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Seems like both are limited editions, if I read the first post correctly.

Whoah! Great news! this recording is da shit, as they say! Great arrangments of great compositions, Julius Watkins... one of the best albums Mingus did, and truly a miracle why this is not readily available. Should not be a limited edition! Should be spread as far as possible!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday! Padania libera! Long live Silvio!

Oh ice cream hellyeah! Love that one! Night on Earth is great as well. But several others I haven't seen yet.

You, dear Sir, are one funny rat!!! Thanks for reporting, David!

I'll have to pick up the Braxton, too!

totally absorbed, no? in a world of his own - that's what I thought when I heard/saw him. Dudek is a fine post-Coltrane player - I haven't got a lot of discs or live things with him, but what I've heard I always liked. Never heard of Canneloni, though (is that his real name?... would make a funny songtitle "Pasta Jesus"...)

Thanks for this write up, David! Your experience with Leimgruber seems to have been very similar to mine (I think I reported about it here, too - saw him at unerhört at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, wiht a bunch of swiss guys). It's indeed stunning what he creates out of the tiniest bits and pieces of sound! Also there's something masterly/auratic about his appearance, no? Maybe off-putting, before you hear him play. I've heard a duo set of his with Fritz Hauser (2001 or 2002, on radio only), which was absolutely stunning, too! Love the word "Materialsack", btw! Nothing noteable about Dudek and Schoof?

the solution would then be to disable autorun and see what gives in terms of accessing the actual music on the disc, ja? Indeed what I was thinking. Don't panic just yet peoples.- ← I don't panic as of yet, but I maintain my position that these copy-shitte discs are like showing the customers/buyers the finger for something that just they are *not* doing by *buying* the official, legal release. I have picked up three or four Conns and RVGs since EMI went shitte, all on sale (half prize or less of our crazy list prizes). Before, I bought whole batches of RVGs and Conns within weeks after their release. I am really pissed off. And if the music industry goes in that direction, I am getting more and more willing to go for illegal downloads, just because I'm pissed. The main problem are the musicians, but thank God lables such as Hat or Leo or whatever labels are active in creative music do not even think of shitte such as copy protection. That's just my two cents. I am not at all into illegal downloads of released material, mind me - I *like* to spend some money on an actual quality product. I am willing to pay for a nice CD with some art and all, I don't want crappy downloads (even less so for such ridiculous prizes as you often see them offered - with no liners/art/discographical info coming along).

Hi! If you use the search function of the board, you should find at least two or three threads discussing that box - you'd hear some others' opinions there, too!

c'mon you britons: confess that you like Humph!

I was afraid of this, too, before I bought it... but once I had made my way through it once, I loved it! The music has such a free-going, open feel, it's so uncluttered. Yes, Bitches Brew and all this great stuff is overloaded somehow... doesn't mean it's not great, but it's definitely "produced" music, while all these "alternate takes" here allow the musicians to jam and stretch out, and I like what came out a lot. I had not heard the original album before I got the box, and for me the album itself is not even the point. It's Miles doing some of his most poised playing with a great, bluesy and funky band. Works for me!

so do I - also it often happens that I notice, in concerts or while playing CDs at home, that I like contemporary improvised music...

Latest additions: Basie Verve Fifties Mosaic (delivered yesterday, no custom fees! 60€ ) Lee Wiley Collectors' Ultimate Vol. 1 (Devil's Music/Baldwin Street) Lee Wiley "Music of Manhattan" (Uptown) (both delivered on wednesday!) Bob Dylan "No direction Home - Bootleg Series Vol. 7" Don Rendell/Ian Carr "Shades of Blue/Dusk Fire" (BGO twofer) some used stuff (can't recall all, but I'll try): Dave Pike Set "Masterpieces" (Motor Music/MPS) Ibrahim Ferrer "Buenos Hermanos" Steve Swallow "Real Book" Jeremy Steig (the Douglas album from 1970 with Ian Hamer)

Nabatov on hatOLOGY is so-so - fairly regular, way-too-many notes (from Nabatov and from the drummer) muscular hard-bop stuff. What amazed me so much was how more thoughtful (and much less voluble) he is on Chat Room than anywhere else I've heard him. ← I would say the disc (Sneak Preview) is more of an eclectic mix of a number of strands of contemporary jazz, and though I think David's criticisms are fair, I certainly like this disc more than he does (I have way fewer problems with Nabatov's too many notes than I have with those of many other musicians). I think I rate it just a notch below 4 stars to D.D.'s 3, I assume. ← Thanks for chiming in, Gokhan! I guess if I see it for a good prize somewhere, I'll pick it up!

