couw

my CD of Coltrane - Impressions is made in Germany on MCA/Impulse! (distr. BMG) and also released 1987 (MCD 05887)

If there is one, what's the story here? I thought the Wilen family was involved in the "bifurquent" CD.

Jim, would you say that he sounds a bit different here than usual though? (I'm otherwise not very familiar with this period of his work). He does seem a bit gruffer and, I dunno, maybe more emotional here, something that I've always attributed to Monk's passing just a few days before. I don't think so, not particularly. He wasn't playing tenor as much in those days as he did before or later, so that might be part of the gruffness, as might the event you describe. But as somebody who's followed all periods of his work with equal interest/fascination, I think he sounds very much like himself here, which is why the lack of ready identifications is surprising to me. To me the player on track one ceased to sound like something I'd like to listen to in the early 70s and so I did not follow all periods of his work and hearing this track doesn't move me to invest. So I guess he does sound like himself in that respect...

een: RMidnight obviously with a tenor that sways between a blaring reed and a tight buttocks sound. 's Okay with me, though it doesn't work for me. Too much to do about something I am not part of then. Let me go get a beer instead. twee: so I return with my beer and I get this pianist who has this on-the-verge-of-cheesy sound of Emil Viklický. And heck, I like it. Some of those Scandinavians produce similar sounds, but with the bass sounding as it does I will stick to Czeckoslovakia as it was called at the time. drie: ding dong! who's there? the guy selling icecream on the mechican beech! Burton on vibes? Who's on mariachi trumpet drinking all the tequila then? Nice recording with the vibes spread through the centre, though the bass is scary, ECM? vier: IRClifford, 's nice but also hard to go wrong with this tune in this pace. Don't know the tenor. vijf: heheheh. Sounds like all the tb player gets from "the nearness of you" is her mean stinkin' farts. Love how this Schnulze is rendered. The uptempo second half suggests Ray Anderson. Love the utterly shitty ending too. How low can you go? Taste or tone? Taste. Oh well, about this low. heheheh. zes: my head hurts like two saxes playing simultaneously too far apart. The dude on the left is much further in the back, probably to ensure those using headphones to turn insane prematurely. So Rivers is the guy they left pushed back. All in all this is a bit of a mess on tape. May have been great to sit in the middle of, but this gets boring too soon. zeven: this is all pretty bland somehow, I blame the sound, but the vibes are great, whodatt? Eddie? acht: hah! fun familiar tune. no clue - need to lift some feet and dance a little here. negen: the bass/piano have this "nagging" going on that makes it hard for me to enjoy this. Cut it out already willya! Sheesh! The whack separation with drums hard left, piano harid right and guitar AND the feghing bass dead centre are not ideal for following what the guitarist is weaving whilst playing his guts out. Please someone shoot the bassist! (and the recording engineer). tien: Terry and Burrell and a bunch of other guys? 's Nice. elf: Brâââp!!!! good, but not a clue. twaalf: lurvit, really do. More please. dertien: this starts off far worse than it somehow turns out to be. It's all a bit too crappy to keep from sliding, but it somehow manages to keep afoot. Not something I'd seek out, but okay after all. veertien: where did they record this? in a telephone booth outside of Chokurdakh? Nice playing in crap sound. The tenor is off the leash obviously and the band carries the frenzy well. Killer stuff once the tenor gets going good; though it all crumbles somewhat towards the end. vijftien: "yes it's that time of the week again! Welcome to our show! Our guests today include Leo Mareo, Charlie Whitaker, Dune Francis and Mabel Persip. And here is your host: Harvey Haslom!!!!" [clapclapclap] *Very* nice for the telly. Might as well be a BBC production. Seriously: this is whack, but good whack with plenty winky-winks. "And what did our contestants win? A fridge and a coffee grinder!!!" [clapclapclap] zestien: either this is a bad joke or it's really bad. [edited for spelling]

Tommy T's on Archie Shepp's "Mama Too Tight" as well.

look under the "blog" link for a post titled "Pief"

is this correct english? Reading this I envisage the folks at Mosaic envisaging Chu playing his sax while having his automobile crash.

I see we are behind on schedule somewhat with RDK's december BFT only just started. This would mean my turn is April and that's incredibly bad timing. If someone is able to step in ahead that would be splendid. If someone could be second "backup" that would be cool too as I am not sure whether I can be online much in April/May.

it seems the entire lycos.com web is down. "international" sites like lycos.co.uk, lycos.de and lycos.fr are still up and running. www.lycos.ca is down too though.

It's one of those really nice Supraphon albums that have a gatefold cover with a book glued in. Already worth acquiring for its looks! This one presents an overview of Czechoslovakian "dance bands", made sometime in the late 50s/early 60s is my guess. There is some pretty wild and whack stuff among the 15 tracks. I sometimes wonder how people were supposed to dance to it all... Thanks Couw! Any musical relation with Goran Bregovic and Mid European Brass Band? I'll look for some of them next time I'll dig in some vinyl shops. it's less Balkan and more C-European folk and classical influences. In this time Karel Krautgartner did some great pieces combining classical structures with jazz settings and improvisations; he's a good classical clarinet player, known for his recordings of Stravinsky. Very nice. The bands of Gustav Brom and Karel Vlach produced very solid swinging jazz tinged dance music with the occasional off the wall solo. Dalibór Brazda had a brass and string orchestra that did these very light swinging pieces with a rich swaying sound supported every now and then by voices going "oooh" and "aaah". Gotta luvvit. I only have the 1958-1960 and the 1961 installments, but AFAIK the "Jazz in Czechoslovakia" LPs all come in this lush gatefold cum booklet form. They were released for the foreign market and can be found in with English, German and French text. The music on these albums is really excellent.

It's one of those really nice Supraphon albums that have a gatefold cover with a book glued in. Already worth acquiring for its looks! This one presents an overview of Czechoslovakian "dance bands", made sometime in the late 50s/early 60s is my guess. There is some pretty wild and whack stuff among the 15 tracks. I sometimes wonder how people were supposed to dance to it all...

hmm, bought a copy of this one today at the local thrift: turns out there was a copy of this in the sleeve, which I already had... I'll keep it for the cover then.

Theo Schumann Combo - Tanz in Theos Beat-Bar (Amiga) yay!

I got disk one just for kicks. It is unlikely I will find time to listen and comment, but I at least made a start! heh.

Tipper and her PMRC (?)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...4059142-3314862

this lazy ass once had a pretty fast transcoding ditty around but it's gone now after the machine exploded and was hidden in a pile of sand.

nice:

have you tried and peeled?

Hampton Hawes - A Little Copenhagen Night Music (Arista Freedom)

The Magnificent Tommy Flanagan (Progressive) w/ George Mraz and Al Foster

Kenny Drew - Dark Beauty (Inner City/SteepleChase)

same on my OJC LP, I always blamed it on the thing being a bit warped...

Jazz in der Tschechoslowakei 1961 (Supraphon) yay!

This stuff tends to wear off after a couple of listens I have learned. I used to listen to this kind of music quite a bit, but only a small number of things have stood the test of repeated listenings. Maybe that's not what it's there for, but ey. Anyhoo, Boards of Canada, ja ja, but snoozy snoozzz after not too long. On the other hand, Jazzanova has produced some very nice things and "In Between" is likely the best of the bunch. The Dutch group SfeQ has had some real nice efforts too, jazz with a bass clarinet and jungle house beat. Their best efforts are the SfeQ Utd. albums (Vols. 1 & 2) on Dox.