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In case anyone's interested, here's what's currently in the $1.99 Clearance Section: Ben Webster Ultimate Ben Webster Benny Green Naturally Bob Belden Re-Animation Live! Bob Belden Tapestry Bob Dorough & Dave Fishberg Who's On First? Branford Marsalis The Dark Keys Buckshot LeFonque Music Evolution Bud Powell Best Of Bud Powell Carmen McRae The Collected Carmen McRae Christian McBride A Family Affair David Sánchez Street Scenes Dewey Redman/Cecil Taylor/Elvin Jones Momentum Space Dexter Gordon Go Dianne Reeves Art & Survival Don Byron Bug Music Don Byron A Fine Line Don Byron Romance With The Unseen Earl Klugh The Journey Eric Reed Manhattan Melodies George Howard A Home Far Away Gerald Albright Giving Myself To You Gilles Peterson Incredible Sound Of Gilles Peterson Gonzalo Rubalcaba Antiguo GRP All-Star Big Band All Blues Hank Crawford/Jimmy McGriff Crunch TIme Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter 1 + 1 Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson Rendezvous Jacques Loussier Trio Take Bach James Moody Moody Plays Mancini Jimmy Smith Talkin' Verve: The Roots Of Acid Jazz Joe Lovano Celebrating Sinatra Joe Williams That Holiday Feelin' John Pizzarelli Dear Mr. Cole John Pizzarelli Let's Share Christmas John Pizzarelli Meets The Beatles John Pizzarelli Our Love Is Here To Stay Joshua Redman Timeless Tales (For Changing Times) Kenny Garrett Song Book Lee Konitz Another Shade Of Blue Lena Horne We'll Be Together Again Marcus Roberts As Serenity Approaches Marcus Roberts Gershwin For Lovers Marcus Roberts Blues For The New Millennium Mark Isham Miles Remembered: The Silent Way Project Mark Shim Turbulent Flow Mark Turner Ballad Session Martin Taylor Kiss And Tell Philippe Saisse Next Voyage Rahsaan Roland Kirk Verve Jazz Masters 27 Ravi Coltrane Moving Pictures Roy Hargrove Family Rob Wasserman Space Island Ruth Cameron Roadhouse Royal Crown Revue The Contender Sonny Rollins Global Warming Soundtrack Get Shorty Soundtrack Playing By Heart The Clayton Brothers Siblingity Tom Harrell The Art Of Rhythm Tom Harrell Time's Mirror Tom Scott Night Creatures Various Artists More Fabulous Big Band Various Artists More Fabulous Swing Yellowjackets Dreamland Yellowjackets Blue Hats Yellowjackets Run For Your Life I'm eyeing a couple - can anyone recommend the Green, McBride, Redman/Taylor/Jones, Crawford/McGriff, Lovano, Coltrane and Hargrove titles? Or steer me away from them if they not worth $1.99?

Sounds like that couple had a bad experience at the show. Maybe they were expecting more BN/straightahead stuff, and got überjam. Though if there were technical problems for half of the show, that's certainly would have an effect as well. I'm surprised about the low turnouts. Is that pretty much the norm for that type of show? When I last saw Sco here, it was in a 4000+ seat venue, and it was close to being sold out. I thought I'd read somewhere a while back that he was getting the jam band crowds coming to his shows, probaby due to the MMW connection. Berlin is probably an 8 hour drive from here (or about 6-7 without the family ), so it's a little too far for a show. If I knew someone there I could stay with, that might help, but with gas/food/lodging etc., it's really not an affordable trip for me unfortunately. Plus, I've got a few other May concerts locally that I've still got to narrow down to one or two must-sees.

I am partial to Grant Green's Matador also, which wasn't released in the U.S. until 1990 (1979 in Japan).

Thanks for the recommendations. I've been spinning Love for Sale a bit lately, and enjoying it. Conquistador is taking a little longer for me to get into, as to be expected I guess. I find it interesting that BN hasn't really pushed the Coltrane Time disc - made it a Connosseur or RVG or something. Is it OOP currently? Seems like they'd be all over that as an opportunity to have more BN Coltrane on the market. Though I'd still think it would be more appropriate to have Taylor's name as the leader, not 'Trane's.

What was the set list at the show, Joe? Mostly from überjam and the upcoming release? I wish he'd bring this band over here! I saw Sco a couple of years back, just after the Bump album came out. He played a mix of funk and straight-ahead, and was great! I spoke with him backstage after the show for a few minutes, and he seemed to be very friendly, even got him to sign my copies of A Go Go and Steady Groovin'. Thanks for the recommendation, Jimmy Gee. For the (used) price, it's probably worth picking up. I think I've seen that "Shortcuts" disc as well. May have to keep an eye open for it as well. Also, for anyone interested, I just received the two disc version of Pick Hits Live. The extra disc contains three tunes - Still Warm, The Nag, and So You Say - and totals about 43 minutes of extra music. Not too shabby!!! Joe - Maultaschen is a Schwabian dish that is basically ravioli. I was just curious as to its availability as far north in Germany as couw is.

