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So you'll be there for goon, on April 17? They are playing here in Geneva on April 15th (http://www.amr-geneve.ch/prog2005/jazzfest/affiche.htm), so unless I am exceptionally inspired to make a 250km drive, I won't make it your way. Who are they playing with in Zürich? Very same group, David. You'll be here for Gebbia? (April 12, I think)

And Mike: you mixed them Ambrosettis up in your last post, the old man, Flavio, is the alto player. There is by now a third generation working, Franco's son, who plays sax, but I haven't heard anything of him. And I was aware from the beginning that the Byrd/Coles album is a Pearson date, I was just referring to the disc I got (I'm also aware of all the stolen Bailey dates). ubu

Also credited to Coleman Hawkins (see ASCAP website and the Ocium release "The Hollywood years"), AKA "Boff boff". Any light here? EKE, I have no idea about "Mop Mop", I actually just took the info from my source (that CD box). Mike, as far as I know the box can still be found, but it's way too expensive. I got mine used after having had a "review copy" for years The list prize, I think, equals at least 70 Euro (no biggie for 4CDs in Switzerland...)

So you'll be there for goon, on April 17?

Are you talking about the new Kurt Weill Trovesi/Coscia disc, Nate? I haven't heard that one yet. One of my favourites remain Trovesi's take on "Midsummernight's Dream" (released on Enja). Of course - AND I HAVE TO STRESS THIS FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW TROVESI - this track is not doing him justice AT ALL! I intended this as a piece of fun to get things going, that's all. ubu

and the mystery man from #18...

Kaspar Ewalds Exorbitantes Kabinett:

Roman Schwaller

Peter Schmidlin

Heiri Känzig

Isla Eckinger, another "mountain" of Swiss jazz. He is playing with Scherrer's quintet on this BFT. Other jobs he held were a long-time association with Mal Waldron, and he has been all over the place, playing and recording, too for quite some time now (a fairly recent great disc he appears on is Charlie Mariano's "Deep in a Dream" on Enja, there's a thread about it somewhere on the board).

Gianluigi Trovesi

10. Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard) Joey DeFrancesco Joey DeFrancesco (org), Frank Vignola (g), Joe Ascione (d) Jazzfestival Bern 1999, Kursaal Bern (Switzerland), May 8, 1999 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/1999 The only organ cut to make the final selection, and a great one, from an inspired concert. They did "Volare", a tarantella ("you remember that thing your Grandma used to like?" - "you're Grandma liked it too..." crazy guys, those Italo-Americans, ask catesta ) I love this arrangement (done in the style of the Sinatra/Basie classic), and DeFrancesco has a great sound on organ. Pretty close to Smith, to my ears, but he adds some of his own, too. And as some of you noted, the guitarist is even better! The steam they build is great here, it starts all relaxed and then starts growing more and more intense. These guys are totally together. (A note on Vignola: at 2001's Bern festival Lewis ought to have played, but died a few weeks before. Vignola should have accompanied Lewis for that concert, but then accompanied Jones, who replaced Lewis - there was a short interview on the radio, and Vignola is an very humble person, who was totally in awe of both them great pianists. Of course he acquitted himself more than nicely with Jones...) The mighty man with his organ, at a 2003 performance in Switzerland 11. Whisper Not (Benny Golson) Benny Golson Benny Golson (ts), Don Friedman (p), Mark Abrams (b), Billy Drummond (d) Generations 2000, Eisenwerk Frauenfeld (Switzerland), October 6, 2000 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/prob. 2001 Now this, dear guys and gals (or rather dudes and darlin's? ), this is IT! da shit! Benny Golson has such a good sound on tenor. I loved him since I first got to hear him on Art Blakey's Moanin'. He's a thoroughly modern player, yet he has strong ties to the gloriuos past of jazz tenor, Hawk, Ben, Byas etc. And I admire him for staying around for so long and still doing his thing, still being a first-rate musician. This cut comes from one of my most-treasured live recordings, ever. Don Friedman shines, too, and while some may consider Drummond a bit obtrusive, I love his performance here. Ray Abrams I don't know at all, but he's good here, too. Don Friedman appears on this track, as well as on Disc 1 #15, btw. 12. Body And Soul (Green-Heyman-Eyton-Sour) Bennie Maupin Bennie Maupin (ts), Wolfram Derschmid (b), Reinhart Winkler (d) Inntöne, Diersbach (Austria), June 6, 2003 Recorded by Austrian Radio (OE1), source: Austrian Radio Broadcast/2004 Here comes another masterpiece, a performance that fits into the row of impressive interpretations of this tune by some of the greatest tenorists jazz has produced (btw: did I tell you already that I love the tenor sax?) No more words needed, but I hope this comes as a big surprise for you! 13. Snippet III - Elvin Jones (r.i.p.) Jazzfestival Willisau, September 2, 2001, taken from Elvin's announcement preceding the encore (guess, guess...) BONUS TRACK 14. Jada (Carleton) Glyn Paque Glyn Paque (as,voc), Bib Thevenaz (p), André Boucquin (d) Radio Studio Geneva (Switzerland), July 12, 1945 Released on CD1 of "Jazz in Switzerland 1930-1975" (Elite Special 4CD 9544002/1-4) For this track you got to thanks John Litweiler. He mentioned Paque in the underrated altoists thread and I thought it would be nice to give you an example of what he was talking of... A lovely cut with solid support by, I assume, two more Swiss fellows. Paque has spent a few years of his life in Switzerland, I found a reference that by November 1939 he was appearing in Switzerland.