I'll try to ask - will see how the interview goes and if I think asking for new releases/reissues will not be problematic in any kind... seems he's in a good mood, though, judging from his emails to us! Adam, is the above mail a new one? I didn't get it, and I think I deleted all earlier hat mailings... (which is why I couldn't quite the one I was paraphrasing above). ← Hi, I got it last week forwarded to me by my friend George Schmid. He produced The Dark Tree and is in regular contact with Werner. At a jazz listening + dinner session last week, he implied that Werner is at the point where if anyone just had the time to take over the Hat label, he would be open to passing it on. best regards, Adam ← Thanks for sharing this, Adam. I guess it's also a question of age. Hat is now 30 and WXU was not exaclty a youngster when he got the label started... all the more big for keeping it going! I certainly hope he'll find a good solution whenever he'll decide to stop - but then that's possibly not the nicest thing to ask him about, either...

How about the classic CD/Compact Disc logo being there or not? Is it only the cactus system EMI is using that is not allowed to carry that logo, or does that apply to all copycrap discs? But then I think Sony has stopped using that logo anyway...

I'll see if I think asking these kinds of questions is ok or not, but I don't promise I'll ask them! I did the same with the CT, but the friend in question has picked up the new version soon after it came out - in a perfect world everybody who has burns of the old set would do the same. Not sure how it came, but all of a sudden Liebman and Marc Copland were all over the new hat releases... maybe that would be a more positive question to ask, rather than asking why Eskelins releases got fewer (or stopped?)...

omigod! I couldn't remember that I posted this here! I thought you might have gotten "official" info - I think, but as I can't even remember posting it anymore..., I think my post was just an elaborate guess - I can't recall where I took that info from! Hmmmm, getting old?

I'll try to ask - will see how the interview goes and if I think asking for new releases/reissues will not be problematic in any kind... seems he's in a good mood, though, judging from his emails to us! Adam, is the above mail a new one? I didn't get it, and I think I deleted all earlier hat mailings... (which is why I couldn't quite the one I was paraphrasing above).

Just in case: those who got my BFT have heard guitarist Flo Stoffner on the Ayler track finishing the second disc. A pretty interesting young musician, I should think. I am not familiar with the horns, nor the bassist. Friedli plays with ... well, future BFT material

I've heard the Liebman (on radio - there are live broadcasts and later re-broadcasts from Willisau every year - so yes, I've heard the Braxton, too). Great set of music! Liebman plays tenor, soprano, flutes (I think wooden ones, but maybe also the regular?), and drums. A masterly display of musicianship! There's an annual solo set in Willisau, that often was taken up by pianists (Andrew Hill, Matt Shipp, Cecil Taylor - released on Intakt as "The Willisau Concert", a great GREAT set), and in the year before Liebman by Anthony Braxton.

Thanks Chuck, will do so! I can't seem to find Uehlinger's latest mailing - he sounded not that confident, stating that the future release schedule was dependent entirely on the financial states of his business - also it seems he does suffer from wars like the Dubya feghing shitte in Iraq - fegh it even more, then!!! - since the US is one of his biggest sale areas, and sales seem to go notably slower in war times. There still seems to be hope, though, and I like to stick with that. Would be too sad to see hat dying, so let's hope he'll manage - and let's support him by buying his releases, not just bitching around about what he holds back, for whatever reason that may be (again, I assume he'd be able to do more reissues AND more new relesases IF sales went better...)

One thing I forgot about the pictures above: I took them from the website of a club in Zurich, the "Bazillus" (a semi-legendary illegal club in its early days that has now re-opened legally again). The "Club Africana" where these photos were taken was a small bar/lounge in a hotel here in Zurich - the hotel's still there, but where the Africana used to be, there's a flower shop now (and ever since I've knewn it). The Africana was the home of Abdullah Ibrahim in his first months of exile, in Zurich, and as far as I know it was there where Sathima (his wife) dragged the Duke to hear him play, after Ellington played a concert (probably at the Kongresshaus in Zurich - not sure of the year, 1961?). Anyway, the Africana helped Swiss jazz getting a mighty dose of ZA "feeling" - you can still hear it in some of the playing of our most important free pianist, Irene Schweizer, who heard Ibrahim back in those days.