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I have org as homepage and use Opera for 9 other pages... having org as homepage allows for 10 quickly accessible sites... I could use some more, really! Claude's idea sounds smart, but I'm usually too lazy to do that much customising work...

Happy Birthday!

gee, you guys keep getting older! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! I picked up this Gambit boot in the summer sales, some terrific blowing by McPherson on it: The Many Faces of Art Farmer line up is: Art Farmer (flhrn), Charles McPherson (as), Tommy Flanagan (p), Steve Swallow (b), Ron Carter (b), Bobby Thomas (d).

yup - "Cerca di cibo" by the folksy duo of Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia has Eco liner notes... ECM has also released some films by Michel Godard (as well as the soundtrack to his slightly earlier film "Nouvelle Vague"). All that might be shrugged off by many as artsy fartsy, but I guess it's part of the image ECM tries to construct.

anything new about this one, except for the cover photo?

There's also "Saturday Night Fish Fry" if that's more to your liking Here it was "Waltzing Mathilda", of all things

Some of the most interesting music I know of, performed and recorded by both the WDR Big Band and the NDR Big Band (one at a time only) can be found on the 10CD Box Set by George Gruntz, Radio Days (TCB). It can't be found anywhere online, it seems. It was released I think in 2007 and has been around for quite acceptable prizes (50€ range). Recommended if you can find it!

I have Rat Race Blues but not Sayin' Somethin'...how is it? Both on order. Should be here within a week. I typically post in the "buy" thread when I place the order. In fact, often simultaneously, as I press the 'place order' button. ... I should probably wait until they arrive. I have nothing with Gryce as leader now, but the samples on both of these sounded tremendous. When I've had a chance to spin 'em a couple of times, I'll certainly toss my impressions into the mix. I'm looking forward to both. I think I like "Sayin' Somethin'" best, among Gryce's three OJCs! (The fourth one, by the Jazzlab, I didn't get, as I opted for the Lonehill 3CD set... three single discs, that is). Fine stuff, all of it! "Reminiscin'" would also deserve CD release/reissue! ************** yesterday, I had in the mail: The Band - The Last Waltz (4CD) The Band - Stage Fright The Band - Moondog Matinee (still waiting for "Rock of Ages", "Music from Big Pink" and "Northern Lights, Southern Cross") and the day before, I found at a used store: Buster Williams - Somewhere Along the Way (TCB) Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues (OJJCD) Joe Henderson - Double Rainbow (now I'm only missing the Miles disc from his Verve years, I think)

That's not what we get here, happily... but the cultural sections of the daily papers are getting smaller and smaller as we speak. Film coverage is about to disappear, and jazz, well... it was never covered thoroughly, but it seems ECM records will be about the last thing they'll stop to write about...

found this one in a used store two days ago, gave it a first spin last night - very, very good! Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues That brings to mind another one (though very different, musically): Listen to Barry Harris ... Solo Piano two gorgeous covers as well!

ooooh, Yannatou! beautiful stuff, got to play these again soon! this reminds me, I ought to finally get a Yasmin Levy disc... now back on topic... well, sort of: the real book also contained virtually all of the great Atlantic album Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - just as a reminder to Mr. 7/4 - some more goodies there! I think the concept with ECM and liner notes is sort of... Eicher allows a selected few writers to do some for a selected few artists or something like that... Peter Rüedi (one of my guides into jazz, he had a great, great weekly record review, both new and old, I also learned about Mosaic from him) for instance wrote a liner in one of the first post-comeback Keith Jarrett discs, one of the last ones I bought). And there's still some press coverage for ECM releases, for instance, recently there was an article by a journalist who visited the recoding sessions of Jon Balke's latest project at the radio studio in Lugano (Switzerland). But then I assume you don't get that outside of the German language areas, or much less than we do.

Thanks - I might look for some Bubba then.... found the Williams disc w/Bartz, Nelson, McKinney and White at a used store yesterday. No Mulgrew Miller there.

yup... those who like this should consider the Randy Weston Mosaic Select while it's still around! It's just one album, but there's plenty of other great music in that little box! source: http://www.randyweston.info/randy-weston-d...63highlife.html

That's great! I read that he was to appear there from Wednesday night on for a few days - great to know he's playing again! (edit because i hit the post-button too soon...)

seems I missed a whole bunch of birthdays - belated congratulations!

Seconded ! Happy Birthday, Dmitry ! whatever they said... happy birthday!

belated best wishes!

Swallow's albums do... cool idea. But ECM is only the distribution (and production?) partner of Watt/XtraWatt, I think. The liners of some of those Carla Bley albums, documenting the band's way through ole yurp are hilarious, methinks!

I only have one of the Hayes albums (Candy Man). Which Bubba Brooks could you recommend? Also, what about the Buster Williams and Steve Nelson discs?

btw, my "it is" was directed at the session in question, not my nit-picking...

Sorry about that comment re: Vol. 3 of the Ellington Classics 6CD sets - seems it's gotten a bit more expensive/difficult to find. I found my copy for a very attractive prize (20-25 euro) a few months ago...

sorry, but ought that not be "madly good"? (it is, in my opinion!)

I certainly don't want to argue with anyone here, having just picked up the 40CD box, too. But even if, unlike Lon, I'm not (yet) a Duke completist, I happen to own various boxes, packages and single discs from every period of Duke's career: the RCA box, the OKeh and Brunswick/Vocalion set, Vol. 3 of the Chrono 6CD sets (they just compile six single discs in original packaging, but they add a sturdy box and a booklet with good liners, including some soloist identification, which is something I always happen to miss with the usual short Classics notes). And that Vol. 3 can be found for a prize that's hard to beat. As for earlier Ellington Classics, yup, nowadays, several are impossible to find or only available for ridiculous prizes. But they have been around for many, many years, and I'm scolding myself for not picking up more of them when they were all over the stores here (same for the Masters of Jazz which were THE ultimate series for such stuff... no one did more thorough compilations, and their notes were excellent as well, often to the point of exhaustion, really...) Anyway, my point is that with Duke, you just have to continue buying some here and there, and eventually you'll end up having a big chunck of his recordings, some in good, some in less good sound... (I also have a few dozen discs covering Duke's later periods, including the Capitol and Reprise Mosaics, most of the Columbia reissues, the Private Sessions, some of the Fantasy, Impulse, Blue Note, Atlantic etc discs... and of course Money Jungle, too, he he he - but those aren't subject of this thread.)

bumpity bump: http://www.allegro-music.com/label_search.asp?label=TCB Not that much a "sale", rather just a way to get some of these discs at sane prizes. Though for yurpeens, various Amazon marketplace offers might turn out cheaper, all things considered. There are plenty of great releases in the TCB "Swiss Radio Days" series, including a terrific one by the Jones-Lewis band, a great Mulligan Concert Jazz Band release, some Blakey, Cannonball, etc. Also, the 90s album of Jerome Richardson's is part of the offer...