6. Basin Street Blues (W.C. Handy) Duke Ellington & his Orchestra Ray Nance (t,voc), Clark Terry (t), Quentin Jackson (tb), Russell Procope (cl), Duke Ellington (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Jimmy Johnson (d) Kongresshaus Zürich (Switzerland), October 9, 1959 Recorded by Swiss Radio, Source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/1999 This concert (which is also circulating in video format, sometimes said to be from "Germany 1959") was re-broadcasted in 1999, another homage to the great old man. On this tune half of the band sits out, and the others have a lot of fun - not sure who's giving comments on the second trumpet solo, Duke himself? Jimmy Woode, btw, has been living in Switzerland for decades now, as far as I know, appearing several times as a sideman at the Bern Jazzfestival. I absolutely love this track, nothing they could do wrong at this point. Nance, Terry, Butter... and it's great to hear Procope getting a bit of solo space, too! 7. Mood Indigo (Ellington-Bigard-Mills) Mangelsdorff-Liebman-JennyClark-Jones Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Dave Liebman (ss), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (b), Elvin Jones (d) Ravenna Jazz 1985, Teatro Estivo Rocco Brancaleone, Ravenna (Italy), July 4, 1985 audience recording, source: EZtree/2004 Continuing with more Ducal music. I was totally awe-struck when I heard this cut the first time. Mangelsdorff is so good here! Jenny-Clark and Elvin were frequent collaborators, and Liebman doesn't get in the way. I mostly included this to have Elvin present on my BFT (not just in that final vocal snippet, but playing), but Mangelsdorff alone deserves that this should be heard. I hear a lot of humour going on in his playing. Elvin plays great here, too, in my opinion. Even if rather sparse, he builds, and he has a weight that other drummers never achieve, yet still he's dancing. When he finally doubles (after the soprano starts intruding for the first time), this does swing a lot! Jenny-Clark has a nice solo spot (though I'm not so fond of that bass sound - pretty eighties, lacking depth and lacking... well, bass... but that's probably at least partially the fault of the recording, not of him). 8. Blood Count (Billy Strayhorn) [mono] Andy Scherrer Andy Scherrer (ts), William Evans (p), Isla Eckinger (b), Dré Pallemaerts (d) MIDEM 2000, Hotel Carlton, Cannes (France), January 26, 2000 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2/RSR 2/RSI 2), source: Swiss Radio Live Broadcast Scherrer is the most important Swiss modern mainstream tenor player. Born 1946, Scherrer made his debut record as a leader only a few years ago ("Second Step" on TCB), and has since been leading this quartet with yet another Bill Evans at the piano (and a great one, in my opinion). Isla Eckinger, bassist, is another important personality of Swiss jazz. He played with, it seems, everybody. Drummer Dré Pallemaerts is Belgian and is also part of Bill Carrothers entourage. Andy Scherrer is a highly self-critical artist (this, partially, explains his late debut on record) and one of the most impressive improvisors around these days. Scherrer's second disc (again on TCB) was dedicated to Mal Waldron, while his third disc, featuring a different line up, is an homage to Joe Henderson ("Serenity", Unit Records). These, and of course John Coltrane, are some of the most important influences on his playing, but he is beyond being an epigone. By other Swiss musicians, he is most highly regarded and considered a grand-seigneur. His performance of Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" is a masterpiece, I won't say no more, it's a deeply felt and masterly executed performance of a classic tune. [i do realize now that many of you disagree here, but...] Here's a photo of the master: Andy Scherrer performing with the Vienna Art Orchestra, © 2002 by Dirk Stockmans 9. Koko (Duke Ellington) John Lewis meets Hank Jones John Lewis (p), Hank Jones (p), George Mraz (b), Lewis Nash (d) Jazzfestival Bern 1999, Kursaal Bern (Switzerland), May 9, 1999 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/1999 This then is the last Ducal cut, and it features one of my favourite pianists, the swinging John Lewis. The second pianist (and I'd say the second to solo) is Hank Jones, yet another of those avatars of style. I love how they arranged this one, you can actually almost hear the Ellington sections coming in an out. I had planned to include another cut from this concert, "Django" (with Lewis the only soloist), but had to omit that for reasons of space.

