king ubu

Yeah, exaclty, I've seen that happen at least... 35 times!

I saw these short films and other soundies, too, last year. The part with Billie is giving you goose bumps! The part with the child prodigy is - well, mildly put - ridiculous, and in fact, very sad, I think - that kid was told to behave like a cute little ape or something...

WHOAAAAA!!!! Just read this! What great news! The bummer in here: Sony ripping us (who bought the expansive Miles/Trane Columbia box) off with that 2CD "deluxe" edition, instead of just releasing all the live stuff of the band in a 2CD or (ir required) 3CD set. ubu

that soprillo hurts my ears from only looking at it! and what, bari without A? the A is *at least* half of the fun about the bari!!!

brownie, I really should move my ass to Paris sometime soon... I'd love to, but right now I see no way I could afford it met in person: D.D. and mikeweil talked to on the phone: deus (& brownie, to duplicate his mention) not too many, and I sure would like to meet a few others! but then, at the rate of emails I exchange with couw, I guess that almost counts as having met in person (and drank gallons of beer together, too...)

Seems this is the hammond he recorded "Green Onions" on: source

oh HELL YEAH! and that cover is so cool, too: my only disc of theirs so far, but there's some stuff on some compilations, too... not music I listen to all that often, but when I do, I love it!

LOVE this one!

Clunky (et. al.): Solal also appears on both the 1955 Henri Crolla JiP discs, "Begin the Beguine" and "Quand refleuriront les lilas blancs". I just got these while re-stocking (actually completing, safe for three and the new Django) my JiP holdings, and they're very nice! Each holds one 10 inch LP with clarinet (Meunier? going from memory) added on half of the cuts, plus one has two, one has one, EP (12 or 14 tunes, all togehter), with just the quartet of Crolla, Solal, and some French bassist and drummer (would have to look up the names). Solal is on all cuts of both discs, though often he just plays an accompanying role. And as these recordings are all from 1955, they have certainly to be counted among early Solal, along with the Vogue sides - but I love those so much, so this is good enough for me! Further, to diverge a bit from the topic here, Crolla is a charming musician in his own right. It seems he and Django had sort of a mutual admiration society thing going on. On all the EPs, as I hear it, Crolla plays acoustic guitar (amplified in some way, I believe - that same general sound that Django has on his famous recordings), while on the two 10 inchers he's on electric guitar (again, unless my ears betray me - I need to listen to these two discs a lot more soon).

er..I'm sure it does...

You may not have been aware but this was in the press over here last year, and probably before that, and it keeps coming up now and then. Hipycrisy...

yeah, sure, but if you look anything similar to your current avatar, do not fear!

Tenorist Andy Scherrer's leader debut release: Andy Scherrer: Second Step (TCB Records) He's the guy who slaughters "Blood Count" on my BFT, so I beg you, give him a chance! It's available at Amazon's (for 19$, though...) and it does NOT include "Blood Count" I don't have it, myself, but I have a couple of other live recordings of his quartet and like them! He has since done a second CD as a leader, dedicated to Mal Waldron. It's available on German Amazon, but US Amazon does not (yet?) list it: Andy Scherrer: Remember Mal Waldron (TCB Records) Scherrer's third and latest release as a leader comes from the small Swiss Unit Records label: Andy Scherrer: Serenity (Unit Records) As you may guess from the title, this one's an hommage to Joe Henderson. It features a younger rhythm section, Jean-Paul Brodbeck (p), Fabian Gisler (b), Dominic Egli (d). Brodbeck is on fender rhodes on the Kaspar Ewald release above (as well as on my BFT). This disc also has another horn in the frontline, magnificient lyrical trumpet player Matthieu Michel (a colleague of Scherrer's in the Vienna Art Orchestra and one of the best trumpet players around in Switzerland). Here's the write-up on the Unit website. And be warned: "Blood Count" alert!

Happy birthday, Lazaro!

Just in case this should be directed at me... nothing to say but... well, forget it.

As someone that was a *wee little bit* (striving for "understatement of the month", I guess...) involved, I cannot but fully agree with couw. That is, on the wounds that cannot be healed by time (check Chris.Marker's "Sans soleil" for a bit more on that topic) and on all the other points he made (freedom of speach, new rules etc). I never really straightened things out with him. Here's the story: he dropped a PM, I dropped one back, making my points again, he replied telling me he was too tired and will he deal with it the next day. I gave a lot of thoughts on how to answer without having to lie, and without apology (there was no reason for that, in my book - I merely stated my anger about his anti-semitic crap, and kept maintaining I was no bully, which was his attack against me). However, once I saw his usual rubbish-posts the next day (his authistic "Thank you for your post. I enjoyed reading it"-routine, as if the board was just there to make him enjoy himself or what), I decided I had no reason to get back at him, but rather took a step back from the whole affair (and that meant all the board, except for - bad, very bad, timing - my BFT-thread, which he almost spoilt, too, but I tried to be there, regularly, at least). I haven't really felt like stepping into full action since. There has just been too much b-s going on. I do thank everybody who sent me supportive and kind PMs, though. I really appreciated that. However, a couple of things have just gone wrong in my book in a way that was far over the top, and it will take time to accept that, and I guess - that's the deal with time not healing those wounds - it will never be fully forgotten. Now call me a crybaby again, if you will .

Happy birthday!

Use: I'm glad to see your apology here! Really! Bugged me a bit that you deleted those harmless posts. Also I'm glad how the che-issue ended. And note that I never requested him being banned, but that I found the Atzmon thread very appalling and actually - even if you are all for free speech - offensive, in that it was anti-semitic and racist. I'm not sure where to draw the line, myself, but I still would be glad to see that thread disappear from the board. ubu

same here (though I like the Bethlehem and Candid's a lot, too).

Oh sure, it's 1 a.m. here and I just opened all the windows to let the cool fresh air of a spring night flow through the appartment!

Bully.

Thanks brownie! Good to know I'm not alone liking "Blood Count"! And didn't I tell you #12 was going to be a surprise?

Rooster: PM sent!

Previous threads: here and here. But both didn't go very far... ubu

The point is that a few regulars have been offended on the board, a couple of weeks back, and the large part of the crowd reacted by stating that the ones that have taken insult should "chill out" and ignore the turds being thrown at them. This has been taken - again by some, I'm not stressing my own case here - as a sign that the atmosphere has been getting rougher (at least for those who did notice) and that obviously some problems are not being dealt with here. And that again has made this place a lot less comfortable, again for some. And one more point I want to stress is that those of us who have been offended or taken offense have often contributed a lot to the positive vibes of this board.