king ubu

you know, myself being such a sorry-assed lazy fat king, smartass is indeed quite a compliment!

Sure, smartass... Only my notebook might fry me and the whole house... but maybe you can come by with your SR-71, transcode the files and then fly the back again?

Yes, I know I can do that, but that takes quite a bit of time...

That suggests it just won't work Too bad that fm stations have their digi-streams in MP2 format, then! Thanks for finding that! Can anyone confirm it won't work at all? Or is there any way around it?

so I got my own ubupod today (30GB, for free, higher entities commanded... I had no influence - not without reason I'm called the humblest king on earth... ) Now: is there a way to copy MP2 files onto that thingie? Tells me it wouldn't work without giving a reason. I re-installed the latest version of iTunes before, so that can't be the reason. Is there a plugin or something similar I can install to make MP2 files run? And if so, where can I get that? Oh, and I'm on Windows, I assume that does make a difference... Thanks for any help!

Thanks for that link! Strange that it says 8.99€ in the title but the discs are all 9.99€! So here's the list, for later times, when the link won't work anymore: Chris Connor - At the Village Gate (Roulette) Jon Hendricks - A Good Git-Together (Pacific Jazz) Julie London - Around Midnight (Capitol) Sue Raney - All By Myself (Capitol) Dinah Shore - Dinah Sings, Previn Plays (Capitol) Dakota Staton - Dynamic! (Capitol) Sarah Vaughan - Sarah + 2 (Roulette) Joe Williams - A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry (Roulette)

I have to agree with this. I'm glad I got it for my collection but if you can't find it for a decent price, just wait for it to be reissued. It's not worth spending $55 for. I agree with this, too. Next time I see it in a sale, I'll pick up a copy to offer here, wasn't aware it was that rare! It kept popping up in Blue Note sales now and then over here.

fegh lager, with capital F! Why don't people (not even 5 year olds that you'd assume to be innocent!) prefer a good beer over that crappy lager you get everywhere? hell, world gone wrong!

Thanks for clarifying about that 3CD set - looks tasty! I have some of this on compilations (Dexter's Properbox, I think), but not nearly all of it!

Didn't find any list, but there's plenty of others - I saw at least six or seven in a store a few months ago but wasn't sure if there hadn't been a thread about them already... If anyone has a list, please post it!

No big trouble over here... she can't really relate to the obsession of collecting, and she doesn't really care much for jazz (but if it's something nice, say some Evans or Hank Jones, Desmond, etc, she won't be bothered). We went to a few live gigs together (Aberzombie, as she still calls him - boring gig with great Joey Baron, virtuoso Feldman and dead Johnson; Rabou Abou Kabou, Stenson & Irene Schweizer solo accompanying some films...), but she doesn't really care for it. Anyway, we don't argue about it, mostly she just leaves me alone (I leave her alone, too, when she's reading piles of stoopid crime novels...)

Got this one. The Kletzki and the Reiner were the only others they had. The Gatti is OOP since 2002 (after having been in print a mere 3 years), and the Mengelberg is so long OOP that it wouldn't even show in their system any longer. No serious store over here carries the Brilliant Classic boxes, but I might have to look for that one for my own pleasure. That box would have been overkill for my mother (I also got Chailly over Kletzki because of sound, in the end... she's not deep enough into this stuff to really go lengths and listen to various versions, and I figured she'd prefer one in very good sound).

This here's a great compilation of early Teddy: Definitely worth looking for (although again, some of it has been reissued over and over, so you might have half of it already).

Lon, what's that 3CD set? By Dexter? Or a compilation? chewy, do get this one if you don't have it, it's glorious:

I once did something on "Nigger Heaven" (sorry for that title... wasn't nearly as loaded back then, but still... he meant good, for sure). Quite a fascinating character, that guy! What's the other novel? I remember this one was long OOP back when I would have needed it, had to get it from some library...

I greatly enjoy this one: It contains tons of stuff, much of it just excerpts, but there's a lot of poetry, as well as a few complete works (including Toomer's classic "Cane" - this is the book Andrew Hill based his first Palmetto disc on, btw). There is a second edition now (I have the one pictured above), with some new stuff in it: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/afam/nafam2/ And here's the list of complete works it contains: 11 complete longer works Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa: But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (new) Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nella Larsen, Quicksand (new) Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Amiri Baraka, Dutchman Ed Bullins, Goin’a Buffalo: A Tragifantasy Adrienne Kennedy, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White August Wilson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (new) Obviously they deleted from this new edition: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Soul of Black Folk Jean Toomer, Cane Melvin B. Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia Toni Morrison, Sula August Wilson, Fences (the first edition had 13 complete works, thus - also containing the ones from the first list not marked as new) This is a great starting point, and with 2600+ pages you won't exhaust it that soon... the chapter on the Harlem Renaissance is almost 400 pages. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston would be two other great authors to read. And then there's Carl van Vechten's weird novel.... hard to find that one, it seems (or at least I was unable to find it back when I looked for it, but that was roughly 10 years ago). And go for some of Hughes' Jesse B. Simple columns, they're a great and very enjoyable read!

I too sent you a pm only today!

German Amazon says it's gone, but I'll take a not, too, thanks brownie!

So it looks like I watch out for these here:

Thanks again, clem - took some notes... Seems what my mother heard was the Karajan w/Edith Mathis... won't buy that, no sir. As for Bernhard, I've read some of his stuff, of course... not that one so far, though, but he's a writer I like to return to again and again.

Thank you for the input, guys!

Must have missed this, too - happy birthday, belated best wishes!

This is for an x-mas gift... my mother would like to get the fourth symphony by Gustav Mahler and I thought I'd ask the big-o honchos for some recommendations. Should be some more or less readily available discs (there is one store here with a very good classical section, I hope to find it there, I'm sure they have plenty of versions available). So, what should I look for? Thanks in advance!

I did the ubu stomp last time I played the Rothko Chapel thingie... but I have to confess I prefer some ZA jive to do the ubu stomp - oh, and don't ask me how the ubu stomp goes, it just goes, get it?

Had this one on hold and decided to pull the trigger based upon your recomendation. Put "Modern Jazz Symposium" on hold as well! Thanks! enjoy!