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Happy birthday, Mark! And many thanks for all the great photos you share here!

Thanks to all of you!

Happy birthday!

Strange enough I didn't post it as a link, just as normal text - but then once I posted it, part of it turned into a link... main thing it works!

On Sunday I did my Jackie McLean memorial show. Music was played from "Jackie's Bag", "New Soil", "Let Freedom Ring", "Destination Out" and "Action" - the period I love the most, and the period where I feel McLean went through a fascinating development. Here's the link to the show: http://195.210.0.134:554/ramgen/lora/archi...00&title=Sonus: Musik im Gespräch&author=Sonntag, 16.04.2006©right=©2006 Radio LoRa 97,5 (for whatever reason I can't post it as link, so you have to copy the whole thing and enter it into a web-browser window to open it!) Following the first tune, there's lots of talk that you ignunts in swiss german may skip, after that it's mainly music. R.I.P. Jackie, thanks for all the great music!

Happy birthday, Erik! I wish you all the best!

The Dean Benedetti Book is quite a tome as well. Don't make me start regretting not getting the Mildred set. Damn !.. Me? I didn't do anything!

Another round of thanks, everybody! Having that Guinness now, to end the day in style...

Thanks a lot, everybody! Having dinner now with family, nothing much... no day off, alas, but I didn't have to get up early, at least Treated myself to three free Irene Schweizer CDs (Piano Solo Vols. 1 & 2 and "Ulrichsberg" with P. Favre) which I had coming due to having spent much too many pennies (and pounds) at one shoppe over here.... will fancy some nice listening later tonight! Thanks for that book, Mr. couw, I still missed that very edition! And the button I love, of course... I'll have a Guiness in celebration, after dinner, so cheers, Mr. (blame it on) Catesta!

They came out some time ago (2004 I think), on this CD: more info on the Concord website

Got my Bailey set - will have to go without food for two months, I guess... haven't played any of it yet, but started reading the booklet and wow... at over 40 pages this must be the fattest booklet among the ones I have (Capitol probably being second). Looks great, and I'm looking forward to hearing the music, too, as soon as I'm in the mood for vocal jazz of this vintage!

I need to put in a good word for Brönner's jazz chops - this guy is a great musician, really! I have not bought any of his discs, but I heard a concert of his on the radio which was terrific. Technically, he can do it all, but he's not at all a show off. He played with just guitarist Johan Leonhuvud (sp?) and Dieter Ilg on bass, and that concert was absolutely great! As I said, I have no clue what he does most of the time, but that concert alone convinced me of how good he was...

I saw the group last night, was a fairly nice concert, but Golson was not that great, either. Brecker was too tough, hard, harsh, loud and high for my likings, and not really into the music with his heart, it seemed - merely doing his job, which was to shine... Claus Reichstaller was there for Henderson, and he was definitely the most convincing musician, doing "Once in a While" on the flugel, and that was definitely the most beautiful and most touching piece of the whole concert. Other than that they played the same tunes Barak mentioned: Set 1 was "Joy Spring", "Confirmation", "I Remember Clifford" and one more tune, set 2 was "Jordu", "Once in a While", "Take the A Train", "A Night in Tunisia", and "Now's the Time" as an outro - they don't seem to play encores on this tour. Besides Reichstaller I liked Al Foster a lot, and Mike LeDonne did some great things, too. Buster Williams, alas, had an ugly pick-up eighties bass-sound, but it seems it was all his equipment, so it's him who is to blame. Yuck. If he stayed down low it was ok, and of course he played great, but if he went toward the upper region of his instrument's range, it started sounding twanky ugly metallish... and you heard his fingers and the noise of the string just as loud as the actual tone of the bass. Anyway, it was worth seeing, for sure!

Well, there have been three pretty lengthy Jaspar discs in the "Original Vogue Masters" series, all good. If there's nothing else (I don't know, and Brownie is on vacation, I think), it would fit, but somehow I think it's rather unlikely to happen, as most of those interested in Jaspar by now probably have those Vogue discs... would be a nice set, though, I'm sure about that!

I have some Palmetto discs and like them all, more or less (the Javon Jackson may be the least interesting one, for me): Larry Goldings - Moonbird Fred Hersch Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard Fred Hersch Trio - + 2 Andrew Hill - A Beautiful Day Andrew Hill - Dusk Javon Jackson - Easy Does It Rick Margitza - Memento Rick Margitza - Heart of Hearts Ted Nash - Still Evolved Greg Tardy - Abundance The Hills and the Tardy are probably my favourites from these.

very nice disc - here's the tunes: Escapade; Cheesecake; Warm Valley; Madeline; Just One of Those Things; Grant's Tune; High Modes; Break Through; It Could Happen to You; La Mesha. The band is Spaulding (as,fl), Richard Wyands (p), Ron McClure (b), Tony Reedus (d).

Huh? You'll be in Basel, too? I'm not sure... and I cannot speak Viennese slang, either. -_- Skip the Basel gig, too: It's one of those 45 minute gigs on a kurdish festival, and it's in Liestal, not in Basel, I was told last night. Thanks for the info Mike! Liestal is not exactly a very nice place, I think, and to go there for such a short gig would not make much sense for me. But keep me posted about future "real" gigs!

Huh? You'll be in Basel, too? I'm not sure... and I cannot speak Viennese slang, either. -_-

all the best, mister! no risky pics for a change, but I posted enough for ya, didn't I?

Happy birthday!

yes. There are interesting bets to be won where you have to hit the thing just right with your index finger to crack the smaller piece off without blood squirting from your finger. Plus these caps come in handy if you are drinking beer during heavy rainfall. This sounds rather bovine to me... -_-

Then I beat you... they had an avant garde 50% off sale at the shop I bought the discs, and I paid around 30$ for all four of them! Full prize for the Malinga would have been around 17-18$. I've seen it go for $80 on eBay more than once, so we both beat out somebody! Wow! So I can consider that an investment... I am clueless as far as prizes for vinyls are concerned... I just sort of buy what I feel like buying for a prize that looks ok to me... (bought the Buck Clayton Mosaic there for quite some, but I guess it was not half as much as I would have to pay on Ebay...)

invite me for a train ticket? i can pay entrance and drinks myself, then... couw is next in line: been there, done that... Stunning image by Guy Le Querrec! A classic! Oh yes! I've known this photo for years, but only last week I found the Sclavis disc in a sale - terrific one! And nice to see it was left as short as it came out originally - no need for all those lengthy releases!

couw is next in line: been there, done that...