz:

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CAPE JAZZ CLASSICS (South Africa, 1995.) I love South African Jazz.  This is amother CD I picked up in Jo’Burg in the early 00’s.Don’t dismiss it as some cheap Gallo compilation, this is a selection of live tracks by some of Cape Town Icons (Basil “Mannenberg” Coetzee, Robbie Jansen, Winston “Makunku” Ngosi, Hilton Schilder  …). There is no indication of the recording dates.   I was lucky to

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Ain't nothing like catching some good live music in a cozy bar !  So if you happen to be in BRUSSELS this Thursday night and wonder where to go for a couple of fine Belgian Beers and a dash of Blues,  try and catch this gig: Mister Jay: chant, harmonicas, guitare, kazooDoc Robur: guitare, chantBompa Loos: contrebasse électrique, blagues tordues Where ?  Flop Bar, rue du Bailli 78, 1050

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Silk World Music Group – Pure Silk (India) Live at The Barbican Centre, London, 14th July 2000  The idea of blending Jazz and Indian Classical Music goes back a long way but it was often at the initiative of Western musicians although there were some notable exceptions, such as T. K. Ramamoorthy or John Mayer (an Anglo-Indian violinist) to name a couple. And the source of inspiration was more

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JACQUES DENJEAN & SON GRAND ORCHESTRE DE JAZZ Special Festival d’Antibes Juan Les Pins (33T - 25 cm, Polydor 45585, FRANCE, 1962)  A special treat to mark the tenth entry in the « Rarities » series.  Actually the Rarities are the most downloaded posts (although it is not always reflected in the number of comments …). Anyway, last week end, browsing through a pile of old dusty LPs in a Moroccan

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NAIROBI TRIOLive @ at the McDonald Winery (New Zealand, 1997) I found this CD in the sales rack in Port Vila’s only record shop. It burned shortly after … At first I was intrigued by the name, especially when I realized (i) none of the musicians are from Kenya but they're all Kiwis and (ii) there are four members in the trio … Then I was fortunate to hear them playing live at the Port Vila’s

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CHARLIE MARIANO – CASCADE(Keytone LP, NL, 1974) Another Charlie Mariano LP from the Seventies thanks to JC.    1974 was a busy year for Charlie Mariano, he appears on ten recording sessions, including two under his own name:  this one with Chris Hinze and Reflections with a group of Finnish all stars. The LP was produced by Chris Hinze and released on his own private label, Keytone. In addition

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Jean Loup LONGNON – CYCLADES (France, 1992) CYCLADESOuLes Extraordinaires Aventures de Barnabé, le Petit Cochon Voyageur DO NOT MISS THIS ONE !The Greek Islands seem to have been a source of inspiration for Jazzmen (just of few hints: Neil Ardley’s Greek Variations, Graham Collier was a long-time resident, Slim Gaillard got stranded on one of them …). It is difficult to describe the music

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TOMMY BOYLE & THE RAW JAZZ QUARTET (self-produced CD, THAILAND) I've never been to Phuket. Tourists spots do not really appeal to me. Anyhow, yesterday night I was invited by a friend and colleague for dinner at her place here in Rabat.  While she was organising the food, I had a glance thru' a pile of CDs, leftover by her landlord.  I desperated to find anything listenable among the

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DAS MICHAEL NAURA QUINTETT - DOWN TO EARTH  (Telefunken EP, Germany, 1958) "Putain, quelle formidable musique!" wrote Paul D. in the mail he sent me with the  rip of this  rare German EP from 1958.  Rare?  Rare as hen's teeth would be a most justified expression in this case. If you're familiar with the "Now's The Time - Deep German Grooves 1956-65" album you already know the track "Minority"

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The JIVE KINGS with Measha Bruggergosman (Canada, 2001) The JIVE KINGS were a Canadian neo-swing band that recorded two albums in the years 2000/2001.  They were part of the short-lived Swing Revival scene of the late Nineties.  The only source of information on the Web is the website of bass-player Deryl Gallant. Their first album “Spoon for a Knife” was released in February 2000.  Today's post

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EUROP’ JAZZ CONTEST 92 (NL, France, Poland, Belgium - 1992) A BIT OF HISTORYJazz Hoeilaart was founded in 1979 by Albert Michiels - within the framework of the local annual festival of grapes and wine - with the intention of introducing accomplished young jazz players and groups under the age of 30.In the early years only Belgian and Dutch groups applied but in the following years Jazz Hoeilaart