Drove to Brugge Belgium and back this past weekend on the following: Clifford Brown/Max Roach - Basin St. Marilyn Crispell - nothing ever was, anyway. Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo Thelonious Monk - In Tokyo Jimmy Smith - Lonesome Road Weather Report - Tale Spinnin' The Essential Leonard Cohen

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Odd Times Art Blakey - Freedom Rider John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Jack DeJohnette - Special Edition Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson - Dansere Freddie Hubbard - Hub Tones Pat Metheny - Speaking of Now Horace Silver - Finger Poppin' Cecil Taylor - Love for Sale Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree

Due out on May 20th, from the überjam band lineup:

Welcome to the Astros, Mr. Kent! HR in his first AB - nice way to start off the season. Actually, all the guys on the team named "Jeff" (or Geoff) hit HRs in their season opener - Bagwell had two, and Blum had another. In that dimebox formerly known as Enron Field, the 'Stros could have a lineup that challenges the team HR record for a season, whatever that is.

That Bass Desires album is fantastic! I've been keeping my eye out for it's sequel, Second Sight for a long time, but haven't come up with it locally yet. I would've loved to have seen that tour. On another Sco note, I'm still kicking myself for putting that East Meets West vinyl back in the bin at one of my used stores a while back (thinking it would be available on my next visit). Haven't seen it again, and don't really expect to see another copy any time soon. Metheny & Haden are coming here next month, I assume playing selections from Missouri Sky, and possibly some newer stuff as well (?). I'm gonna try and get to that show (alot of non-jazz shows in May here as well - Neil Young, Lou Reed, and Peter Gabriel have all piqued my interest). P.S. - I guess couw doesn't know what Maultaschen is

I'm a relative newbie with respect to Cecil Taylor. In fact I presently own only Love for Sale and Conquistador. I'd like to get a little more into Taylor, but after Conquistador I don't know if I'm ready for the deep-end just yet. I'd like to ease into this music a little more. Any recommendations? Also, I happened to notice that although Dennis Charles is listed as the drummer on LFS, the liner notes mention Rudy Collins. Is this correct, or a mistake on William Thompson's part? Finally , I noticed an album called Coltrane Time, but haven't determined if that's his date or Trane's. How is that one? Believe it's their only collaboration, and sounds intriguing, though I guess it's pretty early - relatively speaking - in both of their careers.

Hey couw - are there any good restaurants serving Maultaschen oder Spätzle up that far north? Think I could go for a nice bowl of Käsespätzle tonight! Though I guess that's a little off topic!!! Thanks for the pointer to Amazon.de also. I always seem to forget them and concentrate on zweitausendeins when I'm surfing german music websites. I'll probably checked my usual used stores first though. One in particular seems to always surprise me with what they have available.

I'd agree that Sco's work isn't as varied - though in retrospect, he's tried a LARGE variety of band combinations over the years, trio, quartet, organ, acoustic, funk, collaborations w/Frisell, Metheny, Abercrombie, etc. And that's just his leader dates. So it's not as if he's TRYING to stay in one bag, to me anyway, but he's still got that identifiable Sco thing (this sentence sounds like I quoted JSngry ). But I hear you re: Metheny. There is SO much variety in his work! I like Missouri Sky and Imaginary Day, though the last PMG release hasn't really done much for me (was listening to it in the car just yesterday). I don't have all that much Metheny yet, so there's a whole lot for me to digest there. Frisell I've really grown to like lately. I've got a number of his nonesuch releases, and really have enjoyed them. They don't move me like Sco does, but I've gotten to where I'll buy his new releases without reservation. If you can find it, I think you'd really enjoy Lagrene's Standards disc on Blue Note. Gypsy Project is also great, in the Django/Hot Club style. I also have his Sinatra tribute, Blue Eyes which is nice, and even includes him singing on a couple of tunes. I don't know Sylvan Luc, but I have seen that duet disc once or twice here locally. Another one for my "to buy" list... And no, I haven't seen the video you mentioned - or any Sco video for that matter. Not sure I'd have time to watch that anyway, since my kids seem to have commandeered the TV set. And I'm not native German, though I've lived here during parts of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and now 00s. I'm American, and consider myself to be from Texas - love it here in Deutschland, though! Went to Texas A&M (hence the "Aggie name). So English is my first language. I can speak German passably, though I definitely don't have the right accent. Especially the Schwabian dialect in this area, which is sort of equivalent to the southern dialect in the U.S. Definitely not "hoch Deutsch"! My daughter goes to German kindergarten, so she's just starting to pick up a little German language, which is the perfect age to start learning a second language, IMO. I have German colleagues and friends, and we've had a number of interesting discussions about current events. Most don't assume that since I'm American that I'm automatically for (or against) what's going on. It's nice to engage in conversation with open-minded people who can respect one another's opinion, regardless whether it mirrors your own or not.

