king ubu

Billy Hart is a drummer I often find a bit difficult. I can see that he has a style that is completely his own, but... I've seen him live with Bobo Stenson and Charles Lloyd, and wasn't always sure. Same goes on discs. Sometimes I just think he's great, other times I can't grasp what he's up to. Oh, and I agree on Denardo...

Interesting. How do you know that? ← They'd rather have preferred keeping Gus Johnson (a real mo-fo!), as far as I understand. Mike: check out the recent Billy Cobham trio disc with Ron Carter and Kenny Barron - there was a thread about it here. A great disc, and a real ear-opener for me, since I always thought Cobham sucked, then picked this one up after having read a very positive review by Switzerland's one competent jazz critic (probably the only one who has so far *not* written about Lonehill/Definitive/etc. releases and instead knew about the original releases...) And put me in the book as one who likes Louis Hayes a lot (he was so young in the fifties when he was all over the place, and had so much taste already!) and also Ben Riley! But then again, there are days when I can't stand Roy Haynes, or Philly Joe, or Blakey... but that does not mean I don't like them. Max can bug the shit out of me, too, when I'm not in the right mood. Plus I find it a bit difficult to see Han Bennink listed here... I mean we're otherwise not talking about any but bop and fusion drummers, so... or does everybody love Sunny Murray and Denis Charles and Andrew Cyrille and Mel Graves and ... Oh, should we now start bashing Hamid? Since this is the drummer thread, why not repeat my opinion that he is way overrated. I think he is good, but he is not nearly as good as he is thought to be by many...

Gave Roswell Rudd's "Unheard Herbie Nichols Vol.2" (CIMP) a spin yesterday, and loved it! Great tunes, great bone playing, some serious fun!

Happy huppy! How is it to spend the life standing on your head?

you see? advanced age does not keep from learning! ← Or wait, did I get that the wrong way 'round? Now the poor king is confused. Whatever... here's Helmut Newton's take:

you see? advanced age does not keep from learning! Seriously: Vitti, in those Antonioni films, is just the actress for poor king ubu!

I'm not a fan of these kind of concept albums, but this is one I'd be interested to hear!

PM sent!

besides, that site *does* know *the truth*:

ubu is late ← ubu knows, ubu got it from there, just found it funny, nevertheless! besides, what about

catesta hasn’t soaped enthusiastically since 1994. couw fantasizes about flying through billowing clouds of quilted toilet tissue.

If they send them by airmail? Surface does take that long! Although I ordered the Byrd/Adams by surface (and I think they also charged the surface price only), I got it within a week or 10 days! Usually though I prefer waiting, since customs over here are much less keen on opening surface parcels, it seems.

Vitti's worst day, that is... Now about this Nagel-Heyer release, is it good? I saw it in a store this week but had not time to get an earful!

As far as I know CIMP keeps all titles in print. I used to have vol. 1 of the Rudd but I didn't like it much so got rid of it. If you want any CIMPs you can order them from Cadence (www.cadencebuilding.com). ← Thanks! My want for Vol.1 is simply based on what I read... I'll listen to Vol.2 first, now! I was aware that Cadence is the home of CIMP, but not that they keep it all in print!

1.Sweet Georgia Brown 2.Whe In Paris Shadows Fall 3.The Breese And I 4.Take The "A" Train 5.Lil' Darlin' 6.Poinciana 7.Cute 8.St.Louis Blues 9.Stompin' At The Savoy 10.I Love Paris 11.Solitude 12.I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 13.Malaguena 14.I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 15.Till 16.Canto de Ossanha Bob Ojeda,trumpet; Byron Stripling,trumpet; Sonny Cohn,trumpet; Johnny Coles,trumpet; Melton Mustafa,trumpet; Thad Jones,cornet; Clarence Banks,trombone; Dennis Wilson,trombone; Mel Wanzo,trombone; Bill Hughes,trombone; Danny House,alto sax; Eric Dixon,tenor sax; Danny Turner,alto sax: Kenny Hing,tenor sax; John Williams,baritone sax; Tee Carson,piano; Freddie Green,guitar; Lynn Seaton,bass; Dennis Mackarel,drums; Oct.1985,Miami

This should help to clear things. But then, what did he play before 1957? Is this the same one?

tyvm ← And that of course also means the personnel is different (Pierre Michelot-bass; Kenny Clarke-drums).

believe me.. I will Cheers, Tjobbe ← Great deal, tjobbe! And a wonderful set!

And here's an article (found it on the news page of her site) that may give you a bit of an image about her popularity:

With Chet: And here's another more recent (very recent?) reissue: Also, if you check the discography page of her website, you'll see that them Britons at Duttons have several discs available. As I said: I don't know any of them, so don't take this as a recommendation!

With Sacha Distel: With Edith Piaf & Jean Marais:

Not that I know much of her recordings... only a stray track here and there. She sure could (can?) sing, but often she sang stupid popular stuff... (Schlager is the word in German... commercial crap) But this one is on my radar ever since I read some quite nice reviews when the reissue came out:

Found some ratty stuff in the sales bins yesterday: - Dunmall/Rogers/Norton: "Go Forth Duck" (CIMP) - Roswell Rudd Trio: "The Unheard Herbie Nichols Vol.2" (CIMP) - Archie Shepp/Horace Parlan: "Swing Low" (Plainisphare) - Trovesi/Schiaffini/Maras: "Let" (Splasc(h)) Now the Shepp may not be very ratty, but... it's more or less an audience recording, done on a portable tape recorder with two microphones, when Shepp and Parlan played at the Hotel Bellerive in Zurich. Sound is of that close warm sort that good audience recordings have (obviously the microphones were closer to the musicians than you get, recording from the audience, but still...) Shepp is in his big-toned mode, playing tenor mostly, inging on three cuts, and playing alto on two. Pretty nice! The Trovesi/Schiaffini/Maras (it also features Walter Prati - live electronics & recording engineer) is probably pretty weak. I had no time to listen while in the shop, and once I came home I saw the Penguin's judgement, and I gave most of the disc a spin this morning, and I think I have to agree. Haven't come around listening to the other two. I assume the Rudds are OOP? Or would there be an easy way to find Vol.1?

That Quintet 1976 sure is a nice disc! Just gave it a spin. The only thing that would have made it even better would have been a nice acoustic piano at hand at that place where they recorded... but still, this is a good one!