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CHARLIE MARIANO – OCTOBER (Inner City, 1977)  Here is another album that has not been re-issued so far.  It was recorded between Helen 12 Trees and Crystal Bells, (posted a few weeks ago).  Typical Seventies Mariano, part Jazz Fusion – part South Indian.  AMG is pretty laconic and not especially informative on this one (not that I expect much from AMG): A '77 session with onetime Charlie Parker

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 Since 1996, the Festival JAZZ AU CHELLAH (formerly JAZZ AUX OUDAYAS) in Rabat is a unique occasion for European Jazzmen to present their music to a Moroccan audience and to play with local, musicians.  Morocco has a very rich musical heritage.  As a gate between Europe and Africa, it has always been a cultural melting pot: African, Arabic, Berber, Sufi, Andalousian,  Sephardic  and Western

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Jose Therese, saxophonist & educator  If you’ve enjoyed the Ernest Wiehe 10-piece Jazz  Ensemble posted earlier on this blog, you may wish to learn some more about the Mauritian Jazz scene and especially about Atelier Mozart, a fantastic Jazz School founded some 15-years ago by saxophonist José Thérèse – with some assistance from the EU Delegation and other donors at the beginning,  to purchase

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VIC ASH PLUS FOUR (Nixa Jazz Today Series 45 rpm EP, UK, 1956) Another one from Paul D.'s treasure chest. This time  a rare British EP from 1956 under the name of VIC ASH PLUS FOUR. Personnel:  Vic ASH    clarinet Keith CHRISTIE   trombone Derek SMITH   piano Sammy STOKES  bass Phil SEAMEN   drums Amateurs of trivia will note that the recording engineer was Joe Meek. On Vic Ash, the 

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AL COPLEY - Live @ 't LEEUWSKE - 28th June 2011 St Pieters Leeuw is a partly rural village west of Brussels.  The village centre has managed to keep its charm and a unique atmosphere: a beautiful old church and some very friendly cafes on the small cobbled street surrounding the church.  That's where one can find Café Moriau, famous for its traditionnal Gueuze and Kriek (and occasional jazz

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I was lucky yesterday. I went for a bit of crate-digging at one of Brussels most famous second-hand boooks and records shops and found these two fairly rare albums of European Jazz:  - An album of German Free Jazz - but  fairly accessible: the Theo Jörgensmann Quartet - Go Ahead Clarinet LP on CPM which is pretty rare indeed and, at the price of 6 €, a real bargain. - an album of Danish Jazz,

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OM - KIKIKUKI (Switzerland, 1976) OM was a Swiss fusion / jazz group signed on the German ECM label in the 1970s. Their style is fairly close to that "German" jazzrock :ethnic jazz approach that was developped by bands such as EMBRYO or GURU GURU to name only a couple. Formed in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1972 and named after Coltrane’s darkly convulsive album, the members of OM were

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More rare and beautiful artefacts from the vault of the boogieman; George Adams - Don Pullen 4tet Live (Italy) Art Farmer Quintet Live (Japan) Babelibab's Trio (Belgium) Side A Joe Venuti - side B Gil Cuppini Big Band (Italy) Oskar Klein, Myriam Klein, Henri Chaix (Germany, Switzerland) Peter Appleyard presents ... (feat Moe Koffman, Ed Bickert etc. - Canada)

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RONALD MULDROW – Yesterdays (USA, 1994)  Since the previous post brought us into the realm of soul jazz  & hard bop, I may continue in that line for a few more postings.  Here for instance is a top-notch guitar-player who departed this world much too soon and had never received the wider recognition his talent deserved: a guitar-player who had played or recorded with the likes of Sonny Stitt,

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DAVID MURRAY - SHAKILL'S WARRIOR (USA, 1991) This album is often overlooked in David Murray's extensive and prolific discography.   Nevertheless, it is one of my favourite David Murray's albums and one of my favourite Soul Jazz albums.  Bluesy and gutsy! It features Don Pullen on Hammond B3 and Andrew Cyrille on drums.  These guys may be better known for their advanced / free playing but they

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Will I ever have the time to rip and post these albums .... Some little-known Belgian albums ...  Swiss (& international) ... France & Antilles Francaises (French West Indies)  Canada Faroe Islands!    UK USA ....