I haven't seen that Mangelsdorf disc before. I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the heads-up. Scofield's done quite a bit of sideman work, for a wide variety of musicians. Kinda hard to keep up with it. Of the current stuff, do you prefer his funkier side, or the more straight ahead (Works for Me, ScoLoHoFo)? I like it all - his tone, approach, and just about everything. This hasn't really happened for me with many other contemporary guitarists, like Frisell or Metheny. I like both of them, but not everything they've done. I haven't found a Sco disc that I've disliked yet. I've got the Japanese 2-disc version of Pick Hits Live on its way to me right now (thanks to another board member), and am looking forward to that. I've also just started discovering Bireli Lagrene over the past 6 months or so, and enjoy everything I've heard from him so far as well. And I just recently picked up Pat Martino's '97 BN date, All Sides Now, but it's still in the queue to be listened to. Landstuhl is about 2.5 hours away from here on the autobahn (or less if you take advantage of the no-speed limits ). It's a huge military hospital complex, as I'm sure you know. I don't get up there very often, but it's pretty country in that area. -Erik

Surely you can't be serious!!! That's the most lame thing I've heard all day! You must be a member of political party X. Of course, those of us in political party Y know the REAL truth. But you and your small-minded colleagues refuse to accept or even acknowledge OUR position, which as every party Y member knows is: Oop-BAP-sad'dam, a-phillyjoe-a-mop. ...or maybe you're one of those guys from country Z, in which case your opinion is irrelevant.

The Abercrombie disc you're referring to is Solar, which I picked up last year on Westwind. I really like their interplay on that a lot. Gonna have to go re-look the packaging, but I don't recall liner notes like that - at least on the Westwind release - only a brief paragraph from Orrin Keepnews, who produced it, I think. Yeah, the two titles I mentioned are probably fairly obscure, especially the Eero. I hadn't even heard of him before, but Sco's name on the cover caught my eye while I was trolling for deals. Let me know what you think of the show. He's not coming to Stuttgart this time around, or I'd jump on it also. There were a couple of humorous comments about Sco live (and his "bald head") on the old BNBB thread. I saw him about two years ago, just before Works for Me came out, and it was great. Wish I could've seen him in the old BN years w/Lovano. -Erik

Restarting the Sco-corner, since mjzee apparently isn't around any more (hope I don't end up just talking to myself about Sco)... Anyway, I found two Scofield related items at my used store, but haven't pulled the trigger on either. Can anyone recommend either of these titles: Eero Koivistoinen (try saying that fast!)- Picture in Three Colours, Core Records 1983 (also includes Jack DeJohnette) and All Strings Attached, Verve 1987 - some sort of guitar summit or something, with John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow, and John Patitucci Thanks, Erik

IMO you can't really go wrong with any of Moran's leader dates. His most recent album, Modernistic, is solo piano, and is FANTASTIC. And also check out his work on Osby's Banned in New York live set.

Miles Davis - Milestones McBride/Payton/Whitfield - Fingerpainting Medeski Martin & Wood - Tonic Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Antiguo (TOCJ) Wayne Shorter - All Seeing Eye (RVG) Mike Stern - Play David S. Ware - Surrendered Cassandra Wilson - Belly of the Sun Marillion - Anorak in the U.K.

One day sale - 50% off and no s/h Promotion Code - "C3P1", a close relative of:

J (can I call you that?) - In your e-mail there may be some sort of promotion code to get the "buy 1, unlimited $1.99" deal. If it's there, you simply have to plug it into the website, by clicking where it says "Have a Promotion Code?" If you don't have a promotion code in your e-mail, then I'm not sure what to tell ya. It's possible there next website "special" will be the $1.99 deal, but they simply haven't switched the website to that yet. Alternately, I've had success in going to their customer service webpage, and sending them a message explaining the offer you received, and the titles (w/selection #s) you want. After they process this order, it should show up under your account with the correct charges. I think the $1.99 deal is about the best one if you're planning to order a large number of single-disc titles. -Erik

I'm with ya on the Charlie Haden, Alexander. I bought it based on the presence of Mehldau and Blade also. And I also liked his last leader date, Nocturne, so I figured this one should be worth it. But I'm having problems getting into it as well. I haven't decided to jettison it yet, but it's not looking good so far. By the way, is it ok to take back cds simply because you don't like the music on it? I've never tried this before. I've always assumed you could only take cds back if they're damaged or something.

BMG now has Chucho Valdes' latest, Fantasia Cubana, on Norah. Highly recommended for Chucho fans, classic/jazz crossover, and solo-piano seekers.