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Another non-expert whose posts have so far been dutifully neglected/ignorated in this thread, luckily, dares to speak up... How about starting games with penalties? Then, in case the game ends with a draw, the team who did better in the penalties wins - this would help doing something against the defensive way of playing, at least on the side of one team...

Mike, thanks again for your effort! I've said it already: the track from "Morava" is a favourite. And that Danny Thompson tracks makes me willing to look for more, too!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

A BIDR FLU BUG? HA HA...

I almost know that tenor solo on the opening cut of "Congregation" by heart - what a terriffic solo! I have this as Conn LP, never managed to find the CD, so I will pick this one up. But why aren't they first reissuing the first Griffin album? That one has been gone for much longer time...

What a lame game that was, yesterday... just about as boring as France-South Korea or Switzerland-Ukraine... maybe they should all go back to their roots and study with him again?

You mean you memorized all this dialogue!!??? Wow, I'm impressed. BTW Do you know how much, if any, of it was in the novel? Or is it all Faulkner/Brackett/Hawks/Bogart/ Bacall? No no, nothing memorized... I didn't learn that at school, alas, being much too young - never even had to know any poem by heart... But I'm familiar enough with the film to be quite sure that the parts I used (from the web...) for my signature are just like they happen in the film. Being no reader of crime stories, and not familiar enough with american literature anyway, I don't know how much of the film's from the book and how much from Faulkner/Hawks, sorry.

Happy birthday!

Now that I would definitely buy!

Just spilled all my coffee over the keyboard Sure, it's from "The Big Sleep", and for me there's just one version (I love Charlotte Rampling, of course, but still...): the one with Bogart & Bacall. I think the dialogue is word-by-word in the film, yet it's been a while that I saw it (but I saw it three or four times in the cinema already...) - one of my favourite films... "Key Largo" and "To Have and Have Not" are great, too, btw! (Just in case anyone feels like having more Bacall/Bogart.)

If it's Alarm you are referring to, this is from the Atavistic site: "The story is simple. We were touring with this band, and the reason I could put the band together in the first place was a radio gig in Hamburg. Michael Naura, chief of the jazz dept there, was setting up a series of on-air concerts in a 200-seat studio, so we performed the first piece, which I called "Alarm." I used the graphic instructions for a reaction to a nuclear emergency, a series of waves and straight tones, repeated in a certain way. We had planned two more pieces, one by Willem Breuker and one by Frank Wright. My piece took about 40 minutes, the first half of the concert. At the end of the performance, Naura came to me – while we were still on the air – and whispered that the house got a bomb threat and had to be evacuated. So I had to bring the piece quickly to and end and the audience was asked to leave the hall. We also had to pack and leave. Police and special forces showed up with all kinds of equipment, gear, dogs – we know all that better now than then. That was the end of the concert and that’s the 40 minutes we have on tape. -Peter Brötzmann, Chicago, October 2005 Hm, here's the info I have on that NDR workshop (don't have the disc, but I guess that's the date): NDR Jazz Workshop No. 164 - Peter Brötzmann Band November 12, 1981 Studio 10, Funkhaus, NDR, Hamburg, Germany Toshinori Kondo (tp) Johannes Bauer (tb) Alan Tomlinson (tb) Frank Wright (sax) Peter Brötzmann (sax) Willem Breuker (sax) Alexander von Schlippenbach (p) Harry Miller (b) Louis Moholo (dr) 1. Alarm (Brötzmann) (37:05) 2. Ahab (Schlippenbach) (7:10) 3. Sur l’Autoroute (Breuker) (7 :10) 4. Grandpa and the kid (Miller) (9:00) 5. Minor double blues (Schlippenbach) (9:55) 6. Another flat djungle (Breuker) (9:10) 7. Jerry Sacem (1.version) (Wright) (10:15) 8. Jerry Sacem (2.version) (Wright) (3:10) Total Time: 96:05 Producer: Michael Naura I don't have this, so I can't really say if it's around, but I strongy guess it is, since this comes from an informed source...

Happy Birthday, Barak!