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Robert Pernet's monumental Discography of Belgian Jazz Any serious collector of Belgian Jazz must have a copy of this superb book.

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RARITY # 7 : Swingin’ with HELMUT BRANDT COMBO vol. 1 (EP, Metronome, Germany, 1958) Another obscure EP from the vault of Paul D.  I must confess that I was completely ignorant of Mr Helmut Brandt very existence in the realm of jazz and when I googled his name, the only info I got was about a German politician.  I tried again, googling “Helmut Brandt – jazz” and managed to get some sparse info

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McCOY MRUBATA – HOELYKIT  (South Africa, Sheer Sound SSCD 059,  2000) Another album I bought about ten years ago in that excellent record shop right inside the transit hall at Johannesburg airport (I’m afraid the record shop is no longer there, has anybody been there recently?).  The album had just been released and was recommended to me by an enthusiastic shop attendant who turned out to be a  

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CHARLIE MARIANO – CRYSTAL BELLS (1980)  After writing in my previous post that I found it nearly impossible to give a satisfactory definition of Jazz, I came across this statement on someone else’s  blog:  “Jazz is no stranger to eclecticism. Musicians have been bending, breaking, reshaping, and reincorporating since the very beginning of jazz history. In fact, departing from jazz tradition

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Danny Thompson – WHATEVER (UK, 1987?)   What is jazz?  I’ve spent countless evenings arguing with other jazz fans about the very nature of jazz while guzzling unreasonable quantities of beer, wine, Scotch , rum or whatever else was on the table, with as sole result a serious hangover the next morning.  I still can’t define Jazz.  This album is a case in point but, who cares eventually? The Duke

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LURE OF DESERT - PT Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (India, 1994) I do not like the term World Music which means anything that's not "Western". It's a typical "us" and "them" mindset. I guess that for, say an Indian or an Ugandese, the Rolling Stones or Count Basie must sound like some kind of "World Music"..  However, I do like traditional music (it used to be called "ethnic music" in the old days which

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ECHOES OF MAWAZINE (Rabat, Morocco)This year saw the tenth edition of the Mawazine – Rhythm of the World Festival in Rabat (Morocco). As usual an ambitious programming mixing big international names  (Kanye West, Shakira, Quincy Jones, Earth-Wind & Fire  …), African (Femi Kuti, Salif Keita, the Mahotella Queens, Papa Wemba …) and Middle-East big names, and some “classic-rock/has-beens" (Cat

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MICHEL HERR, BILL FRISELL, VINTON JOHNSON, KERMIT DRISCOLL GOOD BUDDIES (Belgium / USA - 1979) About a month ago I posted the first album of TRIODE (Frisell, Johnson, Driscoll) recorded Live in a small club in Brussels in 1978.  Here is what could be considered as the second TRIODE album eventhough the band is not referred to as "Triode" any longuer. It is a Quartet effort with Belgian keyboard

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CARL-HENRIK NORINS ORKESTER feat. ROLF BILLBERG - (EP HMV 7EGS89, Norway, 1958) A rare treat again from the vault of Paul D. Scandinavian jazz this time. A pretty rare EP on HMV Norway dating from 1958 which, to the best of my knowledge, is not available on any CD. Carl-Henrik Norin, 1920-67, jazz musician (tenor saxophonist and arranger). Norin emerged during his time with Thore Ehrling 1941-48

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 NO VIBRATO - CINQ DE COEUR (Belgium, 1997). As a pianist Etienne Richard is no virtuoso, nor is he a great improviser.  He knows his limitations (he was 32 when he decided to become a musician) and leaves ample rooms for his fellow band members to stretch and shine. Mind you, Etienne  ain’t no slouch either but his real talent is somewhere else.  Etienne Richard is a composer.  He has a rare

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I have noted that my Belgian Jazz posts are among the most visited.  Since many of you seem to be interested in Belgian Jazz, here are a few links of interest: Jazz in Belgium / Les Lundis d'Hortense The JAZZ STATION (in Brussels): the place to visit when in Brussels La Maison du Jazz in Liège The Sounds (Jazz Club in Ixelles) More Belgian Jazz coming soon.

