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Just gave the disc a first listen on the way to work. WHOOOOAH! I am very much impressed! Diz is witty and good, and Max drops bombs all over the place, Haig is very good as well, but then there's Bird... his entry in "Bebop" (like Sid, I wasn't sure if he'd be there on the first tune, not having looked at any liners so far) is so good! And how Max reacts, wow! Ain't it all there, right in this 40 minutes of music? Just everything that makes jazz such a great art? Looking at the traycard of the disc I have a question about "Salt Peanuts" - is that Max or Big Sid? Liners say the later, but Symphony Sid only announces Big Sid *after* "Salt Peanuts" - however, I thought I did hear a change in drumming styles right from the beginning of "Salt Peanuts", so... Chuck: give everybody involved some deep thanks from a devoted fan of the few Uptown releases he owns, so far!

Thanks, brownie. I have this set and it´s one of my favorite Ellington live recordings. ← one for me to ? I don't have the B-day set, but being quite a fan of the stuff collected on the Capitol set, this should indeed be mine, some day... I see Caiman has it for 18 € on Amazon.de

Congratulations, man. It's a good set to have. You will enjoy it. You will enjoy it or else! ← Don't be afraid, else I will sell it on Ebay for at lesat 500$... I sure will enjoy it!

To bring this one back on topic... my set has already arrived! Very fast delivery (I went for overseas shipping)!!!

update: couw got them dutchmanx double delta got them eloe omoe got them eke bbb got them sent a couple of days later: mmilovan will send tomorrow: clunky

Got mine, thanks Chuck! Fast delivery!

Oops, I missed that one. Yes, that is Fresu. He is not the leader on the album, however. ← Thanks! Though I went with not Fresu in the end... tooter will be delighted!

Thanks John! Glad I got the Instabile and Trovesi cuts right! How about #2 - just to ask for sure: Fresu is not there, correct?

Are you piling up coins to afford the box? Or is it the sound of the cash register after you´ve paid for it? ← Nothing yet, but I'll definitely check if the Euro version makes a show at some of the cheapo discounters (the Farmer and Mulligan did and I got them there).

pling, pling, pling,......pling!

Happy huppy birthday!

Damn I should have signed up for this BFT disc as I'd surely have surely enjoyed it and nailed this one. IIO are great and Trovesi is a magician. ← I can send you a copy, but then stop reading here!

Berry played in Basie band as well, so... ← Yup, and if you start looking closer you'll find him on quite a lot of enjoyable mainstream dates, such as the Candid album by Pee Wee Russell with Hawk. Also he's on two lenghty dates in the Illinois Jacquet Mosaic (one of which was released under his name, the other under Jacquet's). A nice trumpet player!

Alright, after your comments to Nate's guesses I'm glad it's not Ehrlich... also: have I come close (or hit the nail?) with my guess for #10?

