king ubu

I already had hopes for a thread about Bela Tarr... but now I realize this is a discussion of cosmic hippos... can anyone tell my work is really boring today?

Not this Robert Walser, to be precise. I see Amazon lists one book of short prose here. Check this out, I beg you! This is what he was the master of (not to put down his novels, but he was mainly great doing these "Prosastückli")! Also if ever any of his other books turn up in English, don't hesitate! He published five or six or so books of short prose before and after and between the novels. And if the "microgrammes" turn up in English, that would be another thing to jump for! Of course the king has the complete German edition of those... the "Robber" is part of these, too, but has been published before they deciphered the rest. Absolutely fascinating writings! Death of a poet... this was how Walser was found, Christmas day 1956, in the hills around Herisau, Switzerland, where he spent the last 25 years of his live in an asylum, having stopped writing (consquently).

I could hardly believe reading anyone bothers to translate Walser to English... great! However I assume the translations are of his three novels? Or rather four, since the "Robber" has been taken care of, already? Me biggest Walser fan (almost) on planet earth (and elsewhere).

Sidney ← Now that the Aussie in me simply doesn't buy...

Thanks, Mr. (what's your name?) Sounds like I skip the Keane - though I wonder, what does MOR mean? The Rendell sounds good!

Can anyone tell me about these two Duttons: CDLK 4284 Don Rendell Playtime & singles compilation CDLK 4281 Shake Keane with The Keating Sound & Dig It! The Rendell is listed among the 11 other discussed reissues on the scan attached to an above post, but listed separatley on the Dutton site. The Keane is not commented anywhere.

Hey wait, can't you keep quiet about that Dutton stuff?

Glad to report that Amazon came through on this order, finally... the ML Williams is cool (and obviously available again - it was not available from any Amazon when I wanted to buy it a year or two ago). Now sidewinder can be relieved taht I also got the Forum West disc, even though my credit card ordered it without my knowledge... maybe I should look at it as the property of my credit card, and look at the Williams as a token of gratitude from my credit card? Wierd things happen, I tell you! Haven't given the Forum West a spin, but read the introductory part of the liners... pity they weren't able to hire a professional translator, otherwise it all looks very nice. And after having read part of the liners, I wonder how anyone could believe at all that these recordings have anything to do with any radio sessions... they come from Mr. Wewerka's (what's his name again? Or is that the name?) private vault of recordings. PS: What/who is "dutton" again?

Same here! I even had the one single disc I bought, "On the Sunny Side", on my sale-pile (but put it back in the shelf again)... never came around picking this one up, but I know I will do so, latest once it runs low!

Just listened to 50 minutes of the Dietikon October 22, 1971 set of Miles' (partially on dime now in that "unknown" seed, it seems) - look out for a future seed of a longer version of the shorter of the two sets soon... (I most probably have the two concerts mixed up, my shorter set runs 80 minutes, the longer 92 minutes - obviously more than Losin lists, but so far I haven't been able to match my sets with Losin's - the second/longer set, though, should be matching...) This stuff is great, I really like it! I downloaded tons of seventies Miles, but as far as listening goes I still got it ahead of me, mostly. I only heard a set here and a set there, but still have to continue thorough listening where I left off (L5 Tree). Looking forward to it a lot, and I have amassed quite a few 71 shows by now, thanks to those mega-seeds on Dime!

Aren't we a bunch of anal retentives? Thinking about this wierd stuff so hard that we forget about the fantastic Jimmy Smith and Stanley T sets!

Adrian, glad the disc arrived! The follow up to "Sudori" is just out: Haven't heard it, but if it's as good as "Sudori" I'll have to get it, sooner or later. (blurb on the Enja website)

Thanks for sharing, Mike! Enjoyed reading this! (But can't give you any opinion of mine... I'm merely a fan, and I hardly know anything about Golson.)

It seems half of these books fell apart... not mine, but having read about the problem I treated it extremely careful...

Why not put them in an airplane, fly them to Afghanistan, and have some Bushy friends take care of them? They'd plead guilty in no time, and it would at least be an honest fraud...

Anyone here has got this one? Just added it next to the Mutable 3CD solo set on my "stuff I finally ought to listen" shelf:

For those of you inclined... (mike: time to throw in a tape again, for a change?) Here's the blurb from the website: Hey, it's Johnny Coles! I hope to be at home and ready to pop in a minidisc

I wasn't aware James Dean was still with us (go search yourself )

What's this thread about? Blue what? Aaaaah, I see, those guys that try selling us cactuses and want us to believe we bought a compact disc? Fegh em! Sorry for this rant - but I'm still (and will remain) majorly p***ed by EMI Europe's decision to go for the shitty copycrap product. I have totally lost interest in their product, but it seems - even if year by year they sell less of their product (the majors in general, it seems, not only EMI) - they couldn't care less. "Fuego" is great, and the Hancock counts for ten! An awesome disc! I will stick with my late eighties disc and the Hancock BN box, though. No need to let them rip me off, or let them customs rip me off by way of ordering from the US...

Payment sent for the Gator and the Stitt! Thanks Bentsy, for the

Well, a second "run" of releases had the "Doubletime" thing inside of the traycard - much less ugly... these include the McIntyre, the Byrd/Adams, the Grolnick, the Green/Clark... maybe I forget some. There were a bunch of non Doubletime 2CD reissues, too, which include: - KD Bohemia - Woody Shaw (that 2CD set with Geri Allen) - Woody Shaw/Fredie Hubbard - Ben Webster Amsterdam Sessions - Lester Young Aladdin Recordings As far as I think, the Innovations Kenton was not a Doubletime release, rather one for this above list. Again I presumably miss a few that came out in the same timeframe. The only release with the ugly "Doubletime" in front, in addition to the ones in the previous post, was "State of the Tenor", no?

King Ubu, do you have any idea where I can find these "free" CDRs? ← go here. There are two live shows available. One is 3 discs, one is 2. Both feature ROVA, among the many musicians. ← Geoff, nice to see you again here! John has provided the pointers, I'll have to get the 2CD set, myself, too! Interesting to see that Zakir Hussain is on that set!

Let's have little place on our forum for discussion of Leo Smith's music. I know quite a few here like his electric Miles tributes, and I am aware that these, as well as the Kabell Box (here) have been discussed on the board. I am quite a fan of Smith's, going from the relatively few discs I have (Kabell Years, Golden Quartet, Year of the Elephant, and a Neue Musik like Tzadik disc, the title of which escapes me at the moment). Also there is at least one set (3 CDRs) of his Miles tribute that is (was?) available online, for free. Now the reason why I start this discussion today (instead of when I would have been able to spin the discs again and do a little reading first), is because of this: http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-m...ion.php?e_id=37 This link leads you to the page of the radio show "Le jazz probablement" on the France Musiques website. By clicking the blinking thing between "l'émission du 12 juin" and"ecouter", you can - in shitty ram-format, but still - catch 40 minutes of the latest (?) version of Leo Smith's "Golden Quartet", that is: Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyers - keyboards John Lindberg - bass Ronald Shannon Jackson - drums The set was recorded at the 2005 edition of the Banlieues Bleues festival in Aubervilliers, France, on March 31, 2005. Here's a direct link, but I cannot check it out from work, no Real Player installed here...) I heard parts of this on the air last night, and there's some fine playing to be witnessed! Here's the blurb from the Banlieues Bleues website: (source: http://www.banlieuesbleues.org/fiche/C05014_D.HTM)

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