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FOUNTAINHEAD (Florida, GWP Label, 1970)   Here is a pretty obscure album from Florida.  They probably got their name from Ayn Rand’s book but that should not deter you from giving them a listen.  If you like late sixties / early seventies progressive big bands in the line of Don Ellis Orchestra or Maynard Ferguson’s MF Horn, you’re in for a treat.  This album is pretty rare and if it wasn’t for

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 For PLACEBO’s fans. This is where it all began. Alex SCORIER studied at the Brussels Royal Conservatory. He started his musical activity at age 18. In 1952 he formed his first big band with two American musicians - Sax player Jay CAMERON who was the soloist of the Woody HERMAN Orchestra and Slide HAMPTON, and Jimmy GOURLEY (guitar). During 1954 to 1956 he was a member of the Fred BUNGE and

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  TRIODE - LIVE @ CHAPATI - WINTER 1978 BILL FRISELL - KERMIT DRISCOLL - VINNIE JOHNSON recorded Live in a small club in Belgium in 1978-1979.  It ain't the Holy Grail perhaps but it ain't far.   Blogging is just fantastic. A few weeks ago after posting the ACT Big Band LP, a visitor (ushaped) asked whether by any chance I'd have the first TRIODE LP that was recorded in Belgium. I didn't but

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 I swear it was unintentional and that Zoot didn't play an alto.  It just happen that the Zoot meets Hans EP posted on April 1st was ripped at 45rpm while it was supposed to be played at 33 rpm. I have reposted. (see comments) Cheers Boogieman

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I've re-posted Nueva Manteca "Porgy & Bess" at Jazzman's request.  Get it while it lasts 'coz ain't gonna re-post it for a third time. I'll do occasional re-post at the request of fellow bloggers and regular visitors (people who leave comments) only. Go to the post for the link.

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UPPSALA BIG BAND - IN PROGRESS (Sweden,  1993) For many years, visiting neighbourhood's  "brocantes" and browsing thru' boxes of old LPs, CDs and books has been a favorite week end activity.  I reckon the good years are gone by and real finds and bargains have become increasingly rarer.  I guess e-Bay is partly responsible for this sad state of affairs.  Anyway talking a morning stroll thru' a

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THE SHAKE KEANE QUINTET - IN MY CONDITION  (Lansdowne Jazz Series, UK, 1961 - 7" EP) Last week Paul D. sent me this picture of an old EP by "a little known, long forgotten British trumpet / fluegelhorn player" , a present from the late Ed Dipple of Mole Records  "... would I be interested to post it on my blog?  That came as a real surprise.  Let's go back in time... 1978, I joined the United

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SWEET & HOT JAZZ CLUB - BRUSSELSCERCLE D'ÉTUDE ET DE PROPAGATION DE LA MUSIQUE DE JAZZ FONDÉ EN 1959 Le SWEET AND HOT organise une BOURSE AUX DISQUES DE JAZZ  WHEN ?  Samedi/Saturday/Zaterdag 14 mai 2011 de 10h30 à 16h.WHERE ? JAZZ STATION, 195 chaussée de Louvain, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode(en face du boulevard Clovis, entrée derrière le coin par la rue Wauwermans). Bus STIB 29, bus

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FULL FAITH & CREDIT BIG BAND - DEBUT (Palo Alto/TBA 80001 - 1980) This album was the first release on the Palo Alto label, a label that specialised in West Coast Big Band. The Full Faith & Credit Big Band was (is?) a North California Big Band led by composer / arranger / trumpet player Ray Brown (no, NOT the bass player), a former Kenton alumnus.  The band was the baby of  Jim Benham, a

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ZOOT MEETS HANS (EP:Brunswick - 10814 EPB, GERMANY, 1958) Rejoice!  Thanks to my good friend Paul D., collectionneur extraordinaire, here is a very rare EP recorded in Germany by Zoot Sims and Austrian saxman Hans Koller in 1958. While Koller's seventies work (on MPS mostly) is well documented in the blogworld, thanks to the contributors to the Magic Purple Sunshine blog, his earlier work

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JOHN MEHEGAN, HUGH MASEKELA, JONAS  GWANGA, KIPPIE MOEKETSI, CHRIS JOSEPH, CLAUDE SHANGE & GENE LATIMORE : JAZZ IN AFRICA vol.. 1 & 2 (SOUTH AFRICA, 1959).  American pianist, John Mehegan toured South Africa in 1959 and recorded these seminal albums (vol. 1 & vol. 2) with most of the horn section of the Jazz Epistles. The line-up included John Mehegan and Chris Joseph on

