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I've got them all now, but "The Amazing", "At Newport" and "Sings Ellington" are copy-crap discs (of the European reissues listed in that other thread), and "At Town Hall" I only found on the Collectables twofer (with The Amazing again). "Forbidden Fruit", "At Village Gate" and "At Carnegie Hall" (2CD, also incl. "Folksy Nina") I bought them via amazon.fr marketplace and priceminister.com - didn't check amazon.de marketplace as their shipping to Switzerland is almost twice as much as amazon.fr's). From when is that disc you just got? And do you know more about the upcoming reissue in Verve's originals series?

Braff's story is pretty wild, too... and googling his photo, you'll see... well, look yourself He grew up as son of missionaries or something in Senegal, and the african influence is clearly there in his music - I just love it! Though somehow I think it's mostly music to be experienced live. He has such power, yet he can be so soft, and he's not afraid of melody.

Hm, not in my edition (yes, that book, yes Hannibal, 5 euro or some, I don't complain) - there's Krupa, Kyser, then Guy Lombardo and Lunceford, no Lawrence in between!

Malcolm Braff! homepage - myspace Colin Vallon! homepage - myspace - aaj both deserve more than one exclamation point, actually... both are sort of extending the mainstream traditions, Vallon in a lyrical/powerful way, Braff more in a playful african direction (Alex Blake, longtime member of Randy Weston's band, has done an album with Braff as well), and both use the great Samuel Rohrer on drums at least in some of their formations (Braff has several, Vallon just his trio, I think).

Yes, it was the same here, the Mulligan album had much more impact! One more thing: I just recently got George T. Simon's big bands book (in german - on sale at zweitausendeins.de as is Hennessy's Klook book, just in case) - he produced and wrote liners for these Lawrence sessions, but there's no mention of him in the book (there's no index, but there's not chapter for Lawrence).

and looking around a bit I found this long entry in the "Mulligan International Newsletter" (homepage) from June 2005. Now I need to read this tonight, I guess... source: http://www.gerrymulligan.info/news_june2005.html

I recently bought Lawrence's two Fantasy releases "Plays Mulligan Arrangements" (a straight album reissue, OJCCD), and "Swings Cohn and Kahn", compiling the album "Swinging at the Steel Peer" with selections from three other albums (including five tracks from one where Zoot Sims was added). The main soloists are Nick Travis, Eddie Bert and Al Cohn, also you get to hear some Hal McKusick. Bert and Cohn's playing struck me as especially fine, and the tracks with Al & Zoot together are a treat (great to hear them with big band backing, for once)! The arrangements I guess aren't all that special in the end, though on the Mulligan disc, there are some fine ones. The first time I heard Lawrence, btw, was on the two titles of his on Mulligan's "Mullenium" (Columbia, reissue of an LP titled "The Arranger", I think - mostly a 1957 date, with some early arrangements for Lawrence and Krupa as fillers). AMG once more isn't helpful at all... the bio is as short (and Scott-y) as the reviews for the two CDs. Here's the Lawrence entry from nfo.net:

The repeat of Berdych-Federer as my sister was there, sitting in the first row (she's been down under for half a year now)

Thanks, I will! I didn't even know it was out until I recently saw it in a local store!

I have the Elsie Bianchi and the first Mombasa - both fine! Will need to get the second Mombasa as well, eventually!

I ordered these, I hope they were good choices: Sounds Of Harlem 60336610652-HEP 1065 Sounds of Harlem 60336610662-HEP 1066 Groovin' High in 60336600152-HEP 15 1948-Transcripti 60336600172-HEP 17 [Claude Thornhill] They All Had Rhy 60336600482-HEP 48 I'd still love to get the Norvo and Wilson series, and more of the Thornhill...

Some earlier threads: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=2499 http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10489 Mario Pavone thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24595 I just looked at the rat, nothing much essential said about the box, except ravings by D.D., chaney, yours truly...

This is a mighty fine box, just in case anyone has doubts! It has been discussed in the funny rat thread and possibly elsewhere, too, and quite favourably so. Pretty intense playing by all involved (mostly Chapin's trio with the great bass of Mario Pavone, sometimes extended with some additional horns).

The Doran, Om (Leimgruber) and Hans Koch's Accélération are a couple of Swiss jazz classics - fine stuff! The Oliver Lake/Trio 3 & Irene Schweizer is a live recording from a couple of years back. I attended their Zurich concert and was rather pleased!

ah wait, I thought this was Rava WITH the Jarrett trio... would have been interesting I guess, to see Jarrett with some horn player again after all these years!

I guess the wonderful Colin Vallon trio would fit the bill as well. "Ailleurs" on hatOLOGY: Also Malcolm Braff's trios (the other one being the group BraffOesterRohrer): This is piano in I guess various traditions, Randy Weston would be an obvious point of reference, even more since Alex Blake is on this one, but Braff is his own man, methinks, and a marvellous pianist!

Yes please! If anyone could post those notes, that would be appreciated!

joyeux anniversaire! :party:

I won't replace anything... but "Spring" is great, in case you don't have it (I have the old US edition). "Stop and Listen" is good, too - I'll keep my Conn though. Have them all in in one way or another, all good ones I'd say. The Silver as a wee bit better than his usual album, I think (I tend to think of those Mitchell/Cook albums a "run of the mill" a bit...)

Kneebus? Ugly Beauty is the title of the album!

Sad news

Oh, don't be afraid, I won't dump it! Thanks for that recommendation!

I will think of you as soon as I can properly handle my new burning software ... and I haven't forgotten about the cats and the mouse...

Flurin I've just bought one of these Lenco 75s to play 78s and 45 rpm singles on. It needs a new arm. This site has all the possible information you could possibly want re Lenco problems, idler wheel flat would be my guess. Lenco Lovers !! Thanks for that link, will look at it... I guess I'll need to look up a lot of words, I don't know all these technical terms... next step then would be to find someone nearby who fixes these things. That could be quite a task, these days. They do sell new turntables again all over, but no one seems to repair any technical device anymore, just throw it away!