At the end of the day we all plough our own furrow. Some of the stuff that gets featured on this thread I haven’t got a clue about. Occasionally I’ve dipped my toe in the water but pulled it out pretty quickly. 
Dave
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Christian Scott Axiom Live
“What you’re going to experience is the re-evaluation,” Scott informed the audience. “We have just crossed into the second century of creative improvised music, or othersowise if you prefer belittling and pejorative terms, jazz. We’re re-evaluating what we’re playing and why. We want everybody to know that they are free, that they are safe if they want to express themselves; as long as they don’t sneeze while doing it, then everyone will be on the same page. We’re not runnin,’ but wash your damn hands.”
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Axiom album review @ All About Jazz
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Any thoughts on Graham Collier and this compilation on BGO in particular? Usually their mastering is reasonably well done.
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Michael Fremer on Analog Planet is reporting that Impulse is celebrating 60 years with an extensive campaign this year, but there’s not much detail.
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Sounds promising
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May sees the release of this gorgeous-looking but horrendously expensive Impulse! 60th anniversary box set.
Tracklist:
Side A
- The John Coltrane Quartet — Africa
Side B
- Max Roach — Garvey’s Ghost
- Quincy Jones and his Orchestra — Hard Sock Dance
- John Coltrane — Up ‘Gainst the Wall
- Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet — Just Us Blues
Side C
- John Coltrane — Alabama
- Charles Mingus — Better Get Hit in Yo’ Soul
- Shirley Scott Trio — Freedom Dance
- Yusef Lateef — Sister Mamie
Side D
- Archie Shepp — Malcolm, Malcolm—Semper Malcolm
- Stanley Turrentine — Good Lookin’ Out
- Earl Hines — Black and Tan Fantasy
- Oliver Nelson — The Rights of All
Side E
- Pharoah Sanders — The Creator Has a Master Plan (edit)
- John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane — Reverend King
Side F
- The Ahmad Jamal Trio — The Awakening
- Albert Ayler — Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
- Charlie Haden — We Shall Overcome
Side G
- Alice Coltrane — Blue Nile
- Pharoah Sanders — Astral Traveling
- Archie Shepp — Blues for Brother George Jackson
- Michael White — Lament (Mankind)
Side H
- Dewey Redman — Imani
- Marion Brown — Bismillahi ‘Rrahmani ‘Rrahim
- John Handy — Hard Work
There’s also a CD version, which is actually pretty good value!
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Maybe, hopefully, they will re issue some complete albums AAA similar to Tone Poet or Acoustic Sounds
@Dreadatthecontrols – they are doing quite a few reissues of classic LPs by Mingus, Trane, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders in conjunction with Acoustic Sounds, as far as I know - releases on Verve, EmArcy, Decca and Philips as well as Impulse! too.
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Cheers Kevster, I’m aware of the Acoustic Sounds Series, I’ve cherry picked a few so far, Trane, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan but didnt know they were going to do some Impulse titles, there could be a few there to wet my whistle.
Thanks for the nod will check it out 
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@TheKevster
As an addendum to the above, if I’ve understood correctly, Impulse/UME are going to do a 60th anniversary issue campaign whilst at the same time Acoustic Sounds will be re issuing some titles as part of their current series.
Have to wait and see what the Impulse/UME issues are like. Hopefully they will take inspiration from the Tone Poet/Acoustic Sounds/BN80 etc issues and do it properly. Fingers crossed
Impulse! Records Celebrates 60 Years With Year-Long Campaign | Analog Planet
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Let’s hope that Ptah, the El Daoud is amongst them.
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Sorry to interject, what is
I’m forgetting that Ballads and ALS are of course Impulse label. Doh!
Didn’t Herb Alpert do a version as well in his disco phase ? Wonder what Rodrigo would have made of that ?
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Hi Dread - Alice Coltrane classic long unavailable. Insanely expensive used and only some dodgy no-label reissues ( Russian Federation taken from a stretched cassette tape - you get the picture)
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Roger that! Not heard of it before, so Ptah,the El Daoud is the title of the album?
@anon77199223 … your post intrigued me so thought to give it a shot and listen to Japan Suite of Paul Bley. I have to agree with you: album doesn’t have any structure or anything. Not really me style ir preference 
even though I like the other Paul Bley albums
Iver
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Yes, a wonderful album. I had it on cd before, but didn’t know it costs so much. I just checked, prices go to 850 dollars on Discogs. And the best media condition is VG+.