1. Unidentified (High Society?) Gianluigi Trovesi Otetto Beppe Caruso (t), Massimo Greco (tb), Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), Marco Remondini (g), Roberto Bonati (b), Marco Micheli (el b), Vittorio Marinoni (d), Fulvio Maras (perc) Jazzfestival Willisau 2002, Willisau (Switzerland), August 29, 2002 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2) (rec. eng.: Martin Pearson), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/2002 Now this is just a little piece of fun, for starters. I love the exuberance in Trovesi's music, but I also love the lyrical side of his playing, as in his duo with accordionist Gianni Coscia. And of course he belongs (belonged?) to the Instabile crew, too... 2. Snippet II - Illinois Jacquet (r.i.p.) same as Disc 2, #3 3. On The Sunny Side of the Street (McHugh-Fields) | solo & voc: Jacquet (as) Illinois Jacquet Big Band personnel unknown, including Illinois Jacquet (as,voc), Joey Cavesino (as), Ed Stoute (p) Jazzfestival Bern 1996, Kursaal Bern (Switzerland), May 9, 1996 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/prob. 1996 I deliberately chose the one track from that concert that has Jacquet on alto. Creamy big sound, in the tradition of the old guys, Hodges, Carter, Smith. I love it! Then, his singing is an altogether different affair... love his take on Satch! The man had much fun that night, giving long announcements that often ended up pretty funny! I'd have loved to give a longer snippet, but that would have given away too much information. His big band, while being a traditional outfit, is quite together. Pity I have no information on the band members. Also I'm not sure if that Ed Stoute is the same person that appeared on one of the Ken McIntyre dates for United Artist (reissued on that great Blue Note doubletime set some years ago). As Sangrey noted: they get that tempo just right here. And if this is music for the old folks, I have to admit that in some kind of way I have always been old... 4. For Dancers Only (Raye-Schoen-Oliver) | solos: Oatts (or Wess?) (as), Faddis (t) Carnegie Hall Jazz Band Jon Faddis (mc,t), Michael Phillip Mossman, Ron Tooley, Scott Wendholt, Tom Williams (t); Slide Hampton, Dennis Wilson, John Allred, Douglas Purviance (tb); Dick Oatts (as), Frank Wess (as/ts/fl), Ralph Lalamo (ts), Jay Branford (ts), Gary Smulyan (bari); Renee Rosnes (p), Todd Coolman (b), Lewis Nash (d); Gerald Wilson (dir) Jazzfestival Bern 1999, Kursaal Bern (Switzerland), May 9, 1999 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/prob. 1999 Continuing with a bit of big band fun. Jazzfestival Bern is the most traditional among the big swiss festivals (big meaning: four days, two to three concerts per night, nothing going on simultaneously... you see, all in nice relation with the smallness of Switzerland ) I love Lunceford a whole lot, and the Lunceford programme done in 1999 by the CHJB was a whole lot of fun, with seasoned players like Frank Wess and Slide Hampton, as well as great young musicians like Renee Rosnes... Having Gerald Wilson directing that segment of the concert was a nice thing, too (they continued with some Ellington and Coltrane music, as well as a Slide Hampton original, Clarke Terry sat in, too...). Wilson directed all FROM MEMORY! Crazy! After all these years (or rather: decades) he still had it all in his head! I'm not sure who the alto soloist is, but I think not Wess, so it should be Oatts. Faddis does his shtick, too. You can like it or not (I'm rather on the not side, usually, but I just heard some seventies Mingus with a very young Faddis, and he plays just beautiful there!) 5. Sonnet for Caesar (Ellington-Strayhorn) | solo: John La Porta (cl) The Ellington Legacy Orchestra Benny Bailey, Barry Lee Hall, Wayne Burgeron (t); Petar Ugrin (t); Art Baron, Britt Woodman, Buster Cooper (tb); Fritz Renold (as,cl); Bobby Watson (as); John LaPorta (ts,cl); Tommy Smith (ts); Bernd Konrad (bari,blc); Aaron Bell (p); John Lamb (b); Charlie Persip (d); Bill Berry (cond) Aarau (Switzerland), April 17, 1999 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), Source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/1999 This was a nice project, organized by Frank Renold as a centennial tribute to the Duke. Several old Ellingtonians took part and delivered some great music, bassist John Lamb took over the Ducal chair, Bernd Konrad nicely filled Carney's shoes, while Petar Ugrin (Croatian, I think) filled the Ray Nance role very well, performing on violin just as competent as on trumpet. I love veteran John La Porta's frail clarinet playing here! In all of the Shakespeare Suite, this stood out as one of the highlights.

