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Yep, first time in my life actually ...

coming up - Jazzfest Berlin - yowzah! Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - Do 03.11.2016, 19:00 Julia Hülsmann Quartet & Anna-Lena Schnabel Mette Henriette Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Fr 04.11.2016, 16:00 The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - Fr 04.11.2016, 19:00 Joshua Redman – Brad Mehldau Duo Globe Unity Orchestra Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - Sa 05.11.2016, 19:00 Angelika Niescier – Florian Weber Quintet Nik Bärtsch – hr-Bigband DeJohnette – Coltrane – Garrison Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Berlin - So 06.11.2016, 15:00 Wadada Leo Smith & Alexander Hawkins Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne - So 06.11.2016, 19:00 Julia Holter & Strings Steve Lehman Octet Eve Risser’s White Desert Orchestra

pretty good price (€ 32) on the Staple Singers box here: https://www.amazon.it/Faith-Grace-Family-Journey-1953-1976/dp/B015FWTAOO/

Very sad to hear this. Discovered his music a mere few years ago and have been intrigued ever since. A true master.

That sounds good! Happy Birthday, Guy!

It was a blast! Ntshoko seemed a bit insecure for the first one or two tunes (all Dyani-penned btw - think the encore/tag was a BoB thing though). Deppa was lyrical but punchy and witty, doing plenty of hardbop smartass things, Jacobson (hitherto unknown to me, a Canadian) wonderfully melodic and very much of a virtuoso with a great high register on trombone and amazing facility on euphonium, the two sax players were doing great, totally without any competition, just digging into the tunes ... Delius his usual nutty self, honking, screaming, riding little melodic phrases and having a blast all the time, a few times switching to clarinet (blatantly loud, goddammit!), Guggenheim (the other unknown-to-me guy on stage) was more solid on tenor, but very good, too, on soprano as well - he and Deppa had some real chemistry going on, presenting some tunes and strains in unison (trumpet/soprano) ... Dell was amazing, a few of his solos really hard to believe, the four mallets flying. Edwards was the heart and center of the band, very vocal, holding everything together and obviously having a great time. Ntshoko, as I said, seemed to take a moment, but he still has it going, I think. He was rough, short, completely no-nonsense, his hipness being the absence of any kind of hipness (i.e. that hard bop reference I made about Deppa, on drums I'd think of Ben Riley maybe, but the proper reference for Ntshoko would rather be Art Taylor, I think - to the point, sparse yet fast in reaction and able to give directions and push the band). The main thing though was how great they all were as a band. I had to think of Mingus' work shop (earliest sixties) quite often, Edwards was throbbing and thriving, shouting encouragement again and again, and playing somewhat earthier and meatier than in other settings. It all being a Dyani festival, it was of course wonderful to have such a great musician on bass. What I also like a lot is that at Bird's Eye, most of it is live, no amplification (a pick-up mic on the bass and two mics above the vibes, that was all) - I guess playing like that is not that easy, for guys used to have microphones and monitor speakers and all that - but for this listener, it was all the nicer like that! The voices of the four horns blended together marvelously, they struck the right balance between playing together and slightly apart (that typical ZA thing, not sure I've heard it elsewhere like that, at least not as a constantly used element to create suspense and - some - dissonance and friction. Forgot to say: of course Irène Schweizer was in the audience, too - love it that she keeps going out and see both her old buddies as well as young talents.

Got mine at the great shoppe right next to Zurich opera ... alas It's been many years since that shop has disappeared. Bought a few oop Mosaics there as well, all vinyl. Fond memories!

calling it quits a bit earlier than usual today ... going to Basel for this - they just took Janusz Stefanski from the line-up listing and announced a change ... so I guess it will be Ntshoko all the way then: DO 27.10.2016: Jazz gegen Apartheid Frankfurt «Celebrating the music of Johnny Dyani» Claude Deppa: trumpet Tobias Delius: tenor sax Daniel Guggenheim: tenor sax Allen Jacobson: trombone Christopher Dell: vibraphone John Edwards: bass Makaya Ntshoko: drums

Yes, he is! But then it's very clear also how collaboratively this band worked, everybody adding his approach and ideas (like that horrible cluckity-cluck-thing Tony does on "Freedom Jazz Dance" for one aborted take). Fascinating indeed! Got almost to the end of disc two yesterday, will pick up from there on the weekend, I hope (live music tonight and tomorrow).

Yup - and you did me a great service there, too! Added to my collection, the Mosaic in the meantime ... and also went for the Chrono(lo)gical Classics with the later recordings. The LP box that started this discussion was my very first Lunceford acquisition, while I was still in high school ... been in love with the band's sound ever since!

Just staring to listen myself ... the first 20 something minutes of the band getting "Freedom Jazz Dance" together are priceless already! Now towards the end of disc one, I'm totally mesmerized ... surely not a set that will get regular spins, but wow!

hard to pick just five ... John Coltrane - Crescent Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster Cannonball Adderley – Somethin‘ Else missing Monk and Dolphy, but Miles is in there (though I was debating to include Mobley's "Soul Station" instead of the Adderley) ... but I guess albumwise they're just not quite up there

Pete La Roca (Sims) - made a return in the 90s with a fine album on Blue Note

Artie Shaw Tal Farlow (he did return though)

Does it matter when you use them as coasters?

