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so then, here's my little write-up, I'm pretty sure I'm going to make a fool of myself - as usual, I did the listening away from my CDs and just took a couple of notes while listening to each track: #1 - Great one! I assume that Jerzy chap on doorbells? The guitar gives this sort of a Getz-Jazz-Samba mood, the tenor sax fits in perfectly well. Groovy bit of fun, great opener, and I assume this one sets the mood?! #2 - Flute'n'bass, very nice. Drums are nice, too - at some moments it almost sounds like there are two drummers present, but I assume that's because of the stereo-spread? Bass has a folksy style, copped from Charlie Haden (but without Haden's signature sound)? This one's new for me and I'd certainly enjoy more of it! #3 - More flute, this time with some ethnical drums... is this some cheap tin flute or a regular one? Weird one... enters vocalized trombone - Albert M.? Piano as well... hm, tough one to pin down but I like it more and more as it progresses... piano sounds like Dollar Brand (those last couple of chords towards the end) #4 - A variant of "Take Five" - is this Desmond's "Take Ten"? Long time since I played such stuff so I can't tell. Pretty nice alto, good brassy trumpet. Some eastern european guys? Good scoring as well, with the baritone sax laying the foundation and pretty nice drumming. #5 - A nice hardbop performance of the softer kind (KD's Jazz Prophets come to mind, their Argo album mainly), certainly some Euro dudes again. I enjoy trumpet played in that low register a lot - nicely built solo as well. More flute and nice tenor, but I love the trumpet! Sounds like the pianist led this date to me, but don't ask me why... very nice piano solo to top things off - my favourite so far for content (#1 being the favourite for style...) #6 - A bit of a rough cut here (first one, others were good enough for me to really notice them much), on to more Milian twist stuff, pretty nice with that bass ostinato. Another one in five (last one was in three - pretty cool to hear such easy-going and natural sounding stuff in these signatures). Hah, there it gets weird again... not Milian then, I suppose. #7 - More of that purrty hardbop stuffe, again a bunch of Euro dudes that no one will be able to pin down? Sounds just as good, for sure! Tenor is great, trumpet in a lyrical style with a bunch of nice ideas - a bit like Donald Byrd around '56/'57? Using guitar instead of piano makes the whole band sound much lighter, to which the drummer adds a lot, too. Bass solo is pretty nice. May there be an expat or two in the rhythm section? All of this sounds somehow familiar... #8 - Very nice moody piece, great tenor solo! Another favourite! Trumpet is great during the ensembles! #9 - Ha! Kind of a madman here, huh? ... the spectacled weirdo some bad websites mix up with Jimmy Yancey, it seems, but it's been over a year that I played any of his music... love this one! The mix of Tristano with Peterson (or Wilson via Peterson?) is terrific - there's that rather cold-ish scholarly stuff in there, yet it grooves, breathes and blasts out with plenty of fun! If it's really Yancsi, it once more makes me wonder how softly that swiss power drummer can play if he chooses to. #10 - Yay! More fun stuff that sounds very familiar... from beyond your eastern border, Sir? Again there's that Brubeck thing in here with the three against two that gives this sort of a forward-moving stuttering feel. More great drumming here! And I enjoy it when the bass goes on playing during a drum-solo (Roach did that often). Lovely melody! #11 - "Birth of the Cool" this time... great scoring with that tuba/baritone sax lead-off! It's good to hear such short and concise solos - too often long ones don't add up to much more... who's the tuba chap? Tenor is nice as well! #12 - Slick programming here! The baritone sax picks up where that last one ended, the congas add a nice touch here. #13 - And one more that segues easily into the next one - Mulliganesque big band arrangement? Very nice opening dialogue, and then them vibes again... nice trumpet solo, again not one of those high and hardblowing ones, I like this lyrical trumpet playing staying in mid-range a lot. #14 - Extremely catchy and upbeat - nice one! #15 - ... but now time for some weirdness again! Typical GDR sunday afternoon barbecue music, I guess? Very nice one! Great soprano solo emerging out of the collective (great range, from tuba to piccolo!) #16 - That weird sound far right is a blatant rip-off of couw's favourite fingernails-on-chalkboard chap... won't say no more about this one, I almost expected a cut from this group to end up on a bovine BFT and here 'tis! #17 - Another great one! No clue who this could be, but he's got a great sound on clarinet, very much in command, very cultivated. Piano is a bit too easy-going, sounds rather like on autopilot... bass is great, reminds me a bit of Richard Davis in spots (those runs going high up, interfering with the melody, also the flexible-sounding pace). Piano gets a bit flowery after those runs, then into free-ish territory... I start liking it more and more as the solo goes on. Drummer starts playing some more, too - good! But the main thing here is the clarinet! Monkish theme. #18 - Modal territory... a Hancock/Tyner/Shorter mid 60s Blue Note mood - but the frontline of tenor sax & trombone already is a departure from your usual fare... the tune sounds familiar, is this a retro bit by a recent band? Sound tells me it's rather not... anyway, very nice trombone solo! Nice little tenor bit... and great performance by the drummer! Another good one! And as if to close things down, there's a bit of flute again in the end... #19 - More stoopid pianistics... the Romanian again? A cute little closer! Definitely a great compilation, John - lots of fun stuff in there! Thanks a lot!