Alright... I'll start filling the gaps now, but I'll have some suspense going on, still This second disc did not have any such close-knit theme. However, there are a few things to keep in mind: - all recordings were made in Switzerland (all live, obviously), with the exception of #7 and #12 - there's some sort of a Ducal theme, that starts off with a track that I - always being aware what it was - never really thought of as being a Ducal one... (#3) - then there's the tenors... I make some frail attempts at playing saxophone, myself, and I love playing the tenor, it's - in my (and Ornette's) opinion - at the core of jazz... (a few more tenors, of course, can be heard on disc 1, not just Bean and Frog, but also a couple of nice Swiss guys, Roman Schwaller, Bruno Spörri, Hans Koch, Werner Lüdi...) Again I'm thanking everybody for your interesting and most often insightful posts (that has nothing to do with the ability to nail the tunes or not). ubu

Thierry Lang (photy by Dragan Tasic)

Pierre Favre (a fairly recent photo, I believe):

Irene Schweizer at last year's Jazzfestival Willisau (performing with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake):

Hans Kennel playing a "Büchel" (small version of the Alphorn) (photo by Mark Wohlrab 2004)

Bruno Spörri with the "Jazz Live Trio" (photo by Peter Günthart)

George Gruntz on a recent photo by Dragan Tasic.

