king ubu

latest arrivals (still waiting for three or four newbury packages - incredibly slow this time!): Miles Davis a.o. "Conception" (OJC) Michael Riessler "Ahi Vita (ACT) Eric Watson "Jaded Angels" (ACT) J.Kühn/M.Bekkas/R.Lopez "Kalimba" (ACT) <<<--- fantastic disc! Johnny Griffin/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis "In Copenhagen" (Storyville) latest bought-in-shop discs: Hank Mobley "Hi Voltage" (BN RVG) Freddie Hubbard "Ready for Freddie" (BN RVG) Portishead "3"

gee, I'd love it! There could be a whole series of boxes... studio and live, big band and small bands, and some bonus DVDs on top of that! There were some 2CD releases (three I think?), one of which I could have a look at when at brownie's last fall, but other than that it's just the stray disc - great to hear that Rearward is going to release more (though it's a drag that there's so much overlap with their own earlier compilations).

Raymond Fol does one tune on celeste on this great solo album: It's been released last year in the latest (last, it seems) batch of Jazz in Paris discs from Universal France. The whole recital has a ducal touch, Fol having taken the Duke's seat on one special occasion. Lovely disc, for sure!

Will try to catch The Ex & Getatchev Mekuria on Friday, but I'm not yet sure I can make it: http://www.taktlos.com/taktlos08-getatchew...-the-ex-guests/ Saw some songs of them on TV in a festival "best of" compilation, and they were absolutely great!

I'll be keepig my eyes open for that recent disc! This one here, from a couple of years back, is an absolute marvel I found:

watched lots of stuff since I last posted here... last night: two Miles Davis shows: the November 1969 Berlin show by the lost quintet - terrific Wayne Sorter! Bad quality of image and not great sound, alas... then the 1973 Vienna show with Liebman, Lucas, Cosey, Foster, Henderson, and Mtume - wow! Great one! Great guitar playing, and mainly terrific grooves, great playing by Henderson and Foster and Mtume, and Miles' touches of organ made a lot of sense. The white jewish kid on saxophone in between was kinda fun... but completely up to the task of course! And miles wearing those huge plateau shoes was quite fun to watch as well! Something else I watched recently include a full NDR Jazzkonzert show by the Timeless All Stars (smilin' Billy Higgins, Buster Williams, Cedar Walton, Harold Land and Curtis Fuller) with Dizzy Gillespie sitting in. Dizzy looks quite like his neck is going to blast in about a second as soon as he puts his trumpet to the lips. Land was rather unremarkable I found - too much Coltrane, too static somehow, not very agile... I prefer his 50s stuff by far, but Fuller was incredible, and Higgins a joy to watch. Walton - as so often, I'm afraid - struck me as doing just run-of-the-mill stuff.... never found him really interesting, but then maybe I just haven't tried to really listen to him anyway.

The Pozar was out in the blogosphere once, a couple of years ago. I thought there was a thread about it but a search for Pozar doesn't bring up much at all... I agree that it's not spectacular, but it's not quite that bad, Mike!

oody Wallen

Doesn't count - as I believe we are looking at ethnic influence. Hello, Fran, Interesting comment; and this is an interesting thread. A bit scary, really, IMO, but interesting. Had someone started a thread entitled, "Non-Jewish Jazz Musicians" I'm sure lots of folks would be screaming anti-Semitism instead of contributing to it. But that's what is great about Freedom of Ideas and Speech; or at least in Internet-communication theory. A lot of "Jews," just to give you some historical perspective, are not "ethnically" influenced, as you seem to think is of such relative importance. In Central and Eastern Europe, many traders and merchants took on the Jewish faith, so that they could trade with both (collectively) the Christians and the Muslims. In this way, they would not offend either trading-party and could exploit trade to their greatest investment advantage. Over time, such people became "Jews" but were not of "ethnic" Jewish descent. So... Just because a fellow by the name of Stan Getz is of Ukrainian-Jewish origins, unless one does extensive Haplogroup X-DNA testing, really, there is no way to determine if he is as "ethnic" as you would like to believe. What really defines "ethnicity" in regards to Jews? Most American "Jews" are Ashkenazi Jews who have little consanguineous ties to ancient Israel. In reality, most "converted" to this religious-belief system for their personal advantage. Those with true "ethnic influence," as you like to put it; can range from 1% to about 30% of their bloodline. The majority of their genetics is of European descent with very little "ethnicity" of the Jewish bloodline. If Sammy chose to become Jewish, then I respect that. Being "Jewish" is beautiful, regardless if you have its "ethnicity" or not. Jazz is important because it can be played and enjoyed by all peoples in any culture, "ethnicity," or sex in life... That is why it is the greatest and most diverse music in the world. Please, do not let "ethnicity" determine who is worthy and who is not worthy. And, yes, I am to believe that I am a MOT (Jewish descent), of which I am very proud; but I do not let it define who I am nor let it define how to judge other peoples. Sammy, ethnically or not, is part of my family. Thank you for the opportunity to share my POV. GLTY. Is it the best BS first post here? That was exactly what I asked myself after reading it... but likely the GLTY at the end is a self-declaration as "guilty", a quick moment of light at the end of typing?

