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Ain't there some kind of OZ-aic of his for you to spend money on?

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Happy birthday from a fellow (half, that is...) OZ-tralian... have a nice one, mate!

Maybe Little's best album--the band is sick, the performances are wonderful, and the charts are beyond belief--hope you dig it! Yeah! It´s an absolutely wonderful album! At the same level that those incredible Dolphy-leaded Five Spot live discs! Some alternates from the session are on "Candid Dolphy". And his "& Friend" album on Bethlehem is just (or almost) as great, in case you're looking for further ways to spend money...

Interesting discussion that went on here, indeed! Me being some kind of a historian, I cannot but wholeheartily agree with the below post (my emphasis).

Thanks a lot for sharing these remebrances, Lazaro!

Thanks Matt! I was a bit (well, actually more,... I'm getting a bit touchy, I assume...) irritated by your post, as I really tried to add something to the discussion. I can understand your frustration, though... on my BFT there were a few similar reactions. Anyway, Dan should have loved #1 and #2 of the second disc, at least!

Sad news indeed, much too young

Maybe you should learn to play some of 'em ..... I did, I did, but alas not nearly as much time at hand as I'd like... and no practising for over a year by now

I guess it's more some kind of leftover sale - they get new stuff in now and then, it seems (when I did my second order - the above one is the third - I bought all I wanted, so most of the above wasn't in stock back then...). But I wouldn't wait too long, if there are things you really want...

Ok, I see I nailed #1 and got close on #2... but I failed again miserably to recognize a familiar standard...

Alright, here's some impressions of disc two... #1 Jackie Mac? Hmmm, what's this? Some early sixties Blue Note recording but I can't pin it down right now, might be from Freddie Redd's "Connection"? Anyway, I definitely have this and I like it! Beautiful piano solo! Alto sounds a bit too sweet for my liking here, but it's never light (which is what I don't like about a lot of alto players). Just found out it's indeed #4 of Redd's Connection album. #2 Ok tune, more hardbop... I know this one as well but can't pin it down. Hmmmm, what's this again? There's an ugly phasing on the drums... is this from one of Mobley's Blue Note albums? Donald Byrd? Horace Silver? #3 A Monk tune, quite obviously, and it sounds like it's indeed a Monk quartet playing here, or at least it sounds like Rouse. Bass sounds like a later recording - Sphere? Yes, sounds definitely not like a 60s recording, much more like it could be from one of Sphere's Elektra albums... piano is - as always on Monk covers - way too tame... even more obvious when comping than in solo. Nice tune, but all Monk covers are highly debatable, to say the least. #4 I like a lot how this starts out! Makes me think of Fred Hersch (whom I don't know well enough yet - his Monk solo album I love, btw - but still it's debatable...!). Clarinet, great! "Street of Dreams"? Lovely tune! Very nice sound on clarinet... and I'm quite clueless here. My guess is this is quite a recent recording (despite the muffled piano sound - how come clarinet is captured so nicely and piano so un-nicely?). #5 Fender rhodes? Nice! Bu I don't like how the tenor bends almost each note. Electric piano solo is nice. I do like this sound! I guess this is another younger band of players? #6 Hmmm... another fairly recent recording, I assume. I'm a bit afraid to make any too outspoken comments now that I seem to have been to negative in my comments on disc one, already, but still... this fails to grab me. Tenor is nicer than on the last cut, but it's too light for my liking - the latin beat may be part of that. Pianist has listened to some Tyner. I assume this is my problem, mainly, but nowadays that even stuff like Brötzmann is "classic", I often don't see the point in playing this kind of music. Not that I wouldn't listen to any contemporary mainstream players, but I just get more and more selective. I hope this was a thoughtful enough comment. #7 This starts out pretty nicely! And here's a tenor I enjoy quite some more. Also the bass/drum accompaniment is more varied. Good one! Ah, there's that weird sound again, and the bass clarinet... what's this sound? Some analogue synth stuff? #8 Things are getting better! ;-) I like this groove quite a bit! Nice opening with just percussion and stummed bass. #9 Weird recording mix here? A live recording - ah, yes, an audience recording... I can see how this builds and how there's some serious musicianship and development in there, but I'm not a fan of this guitar sound... sax was rather nice, though! #10 Ah, another one by the same group - nice! I like this tune much better! Sounds slightly familiar, I think... nice ending for dsic two here! Thanks for compiling these two discs, Matt!

Hmm, hard to choose! Btw, ECM released one more, the duo with Gismonti! The first I heard was the Cherry, and maybe that one's still my favourite? But I miss the Gismonti and Rubalcaba ones... Bley, Allen are great, LMO is good as well... but the Henderson strikes me as not that great - doesn't really grab me, and was quite a let-down after the long wait.

