king ubu

I don't like Bärtsch that much... but the umlaut there would make proper spelling Baertsch and pronounciation for the "a" or "ae" is similar as in "where" or "there", so make that something like "bearch". (no barch and no borscht)

We all have a giant ECM hug fest tonight!

It's also on Fresh Sound 357, at least the 2004 version I've got. Another question though: at the end of just that track, "Lester Left Town" (CD2#1), someone (dee jay?) is heard stating that Walter Davis Jr. was sitting in on piano for Bobby Timmons that morning... which implies Timmons was absent that day, hence Davis would also play on the other tune from that June 4, 1960 date, "The Midget" (heard on CD1#3). But that doesn't seem to be noted anywhere...

Yes, very sad. His take of "Die schöne Müllerin" is part of the soundtrack of my childhood. Wish I owned it and could play it now!

Yeah, it's the corporate thieves that are actually trying to make sure that the "normal" thieves have to pay $100.000 per tune and disappear in some dark and dusty jail cells. Just make sure they're all imprisoned in the US, they've got far too few of their citizens imprisoned anyways

My thoughts exactly. Yes indeed.

btw, I still can't get over the fact that there's a thread just for me - still cooler would be if I had limitless votes in the poll

"Sudori" is indeed a fine disc! Some Actis Dato quartet discs could be nominated here, too... "Fes Montuno" or "Istanbul Rap" for instance (both on yvp)

I gather high gnus are quite something, too... on their migration I'm sure they get quite high when they go through that river and have to trample over others in order not to be trampled themselves.

No idea what thimbles are... excuse me while I go outside and look for some!

Poppa Lou will walk in and out and bring loads of sammiches

who was first? chicken or egg? mistake or correction? poster or thread?

Well, would you want to be someone else than yourself just to have dinner with what might turn out to be a semi-dumb, bloated, and maybe junked up artist? Or are we supposed to assume that - in this scenario - all artists are very likeable people and most interested in talking to us of all people?

Whenever will be fine with me... I'm lagging behind some, still need the huge Ellington, the new Hawkins, the Threadgill, and several others. But then I guess it would help them bigtime if people bought more stuff just after release, rather than waiting.

Who's Dana and why does my copy take so darn long to get over the pond?!

Hm... I guess stealing back from the thieves is generally an accepted practice here, even if the thieves aren't, according to the laws of their countries But yes indeed - it makes one hope that Mosaic will indeed do their planned Chick/Ella box! I was afraid they might scratch it after the Universal box appeared, but that doesn't seem the case.

btw, where's the poll here?

Yeah - I'd rather have someone at my table that would be genuinly interested. That's rare enough with real people that you do get to know, so... but at this time, I'd say Matana Roberts. And it would be me inviting her, of course!

It's on my shopping list... told you it was a silly question since I did anticipate the answer

What could make me reconsider buying "Easy Living" is that Cuscuna (in his "post script" in the Bennie Green Mosaic Select booklet) says those three quartet ballads are among Quebec's finest... so I might take the plunge there, and will happily live on without the two 1959 tracks from the Japanese disc.

Now I know for sure you live in a dream! You suppose wrongly since you take my conjunctive statement as something you think I might believe is possible these days. As I know that's not an option, I let you live on in your dream thinking you know where I live. Btw, if you have those two CDs for sale (you do keep repeating CDs are worth sh*t, after all, don't you?), send them over to me, please, I'll send you two quid. Don't worry I do you know that. An idle pleasantry. I'm sure I could find you those CDs though - but I am not sure which ones you want...? I know that you know that I know that you know... "Easy Living" and the Japanese "From Hackensack to Englewood Cliffs" which is nowhere to be found on amazon or ebay nowadays. The former seems to be around, but I've recently had some bad experience with several marketplace vendors both via amazon and priceminister, and I'm really not sure I need two more Quebec ballads (Living) and two more organ tracks à la 45 Sessions (Hack Cliffs). That's why, in earlier days (such as 2000, when the Japanese CD reissued the first 45 Session, adding two prev. unissued tracks) it *would* have made perfect sense to pull this together with the tracks on "Lost Sessions" and maybe the two tracks added to Green's "The Latin Bit"... also there are two unissued sessions w/Green from 1962 (May 25 and June 1), where mostly the same tunes were attempted twice... some of that has to be good enough, one would think! (Not sure though, both dates are labelled "rejected", not "unissued", so...)

Now I know for sure you live in a dream! You suppose wrongly since you take my conjunctive statement as something you think I might believe is possible these days. As I know that's not an option, I let you live on in your dream thinking you know where I live. Btw, if you have those two CDs for sale (you do keep repeating CDs are worth sh*t, after all, don't you?), send them over to me, please, I'll send you two quid.

Gee, just found out that "From Hackensack to Englewood Cliffs" has yet another two tracks... from a three-track (?) 1959 session, likely with the same band as on the first of the 45 sessions... someone ought to pull together all those stray tracks (including those w/Green and those on the Lost Sessions disc) - that would make a lovely compilation! Why weren't those two tracks ("Uptight" and "Cry Me a River") added to the Conn reissue of "The Incomplete (it's official!) Blue Note 45 Sessions"?

Happy Birthday, Larry!

Loads of respect for "Chitinous" in this house And loads of love, too!