It's taking shape at the moment... will be one full disc plus a second with related bonus material. (I'll do it by upload, too). Right now I'm finally giving John's a first spin and typing up some bits to post...

related thread here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=5000&st=0

Happy Birthday, Rodney! Only the best to you!

Just chiming in on the Beijing Trio - I saw them live in 2000 or 2001 and I was stunned. The music is clearly avantgarde and that was possibly quite a shock (or a disasters?) for people who knew the "regular" Roach (always pushing boundaries I assume, but rarely really stepping out in the field of totally free improv within the frame of his own groups). Anyway, it was one of the most daring concerts during that whole four-day festival, part of which it was, and it came from most likely the easily oldest person to appear at that festival... I wish more of the old guys were that open-minded (Sonny R., anyone?) //rant now patiently waiting for this (and the Berigan) to arrive...

Mildred Bailey - already played discs 5 & 6, now continuing with disc 7

Ok, thanks Claude. I found out about "Sicken" when googling about a pair of speakers my girlfriend has, where those parts are not good anymore on one of them (rubber, torn, broken apart). The ones I have now have rubber parts there. Anyway, if they work alright for a couple of years, that's fine!

porcy, I'd have to open the speakers to check the foam/rubber, then? I won't do that, of course, but I'm just curious...

I won't fall for that trap, no sir! Rest assured, most of my money still goes for CDs and that won't change too soon!

I'm sorry but I have no clue what your foam/rubber talk is about... maybe if it was in german... are you speaking of the soft parts that sort of mantle the actual speakers? They're of rubber. Anyway, I bought the speakers, someone where I got them said she had them in her flat for a month before they sold them and that they sounded good, and so do I think (I put on some Adderley Quintet, Aretha Franklin, What Is Is box, and now some early 50s Kenton).

yeah, they went online and googled for the website obvously and neatly-written put the real value on the package... which of course costs me 20 euro when it happens.... once they also kept a package back and asked me to sent in a copy of a non-bogus receipt before they would pass it on to me... took 2 months or so, in the end. that stuff is crazy, I hate all this protectionist behaviour here, but there's hardly a chance this is going to change in the next 10 years, politically.