As usual, not a peek, just a sneek... First off, again: John, what a splendid compilation! This must be the greatest BFT ever since... mine? Seriously, I nailed a few more when giving the disc a close listen last night. Here's a transcription of my scribbles, word by word: ATTENTION LURKERS: SPOILERS INCLUDED! (sorry about that, I was simply too tired 3 a.m. last night to make sly allusions) 1. A very instabile start Terrific cut! Trovesi's "Scarlattina", performed by the Instabile gang. Love them! Saw them live a couple of years ago and they put on a good show! (Trovesi was absent, though.) That mix of renaissance music with improvised jazzz he did to great effect on his Enja disc "Midsummernight's Dream"... love it (here the renaissance thing shows mainly in that recurring piano interlude). This is genuinely European stuff, and all the better so! (But then again, during the trumpet solo they throw in some cliché big band riffs...) Who's the trumpet guy? Minafra? Then Schiaffini or Tramontana? Great how some trad-jazz sneeks in behind the trombone(s)! (Is there a second soloist or not? Got to re-listen...) Then on we go to Africa... after another nice piano interlude. Tell me one currently active big (or jazz) band that can do a Thomas Mapfumo tribute as good as these fellas can! (Not that they're doing that here, but still!) Cavallanti on tenor? Then Geremia on soprano? WHOAH! I love it when soprano, trumpet, trombone and flute exchange that silly little phrase, all on top of that groove... and in steps the piano, leading us back to the Mediterranean... Btw: I don't ahve this cut, just a shorter version of the same tune on the Leo 2CD "Instabile Festival" release. Will have to get this disc! Is it the "Litania Sibilante" or that other disc on some small label which I still miss? 2. One of the Italian Miles epigones? Fresu? ... no, he'd have a fatter tone. Maybe not a European? The tune sounds deceptively familiar, but I don't know if I know it or not... nice, but nothing earth-shattering. Room to breathe, though, after the opener! 3. On we go with da shit! - I would have to be the first martyr of the "rat" would I not recognize this one, the opening tune of a perennial "rat" favourite. Hearing just this one cut does not at all do the man justice... maybe next time it's my turn to do a BFT I'll just juggle around the tunes from that release and put that out as my BFT, so everybody will *know*... and it would save me a lot of work, too. Now s/he would be my hero (for an hour), who would - not knowing this release - find out to which tarot card this track belongs... I knowingly opt for the magician 4. WHOAH! Who is this? After two listens I still am not sure... is this another European (thus prob. Italian or French) clarinetist? Is there any American capable of playing the clarinet like this? (Serious question! Byron ain't, that's for sure!) Trovesi again? I have no clue, neither about the drummer... good one, for sure! 5. THis has a pseudo centraliurop vibe to it, similar to some of the Zorn/Tzadik stuff I've heard. Nice saxophone! Trumpet reminds me of those frail Clarence Shaw solos with Mingus in 1957... beautiful! The long second trumpet solo could come from Dave Douglas? Marimba is very nice! Also how they go in and out of that tango-like beat. More from that first tenor, very nice! Then another tenor... might these be folks from the Kamikaze Ground Crew and/or Sex Mob circles? To throw in some names: Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Michael Blake, Peter Apfelbaum...? More of a helpless guess, but still... 6. ubu's third hit... una serenata con Lucilla this is, with that Trovesi guy positively i-d'd this time, then there's Matinier on accordion, Garcia-Fons doing that crazy fast and high stuff on his bass fiddle, and the leader of the gang some French chap, who can blow mean tuba, I tellya! Fantastic CD! Most highly recommended! Another splendid example form the lively mediterranean music that is being played by Italian and French musicians. Pino Minafra, the founder of the Instabile crew (see #1) appears on this CD, as well. 7. Another WHOAH! coming out of ubu's grande sale gueule at the point where that sweet trumpet solo starts... another tune that sounds familiar, but this time I'm quite sure I have never heard it before - and I have no clue. The tenor is a bit too much for my liking, but the trumpet is really good! THe ensemble, arrangement and groove all remind me slightly of some of the Libaration/Haden/Bley things, but when the bass steps out for the solo it's definitely clear this is not Haden... never would he play such stoopid stuff... William Parker (I go for him because I don't like his playing and I don't like this bassist's playing...). So this could be a William Parker recording, yes? Maybe the Tsahar guy going nuts during his opening solo? 8. More WHOAHs coming! Terrific, love how the solo builds! I know of a duo of Trovesi's with a French clarinet player who's name escapes me, but I'm not aware they did any recordings (haven't checked, though). But this one rather reminds me a bit of Louis Sclavis... though then again it's too soft for being him, no? 9. huh? ... pretty cool flute in there! No idea what this could be, but I like some music like this, now and then. I like that there's an acoustic bass - not seen that often in this kind of setting! 10. This is one of those old New Orleans staples... not Trovesi again? Sort of my steady-guess... but yup, it is Trovesi - the cries around 2:10 give him away, also the line up fits with his octet. I have a couple of live recordings, but no official releases of this group, so I can't pin this down. Should be from one of his Enja releases, "Fugace" or "Dedalo" (simply: not the one of these two that features the WDR big band, but the other one...) Also, this studio recorded track sounds quite a bit cleaner than the live dates I have... this is what puzzled me and misled me at first. I love this way of playing in and with the tradition, of including it, yet not doing that in a "traditional" way. 11. What's this? Just a prepared piano? No, there, it becomes clear that a drummer or percussionist is playing, too. Is the piano prepared, or is the drummer doing all of these sounds? Or is there even a third musician in there? This track has a very meditative vibe to it that I like a lot! What is this? (to return to my original question...) Is there something else besides piano and percussion? Some kind of lute? An oud, a tamboura? Like this one a lot, no matter what and who it is! Nice how some sort of groove is built up and then, after a fairly short time, being dropped again, and how it all sort of just phases out. John: big thanks for and big to this disc! I immensely enjoyed it! And since I nailed a few more cuts than those I already mentioned in my previous email, I guess I can wait for the answers being revealed without having to be afraid of going nuts before!