musicians that are followers of the spaghetti monster... Cole Porter I found out was an episcop..., pis..., episcopatalist or something - not sure this is the right thread to mention him, but he was the biggest omission from the songwriter list in the first of these threads.

Oh yes! Sad news about his death! He was greatin "Michael Clayton". Quoting from the NY Times article: I'd say that "Michael Clayton" was maybe a minor little incident, but "The Interpreter" was definitely more than that - a very engaged, well-crafted film, quite against/out of its time in contemporary entertainment.

There's a small error: It's Jonas Gwanga, not José - he was from South Africa and a friend of Hugh Masekela et al. That Levin LP is a minor gem, IMO, and helped me a lot to appreciate free improvisation, as Levin was a lot more sensitive than most free from players and did not overpower that much. Calo Scott is great here. Drummer Frank Clayton later married singer Jay. Now that sounds like an intriguing album!

I like what little I heard of him... the Classics, of course including the great session with Prez... otherwise it's mostly just some sideman appearances.

Hi King ubu, I would say there is no waste in buying all of Tabane's releases. I just posted a Tabane album on my blog: http://ubuntumusic.tumblr.com/ where can I find your blog? Where do you order CDs from in SA? I bought once from Kalahari (in March) - the discs took about 2 months to arrive, but all did arrive. Got a voucher back then for which I did some more shopping (obviously shipping costs are very high, but then their prizes are cheap). For my blog, check out the link in my signature (or somewhere in my profile, in case you have signatures turned off). Will check out your blog from my home computer later!

Oi, Tabane hasn't been in here? I don't know much of his music, but he's been part of my ZA Jazz BFT (which is up again on my blog). I coincidentally ordered that disc of his, plus the jive hits by Masilela, to cash in my 50 R voucher from that site mentioned before (did they follow up on your business, MG?)

Hmm - I wonder what is the best way to go. I've already bought And All Those Cats (on LP), so I will be extra cautious before picking up these other releases. It looks like there are several ways to do this, but if you have And All Those Cats and Calypso Blues, you don't need Companionship. Conversely perhaps Calypso Blues and Companionship make All Those Cats redundant (didn't check as carefully). In either case, there does not appear to be much overlap with Music for the Small Hours, so I should go ahead and get that. Thanks for checking that! How about the Griffin - how much of it is new? And what about "Seeds", isn't part of that on "All Those Cats" also? "Swing Waltz Swing" then, would that have been on the "All That Strauss" disc (which I don't have)? Anyway, this definitely is great news, also on "Golden Eight", "Jazz Is Universal" and "Handle With Care", none of which I have!

CD2 - great! CD3 now - still enjoying it very, very much! one small complaint: the session by session notes are lousy, staying very much on the surface. And calling John Sanders "and another trombone" is a bit respectless, I found.

CD2 - great! CD3 now - still enjoying it very, very much!

CD2 - great!

Johnny Hodges - 1956-61 - CD1

and while I'm at it: Yusef Lateef - The Fabric of Jazz Yusef Lateef - Prayer to the East

Yusef Lateef - Jazz for Thinkers

Lateef - The Dreamer

Happy Birthday, Jim! :party:

sad news - r.i.p.