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I've always been partial to the late Erwin Chargaff... Watson/Crick were two eager weirdos from the git-go, it seems...

never mind... for a million $$ even a house in Luxembourg or at the lake of Zurich could include a music room... nothing more we need, really

I got my set yesterday, looks like another beautiful box! Most of the music will be new to me, too. I've heard some of it once, years ago, on some borrowed LPs, and had the Lighthouse CD, but haven't even played it all through so far - looking forward to exploring this box!

some more info on the Rätus Flisch disc here: http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=4660 (the respective page on the Brambus site isn't working, it seems) edit: Amazon has 2002 as the year of release. And this site here finally also mentions Abercrombie... Not that helpful, I'm afraid!

Nate, sorry for not having posted yet! I was in Paris the first week of October and after that had tons of stuff to do... no time to listen yet, but I hope to find time latest next weekend! (Maybe I can squeeze it in tonight, but tomorrow is like crazy again...)

I packed all my Miles disc in paper sleeves last night, had to cut them to fit back into the cardboard sleeves in the boxes (all the metal spine versions, plus the IASW and Cellar Door). Won't happen nothing to my disc no more now! Still waiting for the replacement disc, though... and also for the On the Corner box, of course!

Frank Zappa playing bicycles in the Steve Allen show, with the show band accompanying him free-style (I got that off dime some years ago, no official release). Seems it's on u-tube, but I can't check that (blocked where I work) right now: part 1 & part 2 or here here's a story about it: http://www.jerryhopkins.com/stories#zappa

That's good to know, of course! I'm no fan of W. Parker, so the weirdest thing was how great they found his solo improv... and Taylor/Oxley have been doing so many things together that I found it hard to believe that they were merely playing next to but not with each other... anyway, that one too, I have yet to listen to...

not quite jazz, but a great box I found used when in Paris (it's a recent release but OOP already, so I was lucky): I've played discs 1 and 2 (50s and early/mid 60s) and parts of disc 3 (late 60s and 70s) so far

oh, sorry, my bad!

I like Teddy a lot, in fact I've had this one (these two now, in the CD age) on my wishlist ever since reading my first books on jazz (Arrigo Polillo's and J.E. Berendt's books they were, the later of whom recommends this one in his short list of recommended listening.

I placed an order with UK Amazon (not the Monk set) on Tuesday 9th; it was delivered yesterday. I don't believe anyone has received a copy yet to determine that. Yup, one luck bastid did... Daniel, can you enlighten us?

The Modena concert was broadcast (not in its entirety, alas) on Italian radio and put up on dime, I only just burned it to disc last night, didn't have time to listen yet... sounds like this is a pretty weird package... the Wire review of the quartet's London gig some time ago wasn't much more enthusiast...

Interesting thread indeed. Not sure I can add a lot, but of course ole clem is onto something when he mentions Derek Bailey. I bet most of you jazzheads and harbop-centred fans (now in the macro perspective, there's nothing as unsurprising as hardbop, no? of course there are countless great solos, fascinating turns and twists and "kairos") would be really caught off-guard by Derek's Tzadik album "Ballads" (a new one with a similar concept has just come out, titled Standards) - haven't heard it yet). On the other hand even though "surprise" may lie in the center of improv, it can still turn out boring, full of chliché, and totally unsurprising, too, of course. There are also the personal surprises, like hearing some particular musician for the first time and being struck by how much one likes the music, how wrong one's idea of this musician before was... or the moments where you reconsider someone, not by slowly getting used to someone's music, but by this moment of surprise, where all of a sudden something you have known and just found ok or merely interesting, hits you as a surprise. (I had some such moments with Wirbur Ware, lately... never understood all the attention he got, but I loved him on the Jenkins/Jordan/Timmons album as well as his own Riverside, and mostly on Griffin's "Way Out", which to me - even though I've loved Griffin for quite a while - was a very pleasant surprise, in how great it is, including Wilbur Ware's bass playing.)

I thought about that but I have no experience doing stuff like this, so I better don't try...

I think mine's by now a little bit rustier... it's funny, all the time it was at my parents' house, it rusted very slowly, after I moved it to our own flat, it started rusting much faster... and I think it even makes a difference in what room I keep it... will have to remove the discs from the box now, I hate getting all dirty fingers each time I touch it! But the general idea I find kind of cool, I have to admit!

How about the Warner albums, wasn't there one more solo? Ah, I see... that's another overdubbing thing: Bill Evans Solo Bill Evans (p, el-p) overdubbing himself NYC, January 26-28 & 30, February 13-16, 1978 Song For Helen Warner Bros. BSK 3177-Y Nobody Else But Me - Maxine - For Nenette - I Love My Wife - Remembering The Rain - After You - Reflections In D - * Bill Evans - New Conversations (Warner Bros. BSK 3177-Y)

Ah, now I understand! I thought there was a third album... I guess I should check out the other one then, eventually!

Yeah, but this one's on Prestige, too: It's this one I feel ambiguous about.

Just make sure you don't end up spending the rest of your days without it, it's too good to miss! Nothing else I can add... don't have much Bags yet, myself. brownie: the two Prestiges, the first is the Milt Jackson Quartet, I assume (I have it and find it... subdued on good days, boring on bad... it's a late night disc, to me, very quiet and all), but what's the second one? (And then I assume all the other OJCs were done for Riverside and later Pablo?)

I guess they would be the same - it wouldn't make sense to produce the same discs in several locations in Europe... I'll have to look for the Rouse at least - I always remembered seing the old US CD reissue being announced in other Columbia discs... time to check it out, eventually!

Happy Birthday!

You think German trains are expensive? Take out a 2nd mortgage or sell a few Mosaics before you use one here.. I can't swim... but there's Easyjet to Luton... but you wouldn't want to go to Luton either.... No, but there's a train directly into London from there... no need to stay in Luton. And if you book the train like 5 years ahead, paired with your cheapo last minute flight, it costs only something like 5 pound or so... he he. No car lover here... in fact unable to drive, but now let's get back to Monk!

Michael Moore - one of my big favourites, great clarinet player as well!

Add Stefano di Battista!