Ogerman has died in March - seems the rumour was out among friends and musician colleagues, but it only just got public. http://www.jazzwax.com/2016/10/claus-ogerman.html I have to confess it took me quite a while to develop an appreciation for his art - when I got into jazz my rigorously opinionated teenage-self would not hold much interest in singers and would snarl at "with strings" albums (Clifford Brown's album was an early exception), when I wanted Wes Montgomery I went for Riverside, not Verve etc. But I did somehow always like Diana Krall. She was there and I knew her when I started getting into jazz, so I kept buying her CDs for a few years - and when she made that diva album with Ogerman arranging, I kinda slowly started figuring out that some of it was pretty good and the arrangements really didn't get in the way ... eventually, Ogerman kept popping up on all kinds of albums I bought, so there's that. Not love, I guess, at least no all the time, but truckloads of respect.

Missed out on the Ross ... but this time, delivery was reasonably fast.

Yay! Indeed! Not sure how much longer Schlippenbach will be around, he seemed rather frail in Warsaw in March, but he is doing his traditional "Winter journey" with the Schlipp 3 again this year (another concert I plan to attend, December 11th in Zurich - Paul Lovens stopped much of his traveling, so Paul Lytton will step in). in between, there's also this: unerhört! what I plan to attend: Dienstag, 22. November 2016, 18.00 Uhr Nur Abendkasse, geöffnet ab 17.30 Uhr Kulturhaus Helferei CHF 25.- / 20.- Colin Vallon Trio Mittwoch, 23. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Keine Reservation möglich Jazz im Seefeld, GZ Riesbach Mindestkollekte CHF 5.- Eskelin - Weber - Griener Hans-Peter Pfammatter & Big Band der Hochschule Luzern - Musik Donnerstag, 24. November 2016, 20.30 Uhr Nur Abendkasse, geöffnet ab 19.00 Uhr Werkstatt für improvisierte Musik (WIM) CHF 30.- / 20.- / Mitglieder gratis Peter K Frey Booklet: Tobias Delius - Joe Williamson - Steve Heather Freitag, 25. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Rote Fabrik, Clubraum CHF 45.- / 37.- Alex Huber - Lauren Kinsella - Sascha Henkel Ethan Iverson - Mark Turner NYC Five: Angelika Niescier - Florian Weber Samstag, 26. November 2016, 19.30 Uhr Rote Fabrik, Clubraum CHF 45.- / 37.- Aruán Ortiz Trio Gabriela Friedli - Claudia Ulla Binder MATS-UP Sonntag, 27. November 2016, 19.00 Uhr Moods im Schiffbau CHF 40.- / 35.- Jakob Bro Trio Jürg Wickihalder Beyond But with the wealth of concerts, I might skip Colin Vallon (have seen him plenty of times, and I mgiht skip Friday night as well, as I see the Weber-Niescier group in Berlin and am not that enticed by the whole evening, though I'd be interested to hearing Mark Turner in person). full line-up: http://unerhoert.ch/programm/

going to Jazzfest Berlin for the first time this year (and first trip to Berlin whatsoever) - the plan (not sure about the artist talk, but the movie I'd love to see): Julia Hülsmann Quartet & Anna-Lena Schnabel / Mette Henriette / Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Do 03.11.2016, 19:00 The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith Film Haus der Berliner Festspiele Fr 04.11.2016, 16:00 Joshua Redman – Brad Mehldau Duo / Globe Unity Orchestra / Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Fr 04.11.2016, 19:00 Angelika Niescier – Florian Weber Quintet / Nik Bärtsch – hr-Bigband / DeJohnette – Coltrane – Garrison Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne Sa 05.11.2016, 19:00 Wadada Leo Smith & Alexander Hawkins Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Berlin So 06.11.2016, 15:00 Artist talk with Steve Lehman, Eve Risser, Wadada Leo Smith Haus der Berliner Festspiele So 06.11.2016, 18:00 Julia Holter & Strings / Steve Lehman Octet / Eve Risser’s White Desert Orchestra Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne So 06.11.2016, 19:00 full schedule here: http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/jazzfest/ueber_festival_jazz/aktuell_jazz/start.php too bad Laubrock is playing at the same time ... but I've heard her a couple of times and in different settings (same goes for Mary Halvorson), while I've never yet seen Wadada, DeJohnette, the Globe Unity, Melford, Lehman and a few others

Thanks for the alert - ordered some classical for a pound a pop (making the standard shipping seem out of proportion, but hey, I'm not complaining!) - they seem to pretty much know which ones not to give away for nothing (i.e. the Busch/Beethoven discs), but clicking through the hits, I really wondered how long this label will still survive, as most of the hits looked like cozy "musique d'ameublement" for a generation that has just about died out completely by now ...

some bad smartphone pics (and longer German review) up here now: http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/2016/09/meteo-music-festival-mulhouse-august.html

yeah, and those unlisted ones seem to be full of holes (going from experience, not from the ones listed above - but if stuff like regularly released Blue Note or Prestige albums are missing ...) maybe they're to be considered in progress (not sure there is any/much of that, don't visit the site often these days)

Yes, the Montgomery is one I would definitely go for!

Re: Monk (Riverside, I assume), there's one of those real reissues avaiable, too - with the full booklet but in small format. Not Italian but European Universal still ... same for Miles on Prestige, Evans on Fantasy, Coltrane on Prestige ... I have but the Miles of them, but they're so much nicer and not much more expensive. Alas, the selection is much smaller, I guess producing them (booklets and boxes, not the discs themselves) costs some real money, as opposed to the Italian editions. I'm still somewhat puzzled by the parallel world that Universal Italy seems to be ... they are releasing lots of classical boxes, too, and in a few cases run along better/more complete European Universal sets (i.e. Sviatoslav Richter Solo set v. Sviatoslav Richter Complete set, Hogwood Haydn v. Complete Haydn symphonies) - looks like Italy is an outfit more or less independent from the main company (or else looks like real bad management).