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There's two very nice Jazz in Paris discs with Byas, and there also was a nice Original Vogue Masters release of his, featuring Bery Booker and M-L Williams' trios. The "Tribute to Cannonball" is a nice one, too! Haven't heard the Black Lion disc mentioned. I love his sound. ubu

up! I'll mail out the "odd" ones and the US distributors' discs in a couple of days. ubu

Sad news! A very nice label!

Up! Now's the time to sign up for some *unexpected* free tunes...

If you like this one, you can go for all of the other Cllective 4tet discs you find - they are all good (I haven't heard the very recent one, though). As for Willism Parker, as I mentioned, I believe that Collective 4tet features some of his most creative low-cliché playing in recent years. Interestingly, I 've been lately listening to a couple of CDs from late 70s and early 80s with Parker (trio with Wayne Horwitz and Butch Morris on Black Saint, and "Through Acceptance of a Mystery Peae" on Eremite), and he sounds like a much more diverse and explorative musician there. Thanks! I'll see if that sale is still on...

Gave the Collective Quartet's disc "Live at Crescent" (one of Chaney's "unloved babies") a listen last night. I'm quite impressed, I have to say. Freely improvised music that at the same time sounds pretty focused. Heinz Geisser is a very subtle drummer, Parker is rather good here, the trombonist is ok, too (though he is often just adding a bit of colour or some textures, rather than being an impressive solo voice), but the main man here, in my opinion, is pianist Mark Hennen (who's name I haven't heard before). Thanks a lot to Chaney for letting my CD rack (or rather, my piles of CDs on the floor) being the asylum for this nice disc! ubu

24, most of them Blue Notes (only 50s and 60s), a few VMEs (The Cat, the one with Wes, Organ Grinder Swing, Blue Bash, Root Down, and the great first Verve disc he made), and the one with Eddie Harris. Never checked out much of Smith's post 1965 music.

You'd think it'd gotten there before the Switzerland relay was complete, wouldn't you? All mail to California has to pass through Austria first, didn't you know?

got mine today, will hopefully find time to listen on the weekend! thanks, impossible & tjobbe! ubu

that's the Blue Note I meant, couldn't remember the title...

Sad news

I'm quite a fan of Flanagan's! Love his playing on Rollins' "Saxophone Colossus" (that's where I first heard him, soon thereafter, on a major Trane kick, got "The Cats"). Favourite albums of his include: - Sea Changes - Eclypso - Giant Steps Then he did a very fine duo album with Hank Jones for Galaxy (now on OJCCD). His Blue Note album is fine, too. Another recent recording I *love* is Bennie Wallace's self-titled AudioQuest album with Tommy Flanagan at the piano. Flanagan and Wallace make a great team! ubu

Done! You shall never be the same again afterwards!

Yeah, I was wondering the same. He could hang himself with that! Mark, is there a thread already about what equipment you use to shoot? rod --- Now playing: Junji Hirose - Duo 1 ...I'm not sure what's up with the tie. I kept flipping at my imaginary tie, trying to get him to fix it but he just gave me a scowl !!! ....I use a pin hole camera made out of a kleenex box with lots of black electrical tape on it!

Very nice, Mark! Great to be able to see so many of your photographs in one place! (Wtf has Von Freeman done with his tie, btw?) AB, the site looks nice, and yes, it's easy to navigate! on all accounts! ubu

I see Jim R is reading here... we'll need some more US participation, with so many kind persons offering distribution help! Sangrey, where are you? Don't you want free music? Catesta? ubu

I'll whisper! Let's get some NASA guys to set up some instruments to check if my whispering in Zurich can be heard in Munich, two or three hundred kilometres away...

I was meaning e-mail sent! now you confuse me! want me to outsource to Spain?

Should I outsource my mailing to F..... am Main?

BOOOOOOM! ubu

I meant to say: the quietist member of this forum!

I'm quietist now...

Satoko Fujii (sorry if I mentioned her already, but being at work I can't do a search and browse too long):

I just did, took me 1.874 seconds...! Will I now get nice remastered CD versions of the Priester, Rivers, Redman etc? Pu-lleeeeaze!

Happy birthday!