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Funky. I'd call it "avant-funk" for lack of a better term. I really enjoy this album, but haven't listened to it in a long time. A good one! This one's a favourite of mine:

Absolutely! Some of us are still recovering from King Ubu's two-disc challenge. yes, I'm recovering, too! ubu

A groan-o-meter? Or a tool that prevents his head from bobbing up and down and around like it did on that evening on the Isle of Wight?

"Time out of Mind" (thank sal!) is the other one whose title escaped me!

I love "Desire" a lot, as well, but I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea, and I kind of see why...

Those are the ones I have. They have showed up in some stores over here but I haven't looked in a while. I see where Crazy Jazz, out of the UK, has both for around $15 each, but I think I paid less than that. Kevin 15$ would be an ok prize. German Amazon has them for 13 Euro. I guess with a little patience they could indeed be found a bit cheaper than 15$.

Oh well... this thread makes me want to get them, too! As well as the Uptowns and the Enja with Bailey and the Bossa Bacchanal (if that wasn't a copycrap disc here, I'd have it anway, I almost fully stopped buying and EMI/BN discs ever since...)

as usual... that's why I'm not so fond of these series, I preferred those older reissues... and they're looking like "by requests" anyhow, now, so why not just release the music and add what's around from those dates? Alright, I know, I don't have the right to hear anything, anyway, so...

Lon, in my opinion, you should definitely check out both "Love and Theft" and the one preceding it. While they're totally different (Love and Theft very straight, the other one a Daniel Lanois thing), I think highly of both! I've seen Dylan live last year (third time) and was once again amazed. He can't sing and all, yet his voice fits in with the music and the songs in perfect fashion. Very good show, if you can catch him (though I think he's expanded his band again since when I heard him, he had just drums, bass, two guitars and himself on keys then, nothing else).

Same here. Don't yet have the box, but this has always been far and away my favorite live recording of this band (that and the Moon release of the other set from the same festival). Great as the other stuff is, there's a quality of "impatience" to it, like they're waiting for something new to happen, but they don't know what it is, do they, Mister Shorter? But at Antibes, they sound fresh, invigorated, organic, and totally in the moment. I had a strange French edition of this one, thought it had another title, but I'm not sure about it anymore. However, this was the last of the albums in the box, except for Seven Steps which I heard but never owned, and the Tokyo which is new to me. Thus, as I have been loving the Berlin and the Four&More/Funny Valentine discs for years (they were prob. among my first 50 or 100 jazz discs, when I was like 15 or 16), it's hard for me to find the Antibes set "better" - there's just too much fondness in my heart for the others, regardless of how good the rest is... sometimes things are like this.

you know, I played with Maria Schneider... Seriously: I'll may go for the two reissues, as these are the two Enjas I miss (the other one I've had for several years). In my opinion it's great that this way of marketing music is successful! If it works out fine with her, I hope more and more other musicians try it, as well!

Antibes of Berlin? I've had the luck of owning a Japanese CD of the Berlin set for a long time, and I always loved it! Beautiful *sounding* recording, too! It creates the illusion that you could hear a feather drop to the floor at the Philharmonic! I really like it! tony: if you're up for good design, I'd save some pennies, or rather pounds, and wait till you can afford the box - it's definitely the best one, as far as design is concerned! I find it superb! (Far away from being just the last one that they still had to do, to fill up that not so good period of Miles' career, far from!)

George Llewis (as in Lloyd) Dizzy Gesspie I hate it. The "Llewis" thing was by a good German radio man, who knows a lot about the music, and probably just meant too good. On Swiss radio though (where the "Gesspie" comes from), often they have "professional" speakers to announce the weekly live broadcasts and from the first word it's clear they don't know (and care) shitte about jazz. That bugs me, sometimes, even more so as some of those national radio people have a very elitist way of thinking, looking down in disgust at private radio stations - which most often are bad - and even more so on "alternative" stations like the one I occasionally do a show for. Still they can't pronounce a couple of names right...

There's a few tunes on that one that always make me weak! A fantastic album!

Something that may or may not be news to you: Gebbia just recorded a disk with Lukas Ligeti and a third fellow from the italian band Zu (never heard his name before, can't remember it either). I didn't ask on what label that recording will be released. Also Gebbia will tour the US with Ligeti very soon. Just found the entry on the new reocrding in the discography of his website: And here's the info on where he's playing in the next weeks:

Uh well, looks like the guys eyed her long enough for being in the need of glasses now

Alfred Zimmerlin on vocals. Not familiar with the man but I must say: I'd be much more receptive if the vocalist were a woman. No Tony, it's a lady, the first one in the list, Schiavoni - never heard of her. Zimmerlin is a cellist (vcl - short for violoncello, I suppose, for Schiavoni it says voc, but one can hardly see the difference, indeed). Zimmerlin is also an much too enthusiast (and thus too forgiving) reviewer of new music and occasionally free improv stuff at the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (the newspaper that beats the NYTimes in those credibility polls... great old newspaper!). Further, Zimmerlin is on those Momentum discs on Leo Records (I only have Momentum II, but never really got drawn into it, I think I never even listened to all of it). Thanks for the rec of that disc! I chatted a bit with Goodheart, too, and he seems to be a very kind guy! A very creative musician, though of these three the one falling into clichés most easily and often (though only a couple of times in a 90 or 100 minutes set, thus not a problem at all). One thing to add on the Drake/Mateen disc: Mateen is definitely not the most subtle and sophisticated alto player. He's got a sound that comes (and goes) to the guts, and often is playing rather simple stuff. However, I liked his clarinet playing quite some, I have to say!

Nothing. I don't find anything "wrong" with his playing. That being said, he is definitely not to everyone's taste. Let us know what you think once you have a chance to listen to Brothers Together. I pulled that one out last night and will listen to it in the next day or so. Just finishing a listen to this one, I like it a lot! Mateen plays alto on the first cut, clarinet on the second and third, and flute plus alto on the last one. Drake is such a groovy swinging player! Question re: Goodheart & Powell: has anyone got this disc they made with sax player Josh Allen? Goodheart mentioned it last night when I asked him if they had anything else out:

Well yes, no one but me was astonished about the small number of people (but I was at that location the very first time, so...). Here's a link to the programme of that place: http://www.wimmusic.ch/ I guess I'd actually like to see Schiaffini again (saw him once with the Instabile crew), but there's a singer, too...

It seems some know here real name, some don't. That's all. Obviously those who do don't tell those who don't - which is part of the fun, it seems

A little update for our double delta friend: I regret to report that there are no plans (and probably no chance at all) that What We Live Four will play in Switzerland - I met Saadet at the Zen Window concert yesterday and chatted with her for a couple of minutes, asking about any plans with What We Live Four.

Hey fellas, I have heard what you all wouldn't dare to dream about: Rhoda & Barbara Dennerlein playing *together*! They probably had a dozen of Leslies, and they groove! That act took place in Zwitserland, btw (love that spelling, Michel!) Missed this thread the first time around. I had the duo disc with Klook back then. In the meantime I also got the disc with Joe Thomas. It's fine, but her singing there is not really needed, in my opinion. I could do with the instumental tracks alone, I'm afraid.

us "rats" knew that, of course... maybe 7/4 needs to drop in more often, then he'd have known, too (this is a hearty invitation! I guess you'd have more than 's to contribute here!)