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HENRI GUEDON - NOMADISME MUSICAL AUX CARAIBES (France, 1993). And now something completely different ... This a very interesting album recorded in 1993 by French West Indian percusionnist Henri Guédon. It is a suite build around the traditionnal dance Mazurka, a  style that was once popular in the French West Indies. The album encompasses a whole range of musical styles: mazurka,  

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TOM MAWI QUARTET - AT TOM'S PLACE (Fiji - Australia - 1999) A couple of months ago I posted a big band from Mauritius, a small Indian Ocean country better known for sugarcane and tourism than for jazz music.  This time we go further east, to the mighty Pacifc Ocean  and another small island state known for sugarcane (a declining industry) and tourism but also, unfortunately, for military coups

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ACT BIG BAND (Belgium, 1981) If you've never heard ACT Big Band, prepare yourself to a major discovery!  One of the greatest "Deep Jazz" aggregation on the Continent ... and just another of Belgium's many well kept secrets! ACT Big Band is drummer Felix Simtaine's dream come true. Almost a "who's who" of modern jazz in Belgium.  ACT second LP features exciting compositions by members and friends

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Lotsa people have been trying to get hold of a copy of this very unique Belgian LP.  To the best of my knowledge, only one track had ever been posted in the blogsphere ("Extra Pol-Action").  Well, here is the whole album, eventually. I've owned a copy since it was released in 1970.  A friend of mine was talking drums lessons with Johnny Peret and introduced me to the album.  It was released on a

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The Free Form's Sextet (1966)  Contemporary Music  Music by Paul Lambert and Francis Joan 7" - 45 rpm - METEOR GV1536 Titles: Atomic No.1 b/w Atomic No.2  Credits:  Paul Lambert     piano (leader) Christian de Greves    double bass Andre Stordeur  vibraphone, drums John Van Rijmenaent   alto sax Claude Deron  trumpet Ronald Lecourt  vibraphonne This is a very strange and pretty rare 45

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THE NEUFELD-OCCHIPINTI JAZZ ORCHESTRA - NOJO (Canada, 1995) I found this CD in a second-hand records shop in Toronto about ten years ago.  I didn't know anything about the band but a 16-pieces modern jazz orchestra seemed something worth investigating.   If you like adventurous modern jazz orchestras that are not afraid of stretching the borders (think FlatEarth Society, UMO Jazz Orchestra,

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NUEVA MANTECA - BLUESONGO (NL, 1992) It's the drawings on the cover that first caught my attention when I saw this CD in a discount bin some fifteen years ago.  I would probably have bought the CD no matter what the music was, just for those superb cartoons by Joost Swarte, a Dutch cartoonist / comic strip writer who is recognised as a master of the "ligne claire", a style based on Hergé's

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Un peu de pub' pour les amis / some publicity for musical friends / beetje reklame voor muzikante vrienden SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC !

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ETIENNE VERSCHUEREN - Mr BLUE (Belgium, 1987) In an ideal world, Etienne Verschueren would be recognised as one of the leading European altists, arrangers and bandleaders.  The bio below comes from the Website of  Les Lundis d'Hortense , a goldmine of information on Belgian Jazz Musicians. Etienne VERSCHUEREN was born in Ronse (Renaix), Belgium, in 1928, of a musical family. He studied

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Cordes & Lames + 1 - Accordion Madness (France, 1989) Another one I found in a discount bin in the Nineties.  This is a little-known but superb album featuring the French band "Cordes et Lames" and a guest, American Accordionist Kenny Kotwitz, a student of the great Art Van Damme. "Cordes et Lames" was founded in the late seventies by guitarist Dominique Cravic  and Jazz accordionist Francis

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NUEVA MANTECA - PORGY & BESS (NL, 1993) If you have enjoyed my very first posting, you will like this one too as it features both Jarmo Hoogendijk and Ben van Dungen. This album was issued in 1993 on the short-lived Lucho label and is currently OOP. Super interpretation of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess in a Latin-Jazz / Salsa setting by Dutch band Nueva Manteca, featuring Jan Laurens Hartong piano,

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NEW YORK STORIES (Blue Note, 1992) Danny Gatton - Bobby Watson - Roy Hargrave - Joshua Redman - Franck Amsallem - Charles Fambrough - Yuron Israel I just read about the death of bassist Charles Fambrough.   This excellent group outing is an opportunity to hear him in an "All Stars" setting.  Here's what AMG has to say about this album: This interesting outing by an all-star group (

