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Speaking of Miles' "Someday My Prince Will Come" - there's a stunning Mobe solo there, too, I think on "Old Folks"? Perfectly constructed and beautifully executed. Also I have a soft spot for Miles' solo on the Carnegie Hall performance of "Teo" - it's loud and high, and not all that sophisticated, but I just love it...

Well, Greg LeMond was actually Grégoire LeMond IV, his grand-grand father, Grégoire LeMond I, he swam across the pond from the Brétagne, drawing behing him a small nutshell of a boat housing Greg LeMond's grand-grand mother, a hmmm Casta-like type of typical French woman... So those were the French origins of Greg Lemond's success, thus it's only natcharal they like him over there (as an aside, back when I was a kid of maybe 11 or so, I once hunted for an autogram of LeMond... he was sort of hero back then, for the boy that had just started cycling... still remember that!)

Masqualero mainly is Arild Andersen (b) and Jon Christensen (d) - both big league guys (at least over here). Go to Andersen's homepage and check his sideman discography to get an idea of his credentials. Chirstensen played in Garbarek's European quartet, so you should be familiar with him. His track record is as impressive as ANdersen's, I'd say, if not more impressive. Balke played on one Masqualero album, trumpet player Nils-Petter Molvaer (you should be familiar at least with his name, I assume) on three, but I'm neither familiar with Balke nor with the group's sax player, Tore Brunborg.

Oh c'mon guys! Someone gots to speak up in favour of Nat! He wrote some of the best tunes, in his best moments his playing is as poised and soulful as Cannon's... he was in the same league as those others mentioned - his problem only was that he did not go out on his own for quite some time, and when he did, the days of that kind of jazz the Adderleys played were quite gone... Oh, and don't miss Nat in the two-brass frontline with J.J. (to be heard on the soon OOP Mosaic collecting all of J.J.'s Columbia Small Group sessions - one of the best Mosaics ever done... not only my opinion, I think). And remember: Nat got as much money as Cannon - no matter who was billed the leader. That was a deal they made early in their career(s).

related to "other" "real" Armstrong

For what it's worth, Amazon.de has "Audio CDs" listed, and a release date of Sept. 27 - but very little info, so far.

Thanks for sharing all of this! A beautiful building, indeed! Some info on that lady: Marquise de Sévigné I haven't checked out any Ferrari, which kept me from chiming in with the usual r.i.p. posts, but I've read about him here and there. Any recommendations?

the real Lance...

c'mon, we're all Texans anyway... what's the point. Berigan's post above is pretty ridiculous. Yeah, sure, some jealous Yurpeans have consumed EPO, peed some samples, replaced them with those that had a big fat "Lance Armstrong, Texas" etiquette on them, doing that killed seventeen South African guards (same company that took care of Mr. Bremer in that new eastern Texan colony there)... this is a most likely scenario, indeed! De par ma chandelle verte, je ne comprends pas.

I got a Mark VII alto (built 1971) for aound 1200 or 1300 $ a couple of years ago... love it!

Got to add some Cannonball... my favourite: - Love for Sale (Somethin' Else) but there are others... - Freddie Freeloader (KoB) - Dat Dere (Them Dirty Blues) he had his pet licks, sure, and plenty of them, but he had buckets of soul! Then there's that terrific trumpet solo of Bennie Bailey's on "Swiss Movement" (McCann/Harris), where in the middle the crowd goes all applauding (the story shared in the liners: he played with closed eyes, thought they'd dug him that much, but then he opened the eyes and noticed that they clapped for Ella who'd just entered... still the solo is da shit!)

We assume you assume we know who that Cantonese chap is? Sorry, but we remain clueless

I have always loved his solo from "Hoe-Down" on that album. ← For me it's the one on the title-track, too! What a fantastic and fascinating and so simple-sounding solo that is!

BLASPHEMY! :rsmile: ← Well well well... you're aware about old père ubu being a sinner, aren't you?

Well yes, I enjoy browsing that site a helluva lot more than watching a soccer game!

I don't care a sh*t about soccer, but here's some fun stuff for those who understand German: http://www.ja-gut-aeh-ich-sag-mal.com/

hmmm... got to check first, didn't take notes about what tunes are played!

Are you sure it's three? I have two tracks, 24 minutes. The other musicians are Bora Rokovic, Jimmy Woode and Kenny Clare.

Not that I'm really a musician, but... I started with clarinet at what... age 11 or 12, I think, and got a tenor (finally!) around 17 or 18. My teacher insisted he would tell me when the moment had come, and - of course not tone-wise, but that's something you'll never stop working on - I came to gripes with the tenor within 3 to 4 weeks. Easier fingering, much easier, much less force needed (I've since lost my clarinet "chops", regrettably, since I stopped playing it now and then... rule of thumb: you have a problem if you don't play clarinet for three days, and I tell you this is true!). Of course I quickly played some Vandoren 4 reeds, and I needed almost one a day, until I came to develop a softer embouchure working well on tenor (I still play 4 reeds, but the V16 now, and not some plastic mouthpiece but an Otto Link metal). I've never really heard of someone going the other way successfully... I cannot imagine doing so. It requires a lot of work and patience, and it may throw you off your sax routine (embouchure-wise, mainly - I guess the fingering is the easy part).

Gokhan, I wish you luck tomorrow! About Mulhouse: I'm sorry, but I've been so busy and lagging behind with so many things, it would simply be too much for me now! Thanks though, for David's generous offer, but I simply can't make it. Will you come to Zurich after Mulhouse? If so, drop me an email (rather than a PM - I'll see the email faster, and I am afraid my PM box is quite full, too...) and we'll get in touch somehow!

"Blue Lester" (from the '44 Savoy date) - never fails to almost make my heart stop beating, the sheer beauty, and the melancholy...

Yes! For me, too - opened up my ears for a whole lot of interesting music! A couple of others: Coleman Hawkins on "Driva Man" (even though he almost gets lost and Max has to hit the "one" real hard all the time, he is magisterial!) on Roach's "Freedom Now Suite". Johnny Griffin on the first tune on his "Congregation" Blue Note LP Eddie Harris on "Funkorama", the opening cut of his "Listen Here!" disc on Enja. Sonny Rollins - virtually all his solos on "Saxophone Colossus" (another ear-opener for me)

Isn't Budd Johnson on one of those lenghty Roulette live dates? For me, Prez, once and forever... I love some of those later recordings with Lockjaw and Dixon, and of course the NT band with the Franks (and Billy Mitchell!!!), but Prez was the best. Evans, ok... Tate same, Byas, cool... Gray, a great player, but he didn't fit in really (but I love that foto of Fats with the pants up... and Eager, too!) Something true about the pairings, though (Evans/Prez and the Franks). But really, the vibe that Prez brought to the OT band, freely floating on top and in and out of the band, that's something we never heard again, and those moments are some of the most beautiful in all recorded jazz I've heard!

Interesting site! Thanks for pointing it out! One thing I saw while glancing through: the November 9, 1964 Hilversum session by Albert Ayler was released, and is (as far as I know) still available. More info here.