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... and prepare to pay 5 $ more per disc... I guess that's what they make us pay for not using that glue...

I saw the whole project live here in Zurich, last fall, and they were terrific. The whole thing went down in two nocturne concerts of probably 90-100 minutes, on consecutive nights. The band is actually not at all Schlippenbach's, neither is it his project. Rather it's the project/idea of "Die Enttäuschung" (band name, translates to disappointment, frustration or letdown), and Schlippenbach sort of added himself. Obviously his name being the best known, it was further regarded (and released by Intakt) as his project. Anyway, it showed in the music that Dörner and Mahall had much more to do with it than Schlipp. The first night, the whole thing would have been better without him, in fact - he sounded tired and turned in but a few lacklustre solos. Second night he was *much* better, playing with much more presence and ideas. What was remarkable was that the whole project was totally unamplified. Bassist Jan Roder has a nice woody sound and the drumset of Uli Jenessen's was tuned and played as to never get into the way and covering the bass. Dörner has monster chops, really impressive, but never felt like showing off, not at all. Beautiful sound, too.... Mahall, on the other hand, is the expressionist of the group, playing with total exuberance and virtuosity, often moving around in a rather spastic weird way. A few tunes added some kind of "show" effects, like the one where Schlippenbach played trumpet (his own instrument, btw, not Dörner's) while Axel Dörner sat at the piano - Schlipp did quite well (bad chops, but a couple of nice ideas), while Dörner just noodled around a bit... then there's one tune they play while laying flat on the floor (Roder below his bass...), and there was that one that really turned into a performance piece, actually... Jenessen has a big red rubber ball that makes this boomy sound when bumping at the floor, and that's the beat. The two horns chased him through the whole room, kicking the ball away, while he had to run after it and wasn't allowed to miss a beat... that was pretty funny, and musically it still worked very well. During another tune, Dörner sat behind the light board and when he darkened the whole room, the band had to stop and pick up again once he turned the lights on... So, live this was a really great experience, and if anyone can check it out, I'd recommend to do so! I don't have the CD and am hesitant to buy it, since the live experience will prove to have been much better anyway, regardless of how good the CD might be. @ bertrand: why not contact Dörner and/or Mahall and send them copies of those two missing tunes? I'm sure they'd be all for it!

huh? they did even worse than the swiss, and the italians did pretty badly, too, I heard... phew! that's why actually I'm glad the Swiss are out: I really hope Zurich will get back to normal life again now - it was a total madhouse for a week now, with public transport breaking down those nights them swiss didn't shoot any goals...

So you found the discs ...... The language is Czech - she is very well known in Czech folk circles! I appreciate your compliments on the sequencing - I spent many an hour on it! I see above that this track is from George Mraz' disc "Morava"... that one has been on my wishlist for a long time... will move it up further!

Strange, no? One would think he as president wouldn't "think", but *know*...

There was that test game they played against the Swiss, just before the world cup started - there was that one marvellous scene, where an itallin dived, his face performing at least a whole Verdi-opera, but in the middle of it he stopped to check if the ref was watching him, and then on it went... They should get cards for doing that, too!

Mike, this disc is quite a trip, to many places, from classical to ethnical... mainly lots of beautiful (in a good sense) music. I'm not sure if there really is anything that does connect all the tracks (#1-#12, that is), but it might be some kind of musical honesty? It's all warm and direct music that does not try to dazzle with technical things - that's what I meant with "beautiful", I guess. It's obviously useless to make any guesses, and I just took a couple of notes while listening (again only background listening while at work...) #1 Hmmm... sounds like something classical channelled through some other kind of mind? Or like some silent film accompaniment... #2 Marimba, balafon? Very nice easy one, I like the warm mood a lot! #3 Very nice sequencing, Mike, from #1 to #3! Similar to #1 again, but with more attack. Still very moody. #4 Wow! Sounds very familiar... some 20s or 30 piece for saxophone and piano? Good one! #5 Fits in nicely again... I don't have a lot to say about these moody piano pieces... not things I'd listen to all that often, but quite nice. #8 Hmmm... can't say I don't like this voice. What language's she singing in? Nice bass and drums below! Someone who knows how to handle them brushes, very nice! My favourite track of this disc so far. #9 Very nice... reminds me of Haden/Bley's "Ballad of the Fallen"... acoustic guitar and fat bass sound fit very well, tenor is good, too, with full-bodied sound that (imo) just manages to escape the tenor macho-clichés. Another favourite track! #10 / #11 Nice sequencing again here. Not much I can say... I like the second tune quite a bit, me likes some accordion in a nice setting like this. ******* #12 Not sure what to make of this. Sounds pretty interesting on first listen... ******* #13 Wow! Pathetic voice and chipmunks... great one! Reminds me of that sped-up vocal duo the Elliott fellow (trumpet, mellophone, vibes) had in the sixties... great! Goes to quite a few places afterwards. Tons of fun in here! #14 "Für Elise"... like this one a lot!

Do check out "Outland" if you have a chance, P.L.M. - it's very fine, in my opinion!

The Stuff/Dizzy was part of the (terrific, mind me!) Stuff Smith set, and with Mosaic's (debatable) policy of not releasing sessions more than once, it's quite clear it couldn't be included again. Makes sense to me, as the Smith Mosaic was around until a couple of years ago. Also there was that Smith-Peterson-Gillespie 2CD release which included the Smith/Dizzy date, as well. I am not really sure about this Verve/Phillips set... seems like too much of it has been around on single CDs - in the end I'll be weak and get it and probably love it, but this is not one I'll jump for right now.

Yes, that's the one... and it was down when I started this thread, with no notice left about re-booting or whatever... the only thing I got was a page that told me this site didn't exist. Very strange! Glad to see it back again!

I only recently found out about Koenig's film career... it's mentioned in the liners to the 4CD Contemporary Story set, which the 2001 crooks had for a few euro-zlotys, recently. Don't have it at hand, but it's pretty obvious that he was talented there, too, working with William Wyler (swiss origin, btw, swiss name, at least). ***** Is that Gitte CD reissue worth the many $$ it goes for? She's mostly been associated with what's the worst offense to culture them Krauts invented ever since 1945... yuck!

Happy birthday!

same here for the first name, but (of course due to the german-speaking background), I'm inclined to say Neidlinger with the first syllable as the "i" in "high". That would be the german spelling - the name does sound old-yurpeen anyway, but I really don't know. Or first name "bu-el" (Bu as in Blakey's nickname, without the "iuw"-twist that's in "bew"?)

The website www.allumesdujazz.com used to list tons of independent french jazz releases, amongst others by the whole Nato family of labels... anyone knows what happened?

I forgot to mention that my last two or so orders arrived without me having to pay *any* custom taxes - just tell them to mark it as "educational sample", that will do the trick! The sets I remember going through with this were the O'Day and the Krupa/James, both more expensive than custom allows, with both no problem at all.

some oen fuggin moved the lettres on my keyborda last nite!!!! what tas bropably se thame oen who made taht ohter htread a mosiac one... I wonder what ol' Mose thinks of all of this!

mosaci? can I eat that?

if you're in for more of that, just read downbeat...

so you won't get scolded?

Coles also is on this fine disc:

my set should be on its way in a couple of days, too! (thanks again, tjobbe!)

Claudio Puntin!

happy birthday!