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Well well well... of course you're right Clem, but then why be so harsh about it! The two Bauers (whom I both saw last Friday with the great group "Doppelmoppel") certainly belong in any such list (which had to be endless if it would be fair). Albert Mangelsdorff is another exceptional german bone player. Then there's some nice Italian guys as well, mainly Giancarlo Schiaffini and Sebi Tramontana come to mind. There are other, more mainstream oriented players, too, such as Gianluca Petrella (who can be heard with Enrico Rava's "Easy Living" band). Thinking of swiss trombone players, the first who comes to mind is Christophe Schweizer. He has live in NYC for some time (but is back in Switzerland now, as I understand), and led several of his own bands, one of them with Billy Hart on drums. Nils Wogram is yet another incredible German trombone player, who settled in Zurich. He can be heard, for instance, with Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli's group (several CDs on Intakt). ubu

Priester is still around, yes? (Hopefully, otehrwise I'd have missed something...) So is Moncur, I believe. Priester is one of my favourites, by the way. I can't choose any from this list. J.J. was a giant, but I love Rosolino, I love the bit of Teagarden I know, I love Dickie Wells, Vic Dickenson, and of course the Duke's men, Britt Woodman, Lawrence Brown, hey, even Tricky Sam! ubu

The man on the photo! Btw: Grachan Moncur is still around as well!

Slide Hampton is still an absolutely awesome player, too! I don't know what Fuller has been up to lately, but I do like his early stuff (the Mosaic ) ubu

Nice, thanks for the link Hans, I missed that! ubu

If Melvin Gibbs is mentioned, how about Kim Clarke? She's great! My personal favourite I suppose is Steve Swallow. Though having Jaco in such a poll makes it hard to choose. Outside of a strict jazz realm, it would have to be a choice between Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins. Love that old school sound on the old Sly Stone recordings! And love Bootsy's space bass...

I see maximum of storable messages is now 300 - wasn't it 200 till a few days ago? If so: ubu

Charlie Fowlkes hardly soloed with Basie, though he can be heard on at least one of the jams in the Buck Clayton Mosaic. *********** Helmut Brandt (Berlin 1931 - Stuttgart 2001) Willi Sanner (who can be heard on Hans Koller's fine CD "Koller Plays Kova" [rec. mid Fifties]) was another fine German (or Austrian? I guess Austrian) baritone player. Then there was Lars Gullin, of course! For me, it's very hard to choose a favourite. Mulligan is terrific, so is Bob Gordon, so is Chaloff, so is Carney... so is Pepper Adams, and so are several living guys. Maybe I'd choose Carney, if I was forced to choose. ubu

I guess you needn't complain, yes? This kind of concert happens here maybe twice a year (the last one of the quality of the Mitchell and Doppelmoppel concerts was the Barry Guy one that also will be remembered in the annals of the "rat" as the first ever in person-meeting of the russian and the king. Now I am tempted to go see Tim Berne this week, though I bought so many CDs taht I don't know if I can afford that, too... ubu

Well well well, I see you had some good fun on my back... but as a king, I am able to forgive and pardon you all. One for the annals of the "rat": king ubu heard/saw Roscoe Mitchell solo last night. And HELL this was GREAT (not to say "da shit", as our little community would expect). Seriously: that man is completely at home with himself, his horn, his music. He played soprano and alto, each for two segments. His mastery of the instrument is obvious, but the most striking thing is how beautiful he is, as a man, and as a musician. He was there Friday night as well, standing around very shy, barely talking to anyone in the breaks between concerts, but on stage he had full presence. The density in his playing often reminded me of Cecil Taylor. Well, so much about it. Just let me say I was deeply impressed and I definitely recommend to anyone reading: check him out! Before Roscoe, Irène Schweizer performed in duo with French singer Françoise Kubler. That concert was nice as well. Kubler has performed with Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, as well as appearing with freely impovised music. Schweizer and Kubler obviously had lots of fun on stage, and what they played often had a humorous note to it. Contrary to the singer who appeared on Friday in duo with Barry Guy (Savina [not Sabina, sorry] Yannatou), I wasn't put off by Kubler. She has more of a classically trained voice, and is just as much of a virtuoso, but she didn't have that want to show off all she can do with her voice, her singing/vocalizing had more of a logical flow to it. ubu