Thanks Nate and everybody. I did order some things, skipped the Eneidi (the samples seemed quite a bit less intriguing than a great live recording I have) and Butcher/Masaoka, too. But I did add two of the ones D.D. recommended (the indian sax guy and that larger bay area group). Edit: skipped Tri-O and Volkov/Kuryokhin, too - the order would have just gotten too expensive...

I use mine to wipe my ... you know, when there's nothing else around... I just cut them up in pieces and pile them next to the toilet...

Yes, I'm aware of that - I just thought that the only Peiffer discussion that might have taken place here would have been in this thread, so I chose to post this here. Seems the disc is only available at CDbaby? I guess I'll order it... the JiP discs are great!

Thinking of another CD baby order... anyone can tell me about the following discs? VLADIMIR VOLKOV, SERGEI KURIOKHIN, KESHAVAN MASLAK: jet lag TRI-O (SERGEI LETOV, ARKADY SHILKLOPER...): trialogue PAOLO ANGELI / HAMID DRAKE: uotha LISLE ELLIS, MARCO ENEIDI, PETER VALSAMIS: sound on survival live HERMANN BUHLER: alto solo DICK GRIFFIN: a dream for rashaan BUTCHER / MASAOKA / ROBAIR: guerrilla mosaics They all look at least interesting! I think David has mentioned Buhler positively a few times, so I'll go for that one. I've heard bits of the Angeli/Drake on radio (it was broadcast live before it came out on CD) and quite liked it. The other ones I know nothing of...

There seems to be a new release of 70s piano solo recordings by the great Bernard Peiffer. Since there's no thread dedicated to him, I post about it here... does anyone have it? brownie? I stumbled over it on CDbaby where it's sold for rather steep 18$, so I'd like to know some more about it, before ordering. Here's the cover:

I see I don't make your list of thoughtful commentators - sorry about that. No offense intended. I suppose we're all grown-ups, and tastes are different, so yes, not all tracks on your discs grabbed me, but still I did try and say something about each of them. Not talking about what one doesn't like is a bad option in life... anyway, apologies if anything I posted came across as rude or too frankly said.

Hmm... I won't go the japanese route, but maybe will get a couple of VMEs to compare some day... maniac, me

Greatly enjoyed discs 1-5 (run out of time afterwards, alas) of the Jazztet. Not much of it was new to me (3 Jazztet albums plus one of the Golson's, too, but I didn't come that far yet), but this music is sooooo nice, and it's great to have it all in one place. Somewhat reminds of the JJJ set, in its penchant for variety and nice arrangements. And still, the looser three of the albums (Birdhouse and the great two Mercury albums) have as much space for blowing as any Messengers date... and Golson is fully in charge, with Farmer providing a very nice alternative, cooler, softer, but no less compelling. The rhythm sections are fine as well, for me McCurdy and Williams being the outstanding musicians. Not to speak of the 'bonists and pianist... a terrific set, even more so for someone who just has one or two things from it. Oh, and the *one* highlight? Definitely the terrific "Jazztet meets John Lewis" album - I've had that on one of those b/w reissue LPs and loved it from the very first spin. Awesome album! Anyone got a big scan of the colour cover?

Yes - seems like he was one to take chances... a loner, and kind of a weirdo, too, as I understand... (not in a negative way - just some idiosyncratic character...)

For any others reading this thread, here's a link to a short english biography (with a photo of Lüscher): http://www.musinfo.ch/index.php?content=ma...&action=open_it Lüscher's are on Altrisuoni: www.altrisuoni.com (steep prizes... not for swiss market, but you'll likely find it expensive...)

Nice, that magazine ("Jazz'n'more", 4/2006, July/August) has a lenghty personnal recollection by sax player Martin Buergi (more here: http://www.altrisuoni.com/pub/artist.php?code=27 - wouldn't work on Opera on my computer). Some more points I take from there (no use in translating it - it's too many just so stories of a personnal character and uninteresting for someone not swiss, plus it's much longer than the above two): - he came from free improv to jazz - he was divorced, had daughters (don't know how many but more than one) - had a heart attack 12 years ago already, doctors gave him 3 more years to go then, but he continued living in clover (don't know that expression in english... leo also gives "to live it up", "to live on the fat of the land", "to riot away one's days"), using up all his funds within 3 years, but then he didn't die... and had to begin from scratch again. - Buergi's personnal remembrance of FL will be as: open, curious, vital, crazy, free from prejudices, full of joie de vivre I hope all of this is of use, Nate! Please post your write-up here or PM it my way, as otherwise I'll never see it!