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Also Ellington small groups, or anything by Ellingtonians (Hodges, Gonsalves, Nance... maybe better not Cat Anderson, he he...)

Also the Grant Green one with Quebec! What's it called, "Born to Be Blue"? And "Hoagy Sings Carmichael" on Pacific Jazz. Then the crooners... Joe Williams "Men Ain't Supposed to Cry", some Little Jimmy Scott (the Wonderful one produced by Ray Charles), maybe the ballad album by Mel Tormé, and of course the ultimate one for the wee small hours... yup, Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"!

Ah no - I play the Jones/Lewis when I want that groovy, soulful, swinging stuff... I'd never have thought of that one as late night listening... guess I got to give it a try one day! Some Basie small group jams might also be nice. Or Hawkins on Riverside and Prestige (the two that got the RVG treatment come to mind, but also the Hawk/Lockjaw one, and all the other stuff with Flanagan, on Prestige and Verve and Impulse). Also the bossa albums... Ike Quebec (actually not just his bossa, but all of his comeback albums on BN), Hawkins, Getz... Also Ellington meets Hawkins and Ellington meets Coltrane, and Coltrane/Johnny Hartman and "Ballads", and the Impulse "Coltrane" also... and maybe "Lush Life" and "Soultrane" from his Prestige time.

Hill and Basra would be too charged for my taste... also I guess anything by any big band, except maybe Thornhill...

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this thread makes me think of "the old in-out" not sure that's a good thing or an appropriate remark...

I'll be pleasantly surprised if mine ever arrives... Oh, finally it's here! Got a bit of catching up to do ... I'm still waiting

Glad you snagged that copy! It's fine music - there seems to be a bias (with reason I guess) against Q on this board, but regardless of all the debates, the music on this set is great!

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Grant Green - Am I Blue I often go for singers... June Christy, Chris Connor, Helen Merrill... or piano trios or solos (Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues, for instance)

Missed this thread before... let's see... in January, I caught a horns quartet of a friend (t/natural horn/as/tuba), then caught the flu.. nothing at all in February in March, I missed BikBentBraam but saw the Sun Ra Arkestra ( ) in April, I was busy catching around 15 films of Jean Renoir's - no concerts... but on May 3rd, I saw the Circulasione Totale Orchestra (Frode Gjerstad, Louis Moholo, Bobby Bradford...), then later on I caught the band of a friend of a colleague, doing some rock or singer/songwriter stuff or whatever you'd call that... first weekend in June was the Taktlos festival, caught Xu Fengxia/Lucas Niggli, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, and Luigi Archetti/Bo Wiget all on one night. Then I saw "The Last Waltz"... almost as good as a live show!!! in July, spent two weeks in Budapest and saw two local bands, one pretty bad one, and one great trio (Cásbár Trio? No idea who they are). in August, it was Roman Schwaller's Quartet with Jimmy Cobb at that crazy Jazz Festival St. Moritz... September will be another blank month, but plenty of good things to come in October (Henri Texier, Cesaria Evora, BraffOesterRohrer, Richard Bona and Céu) and in November (Dave Douglas Quintet, titled "Cheltenham 2007" for whatever reason, the band with Donny McCaslin and Uri Caine)

these guys are great: http://www.arte-quartett.com/ they do modern "classical" stuff, but also various projects with other musicians, such as Pierre Favre, and they form four fifths of the sax section of Kaspar Ewald's great band (called Exorbitantes Kabinett), which plays music somewhere between Don Ellis, James Brown and minimal music... I have two of those discs and have checked them out live - recommended, but not classical (although Ewald - who teaches at the Zurich conservatory - has also adapted "L'homme armé" for that band). another thing I've heard by the Arte Quartett was a concert where they collaborated with Terry Riley - utterly fascinating stuff! though if any of this fits the label "classical" is somewhat doubtful... but then "classical" doesn't really apply to much composed music of the 20c anyway... I am always at a loss how to call all these kinds of musics... Phil Niblock also did a few pieces for saxophone - that's extreme music, your neighbours will love it (and your dogs will suffer even worse...)

Ha... "Lancelot du lac" comes to mind We all ought to send hateful mails to EMI I suppose, about letting their 50% owned subsidiary hanging in such a sad situation!

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Jesus Dude Jesse B. Simple

see bixie, this is where you called me son... I played the Ellis disc again a couple of times recently, as I discovered his "Nothin' But the Blues" and wanted to hear more... Buddy Tate is great, and so is Ellis!

you absolutely have to check out this one here - no tango, just pure swinging modern jazz of the highest order! http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Dear-Richard-Ga...992&sr=8-10

I would be happy to pay 100$ for the Pacific and the Shank/Cooper... but first I'll wait what'll become of my newly put in orders from yesterday. If they get cancelled, I'll possibly start a thread in the offering and looking for section... I'm still mad as hell!

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Yes, I've stopped looking up things on half.com because of that... sidewinder, thanks for bearing with me... hope my very expensive new orders won't be another pair of no-shows... but then I don't hope anything right now. I'll live with copies a friend has offered to do for me a couple of days after mayhem began, if worse comes to worse.

Ten holy effin' days! G-sus! Have them britons no watches or politeness or anything? And then flat out lying to me and then keeping my money for another full week? Are they putting up fake offerings and using the money for speculating or what the hell? Gee, I'm mad right now!

ok, so now you please tell us how to do it?

Holy crap! :angry: The vendor from whom I'd ordered both the Shank/Coop and the Pacific Trios Selects has just cancelled both orders - after ten friggin' days!!!! And after answering my inquiry with "Both orders are due to be dispatched to you today." on September 16!!!! How lousy is that! I've given up on those now, although I put in orders, but the prizes are exploding (100£ anyone?)

is it contagious? at least you seem to have survived it...

Just in case, the four tracks from "Les Tricheurs" are also on this one: (all five volumes are recommended!)