It is for me, too, but I'm not sure about Paul... for someone who doesn't care to know about the entirety of Prez' late years, a session like "Laughing to Keep from Cryin'" can indeed be quite a mess, so... I'd first get all the other earlier material, for sure: Aladdin, Savoy, Basie Decca, more Basie (the 4CD box on Sony is great if only for the live material on the last disc, otherwise I'd still much welcome a complete one, but it's not going to happen, I'm afraid), the material with Billie Holiday, etc... and then once one's hooked get all of the Verve. I went the other way 'round (getting the Verve when I had almost no other Prez) and it wasn't that smart - I only started to appreciate and get hooked to most of the later part of the Verve material once I knew more of earlier Prez. But maybe that's just me...

yeah, but the swiss bastids have already checked the website to find out the real value, since the 5$ are obviously humbug! sent in my Roach order (adding the Tolliver and Wiley discs) last night. ouch!

Sad news. All of his I've heard is the OJC (I started a thread about that back when) and the tracks on the RCA Arrangers compilation - I'd definitely be in for a longer ride!

So for reasonably loud listening, indoor use, they should work alright, provided they don't sound like crap? I'll give them a try, they won't cost me more than a double disc set, so...

None of the JATP material is on the Verve box. What you're missing would mostly be available on VME discs, plus the very bad Paris date cheaply on Universal's "Jazz in Paris" series. Main thing you're missing, besides a few early dates, is the Pres & Teddy one.

I found this, I assume that contains all I need to know: SONY TA-F 220 Technische Daten: Super Legato Linear / Spontaneous Twin Drive Sinusausgangsleistung: 80 Watt je Kanal (4 Ohm), 70 Watt je Kanal (8 Ohm) Störspannungsabstand: 100 dB Klirrgrad: 0,03 % vergoldete Eingänge für CD, Tuner und Phono Cincheingänge: Phono (MM), CD, Video / Aux, Tuner, Tape 1, Tape 2 / DAT Cinchausgänge: Tape 1, Tape 2 / DAT 4 Lautsprecher anschließbar (4 – 16 Ohm) A, B, A+B, Off (Kopfhörer) Source-Direct Taste (direkte Verarbeitung der Klangsignale durch Umgehung der Klangregler) Regler für Balance, Höhen, Tiefen Loudness Taste getrennter Input- und Rec-Out-Selector: Wiedergabe und Aufnahme einer anderen Quelle möglich, direktes Überspielen von Tape 1 auf 2 und umgekehrt Vollmetallchassis Kopfhörerbuchse Abmessungen: 430 x 135 x 315 mm (Breite/Höhe/Tiefe) Gewicht: 8 kg

found this in an ebay description: 2x 90W Musik; 2x 70W Sinus what would that mean? that these speakers are too weak? would that be a problem if I don't crank the volume up too high?

could these here be ok? TECHNICS SB-CS6 http://cgi.ebay.de/TECHNICS-BOXEN-SB-CS6-3...1QQcmdZViewItem with front cover, for a bit less than 30 euro, used, off course...

Now the end of disc 4 with the "Trio Live" sessions - great! I prefer the sound of this trio over the Peacock/Motian one on "Trio '64", can't say why, but Israels/Bunker is one of my favourite Evans trios. The date with Getz is alright, but this is an instant where I could happily live without some of the bits included in the box. Elvin is interesting, though!

I assume you have the 2CD set on Savoy which collects the other Harden/Coltrane sessions? Terrific music, Harden is great! *********************** Discs 1-3 of the Evans Verve box (so far, hoping to continue for another few hours). Great stuff! I like "Empathy" very much, "Conversations with Myself" a bit less, but now "Trio '64" is again very nice! (I left out the McFarland for now)

you can also listen to Eric Dolphy if you want to listen to some idiot wearing sunglasses in a studio...

Terrific! It's a big band album of first order! Originally on Philips, not on Columbia, I think.

What's wrong with the LP? it doesn't fit Ship it to me. it's so big, it won't fit on a ship

All of that session is on the "'58 Miles feat. Stella by Starlight" CD. which is one of the old, usually rather bad-sounding, Sony/Legacy CDs with the blue frame, and which I never got...