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One is deliberately taking time off... don't know about the rest... probably just a little bit busy with other things?

Just in case someone is close to Zurich in the weeks to come: http://www.fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=22 Robert Frank From the Bus New York, 1958 © Robert Frank, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Robert Frank Chicago, 1958 © Robert Frank, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Robert Frank Political Rally – Chicago, 1956 © Robert Frank, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Robert Frank Mabou – Sick of Goodby’s, 1978 Gelatine-silver print, 47,8 x 33 cm © Robert Frank / Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Here's another recent ratty listen (again: thanks, David!): Has anyone else heard this? I must confess I didn't like it much. Will have to give it a few more spins, though...

Ah ha! No track listing for it so far, though, so no telling if it will be 3 or 4 tracks... ← Tracklist is up now... 4 tracks! Of course I just bought a 3 track version of it... (I still don't understand the ESP CD reissue situation... Calibre, Abraxas, Get/Abraxas Mini-LPs... I guess those are all European-produced and licensed? And ESP is doing its own series in the US? And wasn't there talk about their own reissues being CDRs?)

Slightly off topic, but... for the first time in at least a month I visited a music store here, and saw this Lateef reissue, as well as several other albums in the same series (among them items readily available in their previous editions). Now what's the deal with this new series? WTF? LPRs, ok - those are the ones that show the finger to the reissue community but we're still buying them for lack of availability... is this new series filling the Verve By Request hole? Price-wise they're cool, but then... what's the use of having discs out both in this nice-prize series and in the VME series simultaneously?

Well, here's one funny rat, and here's a great disc (thanks, David!), that this funny rat had with him/herself (what's the sex of "rat"?) while being funnily dressed as depicted above: Radioactivity. 008 CD Sergey Letov - leader, baritone and soprano saxophones, alto flute Yury Parfenov - trumpet, pocket trumpet Alexandr Alexandrov - bassoon Terrific stuff!

Carney even more so than Hodges! He sort of spent his whole life with the Duke...

I picked this disc up in a sale, never having heard (about) it before... and it blew me away and then some! Desmond could do (almost?) no wrong, and yes, even Gadd is not a major problem... a terrific disc! Lon, you should get the CD reissue! Jim (or any other of the Americans): is this a digipack, too, in the US?

You can listen to this till the next show takes place next Sunday: http://www.radiofrance.fr/listen.php?pr=rt...probablement.rm I had a minidisc running, but haven't listened yet. Here's the info: Tampere Jazz Happening 2004 November 6, 2004 FRED ANDERSON & HAMID DRAKE Fred Anderson (tenor sax) Hamid Drake (drums, perc) CHICAGO UNDERGROUND TRIO Rob Mazurek (cornet, laptop) Noel Kupersmith (contrabass) Tim Mulvenna (drums)

Very nice covers!

Glad I'm not alone there! It's definitely a weird one, but I like it!

halfway into this:

Sad news I'll play that Ted Curson Marge disc again soon. He's excellent on the Sonny Criss Jazz in Paris disc (Criss is fantastic there, too). Oh, and of course he plays organ on that disc, too!

No time to read through the whole thread, but in my opinion Thirsty Ear is no way as great as ESP or Hat or whatever... What I've heard and what I think of it: The GoodAndEvil Sessions Boring, a total let-down (even more so since one of the very few good Swiss jazz critics wrote an orgasmic review about it...) Roy Campbell - It's Krunch Time Ok, but not great. As someone said above: some beautiful moments. Wilber Morris... I only recently got familiar with him - a plus for this disc. Khan Jamal too, is pretty interesting. DJ Spooky - Optometry Boring stuff. A friend of mine is a big fan of this disc - I can't see why... Spring Heel Jack - Amassed A great one! I definitely want to check out the other SHJ discs! Craig Taborn - Junk Magic Just got this a few weeks ago, gave it one listen and it didn't really grab me. Will give another listen soon. I do realize that I don't know a lot of Thirsty Ear releases, but given waht I think about these, I don't feel the need to explore the whole label. Certainly I want to check out more Spring Heel Jack, and maybe some of those Hunter/Prevites. Not sure I need more Shipp than I have (three or four Hat releases and a couple of live dates). For me it all is a bit too pretentious - it comes accross as trying very hard to achieve something. Would be better to go the understatement way and then surprise with some real achievements, instead of blurting out how great they are and then offer some old stuff, packed as if it was the future of the whole music. An aside: anyone knows the Albert King live disc?

Certainly not the greatest, but this one deserves mention, too, I think: Arrangements are by Ivan Jullien, main soloist is Eddy Louiss.

No Martini for a long time, but my preferred way of drinking it would be with Bombay Sapphire (the Gin of choice, too, if I want just a Gin), not much more than a shot of Vermouth (Noilly Prat, obviously), and an Olive. Stirred (I grew up with no TV, so Bond couldn't spoil that... and about Bond: a Martini is done with Gin, indeed! Check out Paul Newman sipping a Martini at the beginning of "Exodus", the Preminger film... that's for style!)

Hey Ronald! Late as usual (not on the Big-O that often, of late) - all the best! And many happy returns! And indeed, let me join in: thanks for the great stuff you keep sharing!

How is this? I've heard it's quite good ... ← Pamuk is an excellent writer. Istanbul is well written. I also like his novel, Snow. ← Haven't read the book, but it's on "the list"... Not sure you are aware, but Pamuk is facing a trial for putting down his country (in an interview - or rather a series of four weekly interviews, I think - done with a swiss weekend magazine... pretty tough that this happens in a country that wants to become part of EU - but it may end up being a good thing, since it hopefully forces the Turkey to finally discuss its own past and history... (not to speak of the present...)

Just finished J.M. Rymkiewicz's book "Umschlagplatz". Now reading Aaron Appelfeld's childhood memories (published in German translation a couple of months ago - no idea what the english title would be).

Belated best wishes!

Belated best wishes, Dan!

You'se talking of Jägermeister, Mister? Have the Helens arrived yet?

and Gebbia:

Hello everybody... I've been serving again in Swiss army for two weeks (with one more week to come), doing that by blowing stupid marches and other stupid music (not stoopid, mind me).... So this explains my absence here (and elsewhere). A ridiculous photo here: (of course there are only half a dozen of women - and they look and behave more like men than any other woman - among hundreds of "musicians"....) Anyway. What made me post here is Gebbia. Reading the above comments by Gokhan... well, when I talked to Gebbia after having heard the Zen Window trio (great concert, and great CD, too), he was very positive about that new band with that Zu fellow... (I hadn't even heard the name of Pupato before). Now funny enough when I came home tonight (usually we only get to go home saturday morning, but we drank too much beer, so they sent us home on friday evening, for a change ), I had a mail from Gebbia, asking if I knew of any venue where he could play in Zurich, in duo with "Cave of the Tigers", his duo with cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen. Here's the italian blurb he sent me in his mail, plus photos:

Happy birthday!