12. Luca Enea (Werner Lüdi) 13. Kokomu & Pazuzu (Werner Lüdi) Werner Lüdi's Sunnymoon Werner Lüdi (saxes), Hans Koch (saxes, poss. out on #12), Martin Schütz (b), Timo Fleig (d,perc) Released on LP "Lunatico" (hatArt 2018, rec. prob. 12/18/1984, rel. 1985), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast I love these two tracks! Got them as part of a radio series of "Swiss Jazz Classics" that presented 20 or so LPs (half of each of which was broadcasted, usually). Hans Koch and Martin Schütz, together, are two thirds of the great "hardcore chamber music" trio Koch-Schütz-Studer (releases on Intakt and Intuition). Studer, another mainstay of the Swiss scene (and founder-member of the legendary jazz rock group, Om, with Urs Leimgruber, Christy Doran, and Bobbi Burry) is not featured on my BFT, alas. Maybe next time... Koch is quite active, I saw him live last year as part of Barry Guy's New Orchestra (he played some crazy shit on his bass clarinet, I was afraid it might catch fire). Schütz has crossed over into the electronics scene, and both Koch and Schütz are doing free improv, too. Werner Lüdi is a much-loved character. He died in 2000. A free jazz avatar, he was never a fully professional musician, but was at the same time active as a journalist/writer, and - having had a very creative way with words, also as an advertising-slogan-creator (whatever the correct word for that would be). He started paying dues musically in Hamburg (Germany), becoming a member of vibist Gunter Hampel's band in 1962. In 1966 he returned home to Switzerland, working the advertising business, after living through the hardnesses of a free improviser's life. In 1981, with an outfit called "Sunnymoon", he returned to music. That band included guitarist Stephan Wittwer (whom I portrayed/interviewed for my radio show, last spring), Leon Francioli (b), and - again - Fredy Studer (d). Other collaborators of Lüdi's included Burhan Oeçal, William Parker, Peter Kowald, Sainkho Namtchylak, and Butch Morris. The thee last mentioned are on his FMP CD, "When the Sun Is Out You Don't See Stars" (which I don't have, but seems to be very nice). His Intakt release, "Ki", features good old funny rat originator Shoji Hano and Parker. I don't have that one, either, but it could be another good one! (D.D. - you have it?) Here's a photo of the man: Werner Lüdi (1936-2000) Oh, and I'm aware it wasn't very fair to have #2-4 and #12/13 as separate cuts on the CD, even if they belong together, but... hope no one's mad at me because of that! 14. Calypso Minor* (Abdullah Ibrahim) Thierry Lang Trio Thierry Lang (p), Heiri Känzig (b), Peter Schmidlin (d) Festival de Cully (Switzerland), March 30, 2004 Recorded by Swiss Radio (Espace 2), source: France Musiques Broadcast/2004 I love this moody track. Heiri Känzig (a long-time member of the Vienna Art Orchestra) has a great bass sound, and he really contributes to the mood of this track. On drums here, we have Peter Schmidlin, founder and (prob.) owner of the great little label, TCB Records. The main focus here, though, lies on Thierry Lang's sensitive interpretation of a beautiful composition of Abdullah Ibrahim's. Lang was - in the late nineties, I think - the first Swiss musician to get a Blue Note contract, which got him a lot of good press here. He recorded a series of albums called "Reflections", which I haven't feeled compelled to check out, but this cut, recorded at a Swiss festival a year ago I liked so much that I thought I might put it on my BFT, between all those tenor tracks Ibrahim, of course, is a very dear favourite of mine, and one of the earliest musicians I felt like I wanted to know more after having heard two or three of his CDs. Also "African Marketplace" was one of both my parents' favourite LPs, and I must have heard that one countless times when I was a kid. This cut gave me the opportunity to show Ibrahim my reverence, too. With this track we're arriving in the present Swiss jazz scene, of which the following cuts on disc one, as well as #8 on disc 2 are further examples. Going with the taste of the majority, I mostly included music that I would call "mainstream", though there is much other music going on here, even if you'd only look at Zürich. Another remark on Schmidlin: he still performs a lot, for instance regularly with the piano trio CoJazz, which includes Andy Scherrer (see disc 2 #8, he's on his main axe there) on piano. They made a couple of discs, which - obviously - were released on TCB. And Känzig: born in NY, studies in Vienna, founder-member of the Vienna Art Orchestra, Art Farmer's regular bass player in 1978-79. Performing with travelling and expat Americans (Griffin, Bailey, Billy Brooks), as well as European musicians (Fritz Pauer, Wolfgang Dauner, Christoph Lauer, Heinz Sauerer). In the early eighties classical bass studies at the Zürich conservatory, back to Vienna and the VAO, moving to Paris, playing all over with everybody. Since 1991 teaching at the Lucerne jazz school, member of "The Swiss Leaders", a quartet with Franco Ambrosetti, Daniel Humair and George Gruntz. Enough now... just a few more names he played with: Gunther Schuller, Paul McClandless, Charlie Mariano, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Andy Scherrer. So you see: one of the top bass players in this part of the world, and a very prolific one, too. *)I'm not sure about the identity of this track, "Calypso Minor" (Ibrahim) was what the French radio announcer said it was (they're usually quite competent, though). brownie sent me a link (see photo attached below) to a Lalo Schifrin tune that was used in some pub in France, which looks quite similar... 