king ubu

Yes! The whole discography is pretty messy, with some sessions from unknown dates etc. And the early Rearward releases (Calypso Blues, Sahib Shihab and All Those Cats, Griff'n'Bags) didn't exactly help... nor did their decision to change to actual albums and re-duplicate things again!

ok, so there are four albums of interest in there... I'll pay 50$ then

If the price for this is cheaper than for a Japanese "Into the Hot", I might care... else this is a very silly compilation. Some uninteresting stuff (who the hell is Jef Neve?!), some rarities (how's the Albam? the Gibbs? the Sims seems not be that great... the Manne is, got the LP, would love to get "Into the Hot" and "Streams" on their own! Also the Szabo). The rest has been around up and down and again... or has little interest (tell me if I'm wrong on the Klemmer and the Tom Scott and the Brecker). Just send me the Gil Evans and Sam Rivers and I'll shut up!

He's had a few albums released by Art of Life Records including one of him playing live at Appleby Jazz, I see! Gordon Beck on Art of Life Records I can definitely recommend "Experiments with Pops" & "Gyroscope". Seems I've been to that site before... the "Jazz Trio" with Humair and Mathewson looks tempting, too!

Anyone knows anything about this series? Seems to be official (from Universal) but seems to also include - if the titles are correct - tracks from the vault of the other major labels. New development there? Charlie Parker - The Complete Masters 1941-1954 (13CD) Should be the Savoy, Dial and Verve material, plus some early sides? Great entry point for anyone new to Bird's music, I'm sure! Sidney Bechet - The Complete American Masters 1931-1953 (14CD) This one has me puzzled... the major chunk of Bechet's music from those years was on RCA, some on Blue Note (EMI), some on Columbia (see the Mosaic Select). Why would Universal do this box... anyway, it does look tempting, even though I have the BN Mosaic and the Select on the way right now! Louis Armstrong - Complete Masters 1925-45 (14CD) pre-order price here is much higher... either way, this one's not really needed, but again, to those new to the music, it might be great! Billie Holiday - Complete Masters 1933-59 (15CD) Guess this would include the Columbia, Commodore, Decca, and Verve Masters... Ella Fitzgerald - Complete Masters 1935-55 (14CD, Decca) Probably all her Deccas...

Heard it yesterday, gave "No Tears... No Goodbyes" two spins, and will give it at least one more spin tonight. Wonderful disc. Don't know that much with Beck, and as leader albums go, the only one I have is that Bill Evans tribute (on MPS) - also gave it a spin today, it's pretty good!

Gil Evans - Where Flamingos Fly

vinyl day... before: Chick Corea - Inner Space now: Little Wing - The Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Germany

It' Nice to Be With You - Jim Hall in Berlin (MPS)

before: Seven Steps to Heaven - A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans r.i.p. Gordon Beck now: Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 (1946-1949) (RCA Jazz Tribune N° 2)

Exactly! It was also included in some 2 LP drummers anthology on French CBS. But it was recorded at the Golden Eight sessions. If the 2010 reissue is correct, it's from the Encore session - to nitpick a bit... I realize you write "sessions", but it was common knowledge that it is possibly from the "Golden 8" session, while now it seems to be from the "Golden Eight - Encore" sessions done a few days later (each of them done in two days in May 21, the "Encore" on May 23 and 24) ... but if it was was on a French CBS anthology, why was the previously available information sketchy and just guesswork? That does include Frohne's CD-rom discography attached to Hennessey's Klook biography (of which I have the german edition only, but it's still nice!)

Me too... though I've kind of learned to enjoy it more as the years went by.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Thanks! Was wondering if there was a negative/judgmental touch to that expression, but then I guess there isn't.

Just realized this: it seems one track from The Golden Eight - Encore was after all previously well-known and circulated: I'm quite sure that "A Ball for Othello" is the very same cut that was on Now Hear Our Meanin'!

Well, Dick Katz has died a while ago... Chuck, what does "<vanity> project" mean in this context?

And I guess the same goes for the Gitanes?

I did not know that...that kinda sucks... Neither did I. First, though: these two Merrill/Katz albums rank among the very finest of all vocal jazz! I've got the two Gitanes CDs (what version of "Lonely Woman" was used there?) and since there've been various comments on the sound of the Mosaic 2-on-1 being very low-par, I never felt any urge to replace them (they sound fine to my lacking ears... guess the Mosaic would, too...)

But be sure them reds still take oaths on the queen or that free shipping deal may be over fast! (Kind of perverted, anyway - free shipping from UK to OZ! Holy shit!)

OK, thanks! (Saw Visconti's very weird "Vaghe stelle dell'orsa" in the theater recently, and the dubbing was once more horrible... I hate it, but I still dearly love some Italian films from that era!)

yes, they were all dubbed! I hate dubbing because the actor's speech is part of his acting ability so it hurts first of all the actors. Yes, that's my very opinion - in talkies at least. But here we're talking musical... very artificially staged - with extras wearing clothes in certain colors and stuff like that... sort of a reality of its very own making. So that's not a big problem at all... took me about ten minutes to get into it, to get into the mood, and then I just leaned back and enjoyed it! Thanks for the info, brownie... checked the web quickly but French wiki usually doesn't turn up when I do google searches and I didn't think of checking there. It's been a few months since I've seen the film (in a theatre, of course!), so I'm not sure... but the talking, the actors handled that themselves?

Allen, fer chrissakes, you're a merikin, how can you know Walser and Schulz!? Interesting point there... Walser even more so, as parts of his (posthumously large) ouvre was indeed never "finished" and written into clean copy by him. But his final novel (The Robber / Der Räuber) is to me one of the most fascinating "modern era" novels, hell one of the most fascinating BOOKS EVER WRITTEN! And it was in painful work transcribed from his minuscule pencil writing... took years and a second edition (the first seems to have been marred with many mistakes). Amazing character there, Walser! Maybe my very favorite author! But it's almost sacrilege to bring this up in a Chikk-thread... (no elektrikk band for me, no matter if freezing cold or steaming hot). Can dig his old stuff a lot, now and then enjoy some more recent acoustic stuff (mostly radio broadcasts... Jaleel Shaw is a mother!), but I largely lost interest in his music post original RTF (the ECM and Polydor albums, not the later band that has been re- and re- and re-unified inspite of hubbardistical wars or whatever fallout these guys had...)

No, sorry... not much time for reading these days. But we'll invade Poland anyway But on topic... if the CD/DL/whatever buying/freeloading public is the audience... then you can make yourself an audience by releasing your rehearsals... has been done, of course. But somehow I think that's all a bit too simple. If Corea's statement is just stating the obvious, it's thoroughly uninteresting.

Maybe they should start a "death channel" next to FashionTV and al-jazeera...

Who's Judith? One of the two girls that run away at the beginning of the film? And were all actors and actresses dubbed by professional singers? (Deneuve and Dorléac, Piccoli? Guess Kelly could handle some singing...) I prefer the Blue Stars and even more so the Double Six de Paris to the Swingle Singers, but that whole bag isn't really mine... give me LH&R any day, though! r.i.p. Christiane Legrand