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Not half as good as it looks on paper, sorry to say. I'd rather like to see Stanley's first one, "Look Out!", which I've never heard. Also the Minton's dates are great, but I guess I won't downgrade from regular CD to cactus... ZT is good but not as good as one would expect, you're right. Still, it shouldn't be out of print. But Look Out is absolutely swell indeed. Good call! And while I'm here: The Rajah and Far Away Lands need to be back on the racks... Funny you should mention "The Rajah"! That's another one that gets a bad rep usually, but that one I like quite some! True about the Mobley, too... some of those old BN CDs have such an unfriendly sound that I hardly ever get them out of the shelf...

A partial concert recording of Fian's quintet with Clemens Salesny (as,bcl) from last night can be heard here for the coming week: http://www.radiofrance.fr/listen.php?pr=rt...probablement.rm France Musiques: Le jazz, probablement (Dimanche 19 février, minuit) Le quintette du trompettiste Bumi Fian, avec Clemens Salesny (saxophone alto, clarinette basse), Clemens Wenger (piano), Bernhard Osanna (contrebasse) & Thomas Froschauer (batterie), enregistré le 14 mai 2005 au festival Intönne à Diersbach (Autriche). Pretty nice band, I must add! What a pity about Fian

Happy Birthday, Hans! Here's to one of the most considerate and friendliest persons I met in cyberworld (or is that wourld, Tony? ) cheers! f PS: Groningen looks about as friendly as Zurich, right now...

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, John! Hope all's well! Here's many best wishes, and hope you'll stick around more often, too!

Played the Gahnold and liked it a lot! Nothing too deep, just some good blowing, and Dyani... Gilbert Mathews I only heard with Ibrahim so far - quite nice to hear him in this setting, where he's got much more space to stretch and really play! Then I also played the freebie, Bayashi: old-fashioned free jazz, but quite ok. The drummer is pretty good, I think. Will have to play it again to be able to say more about it, though.

To investigate the power of the people (I think that's what you meant) I suggest you check the recent elections in Palestine, Iran, Iraq and the US. I'm totally with Weizen (!) and you on this, Chuck!

I got my Ayler order in the meantime: - Wallin: The Stockholm Tapes - Brötz: Nefertiti - Gahnold: Flowers for Johnny - Feza: Free Jam and as a freebie I got - Bayashi (Vidar Johansen, Bjornar Andresen, Thomas Stronen): Help is on its Way Anyone knows the last one? Never heard of either of the three guys!

Not half as good as it looks on paper, sorry to say. I'd rather like to see Stanley's first one, "Look Out!", which I've never heard. Also the Minton's dates are great, but I guess I won't downgrade from regular CD to cactus...

And Tony Oxley!!!

They're not what the crowd recognizes as mainstream, but to be honest, guys like Brötz and McPhee horning their asses off is soooo old-fashioned today, isn't it? Sure, Cecil & Ornette are a bigger pair of shoes, but I guess one cannot call them very avant garde anymore, either, can one? The ignorance of the audience has nothing to do with the music, itself, and my statement was meant as an assessment of the music, rather than a statement about some musicians' popularity. ***** How about Randy Weston and Johnny Griffin?

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Oh, sorry to hear that! I haven't really read the liners, just skimmed through them very quickly. The music *is* recommended, for sure, though! But it's pointless to tell that to you englishmen, I guess...

I think he did mostly studio and TV work, writing and playing, in Hamburg. I even saw him play organ in the role of George Frederic Handel in a hilarious film after an Alejo Carperntier novel. There was a film done out of that book??? "Barocknovelle" is it's german title - much fun to read! The German title was "Barockkonzert" - like the original, "Concierto Barroco". I'd give something to see that again - it's gathering dust in the WDR vaults. "Montezuma" was the movie title, after the (then lost, but meanwhile rediscovered) Vivaldi opera that inspired Carpentier. Oh, yes, -konzert! That sounds like something worth checking out! Let's hope they dust it off one day!

Got it now? Any first impressions?

She was Carr's bird, back then, I think (the liners mention it). Plenty of period charm... yet still great music. And I'd not dare using that word, "bird", weren't it for the period charm...

so wouldn't it be nice to have a large scan of the left cover?

oh HELLYEAH! That double disc reissue is terrific! Great music! Anyone have a large nice scan of "Shades of Blue"? What a great cover! And a perfect match for the music, too...

Happy Birthday! (and apologies for being a bit straight on that other thread...)

True! Charlie Mariano would be another of those guys... did some weird stuff in between, but with his 2003 or so Enja disc he was there again, in full fettle, and about as emotional as it can get! Teddy Edwards had the fire till the end, too... but these somehow reached/reach another level, where doing something new doesn't matter that much, any longer... same for all the great seventies recordings of Art Pepper. And that's not something I could say about McLean or Hutcherson - they *were* there, but in my opinion, they are not there any longer. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as I can enjoy good mainstream jazz, too - the Barry Harris/Billy Higgins encounter mentioned above would certainly fall into that category, or what musicians like Hank Jones and Kenny Burrell do - nothing wrong with that! But the point is that if you hear these reunions, often they sound pale and tired and tame in comparison to the originals... so I am not calling for/dreaming of these reunions (with some exceptions, like hoping that Rollins will team up with equals again, before it's too late).

Now here's a reunion that I'd like to hear! But get Cranshaw off the bandstand or buy him an upright bass, PLEASE! @ Epistrophy: thanks for your considerate answer to my grumpy remark... still, I stick with the general points I made, but I was a bit out of line with regard to this being merely a day-dreaming thread. Sorry for that. Now, about those Blue Note reunions: somehow these do bore me on paper, already... I've heard some live recordings of the likes of Jackie Mac and Woody and Booby getting together again, and it doesn't work for me, I'm afraid. It's just not the Blue Note years any longer - that is now not a statement meaning travelling back in time is impossible, but rather a statement implying that nowadays this music (or these musicians?) have lost a lot of their relevance and - I dare saying that - fire. I know this is unfair, but it's just not the same anymore, if after 30 or 40 years they hook up again... all of them had been at or close to where it was happening in the mid sixties, but nowadays it's ye good ole mainstream, I'm sorry to say, and just fails to really grab my attention. Ok, Ornette can still bother people, sure Cecil can do so as well, *but* all considered, what they're playing is by now mainstream, too! I hope this comes not over as just another grumpy rant.

Interesting thread! The only Most I have is this one, with Herbie Mann and Joe Puma: I like it a lot! Sure, it's lightweight, but if you want flute, this is very nice to play!

Sorry for being a bit short (not rude, I hope) on the other thread - but of late there's been quite some threads started in wrong forums, so... Needless to say I can't help answering your question, otherwise I would have done so already!