15. LA BALLADE POUR PIPETTE (Roman Schwaller) | solos: Pontiggia (frh), Schwaller (ts), Friedman (p) Roman Schwaller Nonet Peter Tuscher (t), Adrian Mears (tb), Claudio Pontiggia (frh), Ed Partyka (tuba), Roman Schwaller (ts,arr,comp), Domenic Landolf (bcl), Don Friedman (p), George Mraz (b), Adam Nussbaum (d) Generations 2002, Frauenfeld (Switzerland), October 4, 2002 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/2002 or 2003 Earlier in his career, Roman Schwaller was an important voice of Mathias Rüegg's Vienna Art Orchestra (he can be heard, for instance, on "The Minimalism of Erik Satie", which, alas, is OOP). Schwaller is one of the best contemporary tenorists. Generations is his "baby", a bi-annual festival, including workshops for young musicians, including his own projects, invited bands, one big band project (the last one was headed by Rüegg, the one before by Bill Holman), and a band consisting of the workshop guys (in 2002 they included Don Friedman, George Mraz, Adam Nussbaum - that rhythm section he used for his live gig here, replacing his usual crew -, Brad Leali, and Ferdinand Povel, as well as some trumpet player, I think). A very nice festival, parts of which are broadcasted by Swiss radio. This band here did a CD on German pianist Joe Haider's label, JHM Records. Haider, btw, is also a personality with quite some influence on the Swiss jazz scene. Here's a link to the english version of the JHM homepage. Why I chose this track is mainly because of Schwaller's strong tenor solo, as well as Friedman's piano solo, but as with a few of you, the real highlight for me, is Pontiggia on French horn (he, too, appears with the Vienna Art Orchestra). That sound has a depth that not many an instrument can achieve. If you want to check Schwaller out in a quartet setting, his "Jazzquartet" release with Jimmy Cobb, "Some Changes is Life", is higly recommended. The JHM page allows no direct linking, you got to scroll down in the catalogue to find the two discs. Here's a photo of the project "3 Generations of Swiss Tenors": (left to right) Roman Schwaller, Andy Scherrer, Domenic Landolf (Landolf, who plays bass clarinet with Schwaller's nonet, usually plays tenor, too. Schwaller was also part/initiator of an international tenor trio with Sal Nistico and Johnny Griffin, which did a CD for JHM, too.) 16. Sfrjagtmy (Kaspar Ewald) | solos: Woodtli (t), von Flüe (ts), Bamert (tb) Kaspar Ewalds Exorbitantes Kabinett Kaspar Ewald (comp,arr,cond), Stephan Geiser (lead), Daniel Woodtli (t), Heiner Krause (frh), Bernhard Bamert (tb), Michael Büttler (btb), Regula Schneider (cl,voc), Roland von Flüe (ts,cl), Beat Hofstetter (ss), Sascha Armbruster (as), Andrea Formenti (ts), Beat Kappeler (bari), Jean-Paul Brodbeck (fender rhodes elp), Wolfgang Zwiauer (elb), Fabian Kuratli (d) Jazzfestival Schaffhausen 2002, Kammgarn Kulturzentrum, Schaffhausen (Switzerland), May 25, 2002 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2) (rec. eng.: Martin Pearson), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/2002 ARTE Quartet can be heard on Pierre Favre's latest Intakt release (that even got a write up in Downbeat, recenlty!) Zwiauer/Kuratli are a very tight team, they've been playing with Christy Doran's group "New Bag" and grown to be a great duo. Ewald himself has a classical background and works at the Zürich conservatory (teaching arranging, I think). The one time I heard this band live I was nearly blown away. True, the music has little room to breathe, but to hear this stuff for an hour, full in your face, is a terrific thing! The tenor man, whom I'm not all that fond of, is another fairly important guy on the Swiss scene, while both the trumpet and trombone soloists are very young fellows. 17. Ghost (Albert Ayler) Peyer-Weber-Stoffner Florian Stoffner (g), Christoph Weber (b), Marius Peyer (d) Jazzfestival Schaffhausen 2002, Kammgarn Kulturzentrum, Schaffhausen (Switzerland), May 25, 2002 Recorded by Swiss Radio (DRS 2) (rec. eng.: Martin Pearson), source: Swiss Radio Broadcast/2002 Some Lebert Aaly to finish things of... another young Swiss trio here. Christoph Weber is very active, mainly though in freer contexts that this here. The project they did was called "songs and other inventions", they played a few of their own songs, a couple of seldom-heard standards, and Dylan's "I Pity the Poor Immigrant", too. A pretty varied series of songs, but it worked out very fine. Once again not much more I can tell you. I think Stoffner has appeared (maybe recorded?) with another Swiss guitarist, Harald Haerter (who did discs with some famous US sidemen and seems to have a very good name with musicians, in general). 18. Snippet No. I: Duke Ellington same as Disc 2, #6