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Happy Birthday, David! :party:

read about it in the papers... it seems Nobs hat it ALL videotaped, but only ONE tape exists of each concert!

disc one of the Anthony Braxton

Sad news! Get well soon!

Hound Dog Crazy Horse Buffalo Bill

They're both locals on the scene in Zurich, Switzerland. Ziegele has been working with Schweizer among others for some time, and Schweizer goes back to the 60s when Dollar Brand (and other exiles from South Africa) were appearing in town.

Wow, great gig you got there! Would love to see you but there's no stop in Zurich, alas...

They took TCM out of our net many years ago... now I just got digital tv this week and was hoping it might be among the 200 channels I've got now... but not, alas

David, we all bought it from an outlet called Grigorian back when it came out. They still have it, shipping may be a bit steep but the price is right: http://www.grigorian.com/webstore/view.php?iid=353291 Earlier thread about it here: The red one with the earlier songbooks (lots of overlap with the Mosaic, but it also contains the Count Basie album with a drummer added and has the missing bits from the trio with Ellis in for Kessel... it seems to be OOP, but some acceptable offers can be found on german Amazon's marketplace.

I went for two instead... the first with the Kessel/Ellis & Brown Songbooks, the second with the Brown & Thigpens, the second being official and from Universal Canada and very nice! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Songbooks-Oscar-Peterson/dp/B000SFP7I2/ref=sr_1_13?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1291806077&sr=1-13 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Songbooks-Oscar-Peterson/dp/B00284G370/ref=sr_1_14?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1291806140&sr=1-14 They both should be around cheaper (or were at least considerably cheaper when I got them)

That one Cologne concert by Hutcherson & Tete is indeed amazing! Hard to single out any particular starting points with Tete - there are so many trio releases and most of them are good to very good! A highly consistent artist! EKE BBB would be best qualified to give you some hints - I'll ask him to drop by here! Oh, some collaborations might be a good starting point, too... there are albums with Lucky Thompson, Ben Webster, Dusko Goykovich... and there's also "It's About Blues Time", recorded in quintet with Dusko and Ferdinand Povel. And of course great solo releases as well...

hum, it's back in stock though much more expensive... my order is still open as it's been since I put it in... do the suckers try to sell off the remaining copies at the higher price first, before filling my order?

Buying Vol. 3 is almost as costly as getting the whole box (at least over here where I live), so I suggest you go for the whole set - trust me there's plenty to appeal to a jazz fan's ears in that music! True! Though I think with myself, I'll rather go for some African music with more contemporary stuff, rather than for African jazz. Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté... here are a pair though: Can Walk On Sand Omri Ziegele Where's Africa Triow/Irene Schweizer & Makaya Ntshoko Tommi Meier - Root Down and their second one (which I don't know yet): Tommy Meier - Root Down: The Master and The Rain Root Down is a pretty wild mix of grooves, horns, some electronics... some Fela Kuti, some Chris McGregor & BoB... it's quite great, in my humble opinion! The Where's Africa Trio release I mentioned before elsewhere. It's a solid and likeable release.

Oh, believe me, I'd buy a seven or eight disc set, too! I just have amassed lots of Rivers' music over the years... but I quite agree about the Braxton and Threadgill being an exciting new turn (still have to get the Threadgill one though). I'd be all for more similar releases!

videos are up now: more here: http://www.youtube.com/user/petra777#p/u/4/jtTS_laKbJQ Beautiful!

some of my dad's beat-up LPs I guess... on top, the one that might be my own all-time favorite album: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (mono) then: Art Blakey - Free for All (stereo, I think, don't have it at hand to check) next maybe the Tina Brooks Mosaic set. then maybe my dad's original of Jimmy Smith's "The Cat", the original Impule of Shelly Manne's "2 - 3 - 4" that I got myself... The Randy Weston Horo and one of his Coras (Rhythm & Sounds Piano) And definitely the Canova LP of Joe Malinga, "Tears for the Children of Soweto" Also some CD box sets, just because I cherish the music... the Ellington Centennial box, the Rahsaan Mercury box, the Ayler Holy Ghost box, the Jimmy Lyons box. And of course plenty of Mosaic boxes... Hill, Jones, Jones/Lewis, Jay Jay, TKM, Giuffre... And the "Musical History" box by the Band, because it opened a whole new universe for me, musically!

Little Miss Cott Long Tall Sally William and Catherine Booth

Please anyone who was there - do report!

Nathalie Merchant John Butcher LaVern Baker

lupe and anyone else: this is a great opportunity to get a fine overview of South African music: Next Stop... Soweto - Volumes 1-3 Limited Edition Box Set Vol. 3 is the actual jazz volume and the only one that's two discs worth of GREAT music! The rest will appeal to anyone with open ears and a liking for African music, as well! Lots of it goes into similar directions than the jazzy grooves that are so enjoyable in South African music! The price is more than right! I picked it up locally for about the same price today, but had Vol. 3 separately before (paid the same as for the whole set today... will pass it on to my parents who ignited my love for South African music in the first place). Edited to add: Vol. 3 is the same that MwtGA recommends in post #6!

Thanks a lot for all these stunning photos, Bev! Here, it's been back to 4-5 °C and the snow is melting and it's just plain ugly... yesterday it was raining into the snow all day long. I hate that.

got this one (locally, same price roughly) today: Next Stop Soweto - Vols. 1-3 Limited Edition It's a filmsy cardboard around three jewel cases (Vol. 3 is a 2CD set, it's four discs in total). Paid about the same for Vol. 3 (though that one's a nice digipack version I could give away now...)

Well, everything changed there a while back... I thought they were bought by someone else or something... dimly remember reading about that somewhere. Never quite looked the same after, and I think plenty of stuff has just vanished in the process.

Sounds interesting indeed! What happened to CDbaby anyways... first they crap large parts of their distributed goodies, then the website craps, too (2 hits for "Joe Cinderella", Album (1), Artist (1), though nothing but dead links...)

Happy Birthday, Dave! Just happened to pick up "Last Set at Newport" today...