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Obviously, but that's a completely different thing ... switch one guy and the band is totally different. The fall 1960 tour with Stitt I'd also prefer to the Blackhawk recordings, I think, as Miles takes on the challenge there (and Kelly reacts to that), while at the Blackhawk they're content to play in the pocket - nice enough and surely more difficult to do than it would seem, but over the course of four discs also somewhat boring, eventually. But I'd have a rather hard time thinking of better dinner party music

Joyeux anniversaire, Guy! C'était très bien de te rencontrer autre fois!

I like it, but I prefer the Carnegie Hall concert: There have been various previous threads of course: htttp://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1618-miles-blackhawk/ or www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1004-comp-miles-blackhawk-up-for-pre-order/

Right, guess I implied that rather than outright saying it. Pretty rotten scene. yup ... and I edited my post in a way it kinda repeated your point, only realizing after having posted it. re: Monk's Casino - loved it live, but for many reasons none of which included Schlippenbach. Don't need it on disc though.

Thought Schleiss wasn't really legal /straightforward either, appropriating by force what wasn't really hers - ugly story there, from what I've read ... but then this is one of those cases were some might feel inclined to have a right to hear stuff ... and I guess you'll always find some musician not happy with someone's label, but then that's no reason for excuses either.

hm, no idea, but jazzwerkstatt has done some nice stuff, also their own recordings ...

If they offer that at such a low price, the lady must have had some generous Russian sponsor ... no wonder nobody buys Miklos Spányi's complete recording on period keyboards, all single CDs at normal price. I know he had to pay for the recording sessions himself, the label just finances the pressing and such. But it must be dull to listen to all that on modern piano. I recently asked about Spanyi when there was a sale, but got no recommendations at all ... there are like ... 300 discs, so where to start? First impression is not dull at all, rather quite surprising, but I'm only two discs in.

Still not through with unum cypher's great book, but some things need to be tended to, so this one comes in between ... it's much less closely focussed on the actual music than Gioia, goes in bigger swipes, giving the "big picture" in a sense (also sometimes in a way that I think is not really accurate, but no biggies so far) ... anyway, if I had read this when growing up (and into jazz music at the same time), I'm sure it would have been about as helpful as Berendt's "Jazz Book" proved to be (and in some cases as mis-leading, since it's sometimes difficult to challenge views one has settled on in youth ... or rather, it's difficult to realise which parts of these views should be challenged in the first place). So this is not a full endorsement, but I'm not saying one shouldn't read this either ...

five spokes, three of which are too long

EI's choice of words, of course ...

No, it was a ballsy thing to do, ya know, cojones and toughguy-ny-isms. No button for withdrawing around

taking off an hour or two to think of that word: discombobulated

no idea ... they say on CD for the first time, so could be good or bad or worse ... it's a fine album and the reissue history it went through sucks bigtime. In the early 90s, there was a GRP disc with two extra tracks, and then they followed up with the silly "Originals" series that made, sort of, vinyl reissues for CD listeners ... would have been nice if Universal/Vivendi/whomever did at least one proper reissue of all the material, really, but ... what is it with guitar albums anway, Jim Hall's great Pacific Jazz album never was properly reissued either if I'm not mistaken

sorry to hear this, hope he'll fully recover!

Agreed - "Baritone Madness" happens to be one of the few of the albums included that I've had a chance to hear ("Neo/Nistico" and the Reece are the only others, I think) - and while ragged, it's quite a nice indeed!

yeah, of course ... one part of being intelligent is at least trying to be aware of things you don't know ... I guess provinciality is a state of mind - and it's the opposite of, well, there's no real english word, but the state you should reach after Enlightenment has been done with (and I refuse to believe that Enlightenment has failed) ... it's really you own call to make, so I'm not even sure stupid and dumb remain different options, in the end

Well, the point is, whenever you write in public, you will not only write about what you do know, but also reveal what you do not know ... uttering strong opinions in fields you don't know well might not be such a smart idea since you're more likely to expose some of your blind spots ... I've enjoyed reading some of Iverson's interviews and other blog posts very much (the ones on Donald Bailey or Paul Motian for instance, the Mickey Roker interview, the big Pres tribute ...), but at times like this, he comes across as quite full of ... whatever.

ouch! big ouch indeed!

Yes indeed! Two discs in, I'm definitely intrigued, but this will indeed take some time to sink in! Thanks for keeping on, Allen!

okay, now playing "Man with Guitar", and inquiring mind wants to know: why does "Slave Rebellion" use the changes of "Besame Mucho"?

Got my package today - and did the same, "When a Cigarette Is Smoked" went into the player right away - and it's good indeed! Thanks a lot, Allen, looking forward to exploring the wealth of music!

Sounds great! The part(s) I love most: but: not so easy to scare women, I guess

I like the band alright, the twofer with "Gillespiana" and "The Carnegie Hall Concert" is my favourite, followed by "An Electric Evening".

yeah, and I like that Zoot disc just fine - not really like, I guess

Yup, will wait as well - but definitely will buy this!