king ubu

George Russell - drums & piano

the Yusef Lateef group also played things like balloons... And Hal Russell played a mean tenor (if he wanted), just to add to the above listing.

not exactly jazz, but... PRINCE!!!

Abdullah Ibrahim - piano & soprano sax

Bennie Maupin - tenor, soprano, bass clarinet, piano Rahsaan - tenor, stritch, manzello, flute, oboe, clarinet Brother Yusef - tenor, flute, oboe, bassoon Ken McIntyre - alto, soprano, oboe, bassoon, [edit] and flute, of course [/edit] Eddie Costa - piano & vibes

If so, you'd be the first I would tell!

All I know is that I own that one, and the the store where I got it has re-stocked it, too, thus there must be two that were pressed, at least... ubu

Happy Birthday Nate!

Shouldn't this be: MERDRE! Merde alors! Yep, but what's that - saying "merd®e" brings luck? But only if you don't say anything after someone said "merd®e"? At least that's what that Saigner (or is it Seigner?) lady says in "Frantic", right? de par ma chandelle verte! ubu

holy shit!

Mike, please count me in, too! You did already, I suppose, or are there any other strange swiss people who love jazz? ubu

This reminds me it's high time for me to listen to the BN box again! Has been way too long since I had any Nichols playing... Happy birthday! ubu

That was the shittiest job of the VEE series! That whole Cats meets Chick album would/should/could have fitted onto the Terry disc... No info on Norma Carson for me, but poppin' this up! ubu

Brandon, why not try the link brownie posted above (http://www.universalmusic.fr/servlet/Front...d=227476&page=2) Maybe there's some feedback-link hidden somewhere? ubu

Not the biggest of fan, but I have one CD (I think it's "Blame it on my Youth"). I saw here live a few years ago at a festival (she was the free-admission act between main concerts - not a bad thing, the Goldings-Bernstein-Stewart trio was there for free as well), and she was quite good live. ubu

Happy Birthday!

I cannot understand people picking on Leo Wright's intonation, where Jackie McLean's is worse much of the time ... He's totally okay to these ears on the Richard Williams Candid - Wright played in the Berlin RIAS big band, which would not have happened with intonation problems. Some prejudices die hard. (Edited for typo.) You're absolutely right of course, Mike! That was not my opinion, in that last post of mine. ubu

Big fan of Richard Williams here! (And couw will pop in, too, once he'll be back from the seemingly www-lacking Netherlands...) I think his Candid album is at least ok or good. Seems many people don't like Leo Wright (intonation, mainly, is the problem, I think). He's one of the reasons, it seems, why Blue Note didn't want to release the first Blue Mitchell album (the other and hopefully main reason being that soon after it was in the can Blue had taken over the Horace Silver group as his own working unit, thus the first album would have been somehow dated on the moment of its release, already). The two "Live at Pep's" Impulse! discs by Yusef Lateef are among my favourites, and Williams is smoking on them, as is Brother Yusef and the rhythm section (with Mike Nock on piano). Williams can be heard on some Birdland broadcasts of Mingus' 1961 band. Seems Mingus liked him a lot - what a pity that there is no small group Mingus album with Williams featured! ubu

Happy new year to everybody! ubu

Happy birthday Tony! ubu

Thanks again, Mike! Generally I do agree with the original albums/complete sessions thing, but there are albums that are just perfect as what they were: albums. Thus there are cases where one gets to love an album too much to replace it with a complete sessions reissue. ubu

Stefano di Battista - a fantastic alto and soprano player from Italy. Check him out!

yup, and add Rudy Williams!

Have been listening to this album quite a bit recently, and enjoy it more and more with each listen. Ortega is really an original voice, largely cliché-free, and drummer and pianist are outstanding here (particularly the drummer!). Good, good stuff. I hope Ortega records something good (not like his recent "On Evidence" bullshit) soon. David, there's another recent Ortega disc out, I saw it in a store, but haven't listened, it's a quartet with guitar, bass, and drums, and I believe it was on a French label... google may help, I forgot the title.

You shall like it, I assume! It's a very low-profile album, rather intense, actually, if you know the story of his illness that stands behind. Need to listen to it again soon. Among the few trio discs I have, this one is another favourite: I might be biased on this, as I got it when I was maybe fifteen, and fell in love with it instantly. One of my first jazz discs. ubu