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I posted this one on Nine Sisters last year but since the blog no longer exists, I re-post it here. It’s not my favorite Charles Earland album, not even my favorite Earland album on Muse.  Don’t expect the burning raw energy of albums such as “Black Talk”.  Nevertheless, it’s certainly not a bad album and it has its moments.  The title track grooves nicely, in an easy-going and laid-back way.  As

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL I’ll start the year with an album that should have appeared on or be linked  to the Nine Sisters blog as it was issued on the Muse label, but unfortunately this excellent blog no longer exists.  My first love in Music was the Blues.  I discovered Jazz thru' Jazz Blues records and as such I’ve always been very fond of the great Blues Shouters, people like Wynonie Harris, Roy

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Where's the snow?  Where are my reindeers?

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Fra Fra Big Band – A Tan So (Lucho, 1993) I found this album with two Fra Fra Sound CD and two Nueva Manteca CD (I'll post them later on) about 15 years ago in a discount bin in my local supermarket.  They were all on the short-lived Lucho label, a small Dutch label that specialised in latino / caribbean music.  I must confess that it was the drawing on the cover, by the Dutch artist Joost Swarte

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I just read that Captain Beefheart died following a long struggle against Multiple Sclerosis.  He was 69. We'll miss You Captain! In memoriam: three of my favorite You Tube Video:: 1968 -  Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band in Cannes 1969 -Captain Beefheart & his Magic Ban - Live @ Amougies,  Belgium, 1969 Captain Beefheart - I'm Gonna Boogiarize You BabyCheers Don!

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A tribute to the late Ernest Wiehe, composer, arranger, saxophonist, pianist, educator, architect, painter and great Mauritian (1944-2010). Ernest Wiehe (left) - Philip Thomas (right) (source: L'Express) The name “Mauritius” usually conjures image of a tourist paradise with sandy tropical beaches, never ending fields of sugarcane, , sega dancers, rum cocktails, gateaux-piments, dhal puree and

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From "Discography of Belgian Jazz" - Robert Pernet, 1999. This obscure 45 rpm was requested by Hoochie Coochie Man in the comments on BNO, below.  Pretty rare record, I daresay! It is the only recording by the “Brussels Art Quintet” and as such it documents an interesting period in Belgian Jazz, bringing together three “names”: guitarist Daniel Schellekens (better known as Daniel Schell),

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Today, a little-known modern big band from the North West.  It is again a CD I found on a “brocante” (flea market), in Ganshoren (Brussels), in the early nineties.  Again I didn’t have a clue about the band (and there was no Internet, no Google, no Discogs or AMG!).  But it looked OK, it was from the West Coast which is a hotbed for modern big bands and it was very cheap.  I took it.  The Kicks

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Just to water your mouth, here are a few LPs in my collection that I may post if I ever get the time to rip them (and that won’t be for a few months ...).  Never saw any of them on the Net... Babs Robert 4tet - Babs Robert & the Love Planet (Belgium, 1970) Act Big Band – self-titled (Belgium, 1981)The Clouds – self-titled  (feat.Freddy Sunder etc., Belgium, 1966)Pierre Cavalli & Norma Green -

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On the menu today? A plate of Sizzlin’ Scandinavian Jazz by a major figure of Danish Jazz!  A few years ago I found this CD in a cut-rate bin.  Straight ahead tenor / bass / drums trio.  The real test for a sax player, no room for mistakes.  And believe me, Bent Jaedig passes the test with all honors. Listen for instance to the beautiful Ballad for Brew (i.e. Brew Moore who resided and recorded

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Here is my first attempt at posting an album: the Dutch band Brand New Orleans, an intriguing combination of post-bop and afro-caribbean drumming. It was released in 1995 but, as far as I know, it is out of print. Credits: Ben van den Dungen (tenor- en sopraan sax) ; Jarmo Hoogendijk (trompet) ; Juraj Stanik (piano en orgel) ; Harry Emery (bas) ; John Engels (drums) ; Willem Jansen (afrikaanse

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Chaka Chaka Boom Boom,  Capitol 107 FM, Port Vila, Vanuatu, c. 2008 Twice in my life I had the opportunity to make Radio Programs and play the music I like for a wider audience.  The first time was in the eighties, on Radio Comores, in the Indian Ocean. I had two programs.  "Honky Tonk" was a blues/roots program and "Night Train" was a Jazz program.  They lasted a few months.  It was long

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