Not unless we make two versions: one for adults and one for all ages. "Funny Rat - A grown-up's guide to [add attribute of your choice] music"

It will also be acocmpanied by a multi-volume hard-cover Complete Funny Rat Transcriptions (with original spelling intact), with comprehensive index (that Hans is working on), indivual posters' taste evolution trees (like Chaney's unimpressive flirting with eai - the story of constant doubt and apprehension, or on a degenerative side - John B's and Д.Д.'s heavy metal deviations), list of naive innocent victums (Clunky buying Gebbia's "Arcana Major"), and illustrated biographies of all participants. Hey, what about king ubu's Susie-Ibarra-fetish?

Friends, I've just returned from the first night of the third annual "unerhört" festival here in Zurich. The last of three concerts, and definite highlight of the night, and one of the best concerts I ever witnessed, was Doppelmoppel (both Bauers-tb; Joe Sachse-g; Uwe Kropinski-g). Here's a crappy review I wrote to our friend "couw" in a mail I just sent: Now Doppelmoppel: the Bauers: Johannes: looks like an old Indian chief that's a bit pale in the face. Terrible horrible shirt he wore. Conrad: as stoopid and tongue-out-of-mouth as always. Sachse: looks like a cross between Schraubenzieher (yup, he used one, and a knife too) and Korkenzieher (now don't ask me why). Kopinski: looks at least 20 years younger than all the others, and a bit like a maniac and Sean Penn. Now on the music: !!!!!!!!! Holy shit! These guys know to play. You can't label that music, no chance! It's not jazz, it's not free improv, it's not free jazz, not rock... not even flamenco, hillbilly, classical and folk, though all of that is part of it. Kopinski is a virtuoso master of the (electrically amplified) acoustic guitar, playing everything from classical, flamenco, to folk and hillbilly stuff, and some bluesy stuff. Sachse is just as wild as he always was. The Bauers, wow! I definitely need to check out their Bauer-Bauer duo disc on Intakt! They're both great (although I really find Conrad quite irritating to look at). I've seen/heard Conrad twice (once with an old-fashioned boring dutch/german free jazz quartet, once with the GREAT Barry Guy New Orchestra, just half a year back). He is a clown with tons of musical ideas, gimmickry and all. Johannes is very serious, yet funny in his own way. His circular-breathing and singing thing is terrific, and much more impressive (sorry!) than what I've heard of Mangelsdorff. He is THE trombone master, it seems to me. You can rest assured that I enjoyed it! The first concert was a duo of Barry Guy (impressive as always) with a singer, Sabine Yannatou (sp?) (annoying to death). Guy was wonderful, I'd love to hear him perform solo! He does real wonders on and with his bass. The second concert was a trio of Chris Wiesendanger (p), Christian Weber (b), and Dieter Ulrich (d). They played a few standards, but mostly they played very nice early Carla Bley compositions, as well as an Annette Peacock tune from the sixties. A rather restrained, but very lyrical concert. ubu

huh? me computer-dummy!

No I can't! No installations allowed anymore... seems I just installed it at the right moment...

get lost! I did a restart of the whole system, by the way. Maybe I hit some strange combination on my keyboard that made them icons disappear? (I did try all F1-F12 keys, by the way, no use.)

I'm using Avant Browser while at work, but now I have a problem: I still have all the text in the header of the browser window (such as the menus, the text next to the back and forward buttons, but all the buttons have no icons on them anymore. If I click on top right, the window closes, but only because I knew where the red X button was, as it has disappeared... Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, ubu

That's what I have, too, but the only musiciain listed as unknown on the cover is the bass player, now I wonder, has no one noticed there's a horn section of at least trumpet (unknown), tenor (Jay Arnold) and barisax (unknown)?

http://66.175.10.211/music/ Enjoy! ubu

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Got me a few new greazy CDs, among them this one: Now what's the personnel here? Anyone has more info than displayed on the CD cover? Why were they so sloppy here? The music certainly deserves better. I can hear at least one trumpet, and barisax, maybe another tenor, too? Anyone knows more about it? thanks, ubu

Bet the CD that is available at Cadence is the previous Hat reissue! Should be the new one - they're usually quite accurate with hats. If it were the old one it would read Hat, HatArt or HatHut, but not Hatology. Don't pin me on that, though.