I like Petrucciani alright, but as has been said, the 7CD set is far from his best (and I don't even know those albums that many might consider the best). I enjoy his Owl trio album quite a bit (probably/hopefully on Sunnyside CD in the USA?), and his Owl duo album with Lee Konitz is good as well. And both of the Elektra albums (also reissued by Blue Note) are as good as the few best one from the 7CD box (essentially, in my opinion, the acoustic ones... mainly the one with Lovano & Scofield and "Promenade with Duke"). Where should I continue? And about Mosaic doing a Petrucciani box: I assume the 7CD box has been a bad seller, it's around cheap here and there and never was rare, I think. Plus, it's a rag-bag, with a couple of rather bland electric albums in there that I could live wihtout perfectly well. So yes, it's more a question of Dreyfus releasing more, I assume... and their 3CD box is a box, isn't it? Maybe they'll do another one? I think Richard Galliano or someone has got two out, no? Oh, the only Dreyfus album I have the so-so meeting with Steve Grossman, btw. Where to go from there, which ones are the best?

Just about to finish download of CD2, works fine! Please don't forget to send me the link for CD1, as well!

well yes... probably only a question of time... there was a review in a recent edition of The Wire of two Wright discs that sounded very favourable (not sure if it's these two), and the only one I have so far (that limited and now OOP one "eight by nine" or similar, on that CDR label) I enjoy more and more, with each listen (three or four so far, and I found it only so-so on first listen, but it got quite a bit more interesting in the meantime).

Playing disc 3 of the Weston Select again - love it!

So these Bailey sessions were done in early 2003 when Sylvian's "Blemish" was recorded? Sounds pretty interesting! ******************** Me got this nice 5CD package from mimaroglu music sales (thanks for posting the link above!): - Polwechsel/Fennesz: Wrapped Island (erstwhile 023) - Axel Dörner/Kevin Drumm (erstwhile 015)* - Fe-Mail featuring Lasse Marhaug: All Men Are Pigs (gameboy gb56)** - Axel Dörner/Greg Kelley/Andrea Neuman/Bhob Rainey (sedimental 036)*** - Michel Doneda/Jack Wright/Tatsuya Nakatani: From Between (soseditions 801)**** *) one hell of a great cover, jon!!! **) ok, ok, I only got it because of the cover art ***) is "Thanks / Cash" the title or not really? ****) very nice package, but difficult to open without damaging it, and *very* difficult to read!

Same here. I wasn't surprised Brazil was knocked out of the tournament, just like the Argentinians (who played much better in comparison) they were much too sure of themselves. It's the real teamwork that wins the games here - and the real strong will to make it. The French are just beginning to get it. Those German players are so unpretentious, I wish them well - which I never before did! Mike, funny you should say this! You know, there are tons of Germans living in Switzerland (in Zurich I think they're the largest or second largest foreign group), and many of them are spreading out and being very loud and more or less naturally take more place for themselves than they leave for others... (sorry, it's no cliché, just drive the tramway and you'll see/hear yourself) and during the world cup things get even worse, of course (swiss behaviour gets worse, too, obviously... soccer seems to be an enemy of manners anyway). Now granted the Swiss *never* are fans of the German team, but now following only losely some games, some statements of Klinsmann etc. and witnessing the new and totally sympathic spirit of that team, I indeed wish them luck, too. The problem of the arrogance of many of the fans remains, of course, and I don't with anything to the fans, but the team looks indeed like they're very unpretentious. And on the Frings-thing: isn't it totally ridiculous that based upon out-of-focus tv images where you cannot judge on distance (to me, the fist of Frings looks like it's at least 20 or 30 cm in front - or to the left - of the Argentinian's face) they are giving this pentalty? These images look like a make-believe hitting scene of a Laurel & Hardy kind of film... best someone makes sure FIFA gets rid fast of that corrupt swiss guy heading them! (But I guess there are 20 of the same making in the queue behind him, waiting to replace him if he goes...)

Thanks Mike! I'll have to listen again with your answers printed out! Oh, and the french horn guy's a classical musician?! Wow! And Sadi is about the only one I know a bit (but only his early stuff from the fifties, and only sideman things, too...) What a challenge! (almost as good as mine, back then.. )

Actually, Diz does break new ground with Bossa Nova here in this set, only the sessions weren't released until after others got bossa nova out there and made a name of it. . . . He also fuses some carribean style material into his small group jazz conception which I don't think was often done before him . . . . Some really cool albums amongst those in this set. I love this Limelight album (not included, alas):

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Hope you had a good one, Stefan! Belated best wishes!

huh? mine is just 1 disc!