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Hope you had a good one, David! And many happy returns!

Happy huppy! Hope you'll find the time to move your ass back in here some day, you're being missed!

Happy birthday! Hope you had a good one!

so I really thought you were pulling the funny rat leg. I, never a flip-flopper, firmly stick to my opinions. This normally lasts till a subsequent listen to a CD - then a new firm and irreversable opinion is usually formed. David, I was perfectly aware I posted so negatively about Mahall some time ago, BUT I really and seriously reconsidered upon seeing him live! ubu - I saw ICP in July and my take is much the same. Ab Baars was by far the least interesting musician on stage that night (and know that not all were in the best of their forms) and, for me, Michael Moore stole the show. The cello maniac, I think, would be Tristan Honsinger And I was lucky enough to also see a long-ish and much entertaining duo section with Wolter Wierbos and Tobias Delius. Thanks for adding the names! I was too lazy to look them up. Tobias Delius is the madman on tenor, then (I have an itch that he is seriously "over the edge" in some kind of way...). Wierbos was on trombone, and Heberer on trumpet, both adding very fine playing, mainly to the interpretations of traditional material (they did an Ellington jungle number, but I can't recall what it was). Honsinger was fantastic. Glerum (bass) was the most silent and steady-going of all of them - maybe that's what's needed in such a bunch of chaos-heads, someone who steadily does his thing in the background...

Seems Bumi Fian has left us on January 5, much too young. (I got the news off Austrian radio, so it's reliable.) He was a great trumpet player and long-time member of Matthias Rüegg's Vienna Art Orchestra.

Ubu, your enthusiastic recommendations have me wanting to relisten to these with fresh ears! You'll have to wait some, now! Thanks a lot for sending them my way again! I was playing the Potlatchs before ("No Waiting" is terrific, Lacy is good on "Outcome", but they're more merely playing along each other, rather than together). Also played some live sets: with The Company incl. Brötz, Maslak, Zorn, Frith, Laswell, Leandre & Baptista. Then a trio with George Lewis and Anthony Braxton (my girlfriend dubbed that "annoying noise" and closed the door to the room I was in...), and a short Beeb broadcast with The Ruins. All enjoyable, but the solos and the Leandre duo remain my favourites. I'll wait for two more packages to arrive soon, though... I am still a Bailey novice!

Oh, and happy new year to all of you, too!

David, of course any such categoric statement is over the top... but I was rather serious about liking Mahall. He was terrific with Die Enttäuschung/Schlipp playing Monk tunes (but Dörner was even better). I was very impressed by Mahall, seriously! Of course I find guys like Sclavis or Koch at least as interesting... (but I missed Koch's solo concert the day after the Wogram-Mahall concert took place). Btw: another very interesting clarinetist: Michael Moore - of course you all know him, but I am a fairly recent convert, originally only knew him from those Rara Avis discs Gokhan sent me (thanks!), then from the two Rara hatOs... but after Wogram-Mahall, the ICP guys played, and that was one marvellous concert! All of them did some great playing/soloing - maybe the serious one of the tenor saxists was the most boring/predictable musician of them all - the madman tenorist was da shitte, for sure! Moore played some great stuff, going from Lee Konitz coolness to chirpish free stuff. Similarly the blokes on tenor, from full-bodied Webster-Brötz to chirps... and the brass guys were pretty good, too. Mengelberg seemed a bit tired, but when he had his duo with Bennink, and the occasional solo with no horn interfering, he was fully there, minimalist as ever... (much better than a late 2004 solo set I heard on the radio, which turned into lyrical bla-bla). The cello maniac was also utter fun to watch - that guy is ooooold (sorry, don't want to offend anyone...) and was directing the band by jumping around like a 5 year old... and when he bowed the cello he got into something like another state of being it seemed, being so deeply involved. They did their usual stuff - from Ellington-like stuff to free improvs, and in the end added as encore, dedicated to Schlipp who as in the audience, "Alexander's Ragtime March" or how that number is called - great fun! Even if this concert hardly presented anything "new" or "innovative", it was one of the most beautiful and enjoyable concerts I ever saw - they clicked with me from the very first tone (prob. Bennink hitting the post of his hi-hat...) ***** Then, I received the first Bailey discs from our kind helping hands (we'll do a radio show in his honour on Jan. 15th and I have so few discs myself that I asked around a bit), and have been playing "Domestic & public Pieces" and "Improvisation", two totally compelling solo discs. Now listening to "Yankees" I don't find that one so good - but maybe it would need more effort to get into this one.

Vince who?

I love these guys! Bernstein's Diaspora Blues/Soul/Hollywood projects, Kamikaze Ground Crew, Sex Mob, Michael Blake - and obviously then, the Lounge Lizards! This is a kind of jazz that is pretty simple, often, and very much fun, yet it never gets boring, at least for me. Favourites include Bernstein's first Tzadik disc, "Diaspora Soul", Michael Blake's "Drift", plus some live dates... (edited to add covers)

Here's another thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=piano+duets I think there's yet one more, but maybe that one was on a different BB? One that hasn't been mentioned so far and I like quite some:

I finally played all of the Farlow a few days ago - terrific set, definitely! Then started (finally...) with the Krupa/James one, only disc 1 played so far, but enjoyed it a lot! Those trio with Ventura are pretty nice, too, not just the big band sides!

Good news - taken from WXU's latest email (sent out two hours ago):

Happy birthday, Nate!

Happy Birthday, Marty!

See my reply to your reply to my other post Have a good start into 2006, you too!

See my reply to your other post!

This may help: http://www.kind-of-blue.de/seiten/boxen/ja...armonic_box.htm (listing of contents of the "official" Verve forties JATP box)

Keep the good fun comin'! Have a warm ale on me (without bubbles, of course...)!

Picked these two in a sale today: Playing the later one right now. Not as good as the Dörner/Mahall (with Schlippenbach, playing Monk) and Wogram/Mahall sets I heard at unerhört in November, but I quite like it. Mahall may indeed be the very best bass clarinet player since Dolphy (at least over here in Europe), and John Schröder is a great drummer. Möbus (guitar/leader) is maybe the weakest of the three. But all in all I find this quite an enjoyable disc. Not sure I'll like the Ali/Rhames - never heard Rhames before... but for a prize of 10 CHF (ca. 6.50€) I had to buy it... (only later I realized it's a live set from Willisau, 1981). Anyone knows any of these two discs? (edit: had a wrong pic in here, originally...)

I played the whole Farlow set yesterday - great GREAT music! (But Kessel and Moore are *not* on this )

Checking this out now. Piano far on the left, yes, "hidden" bass on "Gymnopédie", too... I guess my very first notion (remembered by Lon) was pretty much correct. Sound is ok, but it's no way a great sounding reissue - definitely not. Good to have the music, though, but *IF* the Americans get a better-sounding version, that sucks!

Very sad news, just heard about it elsewhere.

Big relief! Indeed from what he said in the interview we did I wasn't really afraid it was anything serious, but still! ******** Happy x-mas and all, to my fellow funny rats!

Sounds reasonable ..... Being late here... although couw told me about this thread. Got the Euro version in the meantime and *love* it, but sound is indeed merely ok, not at all outstanding. I didn't listen to my disc closely enough to hear those bass lines, but I will try and play in on headphones.