king ubu

So, playing the great Jamaican versions of "Catch a Fire" again, I wonder... the booklet says this: So I've so far had no reason to doubt the "authenticity" of this edition ... please enlighten me as to why I should trust Captain Wrong's statement above! Is what he posted "common knowledge" that I, the rather casual Marley fan, just didn't catch yet?

Lotsa love! Been playing some of his stuff lately, even bought that 3CD Hilda set for some sides with him (I do know they'd been around on a single disc, but hey...). Also got the Savoy 2LP set, which is wonderful! That might be my Byas release for the island. Will look in due time for this new one! I see there's a Stan Getz release there, too. Oh, and I obviously was puzzled by the name of the label...

All the best, Jim, and many happy returns!

Whipping johns w/birches? wasn't that what the song and dance man sung about?

I might eventually go for it, too

Big time, big time! Good to see this one after the Jaco years box... though I'll probably buy neither of them, got all the early ones on older CDs (the debut on the old Masterpieces edition, the Tokyo on some European pressing).

Well, no need for explanations if McPhee is involved! Hat documented a lot of his music when almost no one else was interested - bringing some early albums of his back is most welcome! Where's that announcement from, Colin? Can't seem to find it on the CvsD site.

Gee, I must be sh*tting bull!

I dissent.

it is as it is

but it must SCHVING!

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

tightly woven

sheesh, this is MY thread, stop peeing on it!

And Carla Bley for dinner music, right?

I think I've first heard him with Bennie Wallace on the air ... missed his one terrific Zurich concert, around 1999/2000, I think. Wallace, Danton Boller, Queen - mighty fine band. Queen's indeed on some European productions, with Dusko for instance, but also with Swiss piano great Marc Hemmeler. I think Queen's been based in Switzerland for many years (as was Jimmy Woode), but I still haven't yet managed to catch him live. (Just wondered if it was him on drums when I heard Benny Bailey/Joe Haider's quintet, but it was John Engels - the others were Andy Scherrer on tenor and Isla Eckinger on bass - fine band, good concert, great experience to have caught Benny live!)

Discovered Bobby Wellins big time lately (also wrote an article about him for the next number of get happy!? - which alas is in German) - love his Lady Day homage on "The Satin Album" and "Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing"... the above-mentioned "Snapshot" is also very good, but "When the Sun Comes Out" (also recorded live) is even better! The most recent one I got so far is "Time Gentlemen, Please", which is a bit more restrained (recorded studio) and features a new band (save for Andy Cleyndert on bass) with John Critchinson on piano and Mark Taylor on drums. It's very good as well though, even if it's a little less lively. Seems Wellins does benefit quite some from the live situation.

Same with me as with Mike - slowly, over the years. Other recordings I remember include Miles' "Amandla" (which, I mentioned it before, my mom loved), several by Ella (most notably "Ella Swings Lightly" with a great band directed by Marty Paich - another one mom loved). Then there were some of my dad's LPs, such as "This Here is Bobby Timmons" and Art Blakey's glorious "Free for All" (which remains to this day my Blakey favorite). I don't quite remember which (very few) jazz titles the local library had (back then a village of around 8000 inhabitants, it grew a bit, library must have made some advances, too), but one they had was a cheapo bootleg of The Giants of Jazz live somewhere in Scandinavia (at least the disc said so ... it was on that label with the dotted covers, Jazz Up or something). I didn't get that. Then dad bought Diana Krall's second disc, which quickly took permanent residence in my room. .. I loved her Nat homage and the follow-up "Love Scenes" when in highschool, but by then I went in all kinds of directions, checking out stuff from Miles ("Workin'" and "Kind of Blue" were the titles at the library) to Coltrane (my dad's LP of "A Love Supreme", the library's "Master Works of Coltrane", which took me a long time to get). Around that time I started collecting, got the Atlantic Trane box for x-mas when I was out fairly new, then soon ordered my first Mosaic (the TKM set about which I'd read a very favorable review in some newspaper, and I just had to get that one, no matter what a nuisance it was, back in the days of money order and slow but cheaper surface shipping). Anyway, when I was 17 or 18 I had plenty of Mingus (1955-1964), Miles (all eras), Coltrane (most of the OJCCDs, lots of Impulses), Monk (the Blue Notes, several prestige and Riversides), Bill Evans (several Riversides), Cannonball (several Riversides, Somethin' Else, the Landmark LP edition of "In Europe"), Dolphy, plenty of classic Blue Note (JOS, Blakey, Mobley, Morgan ...), and more than a dozen Mosaic boxes, too - and from there I just went on and on

I don't need defined briefs just yet, but who knows, that day may come

I guess I'll live happily everafter without knowing "Forms & Sounds" then ... this thread was the first time I've heard of it, anyway. Got "Skies" on vinyl not that long ago (seems legit, but probably I wouldn't know if it was a counterfeit).

Okay, thanks J.A.W. - that's what I thought. They did more (and it seems better) with the catalogue than ZYX did, for sure!

Still waiting for the huuuuuuuuuuge fifties JATP Verve box, alas (I know, I know, Mr. Ayers )

frequently played on Sunday mornings - I must have been hooked to it when I was like ... four?