I don't think I took it too serious - I myself find the notion of one month per BFT helpful, but what I wanted to say is that a month, with all the burning and mailing considered, is not a long enough timeframe for everyone to do his BFT just as he likes. If someone goes for the sign-up early in "his" month, discussion will only start in the next month - that was the only thing I wanted to say, when I propoesed that timeframe above. For me, things have worked more than well like they went so far, but if a majority wants to set up this monthly scheme, I'd be all for it.

Can't dubya send over some of those stealth birds to annihilate Lonehill? I would *so* love to get some Giuffre and Konitz on Mosaic, but this kind of cheapo release (that Swiss stores have the audacity to sell at full prizes, not nice prize, even if that would already be too much) is what will probably keep them from doing it... That 2CD set mentioned is indeed a terrific one! Get that instead!

The only Les Paul I know is that JATP jam PDEE (--->hey, P.D.: where are you? You're being missed! Hope all's fine!<---) refers to. Where else to search for some good jazz guitar stuff? What about that Decca disc mentioned above?

Shall your roast in hell for every cent you took away from the esteemed estate of edward ellington! Good deal! The 40 disc set, this is?

This is a great little series! I have trouble keeping up! The only non mini-LP one I have so far is the Lateef, and I think there are still a few from the first few batches (soon to be OOP) that I need... Here's a list of threads discussing them: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...cs&highlite=lpr ubu

this is my kind of thread! Hans, I know of course that google... that's why I added the smiley above!

well, google has approx. 443000 hits for "fuschia", so it can't be quite *that* wrong

John, let me be the first to tell you what a great disc you compiled! As I emailed you, I already recognized two cuts (one's da shit!, obviously, about the other one I'll keep my mouth shut). I also heard some long-haired Africans that think they are Europeans (but we *know* - ever heard of continental drift?) I'm looking forward a lot to the discussion here! This disc will be ample proof (if any is needed) that the "rat" is not just evil!

Has anybody told you? You *are* old, definately! (Further proof: if you tell me I should spell it "definitely"...)

duck! ← You know I often happen to have superfluous duck...uhm...tape... that should be able to keep your drive closed! I see another scary scenario: some BFT junkies going berserk all over the board if the sign-up thread does not start in time, making Hitler jokes that are *not* funny in the one remaining non-political part of the forum..., then, if the discs are not sent out at the right time, they pull some voodoo tricks, whille others just start getting nervous breakdowns and lose control over their actions and go pee-pee all over their Butch Warren CDs... finally, if the discs are not around by the first of the designated month... uh, I wouldn't want to be close to any of those victims of blindfoldtestalitis, no Sir! I will hide in a corner where no one will suspect me, and if anyone will try and get me, I'll have Pile and Cotice defending me, as well as - a last mean of defense, but a final one, I tellya! - the infamous paternoster-strike. Just wanted to post this to say to y'all: you've been warned!